Click the picture above to see an entire album of photos from the weekend itself.

This is the first part of two of the Girls Night In podcast’s special Meet-Up releases. We reviewed the movie Mamma Mia! Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. With Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep. The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular ’70s group ABBA. Yes, it’s still in the theater, so yes we shook it up a little and did something we wouldn’t normally do. We met everyone in person, we saw a movie that’s in the theater and then reviewed it on the spot without any reflection what-so-ever. We all had a blast meeting one another and reviewing this movie. Did we enjoy the movie as much as we enjoyed each other’s company though? Listen in and find out!

Next week we’ll get a bit more personal in nature about the meet-up itself. Don’t forget to check back or subscribe to the show. Use the buttons on the right to subscribe!

Podcasters Who Gave Feedback In the Show
Flickguy of Flick-a-Brac
Andrea of Geek is Chic
Jim Goodrich of With a Voice Like This

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The super human abilities of Jim Goodrich from With a Voice Like This

DURING THE NEXT LIVE SHOW

Wednesday, August 6  at 9pm ET, 8pm CT, 7pm MT or 6pm PT

Topic Discussion : Books
Jaime is going to try to follow an outline. The hosts can clue us on on their 2 favorite books OR authors (not 2 of each) and the listeners so you only get one.

What If Questions
1. What is the one book you were made to read in school that most influenced you as a person?
2. If you wrote your autobiography, what would the title be?

Tells us about your favorite book or author and answer the What If questions by calling them into 206-203-4308, send an email to hello@girlsnightinpodcast.com or join us live on TalkShoe! Participating live is actually pretty easy. You don’t need to register for an account or download software. Simply click to join in and participate as a guest user. You can do this right from your browser.

Future Movie
We will be reviewing Kim’s movie choice of “The Bucket List” on August 20. Make sure you rent it, buy it or catch it on TV before then so you can give us your review!

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In this episode of Girls Night In we discussed Jaime’s movie pick “Chicago” (2002) staring Renee Zellwegger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah and Richard Gere. This movie is a crime/drama/musical based off of a musical that was based off of a play, loosely based off of real life events.  Did it manage to steal our hearts or did we leave it bleeding in the streets? Did one of the girls happen to take on the roll of the Matron of GNI and perform When You’re Good to Mama or did we all just say “to heck with it” and go scantily clad by performing the Cell Block Tango?

Podcasters Who Gave Feedback In the Show
Jim Goodrich of With a Voice Like This

Station ID
Nobody’s Listening

The Official Girls Night In Meet-Up
July 18-20, 2008
Merrillville, IN
$25 registration fee to cover costs
Deadline for Registration (extended) until Sunday, July 13th at 11:59 pm
Hotel will be $89/night + tax: Hot tub, pool, breakfast and free wi-fi
Dinner and a movie out on Friday. Saturday plans begin in the afternoon with activities and then a catered dinner. Sunday we’ll do breakfast and say goodbye. If you register and start making plans to attend, I’ll share some of the meet-up secrets with you, like the name of the hotel and where you can book everything. Full details can be found here.

DURING THE NEXT LIVE SHOW

Wednesday, August 6  at 9pm ET, 8pm CT, 7pm MT or 6pm PT

Topic Discussion : Books
Jaime is going to try to follow an outline. The hosts can clue us on on their 2 favorite books OR authors (not 2 of each) and the listeners so you only get one.

What If Questions
1. What is the one book you were made to read in school that most influenced you as a person?
2. If you wrote your autobiography, what would the title be?

Tells us about your favorite book or author and answer the What If questions by calling them into 206-203-4308, send an email to hello@girlsnightinpodcast.com or join us live on TalkShoe! Participating live is actually pretty easy. You don’t need to register for an account or download software. Simply click to join in and participate as a guest user. You can do this right from your browser.

Future Movie
We will be reviewing Kim’s movie choice of “The Bucket List” on August 20. Make sure you rent it, buy it or catch it on TV before then so you can give us your review!

Listen above or download by right clicking and saving here.

In this episode of Girls Night In we discussed Rachel’s movie pick “Transformers” (2007) staring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, and Peter Cullen. This movie is based off the ’80s TV show and Hasbro toys of the same name. Was this popcorn, movie-flick a crowd pleaser or did it fail to transform some of the ladies into robot lovers? Maybe instead they were robotic aliens — but were they Autobots or Decepticons? “No sacrifice, no victory!”

Podcasters Who Gave Feedback In the Show
Darren Blake (aka flickguy) from Flick-a-brac
Jim Goodrich of With a Voice Like This

Station ID
Operation BSU

The Official Girls Night In Meet-Up
July 18-20, 2008
$25 registration fee to cover costs
Merrillville, IN
Hotel will be $89/night + tax (this is official now): Hot tub, pool, breakfast and free wi-fi
Dinner and a movie out on Friday. Saturday plans begin in the afternoon with activities and then a catered dinner. Sunday we’ll do breakfast and say goodbye. If you register and start making plans to attend, I’ll share some of the meet-up secrets with you, like the name of the hotel and where you can book everything. Full details can be found here.

DURING THE NEXT LIVE SHOW

Wednesday, June 25 at 9pm ET, 8pm CT, 7pm MT or 6pm PT

Topic Discussion : Childhood Toys
Rachel will be in the driver’s seat again and we’ll be discussing Childhood Toys. For the sake of being very specific we’ll say toys you loved at 10 years old or younger. The hosts will give 3, but you listeners are only allowed 2.

What If Questions
1. What if you could design the ultimate child’s toys? What would it be or do?
2. What if you were a Care Bear? Which would you be and why?

Tells us about your childhood toys and answer the What If questions by calling them into 206-203-4308, send an email to hello@girlsnightinpodcast.com or join us live on TalkShoe! Participating live is actually pretty easy. You don’t need to register for an account or download software. Simply click to join in and participate as a guest user. You can do this right from your browser.

Future Movie
The next movie will be Jaime’s pick “Chicago” on July 9. Make sure you rent it, buy it or catch it on TV before then so you can give us your review!

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In this weekly edition of Girls Night In we discussed Maggie’s movie pick, Enchanted staring Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden and Susan Sarandon. You would think that a fairytale brought to life would be every girl’s dream, but was it? Did someone kiss the prince and he turned back into a frog or did we all enjoy the movie, happily ever after? You should know by now that the only way to find out is to listen to the show.

Enchanted Synopsis by Kim
This story brought us into the fantasy land of a quaint common girl. Giselle sang to the animals and with the music she did twirl. A troll happened by threatening her as a snack. Prince Edward had already heard her singing and caught her.. he had a knack. His mother felt threatened, as evil step mothers do in these stories. She needed to fix this so she checked her inventory. A push down the well made fantasy and reality collide, sending her to New York City where there was nowhere for a princess to hide.

She happened upon Morgan followed by Robert her father, a divorce attorney who with her he didn’t want to bother. He was dating Nancy and was soon to propose but then got in some trouble before Giselle could use the curtains for clothes. Robert became enamored and in love they did fall. Edward arrived to rescue his beauty and took her on a date to the King and Queens ball. Poisoned by an apple and saved by a kiss, Giselle then stepped up so that Narcissa no longer would exist.

Edward and Nancy were animated and wed, while Robert and Giselle lived happily ever after, at least that’s what we read.

Podcasters Who Gave Feedback In the Show
Chris from Sims Junkie Podcast
Flickguy from Flick-a-brac

DURING THE NEXT LIVE SHOW

Wednesday, May 14 9pm ET, 8pm CT, 7pm MT or 6pm PT

Topic Discussion : Teachers and School
Maggie will once again be in charge. As our resident teacher she has given you homework to tell us about your favorite teacher, or a favorite moment from school. Just one, you don’t want her to put your name on the blackboard. Do you?

What If Questions
1. What if you were a teacher, what grade would you teach and why?
2. What if you could teach any subject you wanted - podcasting, cake making, Sims 2 instruction; what would you teach?

School us with your thoughts on this topic and your answers to the What If questions by calling them into 206-203-4308, send an email to hello@girlsnightinpodcast.com or join us live on TalkShoe! Participating live is actually pretty easy. You don’t need to register for an account or download software. Simply click to join in and participate as a guest user. You can do this right from your browser.

Future Movie
The following show will be Rachel’s movie pick on May 28 and incidentally our one year anniversary. The movie is Transformers (2007), so make sure you rent it, buy it or catch it on TV before then so you can give us your review!



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In this episode of Girls Night In we reviewed and discussed the movie The Princess Bride which was directed by Rob Reiner; with Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Christopher Guest and Chris Sarandon. We scaled the Cliffs of Insanity to bring you our thoughts and a bit of hilarity on this movie. With a change of pace, we were minus one of the girls. You’ll have to listen in to find out just who it was.

Announcement
Girls Night In is now a weekly show! This week you get the movie review and next week you’ll hear the What If portion of the show. Listen in to get all the details about this change!

Next Topic Discussion : When Nature Attacks
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 9pm ET, 8pm CT, 7pm MT or 6pm PT
Kim will be leading the discussion on When Nature Attacks. Share with us about a time when you were attacked by an animal or really anything in nature: bugs, spiders, a rabid tree or a rock.

What If Questions
1. What if nature were to call at the most inopportune time (or has it already?), when would that be for you and how would you handle it?
2. What was a time when you witnessed nature commit poetic justice? The same thing applies to the word nature here as the way it was described in the topic.

The following show will be Maggie’s movie pick on April 30. It is Enchanted , so make sure you rent it, buy it or catch it on TV before then so you can give us your review.

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In this episode we discussed Jaime’s movie pick Office Space starring Ron Livingston and Jennifer Aniston. It’s a movie for anyone who has ever worked in an office and wanted to break free. So make sure you put a cover sheet on your TPS and listen to hear our review.
Find your own Office Space Swag at ThinkGeek.com

Other Stuff You Should Know
We are selling t-shirts and stuffed animals! It will be a pre-order. Go here for more details.

What If We Answered Some Questions?
1. If you had to pick a button, or a piece of flair, to describe yourself, what would it say?
2. What is the one piece of work equipment that you love so much you would threaten to burn down a building for?

What’s Coming Up?
Wednesday, March 5th will be a discussion episode of Jaime’s choosing. We will be talking about music. The hosts will answer ten questions that they will answer with ONLY a song title and an artist. There will be no explanations, so the challenge will be to chose a song that speaks for itself.

Audience only questions will be:
What is a song that reminds you of your childhood?
What song most makes you want to go postal?

Call in or email us the answers. As a final reminder, the next show will be Wednesday, March 5th on TalkShoe at 9pm ET, 8pm CT, 7pm MT or 6pm PT. Call in your answers to 206-203-4308, email us hello@girlsnightinpodcast.com or join us live on TalkShoe!

The What If questions will be:
1. If you had to pick a song that describes where you are in your life right now what would it be?
2. If you could pick someone to write a song about you, who would it be?

The following show will be Kim’s movie pick on March 19. It is The Princess Bride , so make sure you rent it, buy it or catch it on TV before then so you can give us your review.

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Movie Review
In this episode we discussed Rachel’s movie pick Sense and Sensibility (1995 version) starring Emma Thomson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman among others. So, let’s find out what this movie is about:

From imdb Written by Kathy Li

When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward Ferrars, his family disapproves and separates them. And though Mrs. Jennings tries to match the worthy (and rich) Colonel Brandon to her, Marianne finds the dashing and fiery Willoughby more to her taste. Both relationships are sorely tried. But this is a romance, and through the hardships and heartbreak, true love and a happy ending will find their way for both the sister who is all sense and the one who is all sensibility.

We had a rather lengthy discussion of this movie but if you wanted find out if that was a good or a bad thing, you’ll have to listen to the show.

What If?
As always, we answered what if questions.
1. What if you knew touching the person you loved, in that romantic way, even once would kill them? Could you live the rest of your life without ever touching or kissing? For the sake of this question there’s no kissing through cling wrap or holding hands through rubber gloves. No touching, at all and no just moving away to not deal with it.
2. Now the shoes on the other foot but the same rules apply. What if you were the one who would be killed by the touch of your love? Could you live your life without it or would you sacrifice the rest of your life for that one sweet kiss?

What’s Coming Up?
Our next show will be on Wednesday, February 6th and it’ll be a discussion episode with Rachel once again in charge. The topic will be video games. Listeners please email or call in just 1 of your favorite video games of all time. I’m talking any kind of video game old or new, big or small, on any platform, PC, console, handheld, or even arcade. As much as we’d like to go on for hours, we just can’t, so this will help keep it more brief. As a final reminder, the next show will be Wednesday, February 6th on TalkShoe at 9pm ET, 8pm CT, 7pm MT or 6pm PT. Call in your favorite video game to 206-203-4308, email us hello@girlsnightinpodcast.com or join us live on TalkShoe!

The What If questions will be:
1. What if you had to design a brand new video game? What would it be like or about?
2. What if you had to pick any TV or movie version of the future to be the actual future. Which would you pick?

The following show will be Jaime’s movie pick on February 20. It is Office Space, so make sure you rent it, buy it or catch it on TV before then so you can give us your review.

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We here at the Girls Night In podcast have adopted a family that we will be sponsoring for Christmas. We are donating all of the money that we have generated through TalkShoe to a family that will not be having a very merry Christmas without some help. We would like to invite all of our listeners to help make a merry Christmas for the family we have chosen. The family is headed by a single mom and we want to make sure that Santa visits this house. Please help if you can by clicking on the donate to PayPal button. Any amount will help. We hope you all have a Merry Christmas!

Written by IMDb Editors

“Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure-seekers who’ve all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. Ben’s close to discovering its whereabouts, as is his competition, but the FBI is also hip to the hunt.”

Now I bet you’re asking yourself if this movie could possibly live up to her last pick, “Wet Hot American Summer”? You’ll just have to listen to find out. As per usual we ordered you to either Buy It, Rent It, Catch It On TV or Skip It.

What If?
1. If you could spend one whole night alone with anyone in history, who would you choose?
2. If you could travel back in time, where would you go?

What’s Coming Up?
Our next episode will be a pre-recorded Holiday special. You can look for that in your pod-catcher on or around December 19.

We will return to our regular live schedule Wednesday, January 9 at 9PM EDT, 8PM CDT, 7PM MDT, 6PM PDT, 4PM Hawaii time. We will be discussing Maggie’s topic of choice, cheating. She wants to know what we and you listeners have cheated at in our lives! And no, cheating at podcast questions do not count. She’d like to hear about one event of cheating from your life while you’ll hear about two from each of the co-hosts. Call in your cheating ways to 206-203-4308, email us hello@girlsnightinpodcast.com or join us live on TalkShoe!

The What If questions will be:
1. What if you could cheat at something and never get caught, what would it be?
2. What if you could cheat at something you do every day, what would it be?

The episode to follow Maggie’s cheating will be a movie review and Rachel will be taking the reins once more. We will be discussing her movie pick Sense and Sensibility. We realize it’s a long time away but January 23 will be here before you know it.

The music played tonight behind our closing segment was found through the PodSafe Music Network. The song is O Holy Night by artist Charlie Crowe.

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Movie Review
Tonight we finally discussed Kim’s movie pick Little Shop of Horrors (1986 version) staring; Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene and Steve Martin.

In this movie-musical, Rick Moranis plays the geeky character of Seymour Krelborn, who works in a rundown flower shop on Skid Row. While his boss, Mr. Mushnik bemoans the lack of business, Seymour seeks a way of bringing the shop — and himself — fame and fortune. He purchases a strange plant from an oriental street vendor, naming the plant after his girlfriend Audrey. Gradually, Seymour learns to his horror that “Audrey II” craves blood and flesh. With each of Audrey II’s “FEEED MEEE”s, Seymour must scare up human food to satisfy the plant’s appetite.

We had a good discussion where some of us were pansies and others made fun of the pansies, but what else is new? As per usual we rated it using our Buy It, Rent It, Catch It On TV or Skip It. Want to find out who the pansy is, you’ll have to listen for yourself.

What If?
1: If you could be invisible for a day what would you do and why?
2. What if you saw someone that you really, truly hated get murdered? What would you do?

Another Contest
We have two movie tickets that we’ll give away to a random participant in our next show on Wednesday, November 28. You have 1 of 3 ways to enter this random drawing. The requirement is your feedback on the what if questions and/or the show topic. Here’s how to enter:
1) Show up to the live recording in TalkShoe (click here for instructions)
2) Leave us a voicemail at 206.203.4308 (notice the new number)
3) Send us an email to hello@girlsnightinpodcast.com
It is, unfortunately only open to US residents as the shipping is beyond our means at this point.

Big Pimpin’
The Sims 2 Challenges
Flick-a-Brac
The Triple Feature
Cultural Soup
With a Voice Like This

What’s Coming Up?
Our next episode will be Wednesday, November 28 at 9PM EDT, 8PM CDT, 6PM PDT, 4PM Hawaii time. We will be discussing Kim’s topic of choice. She is asking you to share your memories yet again. She’s not going to specify a time of your life. She only asks that that what you share would be something that either embarrassed you at the time or does now.. or both. Call in your rants and raves at 206-203-4308, email us at hello@girlsnightinpodcast.com or join us live on TalkShoe!

The What If questions will be:
1. What if you were a published author? What would your very first best selling book be about?
2. Wait, we don’t have a second one. Email in your What If question by Friday, November 23 and we’ll pick one to use on the show.

The episode to follow it will bring us back to Maggie’s turn as the host. Her movie pick is National Treasure. It will be December 12 live at the same times as above.

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Movie Review
Tonight we discussed Jaime’s movie pick Playing by Heart staring, among other’s; Sean Connery, Angelina Joile, and Gillian Anderson. “It is a character-driven drama about the sometimes funny, sometimes painful and always complex ways love can touch your life. Set in Los Angeles, the film weaves in and out of the lives of a group of eleven people of varied generations and lifestyles, all of whom are experiencing love in one of its many maddening stages. Some people are finding it. Others are losing it. What they have in common is an intense desire to express how love makes them feel.” We had a spirited discussion and one of our most. . . interesting ones. We also, once again rated it using our Buy It, Rent It, Catch It On TV or Skip It.

Want to hear this interesting discussion, bitches? You’ll have to listen for yourself.

What If?
1: If money were not an object, and you HAD to choose to pursue a profession you are not already in, what would you choose?
2. If your current spouse (if you have one) did not exist AND you HAD to choose to be in a relationship with a celebrity, who would it be?
We had lots of great listener feedback on this one, but you don’t want to be left out, do you?

What’s Coming Up?
Wait, we have a special announcement! This just in!!!
On our next episode we are starting a contest. The rules are pretty simple, you need to show up to the live show or call in some feedback and you will automatically be entered into a drawing for the grand prize. The feedback can be anything having to do with the show whether it be answering a What If question, commenting on our discussion topic or pretty much anything beyond just giving your name and saying you like the show. It is, unfortunately only open to US residents as the shipping is beyond our means at this point. One grand prize winner, to be selected at random from eligible entries will win… A trip for two to…. YOUR COUCH! We will be giving away a gift card valid for a movie rental, two sodas, two boxes of candy, and popcorn for you and a lovely guest.

Our next episode will be October 3 at 9PM EDT, 8PM CDT, 6PM PDT, 4PM Hawaii time. We will be discussing Jaime’s topic of choice, mood extremes. We wanna hear a few things that make you happy as a clam and a few things that drive you batty. Call in your rants and raves at 206-666-6418, email us at hello@girlsnightinpodcast.com or join us live on talkshoe!

The What If questions will be:
1. If you could live the life of a television character, who would it be?
2. If you could spend a week in someone else’s shoes, who would you choose to be?

The following episode it will be Kim’s turn to host again and her movie pick is Little Shop of Horrors (1986 version). It will be October 17 live at the same times as above.