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Notting Hill
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Emma and Katie dive into the ultimate 90s Rom Com Notting Hill! Tune in as they chat Julia Roberts, bumbling Hugh Grant and the choices that can turn a rom com into a horror film.
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New York Adventures and Reflections
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So yeah, so went to New York with the
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You're not you don't you don't have your money ready. Back of the line. You don't have to talk about this on this podcast before if you don't if you don't know what you want. Like you get up to the counter you're like oh and you're staring at the thing. Back of the line like we don't have back of the line. Yeah. And they're like so intimidating. They're really, really scary because they come up to you and they go. hey You. Yeah. What do you want?
00:00:39
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And, you know, you'll panic by Charlie absolutely was like when his parents are coming into town in September, can't stop. I thought you were going to I thought you were going to say like next week. I was like, no way. Can you imagine? I would I love all of my friends and family and everyone. But guys, give me a couple of months to live without guests in this house. Yeah, yeah, for real.
00:01:08
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Um, but yeah, we so we we did the bagel place, we, you know, walked around, we had an amazing meal at this restaurant called the Mermaid Inn in the Upper West Side. um And then we, you know, capped it all off with a trip to the 9-11 Museum. Oh, okay.
00:01:28
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Great museum, absolutely beautiful. um Very well done. i've never ah It is very, it's I would liken it, I liken it to, if you were to go visit Auschwitz or the Anne Frank House. um yeah In that it's a very powerful, very emotional time. It took us three hours to get through it. But like, also at the same time, it's not gonna be a good time. It's gonna be a very moving time.
00:01:58
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It's not going to be a happy time. Yeah, yeah, for sure. But the one thing, because they've been to Poland and they went to Auschwitz. And so like I was asking them, because the 9-11 Museum, there's a fucking gift shop, man. Of course there is, yeah. Never forget. like That's the whole thing. Right? And like they say everything goes back into the museum, and that's great and stuff. But like I walked into the gift shop because I was curious.
00:02:27
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And like, you can get FDNY stuff and you can get Never Forget t-shirts, but you can also get World Trade Center figurines.
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Okay, figurines, like are they, is it an anthropomorphized World Trade Center? Like little World Trade Centers. But they don't have like faces. It's not like worldy, the World Trade Center mascot. No, no, no, that would be an insane. But um but They're like little, like, little world trade center. And not of One World Trade Center, the current building that's there, but of the Twin Towers. The old school, the Twin Towers. Interesting, interesting. I like how we um we recorded, like, six minutes of us, like, talking about how terrible the world is. And we're like, OK, we're going to cut all that out, and we're going to do a hard edit back into this rom-com podcast. And you're immediately like, so 9-11,
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9-11 has a gift shop. I just I had to let you know, I did end it on a more positive note. Does the money does the money go to like the the foundation for the like the people who get cancer? It goes back into the like the upkeep of the museum.
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Oh, well, sure, yeah. So it's a nonprofit, I guess, yeah. Yeah, um yeah. Which is like, that's fine, um I guess. I just can't even even imagine the type of person that goes in and is like, you know what? I need a Twin Towers Christmas ornament. They have those. Yeah. 9-11 merch is insane. Yeah. But I did then, on a more positive note, finally made it to the drama bookstore. Yeah, they moved, right? Because they used to be on 40th.
00:04:13
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They're now on, well, they're not that far, they're on 39, but they're over by the Garment District. Yeah, well, that's where they always were, yeah. Yeah, it's so great. I've never been to the old one, so I've only ever been to this one. Did they have my play? Did you look for my play? I went and I looked and I couldn't find you. They didn't have it? Devastating. No, because I was gonna send you a picture. It was sold out.
00:04:39
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I hope, yeah, that's what it was. Yeah. I was sold out. Yeah. It was sold out. It was sold out. I went to the Coleman section and I, if they had Helvetica, I was going to buy it. I was going to take a picture and then I was going to buy it, but they didn't have it. It was sold out.
00:04:55
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People loved it. You know, they don't, they don't tell me when it sells or anything. They don't even tell me when I have a production. It's really weird. Like they just send me a check. Yeah, they're like, Hey, this, here's a check. And I have to like Google it to find out somebody did it. Yeah. Well, it must be super popular because there were no copies. Yeah, that's probably it. That's probably it. Yeah, there were no copies. It was the first thing I did when I walked in. I immediately well, I appreciate that. And I was like,
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Katie, where's your play? Where's your play? And I was like, sold out. But you know what they did have? 80,000 copies of Claire Barron's You Got Older. Oh, sure. Uh-huh. Yeah. And also 1,000 copies of um Christopher Duran plays. Right, because he died. Yeah. um um But it's a great it's a great time. Yeah.
00:05:55
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I used to love the drama bookshop, the drama bookshop, and there was a comic bookshop on the corner, ah right right there, like right on 40th. Midtown comics, I'm sure it's still there. um Yeah, because I had to be in Times Square a lot for work, um because the actor's equity building is in Times Square.
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And we had auditions there all the time. So I would have like, you know, weird amount of time, like, okay, so we've got an hour and a half until the next audition block. So like, okay,
Exploring 'Go Get Your Girl' Podcast
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I guess I can um go to Sparrow or something.
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But the weird thing about Times Square also is that, except for a few locations, every 10 years or so, the whole thing turns over. None of those giant flagship stores can last because they're too expensive. They're too big. The Virgin Records store closed when I lived in New York. But I used to love the Virgin Records store. That was the place we ran. That was a landmark, I remember.
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And it was huge. It was huge. I can't imagine what the rent on that place was. And in the basement where they had all the t-shirts and vinyl and like stuff like that. um thats sad It was like always wet. And the walls were moldy and stuff. Because it's like that building's been there for a couple hundred years. yeah It's cool. i wonder I wonder if it's now the um the Olive Garden.
00:07:19
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and the ogar I mean, is the Olive Garden used to be like in the island, right? Like, past these he TKTS stairs. Now it's like it's like elevated, you have to like go upstairs. yeah like and Yeah, it's always been, yeah, that's how it was. Oh, okay. It's always been like that, but still like that. Yeah, because my friend, I think I've told this story on this podcast before also. my friend When I first moved to New York, I had lived there for like, I don't know, a month or two. And my friend friend friend of the show, future future guest, Mary Margaret um came in and she was like she was ah she was doing an audition or something, I think. She was still in school, it was her senior year.
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And um she and her dad were in New York. And and she was like, well well, we'll come and meet you for dinner. Like, I'm not staying very long, but we can come eat for dinner. And I'm like, OK, well, where do you want to eat dinner? And she's like, and then she's like, texts to me later that day. She's like, OK, we're at the Olive Garden in Times Square. I'm like, oh, my God. that You mean this circle the center of hell?
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Yeah, so yeah, so I had to get on the train from Queens and go to Times Square at night and meet my my friend and her dad at the Olive Garden at Times Square. Jesus, that just sounds like a nightmare. Yeah, yeah. Anyways, that was ah that was ah that was a New York minute. Our new... Our New York minute.
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Our new segment, like Go Get Your Girl, which we haven't even announced the podcast. i know Who are we? What is this? Yes. Okay. That's right, guys. You guessed it. This is the podcast where Emma and Katie um are ridiculously beautiful, famous um actresses who just ah have to film a movie or no, they just have to do press for a movie in London and they've got time to kill so they've got to go shopping and they run into a bumbling man who owns a travel bookstore. And oh my gosh, he's so charming. Maybe I just want to randomly kiss him. And oh no, orange juice down my friend. Anyway, this is the most detailed longest version of this yet.
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This is Go Get Your Girl and I'm Emma. And I'm Katie, and I do appreciate that you cast us as Julia Roberts in this. like You cast us as a beautiful movie star and not the bumbling bookshop owner, which, I mean, for me at least, I'm more likely to identify as the ah the bumbling bookshop owner.
Diving into 'Notting Hill': A Cinematic Journey
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Bumbling bookshop owner? Yeah, like I'm a bumbling bookshop owner, and and Glenn Powell is in ah Chicago filming something. Yes, and then you spill orange juice down his shirt. Yeah.
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which, God, I mean, we'll get into it. um So what movie are we talking about? It's Notting Hill ah from 1999, directed by Robert Mitchell, R.I.P., who ah made a bunch of English movies.
00:10:27
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i love that um He did um oh he did um ah ah Morning Glory, which we will probably cover on this podcast um with Rachel McAdams and Harrison Ford. I mean, those aren't that's not the pairing, but yeah they're both good. What is this movie?
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Have you not seen it? Oh, it's- Oh, Morning Glory. Yes, yes, Morning Glory is the news one. Yes, yes. Yeah, Patrick Wilson is the love interest, yes. But Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton are in it. Yeah, Rachel McAdams is like a morning show. It's like the Apple TV show, The Morning Show, but like a movie and like kind of good.
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um What else did he do? Oh yeah, he's done all kinds of stuff. He had Changing Lanes with Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson. Okay, he's all over the map. Yeah, yeah, he's just a kind of a ah journeyman director, I think we would call that. um And written by, ah yeah, written by, of course, Richard Curtis. um Before he was directing his own movies. um And Richard Curtis obviously had done four weddings in a funeral. um a couple After this, he will do Love Actually. And Love Actually is his, I believe, like actually his his directorial debut, the first time he directed himself. Or at least the first time he directed a movie that he had written.
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um Yeah, Love actually is his first directorial debut, yeah. Oh, wow. um But yeah, he created Mr. Bean. We've talked about him before. We talked about Boring's in a Funeral not too long ago. um And this is like, this is the next, yeah, they made a Mr. Bean movie and then he did Notting Hill and reteamed with Hugh Grant because they're besties yeah and they continue to work together.
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You know, actually, now that we mention it, um and knowing, because this is part of his like love, um ah what's not not a trilogy, but what's four? A quadri- Tetralogy. A tetralogy. It's part of his like love tetralogy, which consists of, um yeah, I remember when, um before before time.
00:12:40
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Right? About time? About 10, about 10. When about, before 10? Ah, that's about dinosaurs. Two dinosaurs that fall in love. ah They go, ah!
00:12:59
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That was my dinosaur impression. I'm just letting you cook, yeah. Okay. I kept waiting for some sort of like very big laugh.
00:13:12
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So I was just going to keep on going and and come up with this whole dinosaur rom-com. But about. I would watch that. Yes. The saddest, the most devastating rom-com of all time that I'm not going to watch. Because like there are there's romantic dramas that are ah more devastating than about time. But about time is still kind of firmly a rom-com, but just is also very sad. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It has some very impactful moments. It's not the notebook.
00:13:42
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But the notebook isn't a comedy and it is, yeah. Yes. It definitely is up there in my favorite movies. I think it's great, um but it's just too heart wrenching to watch and do for this pod.
00:13:54
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Yeah, I would sob through it before my dad died and I will not watch it again now. So we will not be covering or at least I won't be covering if you want to do about time with a guest host, you could totally do that. But I'm not going to talk about about time on this because I won't get through it for you. but And for your father, I will not do about time. Fair enough. But ah so when about time came out, there was um so Ellie Golding did a cover of How Long Will I Love You?
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um which ended up being my wedding song. um ah my first It was my first dance with Charlie. Oh, that's cute. It was very cute. We were very obsessed with that movie. And I mean, it also helps that it's about an American and a Brit falling in love in London sure out of like insane, like just random chants. Just like this movie. Just like movie. Exactly. But they came out with like this sort of montage music video which accompanied the song, and it was just different clips, varying clips from his Tetralogy, which is Notting Hill. Keep saying Tetralogy. Yeah, what are these movies? Notting Hill, About Time. What was that one that we did? Four Writings and a Funeral. Four Writings and a Funeral. And... Love Actually. Love Actually. What about Bridget Jones's Diary? Nope, doesn't count.
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Well, why not? I don't know. I didn't make the music video. OK, all right. um What about yesterday? Nobody's going to count yesterday.
00:15:38
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Charlie refuses to watch that movie, so we have to do it for this pod. Yeah, I've never seen it. It seems bad. It seems weird and bad, but um It seems weird. I thought that i thought that he made Last Christmas. Who made Last Christmas? Maybe Richard Curtis did do Last Christmas. No, he didn't. I'm looking at his filmography right here. He didn't do. Who did Last Christmas? I've never seen Last Christmas. That was one of those things where he watched the trailer and I was like, no, he didn't. Or I was like, oh, I know everything that's going to happen in that movie. And so we didn't see it.
00:16:11
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Somehow I've seen it twice and I did not like it. Yeah, I think you're the one who told me, I was like, is, I think I asked you, I was like, does what I, is what I think happens from the trailer, what happens? And you're like, yes. Oh, it's Paul Feig, Paul Feig made. Oh, okay. Yeah. Also great. It's written by Emma Thompson. She's better than me. Interesting. Yeah, you think so. Thanks. Nanny McPhee herself. I actually don't know. Maybe she's a bad screenwriter.
00:16:40
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I mean, no, she won an Oscar for Sense and Sensibility. But that's based on a Jane Austen album. Well, and Last Christmas is based on a George Michael song.
00:16:52
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But it's way too much. He is credited. He is credited as a writer. The screenwriters are listed here are George Michael, Emma Thompson and Greg Wise. Jesus fucking Christ. Yeah.
00:17:07
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I'm not going to do anyway, or because we might this movie. This movie, Notting Hill is about ah Hugh Grant is a man who presumably has a name. It is OK. First, to also, we rescheduled this a couple of times. So it's been a while since I've seen this. It's been a minute. This is going to be our drunk history take on Notting Hill.
00:17:30
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on Notting Hill, yeah. I mean, I've seen it a million times, so I'm pretty sure I could i could do it. um He is divorced. His name is William Thacker, and he owns a travel bookstore in Notting Hill in London, which is a neighborhood, which from what I understand is a largely Caribbean neighborhood, ah but you wouldn't know it from this movie.
00:17:56
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You wouldn't know from this movie at all. um Yeah, they just skip over the world famous Notting Hill Carnival. This big like festival every year. But yeah, at Notting Hill, I don't know how much it is now because it's so expensive to live there. And it's just 25 years ago, yeah.
00:18:20
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Yeah, but, ah so I imagine it's just, you know, billionaires that can afford these beautiful homes. Right, yeah, not travel bookstore owners. Not travel bookstore owners. However, okay, so here's the thing about, ah I was just there, stayed in Notting Hill, actually, last Christmas, and my family and I. I'm a brag.
00:18:42
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have hubble and so of course we had to go shopping on Nightingale I got up which is very well known for its antique shops and sale stores and just like really great street markets I assume which is what they repeatedly show in this movie yeah huge street market um on the weekends and this beautiful one in this movie which we'll get to yeah yeah Yes. But so like I, we did a little shopping and then I was like, well, I want a bookstore. And I turn around, and turn a corner and there's the Notting Hill bookstore. It's called the Notting Hill bookstore. And I go inside and it's all just, I love UK crap. And I'm like, God damn it. And then I look across the street. I look across the street, Katie.
00:19:30
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And I see an actual bookstore that is the actual Notting Hill bookstore, but it's not called the Notting Hill bookstore. You walk up to it. It's an actual just regular bookstore. And it's got a little blue plaque that was like, this was the bookstore, Notting Hill. The other one's a lie. yeah Well, I mean, they're just capitalizing. they're there it's ah It's a tourist ah um trap. That's what they do. Yeah, I fell in the trap. Yeah.
00:19:58
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Um, yeah, so he owns a bookstore in London, and he has a roommate ah who presumably has a name, um played by Recy Fons, who was probably the first time, it was definitely the first time I had ever seen Recy Fons, who is, you know, just iconic in this movie. He's, ah he reminds me of my friend Richard that I lived with in college.
00:20:23
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I lived with I think I definitely told the story where he set my apartment on fire before. Oh, yes. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. um Yeah. Yeah. My um Richard, I mean, I lived with Megan and Richard in this apartment off campus, and it was ah we had fun. It was a shit show. Yes. um Two of the the messiest people in the world and me who's not the cleanest person in the world. Hey, you like piles. I don't like the piles, Emma. I just.
00:20:53
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You're a pile person. You have to live with them. Just like my friend Kelsey. That's what you said when you came in our apartment. You're a pile person. oh You're a mean person.
Travel Bookstores and Literary Musings
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I love you.
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um so anyway Anyway, very like scruffy ah in his underwear a lot, um yeah like kind of barely cognizant. He's like, ah I don't specifically say that he's a stoner, but that's his deal, right? Yeah, I mean, kind of, I think he's just an idiot. Yeah. he Fair enough, yeah. He's a bad Welsh stereotype.
00:21:34
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um and Oh, is it? Is it a was it a stereotype for Welsh people? I don't know and what people think about Welsh people. So Welsh is actually, I mean, Risi Fonz is Welsh, right? Yeah. But like, yeah, I don't I don't know. I think it's a stereotype. A Welsh stereotype. The Welsh stereotype is that they're like England's Canada. They're like super nice. OK, sure.
00:21:59
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That's the Welsh stereotype, as seen in Gavin and Stacy. But like I think just- I won't watch that. Oh. It's a British TV show. Charlie loves it. I know i know what it is. it has my It stars my mortal enemy, James Corden, and I will not stand for it, not in this house.
00:22:19
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Oh, I'm so sorry. I forgot. Your mortal enemy. I didn't know you had a mortal enemy. Yeah, he killed my father. Oh, no, just like Star Wars. It's just like Star Wars, yeah um yeah. That's not true. I just think he sucks. Yeah, he does suck. He's he's a shitty person. He's always been a shitty person. Anyway, well, I forgot we were talking about. Me too. So Notting Hill. Yeah. Yeah, we're 30 minutes in and we haven't even gotten to the premise. That's that's starting to become our thing.
00:22:53
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um I think the people like to tune in for a little bit of Emma and Katie time. Well, that's that's what we hope, right? yeah um So yes. And now then he meets famous film actress Julia Roberts, um basically playing herself. Her name is yeah Anna Scott in this. ye And she comes into his store one day. Yep. And he spills orange juice on the on her as, yeah as you mentioned many times. Exactly. But the first thing that happens is she goes in and she asks to buy a book, I think about Turkey, and ah he recommends one. And then and because she's looking at one, he goes, Oh, no, that's terrible. Don't get that one. Then he recommends a better one. And she proceeds to purchase the terrible one. Right. I'm just like, you're not you're just not going to take his okay.
00:23:47
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I mean, I used to work at a bookstore. That happens all the time. Yeah. Seriously? People are going to buy what they want to buy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Wow. I figured at a travel bookstore. I mean, I don't even remember what goes in travel books. Yeah, I mean, like, I guess that's probably still that, but there's a travel bookstore in Chicago somewhere.
00:24:10
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um That seems like a nice enough thing and Yeah, yeah, that's that's a nice enough thing that where that would that would survive Like like a romance bookstore, for example, um you can still do that um I still love travel books I read a ton of travel books um when I was like it right ah in college and right out of college and when I was working at when I was working at Borders I um And you can just like check out books, like like a library. I read a ton of travel books. um um Bill Bryson writes a lot of, I mean, not not like travel books, like a guide to Paris or something like that. I mean like travel. fun one
00:24:49
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like nonfiction books about a person who's gone and traveled a bunch like especially like yeah books about like the pacific islands and books about oh man sarah vowel has a great book called um unfamiliar fishes about hawaii and about like the history of hawaii and all of that like colonialism stuff and like it's It's really upsetting. There's a great book called On Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin about that. And Paul Theroux has a ton of really great travel books about literally everywhere. He and Bill Bryson both have been everywhere. And they have books about it. I guess I wasn't thinking about this bookstore being filled with books like that. I think that in my imagination, it was filled with just like books like Zaga.
00:25:35
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Yeah, I mean, that's part of it. Yeah. But I think it's like I would I imagine like a travel bookstore would be half and half because that they're very those those kind of books are also very um popular. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, though the ones I'm talking about are also. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Bill Bryson rules. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but so yeah, so, uh, what's his name spills orange juice on Anna Scott?
00:26:00
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yeah And she's just like, ah rightfully upset. And he's like, it's okay, it's okay, you can come to my flat. And she rightfully is like, that seems a little sus. And he's like, no, no, no, it's just right there. It's across the street. And for some reasons, she goes. Yep, it's one of those things. It's like sometimes in a rom-com, like you have to suspend your disbelief a little bit, like a horror movie. Another way that rom-coms and horror movies are very similar.
00:26:27
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Exactly, because there's one choice. And that was her one choice where that movie could have gone in two different directions. Very true. Very true. Yeah. Yes. And Hugh Grant would have played the the the man in both movies of that. Yes, he would have. He can be very, very creepy and very charming. I mean, we saw it in Paddington 2. Oh, Paddington 2. I love Paddington 2. Did you see Paddington 3? I haven't seen it.
00:26:55
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I saw the trailer for it when I went and saw Wicked and I cried. Yeah. I know, but it it like came and went, right? Like it's already been out and and left. I don't think it's come out yet. Oh, really? Oh, okay. I assumed it came out at Christmas. No. No, it's all like Paddington themed. Like it's like there. 2024. Yeah, it was released in cinemas in November and received positive reviews. Yeah, it's coming down. It's already been out? Maybe. Yep. Oh, here we go.
00:27:25
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. In London, world premiere. So like released in November, 2024, that's not, that doesn't mean the world premiere. It was released in the United Kingdom in November, originally set to be released in the United States and other territories ah on so and January 17th. And now it's delayed until Valentine's day. Okay, so it's not out in America.
00:27:47
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Okay, okay, that makes more sense. That's uncommon now for movies to come out in different times in in at least ah at least the UK and America. most Most of the time they're simultaneous. That's so bizarre. Big movies like that at least. Yeah, that's really bizarre. I wonder why they decided to do that. Paddington, not in this movie. Not in this movie, no. It is a book though, which would be in a bookstore, although not a travel bookstore probably. Well, I mean, Paddington goes lots of places.
00:28:17
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Yeah, I mean, primarily he goes to um London. That's like his main thing. Yeah, from Peru, yeah. And he, some might say, actually, Paddington would be a perfect addition to the travel book store. Okay.
00:28:32
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So, then what happens? She tells him to come to, like, she kisses him, she kisses him, yeah. Yeah, she kisses him, because she's so enamored with his charm.
00:28:46
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Yeah, and he's not like treating her like a movie star. That's the whole thing. like she's He's not treating her like she's like some untouchable like you know thing, which, again, like I'm not gonna ever feel too bad for like super rich movie stars, but I do get the alienation like yeah thing. I understand how that can be difficult for people, yeah. Yeah, and her character sort of goes through this little arc.
00:29:09
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um surrounding um But like, so she kisses him and then the part ways and he's like, well, I guess I'll never see her again. And then he's hanging out with Welsh roommate and ah talking about laying an Easter egg for later um by talking about his scuba gear and how his goggles are prescription only.
00:29:35
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Um, so he could see the fish and his roommate, um, is like, Oh yeah, you got this, uh, message from this one person. I don't know. Her name was like Anna Scott. She was real weird. It was a weird message. And he was like, I'm sorry. Well, what? And so then he attempts to call her back.
00:29:57
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um but she's under a false name because she's a movie star and yeah um He his roommate can't remember what her name is so he has to guess a gajillion different things um when he calls the Ritz and Then they they finally they he finds the one. What was the one that it actually was? If you think that I remember that Miss Piggy
00:30:29
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It was something, oh, Ms. Flintstone? Yeah, yeah, it might be like, it might've been Wilma Flintstone, yeah, that's something. yeah She was a redhead. Yeah, something like that. um And so then Anna Scott is like, oh my gosh, hi, yeah. And he's like, yeah, sorry, my roommate is an idiot and didn't give me your message. I can't believe this lol. And she's like, hey. That is what he says, he says lol. And she goes, did you just say lol?
00:30:56
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Like, yeah, but I'm ah I'm on America online, even though it's England. Yeah, I'm on AOL. well yeah Love out loud. um Laugh out loud.
00:31:09
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um So then to do where are we? Oh, the press conference. He goes to the press conference at the hotel. Yes. And pretends that he's from Horse and Hound magazine.
00:31:24
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which is a magazine about horses and hounds. And then he has to go through this interview and I believe like her publicist or someone is in the room. And so he has to pretend to ask her questions about horse and hound. And then he gets wrapped in this whole thing. Do you have any who or the horses or hounds involved in this movie? She's like, well, it's set in space. On the next project, any a hounds or or horses?
00:31:49
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It's very much like that interview with ah with um Elijah Wood and Dominic Monaghan where he's like, will will you wear wigs? Will you wear wigs? Yes, or any between two friends with Zach Galifianakis. Yes, yes, yes. um What do we think about this movie? What do we think about, um ah what's it called? It's like Splice or something like that.
00:32:17
Speaker
It gives me like, it's like a space thriller or something. It gives me like fifth element meets alien vibes, but also like it doesn't have a plot. Helix is what it's called.
00:32:34
Speaker
Helix, yeah. It doesn't have a plot. Like the plot is stupid from what I can tell. Yeah, it's like an evil robot. It's like 2001, like an evil robot kind of thing. Yeah, there's an evil robot and Misha Barton's in it. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Jumpscare. As a baby, yeah. Baby Misha Barton.
00:32:57
Speaker
um And also we learned that ah Hugh Grant doesn't know who Leonardo DiCaprio is.
00:33:05
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, which were like 1999. I mean, I guess like, well, no, no, Titanic was out before then. So now there's no. Yeah, you know. Yeah. He goes to the cinema. You. Yeah. um But yeah, so he has to do all of the horse and hound interviews and then ends up on a date with Hannah Scott. Yeah. And at his his sister's birthday.
00:33:31
Speaker
Yeah, and a sister's birthday brings her to his sister's birthday. And much like just like for weddings and a funeral this movie like you I think that this is where this movie like sings. This is like the heart of this movie is him and his friends and her showing up there. That is the i most iconic scene for me. Like what I think about when I think about this movie is her going there and like meeting all of his friends and family. Like that's the heart of this movie. It's like, what if there was this celebrity in this room with all of your friends? Like what if you brought a celebrity to your sister's birthday party? right um If this were a play, yeah
00:34:11
Speaker
that would be that would be the play, right? Yeah, yeah. And, you know, they have, and at first, everyone recognizes her except for Hugh Bonneville. Yeah, yeah. Has no idea who she is. um And he's, you know, asking her, in and he's just like, so what do you do? And she goes, oh, well, I'm an actor. And he goes, oh, yeah, you know, I have friends in school, and they were actors, and woof, man, it's a hard living. Like, do you even get paid? Like, how much did you get paid for your last film?
00:34:40
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. which I have a similar story to that, actually. i was working This is another New York story, actually. I was working at a at ah at a cafe in New York, and a friend of mine, this guy who had been working there a while, like we talked to him, and ah it was something something came up. And I was like, oh what does your dad do? He's always an actor. And I was like, oh, yeah? see like Like plays like is it and I just assume that he's like, you know, a struggling actor, like people assume when you tell them that you're an actor. I just know a lot of movies. I was like, oh, really? Like stuff I've seen? He's like, probably. Yeah, it was Willie and his dad was William Hurt. William Hurt? Yeah. um And then like a couple of weeks later, Sigourney Weaver came in.
00:35:28
Speaker
And he comes around the counter and gives her a big hug and like their best friends and they like go and and like talk for a while. And like, yeah, he like grew up with like, I guess they're going to Weaver and William hurt. We're good friends or whatever, but yeah, it was surreal. That's weird. Yeah. Yeah. Sam hurt. Um, he was, he was nice. Yeah. Oh, that's good. You got to meet him.
00:35:53
Speaker
Yeah, shout out to, I worked with him. He worked at the at the cafe with me every day. Oh, sorry. William Hurt is what I was thinking. No, no, no, I never, you know, he know his dad never came. I don't think they had like a great relationship. I mean, William Hurt has passed now. um But i yeah, I don't, it didn't seem like they saw each other very much. Yeah. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Well, at this- That is speculation. I don't know if that's true.
00:36:22
Speaker
At this dinner party, everyone's having a grand time. Hugh Grant's sister's obsessed with Julia Roberts. She accidentally walks in the blue with her. Very awkward and funny. His sister, Honey. Yeah. Yeah. Honey. And all of his friends are there. they And then they have the famous brownie scene. Who gets the last brownie? The most, um do they say pathetic? Sad sack?
00:36:50
Speaker
Uh, yeah, yeah, I think it's basically that. Yeah. Yeah. And so everyone has to go around and because there's a woman in a wheelchair. Yeah. And, um, uh, I don't remember what all their, their stories are. Yeah. yeah His sister, um, works in minimum wage job and she can't find love. Um, and he Bonneville hates his job, doesn't know what he does. Um, yeah he's a traitor.
00:37:20
Speaker
Yeah. um Like a stock trader. ah So yeah I would hope that he would know what he does. But, you know. Yeah. What what? Thomas is being very odd. um Rowdy Poi. She is I would say she know should we should clarify she's recently in a wheelchair and has lost the use of her legs. Yes. Exactly. Because she she had an accident. What was the was it was a car accident, right? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:50
Speaker
um And then they, they, are as they're going around, she also says, Oh, yeah, and we can't have kids. So she drops that bomb as well. Yeah. um And it lands on Julia. And so everyone does it. And then they're just like, um they land on, I think you bought a bill. And he's like, Okay, I guess this is mine now. And, um,
00:38:14
Speaker
Julia Robson is like, well, what what about me? Do I not get a shot? And they're like, Julia Roberts, what? And she's like, Come on. And so she lays out her reasons of why being a celebrity sucks, which includes the fact she's had to have plastic surgery. She's been on a diet since she was 18. She can't have a life. Um, you know, you're always trying to murder her.
00:38:37
Speaker
Exactly.
Personal Stories and Shared Memories
00:38:38
Speaker
And you think for a second she's going to get the brownie, but in a twist of events, they all go, yeah, no. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Don't feel too sorry for them. um Being a celebrity is awful, I'm sure. And I would never want to be famous ever. That sounds like the worst thing in the world. Yeah. So I do get that. But also, like, no. Yeah. That's what the money is for.
00:39:06
Speaker
get together and yeah um and So they have that wonderful scene, then they go for a little walk um home, and they get to this park. And it's, of course, one of the British and very well-to-do British in our London neighborhoods. There's special parks that you only have access to if you have a key. That is a thing. And this is one of those. And she's like, well, why don't we just jump the gate? And he's like, well, we can't. but What? And so then she.
00:39:43
Speaker
So she does it, and he attempts to do it, and he goes, whoopsie daisies. He does say whoopsie daisies, yes. And they have this beautiful moment in the park, and it's nice, and very cute. Then what happens, Katie? Well, and then they are going to sleep together, and her on-again, off-again ex-boyfriend, Alec Baldwin, shows up. Oh, yeah. Alec Baldwin jumpscare.
00:40:12
Speaker
Yeah, um again, bit sort of playing himself. But at that time, you know, Alec Baldwin was like a big movie star, I guess. Maybe this was like a little bit past his his prime, because like there was a time where he was like in serious movies. um And it seems weird now that he was that famous. But he was. um But no, he's a fictional character.
00:40:34
Speaker
um And then, ah yeah, they leave. um They part part ways um because she pretends that he just works at the hotel and Al Baldwin gives him his garbage. And then that's that. And then he's really sad and depressed and sad.
00:40:52
Speaker
and um ah Oh, then we find out that her um she's filming a movie. and Well, she shows up she shows up at is at his door, yeah. Well, she doesn't show up at his door. um She's filming a movie and he goes to visit the set. Oh, that's right, yeah. Yeah. And so he he sees her and at first they're like, you can't come on the set, you weirdo. And then they make eye contact and she goes, oh no, hi, I know him.
00:41:23
Speaker
And- Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we no we're we're missing we're we're skipping over. like She shows up to hide from the the paparazzi before that. Does the nudie pictures come out before? No, that comes out later, yeah. Oh, because like she shows up at his house um whenever she was like whenever the nudie pictures come out.
00:41:45
Speaker
No, no, no, you're right. You're right. You know, that's before. That's before. You're right. That's before. It's before he goes to the set because when he goes to the set, oh my God. Yeah. We watched this like two weeks ago, y'all. He goes to the set after, after the montage where he's walking through the market and the seasons change. That's after that. So the, the, the paparazzi scene is before that she, yeah, she just shows up. He hasn't seen her in months. She just shows up hiding from the paparazzi.
00:42:11
Speaker
And he, um oh, and they see the painting, which is Le Marrier by Chagall, which is this, you know, it's a beautiful painting. um It's very kind of surreal. um It's of a bride, and there's a goat playing the um ah violin, which looks more like a cello to me looking at it right now, but I suppose goats are small tomatoes um because he he says, you know, ah happiness isn't happiness, but a violin playing goat, which is what I always remember from this movie. they um And then they actually. And yes, they sleep together. And then Risi Fonz tells the paparazzi lets the paparazzi know that she's there by mistake and they get photos of them. Yeah. And they get photos of them. And then she gets really upset.
00:43:07
Speaker
Yeah. She thinks he did it. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Because she is convinced, you know, that somebody, well, first she thinks that he did it. And then she blames Reese, his roommate. um And he's just like, it'll be okay. He's like trying to calm her down. And she goes, you don't understand. Like this is not, this is like the worst thing that can happen to me.
00:43:29
Speaker
yes And it's just going to blow over for you, but it's going to affect my entire career. ah And then they part ways again. And then and then we have the one where he's walking down the street. yeah And it's, it's just like old school filmmaking. Like they have, I've seen, i I've seen like a behind the scenes, like, um, like little vignette about this, about how they made it. And it's literally just, he walks down the road through the different vendors and the seasons are changing without cutting. And it's just, they're just running the stuff up and people are above like dropping leaves and snow as he walks through. And it's really effective and there's no CGI and it looks great.
00:44:10
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, it looks absolutely fantastic. um And it's a beautiful scene as part of what I call his lonely man um montage. Yes, and so like almost a year passes basically is what happens. Yeah.
00:44:21
Speaker
Exactly. um And they also use their mysterious friend who um owns a restaurant who's never around as a way of telling time because he's introduced at the very beginning. And then you don't see him again until his restaurant is closing because he's failed a year later.
00:44:43
Speaker
Yeah. Um, and then, uh, so he, that's when he goes to the set and she's filming, cause she's filming another movie. So now she's filming a movie in London. She wasn't filming a movie previously. That was a, it was a press junk. It was London press junket. And, um, now, uh, there she's filming a movie and she's filming, um, a movie based on a Henry James novel, which is something that he had suggested to her. Yeah.
00:45:07
Speaker
um And he shows up, ah she asks him to wait, um and then he overhears her, like say, he's nobody or something like that. And so he gets upset and leaves. Yes, oh, she doesn't know what he's doing there yet. He gets upset and he leaves, rightfully so. And then she goes to his bookstore, and this is where we get the scene. Pew, pew, pew!
00:45:35
Speaker
Yeah, and this is where we get our our outro for our um for our ah our show where yeah she tells him that you know she wants to keep her professional life and her personal life separate and you know she doesn't want, she wants to be seen as, well, I mean, you say it, yeah. um I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy asking her asking him to love her. ah and And he says no.
00:46:06
Speaker
He says no.
00:46:10
Speaker
Which is, I mean, that's the thing like about like a lot of the like most iconic movies from rom coms. like A lot of them are before the end. A lot of them are when the person says no. like um And say anything where he's holding the the boombox above his head. That doesn't work in that movie. yeah like We forget that. like um all these like great I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy ah asking him to love you, like no, yeah. um Because he says like he wouldn't be able to handle it if she left again. Yeah, exactly. Because this last year of his life was awful. He went on several dates. They were all terrible, yeah all yeah until he found like the perfect girl, but he couldn't fall in love with her because he was in love with Anna Scott. Yeah. And can you blame him?
00:46:54
Speaker
um My first note in my notebook is Julia Roberts is a beautiful. Yes, she is. She is. um And I mean, and she always is, obviously, but this is like the height of Julia Roberts fame. Like this is the absolute. Yeah.
00:47:13
Speaker
um And she gives, he brought him a gift. And he doesn't open it yet, but then they they go to the restaurant and with his friends and you see that it's the original lamaliier um yeah le le merrier,
00:47:25
Speaker
um the painting. And everyone's like, what are you fucking stupid? Like. Yeah, you cannot. What? Go get your girl. Go get your girl, says Recy Fons. Spike is his character's name, I just looked it up, yeah.
00:47:43
Speaker
And then everybody races across London where they get to the hotel where she's having a press conference and they just announced that she's taking a year off.
00:47:54
Speaker
okay and is leaving that night. And and ah he comes up and and says that he's from Horse and Hound and does this whole little bit where he's like, the readers of Horse and Hound are interested it if you will forgive them or something like that. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, are wondering that should you forgive um a particular person, maybe you might consider extending your say in London.
00:48:21
Speaker
Um, and, and so, and of course she goes, of course, yes. And yeah the final scene we get is like a little, a little bit of them in the garden. She's pregnant. It's a beautiful spring day. Of course. Yeah. Um, Oh, they get married. They have a cake. That's the, the, um, the goat. Yeah.
00:48:45
Speaker
Yes. Yeah, it's very cute. It's very sweet. um And they have a kid and live happily ever after in ah London. We Yeah, we we presume. We'd love to see how that relationship works out. It's one of those things where like a lot of these rom-coms where it's like, again, like this is it's good that there's a real problem like in this movie. like that's ah it's It's not a fake problem invented for a rom-com. It's a real problem that would be difficult to have a relationship with. And they kind of just like, eh, we don't worry about it. but it we don't Yeah, any questions.
00:49:23
Speaker
We don't really solve anything. We don't really get a lot of answers. She says that she's gonna stay in the UK indefinitely, but like, you know, she's still gonna be gone a lot filming. And like, yeah, she's still an actor. um But, you know, just don't worry about it. I have an extended Charlie's Corner for this episode. I sort of teased it last. Extended edition. yeah Extended edition. Because, Katie.
00:49:49
Speaker
Notting Hill, one of my favorite movies. The reason why Notting Hill is one of my favorite movies is because one of the first weeks Charlie and I were dating, like dating, dating, I had spent the night- You were a redheaded actress, American in London, and he was a bumbling, nerdy British boy, right? Exactly, exactly. So obviously I had a lot to relate to.
00:50:22
Speaker
um But one of the first days that we like spent together like the entire day, we just had this beautiful, lazy day of like watching movies and eating snacks and like making like frozen pizza. And it was like one of the most perfect days. um None of his roommates were there. It was just him and I. a And the movie that we watched was Notting Hill. And I remember I hadn't really seen it until then. And I just I fell in love with it. And I fell in love with the boy I was sitting next to.
00:50:59
Speaker
ah so that's So that's why I love this movie and it has such a very special place in my heart. That being said. oh
00:51:13
Speaker
Um, Charlie and I watched this movie. We've seen this movie so many times. Again, because it's a personal favorite. And I thought a personal favorite in our relationship because of the history. Oh no. So I can see where this is going. Yep. I turned to him and I was just like, um,
00:51:33
Speaker
Yeah, because, like, you know, remember that perfect day when we watched movies and we watched Notting Hill and we ate frozen pizza and, you know, none of your roommates were there. It was perfect. It was great. Don't you remember how great that day was? And he's like. Wait, what?
00:51:54
Speaker
No way. I thought you were going to say he didn't really like the movie, but he didn't remember Charlie of that. He's like, I don't I don't remember that. And I was like, do you not remember us watching Notting Hill on your couch in your apartment, spending this beautiful day together? And he was like, no, I don't I don't remember that.
00:52:18
Speaker
This is an indictment against men in general, I think. I was so mad. I was like, are you kidding me? Are you nodding you? It meant a lot to me. That is so like you just hadn't like talked about it before or something? Because like, I thought it was like, I thought about it all the time. Yeah, but you just hadn't talked about it, I guess. I guess.
00:52:49
Speaker
interesting because Caitlin and I have that have one of those things where like we were in college and um we were friends and ah I we had both just auditioned for the show the the main stage show at at our school and um I picked her up from the audition and we were like, you just want to drive around. And Rent was playing. The Rent soundtrack was playing in my car. And we were like, you just want to drive around and sing Rent out loud. And and we did. And that was like that was like one of those things. We weren't dating, but we were almost dating. It was one of those things. you know
00:53:26
Speaker
um And so that's like a piece of media that's really like ah important to to our relationship in that in the same way. But like that's something we both talk about a lot. I was going to say, does Caitlin remember that? She does, yeah. Because Charlie didn't remember that. That sucks. Oh, I didn't hear him. Oh, no, wait. That's the cat. I thought he was going to come up and correct himself. But he didn't because that was my biggest note.
00:53:56
Speaker
We'll see if I get a text message from him on Monday when this airs.
Closing Remarks and Sign-off
00:54:01
Speaker
Goodness. Anyways, what are we doing next week, Katie? Oh my god. We are doing um a, I want to say classic. i I hope this holds up as well as I think it does. I haven't seen it in a while. Yeah, I haven't watched it since it came out.
00:54:17
Speaker
Oh, wow. Okay, so I've definitely seen it since then. I have watched it. I think i I used to have it on DVD. So I've definitely watched it, you know, a few times since it came out. ah Blast From the Past starring Rindon Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, um other people as well. Yeah, are in it. Christopher Walken. Yeah, yep. But mostly um my boyfriend.
00:54:42
Speaker
Correct, yes. Oh my God, yes. um The cutest. And ah it's a very yeah it's a very funny performance from what I remember, so it should be fun. Yeah, amazing. I'm very excited about that. Yeah. Would you like to outro? Let us outro. Let us outro, because I have to go to bed. Yeah, me too. I got to get up early tomorrow. Oof. Who are we? What are what is our life?
00:55:11
Speaker
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00:55:32
Speaker
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