Shweet! A Ladies Guide To Bro Culture

The Fast Saga is nearly complete as Jeena welcomes comedian and franchise newbie Rohita Kadambi and Franchise superstan comic/writer Julia Prescott to the as of now penultimate installment, Fate of the Furious. Opinions are split about how hard this film slaps, if it does, indeed, slap. How could it not? There's white dread acting! Snack acting! Helen Mirren acting! Torpedo catching acting! Listen now and hear how hard this episode slaps! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The emotional climax of the Fast Saga comes fast and furious for Jeena and her guests, first timer/LA comic Veronica Kwiatkowski and longtime franchise viewer/LA comic Dante Chang. There are explosions! Beefs! Heartfelt farewells! Cars improbably flying through buildings! The franchise that truly has it all reaches its platonic ideal as the first timer becomes the fan and the fan wonders what he has done with his spare time! Chaos reigns on this new episode of Shweet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The action shifts to London as Jeena welcomes Fast Saga newbie Molly Ruben-Long and her fellow LA comic Dave Cerwonka to the highly improbable action of Fast and Furious 6. There are tanks and giant planes and prison break-ins, but in the end, Jeena and her friends determine that the real story was all the friends Vin Diesel made along the way. Stare deep into Paul Walker's dreamy eyes and recover from your amnesia, because we're six movies deep into the most expensive art-house miniseries ever made!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Brasil! Jeena is joined by recent LA transplant Stef Dag and Chicago's own Michael Martin to discuss the testosterone super-powered antics of Fast Five. It's the debut of The Rock in the franchise and while everybody on the show can smell what he's cooking, not everyone finds it appetizing. The gang spitballs endless expansions to the Fast family, discusses some highly improbable physics and mostly just wishes everybody in the movie would make out already. FAMILY! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shweet! continues living a quarter mile at a time as Jeena welcomes NYC comedians Dani Faith Leonard and Alison Klemp to discuss Fast and Furious, the fourth film in the Fast Saga! After being separated for two films, this is the one that reunites stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker and continues their epic love story. Jeena and her guests discuss the loneliness of the adult American male and how the Fast saga provides a fantasy of male friendship built on fast cars and longing yet somehow platonic looks between men. Help us bring down the cartel by listening today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back Drift Kings! The Shweet! salute to the Fast and Furious movies continues with this deep dive into the far out world of Tokyo Drift, with comedian and first timer Irene Fagan Merrow and die hard franchise stan Bryan Yang! Join us as we discuss how the world's oldest teenager infiltrates the vaguest criminal empire in film history. Then most importantly, we discuss all things Han, the true emotional center of the Fast universe. And remember, drifting is just turning irresponsibly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey street racers! Jeena is back this week and bringing comedian Sarah York into the excessively fast and furious world of 2 Fast 2 Furious! And joining the action this week is designated apologist and podcaster Aaron Benoit. Shweet! explores the far out year of 2003, when girlfriends matched their boyfriends outfits and everybody's outfits matched their cars. The jury is still out on what is the actual plot of this movie, but homoerotic punches will be thrown and hundreds of very expensive cars will be destroyed with zero consequences. Don't you act a fool and listen now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shweet! is back and living a quarter mile at a time! Season 2 begins with Jeena’s little brother back in the studio to learn the manly lessons imparted by Toretto and all the FAMILY in the original The Fast and The Furious. Joining this time is Carson’s brand new spouse Bobbie as Jeena and Carson go down memory lane of their own car based family trauma. But strap in because Shweet is doing all nine FF movies in A ROW. Join us every week, busters! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a wrap on season one as Jeena continues the discussion about the King Kong of bro books, Infinite Jest. Returning guests include first time reader Hannah Corrigan and Infinite Jest stan Kris Montello as the discussion widens out to David Foster Wallace's place in the world and whether or not women can be just as profound in a fraction of the time. Listen to the end for Jeena's thoughts on season two.  Thank you for listening and keep an eye out for new episodes coming from More Banana Podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey Shweet! fans, this is it! Part 1 of the big 2 part season one finale! And we are tackling that tower of smart bro-dom, the doorstop sized novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.  Joining Jeena is comedian and first time Jester Hannah Corrigan.  Hannah and Jeena manage to do the one thing that 99% of the dudes on the NYC subway system nursing a copy of this book will never do- actually read Infinite Jest! Joining us is filmmaker and apologist Kris Montello.  It's the tweediest, most intellectual episode ever! If you've ever been curious about what this book is actually about, listen now and then again next week for part 2! Fart jokes will return next week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is Jeena Bloom on the More Banana Express tellin' you to listen up: we're talking about Big Trouble in Little China, the Kurt Russell 80s action cult classic featuring a whole lot of Chinese ghost wizards doing what ghost wizards do best! Joining in the fun are the ladies behind We Stan Together, first time viewer Lauren Brickman and longtime stan Caitlin Bitzegaio.  We explore the lost art of the video store, the many voices of Kim Cattrall and more from one the 80s strangest dude movies. Listen to this episode for America! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of Shweet! is making you an offer you can't refuse! Yes, this week we review the all time bro-classic (and all-around classic) film The Godfather. Jeena brings her friends Monica Prata and Reid Wittman along for the ride and they discuss the long influence this film has on culture, bro and otherwise. Everybody is a very bad feminist and Jeena learns that not all of her oblique comedy experiments work out! Take the cannoli and listen to this episode now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shweet! is all the way LIVE at Caveat in New York City and we are talking all about the 1997 Nicolas Cage bunny saving classic Con Air. First timer Milly Tamarez and not-so-apologetic apologist Geoffrey Asmus talk with Jeena before a live audience about all things Con Air. The hotness of drunk rednecks, the sexual allure of Steve Buscemi and that weird little girl who apparently lived in an empty swimming pool are among the many topics discussed before on this very special live episode of Shweet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Support us and More Banana Podcasts! Sup bruhs? Jeena's representin' the MBP with this week's episode about the sick ass music of Sublime!  Joining her is righteous comedy babe and Sublime newbie, Sarah Fatemi as well as true G from the old school, comic Rogin Kim.  The three have one tight discussion about whether anybody ever actually liked ska, the magical year of 1992, and how the DARE program is now totally down with drugs.  Listen now, mah dudes, only on More Banana Podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Support us and More Banana Podcasts! On this week's Shweet! Jeena brings LA comedian Austin Leigh some quality H2O in the form of 1998's Adam Sandler classic, The Waterboy!  Joining the discussion is Sandler superfan/fellow comic Nicole Mackie, bringing the liveliest of designated apologies! The trio discuss the fineness of Henry Winkler's stunt butt, the mouth feel of the medulla oblongata and how everything kind of works in this movie, except for Adam Sandler.  Listen today on the More Banana Network! YOU CAN DO IT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Support us and More Banana Podcasts! Jeena welcomes writer Sofia Barrett-Ibarria to the fast paced, extremely dudely world of 2017's Baby Driver! LA comic and film geek Max Mielecki puts the pedal to the metal as the designated apologist! Jeena takes a hard left turn into a discussion on tax credits! Everybody take a road trip back to the briefly cool car chase movie that served as Kevin Spacey's last hurrah as a movie star and inspired a thousand Bustle thinkpieces, today on Shweet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Support us and More Banana Podcasts! This week, Jeena makes a podcast about a podcast! The topic this week is The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Rogan first-timer, actress Xenia LeBlanc and spirited apologist, comic/writer Sarah Afkami. The lively discussion begins with a single episode of Rogan but quickly enlarges into broader topics on gender, civilized discourse and cancel culture. And there is still time for jokes about strap-ons! There are some very sensitive topics and some very surprising reveals, so grab your mass-building supplements and listen now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Support us and More Banana Podcasts! Jeena's guests this week, NYC comics Emily Walsh and Phil Rizdon do a movie swap! Emily has never seen the original 1984 Ghostbusters but has seen the 2016 all-female reboot while Phil is an 84 Ghostbusters fan that never saw the reboot.  And then, they swap movies and discuss! As it turns, everybody thinks both movies are pretty ok! None of this excuses the Fallout Boy theme song for the 2016 reboot, which everybody agrees should have drawn all of the internet's hate. The gang discusses both the toxic parts of nerd culture and the need to create original, non-rebooted material for the ladies in this lively and friendly discussion of a topic that got irrationally racist and ugly just 3 years ago. Listen now and relive all the confusing controversy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Support us and More Banana Podcasts! On this episode of Shweet!, Brooklyn based comic Morgan Root watches Quentin Tarantino's martial arts epic Kill Bill, Vol 1 for the first time with Jeena and Tarantino fan and woke bae, Alex Fossella.  What follows is a wide ranging discussion on Tarantino's relationship with Harvey Weinstein, getting revenge on behalf of other people and male-lensed feminism. It's a meaty, thoughtful episode that still manages to take time to riff about Gillian Anderson's nipples and Depends adult undergarments, so there really is something for everyone on this very special episode.  Listen now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Support us and More Banana Podcasts! Shweet! finally enters the bro-y world of video games!  NYC comedian and video game noob Anya Volz enters the immersive world of Red Dead Redemption 2, guided on her quest by fellow comic and gamer Mike Recine.  Journey back to the old west where you had a lot more wardrobe options than you'd expect! Jeena confesses to being a clueless old that understands neither the appeal of video games that force you to be ethical farmers or watching other people play games on the internet.  Put on your finest hat, punch some cattle and then ride into the complex morality play of modern video gaming on this week's Shweet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices