I Love You But

In a hiatus bonus episode, Heather quizzes Rian on famous auteurs (aka directors), trivializing their work with the classic FMK game (fornicate, marry, unalive). Directors subjected to their whimsy include John Waters, David Lynch, Mike Nichols, Amy Heckerling, Stanley Kubrick, Jane Campion, Alfonso Cuarón, and Sofia Coppola.  Season 5 will begin soon! The Davis Sisters will explore Alt Shakespeare films. Enjoy midsummer with some snark.  Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

Upon rewatch, Heather and Rian found the 90s fever dream of DROP DEAD GORGEOUS (1999) to be a super problematic. Topics include fragile white feelings and no kings; the Other Heather (and Kyle); Rian hiding money from herself like John Mulaney; school picture day bribes; Heather's audio book is out!; more time and a DVD player; SPICE WORLD and THE SECRET AGENT and SANCTUARY; Holy White Girl, Batman!; wood paneling on minivans and the 90s aesthetic; defining salads; folding salami into roses; dancing with a crucifix; GREASE 2 callbacks; an unexpected Buñel reference; What is Idaho?; and even more!   (You can find info about Heather's book at hdwritesthings.com) Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

Upon rewatch, Heather and Rian found the 90s fever dream of CAN'T HARDLY WAIT (1998) to be a nightmare. Topics include a crumpled frog and witchy business; Wally Pleasant; wifi (the fifth element); using up all the math; PROJECT HAIL MARY, Heather's unhinged review; paying to watch commercials; THE WEST WING's hopeful optimism is unwatchable right now; cosplaying M@GA and the social media hall of fame; Elliot's jibber jabber; parenting through fear; Seth Green holds up, even as a culturally-appropriating sex pest; unbelievable crushes; no thighs, only gaps; Grandpa Vampire in that red shirt; vibing with Denise; what the teens do for dopamine these days; us, if we had a band; Clea DuVall will fck you up; HEATED RIVALRY and queering the male gaze; and even more!   Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

 Hey, can you believe we've kept this crap up for three years?* To celebrate you and us, we put together this brief compilation of different soundbites from seasons one, two, and three. For your reference: SEASON 1 EPISODES This is Not a Geography Podcast (Dukes of Hazzard / Three's Company) The Original Incel (Mannequin) Mmmmm Finger Milk (Small Wonder / The Electric Grandmother) Millennial Elders (bonus) (Back to the Beach) Cool It With the Sugar, Toots (Peggy Sue Got Married) Stop with All the Tomfoolery (Back to the Future) The Gay Yoda (Brothers / Facts of Life) Chasing Ghouls to Get Laid (Ghostbusters) Useless Units of Limes (Can't Buy Me Love) Witches Don't Use Crystal Balls (Working Girl) Thank That Hot Dog (Grease)** Hijinks Ensue (E.T.) Halloween 1985: Get Your Buttons Bit (Once Bitten) SEASON 2 EPISODES Making Love to a Pastry Cart (Big Business) This Meat Sack is Done (The Philadelphia Story) The Children Need to Know (Hairspray) Welcome to the Cult (Flashdance) Do You Know Any Chiropractors? (The Breakfast Club) SEASON 3 EPISODES Babies Can't Read (Popeye) My Sexuality is "Tired" (The Sound of Music) Crying Alone in My Hotel Room in Canada (My Fair Lady) Mariachi Karaoke (Summer School) Ladies and Gentlemen, The 1989s (Saved by the Bell / Head of the Class) An ADHD Kind of Day (The Princess Bride) Twist It with a Pencil (Meet Me in St. Louis) *Note: We skipped the entirety of 2025 **If you're looking for Grease 2, it's in the episode called Sweating in Closets on a Saturday Night. Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

Heather and Rian wrap up the series on vintage capitalism and throw all their whiteness at the legendary SET IT OFF (1996). Topics include THE NIGHT MANAGER and ÉTOILE and Timothée Chalamet; The Harry Styles Album; the REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS let Rian down; a billion dollars a day; Rian's better because she cried but The Shins are too happy; WUTHERING HEIGHTS and Heather is still the best boyfriend ever; texting the wrong chat; the governor's dog and a good gift shop; special note about American school buses; watching ROMEO + JULIET instead of SET IT OFF; SNAKES ON A PLANE or SOUL PLANE?; our uncle is also named Gary Gray; toothpicks and dueling banjos and scary white dudes; put sheets on your bed, Mack from NIGHT COURT!; lessons from PILLION; less trauma and more GOLDEN GIRLS; Rutger Bregman; Heather and "the chronic"; the Pinkett Pinky Point; people making bad choices; mixed thoughts on THE GODFATHER scene and clear thoughts on women being fierce and stepping into power; Blair Underwood's Vampire Apartment; genie ethics; we don't need that white guy at all; a little bit of linguistics; and even more!   Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

The I LOVE YOU BUT podcast presents LASTING IMPRESSIONS: A MODERN PRIDE & PREJUDICE, the audio book, written and read by co-host, Heather, under her pen name, Heather Denton. Following a brief intro and a five-minute sample of the audio book, the Davis Sisters chat about Heather's love letter to Jane Austen; talk sh-t about other Austen adaptations; and invoke Shakespeare and Chaucer. Additional topics include book playlists with too many songs by The Smiths; dream actor easter eggs; Emily Gilmore, Lucille Bluth, and Lady Catherine de Bourgh; romance novels and female pleasure; the spectrum of romance: Heather's definition of romance, the romance of higher education, and the romance of childhood; what's next from Heather Denton; and more.  Find all versions of Heather Denton's LASTING IMPRESSIONS: A MODERN PRIDE & PREJUDICE at hdwritesthings.com.  Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

Heather and Rian continue the series on vintage capitalism and giggle about I ❤️HUCKABEES (2004). Topics include THE BEAUTY and ironic advertising; THE NIGHT MANAGER and the undeniable straightness of Tom Hiddleston; Olympic Condom Math; are you curling curious?; making it awkward all of the time; Rian's teaching philosophy on a t-shirt; the plarn is back; the cat's secret family; foot pesto; what we hate these days; Heather's film bullsht blog; Rian's hipster adventures; our personal coincidences with HUCKABEES; being in it for the experience; darling vegan gay boys; it's never too late for Mancala Hour; bad poetry and vandalism; Rian has no time for these white dudes who make other people's jobs harder; social media is "planting garbage"; Lily Tomlin's costumes; naming cool socialists; more complicity in our consumption; an award idea for LAS CULTURISTAS; a hot cheese and cold cream tour of Europe; props to Jude Law; the emptiness of shiny, perfect people; a LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD reference; and even more!   Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

Heather and Rian present a bonus episode after a beating of a week. Topics include trips to the ER, the Y, and Cracker Barrel, oh my!; emergency contacts; super quick fun, super depressing bonus; Elliot's hot takes on the I HEART HUCKABEES soundtrack; travel; demon smut (aka Charlotte Stein books); not getting sponsors; and even more!   Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

Heather and Rian continue the series on vintage capitalism and have a lot to say about Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985). Topics include mourning Catherine O'Hara and celebrating the genius of Schitt's Creek; a text from Emily Gilmore; powering through Bridgerton; film dudes and Venn diagrams; Brazil is a Christmas Movie; fast-forwarding from behind a shirt; this is feeling very realistic and less fantastic; reading in the bathroom; we are all complicit in the violence; the internet told me to; Rian has questions; Heather has answers and more questions; very polite, very British fear-mongering; green Jell-o salad; sweater vests and slutty little glasses; toxic bosses; branded goldfish bowls; bureaucracy can't fathom trauma; worst romance of all '80s movies; speaking of capitalism; the nature of humanity; female pleasure, Heated Rivalry, and living through the memes; Bertha stories; and even more!   Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

Heather and Rian continue the series on vintage capitalism and are not that into Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), but their teenaged babysitter wasn't allowed to watch it when they did. Topics include Winterpocalypse 2026; having old friends; ambient fascism; "Who's Afraid of Roger Rabbit"; plarn bathmats for the homeless; but like why do people like this movie?; the only 8-year-old girl with a Jessica Rabbit poster; Paul Holes would hate that crime scene; what if Benoit Blanc were in this?; hiding animators in England; nerding out with pop culture data; "numbed consumption wins!"; an Elliot cameo; and even more!   Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

Heather and Rian continue the series on vintage capitalism and gush about Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). Topics include making friends as an adult; dairy-related conversations; Rain and her ROBH; fighting buildings; a pristine video rental history; this movie is a primer for sexual devi@nts; the appeal of sliding ladders; laundry soup; because "melting"; mind your Qs and Cs; Grandpa Joe's night dress; curtains at the Constitutional Convention and the new John Hancock; not the True Blood opening credits; licking wallpaper; your sardonic, demonic edge; and even more!   Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

Heather and Rian continue the series on vintage capitalism and try to solve the plot holes of 9 TO 5 (1980). Topics include it was Rian's birthday!; talking sht after soup parties; shout out to the haters; two-hour therapy sessions; stealing bread from the elders; Lily Tomlin's fantasy is the best; this movie radicalized Heather; Foucault and the self-policing of an open office; the Xerox room and tucking in your typewriter at the end of the day; the overlap of labor strikes and Reebok; Ronald Reagan's diary; a capitalist fever dream encounter at Target; and even more! Plus direct references to The Dollop and My Favorite Murder and perennial favorite, John Mulaney.  Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

In the season four premiere, Heather and Rian kickoff a series on vintage capitalism and relish the millennial excess of JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS (2001). Topics include scrolling to the end of Netflix; Matthew Rhys, the shy little Welsh boy; the full Jamie Campbell Bower effect; EMDR, setting boundaries, and hating phone calls; capitalism is an untenable virus; we love fake boy bands; stupid tiny beards; Alan Cumming's cell phone prop work; Parker Posey!; Eugene Levy!; Hillbilly Vanilli; Mr. Moviefone!; using witchcraft to beat anxiety and despair; and even more! Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

In the last of the Holidaze theme, Heather and Rian celebrate their whiteness with WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954). Topics include Little Debbie Christmas Tree snack cakes, eating disorders, and food planning; more Grinch stuff; QUEER and John Waters and please take a shower, sir; a BARBIE rewatch; the whitest Christmas movie ever made; policing Christmas; Mom commentary; Edith Head!; minstrel shows; not the half-naked Abercrombie & Fitch guys from the 90s; Don Draper in the Carousel Club; clever dialogue; why it might be okay that we still watch this movie; inside jokes and family trauma; our most ADHD episode yet!; and even more! Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

In the penultimate of the Holidaze theme, Heather and Rian go off about RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964), A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS (1965), and DR. SUESS'S HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (1966). Topics include having no time for emotions and yet making time for holiday emotional labor; a parenting win; rotating a karate costume like hot dogs in a gas station; cash me outside, the cleaner; cannibalistic marshmallow snow people as art; HARRY POTTER and THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW; a RUDOLPH macro-view; yo, boomers, re-watch this childhood classic; Americans: we remember nothing; gender socialization through reindeer; drag Christmas songs; a really sad sketch show; Lucy was the OG hipster; the nativity of our childhood and residual trauma; hiding baby jesus; all other versions of THE GRINCH are trash; who made the Grinch green?; and even more! Follow us on IG and Threads @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

Continuing the Holidaze theme, Heather and Rian wax nostalgic about A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983). Topics include ADHD Home Depot holiday shopping; hobbling with a tree cane; Sky Mall; bacchanalias, baby; the romance of a white christmas; sumptuous writing and complicated narratives; all those spitty teeth; shiny cowboy costumes; we will never not talk about gender inequity; shouting christmas carols; profanity as an art form; grading with a crayon; the gluttonous joy of unwrapping gifts; quiet christmas moments; and even more! Follow us on IG @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

Continuing the Holidaze theme, Heather and Rian call shenanigans on MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947). Topics include baking shows and decorating; loving a skeptical child; naming reindeer; going to Denny's after the musical; putting an asterisk next to French Canadians; the uneasy marriage of Christmas and capitalism; fat-shaming; holding space for sneezes; lying to children and old people (and everyone); charitable billionaires: the real miracle of this movie; making our stuff someone else's problem; checks, paper clips, landlines, and other old timey stuff; and even more! Follow us on IG @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

In the first of the Holidaze theme, Heather and Rian relish MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944). Topics include sleep and gifts; Costco on Saturdays; fun, awkward interactions; just call your mom a sloppy b!tch; HOT FROSTY; the vat of ketchup; a man of many fun hats; showering before dinner; dads and phones; Judy Garland Sad Facts; Pitch Perfect but with old songs; Was Gen X the last interesting generation?; Is this the whitest movie ever made?; the first coming of kale; Halloween History; and even more! Follow us on IG @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

In the final of the Fairytale Fall theme, Heather and Rian revisit SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959) on perhaps the worst week to watch a fairy tale. Topics include indispensable kittens; voting as a waste of time; GBBO (we love you, Nelly!); RIVALS; 53% of white women; Brené Brown; depressing and secret conversations; Heather is ready to be informed on; SLEEPING BEAUTY, a story of three middle-aged, unmarried witches; would you invite Maleficent to your party?; Jane magazine; not the white lady kindness; cake baking core memories; having uteruses and opinions; and even more! Follow us on IG @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.

In the penultimate of the Fairytale Fall theme, Heather watched LABYRINTH (1986) and THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984). Topics include we went on vacation!; the two-T butt; Rian hates Halloween but loves you; Heather Gone Girled; love a jeans reveal; we were all robbed of a LABYRINTH with Kevin Kline as Jareth; Sir Didymus and Lord Flashheart; the Mom backstory blows Rian's mind; Bowie's tight pants; why is LABYRINTH so ugly?; your childhood was trying to teach you something; your Mom died: get over it; Swamp of Sadness happens way early; politics - sorry; old man sneezing and old man soup; Falkor's true magic was in his breathing; glowing tiddies? no; Gmork telling our truth; sitting and crying in your v-gina kingdom; this is not a video game podcast; books!; and even more! Follow us on IG @iloveyoubutpod. More at our LinkTree.