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What are the World’s Cheesiest Love Songs?

Hmmm… Well, it’s a matter of debate, but this playlist is at the very least a great start in getting to the bottom of it. A fine collection of gooey, bowel-clogging slag that can provide the foundation for your own personal love fondue.

There have been more cheesy love songs written than most would ever care to hear, but don’t fret. We’ve filtered out anything with even the tiniest amount of artistic credibility to help create the ultimate in love song trumpery. Only the most sappy, overproduced, pop hit fromage has been included.

This playlist works it two diametrically opposed manners. The first is as a group of emotionally charged tear-jerkers that will truly appeal to some percentage of the population. You know the type. These are the people that will be the first to die in the initial chaos that ensues when Armageddon unfolds.

The second is as a satirical look into the very worst of pop music that will make being alone on Valentine’s day seem like the better choice.

I have not ordered the list as many of these songs are true equals in their woe.

Nick Notle & Julia Roberts
I Love Trouble - 1994
In the early 90’s, Julia came out of nowhere to become the biggest female star in the world. Nick was named People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” in 1992. So why not pair them together in a screwball comedy about dueling reporters? Because he was nearly twice her age, and both of them appeared to be painfully aware of that fact.

Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez
Gigli - 2003
Ah, “Gigli.” The makers of “Ishtar” thank you for replacing their movie title as the funny word that means “embarrassing flop.” Ben and J.Lo met on the set of their ill-conceived gangster-meets-lesbian love story, and the tabloids were packed with stories about them every week thereafter. Still, real life sparks don’t always translate to the screen, and the movie’s failure killed the couple’s future.

Harrison Ford & Anne Heche
Six Days, Seven Nights - 1998
When Anne Heche was cast in this romantic action movie, she was a little-known but well-respected actress. By the time the film hit screens, everybody knew her as Ellen DeGeneres’ girlfriend. But even without the real world intruding, there’s no way anyone would buy the 29-year-old Heche and 56-year-old Ford ending up together, no matter how much time they spent on a desert island.

Kevin Spacey & Kate Bosworth
Beyond the Sea - 2004
The real Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee were quite an odd couple. He was a balding singer from the Bronx; she was a 16-year-old movie star. But somehow they made it work. In the movie of Darin’s life, however, Spacey and Bosworth were completely unbelievable. It didn’t help that Spacey was eight years older than the actual Darin ever lived to be. At least his hairline fit the part.

Hayden Christensen & Natalie Portman
Star Wars - Episode II and Episode III - 2002/2005
After watching the uncomfortable scenes with Natalie Portman and 10-year-old Jake Lloyd in The Phantom Menace, Star Wars fans everywhere thought, “It can’t get worse than this.” Oh, how little they knew. For the next two prequels, they were faced with Portman and Christensen stiffly reciting George Lucas’ leaden dialogue. When the giant lizard Obi-Wan rides is more convincing than their romance, it’s enough to make you want to scream “Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”

Madonna & Adriano Giannini
Swept Away - 2002
The original Italian 1974 film “Swept Away,” was an examination of class and gender issues. Guy Ritchie’s 2002 remake is an examination of his wife’s dedication to Pilates. Watching this movie makes you not only question why Madonna would fall for Adriano Giannini’s crude and abusive fisherman, but why she thought it’d be a good idea to make another movie with her spouse after having already bombed with her previous husband Sean Penn in “Shanghai Surprise.”

Dan Aykroyd & Rosie O’Donnell
Exit to Eden - 1994
“Exit to Eden” was a dark, romantic novel by “Interview With a Vampire” author Anne Rice about bondage and S&M. Who better, then, to turn it into a movie than the creator of “Mork and Mindy?” An even better question: what movie executive thought that the formula for box office gold was putting Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O’Donnell in skimpy studded leather outfits? As the comic relief they are painfully unfunny, and not even the kind of painful that a dominatrix would enjoy.

Justin Guarini & Kelly Clarkson
From Justin to Kelly - 2003
Casting the first and second place finishers of “American Idol” in the lead roles of a movie is sort of like letting the “Top Chef” winners perform your appendectomy. You would think being on a TV show together would make both Justin and Kelly comfortable being in the presence of both a camera and each other, but they look lost without Simon around to berate them. At least the dismal failure of the movie insured that we wouldn’t be subjected to “From Jordin to Sanjaya.”

Eddie Murphy & Eddie Murphy
Norbit - 2006
It took 25 years of hard work for Eddie Murphy to go from “Saturday Night Live” cast member to Oscar-nominated thespian. But it took just 2-1/2 minutes of the “Norbit” trailer to kill any hope he ever had of being taken seriously again. As both the nerdy title character and his overweight and domineering wife Rasputia, Murphy proved he can be supremely unpleasant no matter what size or gender.
Woody Allen & Any Actress 20+ Years Younger than Him
It was always part of the comedy in Woody Allen’s early movies how a bespectacled, awkward guy like him could end up with gorgeous women. Unfortunately, no one ever let Woody in on the joke. And by the time he was casting women like Téa Leoni (31 years younger than him) and Julia Roberts (32), it really stopped being funny. The most absurd: when his character in “The Curse of the Jade Scorpion” is seduced by Charlize Theron (four decades younger than Woody).

Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008)[1] was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated American actor. He had a long and outstanding resume of films. He was possibly best known for his role as police chief Martin Brody in the 1975 blockbuster Jaws.

was an auto mechanic.[2] Scheider’s mother was of Irish Catholic background and his father was German American and Protestant.[3][4] As a child, Scheider was an athlete, participating in organized baseball and boxing competitions. He attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and was inducted into the school’s hall of fame in 1985. He traded his boxing gloves for the stage, studying drama at both Rutgers University and Franklin and Marshall College, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. After three years in the United States Air Force, he appeared with the New York Shakespeare Festival, and won an Obie Award in 1968.

Film career

Scheider’s first film role was in the 1963 horror film Curse of the Living Corpse. (He was billed as “Roy R. Sheider”). In 1971, he appeared in two highly popular movies, Klute and The French Connection, the latter garnering him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Four years later, he portrayed Chief Martin Brody in the Hollywood blockbuster Jaws which also starred Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfus. Scheider’s famous movie line, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”, was voted 35th on the American Film Institute’s list of best movie quotes. In 1976, he starred as Doc, a secret agent in Marathon Man with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier.

He was originally cast as Michael in The Deer Hunter, the second movie of a three-movie deal with Universal Studios. However, bound by a Universal contract to make a Jaws sequel, he was deprived of the role. In 1979, four years after he appeared in Jaws, he was nominated for his second Academy Award, this time as Best Actor in All That Jazz.

He was the original choice to play John Rambo in the 1982 film, First Blood, but the part eventually went to Sylvester Stallone.[citation needed] In 1983, he starred in Blue Thunder, a John Badham film about a fictitious technologically advanced prototype attack helicopter which was to be used as security over the city of Los Angeles during the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. This was followed by roles in Peter Hyams’ 2010: The Year We Make Contact, a 1984 sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. One of his later parts was that of Dr. Benway in the long-in-production 1991 film adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novel Naked Lunch.

Among his most recent films is the crusty father of hero Frank Castle in The Punisher (2004). In 2007, he starred in The Poet and If I Didn’t Care. When Scheider died in February 2008, he had two movies upcoming: Dark Honeymoon, which had been completed, and Iron Cross, which is in post-production.

Other work

In 1993, Scheider signed on to be the lead star in the Steven Spielberg-produced television series SeaQuest DSV. During the second season, Scheider voiced disdain for the direction in which the series was heading. His comments were highly publicized and the media criticized him for panning his own show. NBC made additional casting and writing changes in the third season, and Scheider decided to exit the show. His contract however, required that he make several guest appearances that season. He has also repeatedly guest starred on the NBC television series Third Watch.

Scheider hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in the tenth (1984-1985) season (musical guest: Billy Ocean) and appeared on the Family Guy episode Bill and Peter’s Bogus Journey, voicing himself as the host of a toilet-training video. In 2007, Scheider received one of two annually-presented Lifetime Achievement Awards at the SunDeis Film Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts. (Academy Award winner Patricia Neal was the recipient of the other.) Scheider guest-starred in an episode Law & Order: Criminal Intent as a death row inmate on May 14, 2007.

Personal life

Scheider’s first marriage was to Cynthia Bebout on November 8, 1962. The couple had one daughter, Maximillia, before divorcing in 1989. On February 11, 1989, he married actress Brenda Siemer Scheider, with whom he had a son, Christian, and a daughter, Molly. They remained married until his death.

Death

In 2004, Scheider was diagnosed with myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells. In June 2005, he underwent a bone marrow transplant to successfully treat the cancer which was classified as being in partial remission. Scheider died on February 10, 2008, in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Hospital. Though a cause of death was not immediately released,[5] Scheider’s wife attributed her husband’s death to a staph infection.[6]

Filmography

* The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)
* Paper Lion (1968)
* Stiletto (1969)
* Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1969)
* Loving (1970)
* Klute (1971)
* The French Connection (1971)
* The Seven-Ups (1973)
* Jaws (1975)
* Marathon Man (1976)
* Sorcerer (1977)
* Jaws 2 (1978)
* Last Embrace (1979)
* All That Jazz (1979)
* Still of the Night (1982)
* Blue Thunder (1983)
* Tiger Town (1983)
* 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
* The Men’s Club (1986)
* The Egg’s Sunset on the Upside Down Turned Ramp (1986)
* 52 Pick-Up (1986)
* Cohen and Tate (1988)
* Listen to Me (1989)
* Night Game (1989)
* The Fourth War (1989)
* The Russia House (1990)
* Somebody has to Shoot the Picture (1990)
* Naked Lunch (1991)
* Wild Justice (1993)
* seaQuest DSV (1993) (television series)
* Romeo is Bleeding (1994)
* The Peacekeeper (1996)
* Executive Target (1997)
* The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
* The Rainmaker (1997)
* The Rage (1997)
* Plato’s Run (1997)
* Evasive Action (1998)
* RKO 281 (1999)
* Falling Through (2000)
* Daybreak (2000)
* The Doorway (2000)
* Texas 46 (2002) aka The Good War (USA)
* Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
* The Punisher (2004)
* The Poet (2007)
* If I Didn’t Care (2007)
* Dark Honeymoon (2008) (completed)
* Iron Cross (2008) (in post-production)

Respect your elders!  Appreciate from where you come!  And know that everything is going to be just fine.  This seemed the theme for the 50th Grammy presentation…..and it worked!

This evening I spent a little time doing something I have avoided for years; sat through The Grammy Award Presentation.

For years I have avoided watching any entertainment award presentation.  There seems so many of them these days, no particular award really pops out to say “great.”  Plus, I watched this year because you can always get a good grip on how the music industry is doing by watching certain award presentations.  So, while the Grammy’s are an annual affair, there will only be one fiftieth awards show presentation.  I watched to see how the academy would deal with this one time event in music’s history.

I was impressed!

Most, if not all, award shows are rarely seamless.  And lately, before the writers strike gave us a unwitting reprieve from them, award shows have been a bore.   It seemed television, movies, and music talent have been out to stroke their unbridled egos.  As you know, there is always one entertainer, lyricist, producer, or “has been” star(let) trying to do too much with their few minutes of worldwide attention.

Admit it or not, good or bad, awards shows always have moments you can remember from the night.  For most of the last ten or so Grammy’s (or those like them)  the moments have been somewhat embarrassing.  Brit Spears appearance on the MTV’s this year is one such experience.

The 50th Grammy’s did deliver on the moments.  While others might have had seperate ones from myself, there are three (if not four) special moments that brought me to my feet (sorta) to clap.

Vince Gill Wins the Country Album of the Year.

If there is one phrase that best describes country music these days it could very well be cookie cut country.  This symptom is not the artists fault.  Its the programers who are TOLD what to play, when to play it, and who NOT to play.  Vince Gill is one of those artists they have been told NOT to play….at least not the new stuff.  So, it was incredibly refreshing to see Gill push aside all the country rockers and King George ( said with respect) to win the country album of the year.

Even Gills remark to Kanye about his never having had been given a Grammy from a Beatle (Ringo Starr) was taken in good stride.  It was nice to see comedy exists among artists of different genre.

Kid Rock Croons with Keely Smith

Did you know Keely Smith before she took stage to sing with Kid Rock?  If you did, great!  I had no clue.  When she says she is going to sing the moment seems awkward and unrehearsed.  Then out walks Kid Rock.  Now, I am thinking what a strange pairing.

BUT, let’s see what happens.

A few would complain that Kid Rock at an award show is becoming somewhat repetitious.  However, I would beg to differ.  THIS moment was much much much different.  The Kid accepted on this night a standard bearers position for the future of the music industry.

Over the last few months I have come to truly appreciate the heart and talent of Kid Rock.  He spent an enormous amount of time with Robin Williams entertaining our troops at war in Afghanistan.  After having spent time seeing a new slice of life at war, now, here he was on stage with Keely Smith, the first Grammy Award recipient expanding his presence in an almost spiritual way.   Yesss…..spiritual!

At the start of the song,  Ms Smith seemed somewhat nervous.  Her body language is saying would my voice mix well with a new and younger generation.  Ms Smith had cover songs by Sinatra.  But, this moment seemed scary for her.  BUT, The Kid’s change of singing styles seemed to quickly make her feel accepted; her music and her place in music history was affirmed.  As such,  Kid helped her to relax and they blended in a marvelous bluesy moment.

Whatever seams were loose between the old and the new in the music industry (at this point in the show) The Kid made them a bit tighter after their performance.

THAT is spiritual!

Tina Turner Moves On The Grammys

Beyonce is not Tina….and Tina is not Beyonce!  In other words, no one could ever bring to the stage the energy and effervences of a Tina Turner.  Her moves were powerful, forceful, purposeful, and passionate.  But, the years have slowed Tina and she is not the young pup Beyonce is today.  BUT, this celebration of the old and new, on this program at least, could have cared less.

Tina may have lost a few steps.  BUT, her presence and sense of what sounds good far outweighed whatever steps she might have missed on stage.  Besides, unlike Britney’s walk through performance…Tina was Tina havin’ fun!   This moment proved to me…Beyonce, with her great sound,  has a while to go before she can move those sensually powerful thighs of hers like Tina.

Josh Groban and Andrea Boccelli Close Grammys on a High Note

Every awards presentation has a “memorium” for those in the industry who’ve died.  Most of these moments are placed in the middle of the show with a “fade to black” moment of silence.  This year’s Grammy’s left me feeling the power of the lives whose affect on music were truly great.

The list, as usual, is a who’s who of major and minor contributors to the music industry.  The final name, photo, and pwerful voice  you hear is that of Pavorotti.  Josh Groban is introduced by the always dapperly dressed Andrea Bocelli.  Groban begins the shortened version of “The Prayer,” made famous by Celine Deon and Bocelli.  This tender duet is carried well for the first few lines.  BUT, when Groban stands singing the Italian verses along side of Bocelli all thoughts of Celine pleasantly evaporate.  One could only hope these two would take THIS show on the road.

The end result:  all loose seams between the old and the new are tighter than ever on the creative side of the music industry.

I, at least, am left with one thought.  Despite the sad state of corporately run local music radio, the state of music is going to be just fine.  Because, last night a few people who care about musics future have stepped forward to be the standard bearers for what quality and excellence there remains in the heart of the songwriters, producers, and singers.

Venezuelan President Threatens to Cut Off Oil Sales to US, Calls Exxon Mobil ‘Outlaws’

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States in an “economic war” if Exxon Mobil Corp. wins court judgments to seize billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets.

Exxon Mobil has gone after the assets of state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA in U.S., British and Dutch courts as it challenges the nationalization of a multibillion dollar oil project by Chavez’s government.

A British court has issued an injunction “freezing” as much as $12 billion in assets.

“If you end up freezing (Venezuelan assets) and it harms us, we’re going to harm you,” Chavez said during his weekly radio and television program, “Hello, President.” “Do you know how? We aren’t going to send oil to the United States. Take note, Mr. Bush, Mr. Danger.”

Chavez has repeatedly threatened to cut off oil shipments to the United States, which is Venezuela’s No. 1 client, if Washington tries to oust him. Chavez’s warnings on Sunday appeared to extend that threat to attempts by oil companies to challenge his government’s nationalization drive through lawsuits.

“I speak to the U.S. empire, because that’s the master: continue and you will see that we won’t sent one drop of oil to the empire of the United States,” Chavez said Sunday.

“The outlaws of Exxon Mobil will never again rob us,” Chavez said, accusing the Irving, Texas-based oil company of acting in concert with Washington.

Exxon Mobil spokeswoman Margaret Ross said the company had no comment. A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman in Caracas did not return a call.

Venezuela accounted for about 12 percent of U.S. crude oil imports in November, the latest figures available from the U.S. Energy Department. The 1.23 million barrels a day from Venezuela makes that country the U.S.’s fourth-biggest oil importer behind Canada, Saudi Arabia and Mexico.

Venezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez has argued that court orders won by Exxon Mobil have “no effect” on the state oil company PDVSA and are merely “transitory measures” while Venezuela presents its case in courts in New York and London.

Exxon Mobil is also taking its claims to international arbitration, disputing the terms it was granted under Chavez’s nationalization last year of four heavy oil projects in the Orinoco River basin, one of the world’s richest oil deposits.

Other major oil companies including U.S.-based Chevron Corp., France’s Total, Britain’s BP PLC, and Norway’s StatoilHydro ASA have negotiated deals with Venezuela to continue on as minority partners in the Orinoco oil project.

ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil, however, balked at the tougher terms and have been in compensation talks with PDVSA.

Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie “Jaws,” died Sunday. He was 75.

Scheider died at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said. The hospital did not release a cause of death.

However, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital’s Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years.

He was nominated for a best-supporting actor Oscar in 1971’s “The French Connection” in which he played the police partner of Oscar winner Gene Hackman and for best-actor for 1979’s “All That Jazz,” the autobiographical Bob Fosse film.

However, he was best known for his role in Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film, “Jaws,” the enduring classic about a killer shark terrorizing beachgoers and well as millions of moviegoers.

Widely hailed as the film that launched the era of the Hollywood blockbuster, it was also the first movie to earn $100 million at the box office. Scheider starred with Richard Dreyfuss, who played an oceanographer.

“He was a wonderful guy. He was what I call ‘a knockaround actor,’” Dreyfuss told The Associated Press on Sunday.

“A ‘knockaround actor’ to me is a compliment that means a professional that lives the life of a professional actor and doesn’t’ yell and scream at the fates and does his job and does it as well as he can,” he said.

In 2005, one of Scheider’s most famous lines in the movie “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” was voted No. 35 on the American Film Institute’s list of best quotes from U.S. movies.

That year, some 30 years after “Jaws” premiered, hundreds of movie buffs flocked to Martha’s Vineyard, off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts, to celebrate the great white shark.

The island’s JawsFest ‘05 also brought back some of the cast and crew, including screenwriter Carl Gottlieb and Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel that inspired Spielberg’s classic. Spielberg, Scheider and Dreyfuss were absent.

Dreyfuss recalled Sunday a time during the filming of ‘Jaws’ when Scheider disappeared from the set. As the filming was on hold because of the weather, Scheider “called me up and said, ‘You don’t know where I am if they call.’

“He’d gone to get a tan. He was really very tan-addicted. That was due to a childhood affliction where he was in bed for a long time. For him being tan was being healthy,” Dreyfuss said.

He added that Scheider “was a pretty civilized human being you can’t ask for much more than that.”

Scheider was also politically active. He participated in rallies protesting U.S. military action in Iraq, including a massive New York demonstration in March 2003 that police said drew 125,000 chanting activists.

Scheider had a home built for him and his family in 1994 in Sagaponack in the Hamptons, where he was active in community issues. The oceanfront house featured five bedrooms, four fireplaces and various decks and porches.

Last summer, Scheider announced that he was selling the home for about $18.75 million to singer-songwriter Billy Joel and was moving to the nearby village of Sag Harbor.

Aaja Nachle Starring:
Madhuri Dixit,Konkona Sen Sharma,Kunal Kapoor,Akshaye Khanna,Ranvir Shorey,Irfan Khan,Divya Dutta

Director: Anil Mehta
Music: Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant

Aaja Nachle is the movie of bollywood’s most charming, beautiful and graceful actress Madhuri Dixit who has ruled millions of hearts worldwide. She is back to bollywood after 5 years. She is arguably one of most talented and popular actresses of Bollywood.

Gemma Atkinson has been evicted from I’m a Celebrity

Actress and model Gemma Atkinson became the seventh celebrity to be evicted from the jungle on Wednesday night as the public voted her out.

The 23-year-old from Manchester shouted “Yes!” and threw her arms in the air as the result was announced, before hugging her fellow I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here campers.

Speaking afterwards with Ant and Dec, she said: “I feel great. Thank you everyone for getting me out.

“Do you know what, I’ve had enough. When you’re cold and hungry the whole time…”

“The whole thing’s been great and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it. There’s no stress, nothing… but you get used to it and you miss the hustle and bustle.”

Asked about the explosive arguments that have characterised the reality show this year, she said: “I think it’s just a clash of characters, it’s weird because it was all the older people rowing. It was quite funny and you knew it was going to explode. I think Janice liked to wind people up, but it was kind of in a funny way.”

Asked who she hoped would win the series, she replied “Biggins or J”.

Former supermodel Janice Dickinson shocked her fellow campmates by insisting she had never had a one night stand - despite previously boasting of having 1,000 lovers.

Dickinson, 52, has previously been giving glamour model Gemma Atkinson advice on how to spice-up her sex life.

But she made the latest of a string of revelations about her private life after the campmates had to guess whether the percentage of people who had had one night stands was 44% or 63%. The contestants correctly guessed 44%, but Janice, with a straight face, added: “Well I’m 63%.”

“The Midwest Teen Sex Show,” whose self-declared mission is Sex Ed 101, aims to discuss the pros and cons of teen sexuality and is intended and targeted toward teens, not adults.
 

The podcasts have sparked mixed reactions from parents.

“I would like for them to keep themselves pure and wholesome and abstain from sex and not look like a geek,” said Plano mother Rhonda Cochran.

Jennifer Kauffman, of Dallas, found only one episode appropriate for her 11-year-old son, Mitchell, — the one dealing with abstinence. Still, some of the dialogue was over his head, she said.

“I think they are appropriate for older kids. I think it’s going to take some explaining for younger kids if they do get their hands on it,” said Kauffman’s mother Jennifer.

But, doctor Richard Honaker, a family practice physician said the show isn’t blunt enough.

“I think it’s real. You gotta hit them over the head. Parents are naive about what their young people know and they’re naive about what their young people are willing to participate in,” said Honaker.

Hokaker said children 13 and older should absolutely see the skits.

“I think it needs to be more blunt and say, ‘Here is a picture of venereal warts. do you want these warts?’,” Honaker said.

In an e-Mail to NBC 5, one of the creators of the show defended the podcasts: “I know some teens who are not ready for this type of content, but I know many more who see a lot worse than ‘Midwest Teen Sex Show’ on a regular basis.”

Children under the age of 18 are required to get permission from a parent to listen to the show, and as always, parents can decide for themselves if they show is something that is appropriate for their child. But the show is leaving no doubt that the podcasts are attention grabbing no matter the verdict.