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Mama Mia
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It's a Mama Mia! My my, Emma and Katie could not forget this one! Tune in as they dive into the feel good 2008 film. They chat musicals, ABBA and of course Meryl sprinting up a mountain.
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The Air Conditioner Saga
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hi katie hi
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I know, right? A nice gentle hello. Are you surviving the heat? Yeah, it's been better. We finally got, we had a whole air conditioner saga where, I mean, I know I told you this, but I should tell the, our many listeners, I suppose. Our many listeners. But, so Caitlin was at home and I was at work and it was very hot. It was like 96 degrees. And she said that the air conditioner had blown the the fuse, like the circuit breaker in the apartment. And she had had to go down there and flip it once before, which had happened to me last summer when it hit like 105. I don't know if you remember that terrible day. Which makes sense. Yeah, these buildings are all work. Yeah, they're window units. These air conditioners, yeah. And so um she said that it had flipped again, but she was just going to go into the bedroom where we have another window unit. And because I was on my way home and she was like, can you just go through the the basement when you come up and flip the switch?
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Yeah. And I was like, sure. And when I came home, I went into the the basement and looked at the circuit breaker and the circuit breaker hadn't flipped. And so I went ahead and flipped them down, turned everything off and then turned everything back on and then came up and the air conditioner wasn't working. The lights were on. And I went and inspected it and the plug And the extension cord had melted together and was charred and the plastic had melted. And so I think what had happened was that it had blown the the the because, you know, like air conditioner, this air conditioner is kind of like a hairdryer where it's got that big thing on it, where it's got the buttons where you can reset it. It's got like a little surge protector built into the plug. Yeah, yeah.
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So what I think happened was that it had blown that and it like overloaded. And that's why it it it totally broke. The air conditioner broke, basically, on Monday. saying I think it's so lucky that your apartment did not catch on fire. Yes, I know, especially because like where the plug because you know we're irresponsible where the plug was meet met, the extension cord was just sitting on a big pile of blankets that are in the big basket behind our couch. And Caitlin was asleep right next to it. This is the other room. No, right next to it. Right next to it. On the couch, directly next to it. Because she woke up hot. The air conditioner had shut off. Thought the circuit breaker had blown. Didn't want to go down to the basement. Just went into the bedroom. But I checked the blanket. Nothing is scorched or anything. It just
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I think it just got probably just got really hot and yeah melted that plastic and then it died. It's what must have happened, because I think that if there had actually been sparks, it would have caught the blanket on the fire. Yeah. Oh, my God. So I was ah very upset when I got home because she could have died. And it's is so, so hot. And it was humid, too. And the air conditioner in the bedroom is working really hard and like we're hoping that is a blowout. And we're like online trying to buy new air conditioners. They're like $500. They're so expensive. Well, and I'm sure they're more expensive now than if we bought one in December or something. you know Well, yeah. During a heat wave, of course, yeah everyone's just like, jack up those prices. And nobody's got anything in stock. So like we can't go anywhere to pick it up. And it has to be delivered. And so we finally order one. And it's like, it'll be delivered on Thursday. So that's three days without air conditioning.
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Which we survived, we realized that we're very soft. Yeah. Anyway, so it starts to dawn on me that she could have died and I'm crying, clutching her, being like, oh, you could have died. And she's like, it's too hot, it's too hot. It's too hot. It's too hot for you to be on me right now. I cannot handle this hug. Yes, yes. Can we do a distance tug, a distance love? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is, I don't even make it anyway because she's always hot and I'm always cold. Yeah. But I was not cold with the air conditioner out.
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And honestly, like the next day was still pretty was still pretty hot. It was still in the 90s. But after that, it had it wasn't it wasn't all that bad. And luckily, we had some um we had some boys come over and and help us install that. Well, I was in Cassie one day, because I can't lift anything yeah um because of ah surgery. yeah and um And they're very heavy. And it they had yeah they just dropped it off in the in the lobby. And so our friend Cassie came over when I was at work one day and helped Caitlin bring it up the stairs. her And then on Saturday, we had some some guys that Caitlin works with come over and and take the old one out and put the new one in and hook it up and everything. Oh, that's nice. That's nice. We survived. But the the funny thing was I was texting you this. I was like, I don't think I can record. Can we just push it next week? It's going to be too hot. And it'll be too because it'll be too loud in the bedroom because the air conditioner will be right there. Yeah, yeah.
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and it'll be too hot in the dining room without an air conditioner. And you're like, oh yeah, we haven't had air conditioner in on our house this whole time. I'm like, oh well. We still don't. We went we made it. But I mean, like, it's also because like I remember Chicago summers, Chicago summers because it's just like it's so humid. It's so sticky. And it's not as humid here in the woods of Connecticut. Like also we're like kind of in a valley. Our house is like in a valley. So we get this like really nice breeze um coming through the bedroom and because we've got like windows on like every wall in every room.
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So it hasn't been a problem, like it was uncomfortable a little bit for um like a couple days last week, but like we were just sat with our fans and um my little ice face roller and I just took a bunch of cold showers and it was totally fine. Yeah, I mean like yeah you have fans too, which we don't yeah because we got rid of them because they're big and we don't have room for them and we got air conditioners. So that's that's what so what's the point. Caitlin and I both went to college. We both went to a very old school in terms of like physically old buildings. And like um I lived in the dorms for three years. And um I didn't have air conditioning any of the in any of those dorms. Until I moved out into an apartment my senior year, and I didn't have air conditioning. And we had fans. you know We had the thing where we had like one fan blowing out and one fan blowing in. Yeah. Yeah.
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That's what we've positioned the fan to blow out of the window facing um outwards so that when the cold air comes in from the other window, it's like a natural AC, yeah which is really great. It's really, really great. Cross breeze, they call it. Yes, a cross breeze. Boy, oh, boy. Anyway, it's summer. Yeah, summer! It'll still be summer when this comes out.
Introducing the Podcast and Mamma Mia Discussion
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It'll probably be August by the time this comes out, although it's June now. Summer! What are we? Who are you? Yeah. um So yeah, you guessed it, guys. This is Go Get Your Girl. This is the podcast where Emma and Katie don't know who their dad is. And so they send out three wedding invitations ah from their mother to
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invite their potential fathers, and just see who they are all while singing and dancing. That's right, guys. We're talking in Greece, and in Why does that sound Irish? Calcakari. Calcari. Calcari. That's right, guys. If you recognize that name. Or the title on your podcast app. we're talking about mama mia here i go like nope actually just the first one mama mia
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and And yes, ah maybe the greatest movie ever made. I don't know. It's hard to say. It's one of those things where like, you cannot watch this movie and not be in a good mood at the end of it, I think, right? This movie is so fucking joyful. And especially, especially at the end goes out on such a high, like it's one of those things where where you're like, God, well, have we done better than this? ah Does it get better than Mamma Mia! the musical? This is the peak of cinema right here. Mamma Mia! Queen Meryl Streep turns to the screen and says, you want another one? Should we do another one? Yes! Standing up and cheering, hooting and hollering. That is both cinema and theater.
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Yep. At the same time, it's yeah fucking incredible. Yep, yep, yep, yep. I, like many folks, was under the impression um because everyone in this movie, it looks like they're just having the best time. How could you not? The best time. How could you not? You're with a bunch of A-list superstars singing and dancing and everyone's being insane on a- In Greece? In Greece. You're just doing silliness? Like you're just having fun? Just silly. It's just silly. You dancing around and throwing on costumes? And running it around so and just like jumping up and down on a bed so it'll be in slo-mo. Yeah. And if Meryl's into it, we're all into it. Yeah.
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And she is fucking into it. Way into it.
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um ah Yeah, no, ah everyone was having a whale of a time in this movie and you can tell there was some sort of internet rumor, I think during COVID or maybe it was a little bit before that, that was going around that I was convinced that everyone was drunk while making this movie. Because there's like some footage of them just like, just drinking all day and all night. likeably Yeah. um And Christine Bracad- Bracad- Brappa? That's what they drink in Greece, right? Yeah. I mean, they're just drinking fruity rum drinks the entire time. That's true. Yeah, Christine Baranski in her hand. Yes.
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I love her so much. She was actually asked about this in an interview. And so I guess we'll start off with Emma's Fun Facts, Emma's Fun Facts via Charles. Oh. Because I told him this, and then he immediately had to go on an internet deep dive to correct me. Oh, great. Yeah. We love Charlie's corrections. Right. Charlie's corrections.
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It gets a sad theme song. Yeah, like, mwah, mwah, mwah. Mwah, mwah, mwah. Because that's what I hear when he tells me a correction.
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um He he ah deep dot dove and found an interview with Christine, and she is quoted as saying that they were not drunk during during filming. However, they partied all night after filming. And there's one scene in particular that they were all horrifically hung over at when performing, which is the final scene of the film that I have a dream. And I think it's very ironic. maybe on purpose, that they are all shot in shadow. hu yeah You can't see anybody's face. You can only see silhouettes.
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um Yeah, that makes sense. I'm glad to know that they they actually had fun. I was worried you were going to hit me with a like, no, they all hated each other. They hated this. No, no, no. They they they loved each other and they had a whale of a time filming, but they were never drunk while working. They would only do it afterwards, which is like we would we would expect no less from Meryl Streep and. Yes. and and Christine Bransky at out. Julie Walters. Yeah. um My God. Pierce Brosnan. Colin Firth. Bill Skarsgard. The whole cast, really. Yeah. Minnesota Fried. The um anonymous girls who are her bridesmaids. Yes. Who have never been in anything before or since.
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or before since and as well as everyone in the chorus. um i I have a feeling that everyone that was cast in this chorus is a you know how sometimes they have those lifers who are just like do one show for the rest of their life. You know, yeah like the girls and cats. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like that's what this chorus is. They only ever are the chorus for Mamma Mia. Well, I mean like that makes sense. I mean, one thing I do love about this is that it has a chorus because a really distressing trend in making movies out of musicals is cutting the chorus.
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Yeah, don't do it. Which is so annoying, like Sweeney Todd. They did it in into the woods. They do it. They do it all the time. My biggest beef. My biggest beef. Emma's about to get on a pestle. My biggest beef with Sweeney Todd, the movie. That was teenage Emma's like wet dream. It was Sondheim. It was Tim Burton. It was Helena Bonham Carter. It was Emo. It was Jack Sparrow himself, Johnny Depp. All the things that Emma was obsessed with and super excited about. The movie comes out and they cut the fucking opening song, man.
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Arguably the best song in at least the most well-known song from Sweeney Todd is, Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd. And they cut it out. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Yeah, I would have said not on board. I hate that movie so much. I hate that movie. It is one of the worst film adaptations of a musical of all time. Yeah, agreed. Shame on you, Tim Burton. Yeah, honestly, i mean like Tim Burton hasn't made a good movie in 30 years, I wanna say. Yeah, well, we'll see with Beetlejuice 2. Yeah, you mean Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice?
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Which, for the thing, like, the titles of movies this summer, like, they're doing pretty great. Between Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Twisters. I knew you were gonna bring up Twisters! 100% down. Like, sign me up. Could we qualify the original Twister as a rom-com? Here's the thing, Emma, we could do whatever the fuck we want. ah Because you think it's funny. There's a love story. There's a cow in it. There's a cow. There's a Wizard of Oz. Bless you. Bless you. Sneezing with the nose ring is a bit of an adventure, but it'll die down. Yeah, you'll get used to it.
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ah
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But yeah, Mamma Mia! Based on the- A 2008 film. Yes. Directed by Felida Lloyd. Sure. Who is a very well-respected British theater director who directed the original Weston production of Mamma Mia. And they're like, yep. Why not just get her to do it? And like, yeah. Thank God. Why not just get her to do it? Exactly. That is- Sometimes theater directors aren't film directors. Sure. That makes sense. But in many cases, sometimes like, Oh my God, the producers movie directed by Susan Stroman. yeah Huge disaster. Yeah. like Yeah.
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um Sometimes those things are, like the producers, for example, is a little too close and a little too big yeah to to make it into a movie that way. You had to tone it, we had to tone it down and they did not tone it down. No, it feels very plastic and shiny. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. um But Felida or Felida Lloyd did a great job. um She does not, she's not directed many movies, but she does a lot of British theater and she was fantastic. And also the screenplays by Katherine Johnson, who wrote the play. Amazing. Sometimes you can just be simple. Yeah, just take the people that made it and have them transpose it for a film. Just do that. I think that some of yeah, some of the best film directors, in my opinion, are ones that can jump between that do both
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film and occasionally direct stage shows because I think that they just they have a really good, I don't know, I just really enjoy them. But yeah, I think that um this movie is super fun. What's your history with Mamma Mia? Um, I, I don't think I saw it in theaters. Uh, I think that I saw it. Um, I must've seen it on DVD later, but it was one of the, it's like, it's like, uh, it's, it's such a good hangout movie. It's such a good, like girls night movie. It's such a, like, again, it's the, it's one of the most fun movies ever made.
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Yeah, feel like you can classify this movie as one of multiple different films, like in genres, like it is a musical. It is a rom com. It is a Mother's Day film. It is. It is a Father's Day film.
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It is a summer movie. It is also a February movie when you're in the dregs of February and you just want to see something warm.
Theater Experiences and Critiques
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um It is a I'm on my period and I just want to cry at something movie. It is all sorts of things, all sorts of genres. ah It is a movie for all people. As my high school theater director used to say, you'll laugh, you'll cry. It's better than cats. Yeah. Yeah. That is so true. which he of course is referring to the play cats, but I think this is also better than the movie cats, which I've never seen. Oh my gosh. I know, I know. It's a trip. A bunch of friends like planned, we planned a whole thing to watch it after like once lockdown was kind of over and then I had, I wasn't able to, I had to go to work and I couldn't make it, but they had a great time.
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Yeah, I mean, i went it was one of the last thing i things I saw in theaters before COVID. Oh, really? Yeah, I mean, that was it that was it for a lot of people, I think, yeah because it was right there, yeah. ah Cats happened, and then the world was like, no, let's shut down. yeah Absolutely not. We need a break. We need a break. And I was completely stone cold sober when I saw Cats in theaters, and I felt like I was on all the drugs in the world. That makes sense, yeah. Yep, yep, yep. But yeah, I too did not see Mamma Mia in theaters. I believe I saw it. I actually cannot remember the first time that I saw this movie. This is just one of those movies that has always been in my wheelhouse, in my cannon. I have just always known it.
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ah As it has known me. show I actually haven't. I was telling Charlie this. There's a production in London that I desperately want to see. You've probably seen it on the Internet. It's the like super immersive 360 in the round. They've recreated this. No way. This it's like a two story like building with a stage in the center, like a Shakespeare's Globe type situation. And it's a super immersive. basically dinner theater because you get dinner. and do you get it Did you get to eat? yeah to eat the and they Yeah. And they dance on your tables and love Greek food. Right. And it's just like it's it looks so much fun. um But it's like I looked at the tickets for the last time that we were in London and it's like over 100 pounds a ticket. And I was like,
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Yeah, but that's dinner and a show, Emma. Exactly. I know. I know. That's why I didn't think that we could budget it that time. So next time. Dua. You should Dua. Yeah, I know. I should Dua. Because it's the memories, Katie. The memories. Yeah, exactly. I have never regretted going to see a play, honestly, ever. Really? I mean, yeah. Because the thing is like. Really, Katie? Ever? Yeah, here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. because seeing a bad play inspires me to make a good play. ok And seeing a good play inspires me to also make a good play. okay It's this thing that I that i like to like to tell people, like when I used to direct plays, I would tell people like theater is not in competition with each other. Like yeah if someone goes to see a play and it's good, they'll want to go see another play and that's helpful for everyone. So yeah two plays running at the same time are not really in competition. They're only in competition against
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you know, staying home. Yeah, yeah, which I mean, that's that's a hard time. Especially when you see a bad one. I've seen plenty of plays that I have regretted seeing. I've walked out an intermission in some place, so I suppose it's hard to say that I don't. You and I almost both walked out had we not been with some of my other friends and had gotten tickets for free. Oh god, that was awful. Yeah, yeah. And the guy named me thinking it was the best thing he'd ever seen in his life. Oh yeah, it was. I felt like I had taken crazy pills and we will strategically not say the name of the play, but the listeners can guess. It was within the last five years.
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Yeah. um But yeah, it I was that was the first time I think ever that I was tempted to leave it intermission. Oh, yeah. um I left I've left college productions. I've never left. and No, that's not true. I have. So when I went to undergrad, we were like there was like a conservatory system with the local like big Lort theater. And so we got we got we went to see like everything they did and they ran They ran four shows all the time. They ran two shows in rep on each stage constantly. So we saw literally everything. yeah And they did a lot of shit. They did a lot of just garbage. um I mean, it was in the South. And so the I think the artistic director, who is like, I think he was originally a New York guy, just had a lot of contempt for his audience because they would do a bunch of.
00:22:37
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just true garbage that I think he thought, he's like, Oh, Christmas Carol, set it in the south. Frankenstein said it in the south. Dracula said it in the south. And I mean, some of the worst, some of the worst things I've ever seen on stage I've seen, but like But the actors were all good. you know yeah The production value was generally high. I mean, there were some actors who were you know not as good as others. It was a rep company. So you they would yeah there would be a bunch of people who were in the same stuff all the time. And some of those people are angels, and I love them. and some of the But a lot of the plays that they did there were trash. So I've seen a lot of this that stuff. I think we did. we had We had walked out on some of those shows before yeah because it's just too painful.
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Just two people. I remember, I mean, I think that probably one of the worst things I've ever seen on stage was when I was in high school. But at the time, I tried to convince myself it was good because all the performers were really good in it. And it was a high school production of Peter Pan. um that they ah It was like 2006, I want to say. two thousand and Yeah, so like Wicked hat was still really hot. And basically, they had all the Lost Boys be punk, and they had them like skateboard. And I was like, cool, that's great. Well, that's Hook. Like in Hook, yeah. Yeah, that this fits. It's not original, but whatever. They had Tinkerbell be like a super super goth scene girl with like you know all the like the glow wig and stuff. and But that's not where things got questionable. Things got questionable when they had Tiger Lily break out. It always does.
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and sing I'm Not That Girl from Wicked oh in the show about Peter and Wendy. And so that's when I was like, maybe I just don't get it. But that's just. That's just how I've always been with like bad movies and stuff until I i like went to school and learned that things can be bad. Things can be very bad. And you cannot like things. And you can learn to be to not like things. Just because somebody else is doing it, you cannot like it. Yeah. that's yeah You were such a kind person. I was!
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I get that though. I mean, there's a certain point where you realize, oh, things can be bad. Things can be bad. Just because something was made professionally doesn't mean that it's good. Exactly. Just because they spent $100 million on this movie doesn't mean that it's good. And that's like, there's an awakening for everybody, I think, at a certain point. I don't remember the first time I saw a movie that I hated, but I do remember the first time that my nephew saw a movie that he didn't like. and Disclosure, my sisters are 20 years older than me. So I was committing myself. But my nephew was like four, I think, when we took him to see the Polar Express. And we walked out and he was like, I did not like that. I was like, I know.
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I know me either. Yeah, it was scary and weird. Yeah. Why did they do that? Just keep it a book. Nobody knows. Why didn couldn't they just do normal animation? Yeah, they could have done they could have done it live action. They could have done it normal animation. They could have not made the movie at all. And instead, they chose to do this. Basically, it was shot live action with the little dots on everyone's faces. Exactly. Exactly. So fucking dumb. And that guy
Diving into Mamma Mia
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proceeded to do that like three more times. Yeah, why? Why?
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ah Anyways, Polar Express famously featured in today's film Mamma Mia. Take us on the journey of Mamma Mia. Where do we start? Oh, my god. We start um with Amanda Seyfried in her first big movie, really, which I knew her, of course, from Veronica Mars. Yep. Never beep. She is the dead girl in Veronica Mars. She's Lily. Lily Kane, yeah. Yep. And but yeah, this was I think this is probably the first thing that people saw her in generally because she's pretty young. Yeah, she's so young in this. Yeah. And she is arriving in Greece. Where was it? No, no, she's she lives there. No, she goes to the main island.
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Yo, yeah, yeah, she went to the main island to meet her to meet her friend. Oh yeah, to mail the letters. To mail the letters. Yeah, yeah. um No, she goes to the main island to mail her letters. I think then she goes back and her friends arrive on the tiny island. Oh, that's right, that's right. Yeah, because she's getting there and they're also getting there, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Well, no, that can't be right because it's the next day.
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I think the bit with her mailing about the letters is like a prologue because she's singing the I had a dream bit at the beginning. And then there's a shot. That must have been like a month ago, at least, or longer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a pro regardless. It's just a shot of a man is singing I had a dream mailing some letters. And then we heard we got hung up in the first 10 seconds of this. I do have a question that I'm also very hung up on. um And I know it doesn't matter. But um, how, how is a man aside freed American?
00:28:10
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Like I get it, Dawn is American, but don that makes sense. And like when we do Mamma Mia 2, here we go again, we get a little bit more of her backstory um as well as some holes because I was paying attention to every time they talked about her mom and every time they talked about her past. And I was like, this is not. timeline wise. I mean, the timeline is very weird. Here's the thing, you have to understand that this musical came out in 1999. And it's very much set in 1999. Yeah, like this is a period piece. Because it's supposed to be 20 years ago. And it's very clearly the 70s. Yeah, very clear the 70s. It's not the 80s at all.
00:28:52
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No, no, it's not because the movie came out in 2008. But it's still set in 1999. And also the ages of the people don't make sense because Meryl Streep is 60 years old in this movie. And 20 years ago, she would have been 40. And that's not how the timeline of the movie goes. Right. And they keep talking about how like, her and the other dynamos are old enough to be people's grandmothers. And I'm just like, but we What? Hold on. No, they're not. They're supposed to be. okay So listen, listen, I really appreciate this movie making a space to star three or six really actors yeah in their 50s and 60s like those. Yeah. Of these, these seven main characters, six of them are 55 or older. Love that.
00:29:41
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um which is great. You don't get that opportunity in movies very often, but the characters, and I haven't seen the stage shows, so I don't know if they genuinely generally cast younger people. I assume they must. I mean, she's she's she's supposed to be like 41, right? because she's supposed to be yeah She was supposed to be like 20 or 21 when she got pregnant. She was supposed to be like 20, and it's 20 years later. Yeah. She's supposed to be 40, and Meryl Streep is 60, which again, that's fine, but the timeline doesn't make sense. And when they make the sequel, it, it breaks down a little bit because now she's Lily James. And it's very confusing. It's very confusing. It's Lily James who just graduated college. So you'd be 22. Yeah. go Cause it's British college. So it'd be three years. So you'd be 21. Yeah.
00:30:32
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So yeah, so that makes sense. Like at least in the general timeline-ness, but not- College is only three years. Yeah. Unless you end up doing like a master's or something. Like three years. They believe that you should go into the workforce and like do stuff and not waste your time on student debt. Gross. Yep. I would have gone to college forever if they'd let me. I know me too.
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But yes, so the first scene of the movie, yeah she's greeting her friends. And secondly, like why don't I have friends like this? I know! She has two girls, and Meryl Streep also has two girls, and both sets of these friends have ah scripted little bits they do when they see each other. I love it. Does that mean that we should come up with like ah like you know a parent trap type handshake? Yeah, yeah, we need a little dance to do the next time we see each other in person. Yeah, yeah we'll work on it. well work We'll think of like, what are the things that we like? Yeah, we have to see each other from 100 yards away, scream at the top of our lungs. And then go, rom-com, smut, mummy. Theater. Theater, go Katie and Emma.
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1,000%, 1,000%. I forgot to include Taylor Swift in that. Oh, well, whatever. Oh, yeah. yeah Well, we'll workshop it. Yeah, before we premier it to our friends. Yeah, yeah. um Her friends who are have ah no character whatsoever, as opposed to to Meryl Streep's friends who have a lot of character. Oh, yeah. Because they're our B and C plot. Yes, show up ah for the wedding. And she explains to them what she's done, which is insane. It's an insane thing to do. It is. It's an insane thing. To which I said to Charlie, this is my first note is this is a terrible idea. And he goes, well, is it? There's a yes. Oh my god. Well, first of all, they they in the real world, they never would have come in a million years. Exactly. They would be like, this is insane. um Had Charlie seen it before? charlie So I had forced Charlie to see it. um
00:32:58
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probably like a year ago, I wanna say. ah and And yeah, when we get to Charlie's Corner, we'll well we'll get his full review. But let's just all remember, Charlie comes from the land of England. And in the land of England, for some reason, a part of their DNA is to love tea, love the Beatles, and fucking know every single ABBA song ever invented. really interesting, did not know that. Cause here's the thing, like I don't, I do not like ABBA in general. I like, I like this musical a lot, but listening to, it's like the the Drake meme, you know, where like, yeah. No, Mama Mia's musical. Hell yeah.
00:33:49
Speaker
um And so partially like I mean, there's some songs like I mean like nobody's nobody doesn't like take a chance on me or Dancing queen or something. Yeah, but some of the but most of the other songs in this like, you know, it' it's all very samey to me I'm just not a huge fan. All right, that's fair. That's what it works in your opinion. Oh my god.
00:34:12
Speaker
I just love Mama Mia. I love Abba, and I love Mamma Mia, and I don't know why. I just have always loved, like, maybe it came from, like, growing up with Ateens. Did you remember the Ateens? Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah. And they, like, brought Abba back to a whole new generation. Ours. They did. The Ateens. I can tell you, I forgot about the Ateens until this very second, but I do remember the Ateens. Oh, Charlie and I have definitely spent an evening watching music videos of the Ateens and him because they were way bigger in England because they were British, a which is another evidence that everyone in England loves ABBA. They made a teen supergroup cover band that like hit the top 100 in the 90s.
00:34:58
Speaker
Wow. I didn't realize that they were that popular. um Yeah. Yeah. See, I know that and I know that they covered can't help falling in love in the movie, Lilo and Stitch.
00:35:12
Speaker
ah Yeah, they they I don't think they had any original songs. I could be wrong, but all I remember them for is like Dancing Queen. I mean, yeah, it looks like, yeah, it says they started as an ABBA cover band and then they just became the most popular ABBA cover, the most popular cover band in history. Yeah. Good for them. Good for them. Glad that, you know, they they they kept with their roots. Yeah, now that they're the the A 50 year olds.
00:35:41
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Exactly. um I do have to say ah the first song that we get that's not I had a dream, which is Honey, Honey.
Plot and Character Analysis
00:35:55
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She's singing about her mom banging a bunch of dudes and she's excited about it. Yeah, which is weird. um
00:36:07
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So the plot of this movie, in case anyone is listening to this podcast, hasn't seen, is not familiar with the plot of this movie, which we haven't mentioned. We just said she did an insane thing and we don't mention what it, we didn't say what it was. No, I sing it. I sing it. What did you sing? Oh yeah, oh yeah, right, right, right, right, right, right, yeah. So she doesn't know who her dad is. She has grown up on this beautiful island of Kalakari. Kalakari. Yeah. I don't remember how to say it. I wrote it down, but that doesn't help me. um
00:36:50
Speaker
And with her mom, her mom owns a an inn in the most beautiful hip ah place in the world. which i have Have you been to Greece? I have. um i I went to Greece in high school and we did like a Greece in Turkey and um it was my first long time yeah ah was my first only time like on a cruise boat, which wasn't really a cruise boat because we went from Athens And we went to like all the different islands, like Santorini and all that. With your family? Well, I think my dad was there as a chaperone. No, my dad went to China. Yeah, it was for school. It was a school trip. Your school went to Greece? Yeah, because it's where Jesus was.
00:37:36
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Oh, one of those. Well, it was with my choir, but because I went to a super Christian Texas school, it was always about Jesus. um and And in Turkey, we went on like this walk and we went to the cave where the guy wrote revelations, supposedly. Sure. And put the sand on and it melted into stone, supposedly. ah And i And yeah, and so it was, and it was a lot of, this was in the Bible.
00:38:10
Speaker
Yeah, um it was, I guess. Yeah, the yeah yeah I went to Greece too, I went on a, um ah For Caitlin and Eyes Honeymoon, we went to ah the Greek islands. Yeah, we did a cruise. Same thing, greek Greece and Turkey. Yeah. We went to Santorini. We went to Mykonos, all those places. Yeah, Mykonos, Mykonos. It's impossibly beautiful. Yeah. So gorgeous. And a lot of donkeys. Uh-huh. Yeah. So so many donkeys. Because they can climb up the cliffs. Yeah. yeah i I did not ride a donkey up a cliff. I walked up it, and that was the wrong choice.
00:38:48
Speaker
No, I've never been on a donkey. Well, don't walk up the same road that they... Oh, sure, with ah with the poop, yeah. Yep, it is just littered with donkey poop. I'm sure, yeah. But anyway, yes. So it's Grease. She grew up there. She's been there her whole life. She's only 20. She's getting married to Dominic Cooper, who looks to be about 14 years old in this movie. Yeah, she is a little baby. I don't know if it's because he doesn't have facial hair, but I didn't I never recognize him when I watched this movie every time I forget it's him. Yeah.
00:39:24
Speaker
and And they're getting, his name is Skye. And they're getting married. Even though they're very young and everyone thinks it's kind of a bad idea. And she decides, she finds her mother's diary, which she reads. Which, first of all- And she gets real hot and bothered about- Violation. And secondly, the summer that she was conceived, her mom banged three dudes.
00:39:57
Speaker
Good for her. Yep, back to back. Bill, a Swedish adventurer. Yep, sailor. ta Yeah, Harry. Yeah, a head singer. Yeah, a British ah musician, like a punk. And um what's Pierce Brosnan's name? Oh, um Harry. Wait, no, Harry, Bill and say um Sam. Sam, Sam. Who is, is he Irish? Because Pierce Brosnan is Irish. He's English. And I think he's English too, yeah. I mean, see the problem is, is I've seen the sequel. And so things get a little mushy. I've seen the sequel too, but I've only seen it once. Well, we will be watching it again for this pod.
00:40:43
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Um, it, uh, things get a little mushy in terms of the boys characterizations because, um, they change a lot about Harry and they change a lot of stuff about a lot of them. I think the only thing that, that like is, is like cannon is that, um, uh, what's his name, the sailing guy, yeah sailing guy. Bill is a, like a big adventurer guy. Yeah, it's like he writes adventure books and because Harry had read them. Yeah. Yeah. So like, Sam, you think he's married throughout most of the movie yeah because he has children and he's older and he talks about he talks about his wife. Yeah. And well, because the reveal at the end. Yeah. The reveal at the end is that he's divorced. Yeah. um Harry is like an uptight like British businessman who
00:41:41
Speaker
He's a banker, sure. The reveal with him is that he's gay. And he didn't he didn't know. He didn't know until the end. That's the whole thing. Did you not catch that? Like joke? Well, I know. I know. i He says that you're the last woman that I ever loved. So but I was it was kind of I was unclear whether he was just telling them that he was gay or if he was realizing that he was gay. I feel like in early aughts
00:42:15
Speaker
late 90s musical theater fashion. The reveal is like keeping with what I know of other shows that have done similar things. It's part of the I hate to say it the joke is that he reveals that he's gay at the end because he has realized it from dancing with a guy. Right. OK. Yeah, fair enough. um And then Bill, who gets with, what's her name? Julie Walters. Julie Walters. Yeah, yeah. In a very sudden turn, you think that we're done. We have this very emotional song at the end. But then they didn't do Take a Chance on Me. So they have to do Take a Chance on Me. They have to do it. And Julie Walters. Because everybody in the theater is going, are they going to do Take a Chance on Me? Are they going to do it? Are they going to do it? Well, they didn't even do like, they don't do Waterloo until the very end.
00:43:13
Speaker
ah Because Waterloo doesn't make any goddamn sense. They bring it back for the sequel. I know they do. But Katherine Johnson was writing this musical. I know I know she has because i mean I've had to do a jukebox musical before. Like you have all these things you're like, how the fuck am I going to fit this in? It's one of it's maybe their biggest hit. Yeah, it does not make any sense at all in the context of this play. Have I told you have I have I told the Eurovision story? No, I don't think so. About this year's Eurovision? I don't think I have. Oh, yeah. um This year's Eurovision was in Sweden.
00:43:53
Speaker
Yeah, and so we let Israel being involved. Yeah, it was like a whole there was a lot of things wrong with this year's Eurovision. um I mean, so it was in Sweden and it was the anniversary of ABBA winning Eurovision. So the Eurovision Song Contest for those that don't know is this big thing that happens in Europe and then weirdly Australia is involved in it now. I don't know. And ah it is every single country writes an original song and then has a pop singer or band or someone perform it and it sort of over time has become this sort of very European lights and color show of like how insane of a song can you perform? Like what's the most insane thing? It's very gay. It's very camp And most of the songs are the worst thing you've ever heard in your life. Oh, yeah. There's like only I could only probably name like maybe like three that have hit the like top and become hits. Yeah. And the first of which was Waterloo was Waterloo by ABBA. This is what broke ABBA out was the Eurovision Song Contest. And so it was the anniversary of their win. No one ever since no one has ever become famous.
00:45:03
Speaker
No, whatever. Monoskin is kind of is kind yeah big. Yeah. They they were two years ago. They didn't even win. I know Laureen, who sang Euphoria. back in like 2011. She won and that became like a big like club song. No, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Moniscan. They did win in 2021. Okay. Okay. But yeah, not that many like actual hits. It's just all absolute insanity. yeah Super fun. So they had Marion
00:45:38
Speaker
Alkerman, Akerman, what's her name? Maylyn Ackerman, I think. Yeah, they had her because she's Swedish and a movie star. And then some like other Swedish celebrity were hosting it. And they come out and they do this whole bit about how there's this one band that, you know, We need to celebrate them. And only so many bands from the Eurovision Song Contest have gone on to be big stars. And this band from Sweden is one of them. And it starts their band, it starts with an A. And then they bring out a different band, that one that started with an A.
00:46:17
Speaker
That one from Sweden and everyone's like it wasn't ABBA. Why would you do that? So then they like bring it back and they're like, oh you think that we didn't recognize what we did, but we did. Why would you do that Marin or Malin or whatever your name is? And then she's like, I don't know. Lol. Live from London. Let's shoot it to the telecast. And so then you get this like live stream from London. You think, oh my god. is this about to be are we about to see Abba do they're like a reunion production of Waterloo like on the Eurovision Song Contest like this is a big fucking deal and so it starts to zoom in they start talking you're like you're all excited because they're at this big stadium with like an audience and then they zoom in and it's the fucking AI
00:47:05
Speaker
It's why. The projections. It's holograms. It's the holograms of ABBA. You know how ah the holograms go on tour? It's the fucking holograms. i I mean, I did not know ABBA tours as holograms, but that's wild. It was the holograms, and then I was just like, they wait, what? what we're were ah We went to London to get holograms? And then they go back, and then they like reveal three people walk out, and you're like, oh, well, maybe only three of them made it. They keep doing all these reveals. And it's of like, and then three amazing singers come out, and they're singing Waterloo. And it's not even anyone from ABBA. It's just three past winners of Eurovision.
00:47:47
Speaker
It sounds like ABBA didn't want to be involved. But they kept pushing it. They kept pushing it. And you're like, where the fuck is ABBA? Because ABBA got back together, right? I think they released a new record in like 2020. I remember it was like a big deal. Yes. But they wouldn't go on Eurovision. Their first new album in 40 years was released in November 2021 to positive critical reviews and strong sales, ABBA Voyage. But they wouldn't perform at Eurovision. They had to get the fucking holograms. Yeah, yeah. ABBA Voyage, a concert residency featuring ABBA as virtual avatars, opened in May 2022 as London. maybe I guess in London, I guess they don't tour anymore. Well. I mean, they're quite old.
00:48:27
Speaker
I, but like the one they could, they, they are also alive. They could just perform for your vision. I mean, they didn't even have to say could have just lit 79 looks like 79 is the oldest one. Just if you're going to keep pushing it, at least get the fucking real thing. Yeah. It was just so funny. I have lost my shit. It was Abba Blue Balls at the Eurovision. It was such Abba Blue Balls. I was like, why? Why? We could have just skipped over this whole Abba thing. Like you guys didn't even have to mention them. That's true, yeah.
00:49:11
Speaker
Eurovision Song Contest. What a fun time. Anyways, so we go back to Cala Carey and still in the first five minutes of this movie. So she invited all three of these men who might be her dad yeah to the to her wedding. Yeah. So one of the figure out which one is her dad. And so he can walk her down the aisle because she she says that she'll know she'll know when she she know when she sees them, yeah which no, you won't. Which of course, why would you? Why would she? I mean, only one of them is blonde. but Exactly. Aside from that. So is her mom. So like genetics wise, whatever.
00:49:50
Speaker
ah oh She sees them yeah and just nonsense happens for an hour and a half yeah and then everybody sings and it's the end of the movie. That's basically what happens with Mamma Mia. yeah um You go in, you have the best time of your life and then the movie's over. With some questionable choices, there are some questionable like plot choices such as I will say, well, actually, first off, one of my first notes is um this movie should be called Daddy Issues the Musical.
00:50:23
Speaker
Yeah. And so much slow slo-mo. So much slo-mo. There's a lot of slo-mo. Yeah. So much slo-mo. Um, yeah. Speaking in slo-mo, uh, which you don't see that often in serious movies. No, you don't. And they do every chance. Which is not a serious movie, but you know what I mean. You don't see slo-mo. You don't, you don't see people, people speak, speaking in slo-mo in a, in a serious scene in, uh, something that's meant to be taken seriously. Yeah. But you do in this movie. And it works.
Supporting Characters and Climax
00:50:55
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We've got Christine Baranski and Julie Walters, who are Meryl Streep's besties. Christine Baranski looks amazing in this movie. Always. Every movie, every show. Of course, she always does. But especially in this movie, she's a superstar. Yeah. If I were the kind of person who would say, mother, that would be the time to use it. Mother.
00:51:22
Speaker
but I won't. um And she's like, she'd been divorced a bunch of times. She's had a bunch of plastic surgery. She's um you know a eater, basically. yeah And then Julie Walters, who seems like such a lesbian, like- Most lesbian coded character in all of musical theater. But but she's a cookbook author, I think. yeahp Could still be a lesbian. Well, sure, yeah, but for whatever reason is not, and um has never, has just never found a man. That's her thing, which is again, so lesbian coded. Yeah, yeah. That ends up with Stellan Skarsgård at the end, who we also, it's never directly said, like the whole point of the movie is that, A, they don't get married. Yeah. She's like, we don't need to get married. You don't want to get married. I just wanted to get married for this dad thing. which is
00:52:17
Speaker
And all three of them are like, we can all be your dad. like We met you yesterday and we all love you so much and you wanna be your dad, even though I'm gay and I'm gonna ah date your mom's friend. And yeah here's Brosnan, who does end up with Meryl Streep at the end. and they get married after like not seeing each other for 20 years? Yeah, and he's like, I've been in love with you ah for 21 years. And um we I got divorced, and I have two children. yeah But I've always loved you. I want to come and move here. I'm going to move here and run the inn with you, and let's get married. um i have i so I met you yesterday. Yep, yep. We're completely different people now. Yeah.
00:53:00
Speaker
But it's she basically says, I don't care which one is my dad. But the answer we're led to believe is Stellan Skarsgard. Bill, I think, actually is her dad. Yeah. um Just because like she because of like the the inheritance thing? Yeah. Well, there's that. And then there's also, like, geneticism. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that I also read, because I was saying that to Caitlin, I was like, if they hint that I know they don't say that he's her dad, but I think it's hinted that still in Skruger is her dad, right? And she didn't remember that. And I looked it up and it said that Meryl Streep and Felida Lloyd and what's her name? Amanda Seyfried all said that they believe that um that Bill is her dad. Yeah. Yeah. I think they kind of decided as a cast.
00:53:47
Speaker
Yeah, which like makes sense. And then also he he's the one that like least wants to be her dad. Yeah, but also it's like he's he's the he's the adventurer and she's gonna leave, you know? So there's like some, there's some like, cause that's the other thing, like she's, she doesn't want to live in this island paradise anymore. She wants to like see the world and hang out with her, with her young bow. Yeah, her young bo who, oh my God, so many red flags, so many fucking red flags. he like he They get into their their first big fight like right before their wedding. And it's all about how- He crashes the bachelor party. Oh, yeah. And which my one note for that bachelor party is parkour.
00:54:34
Speaker
Oh my God, yeah. There's so much running around on on roofs in this movie in general. Like everybody's running around on a roof. Meryl Streeping. Everybody's running around on a roof. Everybody's just doing all these sorts of like acrobatics. Also like the stairs where she's singing. um The winner winner takes it all. yeah absolute banger, first of all. Probably the best number in the show. um She rules. I love her so much. She's incredible. And Pierce Brosnan not saying a word, yeah which is what's best for him. And yeah um and then she runs a mile up 1000 stairs.
00:55:17
Speaker
Like you're watching the like processional of um what's her name's wedding because she's like Amanda Seyfried is on a ah traditional Greek donkey ride up the hill to her to this tiny church that's on like the world's steepest hill. man And you're watching this all happen in the background while Meryl is absolutely just, you know, just owning the winner takes it all. And then she within like two seconds, she's like up up that hill. He's down there. He didn't follow her. He's down at the bottom. And she in right after belting a song runs up to the top and then sings the last line.
00:56:01
Speaker
Um, it's, it's insane, but that's the thing. Like it's all just, it's all just visuals. It's all just, everything looks cool. Everything sounds great. It's, yeah it's over the top and it's Yeah, yeah. ah And just all the choreography and everything. That was one of my favorite trends during COVID was ah people doing, as they were on their like fancy beach vacations, doing the dance to lay all your love on me, the chorus dance in the lake. I love that. I love that so much. But on my red flag for Sky is at one point during their big fight before the wedding, he says, I loved you.
00:56:41
Speaker
And I was like, You don't let that slip right before your wedding. And then he's like making a whole big deal about how he wanted to go a lope and he didn't want this big wedding and blah, blah, blah. Dude, just like, it's not about you. Yeah. I mean, it is a bit, but like, just... It's a little bit about him, but they're also 20. Like, why are they getting married? Compromise, man. Just like compromise. You're... whatever. Anyways, um it is such a fun little romp. Did you have a favorite number?
00:57:23
Speaker
It's hard. there's there's yeah I mean, Wintertakes at All is probably like technically the best like musical theater moment in this, but it's but it's so simple. like It's just the two of them, and it's just her singing yeah um and the scenery. But the Dancing Queen rules. Oh my god, Dancing Queen is so great. It's got such a great musical theater button on the end of it, where they're all pushing each other into the water at the end. and like Anything with Christine Branske, like does your mother know with Christine Branske? Yes. Even though she has no chemistry, zero chemistry. What, the 25-year-old boy? Yeah, with the 25-year-old boy. And he's trying so hard. And all the men, what is Christine Branske and like 40 men dancing on a beach? Yes. Like what's not to life? Oh my god. And all of these men are like, this 55-year-old woman is the hottest thing I've ever seen. I must fuck her now. Yeah.
00:58:20
Speaker
Which is good for them. Good for her, good for them. Good for her. I mean, I would. She is, she's so hot. She looks great in this movie. She's super hot. She's super hot, she's super great. I love Christine. I cannot pronounce her last name, but I love her. Baranski. Baranski, I love her. Yeah. I think my favorite, I don't know why, I just love the chaos of Voulet Vous. um I think the Bachelorette. There's a lot of chaos in this movie. There's most so much chaos. Fucking Take a Chance on Me is so chaotic. Another Crawling Around on Roof song.
00:58:52
Speaker
And she's just like so aggressively going after Bill Skarsgård. Like she's not. Stellan Skarsgård. His stella so its character's name is Bill. So that is confusing. Yeah. But like she's so aggressively that you're just like, is he actually like consenting to this relationship or is he just being bullied into it?
Charlie's Take on Mamma Mia and Love for ABBA
00:59:12
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He is running away from her for most of it. Yeah. Yes.
00:59:17
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Absolutely amazing. um the The Charlie's Corner for today was I asked Charlie at the end, I was just like, well, you know, what, what did you think about Charlie's Corner? Like, what's your honest opinion on Mamma Mia? And he goes, ah this is a direct quote. Sure. I guess it had to be made. And then I put a side note after he sang along and danced along the entire time. Okay. All right. Fair enough. Somebody's too cool. For Mamma Mia.
00:59:56
Speaker
Nobody. Nobody's people from Mamma Mia. Nobody. He had a lovely time. He had so much fun. It's also impossible not to sing and dance along to it, so. Exactly. Exactly. Goodness gracious. He is a Mamma Mia stan. I'm going to get a text message about this.
01:00:16
Speaker
Um, Katie! Katie! Um, actually, I'm just a big fan of Abba, not necessarily Abba Mia. Um, which is the wrong thing. Uh, that's the opposite of what you should be. Um, I, uh, yeah, he hasn't texted me this week from about the, um, high fidelity episode. so I don't think he's listened yet. He hasn't listened yet. No. Yeah. Uh, you know, and we do talk about him quite a lot. So yeah um be prepared for just a lot of text messages. What was it what was the episode before that? Because he was so aggressively, he just came down and he was like, well, you got a lot wrong in that one, Emma. Oh, yeah, he did. wendy He wouldn't send me. She saw three koalas. And I said, cute. Because i first of all, I had no idea what the fuck he was talking about. Again, we listened to these weeks before he listens to them.
01:01:10
Speaker
So he said, she saw three koalas and I said, cute. And he goes, this whole podcast is just a lie.
01:01:19
Speaker
The difference between one koala and three koalas is apparently a lie. I only saw one is what I remember. And then I said, lot I said, well, sometimes you have to bend things to make good art. And he said, sometimes. And I said, it's not a documentary. And he said, most of what Emma says has a terminological inexactitude. That's exactly what you want to hear from your husband. Yeah. And then I said, we're impressionists. Oh, my husband loves me.
01:01:56
Speaker
Terminological inexactitude. I don't think I've ever heard that phrase before. I bet he went on an encyclopedia for those words. An encyclopedia? A thesaurus.
01:02:13
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Godness. Amazing. Do you have any other thoughts, feelings or opinions? Not really. It's hard. This one's easy because it's so easy. It's great. Like what's not to like? Exactly. They do. um Yeah. So the other thing, like the the way that they get around getting these songs in is so Donna, Meryl Streep's character and um ah Christine Bransky and Julie Walters were in a band. Yes. when they were younger. And so some of the songs can be their songs like they have to do Super Trooper. ah So they make Super Trooper a performance of their band. And then at the end for like the curtain call, they do Waterloo. And that's what Meryl Streep asks you. Do you want to do another one? Can we do one more? Yep.
01:02:59
Speaker
And then the boys come out in their 70s garb out. They're all dressed like Abba. It's yeah c incredible. Great way to end a movie. Again, go get your girl feel strongly that all comedy movies should end this way. Yes, it should always end in a final song with the whole cast because a number or if you can't do that, outtakes every movie. Yeah, bloopers. Yeah. People love bloopers. People want to see you say the wrong thing and laugh and get bleeped over. People want to see you. You don't want to do that at the end of Schindler's List, but at the end of a comedy movie, at the end of a fun time, yeah. Can you imagine what the outtakes from Schindler's List is like? Surely there's none, right? Surely if I go on YouTube and put Schindler's List bloopers, I'm not going to get anything. Schindler's List blooper reel.
01:03:50
Speaker
Um, so for the next episode, as promised, yeah we're doing Mamma Mia 2. Here we go again. It's not nearly as fun as this one. Unfortunately. So there will be a lot more talking points. It's pretty sad, honestly. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, that Meryl Streep could not be bothered. But she's still in it. Sort of.
01:04:22
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um I don't use the thing like, I mean, like Mamma Mia, it was a huge musical. It was it ran for it's still running, I think I get close for COVID, but it's technically still running. um Twenty five years later, one of the biggest musicals ever. And then they made it into this huge movie. And they're like, well, we got to do a sequel. And they're like, well, there is no sequel.
Sequel Struggles and Fun Titles
01:04:43
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Yeah. So so we have to write it. And it has to be better one out. Exactly. Boy, oh, boy. um and they tried to make it fun and there's some fun moments in it but a lot of not fun moments in it yeah yeah so can't wait to deep dive into that one and they say they're gonna make a third one now what why how what about i guess it'll be i guess it'll be called my my i don't know i know right mama mia here i go again my my and then mommy of four is i cannot forget you yeah
01:05:20
Speaker
I mean. Yeah, I mean, well here's the the other thing. Like the title was right there. Like I know again, along with Twisters bejuice speedlogice mom and Mama Mia, here we go again. It's one of those things like it's a little bit like the ah the the the the driving crooner, you know, it's just yeah too good. You had, there's no way we can't, we have to leave can leave this on the table. We have to make money off of this. Calling it Mama Mia, here we go again, it's just too good. Yeah. It is just, it is waiting to be made and they made it. There were choices that were made. 10 years later.
Credits and Acknowledgments
01:06:03
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Yeah. Anyway, shall we outro?
01:06:05
Speaker
Let's outro. Thank you for listening to Go Get Your Girl. If you like us, tell your friends, and please rate interview us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. It helps out a lot, and we would really appreciate it. Thanks to Andrew Milliken and Nyx Fabota for our theme music, and Alaina Henderson for our artwork. You can follow us on Instagram at Go Get Your Girl Pod, or email us at gogetyourgirlpod at Gmail. You can follow me on social media at Emily M. Pizza. And me at Katie of the Lake. Until next time, we're just two girls standing in front of the internet asking it to love us. Good night. Good night.