Episode 178 || June Reading Recap
From the Front Porch
The Bookshelf Thomasville
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I want to talk about the rom-com. |
| 0:02.9 | The rom-com? Yeah. Like as a genre. Yes. Okay. Here's why I want to talk about it. Please. So earlier this year, Netflix released this movie called The Kissing Booth. Okay. My friends recommended it to me. It's cute. It's not like traditional rom-com to me. It's cute, enjoyable. I watched it once. no desire to need to watch that again. |
| 0:02.1 | Sure. |
| 0:02.7 | Partly because the male protagonist in that film is... Do you remember in Pitch Perfect? No. Did you ever see... Mm-mm. Oh, the original Pitch Perfect is fun. I know. I actually think I would like it. Yeah, it was fun. |
| 0:38.0 | Okay, well, this is going to be... |
| 0:38.9 | I just haven't seen it. |
| 0:39.5 | But anyway, go ahead. Well, there's an... I don't know his name, so now it's lost to me. But, like, he's this short actor. I think he's also in that HBO show about Silicon Valley. Oh. Is he on that? He's got kind of a bulldog face. |
| 0:35.7 | Oh, T.J. Miller? |
| 0:37.6 | This is short, squatty guy. |
| 0:39.2 | Yeah. Oh. Is he on that? He's got kind of a bulldog face. Oh, T.J. Miller? This is short, squatty guy. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah. Is that him? Does he have like curly hair? No. Okay, then I don't know who you're talking about. T.J. Miller's like a... Oh, he's awful. Yeah. No. He's a monster. This guy is different. Okay. But anyway, my point is he's not super handsome. |
| 0:52.8 | And I'm sorry I just use the word bulldog face to describe someone. |
| 0:55.5 | But in my head, every person is an animal, and that's that person's animal. Okay. Okay. So, I'm sorry. But my point is, the male protagonist is not like, um, not conventionally attractive. And so I thought that movie, and and it was cute but it was also a little |
| 1:28.5 | cheesy in parts whatever fast forward but also rewind to a week ago okay when or two weeks ago |
| 1:36.6 | when netflix released the romantic comedy set it up uh-huh guys the romccom is back. In a big way. |
| 1:45.3 | In a big way. |
| 1:46.5 | And in a good way, like, I've already watched it twice. |
| 1:49.6 | Okay. |
| 1:49.8 | I watched it back to back. |
| 1:51.0 | It was recommended to me by Netflix yesterday. |
| 1:53.3 | Well, you and Kelsey should see if you enjoy it. |
| 1:55.8 | Okay. |
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