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What is Love Actually?

A podcast trying to understand the classic romcom by taking it apart & putting it back together again. Hosted by Beth Amann & Patrick Flynn.

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New Year's Eve Dec 31, 2021

Lauren Halvorsen, creator of Nothing for the Group, joins Beth & Patrick for this “movie.”

We cover: stakes, beards, Lea Michele, Matthew Broderick hanging around, NYPD fetishization, Common, Ludacris, Beth’s Grey's Anatomy knowledge, Patrick’s dubious relationship with the Razzies, and Lauren’s seeing Magnolia on her first-ever date.

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Nothing for the Group (Lauren’s amazing newsletter)

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The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star Dec 24, 2021

When this episode begins, Beth & Patrick haven’t seen the film yet. But will they have by the time it’s over?!? (Yes.)

We cover: Frank, why they need to switch, the Extended Christmas Prince Cinematic Universe, Rent: Live on Tape!, who should’ve played Fiona’s mom, and The Princess Switch 4: Jewel of Denial.

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NEXT WEEK: the multi-plot holiday epic New Year’s Eve!

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Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus Dec 17, 2021

This movie is buck wild. But not buck wild enough?

We cover: Michigan, laughing like Santa, Tim Allen, Pizza Hut, Auntie Anne’s, Twister, flat characters, and whether or not Patrick responds to “vibes.”

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NEXT WEEK: Netflix’s The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star!

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Christmas Crush (aka Holiday High School Reunion) Dec 10, 2021

Did you know there are two holiday movies called Christmas Crush? Neither did we until this episode and Beth has now seen them both.

We cover: what actually is on the periodic table of elements, how Beth planned her high school reunion, what glee club remixes shouldn’t be allowed, gaslighting, Cory Feldman, budget restrictions, and why everyone should watch this movie.

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NEXT WEEK: Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus FREE on YouTube!

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My Christmas Inn Dec 03, 2021

The formula is in place, so why is Patrick still so confused?

We cover: food fights, diarists, cookie baking, big city girls with big city dreams, stolen recipes, missed screenplay opportunities, and was Eddie real?

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NEXT WEEK: Christmas Crush (aka Holiday High School Reunion) FREE (with ads) on YouTube!

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Journey Back to Christmas Nov 26, 2021

Kicking off Season 2 with this Candace Cameron Bure vehicle that should’ve been called The Christmas Comet but it isn’t. But there are Goldens!

We cover: war memorials, Tom Skerritt, gazebos, The Gabby Douglas Story, Oliver Hudson’s trustworthy status since he played that heel on Nashville, and the ethics of time travel

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NEXT WEEK: Tia Mowrey in My Christmas Inn, available on Amazon Prime!

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SEASON 2 COMING 11/26/2021!! Nov 01, 2021

Patrick and Beth are back with 6 new episodes covering 6 romantic holiday films from Hallmark, Lifetime, and Netflix!

Go to our new PATREON for a list of the 6 movies we’ll be covering as well as access to bonus episodes, commentaries, and more!

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Christmas in July: The Holiday (w/ the Out for Blood Podcast!) Jul 25, 2021

Chris Adams and Holly Morgan from the podcast Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical join Patrick and Beth to break down the movie that so many of our guests thought was Love Actually.

We cover: the agony and the agony of Cameron Diaz, very British children, the Nancy Myers of it all, trolls and their bridges, Kate Winslet’s cottage, why Patrick won’t AirBNB and/or Uber.

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Love Actually 13. Red Nose Day Actually Dec 25, 2020

Patrick and Beth are back! They have heard your voicemails, read your missives, and are ready to bring you all the Christmas cheer you expect from your favourite (with a “u”) podcast that directs Love Actually in this manner!

We cover the Love Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral Red Nose Day sequels (are they sequels?), the race for the 2020 UK Christmas number 1, introduce our new theme song (maybe), and finally put #Schiffergate to bed (except we don’t).

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Listen to Patrick & Beth on the Taking Hugh for Granted podcast!

The 2020 UK Christmas number 1 song is……?

The Christmas 2020 UK Singles Charts (in case you're interested)

“Thank You Baked Potato”

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Love Actually 12. And at Christmas You Tell the Truth Nov 27, 2020

Patrick and Beth try to make sense of all this, tally the scores, and endeavour to discover just what is Love Actually?

We cover erroneous commas, Love Actually in the news, Lulu Popplewell, the A Christmas Prince drinking game, Schiffergate, longing for the 4-hour cut of this movie, and how this repeated viewings of Love Actually led Patrick back to the works of Paul Thomas Anderson (specifically Magnolia).

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Yahoo! News - “Richard Curtis: I have respect for people who don’t like my films” (9/6/20)

Lulu Popplewell on the podcast Almost Famous with Barnaby Slater (10/15/20)

Cosmo - “Love Actually star slams the film as cheesy and sexist” (10/18/20)

The Irish Times - “Harsh words about Love Actually will not spoil this classic for me” by Marie Louise McConville (10/24/20)

E! Online - “Let's Settle This One and For All: Is Love Actually a Good Movie?” by Tierney Bricker (11/4/20)

The New Zealand Herold - “The weirdly popular Christmas movie that isn't actually a Christmas movie” (11/9/20)

RNLI Charity Auction: Love Actually. A framed film cell featuring the final frame of film from the original 35mm reel.

Buy Patrick’s book Visual Literacy: A Practical Text on the Analysis, History, and Creation of Visual Media is available from Kendall-Hunt.

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Love Actually 11. Ringo Starr Married a Bond Girl Nov 27, 2020

Robbie Rozelle & Robert W. Schneider from the Gay Card Revoked podcast join Beth & Patrick to revel in the story of Daniel (Liam Neeson, Darkman, Schindler's List), Sam (Thomas Brodie-Sangster, The Queen’s Gambit, Game of Thrones, Phineas and Ferb), Joanna (Olivia Olson, Phineas and Ferb), and Carol (Claudia Schiffer).

We cover Robbie’s funeral plans, Rob’s Emma Thompson stories, Liam Neeson’s family kidnapping issues, animal porn, airport runs, and we finally settle Schiffergate once and for all (except we don’t).

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Perfect Crime: New York’s longest-running play.

The Gay Card Revoked Podcast

Buy Robbie’s album Songs from Inside My Locker available on Broadway Records!

Behind the Curtain: Broadway’s Living Legends - Rob’s podcast with Kevin David Thomas

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Love Actually 10. Both Sides Now Nov 27, 2020

Wonder duo Jenna Duncan (theatre director) & Rick Westerkamp (actor, teacher) join Patrick & Beth to sob through the chronicle of Harry (Alan Rickman, national treasure), Karen (Emma Thompson, two-time Oscar winner & damn national treasure), and Mia (Heike Makatsch, Resident Evil).

We cover dirndls, how to seduce your boss with Beth & Jenna, Jenna’s many soapboxes, the issue with Rufus the Angel, and how much we love Emma Thompson.

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Love Actually 09. Would We Call Her Chubby? Nov 27, 2020

Married-acting-singing persons Evan Casey & Tracy Lynn Olivera join Beth & Patrick to glance askance at the saga of David (Hugh Grant, from this mugshot) and Natalie (Martine McCutcheon, EastEnders).

We cover the Casey/Olivera Christmas watchlist, how Billy Bob Thornton can get it, the Teapot Dome Scandal, recasting Hugh Grant & Colin Firth with Willem Dafoe & John Malkovich, body positivity, and we finally settle whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie (it isn’t not).

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Hugh Grant & Colin Farrell - Actors on Actors - Full Conversation

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Love Actually 08. Two Years, Seven Months, Three Days, and (I Suppose) Two Hours Nov 27, 2020

Married podcasters Kimberly Cooper Schmidt (Broadwaysted! and Broadway Baby podcasts) & Jay Schmidt (Broadway Baby podcast and Preview’d on YouTube) join Patrick & Beth to suffer through the tragedy of Sarah (Laura Linney, national treasure) and Karl (Rodrigo Santoro, 300).

We cover Karl’s job, Karl’s glasses, Karl’s abs, this film’s abuse of Laura Linney, Beth’s accent blindness, Downton Abbey, THAT scene, and the incredible beginning to Jay & Kimberly’s relationship. Seriously, it’s like freakin’ Serendipity or something.

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The Broadway Baby podcast

The Official Broadwaysted! Podcast

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Love Actually 07. All I Want for Christmas is You Nov 27, 2020

Jonathan Howard (genuine Brit and bass with The King’s Singers) & Jess Newman (American transplant in England) join Patrick & Beth to gaze lovingly at the romance of (porn?) stand-ins Jack (Martin Freeman, Sherlock, the MCU) and Just Judy (Joanna Page, Gavin & Stacey).

We cover: The Great British Bake-Off, Richard Curtis and “the Canon,” American women shagging any Brit they meet, how British IS this movie?, anoraks, Teletext, and the John Lewis Christmas advert.

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”Teletext for Your TV” | Instantly Dated | Episode 25 at You Tube Dot Com

The 2020 John Lewis Christmas Advert

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Love Actually 06. Yes is Being My Answer Nov 27, 2020

This episode we get serious with married journalistic-people Alexandra Petri (columnist and author of Nothing is Wrong and Here is Why!) & Stephen Stromberg (editorial writer for The Washington Post). They join Patrick & Beth to wade through the fairy tale of Jamie (Colin Firth, Pride and Prejudice) & Aurélia (Lúcia Moniz, Portugese pop sensation).

We cover turtlenecks, “the woman language,” Christmas movies = horror movies, tramp stamps, the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest, and the plurality of movies in which Colin Firth swims in a pond.

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Lúcia Moniz’s performance at Eurovision ‘96

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Love Actually 05. Don't Buy Drugs Nov 27, 2020

Married people Jon Markland & Malinda Markland join Beth & Patrick to boogie through the world of fallen popstar Billy Mack (Bill Nighy, Love Actually) and Joe (Gregor Fisher, The Baldy Man).

We cover the most beautiful man in Britain, the truth behind the UK’s Christmas number 1 song, Ant and/or Dec, Iggy Pop dry-humping J.Lo, and why the line: “a hefty number of half-naked chicks with their mouths open” makes us especially uncomfortable.

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Slate’s Hit Parade Podcast: The Christmas Is All Around Edition (12/21/18)

Music video for “All Rise” by Blue

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Love Actually 04. To Me, You are Perfect Nov 27, 2020

Married co-stars of NBC’s Connecting Keith Powell & Jill Knox Powell join Patrick & Beth to ask all the right questions about the tale of Juliet (Keira Knightley, Pirates of the Caribbean I-IV), Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kinky Boots, Serenity, 12 Years a Slave), and Mark (Andrew Lincoln, The Walking Dead).

We cover diversity hires, toxic masculinity, the awfulness of an episode of Friends, and the time 19-year-old Jill went on a date with an NBA player as old as her dad.

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NBC’s Connecting

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Love Actually 03. Shag Highway, Heading West Nov 27, 2020

Long-time actor friends John Loughney & Katie McManus join Beth & Patrick to suffer through the quest of Colin (Kris Marshall, My Family) and his decision to go the States to get laid against the advice of his friend, Tony (Abdul Salis, Casualty).

We cover ice skating injuries, Colin’s job, the nature of Colin and Tony’s relationship, INCELs, a new podcast: 3 Gen-Xers and a Millennial, and whether or not the women Colin meets in Wisconsin are drug dealers using him as a mule or a coven of witches (it’s definitely one or the other).

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Love Actually 02. This is SO Much More Than a Bag Nov 27, 2020

Patrick & Beth found two human beings on this planet, Solomon Parker III & Joshua Simon, who had never seen Love Actually! So they all watch it from top-to-bottom.

We cover that Love Actually is not The Holiday, Josh’s non-Christmas-movie Jewish upbringing, how Solomon is HERE for declarations of love, the definition of “Beth,” and whether or not Kate Winslet is in this movie (she’s not, that’s The Holiday).

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Joshua Simon Says Dot Com

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Love Actually 01. Who is Richard Curtis and Are We Going to Say Terrible Things About Him? Nov 27, 2020

Mr. Curtis is a comedy hero to Patrick and much less than that to Beth.

We start at Oxford, sidle over to the classic BBC comedies Blackadder, Mr. Bean, and The Vicar of Dibley, before finally paying special attention to the three romcoms he wrote prior Love Actually: Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones’s Diary. What is known in England as “The Canon.”

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What is Love Actually? Coming 11/27/20! Oct 21, 2020

Welcome to the podcast that tries to discover just what the 2003 romantic Christmas film Love Actually is by taking it apart and putting it back together again.

Coming 27th November 2020! A 12-episode deep-dive into the 2003 Christmas romcom Love Actually.

Join Patrick Flynn (of The Original Cast podcast) and Beth Amann as they examine each component of Richard Curtis’s holiday opus

With guests such as:

Keith Powell & Jill Knox Powell from NBC’s Connecting

Alexandra Petri, columnist and author of Nothing’s Wrong and Here’s Why

Robbie Rozelle & Robert W. Schneider from the podcast Gay Card Revoked

Stephen Stromberg, The Washington Post

Jonathan Howard, The King’s Singers

Kimberly Cooper Schmidt, Broadwaysted! & Broadway Baby podcasts

Jay Schmidt, Preview’d on YouTube and the Broadway Baby podcast

and many others as they try to discover “What is Love Actually?”

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