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The Half of It
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Emma & Katie go back to high school in this Cyrano riff/platonic comedy, with lots of animal talk at the beginning. We get confused about Catholicism, debate thruples, and spend some time on Wings of Desire and City of Angels.
Fact Check: Cyrano de Bergerac is an 1897 play about a mythologized version of a real person, who lived in the 17th century.
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Transcript
Bear Encounters and Town Wildlife
00:00:00
Speaker
Um, so Katie, ah my husband survived, as he calls it, a bear attack.
00:00:10
Speaker
That's extremely strong. Are you talking about the protein drink or, um, baby bear? I'm talking about calling it a bear attack.
00:00:22
Speaker
Um, yes. Well, let me tell you, let me turn a little tail for you. So I've been at the wedding embassy um working a lot lately and Charlie went and he dropped me off at work on Monday so that he could go do the grocery shopping. And as he comes back,
00:00:40
Speaker
He noticed that our like driveway, he was like, wow, there's a lot of like sand all over our driveway. That's so weird. And um he pulls up and he drives and he like gets the groceries out and he comes out to inspect it. And um it's not just sand. ah It's ah a lot of trash from our trash can. It's just been dragged into a bush.
00:01:02
Speaker
And top of that, there- Was it kitty litter from the trash? How did you know? well sand in the trash yeah it was kitty litter i had just taken out our litter genie which is like a diaper genie but for cat poop that day and it was all over the driveway like it was broken open spread open all over on top of that like just trash just a trail of trash and she's like oh so he like cleans it up and um he goes inside and
00:01:35
Speaker
Out comes a little baby bear. little baby bear. little baby bear goes to the trash can again, gets more trash, and and runs away.
00:01:47
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And then Charlie comes out, and he cleans it up, and he like can hear it rustling in the trees. And then he gets it all like set up, and he goes back inside. This baby bear came back like three or four times.
00:01:59
Speaker
He was just waiting on Charlie to leave so he come get more trash. He on Charlie. and The last video that we sent you is his last attempt to get into the trash, but Charlie had like maneuvered the trash can so that the baby bear couldn't get into it.
00:02:11
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um And it's just Charlie and Roland at the window, banging on the window, going, Oi! Oi! Oi! Get away from my trash!
00:02:23
Speaker
That's mine! I see him knocking over the trash thing right now. Yeah. Aw. He's just little guy. He's just a little guy. But he just kept coming back. And then, so Charlie tells me this story when he comes and picks me up.
00:02:37
Speaker
And we get back home. And as I'm walking in the door, he stops in the driveway. And he goes, can hear him. He's here.
00:02:48
Speaker
So Charlie has a new nemesis. And that nemesis is a baby bear. His baby bear sense was tingling. Yeah, um and he quote unquote survived a bear attack. Yeah, that sounds that sounds like an average man's description of of something like that. Yeah, he was in like a 10 to 20 foot radius of a bear.
00:03:10
Speaker
And that's him surviving a bear attack. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Way to go, Charles. Well, I'm glad you're all safe. Thanks. Thanks. We are too.
00:03:22
Speaker
is your Is your new house going to be ah less um approachable by bears? um Yes and no. So yes in that we are no longer backed up to a forest, a national forest.
00:03:37
Speaker
Right, right, right, right. Or I don't know if it's national forest. It's a forest preserve. um And yes, because...
00:03:46
Speaker
It's a little bit easier to walk because there's no highway. So like they can just come out of any of the woods by our house because we live in Connecticut now. there's It's all woods.
00:03:57
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um And they can just walk through. so I mean, from what I see on the ring community posts is there's just this town is riddled with bears. Oh, gosh. OK, well, well, they're not very smart, Katie.
00:04:10
Speaker
Well, do you, i mean, yeah, but like, so do you like lock up the trash? Is that the next thing that happens? like You can get, you can buy a very special trash bin, which bear locked.
00:04:22
Speaker
Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. So that's that's the next step. But we'll see we'll see if bears are an issue in the the area that we yeah are moving to. um Definitely Watertown also has this town.
00:04:37
Speaker
just I just, I need to write a sitcom about this town. ah This town's birds and chipmunks and squirrels. I have this running theory that they're all suicidal.
00:04:48
Speaker
Oh. That's sad. yeah It's sad and it's obnoxious. I've never broken for birds so many times in my life, Katie.
00:04:59
Speaker
Broken for birds. Literally just in the days. Do you mean braked? You mean you had to break for birds in car? break. I had to break for birds. I break for birds on the regular. I break squirrels on the regular because they run out and then you assume like any other animal that lives where there's cars they know not to stop in front of the cars not these birds squirrels and chipmunks no they run and they'll just go and they'll sit in front of your car and you're like what i don't want to hit you maybe they just think that they have the control you know that they're not they've decided that they're not moving for you anymore they're not gonna break they're not gonna to run for cars they're the cars have to break for them like they have the power in this relationship it seems
00:05:48
Speaker
I'm pretty sure that they think that this town is so weird that they just want to leave this mortal plane. Yikes. um I'm glad you bought a house there
00:06:01
Speaker
I think it gives the town gives it character. ah I love that we have suicidal birds and squirrels and dumb bears. And also, i think I've told you this, the famous um ah ah vultures that ah get drunk on the regular.
00:06:21
Speaker
oh sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. They ate a bunch of fruit from the back of a big bar and they got so drunk, animal control had to lock them up.
00:06:32
Speaker
Oh, no. It sounds like Pawnee from Parks and Recreation. It's basically, it's Pawnee it was like
00:06:45
Speaker
a little spooky. Oh, a little spooky. Okay. Yeah. My favorite analogy, and I will continue. thought you were going to say like nicer, but you didn't. No, a little spooky. ah my My favorite analogy is that this is basically Stars Hollow if it was written by Stephen King.
00:07:02
Speaker
Okay. Okay. So, Castle Rock then, which is by Stephen King. yeah Yes. We live in Castle Rock. Oh, I should be. i mean, are there a lot of are there a lot of murders in the your town?
00:07:16
Speaker
but everyone's just a little off, you know, ok a little off and not not like the kooky way a creepy way. In a creepy way that you're just like, uh-huh. Okay. i mean. looking Like in that like old New England fisherman in a lighthouse. Oh, I, uh, yeah. Yeah.
00:07:34
Speaker
Yeah. Like in that very Stephen King town from Maine way. Like this is dairy. Oh, But not dairy. But not dairy. Sure. But not as creepy as dairy. Yeah. Like it's just got dairy vibes.
00:07:47
Speaker
Okay. Okay. Well, um Terrible Small Towns. Oh, what do you know? Terrible Small Towns famously featured in today's film. That's right, guys. You guessed it.
00:07:59
Speaker
This is Go Get Your Girl.
Introduction of Podcast Hosts
00:08:01
Speaker
This is the podcast where Em and Katie are just two poor losers. ah One of them who's super smart and is just trying to support her dad and, you know, just make a living in this stupid small town. And the other one who's just, Emma's just really into sausages.
00:08:27
Speaker
and Very sweet, though. Very sweet. Very very sweet. the emma's Emma's a little himbo who's into sausages. And she just really wants to get the attention of this of this girl named Astrid. Astrid? Astrid. Astrid, yeah.
00:08:46
Speaker
And because she's in love with her. And so she, a la Cyrano de Bergeac style, asks Katie if she can write letters to like get Astrid's attention.
00:08:57
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um In this scenario, Emma is a man. ah And I thought I should clear that up for the audience. It's important to for the plot,
Discussion on 'The Half of It'
00:09:06
Speaker
yes. Yes, it's important for the plot. Also, our town is weirdly religious in the year of our Lord 2020.
00:09:12
Speaker
It really is, yeah. Which is unheard of. But ah but yeah, and... Things are going great until we decide it's time for us to go on a date in person. And then Emma just drops the ball because Emma's a dum-dum and doesn't know how to talk to people.
00:09:32
Speaker
And all along the way, Katie's falling in love with Astrid. Astrid. Oh, why don't I call Astrid? Astrid. It's a name. Yeah. And, you know, shenanigans happen. And we find out.
00:09:46
Speaker
That love can be anything, Katie. Some might say in this month of LGBTQIA+, that love is love.
00:10:01
Speaker
I feel like that might be simplifying a bit. That's right. I'm Emma. And I'm Katie, and today we are talking about the platonic comedy, yeah Half of It, from 2020. And this movie, okay, listen, I watched this movie when it came out in 2020, and I thought the girls got together at the end.
00:10:22
Speaker
Oh, that's okay. I mean, like, I still think it's like a rom-com for el for Pride Month. um Yeah, it is, but it's it's definitely, it is a platonic comedy. It is not comedy.
00:10:33
Speaker
comedy And I love platonic comedies. There's lots of great platonic comedies. And i I mean, like, my my one note, like, and it's not even a note, but my one comment as I was talking with Charlie about it this morning, because we watched it separately, um was that, like, I kind of like that they didn't force Aster to have this, like, coming out revelation in, like, the third act.
00:10:53
Speaker
yeah i sure i for sure i thought it was realistic and i thought that it was like you know it would have sort of i don't know cheapen the movie almost in a way yeah because it wasn't like her movie you know yeah so this movie is very grounded yeah uh so this is written and directed by alice woo who wrote and directed saving face which we watched last year um this is the this is the only movie she made in between those two movies. So it took her 16 years ah to make the second movie. yeah Girl, make more movies. You're good. I know. Yeah, for real. um Both those movies are delightful. um Right? we We start with ah Plato's symposium on on love, which is many queer listeners will know as the song The Origin of Love from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. And that was Charlie's one note, which was um his only note for the film was he would have rather them play that song.
00:11:55
Speaker
Okay. Well, they probably couldn't get the rights. of Because his favorite film is Hedwig. Yeah. And they live Squamish, which is not a real town, which I'm sure bothered you.
00:12:08
Speaker
It did. And it took me a long time to figure out which coast they were on. But i ultimately, West Coast. Yes, they are in, they're in Washington, supposedly. yeah They mention a bunch of other towns that I Googled that are in Washington.
00:12:22
Speaker
Well, and she's like, when she's writing the food critics, there's like the Seattle yes Herald and like the Spokane, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, oh, we're in, what it took me that long to realize, oh we're in Washington. i mean you can kind of tell from that I mean, here's the thing. It it wasn't shot there. it was shot in upstate New York. But they do make it look like the Pacific Northwest, more so than a lot of movies would bother trying. And there's a town called Squamish, not Squamish, Squamish, British Columbia, which is just outside of Vancouver.
00:12:52
Speaker
Um, so it's all in that. I think the Squamish were a native, uh, a native tribe in that area of Canada and America. I think the, what threw me off was the, um, the whole, like, fisherman vibe, rundown train station-ness of it all. I was like, oh, we're obviously somewhere in New England.
00:13:15
Speaker
Yeah, it is. I mean, what was shot there? Yeah. It's very, it's very New England. Um, it's very, like,
00:13:24
Speaker
40 years ago also like it's it's just kind of like they do that that they do the um the snapchat what they call ghost text um ah to each other but other than that it's very like old school in terms of the way that these people live ah um i mean she works at a train station yeah right right um So yeah, we get the the origin of love ah story, which if you are not aware of either Plato's Symposium or Hedwig of head in the Angry Edge.
00:13:59
Speaker
Basically the idea is that, you know, originally people were four-armed, four-legged, two-headed creatures that got split up by the gods and you spend your life looking for your other half, right?
00:14:12
Speaker
Oh, the name of this movie is the half of it. Did we say that? I think so. I don't know. Okay. But it's the half of it. Yeah. And we meet Ellie Chu, who is a Chinese-American teenager, um played by someone who presumably has a name.
00:14:31
Speaker
I don't know any of the actors in this. I don't either. i was like, like even the grownups, like you well, no, his mom is one those. Becky Ann Baker, the teacher, yeah is is in stuff. And his mom is also, yeah. Yeah, his mom is the most recognizable actor in this film.
00:14:49
Speaker
Catherine Curtin. She was in Orange as the New Black and Stranger Things and Homeland. She plays, um what's his name with the... She's Dustin's mom.
00:15:01
Speaker
Yeah, she's Dustin's mom. Thank you. um Leah Lewis plays Ellie Chu. She's best known to play playing George Phan in the CW adaptation of Nancy Drew. oh there you go.
00:15:15
Speaker
oh And we have Daniel Dimer, Deemer, who is a Canadian actor best known for the half of it and the Disney Plus show Percy Jackson and the Olympians. And then Alexis Lemire, who is known for the half of it and the sci-fi horror television film Truth or Dare. so Yep.
00:15:39
Speaker
less um Less accomplished actress Alexis Lemire. Oh, that sounds bad. good She's fine. no No shade on Alexis Lemire. Maybe she wants to do other things in her life. Who knows?
00:15:50
Speaker
Oh, Leo Lewis was in was in um Elemental. One of those Pixar movies. Sure, yeah. The one that's really bad? Yeah, and she's gonna be in The New Cars.
00:16:02
Speaker
Okay, so she does voice work. And she's on Matlock. Okay, yeah, the the reboot of Matlock starring Kathy Bates as Matlock. Yeah, so she's on a lot of stuff. That sounds like a joke. Like, there's a reboot of Matlock starring Kathy Bates. Sounds like a punchline from, like, Hacks or something. Like, I swear.
00:16:23
Speaker
Nope. That's not real. A very big character on Matlock. Much like Morris Chestnut. So but tv show Watson, which is about what if Sherlock Holmes was dead and Dr. Watson solved crimes? like This is what happens when Hollywood runs out of original ideas. What the fuck is wrong with network television? I swear to God.
00:16:47
Speaker
um yes okay so uh ellie is a quiet uh reserved student who writes papers for all of the other students and they pay her for it and the teacher doesn't care because the teacher doesn't care about anything really i mean she cares about ellie and she's just like she i mean she likes that ellie's getting the extra credit work because she feels like ellie ellie is her one egg in a basket that she's Yeah, it's not a good town. um It's not a good place. No, it's it's a real ah Catholic? like um No, it's not. i think it's um I think it's just, it's kind of generally non-denominational Protestant. Okay. Because they're singing, like the songs they're singing.
00:17:34
Speaker
Oh, no, no, it is Catholic, right, because there's a confession booth. Yeah. There's a confession booth. And like the songs that they were singing, i was like, I recognize that from church. Okay, fair enough. It's yeah it's a Catholic school in a very Catholic town. Yeah. But there's no uniforms. No, no, no, no. I think it's just a public school and everybody's just Catholic.
00:17:55
Speaker
Well, her her dad is the teacher. The preacher is the teacher. Or the priest is the teacher. Wait, her dad, how is her dad a priest?
00:18:06
Speaker
Oh, wait. I think they got confused about religions. They just didn't care. Well, her dad. yeah because her dad is definitely the preacher. I mean, it could be like Episcopals don't have confession, though.
00:18:19
Speaker
Yeah, I think that they they just were like, we're going to utilize these confessionals. um Yeah, it's weird because there's the other. Well, hold on. Maybe he's just like the guy who does the service sometimes because the priest. Yeah, there is the priest who is like senile.
00:18:37
Speaker
Maybe he's the deacon. Yeah. Does the deacon do like sermons and stuff? I dragged that out of my the back of my ass. um Let's make sure that deacons can get married.
00:18:50
Speaker
I think they can, yeah. Deacon of the Catholic Church. It's an ordained member of the clergy. oh nope. And now it's, oh my God, I hate this.
00:19:01
Speaker
A deacon is a member of, can you get married? Can you get married? You know what? Let's just... Deacon. doesn't matter. Catholic Church.
00:19:13
Speaker
Can you marry someone? Yes! Deacon. Okay. He's the deacon. yeah. He is... he He seems to be in charge of the church mostly because the priest is senile. and Yes. um Or possibly has dementia or something. It's it's a joke, but it's kind of sad in... Yeah.
00:19:34
Speaker
It's real sad. Real life. Yeah. um Yeah. So... um She clearly has a crush on this girl in their class um who's singing. They're singing Annie's song by John Denver. which is Right?
00:19:48
Speaker
What the fuck? I mean, obviously. Again, it just lets you know this is like this white bread terrible town. Yes. So bad. So, so bad. Then, so they're studying Sartre and like No Exit, which is famously I'm so sorry. Who are they studying?
00:20:10
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Sartre.
00:20:15
Speaker
You mean Sart? Yeah. Sart. Sartre? Jean Paul Sartre. So, Sartre. That was a beautiful pronunciation. Sartre.
00:20:30
Speaker
um ah Which No Exit is very famously about a a couple and also a lesbian um yeah stuck in hell together um in their like forced to be together despite their hatred for one another. Yep. And there's door and nobody goes out the door.
00:20:48
Speaker
Yes, because there's no exit. It's in the title of the sorry kind of the hold whole thing. um ah So a little on the nose. Like, here's the thing. like Wink, wink.
00:20:59
Speaker
If you set a movie in high school or college, the the whatever they're learning about, whatever the teacher's lecture is, it has to relate thematically to the movie. It's the law. They will arrest you and throw you in jail if you don't do it.
00:21:14
Speaker
Yeah. The WGA doesn't fuck around with this. It is in every single writer's contract. It has to be done. Yes.
00:21:26
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um ah And the more over the the more overt and and hitting you over the head with it, the better. Yeah.
00:21:36
Speaker
So there's this whole thing with Grinnell College, which is this private school in Iowa. And I don't know why they picked that place. I feel like they could have gone so stereotypical and been like Harvard, Yale, like, or i don't know. Somewhere closer. Like i mean Stanford is at least yeah you know on the same coast. Yeah. Yeah. um But Grinnell College in Iowa is where the teacher wants Ellie to go and is trying to get her to apply there. But she says that she's going to ah University of Washington so she can stay in Squamish and help her dad. Now, her dad is a pathetic loser who. OK, OK.
00:22:18
Speaker
doubt and her dad so Her dad was traumatized when her mom died and decided to never do anything ever again, which sucks and ah is a makes him a bad parent. I'm sorry. I i don't have a ton of sympathy for her shitty dad who has made her life a living hell.
00:22:39
Speaker
Her dad went through a lot. He came to this country with a thousand degrees, like educational degrees. and I understand all that, but that's not the problem that he has. His problem is that his wife died many, many years ago and he has not moved on, which is like fine if you're alone, but like when you have a child, you have to be responsible for that child and you can't just like replace your wife with your child and- like do nothing and stop moving, which is what he does. And eventually like he, like he gets better by the end of the movie, but, but it's very annoying. um yeah Her life, her life is a nightmare and it's his fault. Well, we all know who who Katie's least favorite character is.
00:23:23
Speaker
um yeah I don't, yeah, man, I might like Trigg better than I like her dad. Yeah. Right, and Trig does mud-wheeling nonsense in cars. Trig kind of charming. Trig is the fucking worst.
00:23:38
Speaker
Here's the thing, though. It's interesting because, like, Trig, who is, um, um, now you've got me saying Astrid. Astrid's boyfriend In other movies would be like a shitty, like, um, bully, the person who's like, but he's not like, he's super nice to everybody and everybody likes him, which is true more accurate for the super popular people in high school. Cause in my experience, like the really popular people in high school were all like just the nicest people in the world. Like there were like assholes and bullies, but they weren't the soup. They weren't the most popular people in school.
00:24:17
Speaker
Um, it's the reason everybody likes them was because they were sweet and nice and also, you know, very popular, but they, yeah there's those things kind in real life. Those, those people are, are more likely to, to be like that than, than to be like the bullies that Ellie has. Yeah. Yeah. The bullies that Ellie has, I'll, I'll revise that.
00:24:38
Speaker
The bullies that Ellie has are the fucking worst. Yeah, they're they're i mean and but they're also losers. you know They're not... like yeah um big goal Anyway. losers So... Yes. What was I saying? before we got caught i You hate Ellie's dad.
00:24:56
Speaker
No, I don't hate him. I just... You think he's a pathetic loser. No. To surrender his child to protective services...
00:25:08
Speaker
I mean, maybe. um She is having to take care of him, which is, you know, not her responsibility. Like, he doesn't pay the electric bill, um so she has to, like, sell ah illegally, like, sell papers at school, which she could get expelled for, like, if the teacher cared. Yeah. um ah And that to so she can pay their their electricity bill, because, like, he says they don't understand me on the phone, and he doesn't.
00:25:37
Speaker
learn English, but it is framed as the reason like the reason he hasn't, like, i don't want to get into like assimilation culture with immigrants or anything, but like yeah it is framed that like when their mom died, he stopped trying to do everything, right? yeah He just sort of cocooned himself.
00:25:54
Speaker
Yes. And it's like, and she says, I mean, he can speak a little English and she's like, you know, did you try though? Like that's the thing that she asks him because he's using it as an excuse to not try. Yeah. To do the things that he needs to do to live and to take care of his daughter. Yeah. That's not great. So I do hold that against him, but don't think he's the I of skimmed over that whole part.
00:26:17
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. But he loves old movies and they watch a lot of old movies together. um They're watching Casablanca on the first scene with him. Yeah. um And we meet Paul Mursky, who is of just as an angel. Just a sweet little dum-dum.
00:26:36
Speaker
What a sweet little dum-dum. He's a very sweet boy. He plays football. Yeah. He works. He's got, what, like five brothers and sisters, he says. Yeah. They have a sausage shop. They have a sausage shop, which is right across the street from the train station where Ellie lives.
00:26:54
Speaker
um And he asks Ellie to write a love letter for him to Aster. And she's like, I'm not going to do that. But she's got to pay. that They're going to shut the power off. So she changes. Yeah.
00:27:06
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, yeah. We meet we meet Aster, who is who saves the cat by helping Ellie pick up her books after somebody knocks into her. Yep.
00:27:17
Speaker
um and they bond over the remains of the day which is yeah a very romantic book of of unconsummated longing uh Nazis I mean not really but yeah they're there which is one of the things they talk about in the book yeah it's one of the thing that oh my god what's his name what is Dum's name what one of the things Paul really latches on to when trying to talk about it because he he doesn't know he did not read the book Yeah, yeah. um he We have his terrible letter to her, which is which she has to rewrite. um
00:27:58
Speaker
And we start this Cyrano de Bergerac plot, basically. yeah And it's so if you're not very Cyrano. Yeah, oh it's very Cyrano. If you're not familiar with Cyrano de Bergerac, it's a play from the 18th century?
00:28:12
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yeah i want to say, maybe later. hundreds Yeah, maybe later. I don't remember. um which is about an an an ugly man. um In most productions, he has like a big false nose is that what they do to to clarify that.
00:28:29
Speaker
um Who's in love with the beautiful Roxanne. And then there's the... um attractive soldier christian who also loves her and hires cyrano to write love letters for him to roxanne and woos her there's the famous scene where he's like talking to her at the balcony and cyrano's in the bushes feeding him lines which has been done in a million movies over the years one way or another And they've remade this in a thousand different, or remade Cyrano in a thousand different ways. Most famously, and um probably the one that our listeners know the best, is the 90s Wishbone production.
00:29:08
Speaker
No idea what you were going to say. I would say it's the 90s movie with Steve Martin called Roxanne. No, no, no, no. I think it's where the dog plays Cyrano.
00:29:19
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Okay, sure, sure, sure.
00:29:24
Speaker
Yeah, so she They watch one of my favorite movies of all time Wings of Desire um And she i What was that? I said of course Uh huh It seems dismissive Have you seen Wings Desire? I've never Wings of Desire.
00:29:42
Speaker
Really? Oh my god, it's beautiful. So um it's about an angel who falls in love with a circus performer and falls to earth to become human to be with her because he loves her so much.
00:29:53
Speaker
Okay. um it's It's very beautiful. um It's Wim Wenders, a German movie. Okay. And... So she steals a line from that and puts it in the in the letter. And the immediate response they get is, I like vi Vendors too. but what do you, so like Aster calls them out immediately for ripping off Wings of Desire. Yeah. Which means that she's cool and interesting because she likes Wings of Desire. And people who haven't heard of Wings of Desire are less cool and interesting. Okay, okay. I've heard of it now.
00:30:29
Speaker
um Wings of Desire is also one of the movies that was remade the worst. um The 90s rom-drom with Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage called City of Angels. Oh, that was a remake of that? I've seen City Angels.
00:30:47
Speaker
It's a remake in the sense that it's about an angel who falls in love with a human woman, but that is where the similarities end. Almost nothing else is the same at all. i've I mean, I've watched, I've seen that movie and Michael. They came out the same year.
00:31:01
Speaker
Did Michael come out the same year? Yeah. Michael is also bad. Michael is also Nora Ephron, really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Like, oof. Nicolas Cage is an angel. Well, it's John Travolta and Michael. Oh, sorry. John Travolta. It's an angel.
00:31:18
Speaker
Yeah. Nicholas Cage and City of Angels. we watched We rewatched City of Angels not too long ago, maybe like sometime last year. And let me tell you, that movie is dog shit. Like that is one of the worst like movies of the of the decade, at least. Like, wow. I remember really liking it. But I was also less than 10.
00:31:42
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yeah Yeah. Less than 10 is intense for that movie. Again, if we've learned anything from this podcast, it is that my mom had no age range, for, like, a lot of movies. um Famously, like, I will tell you, what what happens in that movie that does not happen in Wings of Desire, um spoiler alert for ah City of Angels, which no one should ever watch, the only good thing that came out of City of Angels is the song Iris by the Goo Goo Doll. Yes!
00:32:13
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But in that movie, after he falls to Earth, they have one night together. yeah She very famously goes for a bike ride where she stops looking where she's going because she's in love. Oh my God, yes. She looks up and she puts her arms out.
00:32:28
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And riding at a truck hits her and she dies. Boom! Meg Ryan's dead. stupid And he's given up everything to become a human and he can't be an angel anymore.
00:32:39
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Which is, again, not what happens in the German art film that this is based on. Like, they just... Like, it's crazy. Um...
00:32:51
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it's It's like so unearned. It's so like um manipulative of the audience. It's terrible. Anyway. It also lends you to believe that if you have sex with an an angel, you will immediately die. Yeah, that is what it leads you to believe. Or Nicolas Cage. If you have sex with Nicolas Cage. yeah you're gonna get hit Oh, Nicolas Cage is in City of Angels. Yes.
00:33:12
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John Travolter is in Michael. Okay. yeah, yeah. I was like, I knew that they were both angels. Yes, they were both angels. Yeah. Anyway, so that's City of Angels, a movie we'll never do on this podcast.
00:33:23
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um You wait.
Ellie and Paul's Friendship
00:33:28
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So, yeah, she has no friends and she starts to befriend this idiot, Paul. It's very sweet. Like, what this movie is actually about is the two of them becoming best friends.
00:33:38
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Yes, and it's so, so sweet. But um I will say, so Katie will know this because I was texting her live as I was watching it last night. um I came home, took an edible, ate myself some curry. That makes sense. The edible. but Lied down and turned on this movie. um And I got midway and then I started getting really upset because I could see where this was going. And I was like, I don't think it's going to do what I want it to do. I don't understand. um i i think...
00:34:13
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personally, that they had the opportunity to break so glass ceilings in the um in the queer community. And ah they they could be the first teen rom-com about a throuple.
00:34:32
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I think that they have actually done that. I think that there is a teen thruple rom-com. Really? Or not maybe not a rom-com, but there is a teen thruple movie, I swear. And I can't think of what it is, but um it's not this movie. It's just like they would perfect. She doesn't like boys, though.
00:34:50
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you have to be bisexual for that. I know. i know. i know. But like you just tweak a few things, and like maybe it's like, I don't know. ah Yeah, no, that wouldn't really work, would it? You can't do like a chain.
00:35:09
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Listen, you can do whatever you want. If everybody is consenting, like go with God. like Yeah. Whatever you said, do a chain. Like, I don't know what that means. But whatever it means, if everybody is into it, that's great. Aster's the only one that flips both ways, but they all snuggle together.
00:35:27
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I think that probably is a thing, actually. Yeah. um ah Again, I am um um' not my thing. um um i think it yeah I think it's a reverse harem.
00:35:37
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Like, man, like it's just like two people is complicated in enough. It's so complicated. Three people is like, oh, God. That's so many feelings. Who's got the time and the scheduling know-how? Can you imagine?
00:35:52
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And also, who's got the bed that's picked enough? The productivity apps that would be required. mean, the bed's not that big of a problem. Like, I've slept three to a bed before. Yeah, but every night. It did to college. Every night, though? Well, I mean, like, a California king would be fine. don't know. It seems like too many bodies in a bed during the summer.
00:36:11
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Well, you need air conditioning. If you're going to be in a throuple, air conditioning is key. Air conditioning is key. let's that That'll be the pull quote from this. um yes so then she's like flirting with this girl for the rest of the movie think where she thinks that that she's uh that she's paul at first an anonymous person and then paul yeah um and they talk about the bold strokes um which is like uh the said that there are five bold strokes make the difference between a good painting and a great one and you just have to know
00:36:45
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where to do that and they collaborate on a mural together it's adorable beautiful it's so beautiful and then that fucking asshole like line cook paints over this beautiful mural of an angel and i'm like it's you see it's very accurate that that angel is also from wings of desire by the way well it was really nice yes and It's, um she got, ah so yeah, they they finally meet up for a date um ah and he, she got a copy of Remains of the Day signed by the author, Kazuo Shigeru, and gives it to him, which is crazy. Insane. he is like, completely botches this date because he doesn't know what to say. He doesn't know how to talk to anyone, much less girls. Yep. So he says, I love Nazis.
00:37:38
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Well, not like love Nazis. I just love I love those Nazis. I mean, not those Nazis. But yeah. And it just goes on and on like that. And he every time he gets nervous, he just drinks more of his milkshake.
00:37:49
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Yes. um So that doesn't go well. um Meanwhile, like he. the I love the recurring scene of her riding her bike and him running alongside her. know!
00:38:00
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It's so cute. And he starts getting better and better at running because he does it every day to talk to her because she won't get off and walk her bike to talk to him. Yep. And it's also... So this is this friendship is helping his football skills.
00:38:13
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Absolutely, yeah. um There's the great bit where it's like, man, he's gotten a lot faster and then it cuts to the football like bouncing off his helmet, though. He's not... He's not good at football. Yes, he's got he's gotten faster, but that's all.
00:38:27
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That is all. But also, that there it should be said that their football team is terrible. Yeah, says it says later, it says they haven't scored in 15 years, which is crazy.
00:38:39
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On the board! On the board! So she starts to train him to be the fake person that they're making, which is, this is where it really, like, starts to get, like...
00:38:50
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They're not treating Aster well in this. No. They're really not. Which is part of, like, the story, right? Like, that's yeah that's intentional. They're stalking her to find out what she likes. Like, she likes horror movies. um ah She is at the drugstore and they're watching her. It's weird. Yep. I mean, it's sort of, to be said of, like, she, Ellie constantly is asking, um oh my God, I keep blanking on his name.
00:39:18
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Paul. Paul. I want to call him Robbie. um he seems like a Robbie. Right? ah Robbie Paul. um And she keeps asking him, like, what do you love about her?
00:39:28
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Because he keeps saying that he's in love with her. And she's like, well, what do you love about her? It can't just be that she's pretty. Like, you can't just think that she's pretty. And he doesn't really have any good reasons why he loves her. He's just like, he comes up with all these bullshit reasons of like, you can't really explain love.
00:39:44
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You can't really, like, describe it. It's just like a feeling. It's just like a thing. Yeah. Which is, like, a really good key in point of, like, they're not really treating Aster like a person.
00:39:55
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But more like a person. Yeah, yeah. And, I mean, there's a little bit more of that in the letters. Because they do talk about stuff in the letters.
00:40:06
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um You know, she talks about the, um how invisible, like, being, like, so pretty unpopular can be. Yeah. um ah which is which is real for sure yeah um and like you know because when you look like everybody else you look like no one is what she says um and the the pressures of her of her fucking dad in this like oppressive religious upbringing like she they they have this conversation later where she's like you know i don't believe in god and she's like you're so lucky and she's like
00:40:41
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Not really. It's lonely. yeah so they're But but they're both they're both lonely. They both feel completely isolated. Her, by this Christian upbringing and and Ellie by being by being like self-isolating. By being yeah like completely alone because of her Because of her dad for dad and like because she just like you know she just rejects everyone else because she's just built herself a cage.
00:41:09
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Because of her. She has built this, like, she has just, yes, fine, fine! ah
00:41:19
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Um, so, uh...
00:41:24
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Ellie and Paul start to become friends. He tells her about his sausage idea. He wants to make taco sausage a thing. Taco sausage! And he's so excited about taco sausage. And he's trying to get them to try it. She's like, i'm not going eat taco sausage. um Which at first I thought was like taco flavoring inside a sausage, which it may be, but it's also a big sausage stuck in a taco shell.
00:41:48
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Yeah, that's what I took it as. Because he would like had it in the taco shell and he goes, ooh, taco sausage, taco sausage. Yeah. um We learned that her dad has a PhD in engineering and, you know, came to be like...
00:42:02
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to to run, like, sections of this, like, um you know, transit um empire. and he started being the station manager, but because he became so self-isolating and because he didn't learn to speak English, like, he's stuck there and hasn't gotten to be the, you know, his education outweighs his position, which, like, yeah relatable.
00:42:27
Speaker
And... and and But he, like, he makes her do the lanterns because to to signal the trains because he doesn't trust the the flag, like, mechanism, which is crazy. Yeah, yeah, it's insane. um And she does everything for him, you know? Yeah, she does his job for him.
00:42:46
Speaker
Yes, she does. He doesn't do anything but watch old movies, it seems. Jeez Louise. Um, and then that's very cute because this is what she goes and he, you know, doesn't speak English very good. And he's like, I don't speak good either. um which is very sweet.
00:43:02
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Oh, and when she's training him to like be a person, she like teaches him how to have have a conversation. She's like, it's like ping pong. Um, it basically, I hit the ball and then you hit it back. And then, so then he hits it and he like spikes the ball.
00:43:16
Speaker
Yeah. Which is what he does conversationally. It's very accurate. it's very um And, ah yeah, we have we have some bits of of a sermon by her dad where he says, sin will creep in and destroy the good life God has planned for you, which is very telling.
00:43:34
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um Because, that yeah, she feels trapped. Aster feels trapped in this relationship with Trigg, who is um a very, like, he reminds me a little bit of, what's his name from Stranger Things? um Joe Keery from a Stranger Things? Steve, yeah. A little bit, yeah. Yeah. He's just this rich kid.
00:43:54
Speaker
Kind of dumb so rich kid who never had to work hard for anything. And it just, everyone adores, everyone loves him. Yeah. Yeah. he's just like, what's up babe?
00:44:05
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Yeah. He's an idiot and he doesn't treat women well, but he's not like a bad person. Like, yeah, no, no, not. And he's not, yeah he's not homophobic or bullying. um um like a lot of the, other like some of the other characters are. yeah Everyone is in love with him.
00:44:23
Speaker
Yeah. it's just very self-centered and kind of stupid. Yeah. um Which, again, Steve from Stranger Things is is better than that, but he grows. He grows. was going to say, he doesn't end that way. Yeah. um Yes. um The best character on Stranger Things, Steve.
00:44:39
Speaker
I want to call him. Steve Holt is from Rest of Development. What's Steve's last name? um It's Steve. Harrington. Harrington. um Steve the hair Harrington, yes. I love Steve and I love um Maya Hawke's character. Those are my two their relationship is is great on that show. um they might A lot of things ah didn't go great as that show went on, but that their relationship was really... Their relationship, ah Steve and Robin were always the best.
00:45:08
Speaker
Yeah, I mean... Much like Paul and Ellie, a straight boy, gay girl, best friends. Yeah, exactly. And they didn't need a throuple. Exactly.
00:45:19
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So he can't get his family to try taco sausage. He feels trapped in this like family sausage dynasty where he's like, yeah you know, they're slowly losing money and they're going to go out of business because my mother won't change her grandfather's sausage recipe and won't expand or try anything new. um And she goes, what was your mom like? And she goes, young, funny, dead.
00:45:43
Speaker
and he was like, what do you, well, what was she like when she was alive? She goes, fun, young, fun, fun, young, fun. yeah And they start talking about what love is. And like, she starts to give away this crush that she has on her, but he doesn't quite get it yet.
00:46:01
Speaker
um And she says, you know, you try harder than anyone I've ever met. And if love isn't the effort you put in, then what is it? um And they're they're they're trying to figure out what love is. as Yeah. as As everyone does.
00:46:14
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yeah As everyone does. They're little teens with little hormones running through their little bodies. Yeah. um I mean, his body is big. Like, he's huge, we should say. Yeah, but his brain isn't.
00:46:27
Speaker
That's true. He's, but he's like head and shoulders taller than everyone in the class. Like they there's that shot of the hallway with him standing behind everyone. Like, yeah. Um, they, he makes taco sausage for her and her dad and they're both really into it. Yeah.
00:46:43
Speaker
Well, he makes his own five spice too. Yeah. Yeah. He loves Yakult, um, uh, which do you know what Yakult is? No. What is that? It's a weird little yogurt drink. It's like, it's not yogurt. was trying to what it was. It's like probiotic milk. It's this tiny little, um, I think it's Japanese, um, even though they're Chinese. Um,
00:47:08
Speaker
a Japanese yeah is a sweetened probiotic milk beverage fermented with a bacteria strain lactetia c. basilicus casei shirota so yeah it comes in these tiny little bottles it's pretty popular um and it's like for I had no idea what they were eating they're like little shots of um of basically like a yogurt milk yeah um oh at that like last scene where she's getting all of them if she drank all of those she poop herself yeah big time uh yeah he said there's like a yakult vending machine which is weird weird um i mean we know that alice woo loves vending machines um which is famously a big part of uh uh saving face her other movie oh yeah sorry saving face
00:47:58
Speaker
um uh she oh yeah there's a talent show she writes a song about her mom which is very cute um and then the assholes like um uh cut the piano strings they sabotaged her piano right and it's right after trigg ist is trig's not in the band is he because i don't know all these team boys started to look alike after a while They are. I think they're all in the in the band slash choir. Paul isn't.
00:48:28
Speaker
The like the like rock band that goes on before her at the talent show. Oh, it's Trigg. Yeah, he's singing. lead singer. Why would they put her after Trigg? Put Trigg last. Come on, guys. What's going on? Well, nobody in this town is smart. He's singing this eighty s song. I didn't recognize the song, but it's very 80s. Yes.
00:48:46
Speaker
He's dressed like Bruce Springsteen. It's not a Springsteen song, though. Very bizarre. ah um He brings the house down and she has to follow. um But the bullies like cut her piano strings. um yeah But Paul slides her a guitar and she plays it on the guitar and everyone loves it. Which again...
00:49:04
Speaker
like is, and then she goes to the party. You're like, Hey, Chinese girl came to the party. Yeah. And like, there was a lot of like bizarre interactions after that because like people like went up to her, like that one girl, she was like, Hey, we've been in the same history class for the past like three years. And I just really want to tell you, i really like your nails. Yeah.
00:49:24
Speaker
It's, I thought this was really sweet and very like more realistic to actual high school where, especially at the end of senior year, like everybody starts being really nice to each other um because like you realize it's all glad had that experience.
00:49:38
Speaker
um Well, I didn't go to private Catholic high school, I think. I was going to say, Katie, your high school experience and my high school experience were vastly different.
00:49:50
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Yeah, but like the idea that it's just, it's more realistic in the terms that like in... In movies and TV, high school high schoolers are presented as evil um yeah will who will murder you. um and this is just this is just a little bit, i feel I felt like it was a little bit more realistic where it's like the song that she does is good. she is she She performs it well and they appreciate that, which is like, yeah i think that is what would happen in this where yeah real life.
00:50:23
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Um, and everyone is glad that she showed up to the party. Like people are are excited. Oh, and they're nice to her, which I, again, is just, it's refreshing. And they play shots of Catan or like drinkers of Catan. Drinkers of Catan. Yeah. and she gets drunk and Paul takes her to his, God knows where her dad thinks she is. i know. Paul takes,
00:50:46
Speaker
He probably didn't even notice. um ah Paul takes her to his bed let and lets her her sleep in his bed. I don't know where he went. um And she wakes up and Aster has come there to see Paul. And she, I mean, she makes it look like she didn't sleep there. Yeah. Which is key.
00:51:06
Speaker
Right. And ends up spending the day with Aster, which is very sweet. yeah It's very, very sweet. Because she's just like, well, Aster sort of like forces herself along. She's just like, can I go with you? Where are you going? Let's go. And then she's like, and then she kidnaps her. And she's like, going to take you to my favorite place, which is this little hot spring in the middle of nowhere.
00:51:28
Speaker
And she's like, you don't get any cell service out here. Nobody can know where you are. Which, again, once again, rom-com moment that could be a horror film moment. Yeah, for sure. For sure.
00:51:40
Speaker
um ah But she gets naked and um ah in the hot spring. And of course, Ellie, like, where is wearing long pajamas. Yeah.
00:51:52
Speaker
She says she's an onion of clothing. yeah of A Russian doll. A Russian doll. Sorry. Yeah, and um they they they bond and they have these this kind these these really nice, like, conversation. um And they talk about, like, their lives and God. And this is when she, you know, tells her that, you know, it must be so freeing to not believe in God. Yeah. um And she, I think she...
00:52:19
Speaker
you know she she finds this connection with her um which they also found on uh by texting each other for months previous to this um aster doesn't know this yes they also play 17 by sharon van etten right here which is a great song um very evocative um and in that final cut where they cut to the two that aerial shot of the two of them and aster has put on a shirt as well in the hot spring it's so cute Aster is put on a shirt and Ellie or Ellie has taken off her long johns. Her, her, yeah, her long underwear. Yeah. um
00:52:55
Speaker
And, you know, she says that, um you know, the talk about Paul and she says that, you know, when I feel with him, I feel safe. But when he writes things, he writes things that don't feel safe, like in a good way. Yeah. um And she's like, Trig is so sure. Maybe that's what love is.
00:53:11
Speaker
um yeah Meanwhile, Paul is making food with Ellie's dad. I know! comes over and he's just like, he just starts making food with Ellie's dad and he just starts copying what Ellie's dad is doing in terms of like cooking. It's so cute.
00:53:28
Speaker
Aster runs into Paul and she asks if he believes in God and he's like, well, of course I do. And she starts to try to talk to him and he immediately kisses her. Yeah. And like, it's just not the... bending machine Yeah, it's just not the same. No, no, no, this is um no no this is out on the on the street. and Oh! Yeah, Ellie sees them. And she sees the application for Grinnell College in Iowa.
00:53:53
Speaker
hu And then he makes the touchdown for the first time in 15 years, and he becomes the hero of the school. They didn't win the game. They just scored. They just scored. On the board!
00:54:04
Speaker
On the board! Paul got us on the board! Yeah. um Then there's the Yakult vending machine scene yeah where she's got her hands full of Yakult and yeah he he tries to kiss Ellie um ah because like they've become friends and he misinterprets that. And then she's like, what are you doing? And she goes, you didn't want me to kiss you? And she's like, no. And then Aster, of course, is right there and sees that whole interaction. yeah So everything goes to hell.
00:54:33
Speaker
Yeah, which is like, in my movie, I would have then just had all three of them kiss. But, you know, we can't always get what we want. Well, there's always AO3, Emma.
00:54:46
Speaker
um I can't join the bee freaks. You don't have to write it about bees. Like, they have they they have everything on AO3. I'm sure there's plenty of OC fanfiction that you could get into.
00:54:59
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um and ah so he and then she kind of like the way that she goes after astor in that scene like paul finally figures it out and the first thing he says is it's a sin you're going to hell yep yeah because it's the 1980s all of a sudden Well, their town is so conservative, that's all he knows. And so he immediately for sure just, like, puts his guard up and, like, lashes out. Because, number one, he's embarrassed because he got rejected by Ellie. Number two, he's embarrassed because he just fucked up in front of Aster. So that's not an option anymore. and And number three, like, he just doesn't know that's all he's ever been told.
00:55:40
Speaker
And so he lashes out, and he's a dick for a second, and he goes away. And it's... and and then they're both really depressed and um ellie's dad misinterprets it it's very it's it's a very short like um third act yeah um ah complication um there's this scene where trig thinks that she's in love with him of course um because that's the only thing he can think uh and he like he gets closer to her. I don't necessarily like know if he's going in for a kiss or not, but her dad hits him with the hose from out the window, which is great. It's great. It's so good.
00:56:18
Speaker
Um, Paul gets a banner at school. Um, on the board, on the board. And Aster is miserable. Um, Paul is Googling being gay at home.
00:56:31
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Uh, and his mom, his mom sees it and misinterprets that. Um, uh,
00:56:39
Speaker
Oh, he goes, Paul goes to Ellie's dad to drop off meat and um Ellie's not there. And he he started to notice that like Ellie's really upset and she's sad. And, you know, there's like, and Paul's not hanging around as much. And so he goes, did you and my daughter break up?
00:56:57
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And Paul's like, no, we were never dating. And he sort of alludes to the fact that, you know, ellie Ellie's not like the other girls. Yeah. yeah She's a little different.
00:57:08
Speaker
And he tells this very, her dad tells this very heartwarming story about after um her mom died, i he like he couldn't get out of bed and he couldn't do anything. He was so upset. He was so devastated. um he says it's all in Chinese, so Paul doesn't know what he's saying. No. Yeah.
00:57:28
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uh but the audience does and ah he just like he got up one day and he went to find ellie and he saw her and she was running running the little lanterns in the in the switch and he was like this little girl who's 13 years old just like rose to the occasion and she's just she's different she's not she's not like the other girls yeah And he says, have you ever loved someone so much that you don't want anything about her to change?
00:57:57
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Yeah. like, why he's, like, kind of keeping his daughter in this cage, pretty much. Yeah. ah um And um then we cut to church, and yeah fucking Trigg is reading 1 Corinthians and turns it into- Fucking Trigg.
00:58:17
Speaker
not really a proposal but an announcement that they are getting married he says definite this little lady will make me a fantastic wife which is so yeah condescending so condescending they're 17 years old yeah um yeah and i like then and then we get our graduate moment yeah ellie shouts no and then paul also stands up and is like no there's all these gasps from the congregation it's very funny it's Um, and he's like, you know, you can't pretend to do something. And his mom misinterprets it, of course. Yeah. um as there are more ways to love it. He's talking about like realizing that he shouldn't be homophobic to Ellie. Yeah. Um,
00:59:03
Speaker
There are more ways to love. And he's talking to Ellie. And then Ellie says that love isn't patient and kind. It's messy and horrible and selfish and bold. And it's not about finding your half. It's trying and reaching and failing and being willing to ruin your good painting for a chance at a great one.
00:59:18
Speaker
Is this the boldest stroke you can make? She asks to Aster. And then Aster is like, it was you. And she's like, yeah. um And then she slaps Paul and leaves. Ah! Um, and Paul's mom was like, mommy still loves you if you're gay. And he's like, not And she goes, oh, thank God. he goes, I might want to change your recipe though. She goes, are you insane? then everyone in the church is like screaming at each other. Right.
00:59:42
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And then her dad gives her all these meals for the trip to Iowa. Yeah. And it's like, did they graduate? We skipped over graduation. It's like she, that we went from the application of her applying to college to her leaving to go there.
01:00:00
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Yeah. and like maybe Oh, no, wait. But first, but first she, no, first she, she chases down Aster. um Well, it's, it's later. um And um she sees, she sees her cause she's like, you haven't been going to church. And she's like, I need to get these pieces together for art school.
01:00:19
Speaker
And she's like, oh, you're going to art school. I'm going to Grinnell. And she's like, okay, great. And leaves. Yeah. And then she tells her she never meant to hurt her. And she goes, I should have known you didn't use enough emojis. Yeah.
01:00:29
Speaker
I don't even know what those mean Yeah. She says, well, if you were different, if if things were different or if I was different and she goes, you could never be different. And she starts like making fun of her. um And ah she, you know, they have this kind of nice moment. Yeah. And she says, find something good in Iowa to believe in. um and then ellie runs back and kisses her and says i'll see you in a couple of years yeah because she's just like i don't know maybe uh maybe something will happen in art school like i i've thought about it i don't yeah i don't know if that's me but like give me a couple years like things might be different yeah um i'm sure her dad'll be very cool about that um yeah oh for sure he definitely won't cut her out of his life
01:01:16
Speaker
Yeah. ah Her Ellie's dad, started using the flags at the train. Yeah. Paul is there to see her off at the
Ellie's Journey to College
01:01:23
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train. She texts him pineapple owl caterpillar wearing glasses emoji. Because he does look so smart because he's wearing glasses. He's a smart caterpillar. Oh, we completely forgot about her writing the food critics.
01:01:37
Speaker
Oh, right. Yes. We find ah Paul finds out when she's drunk. He has her stuff and sees the letters that she had been writing to all the food critics. To try to get them to to try his taco sausage. um It's so fucking sweet.
01:01:52
Speaker
So sweet. Because like one of them actually does bite. Because he's just like... A food critic from like X, Y, and Z said that they're really interested in my taco sausage. Yeah. The word is getting out. It's so sweet. They are...
01:02:06
Speaker
They love each other platonically. It's nice. I know. It's so ugly. And then earlier they they were watching this but this Indian movie called Ekvilain or Ekvilain. I'm not sure. I think it's Ekvilain.
01:02:19
Speaker
um ah Where they like chase this guy chases after this woman and on a train and so he reenacts it for her as the train is leaving. It's very sweet. And then there it makes her laugh and then cry.
01:02:31
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Yeah. And that's the end the movie. And that's the end of the movie. And I cried and yeah everybody cries and it's so sweet and they have a beautiful friendship and it's amazing. And yes, nobody gets the girl in the end, but it's for the best.
01:02:46
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Let Aster or let Ellie go to school and find her, her girlfriend who she relates to and she doesn't have to her know to Bergiac her way into a relationship with.
01:02:57
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Yeah. ah There's a bit where um when her dad is telling her to go to Iowa, he says, we didn't come here so you could be like me. We came here so you couldn't be like your mother. And that's when I cried. And then her mom and then and then there's a beat and she goes, you don't mean dead, right? It's like the perfect little bit like crying moving into a punchline is like just the perfect like like Katie Kaur emotional beat. Like I love that. It's the perfect Katie Kaur cherry on the sundae.
01:03:27
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yeah um I try to write stuff like that in my stuff. yeah It's very sweet. Yeah, and that's the half of it. That's the whole of it. Ah, the whole of it and the half of it and the half of it and the whole of it and the whole of it and half of it, the whole of it, the half of it. That was to Chumbawamba's tub thing.
01:03:53
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Yeah, that's right. ah You sounded so insecure in that. I couldn't remember what I knew that there were so many T's and H's in that word. um And I could not remember the exact word. It's tub thumping in it.
01:04:10
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Tub thumping. Tub thumping. We play it all the time in this house. ah Cool. um And oh, what was I going to say?
01:04:24
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Oh, it's it's gone. Right. Well, happy Pride Month, friends. Yeah, this is, um it's it's just now the start of June for us, but this is the end of June for all of you listening to this. Yes.
01:04:37
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um i hope that pride month was acknowledged uh yep by hope anyone nobody got burnt at any of the parades and physically i'm not like sun wise wear sunscreen right yeah wear sunscreen wear sunscreen katie where did you think i was going with that well it's hard to say in this political climate in this country Woof.
01:05:02
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And I hope that your your days were filled with rainbows. And um I heard a very interesting fact from my friend Waldron. um Because I was asking him what he he and his husband, Robert, my best friend, were doing for Pride. And they live down in Houston. And he's like, well, they moved up Pride because of F1. And I was like, what?
01:05:26
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They're like, yeah, they moved up. What's Is that a flu? Yeah. No, um because of the, or not f one because of the, um, the football thing.
01:05:38
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The, oh, sorry. The, like, like, sorry, not football. is, is like. It's car racing. That's wrong. Car racing. Yeah. But, but not the car racing. Sorry, that was wrong. Um, but the, the soccer, what's the big soccer match? Oh, the World Cup.
01:05:54
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Yeah, for FIFA. They moved it up due to FIFA or something. Some sport thing. I don't know. That makes sense. Pride. It's the world the World Cup is being held in America this year. In America and Mexico and Canada. um Yeah. And I guess they're playing in Houston.
01:06:10
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They're not playing in Chicago, which is surprising to me. But honestly, new york and it's like we don't need we don't need the fucking crowds. Like, yeah, we I'm glad they're not in Chicago. Woof. Woof. where where can it say where are you playing we're fifa world cup places um world cup 26 atlanta boston okay dallas yeah yeah houston kansas los angeles miami new york new jersey philadelphia san francisco seattle yeah yep yep so they're playing in houston so for fifa they're playing pretty much everywhere but chicago yeah
01:06:44
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Yeah, everywhere but Chicago. um Yeah, because they've like put, like, not travel bans in New York, but, like, they are closing down Penn Station for it. It's a really big deal. Yeah, it's a really big deal. Anyways, they're moving up the parade to the first weekend, ah and I was like, that sounds like the most heteronormative bullshit I've ever heard, Waldron.
01:07:09
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Stupid soccer. Yeah. What about the gays? ah um Yeah, it's at the Women's World Cup.
01:07:22
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Exactly. i don't remember any gays on Ted Lasso.
01:07:27
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There's famously a gay on Ted Lasso. Like, it's a big plot point. I forgot about that. um But yeah, so that was the half of it. So next week, i really want to take us back to...
01:07:39
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the a core rom-com I've been keeping in my back pocket for the perfect moment. And I think this might be the perfect moment. Um, well, not the perfect moment. I just feel like watching it Um, we're going to be doing, you guessed it. She's all that.
01:07:54
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Hell yeah. When you said i'd keeping it in my back pocket, my immediate guess was She's All That. Yeah. Yes! I was debating between She's All That, Cinderella Story, and 10 Things I Hate About You.
01:08:04
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And my my soul is saying, She's All That just gives off summer vibes. I know it takes place at school, but like- Famously not in the summer, yeah. Famously not in the summer. Maybe it's because it's in California and at the end of their school year, but like it just feels like summer to me.
01:08:18
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Yeah. You know? But yeah, we're here let's keep it going with high school for sure. Yeah, high school. Well, shall we outro?
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