Say Anything... (1989) w/ Alex Steed
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
"I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen."
Cameron Crowe's directorial debut is a film solidified in pop culture history thanks to the singular image of John Cusack holding a boom box above his head, but SAY ANYTHING... has a lot more than a Peter Gabriel song to say. This week, The Wives Colangelo are joined by the incomparable Alex Steed to talk about one of the greatest teenage romance flicks ever made, and allow ourselves to believe in love.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations, and welcome to This Ends at Prom. |
| 0:05.5 | A coming-of-age podcast highlighting cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm one of your hosts, BJ Colangelo, and I'm joined by my wife. |
| 0:14.9 | Harmony Colangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. |
| 0:19.2 | Is today's movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:21.2 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:23.5 | Get in loser. |
| 0:24.7 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:26.0 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:28.6 | I don't want to be your merch, girl. |
| 0:31.8 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:35.5 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard for the same motherfucking title |
| 0:41.9 | but I realize that I probably won't be so lucky |
| 0:55.9 | when I want to do you. |
| 1:01.0 | When I watch you want to do you right where you're standing. |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.8 | We're not talking about that say anything today, Prom Party, |
| 1:18.5 | but we've gotten feedback that you like it when Harmony and I spontaneously sing at each other. |
| 1:23.5 | So consider that our gift to you, dear listeners. |
| 1:26.5 | That one time we sang Bo Burnham impromptu, and everyone went, I think that was great. |
| 1:31.2 | Do that more. |
| 1:32.2 | And I was like, okay, I can do that. |
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