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Falling INN Love
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It's a netflix original babbbyyyyyyy! Emma and Katie fall INN love with the 2019 Christina Milian and all of New Zealand feature. They ask all the important questions like- should chemistry between your two leads matter if you have an adorable town of kiwis? What exactly is an eco friendly Inn? IS this Inn eco friendly? And many many more!!
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Transcript
Opening and Personal Stories
00:00:00
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Okay. Yeah. Hello. Hi. I was going to say, no, I do have a fun saying for today. Oh. TGIF.
00:00:12
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Oh, for God's sake.
00:00:15
Speaker
I had already forgotten what you were going to do. I was supposed to be like, happy hump day. You had forgotten. It's not only that it's Friday the 13th. I know.
00:00:28
Speaker
Oh my God. Speaking of that, I thinking, I didn't even tell you about the most fun part of this wedding in Omaha that went to. Oh yeah. So the day after wedding, there's a museum of oddities in downtown Omaha.
00:00:45
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I love oddities. I do too. It's a super haunted museum. I cannot remember the name of it, but it's like spooky haunted. i don't know. It's in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. It was featured on the Travel Channel because everyone's favorite ghost hunter and Pimbo, Zach Bagans and team.
00:01:07
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Longtime listeners will ah will will know Emma's obsession with Zach Bagans. Emma's obsession and Katie's complete indifference to Zach Bagans. To Zach Bagans. um Ghost Adventures, maybe.
00:01:19
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ah They went there. And it's the most insane museum I've ever been to. To call it a museum. I mean, I guess you could call it a museum. It's basically an old building.
00:01:32
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Like, there's two floors. There's the main floor and then there's the basement. And it's all haunted and cursed objects from across the country that people have been like, I don't want this in my house anymore. Please take it. Oh, sure.
00:01:45
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. doll is trying to kill me. I think it's my grandma. um And so it's like, there's like 80,000 haunted dolls. There's an entire room of satanic objects, including like bones from um satanic rituals.
00:01:59
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And an entire wall of cursed Ouija boards. Sure, yeah. And each one has like a little plaque of like the story of like, this is why this was gifted to the museum because it tried to kill its owner in New Jersey.
00:02:20
Speaker
um Was it large? like I mean, it was pretty extensive. like There were like hundreds of objects. like Hundreds. There was a little clown area. um and Because it was like not just her haunted and cursed objects, but like there were some oddities items. so like There was like you know dentistry equipment from the 1800s, and like here's an animal fetus in a jar. Yeah.
00:02:47
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I broke out into hives at the Surgical Science Museum in Chicago, so I can't imagine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And the the best slash worst part of it was that um to, like, add to the ambiance, there's no overhead lighting.
00:03:00
Speaker
You get a flashlight. Oh, no. And you have to, you go around with a flashlight. did Did Charlie do it? No, Charlie refused. And so it was my mom, my sister, and I, and we all upgraded to, because you could upgrade to get the UV flashlight as well, because there were murder weapons there that you could still see blood specks on.
00:03:22
Speaker
Oh, gross. Yeah. And, um but I didn't see any blood specks. I only saw one thing with UV light, and it was a Ouija board that had, like, some writing in it. Yeah. Yeah.
00:03:33
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I mean, Caitlin and I would 100% do that for sure. Oh, yeah. 100%. like, yeah, I'm going to upgrade for $10 for the UV lamp. You could also rent ghost hunting equipment um to go around to ask the objects questions. Oh, God. Uh-huh. And for an additional... This place sounds like a scam, actually.
00:03:50
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Pretty much, pretty much. um But it was so weird and dumb and i I loved it so much. My mom was kind of like, my mom, I love her so much. She was going around, she was like, I don't understand what, because like she really loves all that like weird haunted spooky stuff too.
00:04:06
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But like there were certain things that she was just like, I just don't get why this is here. was like, I don't, why is this here? Yeah, because someone gave it to them. Yeah. Yeah. And then she very loudly was like, I'm skipping the clown room.
00:04:21
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That's smart. um i have to blow my nose. I'm so sorry. Oh, it's okay. But yeah, so, oh, and then you could like upgrade, upgrade to, um
00:04:35
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to spend 10 minutes in a room with a cursed object with the doors closed and the lights turned off. ah That was the ultimate upgrade, but everything was like $10 more.
00:04:45
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And you didn't do that, I'm guessing. No, no, no, no, no. I was like, i don't i don't need that. um yeah that's That sounds like a scam, yeah. Yeah, yeah. ah And then the we were all very disappointed in the gift shop because the gift shop had was like one wall of like a bunch of sage and crystals and then like a sweatshirt for $55. And I was like, I just want like a t-shirt.
00:05:08
Speaker
So not as good as the 9-11 gift shop then? No, no. it It was not as extensive as the 9-11 gift shop, I can't say. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:05:19
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Jesus fucking Christ. What is this place called? you want to shout it out? You want to see if we can get an ad for it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see if we can get an ad for it. Oh my gosh. Unsolicited advertisement for... Right? Unsolicited advertisement.
00:05:31
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Omaha, Nebraska. Museum of... Oh, the Omaha Museum of Shadows. Oh, cool. Yeah. The Museum of Shadows.
00:05:42
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Yeah, that's a good name. It's a very good name. And like, there were some real spooky objects. And I'm not gonna lie, my flashlight ah started messing up towards the end. And I was like, um I'm gonna go with this is definitely because I'm in a tire building filled with ghosts.
00:05:59
Speaker
Or, you know, that's just what flashlights do. Uh, no, nobody else's did. It was just mine because I went into the, Oh, there was a mirror room. You could go into the meat and look in the mirrors. That was the area. My mom was like, I don't get it.
00:06:14
Speaker
Spooky mirrors, you know? Yeah. And, and so like, I was just like, I looked in every single mirror and I was like, I don't see myself dying. I don't see myself aging. Well, thank God.
00:06:25
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i know. Which is apparently like what you're supposed to see when you like look in the mirror. Um, But it's what I see every time I look in the any mirror. So I see the grim reaper over my shoulder. We all see ourselves.
00:06:37
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We all see ourselves aging in mirrors. That's what mirrors do. What do you mean? That's so poetic. Very slowly. But, you know. you know Oh, my God. We're all cursed mirrors.
00:06:50
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Or knowing every mirror is cursed. No. Yeah. Never. um But yeah, so if you're if you find yourself in Omaha, Nebraska, ah head on over to the Museum of Shadows.
00:07:02
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I might. Yeah, my friend my friend Ada is always trying to get me to come to to Omaha. She's she's lived there. a few yeah got her up teaching at um at the college there. And um this is my robot scientist friend. I think I've told you about her before. Oh, yeah. Super smart.
00:07:16
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she's She's ridiculously impressive. Like, it's just every time shed touch she talks to me, she's like, oh, yeah. And, you know, ah so I decided to ah make my own dress for this, ah for for my wedding.
00:07:31
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And, you know. course. Yeah. she just they're nice They grow all their own vegetables now. And like, she's just, her life is insane. um Well, you know what? She's going to be the most prepared out of all of us for when this society crumbles.
00:07:48
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She's also Canadian, so she can just back up there when she needs to. yeah Yeah, it must be nice. But I mean, it's the thing, like, it's the way that she describes it is like, it's cheap enough there that she was able to buy a house.
00:08:02
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And it's also like, there's this, you know, mean, she's gay and trans. And she has this, like, weird little queer bubble in Omaha.
00:08:13
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um And yeah the surrounding area is not great for all of that. But um it is, she's, she's very happy there. So. Omaha itself was very um LGBT friendly.
00:08:28
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Like there were pride flags everywhere. um Lots of really great, you know, stickers and stuff. And basically have a feeling that a coven of which, okay, i have a theory that in Omaha, Nebraska, coven of witches back during the Oregon trail times was,
00:08:45
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Moved right to Omaha and just set up shop and then just kept teaching their children about spooky ass shit. Because every single shop you went into was like weird little ghosty relics.
00:08:58
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ah like they're Like there were so many goth stores. Like I don't, it a huge LGBT um presence as well as huge goth representation in Omaha, Nebraska. Sure,
00:09:12
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Maybe it's just because there's nothing to do except scream into the void. Maybe. i ah i'll ask I'll tell her that theory. I'm sure she'd appreciate that. Nebraskan witches heavily featured today's movie. Yes, heavily featured.
00:09:26
Speaker
Yeah. That's right, guys. You guessed it.
Introduction to the Podcast
00:09:30
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This is Go Get Your Girl. off This is the podcast where Emma and Katie are just two eco-friendly architects.
00:09:39
Speaker
And they... We'll get to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And... They think that they're living their best dream life with weird technology, um, Pelotons.
00:09:51
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And we find out that our company has lost all of its funding and we're all locked out. Um, and so we've lost our jobs and then we decide to make a move with our long-term boyfriends to, you know, take the next step only to find out that they don't want to take the next step. They want to stay just as is because they suck.
00:10:12
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and very very detailed and then well you got to get to the reasons why we entered the in contest sure sure winning which isn't entirely a free in you still we still have to pay some monies um we have to get ourselves to new zealand and we have to pay it like an entrance fee or like an admin fee i assume i'm really wrapped around the axel about the the winning contest but we'll we'll get into that
00:10:40
Speaker
And then we go to New Zealand, ah where we we find out that the inn is falling apart. But the very lovely town and very, very hot um Australian man, definitely not from New Zealand, um is... ah Yeah, you can look it up.
00:10:57
Speaker
He's from Australia. And... Ah, he, at first we're like, he sucks. And then we're like, oh no, wait, he's hot. And then we slowly start to fall in love. There's some love letters involved.
00:11:11
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I don't know. Don't ask questions. um But yeah, so that's it. That's me. I'm Emma. And I'm
Discussion on 'Falling In Love' Film
00:11:18
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Katie. Good Lord. um
00:11:22
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And today we are talking about the Netflix Hallmark-y rom-com Falling In Love. In-in-in.
00:11:33
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From 2019. Directed by Roger Cumble, which don't like that name. Yeah. Roger Cumble. Who directed Cruel Intentions. The sweetest thing.
00:11:45
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He directed Cruel Intentions. What the fuck? Exactly. Exactly. ah The Sweetest Thing, fucking Masterpiece. Yep.
00:11:56
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And Just Friends, which sucks, but we will almost definitely talk about those movies on this podcast. yeah We will do Just Friends because even though it's very problematic and there's a lot of issues with it, I still like it.
00:12:08
Speaker
Anna Faris in that movie is hilarious. It's all Anna Faris. That is 100% the reason why I love that movie. Not the lead. the the The third lead of that movie. The third lead. Not the love interest, yeah. No, no, no. It is the comedic relief.
00:12:22
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Yes. This movie is written by Elizabeth Hackett and Hillary Gallinoy, ah who have written a lot of Netflix and Hallmark rom-coms, including A Perfect Pairing, Love Guaranteed, and La Dolce Villa.
00:12:39
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ah
00:12:42
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So it's all pretty much the same kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was told to watch A Perfect Pairing before we went to Australia, but I never got around to it. Oh, is that the same thing except Australian?
00:12:53
Speaker
Exactly. And it takes place in the industry. Versus an end. I got that from La Dolce Villa. fella yeah Oh, yeah, yeah. So i I... This is the only one of their movies that I've seen, guess. I guess we'll just... um I've seen Love Guaranteed. Love Guaranteed is fine.
00:13:11
Speaker
It's Damon Wayans Jr. Oh, nice. Yeah. Nice, nice, nice. We'll have to do all of them on the pod. Yeah. Yeah, because... Well, I don't know. We'll see.
00:13:22
Speaker
Well, you know, here's the thing, Katie. Here's the thing. The past few movies that we've done have been pretty solid... hit Some pretty historically great films.
00:13:35
Speaker
That's true. That's true. ah We haven't done a nonsense popcorn Hallmark movie ever. in a minute that's true that's true not since not since uh the canine mystery i think yeah oh no no no no we did some we did some christmas netflix nonsense yeah yeah yeah um and i mean like technically you could count oh let's see but down with love she's the man enchanted garden state i want you back technically you kind of be in that but i feel like it has a little bit more depth
00:14:08
Speaker
It's rated R. yeah Yeah. It's not like the thing about Hallmark is it's very PG. Yeah. Oh, not since Puppy Love. But also rated R. Yeah. Oh. So not quite the Hallmark thing. Not quite. Yeah. So it's been a minute since we've done these Pinot Grigio evening.
00:14:27
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. Oh, my God. A perfect pairing is also the same boy. Yeah, of course it is. Because he's Australian. Yeah. and With Victoria Justice. ah if she's also a pop star, right?
00:14:41
Speaker
Victoria Justice? Yes, she's from Victorious. She's a Disney musical theater Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. um But yeah, so... ah
00:14:52
Speaker
The film is described as a fun watch made for lovers of wine and girl boss stories. Oh, God. Yes! Wait, look out it falling in love or a perfect pairing? A perfect pairing. Because I think that that would also classify falling in love.
00:15:08
Speaker
Well, she's not. I mean, this is about her, like, the un-girlbossification, right? This is the opposite. Yeah, but she girlbosses her life. I guess. Oh, my God.
00:15:21
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need to stop using that word. Girlboss. ah ah Hashtag lean in Oh, no. I know. I know. I hated it as it was coming out of my mouth.
00:15:31
Speaker
She's a bad person. Toxic um femininity? Toxic feminism. Yeah, to it is absolutely toxic feminism. Yeah. yeah um i I don't even remember that woman's name. What's her name? The Facebook evil woman. Yeah. Sarah something. sarah Sharon.
00:15:50
Speaker
Yes. Sharon. Stone. Yeah. Sharon Stone. Yeah. that's That's Cheryl Cheryl. We were wrong. Oh, my God. I just Googled lean in. And the first video, the first thing that popped up was feminism's flop era.
00:16:07
Speaker
girl boss and lean in when we tried so hard to be taken seriously and just ended up burning ourselves out well it's more like you know women can do uh corporate crimes and treat people horribly too that's that's what it's really about yeah yeah but i mean like in that whole era i saw i mean like this is off topic kind of but like um on this podcast I know, right?
00:16:31
Speaker
I saw ah TikTok which made me feel very seen, which is the whole mid-2010s, late-2010s, right-before-COVID sort of girl boss era where um um there was like this whole like ah gym culture of instead of going to the gym, you went to very boutique-y.
00:16:53
Speaker
uh workout classes uh and I definitely was sucked into that like class class and then like you would make your schedule around that and so like
Fitness and Lifestyle Reflections
00:17:02
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sometimes my schedule would be like wake up at 6 a.m make a 7 a.m spin class or bar class or um you you know orange theory class and then go to work from 8 30 to 5 then go to happy hour afterwards and with friends see a show um and then be home by like nine or ten just to do it all over again the next day i didn't do it every day but some girls did and i was like that's i don't know how i did that that sounds like um that sounds like a very uh
00:17:39
Speaker
hectic time for a rich person to do. Yeah. Like, yeah. And I wasn't even that rich. I was working on a receptionist salary. Yeah. Yeah. That's what, that's what saying. And that's what makes it, that's what makes it aspirational because it's something for rich people that they like, that they try to like import into the middle class. Right. Oh yeah.
00:17:59
Speaker
Yeah. With like class pass. Cause like you can buy class pass and then you could go to all these different classes of like places that could never afford a membership. Yeah, it's it's it's easier for them because they have assistants and nutritionists and personal chefs and drivers and things like that. And then, you know.
00:18:16
Speaker
But you know what I did realize was that like the ah the changing rooms at those gyms are some of the nicest fucking places I've ever been.
00:18:26
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Oh, yeah.
00:18:29
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I've been spoiled for gym locker rooms because I went to a Lincoln Park ah like bar class. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they have like showers with like boutique soaps and shampoos.
00:18:45
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And then, oh my gosh, all of the accoutrement that you could um need to do your hair and makeup like right there for you. It's, you know, $600 a month or something. I'm sure that's, that's,
00:18:58
Speaker
What you expect for that. yeah So um I was spoiled when I went to my... ah my My Planet Fitness here, I no longer go to Planet Fitness. I've upgraded to Steel Beach Gym because they have classes and they're closer.
00:19:14
Speaker
But um in both places, I went into the locker room expecting, you know, those like little digital locks and then like, you know, lotions and mouthwash for when I'm done.
00:19:26
Speaker
um Only to find out I need to bring my own lock. What? Oh, yeah. That makes sense, actually. Yeah. Yeah. I've never been to a public gym. Not one time.
00:19:38
Speaker
Really? Of any kind. Yeah. You'll be shocked to learn that I'm not a big workout person in general. much less Much less in public. ah so not even like Not even like a Barry's Boot Camp or like Pure Bar like a... peer bar or ah like a like a Like a core power or like a... No. name and um Stop naming them.
00:20:07
Speaker
I've been to all of these. ah No, not even a not even a Planet Fitness. I've never been to a to a gym. um i yeah ah yeah Yeah, I'm i'm self-conscious ah and I don't know how to operate anything and I'm in terrible shape. Why would I do any of that?
00:20:24
Speaker
But here's the thing. So is everybody else. Well, yeah, but my main anxiety about all of this is that i is that it's looking like I don't know what I'm doing. yeah and my My main anxiety in all of life, in everything.
00:20:38
Speaker
It's why, i would like we talked about dancing in the last episode. That's true. I don't want to look like I don't know what to do. And a gym is the most like horrifying example of that. There's a million machines and I don't know how to operate any of them.
00:20:58
Speaker
And if I do something wrong, someone could yell at me and I'd have to kill myself. No. Or you have like a meet cute with like a buff gym guy and you're like, oh my God, I don't know how this works.
00:21:10
Speaker
Hi. Hi. Yeah, sure. Yeah. um ah That also, like i um i don't think I'm into that. like yeah It's like that scene in Bros.
00:21:22
Speaker
Not really my type. Yeah. yeah Hey, what's up?
00:21:28
Speaker
Oh, that's very relevant. I guess because she does have a Peloton. She has a very weird, insane thing. She has a VR not named Peloton with what seems to be an AI assistant.
00:21:39
Speaker
It looks like a little Wii character. it knows about her life, though. Yeah. Like, how did it know? hate it. Also, how can I get that technology? I've already chastised you about AI once this week.
00:21:55
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I know.
00:22:00
Speaker
okay all right so gabriella played by christina million who you say is famous and i don't know yes from am to pm she is a pop star she's also famous from the hallmark original the snow globe absolutely perfect christmas movie it's not perfect there's not the problems with it but we will watch it at christmas christina million Sure.
00:22:25
Speaker
um She is not an actor. Nope. Pop star. um And this ah movie also stars someone named Adam Demos. Yes. Who it says is an actor, but... He is.
00:22:38
Speaker
Could have fooled me. Did you... Okay, so this this already answered my question. So you've obviously not seen the... Oh my God.
00:22:48
Speaker
but is Was it Yeah. When we was, oh no the Lifetime original, movie Lifetime original series, Unreal. No, but that is um Marty Noxon's show. And I love Marty Noxon.
00:23:01
Speaker
Yeah. yeah And it's got two of the actors. In fact, the two love interests were both on Unreal. Okay. Yeah. um Yeah, I've heard that is good. Is he good in it?
00:23:13
Speaker
Because he's really bad in this. um He's mostly for like what the sexy men are there for, which is to look sexy. um Sure. But The, uh, her, what is his name? Dean, her boyfriend.
00:23:29
Speaker
Oh, he's also on it. He's also on it, but he plays the gay PA and he is like, I mean, you can tell by the way that he just naturally talks that he is a member of the LGBT community.
00:23:43
Speaker
Um, and I just, are you saying he has a gay accent? Is that what you're saying? He does not have a gay accent. He just has, he has a way about him. He has an air. that um That my gaydar was going ding, ding, ding, ding. Sure, sure, sure. and um And then- I did not notice that.
00:24:00
Speaker
I did not notice that. Maybe it's just that I'm so used to him being the super gay PA. Sure, sure. Jeffrey Bowyer Chapman is who we're talking about. Yeah, it's probably- If he's not gay, I'm so sorry. um and And it could very much be that I just know him as- He is gay. He's actually- oh He is gay, yes. Okay, cool.
00:24:18
Speaker
God.
00:24:20
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I was like, oh no. Emma, what did you say during Pride Month?
00:24:28
Speaker
Um, yes. I love the LGBTQIA plus community. Gotta stop saying that. You're allowed to say queer. You can just say queer. It's fine. But that's only one of the letters.
00:24:41
Speaker
No, it encompasses everything though. Like. Kind of like how moose means one moose in multiple moose.
00:24:51
Speaker
It's exactly like that.
00:25:00
Speaker
That should be the clip for Instagram. Right? Right? Stop letting AI choose the clip and just pick the clip.
00:25:10
Speaker
But AI chose the adorable one of my cat last time. yeah Well, I don't know how many acres of rainforest we lost because of that, but...
00:25:21
Speaker
Oh my God. Anyways, so falling in and in and in love. Christina Milian. I mean, you kind of covered a lot of it in the. Yeah. Christina Milian.
00:25:33
Speaker
Yeah, sure. She is possibly an architect. That's what i wrote. I wrote architect question mark in San Francisco. um ah There's she does something she's or she's like.
00:25:48
Speaker
She's not an interior decorator because she's like, no got of the she she's designed the, yeah. I think she's an architect, but we never say that. Yeah. And she's very into like green buildings and like LEED certified stuff, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. And like, you know, climate conscious architecture.
00:26:08
Speaker
So that's sort of her. um yeah Which is very expensive. yeah And. Wish it wasn't. Otherwise I'd do it. She has a ah boss named Chad who sucks.
00:26:19
Speaker
Yeah. and i say dad And she has a boyfriend named Dean who also sucks. He also sucks. She's been with him for two and a half years. And he won't let her redo his closet.
00:26:31
Speaker
Yeah. He won't let her, yeah, he won't let her redo his closet, let alone move in together. Yeah. And then she gets, ah she loses her job. The company goes out or whatever. They all get locked out.
00:26:44
Speaker
Yeah. And she sees this email that's like winning in in New Zealand. And it's like, Nazaland, come to Nazaland. but You can win an in in Nazaland. They say New Zealand like eight times. Nazaland.
00:26:55
Speaker
ah You have to assume that it's a spam email. ah which is how she got it. Unless she just subscribes to like New Zealand Inn weekly. yeah it's it there's there's There's not a lot of thought put into it.
00:27:10
Speaker
Later on, they keep saying, because Charlotte, Kate Sion, oh yeah, saying and in this went an inn scam. um yeah How is it a scam? Like he moved to Finland and stuck her with the inn, but that's still...
00:27:26
Speaker
property she owns in New Zealand the worst thing that she could have done was just sell it is it condemned it seems condemned it doesn't say condemned that's true I mean the outside looks condemned but still that's that's land that's that's gotta be a net loss financially how is it a scam it doesn't make sense I don't know.
00:27:51
Speaker
I don't know. I think that's, yeah. I have no idea. I just know that at one point- Is it because like of property tax? It's like he didn't want to keep paying the property tax on it and now she's stuck with paying the property tax because they don't say that. They don't mention that at all.
00:28:04
Speaker
They just say that there's like an administration fee. How rich is she exactly is what I want to know. I mean, I guess that she's an architect, but it seems like it's a startup, like eco architecture. They were relying on one investor. Yeah.
00:28:21
Speaker
Like, yeah what? I mean, far be it for me to say, but I think that the people who wrote this might not have researched these things very thoroughly. No, I don't think they did. going to turn this out in a weekend.
00:28:32
Speaker
I knew what this movie was. If I hadn't known it from the moment that, ah from this moment, I, or from the beginning, I knew it from this moment onwards.
Film Analysis and Plot Discussion
00:28:42
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She says bye-bye her life in San Francisco, and she gets on international flight from San Francisco to New Zealand.
00:28:52
Speaker
um Let's see. New Zealand? also So yeah, she wins. She wins the inn, I guess. um It seems like she may have been the only person who entered, which seems wild, because I would i would enter a contest win a free inn in New Zealand.
00:29:05
Speaker
mean, why not? Why not? I mean, I'd really be stuck, though, because I don't have any money to renovate it or anything. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, neither does she Well, she does, though. Like, she has she has a lot of money, clearly.
00:29:21
Speaker
She has, but she runs out of it. She puts, she s sinks it all into the inn. Yeah. Yeah. And we actually don't know if she ends up paying back. um Norm. Norm. That's true. Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:31
Speaker
that another Lennon Nayev dress, by the way? Oh, um this is, no, this is, okay this is three people. Oh, of course. Yeah. yeah yeah Yeah.
00:29:43
Speaker
Yeah. I call this my, my sexy witch dress. Very nice. Cause every time I wear it, I go, I saw Goody Proctor. Uh-huh. Yeah. I was walking to get my bank stream the other day, and I saw this this girl hanging by in this gorgeous cottagecore. I'm pretty sure it was Linen Naive. Linen Naive.
00:30:00
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ah And i the only... i She was just talking. she was walking with, I presume, her boyfriend, and she goes, this dress is the best decision of my life. i was like, hell yes, queen. Hell yes.
00:30:13
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It always is. It always is. Yeah. Especially Linen when it's hot out. Just a random overheard. I know. I need to get some. I've been, I've had like four or five different things from that site, like saved on my phone for like two years. And I haven't pulled the trigger. some of them.
00:30:30
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Pull the trigger. It's so worth it. The only thing that sucks is that you have to like iron or steam it because it does get a little wrinkly. but um But also linen looks okay. A little wrinkled. Yeah. know that's Exactly. yeah Exactly.
00:30:43
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um and super close anyways so my moment where i was like checked out was um she gets on her flight from san francisco to new zealand her 12 hour long flight from san francisco to new zealand honestly that's less than i would have thought i thought it would be more yeah well they're a little closer um i think when i went to from chicago to sydney it was like 20 hours
00:31:12
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It was long time. That was not pop? You didn't go to LA first? Well, we we did. So it was to Vancouver and then Vancouver to Vancouver. yeah Vancouver is significantly further away than California.
00:31:25
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Yeah, exactly. um but I cannot, I'll have to ask Charlie what the flight, he he remembers the flight time. Cause like the flight from Chicago to Vancouver was only like three or four hours. And then the flight from Vancouver to um Sydney was like 16 hours, I want to say.
00:31:41
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That's a long time. It's a long ass time. If you've never done 10 plus hour long flight, let me tell you, it's not fun unless you're in first class.
00:31:52
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I don't think I have. The longest flight I've ever done is probably like seven or eight to Europe or something. Cause I think the furthest has been.
00:32:04
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Yeah. Like DC to Venice is probably the longest flight. Cause like New York to London. That's like, and or said yeah, I don't remember when I was a kid, we went to Switzerland.
00:32:16
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I don't remember where we flew out of, um but that, that might've been long to like central Europe. So yeah I don't know. But yeah, it wasn't that long. It seems long. Yeah. Yeah. But it was not as long as a 12 hour long flight to New Zealand.
00:32:32
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um And.
00:32:36
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She is she is like going to the airport and she gets on that flight in coach with her little healed Italian leather boots and her red lip. I just don't understand the, the preponderance of these, these people wearing uncomfortable shoes on full yeah planes on any number, on any flight, on any flight, I wouldn't wear. Let alone a 12 hour long flight in a coach.
00:32:59
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And then two buses. And then two buses. um And a lot of fucking walking. And then as she gets off the plane, she still looks great.
00:33:10
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Red lip. Still perfect. course she does. I mean, I'm sure we sureley she touched it up, you know, like, Yeah, yeah. But still, let me tell you what I looked like when I got off of Pipeline from Chicago to Sydney.
00:33:22
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ah hot damn mess, guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah im ah Yeah, I mean, it's a movie. That's the whole point. And then she's in her little, little booties.
00:33:36
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yeahke with a booty four inch he all like Yeah, like, lugging a suitcase down through the the the street. Like, she's... ah sheet of it's It's just, it's for humor, I suppose. um her Her suitcase gets hit by this guy's ute.
00:33:52
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Just what they call an SUV in New Zealand. New Zealand. And I, yeah, so I presume, like, he's definitely doing a New Zealand accent. um I would imagine Australians are probably pretty good at that.
00:34:05
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Oh, he's definitely doing a New Zealand accent. doesn't. i Like, as soon as he was talking, I was like, he sounds like he's from Australia. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But his character is supposed to be from New Zealand. Like, they do a lot of... This movie is... has to have been paid for by the New Zealand, like, toism tourism board or something. Oh, 100%.
00:34:28
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The two of these actors are...
00:34:31
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the two of these actors are Very poor, I think. um Maybe the worst actors of any of the movies we've seen. like usually is that that's Usually that's not the the problem. like A lot of the movies that we've watched, even the bad ones, it's like, well, the actors are still charming.
00:34:49
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But these two are, maybe they just don't care. you know Maybe this was a paycheck for both of them, or then a free trip to New Zealand for... Christina Milian or whatever but like I mean it was basically every time he talked it was like um a hot cardboard man on a stick yeah yeah and really there was no question and pla you just stopped caring but at the same time you're like oh um the townspeople had way more yeah yeah uh charisma and chemistry that any absolutely and that's really what the fantasy of this movie and all of these movies are about it's new zealand schitt's creek
00:35:31
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it yeah a little bit yeah it's like you go somewhere in the middle of nowhere and then everybody wants to be your friend forever like that is what happens in this movie she goes everyone loves her um and like and i have no idea why he likes her because she's very rude to him she's so mean to him like maybe i sixteen basically no reason yeah and his last relationship was his girlfriend who died Yeah, yeah. that We assume he was in love with and was like his soulmate and she died.
00:36:02
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Yeah. and so he's going through a lot of trauma. Yeah. It never really says how she died or something, but it's something like, you know, she got eaten by a kangaroo or something. I don't know. Probably a shark.
00:36:13
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ah Probably a shark. Yeah. Um, so she goes there and she meets him and he offers to take her to town and she refuses and walks in her boots just like, um, uh, Cameron Diaz in The Holiday.
00:36:29
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Yep. Yep. And she immediately runs into the friendliest people in the world. Oh, so friendly and so wonderful. The cute gay couple who run the, the, like, restaurant cafe. Yay!
00:36:42
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They give her coffee. like yeah The floor, the the woman who owns the flower shop is immediately her. She's like, I'm going to be your best friend, Diane. Yeah. yeah Charlotte. who so that Charlotte starts out like a villain, but it turns out she's got a nice heart after all.
00:37:00
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New Zealand. New Zealand is hard. I can do Australia. New Zealand is, it's the vowels. think that's pretty good. I can barely do either. So Charlotte owns the other inn in town and she, she wants see the, the inn there. And she kind of explains to her like, yeah, it was a scam. This guy he's the great, great grand. He's the grand, great grandson of the woman who like found this inn and like the, the girl boss of old.
00:37:27
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yeah Um, He pawned it off on somebody and he moved to Denmark or something. So he's gone. Yeah. And she's like, I'll buy it from you. And um I don't even know the main character's name.
00:37:40
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What is her name? Gabriela. Gabriela is like. I was like Christina Milian. I'm kidding. Did she do that? Is that why you keep doing it? Is that, is it was she like, was she like Jason Derulo?
00:37:54
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But she sang her own name at the beginning of every song. I just might be doing that. ah um Did she fall down the stairs at the Met Gala also?
00:38:06
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christine i don't think k Christina Milian's ever been to the Met Gala. No offense to Christina Milian. But um maybe because of this movie, she'll get invited one day. Maybe she'll go to the New Zealand um Museum of Art Gala.
00:38:21
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The New Zealand. um Yes. So ah she decides she wants to do it herself. And then she like realizes that the place is a huge dump. And it's been taken over by a goat, an adorable goat.
00:38:37
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um All goats are adorable. Named Gilbert. Gilbert. Gilbert the goat. um But I shall say, shall say, um when she first goes into the inn, I'm like, okay. Because it like looks like it's like falling apart, but like movie style without them like having to like build a whole second set. So like it just a bunch of set dressing.
00:39:03
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And she goes in. They throw a bunch of hay on the roof, yeah. Exactly. And... um The place is completely furnished spotless.
00:39:15
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I mean, they throw some dust here and there, but like she goes into the bedroom. The bed is made with like clean white sheets. And I'm like, who the? What? She sleeps there.
00:39:27
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She sleeps there. First um but first of all, the thing about goats is that goats can and will eat everything.
00:39:39
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yeah Like there would not be curtains or sheets or any kind of of linens in that house if it was overrun by go um Which has to lead us to believe that Gilbert is a goat ghost.
00:39:58
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um ah Yeah, he doesn't seem to physically interact with anything, really. Exactly. He just yeah screams and scares her. Yeah. Yeah. And even but later on when there's the selfies with Gilbert station, those kids are taking pictures like Gilbert's not really there.
00:40:12
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That's true. Maybe it's like a selfies with Gilbert, you know? Yeah.
00:40:17
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She's like, and then there's the ghost. that There's the goat, Gilbert. And he's like, oh, yeah, Gilbert. He's a person and that really exists, isn't he? yeah we haven't seen Gilbert around here for 250 years yeah yeah Um, she sleeps in the place. She, in the middle of no, the most terrifying thing in the world. Are you fucking serious? With still running water.
00:40:39
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like With no running water. water With not secured doors and windows. Like the door is off the hinges and the windows are all broken. Like not in a million years. Not in a million years.
00:40:50
Speaker
I mean, I know there's more serial killers in Australia than New Zealand, but like it's still possible. Yeah. Oh, the bugs. I guess the bugs. my first Have you ever Googled what a weta looks like?
00:41:00
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like you know wet a workshop so like um peter jackson's special effects studio wet a workshop they're named after a horrible giant cricket from new zealand called a weta ah there it is yeah nope nope which is basically like an american cave cricket but the size of like a pomeranian um it's giant it's uh it's no good serial killers new zealand let's see there's a serial killer show in new zealand i'm sure yeah it looks like there's one serial killer who murdered three people back in what the 70s or something uh october 1996 all right
00:41:45
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um okay um Yeah, and she um <unk> he has she has this very annoying trait where she wants to she she wants she doesn't want anybody's help, kind of. yeah And like, this is a project that's beyond you, honey. Like, we have to understand our own limitations sometimes. You don't know plumbing. Yeah.
00:42:09
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No, she goes to the hardware store and um meat runs into, what's his name again? Sexy McSex Australian Pants. Yeah, Sexy McSex Australian Pants. Jake t Taylor is his name.
00:42:23
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Jake Taylor? And then she meets the hardware store guy named who she he calls Norm instead of Norman and that endears her to him. Yeah, because he like tells her his name and she immediately goes, great, I'm going to call you Norm. Can I call you Norm?
00:42:38
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Hey, Norm. Yeah. Just very irritating. um What if he didn't like it? Well, he does because everyone loves this woman on first sight. and it's so weird.
00:42:53
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He's like, oh, I'm going to, um I'll just give you a 90 day tab on everything at the hardware store you need to fix up this in. And he's like, oh, that's yeah really lucky. It's almost like I leave this, leave this charmed life and everything works out for me. Like I'm in some kind of Hallmark movie.
00:43:08
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Um, But the best contractor on the North Island, Jake Taylor, she wants nothing to do with because she's decided she hates him for no reason whatsoever. He's been nothing but nice to her. He's been nothing but nice to her, but she assumes everything out of his mouth is mansplaining.
00:43:24
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And she goes, stop mansplaining to me. That's not that's not what mansplaining is. Like... he's uh explaining something that she wants to know that she wants to know like it's something and she she went to the hardware store because she doesn't know how to fix the sink and he's like well i could tell you how to fix the sink and she's like stop mansplaining to me toxic masculinity um ah i'm so sorry this man is trying to be helpful uh gabriella gabriella girl and take um take the win so she starts working on stuff i mean like she i guess she's an architect so she does know what she's doing it like mean she doesn't know how to do some things but yeah she's not an electrician she's not a plumber she's not a contractor no
00:44:15
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And everybody kind of pitches in and the whole second act of this movie is them like starting to renovate this in. um Getting closer and closer.
00:44:27
Speaker
So she she finally warms up to him after they have they're forced to eat together. And it's the like, oh, you don't need to eat a salad, Shayla. You should get some real meat on your bones. And it's like, okay.
00:44:38
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Yep. Because, oh, yeah, because these are, this is, there's so many small little things that are like, they planted seeds in the beginning exposition of her life. And they just bring it back once.
00:44:50
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Like the fact that her boyfriend's super controlling, she can't eat carbs. And he's like super controlling about her diet. And um it's only seen in one scene where she tries to eat bread from the bread bowl and, or from the bread basket. And he goes, no, no, no, so you're going to get that kale salad you always get.
00:45:06
Speaker
Which is like, no this woman, like, how why would she stand up for that? Like, she, in every other aspect of her life, like, she has... Like, the fuck? Yeah. The fuck, girl?
00:45:18
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Yeah, it's very, like, it's very surface level. Like, just the most obvious kind of, and like, red flags and green flags that you could possibly think of. It's just very... I mean, I guess that's the point. Like, it's very breezy and kind of, it's... yeah Like you kind of just watch this movie and don't even think about it again. Yeah. Yeah. Like that's, that's sort of the point I was getting to earlier was that we haven't done a movie where it's so surface level like this in such a long time.
00:45:47
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um And every now and again, it's just like, it's nice. There's a reason why they keep making these. It's just nice to be able to like i walk out of the room, go to the bathroom, come back and still know what's going on. It's nice. Yeah.
00:46:02
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It's a movie you don't have to pause. Yeah. Exactly. It's just nice to like be like, oh, I bet this is this is going to happen. Oh, there it goes. Oh, I bet this is going happen.
00:46:13
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There goes. Yeah. And everybody's happy. Predictability can be very comforting. It's part of the reason when we talked about this in the first episode of the show, I think like yeah rom-coms and horror movies can be comfortingly predictable, even though what actually happens are very different.
00:46:30
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Exactly. Exactly. And there's something about that in this world where every day is a ah shit show of don't know what's going to happen next.
00:46:42
Speaker
Sometimes you just want to sit down. You want to see Christina Milian make out with a cardboard cutout of a hot Australian man and fix up an inn with a goat. Well, what's interesting is like there's not that much chemistry between them. like I know!
00:46:55
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He's hot! like nice This movie is really much more about New Zealand and a small town and a community and yeah and the friends. Like that is yeah that is what is charming about this movie. She has way more chemistry with her new BFF than she does with Hottie McHotpants Australian guy. Yeah, Shelly the flower girl. yeah yeah Who she sets up with a doctor.
00:47:24
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Immediately. Like within seconds of meeting her. yeah yeah she's like oh that guy likes you on a date yeah
00:47:34
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all these people in their late 30s who are still single for some reason and all very attractive and they all live in the same town exactly yeah the only couple that's married is the gay couple that runs the coffee shop because they were the only two gay people in town presumably yeah ah presumably or they moved there already married and were like what is this weird town of attractive singles what a great place for a coffee shop eh coffee shop that also does wine that was like a Canadian New Zealand yeah coffee shop coffee shop coffee shop um they probably just say cafe right I don't know cafe you want flat white
00:48:14
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Yeah, she doesn't know what a flat white is. like where Everyone knows what a flat white is. Everyone knows what a flat white is. Starbucks has a flat white. Jesus Christ. There is a lot of like little newsies. She goes on a picnic with yeah um with I've already forgotten his name. Hot in the hot pants Australian guy. He's like, we got a Vegemite sandwich and some such and such soda and some New Zealand and ice cream and all kinds of like... Yeah, yeah some Bickies. Oh.
00:48:45
Speaker
I hate Bickey's more than anything else. Like calling cookies Bickey's like just. I've never heard that. get disgust.
00:48:56
Speaker
It's in England as well. It is? I think it's more. I've never Charlie. Yeah. Chalky Bickey's like chocolate chip Oh, Chalk Bix. Yeah, yeah. sure. yeah, yeah.
00:49:08
Speaker
i I find that disgusting. I don't know why. don't like the phrase chocky-bisky? Chocky-bicky? No, I don't. I don't like it at all. Bicky-bicky.
00:49:20
Speaker
There's... um and they but they But I guess Tim Tams are Australian. um i Yeah, Tim Tams Australian. yeah And they're amazing. I fucking Tim Tams. Yeah. Tim Tam Slam?
00:49:32
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Tim Tam Slam. Tim Tams! Have you done a Tim Tam Slam? No, it's a Tim Tam Slam. So a Tim Tam is, for those who don't know, a Tim Tam is a rectangular little cookie that is wafers on the inside and chocolate. And it's coated in chocolate.
00:49:49
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And so a Tim Tam slam is you get your tea. um bite off a corner, ah one corner on the top and one corner on the bottom of the Tim Tam. Put the Tim Tam in the tea.
00:50:00
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Suck the tea into the Tim Tam and then put the whole thing in your mouth and it just dissolves. It's amazing. Oh God. have to do this. Yeah, yeah, Oh my God. Luckily, Tim Tams are pretty readily available in America. yeah, yeah. um You can get them at um World Market. You can get them at, um we bought some at Marshall's the other day.
00:50:22
Speaker
At Marshall's. Interesting. and No Marshall's had food at all. They had Tim Tams. We were there um just like killing time before i think we were grocery shopping and we were just like, should we go to Marshall's?
00:50:34
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Let's just go to Marshall's. And I needed a new um lunchbox and I got a really cute little case made lunchbox for like $10. It's great. And we were in the food aisle and yeah, there's a food aisle and they had Tim Tams and we're like, oh, we got to get these Tim Tams.
00:50:52
Speaker
fucking love we got him and the girl the checkout was like oh my god you guys like tim tams too absolutely yeah we're international yeah we've been to the land of tim tams very cosmopolitan to like tim tams anyway tim tams not in this movie that's australia not new zealand that's australian yeah two different countries They go on a picnic at the beach and and then they they start kissing and awkwardly and and they run into the water.
00:51:28
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Yeah. And what else do they do at this beach, Katie? Oh, that's right. They found some letters in the wall. In a very not well concealed hole behind a painting. Uh huh.
00:51:38
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Uh huh. um There's a bunch of letters and um from the 19-teens, and they read them at the beach to one another. And it's this World War one woman and her boyfriend in who's in France or whatever. And she's like, mom wants me to marry this preacher, but I'm going to wait for you to come back from the war, et cetera, et cetera. And then it's like the letters end, and we don't know what happened.
00:52:05
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Yeah. It's very much a throwaway. It kind of is. Like, it's... It has... at At the very end, he's like, oh, and I found the records. It's like, they got married.
00:52:17
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Yeah, they got married. It wasn't the woman from the inn. It was just people who stayed there. Like, it's just... Like, I kept waiting for all of these, like, twists and turns to happen. Like, you know, the, the like, people who stayed there or, like, the people who ran the inn to be the the writers of the letters.
00:52:34
Speaker
Or... the for hottie mccott pants australia guy to be the guy who did the um win and end scheme like i kept because we never meet that guy either and i'm like why don't we meet that guy they keep talking about him why don't we meet it um it was very confusing it's uh it's not very well put together um it's not it's not a good movie no no but is it a good time absolutely Here's the thing. I checked letterbox. Because I've seen this movie before.
00:53:03
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I checked my letterbox um for it. Do you have a letterbox you? um Yeah. i can It's a little long. But I'll paraphrase. Let me it. Katie's letterbox corner.
00:53:17
Speaker
So falling in in love, I watched it on November 10th, 2021. Wow. These two are terrible. Oh, one and a half stars.
00:53:28
Speaker
These two are terrible. As in shouldn't be allowed in movies terrible. And the guy isn't even that cute. Really? He's pretty hot. i he hes He's pretty cute. I don't know. to In 2021, Katie wasn't feeling it that much. much However, this movie is actually about someone falling in love with New Zealand, which is extremely easy as it's beautiful and apparently the people there are nice for no reason whatsoever and will do things for free and bend over backward to help you no matter how rude and annoying you are.
00:53:54
Speaker
Yep. That seems pretty par for the course. that's That seems pretty true. I would probably give it two stars now. Yeah. Oh, but a whole half of a star. Yeah. what it Was it Gilbert?
00:54:11
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um No, it wasn't. Although do I do love a goat. um Yeah. tes Just a different mood. You know, it's about. Yeah, I get that. So, yeah, and then he talks about his girlfriend who died and he's and he literally says, i haven't taken a chance on love since.
00:54:28
Speaker
Yep. So we have to assume she died traumatically. Come on. No man has ever said, i've never taken a chance on love since. Not ever. Yeah.
00:54:44
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I mean, I'll tell you what kind of man does. a man written by a woman. Yeah, for sure. um A man written poorly by two women you know in a cocaine-fueled weekend in New Zealand. they had They had 14 hours in New Zealand total in between flights.
00:55:05
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um That actually brings me to the first of Emma's Fun Facts. Emma's Fun Facts. This is the first movie funded by Netflix to be completely shot and filmed in New Zealand.
00:55:18
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. I'm not surprised to hear that. Yeah. sure New Zealand gave them a lot of money for it. Yeah. Obviously. And this is also the maybe the first movie I've ever seen where New Zealand plays a big role and nobody mentions Lord of the Rings. Not one time. Right? Not one time.
00:55:35
Speaker
yeah Oh, no, wait. It does. Because he says, um ah Chad, when Chad FaceTimes her later, he says, your habitat for hobbits. oh i missed that yeah okay fair enough he goes okay yeah yeah whatever are you done with your habitat for hobbits yet and i went well that's a good one yeah so there's a few things pulling her back like the main conflict between them is like whether or not she's gonna stay there because you know he hasn't taken a chance on love not since his girlfriend died his girlfriend traumatically was eaten by a shark
00:56:08
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So, um what if she was eaten by goats? Like, what if Gilbert ate the girlfriend? Right, what if that Gilbert ate the girlfriend? And, like, I was thinking, like, there was so much about this movie that I was like, why does this feel so familiar?
00:56:21
Speaker
And then I realized, oh, yeah, it's like... 85,000 romance paperbacks that I've read. oh big time.
00:56:32
Speaker
Yeah. And then there's one that was really bad that I really didn't like where it ends up the main guy is a serial killer. What? Yeah, it's called You Shouldn't Have Come Here.
00:56:43
Speaker
And um the main guy's a serial killer. And then she ends up, spoilers for you shouldn't have come here. She ends up knowing that he was a serial killer. Like the ending is so bad.
00:56:54
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Like they set it up as this like little rom-com, like between two people and like some weird shit happens, like an Airbnb in the middle of nowhere. And um they like slowly fall in love. She like learns to like do hard work.
00:57:08
Speaker
And, um, they have like a barbecue and you know, it's, it's real cute. They make out or they, they do it under the stars. And, um, then it turns out he was a serial killer the entire time.
00:57:23
Speaker
Does he kill her? He tries to. oh Jesus. But she gets to him first. Oh, okay. Oh, so she kills him. Yeah. yeah So it's not a romance novel.
00:57:34
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No, but it like made itself out to be. And I was just like, oh, because the entire time i was like, what if he was a serial killer? What if this entire town was out to be? cover does not make it look like a romance novel. It looks like a book. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:57:50
Speaker
It absolutely 1000% was. Cover quote from Colleen Hoover saying, Geneva Rose is the queen of twists. The twist wasn't that good. It was a really bad twist.
00:58:02
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Clearly. it was not a good book i did not i did not enjoy the twist like i wanted to throw my i listened to audiobook i wanted to throw my phone against the wall yeah uh not a recommendation for that then um not a recommendation um so what else happens um So yeah, there's two things pulling her. you know, wants her to stay, obviously. They're going 50-50 on the end. I think we skipped over that, where he's joined her. They decide to go 50-50, which is how she gets him to help her for free.
00:58:36
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Yeah. um They... um
00:58:44
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He is a, ah he's a fireman. He's a volunteer fireman, um we should say. um There's this really cute- Everyone in town a volunteer fireman. Yeah. There's this, like, they're out of this benefit or something. There's these little kids doing the haka, which is really cool. Yeah.
00:58:57
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Yeah. um And then and dunk of firemen. And then a a dunk tank. Yeah, this is all before the date, I guess. This is when they're just flirting. They sing When I Dip, You Dip, We Dip in the car. In the free Jeep that she got with the N. She just got a free Jeep with the N as well. She got a Jeep. A free car.
00:59:19
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Both of them know all the words, too. When I Dip, You Dip, We Dip. And he says, this is a happening song, and I like it. Ah! Ha! This was obviously written by some kids.
00:59:31
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um and Yeah. ah She has the fakest sneezes I've ever heard in my life. um She gets sick. call And everybody comes and helps her and he fixes the sink.
00:59:43
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He fixes the sink. Uh yeah yeah yeah so Then cause Charlotte Wants the inn and she's like I always wanted to own My my dream was to own both inns in town Yeah Absurd thing to say Well she says she she wanted her own little empire Get it?
01:00:02
Speaker
Yeah I do get it i do get it um ah Her inn is super creepy and full of dolls Yes And is very retro like Yeah very like tea It's called the Rose and Tea Inn And it's very much like You know the 80s like it it feels very much like something your grandma like the eight it's like the 1880s it's like well like like a grandma in the 80s yeah yeah yeah is what it feels like every Anne of Avonlea yeah yeah it's very like um want to say Lily Pulitzer but like um no it's not Lily Pulitzer the other Vera Bradley maybe maybe yeah it's very Vera Bradley very much it's not it's like it's tacky like it's not like yeah
01:00:47
Speaker
Yeah. You ever been to a suburban tea room that's run by a bunch of little ladies? This is if they had an in. Yes, exactly. Very much so. Yeah. Yeah. And it is filled with creepy dolls. And my first note man, I fucking want a creepy doll room.
01:01:04
Speaker
No, you don't. In my dream home. I will have a creepy doll room. I'm going to take all my dolls from my mom for my mom's house in my basement. They're all still there. That's terrifying. I have a gajillion dolls.
01:01:16
Speaker
A doll basement is super terrifying. Yeah. I'm going to get a bookshelf. I'm going to set them all up on the bookshelf. That's terrifying. I'm going to a little cross on top of the room.
01:01:28
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Just in case. And it'll turn itself upside down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how you know not to go in there. When the cross is a turn in. The cross is turn Don't come learning.
01:01:42
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I don't know.
01:01:44
Speaker
um ah So, yes. And then, but the yeah, so she, so Chad, her old boss has started a new, a new venture and he wants her to come back to San Francisco. And she's like, okay, so we're going to sell the N when we're done. And but then they start falling in love. In, in, in, in love.
01:02:05
Speaker
um They do a classic catch and you fall on top of him, which has to be done in all of these movies. She thinks a snake falls on her, but it's a hose. And he's like, and there's no snakes in New Zealand love.
01:02:17
Speaker
And I said, wait, what? That's what I said. What? Because there's so many snakes in Australia. Because there's no snakes in Ireland, I know. I didn't realize that New Zealand also was snake-free.
01:02:27
Speaker
Maybe small islands just don't get snakes. Yeah. Or, I mean, somebody killed them all at one point and now they're they're not there anymore. Yeah. All right.
01:02:38
Speaker
Then Charlotte steals her phone and texts her ex-boyfriend and tells him to come to New Zealand. Yeah, which is deranged. Charlotte steals her phone because she goes so like get she goes shopping with her best friend from the um the flower store.
01:02:55
Speaker
and Shelly. getting shelly shelly they're getting boots and like the hiking gear what i gotta get she's got to get some new togs because they're gonna go tramping tramping um and ah they go over to look at the sunnies and uh she leaves her phone on the bench number one stupid move uh and uh charlotte grabs it from the rack her phone is not password protected and not even locked it seems too yeah not even locked stupid move number two and uh charlotte texts dean saying uh if you really love me you'd come here and show me you come to new zealand uh and then does not delete the text thread stupid move number three
01:03:44
Speaker
Well, in all movies, text threads don't exist because every time you see someone in a movie text somebody, it's the first time they've ever texted them. Not this one, though. There was like a history. Was there? I wasn't paying that close attention, honestly, I'm going to say.
01:03:58
Speaker
it was like It was like a bunch of texts from Dean being like, I miss you. I need you. Where are you? They were context specific. Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah But like, I really hate that. In so many movies, you'll see somebody like texting their girlfriend or like their best friend or whatever. and it's like, you you see the screen, it's the first text. I'm like, what the fuck are we doing?
01:04:18
Speaker
The art department can't like just put a couple of texts on the screen. Like.
01:04:25
Speaker
um So, yeah, I very rarely you'll see they take the time to do something like that. And it it really makes a big difference to me. And no one else, probably. Absolutely. I mean, that's how you get five stars from Katie.
01:04:37
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. um Yeah. so then they're at then they have a fight yeah about.
01:04:50
Speaker
Cause she gets a call from Chad. Chad. yeah Yeah. Chad gives her a job offer and she goes, I don't know. Let me think about it. And, um, and honey, my hot pants, Australia guy goes, uh, so yeah, you're, you were just, you're always going to leave.
01:05:07
Speaker
You're always going to leave. And she actually has a really solid point. She goes, well, I'm just here on a temporary, a temporary visa. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, i guess I have to.
01:05:17
Speaker
he goes, you were just, you were, what, is this nothing then? Is this nothing? This, we've made out once and we're all left around a beach together and this means nothing?
01:05:29
Speaker
This is why I never thought of giving love a second chance. Yeah, exactly. um ah And then they kind of break up, but continue renovating the inn in silence.
01:05:42
Speaker
Yep, in silence. Very awkward. awkward um And then there's an open house and yeah ah Dean shows up at the open house and he has arranged a buyer from a corporation in Australia who wants to buy the inn.
01:06:00
Speaker
And Charlotte realizes that she has caused this disaster. Yeah. Charlotte created the problem. And Charlotte's like, oh, fuck. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They they go on the tour of the inn all this kind of like so There's a... The solar panel like that powers the end.
01:06:21
Speaker
like yeah know the size of an umbrella or something it's like not in a million years would that solar panel power that in it's a sunflower and it's cute and whatever and it's like it's so small and it like blooms is that the thing like it blooms or it like moves it's supposed to turn toward the sun as the sun moves that's the idea that's not how solar panels work it hideous Yeah, it is it is a ugly, and B, far too small to power that, that yeah and especially with all the the like stuff that they've got going on in there.
01:07:00
Speaker
Yeah. um It's ridiculous. I once knew a guy whose house ran on solar panel panels. um This guy, an actor, and he had a cast party at his house one time. Oh, nice.
01:07:11
Speaker
There were solar panels everywhere. Yeah. there yeah Covered the seat, the the roof in the backyard. They were like in a big like ring around the backyard. So it takes so many solar panels to power. So many, so many.
01:07:25
Speaker
um i would love to have a solar powered house or at least partially solar powered. um My brother-in-law's house is, he has a couple solar panels. And so like part, his energy is like partially yeah um done but it's like not fully done and that's like one whole side of his house yeah just for partially solar panel done yeah Yeah. um So that's absurd.
01:07:51
Speaker
um Yeah. But it's ah it's a, chair I mean, I guess we're supposed to think she's a good person because she cares so much about like eco-friendly houses. I guess it's just like this little thing that doesn't really have anything to do with anything in the movie. And then the Auckland buyer lady gets hung up on the fact that there's no TVs in any of the rooms. Melbourne. She's from Australia, not New Zealand.
01:08:09
Speaker
Oh, sorry. Melbourne. Which is like part of the thing. Like, you know, you don't let Australia come in here and take our stuff, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But she's why there no TVs?
01:08:21
Speaker
I don't know. That sounded Southern. Ignore me. um Yeah, there's no TVs. and shes And they're like, oh, well, we'll give every guest an iPad if they want to watch streaming. That's like, how? That's not a TV.
01:08:32
Speaker
That's, well, secondly, like, that's, I don't know. It's just a. And like, how do you afford that many iPads? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I guess there's not that many rooms, but still. But also you have to charge those iPads. So how is that more energy efficient than TV?
01:08:46
Speaker
Exactly. It's not. um ah Dean, the boy, the ex-boyfriend is acting like they didn't break up for months in her live in New Zealand, which is crazy. um She tells, she breaks up with him. She goes, I think you're a good person. It's like, he's not a good person. Like that's not the whole, he sucks.
01:09:04
Speaker
Just like, let, let, let it be. Let it be. They start to talk about it. Like they keep getting interrupted. Right. um And he's like, okay, fine. We'll sell. And they agree to sell to the the lady. Yeah. um And then he's, Shelly gives him the go get your girl speech. And he's like, yeah, okay, you're right. I got to tell her how I feel.
01:09:27
Speaker
But then fire breaks out at Charlotte's Inn. no. We got to bring back the fact that everyone's a volunteer fireman. Yeah. And ah Charlotte goes crazy and i runs inside to grab her. Everyone runs into the burning in.
01:09:46
Speaker
He runs in to save the the old man who sleeps all the time. Yeah. Who sleeps while smoking, which why this fire was started. Yeah. Charlotte runs in to get her dolls and, um and fucking Gabriela runs in after Charlotte. It's ridiculous.
01:10:01
Speaker
Yeah. And ands there's an explosion from the second floor because, you know, oxygen and fire and glass. um you You learn that in every fire safety class in school.
01:10:13
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um And ah you think you actually don't even get the chance to think, oh, man, sexy McSexy Pants might have died. You immediately are relieved as he's walking out with the old man over his shoulder. And you're like, OK, well, then why did we have that explosion?
01:10:32
Speaker
Trauma, baby. um The next day they're at the- But also, she could have lost him. Of course, of course. And also like he has to be like brave and hot.
01:10:44
Speaker
Yeah. um So the next day they're at the bank and Charlotte rushes in and stops them from selling. And and um she admits what she did. And Gabriella doesn't slap her, which is crazy. yeah ah um We're still friends.
01:11:00
Speaker
and She's like, ah let me buy the N with the insurance money. And Gabriella's like, no, you don't get the Relax. Relax. But she's like, I'm going to keep the inn and hopefully like we can run the inn together. And he's like, okay, fine.
01:11:17
Speaker
um And then he meets her at the inn and bring find tells her that the the soldier miraculously survived the war and it was just two random people that have nothing to do with anything. Nothing to do with this.
01:11:30
Speaker
And he writes her a letter saying he wants to to run the inn with her. And she's like, like romance style? And he's like, yeah, romance style. And then they have the most awkward, longest kissing scene. Yeah. And zoom out. And that's it. Yeah. And that's it. And you don't find out any details about like visas or, you know, how is this going to work financially? Nah, girl. They have get married.
01:11:54
Speaker
I guess so. um Because he finally gave love a second chance. He finally gave love a second chance, which was the original title of this movie. And they decided it was not punchy enough. In the sequel, it's going to falling in and love to
01:12:12
Speaker
um Australia McHotty Pants strikes again. um yeah. So she's going to be the girlfriend that's dead. Another girl's going to come town. All his girlfriends die. He's a serial killer is what happens. Yeah.
01:12:26
Speaker
She was right not to trust him in the beginning. Right? was the way he mansplained. Yeah. Gilbert has a girlfriend, you can tell, because it's a wild goat with a pink ribbon. I don't know where where the goat got the pink ribbon. We gendered the goats!
01:12:40
Speaker
Do you think that originally they just had a goat there and they're like, no people are going to think the goat's gay, so we need to make sure the goat has a pink ribbon so we know but Gilbert is a straight, red-blooded New Zealand goat.
Diversity and Representation in Film
01:12:56
Speaker
But this is also a movie that one of the main first characters that you meet is a um ah ah gay couple running a coffee shop. I know, but you're only allowed to have one. Like, come on. Oh, that's true. And then you have a um an actor with Down syndrome in the hardware store. yeah And so you're like, obviously, this is woke Netflix.
01:13:19
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Making sure we check all of our boxes here. um None of them are any of the leads. They're just, they're a set dressing. No, yeah. Nobody knows the names of their characters or anything. Yeah, exactly.
01:13:33
Speaker
So don't ask questions. um Yeah. And that is falling in love. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So ah that brings us to Charlie's Corner.
01:13:44
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Charlie's Corner. Charlie's Corner. Oi, govda. Yeah.
01:13:52
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Charlie had one corner, which was, there is a scene where Christina Milian takes a machete and she is first determined to spoof up this inn.
01:14:05
Speaker
Oh, that's right. Yeah. And she makes a Princess Bride reference to bunch of grass, assume. Because it's one of the greatest movies ever made and everyone references it all the time. And it's very quotable line of, my name is Gabriela.
01:14:18
Speaker
I forget her last name. D.S. My father prepared to die. And um Charlie then turned to me and he went, of course, in this bad rom-com, they have to reference another bad rom-com.
01:14:32
Speaker
And I went. Disgusting. Like. absolutely disgusting that's going and i would have gotten up and left the room you i would have gotten up left the room called my lawyer sent over divorce paperwork exactly exactly oh my god that's so annoying um ah i hate that i hate that for you Thank you.
01:14:58
Speaker
I figure that at least every now and again, we all need to remind the listeners that Charlie doesn't have all good qualities. and Charlie has bad taste. He hates the Princess Bride.
01:15:09
Speaker
Except for Emma. Yeah, except for me. Except for me. was going to say, what?
01:15:16
Speaker
He hates the Princess Bride. Like an insane person. it's It's an insane opinion to have. It's a it's just ah completely um ah wrong. It's an incorrect opinion. yeah yeah I'm sure i he said other things. I did not take note of them. I ignored them because that was the only thing of note.
01:15:32
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. i mean, nothing he says has any um weight after that. so Exactly. exactly So what are we doing next week, Katie?
Lindsay Lohan's Career Resurgence
01:15:42
Speaker
Next week, um it it's summertime, and we are going to go to camp and meet our identical law-in-law sister.
01:15:52
Speaker
We are watching The Parent Trap. Fuck yeah! With Lindsay Lohan. Lindsay Lohan! Oh my god, have you seen the Old Navy ah commercial with Lindsay Lohan, the new one?
01:16:04
Speaker
Oh my god. She looks so fucking good. I've organized life in a way that I don't have to watch commercials. Oh, that's actually, that's really nice. Well, um there's a new commercial with Charo and Lindsay Lohan.
01:16:19
Speaker
sure. Okay. And um Lindsay Lohan has never looked better. Like, i looked at her and I was like, she looks fucking like fire. Like, she looks better than she did when she was like 18.
01:16:33
Speaker
I'm so happy for her because there was a, there was a, ah I think she's gotten some like some filler dissolved and and she's like taking it back a bit and like, yeah, yeah. She's got a big new movie coming out this summer. sequel Freaky Friday.
01:16:47
Speaker
so excited. Like in theaters. So I am, I'm here for the Lindsay Lohan-a-zonts. um Yeah. I hope it works out for her. Lohan's back, baby. Yeah. Yeah.
Closing Remarks and Call to Action
01:16:59
Speaker
So shall we outro? Let's outro. Let's outro. Summer and the mood is sexy. That's what I was thinking as you were saying it's summertime. It's like summer.
01:17:13
Speaker
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01:17:27
Speaker
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01:17:40
Speaker
And me at katieofthelake. Until next time, we're just two girls standing in front of the internet asking it to love us. Good night.