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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are falling for our first true loves\\u2026 and then getting our hearts broken hard in the Cameron Crowe film from 1989, Say Anything.

If you didn\\u2019t want to be Lloyd Dobbler when you were just out of high school, then I\\u2019m just going to assume that you\\u2019re a liar, liar, pants on fire. Is he a little intense about life and work? Yeah, but then again, who wasn\\u2019t at that age? Who didn\\u2019t wax lyrical about the plight of the heart on its quest for love and acceptance?

Being the world\\u2019s worst poet is just a symptom of being young and seeing the world in a new and unadulterated way. You can\\u2019t help but put your entire self on the line when something captures your attention. It\\u2019s a fact of life that you\\u2019re going to run into a few immovable objects. If you don\\u2019t crash and burn a few times, then are you even really living life?

The hard part is when those immovable objects come in the form of unimpressed parents or spurned affections. That\\u2019s when things really hit the fan, as they say.

What\\u2019s a person to do when they fall in love with Diane Court, but her dad isn\\u2019t too fond of your lack of ambition and she\\u2019s about to jet off into her future? Well, most people might just give up and call it quits. Maybe they\\u2019d sleep around for a while. Perhaps travel across Europe, learning how to smoke cigarettes from French people, drink wine from Italians, and eat olives from Greeks. Lloyd isn\\u2019t most people, though.

He doesn\\u2019t give up on love. He keeps fighting for what he thinks is right. He does what he can to prove his worth. Does it sound like he can\\u2019t take a hint from Diane, in this case? Yeah, kind of. I mean, it\\u2019s almost fortunate for him that Diane\\u2019s dad was locked up in prison, otherwise she\\u2019d have no real reason to get back together with him. He wouldn\\u2019t be traveling to England with her. He\\u2019d end up looking desperate and verging on creepy.

But hey, things worked out for love. That makes for a great romance, right? Shame about her dad, though\\u2026

(Recorded on June 14, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

Say Anything - IMDb

Say Anything trailer - YouTube

Cameron Crowe - IMDb

Elizabethtown - IMDb

John Mahoney - IMDb

John Cusack - IMDb

Ione Skye - IMDb

Ron Weasley - Wikipedia

Hermione Granger - Wikipedia

Jeremy Piven - IMDb

Entourage - IMDb

The Ice Storm - IMDb

Ang Lee - IMDb

Tobey Maguire - IMDb

Elijah Wood - IMDb

Philip Baker Hall - IMDb

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