{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"138 - Josie and the Gilrbosses","description":"We're having a launch party for the stuffed Italian bread triptychs honoring SISTERHOOD, INC. (2025), but first... TEASER: Don't fiddle with the knobs, or it's Queens for ya. THEME: "Fuck You If You Don't Like Christmas," from Crudbump, by Drew Fairweather PART ONE  Happy Employment Movie! \u2026 Greeting cards, Tech Nazis, Roko's Basilisk \u2026 Jim Rome Take: A Hannibal Lecter Group Text Experience \u2026 Sacramento \u2026 No Trump phlegm, no fizz\u2026      PART TWO   Cast Rundown \u2026 The Expositional Challenge \u2026 Plot Mop-Up: The, uh, entire romantic plot; board structure; 30 Billion Dowmericans; mature\/good sister\/mother\/daughter WASP; good-behavior modeling movie \u2026 Former mutuals with the screenwriter (no-drama edition)\u2026 PART THREE  Spot the Angel: It Takes a Village \u2026 Eat Your Heart Out: Drunkenness; no Campari in Hallmark; kitchen oaf; 1\/2 of one squash, 3 tiny chicken filets, loose paprika dredge, quartered like a math problem; overdoing the crafty; huge orange; shooters with mom \u2026 The Hallmark Expanded Universe: Chicagoless Chicago again, Siena College garnish; the thinking man's Albany; the early funny ones!\u2026  PART FOUR Overdetermined: Determined, not overdetermined, execution of required Hallmark beats \u2026 Kombucha's Christmastown debut \u2026 Kava bar \u2026 Crossover: Already a real romcom; Bobby Bacala, retired "accountant" \u2026 Luca Brazi syntax \u2026Sheryl Sandberg and David Sacks: matchmakers \u2026 The Hallmark Voight-Kampff Test: Yuki\u2026   PART FIVE Who\u2019s the Real Villain?: Phone, the broader sort of Lean-In cosmos \u2026 Rating: 4 \u2026 Wife Chat: The Board \u2026 IMDB Dive: Hackett and Galanoy Appreciation Station; grown-up Nickelodeon; phone \u2026 The Leftovers: How many gags didn't make the Hallmark cut? \u2026 Mail montage \u2026 A series of calzones \u2026 Momtuition \u2026 Self-McKinseying \u2026 Rubber Gaskets \u2026 Merry Christmas!  \u2022 All other music by Chris Collingwood of Look Park and Fountains of Wayne, except: "Orchestral Sports Theme" by Chris Collingwood and Rick Murnane. ","author_name":"It's Christmastown","author_url":"http:\/\/itschristmastown.libsyn.com\/website","html":"