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What's Your Number
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Let's talk about SEX baby! This week Emma and Katie chat about the 2011 rom-com What's Your Number which stirs their conversation sexy. They discuss body counts, millennial sex repression and how the conversation has evolved... oh yeah and also the Anna Ferris/Captain America movie.
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Morning Routines & Deck Plans
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Look at us. We're ladies who really can do it all. We do a little
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Oh, good for you. Good for you. I got out of bed and immediately did my makeup and then got here. So that's all I've got. It was 9.20, and I'm like, I have to get out of bed. I have to do this. I was going to say, oh, I got out of bed around 9.25 an hour ahead of you. It was like 10. That is true. Yes, yes. So yeah.
00:00:45
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Um, Charlie and I got our, we finally got our solo stove that we've been, it's been on our list of things that we want to get for the deck. Um, our solo stuff. So it's a smokeless little table bonfire thing. Oh, okay.
00:01:00
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You can get like big like actual fire pit ones, um but those are like multiple hundreds of dollars. And we also wanted some sort of distance between the fire and our wood patio. That makes sense, yeah. Smart, yeah. So we're going to put it on. We've got this little metal side table that we keep flowers on. And so we're going to put it on the metal side table so that we can have s'mores and drink red wine and listen to Noah Khan while the leaves are turning. And I have this whole like vision for it. I like three of those things.
00:01:31
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Is it the leaves turning that you don't like? No, um no, I love the leaves turning and marshmallows and red wine. You don't love Noah Khan. I know I really don't.
Creative Conflicts in 'It Ends With Us'
00:01:45
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Oh, have you been following the drama of it ends with us? No, I mean, you you you told me we you gave a short synopsis review of the book last episode or two episodes ago or something. Yeah, I think what happened now.
00:02:00
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Um, well, the movie's coming out this weekend. And I didn't realize that the guy that plays her husband in the movie also directed the movie. And apparently there's been like creative budding of heads between him and Blake Lively. Sure. Is she a producer?
00:02:15
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She's a producer. Yeah. And um it's just sort of like I think that the more I'm like on it ends with us film drama talk. And so like the more I find out, because at first you're just like, oh, it's because he's a douche, right? It's because he's a dick. That's like your first initial reaction. At least that's where my brain. As with as with any man, correct. As with any man who also plays an abusive husband um and directed it.
00:02:41
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No, it's actually way more than that. He wanted the movie. What I'm getting is that he wants the movies like main message and story to be sort of the main focus of like their PR campaign and like about domestic use and about like how I see now and all of that and Blake Lively wants it flowers. Betty buzz. Here's Wolverine.
00:03:03
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Right, right, right, right, right, right, right. Correct. Yeah, that that may that makes sense. Yeah. Why they would butt heads about that. So are they making the sequel or whatever? I have no idea. I don't know. Depends on how good how good it does, I suppose. I know. i Yeah, I guess. it I mean, like if it flops, then.
00:03:22
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and But I mean, that movie that book is like a map, like the best selling book of 2023. So I would imagine there's no way it flops unless it's terrible. like Because I mean, 50 Shades of Grey was still a hit, like even though fifty dish the 50 Shades of Grey is. Awful, unwatchable trash. It's still made enough money to make sequels. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I'd like to think that it ends with us.
Comparing 'It Ends With Us' to 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
00:03:50
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at least literally is for is better than it's great. Sure. Well, I was even talking about the book. I just mean the movie adaptation. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll see. I have not read the book Fifty Shades of Grey. Yeah. Neither have I. Yeah. Not my thing. Neither is it mine. I have literally zero desire to read that book or see that movie.
00:04:13
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I have i've heard I've read some some passages from it, and it is it is very, very poorly written also. So suck it, yell James. Not our type of romance.
00:04:30
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But anyways, speaking of romance, what a segue. As we always are on this show. um romance famously featured in today's film actually famously featured um oh and these are famously featured also a second segue creative differences oh is that what happened in this movie yeah oh OK, yeah, fair enough. Or maybe you'll introduce the film by me starting off with an... We could also introduce the podcast first if you want to. Oh, yeah. But we don't have to. do that No, let's do that. Let's do that. Sorry, I got excited. Go on, Katie.
00:05:14
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You introduced the podcast, Emma,
Podcast Intro & Self-Judgment
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that's your thing. oh oh Oh, that's right, guys. This is the podcast where Emma and Katie make a list of all the guys that they've slept with, or all the people. And, ah and they then judge themselves based on that number, and constantly um sort of bash their internal confidence with that number, and are convinced that they cannot raise that number. Otherwise, they will no longer be ladies.
00:05:42
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That's right, guys. This is go get your girl and I'm Emma. And I'm Katie. And we are of course talking about the extremely ah awkward watch.
Analyzing 'What's Your Number?' Themes
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What's your number from 2011? Directed by Mark, my lord, my lord, Mike, my mark, my load, not my load. It can't be marked by my load.
00:06:08
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that can mark my load But that if that that's unfortunate for him, it's I think it's Malad. He is an extremely well-respected television director. He is like he directed a bunch of episodes of Succession um and ah Game of Thrones and The Last of Us. He he but mostly directs television, but his most he's directed a few films and his most recent one was The Menu um with Anya Taylor Joy and Ray Fiennes. Yeah.
00:06:40
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And he directed this? Yeah, it's crazy, right? um It is and is written by Jennifer Crittenden and gay ah Gabrielle Allen, who were writers on the TV show Veep. And ah Jennifer Crittenden at least wrote for Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond, um big sitcom writers. And then it's based on a book, which I found no information about.
00:07:11
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Cut by. ah Oh, I can't read my handwriting. It's called 20 Times a Lady. Oh, 20 Times a Lady. That's Karen Bosnak. Yeah, I mean, like. Yeah, there's only 400 reviews of it on Goodreads, so it is not a popular book, but they picked it for a movie.
00:07:38
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I guess so, yeah. Anyway, so yeah, not a lot of information. I mean, I guess I could read some of these, but I'm not gonna. The character's name is Delilah Darling in the book, though. Delilah Darling, but they kept the last name. They kept the last name. Yeah, and she is a darling. It's Anna Faris and Chris Evans, who is the pre-Captain America Chris Evans.
00:08:06
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Yep. And there are several other Marvel actors, including another one, Anthony Mackie. Two Captain America's a star and a Star Lord in this movie. Two Captain America's a Star Lord and then a Black Panther like sidekick B plot character. Who's that? um That's Martin Freeman. Oh, Martin Freeman. Yeah. yeah Oh, and and and Dr. John Watson. Yeah.
00:08:31
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dr. John Watson, yes. So this, and needless to say. It was a hobbit. He's the hobbit. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo Baggins. I was like, what's his dad's name? Bilbo, not his. Bilbo Baggins. Lord of the Rings fans do not attack me. Please don't. Lord of the Rings famously ah written and based off of where Charlie goes to school or went to school. Wait, what? Did you not know that?
00:09:01
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Did Charlie go to school at the J.R.R. Tolkien school? J.R.R. Tolkien went to his high school at the same time. Of course he did. Can you imagine if it was at the same time? Charlie's a time traveler. No, he went he was from Birmingham. He went to King Edward's school for boys because that's how old and it wasn't even a new school when he when J.R. Tolkien went. Charlie likes to tell me all the time. I mean, in the in the scale of England, it's not that long ago. I mean, J.R. Tolkien was in high school and what, like the 20s or 30s or something like. Yeah, not that long ago. Not that far. Like.
00:09:39
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yeah There's high schools in England that are like 600, 700 years old, probably. so And that this is one of them.
Tolkien Trivia & School Connections
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Yeah. um But famously in King's Heath or Moseley, wherever this like out this little portion of Birmingham where the school is, Jarrow Tolkien based several things, including the Eye of Sauron and the two towers off of buildings in that area by Charlie's school. OK. OK. So like the AT&T building in Atlanta, or? Looks like the Iowa Star. Kind of. Yeah, kind of. And then also parts of the woods in Mosley is the Shire. And yeah, so he wrote it and was inspired by that area. Oh, that's nice. Way to go. Yeah. All right.
00:10:40
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Chandler, enjoy that. I'm sorry I called Bilbo his father.
00:10:47
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Fun little facts. There you go. And you can find out more facts or corrections of what I said wrong if you find Charlie. Yeah. If you want text messages on Mondays from Charlie, you'll set up an RSS feed for that. Yeah. We'll give him his own email.
00:11:07
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Oh my god, that'll be a Patreon goal. Yes. Corrections from Charlie. Or if you donate this amount of money, you get Charlie's phone number.
00:11:18
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You should probably talk to him about that before we promise that. And he's in the office next door, and he's probably listening to all of this being like, nope, nope. Absolutely not. Oh, I was just saying, I got a text message, but it's not from him.
00:11:31
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Yeah, OK, so this movie is um it's about a woman who's in her mid 30s.
Exploring Female Sexuality & Societal Pressures
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Yes. And this is also one of the most magazine heavy plots that we've. Yeah, it's so late for that. Like this movie came out in 2011. It is in the the the nadir of rom coms as successful movies to make on and like we're past the McConaughey era. We are in the real doldrums of the rom coms. And they decide to make this movie that is so kind of old school. And I assume I just deleted a tab, so I'm not going to check. But I assume the mood the book was probably from the 90s. Yeah, um that's the vibe I get. Yeah, this movie is fit and it maybe it's because it's written. I mean, Veep is very good. Far be it for me to criticize writers from Veep. I like Veep. But like
00:12:27
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Finding out that 90s sitcom writers wrote this movie was kind of unsurprising um because it does have that kind of not quite puritanical, but like it's a little prudish around sexuality and especially female sexuality yeah kind of throughout the movie, um which is surprising considering the premise.
00:12:51
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um But so, yeah, basically the premise is she reads in Marie Claire, which surprised they used a real magazine. I know. and Not like Macy's. Macy's. That's a bad title because that's actually a department store or not like Mary's. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or um ah Runway, for example. Runway. Runway magazine. Yeah.
00:13:14
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um The ah yeah, so she reads an article that most women in their 30s have had 10.5 lovers, as they say. i hate that I hate that. Yeah. And she thinks that that is low and every woman that she talks to thinks that's high, which is weird um because I would imagine like, I mean,
00:13:42
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you and I have both been in ah monogamous relationships for long periods of time. So that has affected our ah body counts, our number. Our body count. That's what they call it. um This was but this but this movie was made today, it'd be called body count or something like that. Body count. And it's not about murder. Yeah. and Because I think 10 and a half is low. I think 10 and a half is low for 2011 for someone who's been single that whole time yeah and or like, you know, not in a in a decade long relationship, at least, you know. um And I think it's it's very low today. I I don't.
00:14:30
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A lot of my friends have also been in long term relationships for long periods of time. So I did I did a little asking around. And so maybe I ask around. Maybe I'm wrong because most of the people that I talk to um are either like in their mid 20s or um or have been in in in, you know, long longer monogamous relationships. So they haven't had that um ah slut era.
00:14:57
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that will really knock that number up. that um I was going to say, was it low with them? Like, are we doing butts? Yeah, but yeah are we just it was. I mean, here's the thing. Like, are we going to are we going to reveal our numbers? like We promised in the last episode that we would. I know. I know. Hold on. Let me I need to grab mine. um I'm not going to name the names, but I got to retell. I'm not going to name the names either. My God.
00:15:22
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um And recently we watched Four Weddings and a Funeral, which takes place 20 years before this movie came out. And they have a body count scene. They have a number scene in that movie where ah she tells them she slept with 32 people. And he is very surprised by this. And he i don't remember I think his was nine or something. Yeah.
00:15:45
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um but like even that's like higher yeah but also she's not like she's not really he's surprised but she's not like the movie isn't slut shaming her for sleeping with 32 people in that i don't think And in this movie, she is definitely slut shamed by both her friends and herself and the movie for having slept with 20 people is what her number is, is 20. Which brings me to the first of Emma's Fun Facts, Emma's Fun Facts. That is sort of where the creative differences between Anna Faris and the creative team behind the movie started.
00:16:20
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Because by the time that the movie was greenlit, the script, as you sort of predict, like, thought, was already a few years old. And by a few, I mean probably several. So Anna Faris was adamant that they raise Ally's number of sexual partners because she felt that a girl her age in the modern world would have more life experience. The studio, on the other hand, was adamant that it would be 16 partners because they felt too many partners would make her unlikable.
00:16:48
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um And Unsurprising lost the argument. But they eventually settled on 20 sexual partners, which is what I imagine is is true of the book, because that's what the book is called. Yeah, exactly. But they wanted to lower it because they thought that she would be like interesting. Who released this movie that is 20th Century Fox? Get your head out of your ass, 20th Century Fox. Right.
00:17:15
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goodness Actually, that's the distributor. So that it might be Regency that they they had the ah the issue with. That was the ah production company. Doesn't matter. ah Yeah. Yeah. I agree. Yeah, it's ah it's strange.
00:17:33
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but um Yeah, I mean, it's again, so I think that if I hadn't been in a monogamous relationship for over a decade, my number would definitely be higher. But it is well, if we kind of get into what counts as they do in
Reflecting on Sexual Histories & Movie Impact
00:17:51
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the movie. ah So if we're going by what they say counts in the movie, which is more than just the tip, more than well,
00:18:03
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More than a chug. Yeah, more than. We're holding up our fingers a couple of inches apart, which is very helpful on an audio podcast. I'm going to say 11 or you could call it 10 and a half. And I'll let you as the listener, um which is the average in the movie, yeah I'll let you the listener decide what that means.
00:18:31
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I don't know where my notebook is that I have my number in, but I think I remember, and it's more than Ally. Okay. Well, yeah, I think that's reasonable. Yeah. Because I mean, like you do go through and especially someone who is not only a Libra, ah had a lot of poor self esteem and a sort of patriarchal millennial era.
00:18:54
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Yeah, and thought that sex equipped equals someone caring about me get into that with my therapist and and yeah, and just also ah someone with anxiety who self medicated for a long time because they didn't know they had anxiety with alcohol equals a high body count. Sure. And there's obviously nothing wrong with that. And so it's So I imagine it was probably ah annoying to watch this movie then. Oh, ah that's the reason. So the moment I watched this movie um but for the first time when I was abroad in England and I had this was before Charlie and I were dating and as opposed to now where you're abroad in Connecticut.
00:19:41
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I know where I'm abroad in Connecticut. um And I had like gone out to the club the night before and come home relatively early in the morning and was having like a hangover day in bed. And so I downloaded this ah illegally. Hi Dario.
00:20:00
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I know. And watched it on my laptop in bed. And as soon as the scene came on where she was talking about, no, as soon as she was talking about her number, I freaked the fuck out because I was like, started doing what she does and counting. And then I had to like get a notebook out and start writing down all the names. So I started doing exactly what she did as I was watching this movie. And I was counting and I was like, oh no. Oh no.
00:20:28
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Which you shouldn't, which you absolutely shouldn't. I mean, um I as a as a person who likes to catalog things, I think that I like like keeping track and knowing. Yeah. But like there's no reason for you to count up otherwise. Like exactly. Because it's only going to make you feel bad about yourself one way or another. um Like. I like feel like I should have slept with more people, you know, like it's exactly.
00:20:56
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Well, I mean, also, and I was such a serial monogamist, like I, the people I slept with that I haven't dated is like three, you know, I was the opposite. I think that the people that I slept with that I dated was like three.
00:21:12
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Yeah, I think that's more common. I think that's more common. Yeah. Well, because like you have to keep in mind, like this is over a lifetime. Like I lost my virginity at age 16. I'm 35 now. However, you know, from age 23 to 35, I have been in a monogamous marriage. And so there has been one person. But if I didn't get married, that number would be like way high.
00:21:35
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Of course. Yeah. um And same. And also like, you know, your sexual values and like, like things change over time. And I think, I think for for me and for for most people, for for the better, um you know, I was definitely, I wouldn't say I was sheltered, but I definitely had like a different conception of sex when I was young than I do now. And like,
00:21:58
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what that means and what like, you know, because it's and again, and I wasn't raised particularly conservatively or religiously, but I definitely had this. And I think maybe this is the environment and not necessarily my parents, but like the the people that I was dating and my friends and everything. There was a very like puritanical, prudish environment um in my high school and in my even in my college.
00:22:24
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um to where I think that that kind of thing was tempered. Yeah, I mean, totally. Absolutely. And I think there's a lot of shaming going on in that in the mid 2000s. Yeah, because you like it was such it was and not to like complain about being a millennial, but like It was, you couldn't be, you had to lose your virginity, but you couldn't be a slut. You had to be good at sex, but you couldn't be too adventurous because then you'd be a slut. You had to, um you know, give blow jobs, but then you couldn't like, cat like people couldn't know about that because then you'd be a slut. Like it's just like, there was such a fine line between like what in the social norms was, you know,
00:23:16
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expected of you and what was it and like where that line was and like if you crossed it and ah especially like it was so like ingrained in your brain that like you wouldn't even dare to cross it half the time.
00:23:29
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Like, dirty talk, you're a slut. Any sort of kink, you're a slut. And you have to be careful because like, what is he going to tell people about this? Exactly. And anytime that you're sexual with somebody, you're going to have like,
00:23:45
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a different relationship sounds stupid, but like you are you're going to it's you're gonna you're going to reveal a part of yourself that you don't reveal to other people when you are intimate with somebody. And you there's a certain level of trust, even if it's an extremely casual encounter, there's a certain level of trust that that happens there that Um, you don't want to break containment, especially in that kind of environment. I feel like now that's less of a, of a, of a case that's less of a problem. Um, because like, I talk pretty freely about yeah the, about sex and stuff now. And I yeah certainly never did.
00:24:24
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and in college college or high school. Yeah, same. I mean, like, because it was so taboo. Like you had to do it, but you couldn't talk about it. And like, I think that's another reason why, you know, at least for me, and I think also for you, why I gravitated towards this era in my life where I'm really into these romance novels and I'm really into, you know, them not ghosting away or like fading to black because it was like so much The only sex I knew for the longest time was like missionary and like a girl couldn't come. like You had to fake it because coming wasn't expected. that was you know Well, it was expected, but like you it never happened. It was a mystery. It was the big mystery. And and so like I think that it's just... so refreshing that people are being a lot more verbal about it that like these books like Court of Thrones and Roses and Crescent City that have these like explicit sex scenes are a little bit more popular and a popular with women. Oh yeah, women it's very it's very normalized and like to a certain extent like we have Fifty Shades of Grey to thank for that. I mean despite
00:25:38
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it not being good and it being relatively harmful I think for people like for especially for like like kink communities and like BDSM people and everything have like a lot of problems with that book because of the way those things are presented problematically yeah in terms of ah erotica, and not that quarter phones, thorns and roses and stuff is erotica specifically, but it does have erotic elements to it. There's, you know, the steamy romances as what is is what they're called like romances with explicit sex scene. It romances with explicit sex scenes. um Being normalized and being best sellers, like it it did open the door for all of that. So there's, you know,
00:26:17
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Yeah, and it it helps, you know. You don't have to hand it to EL James, I suppose. Sarah J. Moss, thank you. but I'm going to give you the credit for diving me into that world. But like, I do think that it's it is helpful because then, you know, you feel comfortable if you're reading about it, if you're reading it in a book, if someone has like is on Good Morning America talking about this book that has this scene in it or several scenes and is comfortable talking about it, then you feel comfortable.
00:26:47
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about it. Exactly. The only way that you can really find out who you are and find out, you know, stuff from like your partners and stuff is through communication. And so like now being super comfortable about talking about stuff like that helps everyone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One thing that's ah there that there is so almost so quick that you'll miss it. There's a strange bit of um of normalization of queerness and then immediate transphobia in this movie. I don't know if you you caught that. I caught. Oh, immediately. Where? Yeah. Where? Well, it was so fast um because I was writing another note when it happened that I had to pause it. I was like, wait, wait, what the fuck? Because um she does. She has slept with a woman. There's a woman on the list, um which is mentioned exactly one time in passing.
00:27:43
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yeah And it's mentioned that she is no longer a woman. ah well What is this? Julie from college. She's a man now, and she's single. So. Yeah. Way to go. Yeah, way to. Congratulations. um yeah But it is it is at least it is at least refreshing that it is that there was ah that she did sleep with a woman, which is yeah something, I suppose, although it's completely brushed aside and and under the table. in the In the television version of High Fidelity, um Zoe Kravitz's character, who is the John Keeset character, is bisexual. And so there are both men and women in her like list of exes that she's tracking down.
00:28:26
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um oh i love that which was made in 2019, which is like a lot more realistic, I think. yeah um And ah yeah, so it's- I'm glad that they didn't include, um was it Jules or Julie? Did you say that the from- Julie, yeah, Julie, yeah. I'm glad that they did not include Julie because I feel like at that time in 2011 with those writers, it would have just been even more offensive.
00:28:55
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Oh, absolutely. Yeah, especially especially if if ah if he was a trans man in 2011, that would have been some rough representation for sure. um Nobody needs to see that caricature. Yeah. Yeah. But anyways, so we've got um where were we in the plot? Oh, we hadn't even started um sort of talking about the sexual mores of the 2000s.
00:29:20
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I know. And we got in our soap boxes, but i I hope somebody gets something from that. um Yeah. Yeah.
Character Quirks & Morning Antics
00:29:28
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ah So, yeah. Anna Faris has this. li it There's so much like there's so much like bullshit in this movie.
00:29:37
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Um, immediately, uh, she, she wakes up with, um, Zachary Quinto, yeah um, who was the vegan famous from Star Trek, uh, at the time, I guess. And she like, he's asleep and she kind of sneaks out of bed to, uh, like eat a little toothpaste. yeah your teeth girl like yeah just Like, anyway, she doesn't want to wake him up. Well,
00:30:05
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get rolling out of bed, didn't wake him up. I don't think the sound of the sink is going to wake him up to put on mascara and and then sneak back into bed. So she I mean, the whole point of this is that she is artificial and she is changing herself for the the men that she's she's with and she's not revealing her true self to anybody. Like, that's the that's the the message of the movie, as it were.
00:30:31
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um and And then she like slips back into bed with him and he's like, you're so beautiful in the morning. and um ah but she But he's annoying because he cares about the environment and is a vegetarian thing.
00:30:44
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any bikes everywhere. Yeah. What a piece of shit. What a piece of shit. um And which is which is a common thing. It's like, yeah. um And like, you know, everybody doesn't have to be a vegetarian, but I don't know. I feel like we get made fun of a lot in rom coms.
00:31:04
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and And yeah, so that's this guy who's not, who's kind of her boyfriend, but kind of not like, I think she wants to like a commitment from him, but he doesn't want to commit to her. I think it's the issue and he's like out the door and then we never see him again.
00:31:24
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There's so many cameos in this movie. This says nobody likes doggy style. Her friends are the worst. her friends are so shitty. um
00:31:37
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It's fucking what's her name from Miss Congeniality. Yeah. Heather. Heather Burns. Yep. Eliza Poop 20 or the April 9th girl. All you need is a light jacket. April 25th. Yeah. Yeah. All right. April 25th.
00:31:54
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Yeah. um And yes, she is she is one of her terrible friends. Eliza Coop is one of her terrible friends and some other more anonymous ladies. Yeah. Who give her like shitty advice and slut shame her. And they they say nobody likes doggy style, which I feel is just factually inaccurate.
00:32:19
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Read into that what you will.
00:32:24
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But it's ah yeah set in Boston and shot in Boston, which is yeah refreshing. That's one thing. this maybe I think it's well-directed. And I don't know if i have if I'm biased because I saw that like a good director made it before I turned it on. But I think that there's yeah it's it's largely shot on location. there's some really um
00:32:47
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there's a lot of like proving it. As you say, like when you shoot on location, you want to prove it like prove that you're in the play. And and so there's a lot of that in the movie. And I feel like since location is so important to a rom com, I think that that was refreshing. And that's one of the good things I'll say about this movie. Yeah, yeah. Oh, see, I thought that some of the writing was fun. I enjoy. See, Katie, I enjoyed this movie. It has its problems. But it was still a fun little rom.
00:33:12
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They have chemistry. um And they're, they're fun. They're fun together. Yeah. Yeah. And you really buy into the romance. And you also, you get the rom and then you get the comp. But honestly, Anna Faris is just so good. She could say she is be adorable.
00:33:28
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She is good. She's very good. Yeah. um She sells a lot of stuff that would would not be an issue. But there's a lot of yeah. A lot of it is the tone. The tone of the whole thing was very frustrating for me because everywhere you turn, like she's presented by this by this prudishness that kind of invests the movie. um Yeah. When all of her friends are giving their their numbers and they're like four, six. And then Eliza Koop is like 13. And it was like, oh, my God, you're such a slut.
00:33:58
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She's 35 years old. Like, what do you want? Although, to be fair, I do have vague recollections of having similar conversations. But again, that was in the early 2000s with girls who, you know, when you were 22 years old, like, yeah, there's that's that's the 13 year difference. That's going to be a big difference in your number. That's 13 years of boning. Yeah, that's, you know, at least 20 more. Yeah, it's like, you know, 20 dicks and or vaginas in that amount of time. so For your preference.
00:34:36
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ah
00:34:39
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Somewhere in an alternate reality where Emma never went to Rose Bruford and never met Charlie and never fell in love there. She is out there just boning around town. Yeah, good for her alternate universe. emma Exactly. I hope she's living her best life. Yeah.
00:34:58
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Um, so yeah, there's a lot of, um, anyway, so what happens is she reads this magazine article, she finds out that that's supposed to
Average Sexual Partners & Survey Opinions
00:35:06
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be true. And that you're the 10 and a half is the average. I would like to know what the average is now, because I imagine it's a lot higher. Um, I wonder when the last time somebody did a check Marie Claire.com. Right? What's the average amount of Should we say people, sexual partners, sexual partners, someone for women. Yeah. for Oh, the average amount of sexual partners for what does it say? This is a 10 and a half men had an average, a lifetime average. This is a survey of people from the US, UK and Europe. And this is from psychology today. And it was from July 18th, 2023.
00:35:47
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Okay. And it says that the ideal number of sexual partners is 7.5 7.5 7.5. It also like took into context of like by state and cities, because people in Utah are obviously going to have a lower number because of the amount of Mormons versus like her people in Louisiana, the average is 15.7. So, let's see what Chicago... Because of Mardi Gras? What's the correlation there? anyway That's a sex therapist, sorry. um So, oh my God, this is depressing.
00:36:27
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um So yeah according to CDC data, women between the ages of 25 and 44 had a median of 4.2 sexual partners, while then in that age group had a median of 6.1 sexual partners. Oh my god. That doesn't feel right.
00:36:46
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Well, i that does validate me in feeling a little sluttier, which I do appreciate. And this is all this article was all started because, um, Gene Simmons kick started the recent kiss farewell tour by revealing jeans yeah so now that he has had some 4800 sexual partners during his rock career. um And even as proof of his exploits, which is problematic.
00:37:13
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I feel like that might be too many. I was going to say like, there's not a number that's too high, but I feel like um almost 5,000 is probably too many. That's way too many. I mean, but you have to think how old he is and how long he's been in as a rock star. I feel like that's still multiple a day. Probably. I mean, I don't know. I mean, is he? No, I guess it's not. He's like 70 years old. So probably not. Yeah.
00:37:39
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Yeah. And you you have to take like, if he was a rock star from like age 20 until now, yes, he's been in and in a marriage with Shannon Tweed for for doing sex math. I just pull out Gene Simmons wife off the top of your head.
00:37:55
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and It was listed in the article. OK. All right. Thank God. But to say, Oh, my God, is Emma a secret kiss fan? Absolutely not. ah But I did watch their reality show and I remember and I was like, Oh, yeah. she Oh, sure. I mean, I I love you, man. and Not I love you, man. But role models is as as far as much about kiss as I know. Yeah. Is that in the movie role models with Paul Rudd and Sean William Scott?
00:38:22
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See, whenever I think of Kiss, I think of Detroit Rock City. I have not seen that movie. I've only seen bits of it, but I know it's about a bunch of kids following Kiss. Yeah, it's like a 70s teen movie or something. Yeah, exactly. um But yeah, according to Psychology Today, we're giant sluts. OK, fine, I'll take it.
00:38:46
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But like that just that doesn't feel right. That doesn't I don't think that's right. I don't think that right in with your number. ah Comment on our Instagram post with how many people you've slept with. Let's see a study. OK, so ask Reddit. Let's see what Reddit says.
00:39:04
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Always a good idea to see what Reddit says. Right? Oh, it's been archived. Damn it. Damn you. Okay, here we go. So they collected this Reddit always on it. They collected multiple different um online articles yeah with different amounts of data. So Apparently according to superdrug, the average number of online ah sexual partners is 6.9. According to the CDC, 7.4 is the average number for a lifetime. According to yeah i know according to um an art ah article in New Zealand, the average amount of sexual partners of women in New Zealand is 20.4. That sounds more right. yeah
00:39:56
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And for millennials- Good job, New Zealand, for being honest, because I have to assume that people are lying on these things. Exactly. I have to assume people are lying because it cannot be that low. The millennials average number of sexual partners, by gen so it's sexual partners by generation. So for millennials, the average is 11.4.
00:40:18
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It's just a little bit easier to swallow. up um And the average number of sexual partners under 30 for Insider dot.com is 22.5. OK. so So it's also possible that the old people are bringing the at the number down. Like, yeah they're throwing off the average.
00:40:40
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Yeah. Yeah. So I think that with millennials and Gen Z and a little bit of Gen X, like that's who you should be polling. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Stop. I mean, because like it's going to be three. Yeah, for real. For real. I should ask my mom. I'm going to ask my mom. I'm going to text my mom and ask her how many how many people she slept with. That's actually a really good question. I'm going to ask my mom too.
00:41:09
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She'll tell me. My mom has always been more than I would like open about ah that sort of thing. Do we want it? Do we want to take a guess, a guesstimate to see? Oh, for my mom, i would say I would say four or five. Four or five? Yeah. I've never met your mom. Otherwise, I would throw in a number. Oh, for my mom? Yeah.
00:41:34
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Well, I've met your mom, but I don't feel comfortable speculating about her number of sexual partner. I was going to say, you met Donna. How many people do you think Donna slept with in her lifetime? Keep in mind, she got married in her late 20s. Yeah. So she had a ah whole flood area. Yeah. my um My mom dated a gay guy for a long time um before she met my dad. I mean, and they they slept together, but still um yeah ah there was a which like which was very unusual for the 1970s.
00:42:10
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And I mean, she didn't know he was gay, obviously, and he didn't tell her he he was it wasn't like a beard situation. um But yeah, I remember when she she told me that. And so I i have to imagine that that's part of the reason why she's I mean, they're not like she's, you know, super accepting of queerness or anything like that. But I have to imagine that that that has like it colored her experience. Like, you know, and he became like really good friends with her after they they broke up and stuff. And so, yeah, fun fact about my mom. Katie's fun fact. Katie's fun fact about her mom.
00:42:48
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but i
00:42:51
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But back to the movie. Yeah, but wait, you didn't speculate. that Wait, you didn't guess how many people your mom has slept with. um I'm going to say between six and eight.
00:43:03
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OK, all right. I'm going to I'm going to text my mom today and I'll update you at least if I probably forget about it by the time we do the next episode of this. I also don't think my mom probably wants me to say on a podcast how many people she's slept with. I'm going to guess. Yep. My mom listens to this podcast. So I'm going to say she' definitely going to not want me to share that information. Caitlin just shouted you from the other room. What did you say? I said between three and five. Your mom has none of them.
00:43:33
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Can you hear her? Yes. I don't know. No, I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to ask her. I'll find out today. Sometimes we both know she'll tell me. I don't know if the microphone is picking this up. Oh, the microphone is picking that up. Kayla, how many people do you think your mom has slept with? I was just about to say. Her mom was a theater major.
00:43:57
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oh so Well, nobody wants to know. So but guess how many people it's relevant to the movie. It's relevant to this movie. Caitlin says three, three to five. Okay. And that's what I said. I think you guys are going to get surprised. yeah Yeah, I doubt it. I doubt it. I've traumatized Caitlin.
00:44:24
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um Yes, so, um yeah, so she decide. I haven't even gotten into the plot, really. I mean, the plot is pretty easy. It is. Yeah. She decides that she doesn't want to sleep with any more people, but she wants to get married. Like, there's also a very like a woman has to get married in this movie, too. Yeah. And it's sort of like it's bookended by the fact that she doesn't want to go to her sister's wedding alone. And so it's all around the ah planning and the from the party to the wedding of her younger sister.
00:44:57
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Yeah, which is a common rom com trope, not but like needing a date to a wedding, not wanting to go alone to a wedding of a family member, especially a sister and especially a younger sister. exactly um So, yeah.
00:45:12
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So Chris Evans, um who is this is the same year that Captain America came out. So he had, yeah, ah he had been in a few things, um but he was not super famous. Like he was in not another teen movie and yeah he was in the horrible Fantastic Four movie um at this point.
00:45:36
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So Ari Greiner is her sister in this movie and who I had to look up. She looks familiar, but I couldn't place her, but she's been in some stuff. She's great. Yeah. She did a lot of theater in New York. Oh, yeah. OK. Yeah.
00:45:50
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Um, yeah. And she decides that she's going to have to marry one of the people that she's already slept with because she doesn't want to sleep with more than 20 people. Somewhat arbitrarily. Um, well at that point it's 19 and then she's like, the next person I sleep with is the person I'm going to marry. And then she hooks up with her ex boss played by Joel McHale. Yeah. Who's really into touching his balls and then smelling his fingers. Yeah. Yeah. It's real gross.
00:46:16
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Uh-huh, which is a nice detail, I think. Yeah. That's something you see a lot. They gave him a character. Yeah. They did. They did give him a character. um And then she's like, and then she she she talks to, so Chris Evans ah hooks up with people all the time. And we never hear his number, but we have to assume it's in the triple digits. Yeah. um And he, does they make a deal where he'll, he's like, his dad is a cop or something. So he's good at tracking people down. It's very loosely like,
00:46:46
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You don't really get a good explanation. Yeah, you just you get sort of like snippets into Chris Evans life. But yeah, like it's so like so superficial. Like you don't yeah get any sort of like history or like I kept waiting for there to be a big twist. Like him being end up being the guy that she kept trying to find. That's what I thought, too. That's what I thought, too. Yeah, that he was going to be the um the the first guy she slept with that that she didn't that she couldn't find. Yeah. But she knew his name. So I mean, I guess he could have been going by a pseudonym or something. He could have been because like the whole thing about the first guy that she slept with was that his family owns like half of Boston and he's like a senator and he's like super rich. And, you know, it's hard to get to him.
00:47:31
Speaker
And so I was like, maybe he's just like hiding out because he doesn't want to be like his dad. And she just forgot what he looks like. Or I mean, people can change their appearance in one way or another. um Maybe he could have been Julie from college. That would have been a better twist. That would have been a much better twist. So it's, um yeah, he wants to escape the women that he is leaving in his apartment. yeah um And so she says he can hang out there.
00:48:03
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if he helps her, which like don't let a strange man into your apartment anytime you like. That's insane. I hope he could kill you. 90 percent of Anna Faris's costume in this movie is just underwear. Underwear. Yeah, she's she's I mean, like, listen. If. Especially like at 35 and you're in the lead of a movie and your your body T is looking like that, like I would do the same. It's like, let me where let me just.
00:48:31
Speaker
Yeah, I'm just gonna wear underwear in this. um But you yeah. they put They have her play one-on-one basketball with Chris Evans in her underwear. Yeah, it's says they play strip horse. Yeah. Which good for her, she looks great. Yeah. Yeah, she looks amazing.
00:48:53
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Yeah. Yes. ah That is the plot. He is going to help her track down all of these people that she slept with um because It's the early days of social media. There's a lot of Facebook talk. There's a lot of Twitter talk on this in this movie. Like both of those things are new. ah And ah because she's not on Facebook, but he's going to like track these people down on on Facebook and and he does. And so based the plot of the movie is her going on these dates or or or accosting these these men that she has slept with in the past and seeing if they're suitable for her to marry.
00:49:34
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And we get a Chris Pratt jump scare, obviously. Oh, several times. Because they were married at the time. They were married, yeah. And so he was legally obligated to be in this film as comedic relief.
00:49:46
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And he, of course, they have to have a fat joke. ah So he, of course, is disgusting. Donald, who they have a flashback with him in a fat suit because they can't resist fat suit. She's also a body shaming. She's in. Yeah. Yeah. A little bit, but not as much as as him. Yeah. His is like Brendan Fraser in the whale, like prosthesis on his jaw and stuff like it's really offensive, honestly, it's offensive. And like, it's just jokes about him eating and being lazy and stuff. And and now he's he's not disgusting anymore. So um so now she but he's getting married. And the running joke, which is cute, is that she keeps accidentally running into him in various places. And he thinks that she's stalking her, which is funny.
00:50:40
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Yeah, with it landing on when she's literally running to several different weddings to find Chris Evans at the end of the movie. And one of the weddings she runs in on is the middle of Chris Pat's ceremony. Yeah. And he's just like, oh, come on.
00:50:59
Speaker
It was great. It was just funny. It's funny. Yeah. Yeah. um Also, Martin Freeman, who the bit was that she was pretending to be English the entire time that she was with him. Yep. Charlie found that this seemed to be particularly offensive. Offensive? To what? To British people? No, can't be offensive to British people. Can't be racist against the English. He's like, I feel like this fake accent nonsense is ah offensive.
00:51:31
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I've always wondered though, like if, cause like people's accents are so varied and like if a British person with a good American accent Like, was friends with me? I don't know if I would question it that much. Like, if somebody says something weird, if somebody says a word weird or somebody like has like a weird accent, you wouldn't necessarily jump to this person is is doing a fake accent. Yeah. um And so I wonder if an American could pull off doing a American who has a pretty decent British accent yeah could pull off being friends with a British person for a long period of time without that person.
00:52:10
Speaker
No, it happened on the set of Bridget Jones or before Bridget Jones um because Renee Zellweger. They thought she was British. They thought she was British because she went and she did some recon at a um at a newspaper or a magazine, some sort of literary work and in in London to prepare for Bridget Jones. And she had her Bridget Jones accent the entire time. And then throughout filming, she had her accent. And it wasn't until her thank you speech at the end that some of the crew realized she was American. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. um But it's weird to pretend to be somebody that you're not when you're dating somebody. Don't do that. and Which is again, that's the whole point. Like she was a different person and like ah some of the little cutaways and stuff like she ah she was a goth in one of them and she was, you know, um
00:53:05
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emo in one of them. And yeah there's a bit where it's actually the the first boy, no, she is not her first boyfriend, but the person she loses her virginity to is not the um the rich guy. It's Andy Sandberg, Andy Sandberg, who's doing his weird nerd creep thing, which is just I'm surprised he didn't come back. Like, that's surprising. Like, he's just in one scene in a flashback. I think at this point in 2011, he was, it was just SNL. So he wasn't a big enough name yet to where yeah they could be like, you know, like Chris Pratt already had, you know, Parks and Rec for a while. And, um you know, Zachary Quinto was frickin Spock.
00:53:47
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Spock. Yeah. And like Martin Freeman was Martin Freeman. So like I think that he wasn't as big of a name yet for them to bring him back.
00:53:58
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Yeah, um it's a it's a one joke thing where he was like her sister Stalker who yeah slept with her to get closer to her sister. It's really it's not good. yeah none He's also a he's a pup's a puppet. He's a puppeteer and he brings the puppet into the sex with them. And it's probably the hardest I've laughed in that movie.
00:54:19
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Yeah, it was. And then there's Anthony Mackey, who looks weird without facial hair. yeah um like i Some people some people need facial hair because I looked up how old he was. I'm like, is he like 20 years old in this movie? And he's like, no, he's 30. He needs facial hair. um He looks weird without facial hair. Sorry, Tony.
00:54:38
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um don't know if he goes by Tony. um And he is like, ah it appears a Republican congressman yeah or running for and because they do a flashback where she's like, vote for Bush.
00:54:58
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Which sucks. um Again, point proving the point that she's a different person with everybody that she dates and where she's like molding herself into their personalities, which is something that happens to a lot of us. And I'm certainly guilty of not to the extremes of this movie, obviously. But yeah, like, you know, you can you can change your personality based on the person that you're with. Sometimes it's involuntary and sometimes it happens over time. And sometimes it's something that like, you know, you just want people to like you. Yeah.
00:55:26
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Exactly. And sometimes when you're when and you're in a relationship, you you fight against that so hard and refuse to ever watch cricket. Yeah, exactly. um Not talking about personal experience. Yeah, because it's dumb and boring.
00:55:43
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um the And he, of course, is gay and wants to marry her ah to be successful politically. And then he says, I wouldn't have known her I was gay if I hadn't dated you, which I have also been on the receiving end of before so you know relatable yeah yeah and it doesn't feel good nope yeah and Chris Evans is and I wrote this manic pixie dream boy yeah um yeah
00:56:19
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very much seems to be his kind of thing because he is like, yeah he's in a band, he doesn't seem to have another job, never really explains anything like how he has money or whatever. He's such a free spirit. He's like, let's jump in the harbor. It's, it's very Zooey Deschanel as a boy. um Yeah, exactly. Let's break into the Celtics basketball court.
00:56:45
Speaker
Yeah, they play basketball. They play basketball at the um in like the professional basketball stadium or whatever. They play strip horse. Yeah. Once again, bringing basketball into rom com. Yeah. Basketball is a rom com trope. I would lose immediately. Like I'm so bad at basketball. I think I've said this on the podcast before, but me and my so both my sisters are are are all very tall. And my dad really wanted us to play basketball. And we're so uncoordinated. All three of us.
00:57:15
Speaker
Um, it did not work out. Yeah. And, uh, and yeah, so obviously she realizes that she has feelings for Chris Evans, the two, and he is like all into her, which I appreciate. Actually, there's another thing that's good about this movie where he is like.
00:57:32
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he decides that that's what he wants and he tells her and it is is very mature and normal um yeah until she, until it and again, and it's not a misunderstanding that have that causes the third the third act split between the two of them, which I also appreciate. yeah It's something that he did bat wrong, um which she should be mad at him about because he found the first guy the the first guy that she dated um I can't think of his name Pete something. I don't remember. I don't know. Yeah. ah Where he the the son of the senator who's been in um in ah Africa this whole time working on like a ah nonprofit or something. Yeah. He found he found him and didn't tell her.
00:58:19
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um because he had developed feelings for her. um yeah So she finds out about that and she gets mad at him and that causes their their little split after they have already slept together. Yes. Have they slept together? Yeah, it's the night of the basketball. yeah yeah yeah it's the night that Yeah, because she's wearing his shirt and he takes it off her and then she doesn't get up to put on mascara and put toothpaste in her mouth and he's like, you're so beautiful in the morning. yeah that you know this is the person that she can be herself around and the person that she's not like lying and apologizing to about having slept with so many people and all that. So I mean, that part is is nice. But yeah, so then she goes and meets with this guy who sucks so bad. He sucks so hard. He's the fucking worst.
00:59:05
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But her mom, like Danner, ah like who's terrible to her throughout the whole movie, yeah like approves of him. And that's, you know, wanting her mother's like approval is very important to her. And he's a date that she can bring to the wedding. And so she dates him for a couple of weeks and he's going to the wedding with her. And what happens?
00:59:27
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Oh, then he, um she sort of subtly works in sort of like the number question. And he makes a comment about how anything above like,
00:59:40
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like five is like too high and ridiculous. yeah So yeah that's sort of like her cue of like, oh my God, this is like, I'm going in the wrong direction, this is the wrong choice. And then she's hanging out with her dad and her dad- Is that at her sister's wedding? yeah who is Yeah, at her sister's wedding. Her dad, who is famous actor, I forget his name. Ed Begley Jr.
00:59:59
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Yep, Ed Begley Jr, who is in this movie, they bring him in just for this last go get your girl speech. Um, and he he gives the go get your girl speech about how you she is a lot like she looks a lot like her mom, but she's got the personality of him. And they beat to their to a different drum and she doesn't have to do you know, things to make people happy.
01:00:23
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Um, essentially, which, uh, then she's just like, Oh my gosh, ding, ding, ding. And then her sister, uh, or she, um, the guy she went to the first guy, the guy that she went to the wedding with is just like, ah, I have a proposal for you. I'm going on this like European like tour. Why don't you come with me? You don't have anything going on. Um, and then, oh, she's been building,
01:00:50
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I'm the only thing that you care about in Boston or whatever. Exactly. Very like just presumably. And yeah, we are led to believe that it's only been like weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Seeing each other again. We forgot we forgot her creepy little castbo sculptures. Yeah. Yeah. Her creepy little art sculptures. ah She works in marketing and but she makes these weird little clay sculpture diorama things that Chris Evans is way into.
01:01:15
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and tells her that you got to do something with those. And she's like, what am I supposed to do with those? Which like I kind of get like, what is she supposed to do with those? Like, that's not a career. um It's but I don't know, find out not to be on the five money, not to be on the side of the capitalists or anything. But like, you need to do some thinking about how you translate that into before you like quit your job and decide to do sculptures full time.
01:01:39
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Well, this entire time she hasn't had a job. She's been fired. That's true. That's true. Yeah. Well, presumably she's on unemployment. Yes. Yeah. So he calls her sculptures little, which has also happened to
Breaking Societal Expectations & Personal Resolutions
01:01:52
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me. Or someone has dismissed my little plays. Yeah, your little plays. I'm like, oh, fuck you forever. OK. Yeah. Yeah. You don't get it.
01:02:01
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Yeah, and and so yeah, that that's what is the final straw. And she kind of, I mean, he her father does give her the go get your girl speech to a certain extent, but she also kind of gives it to herself, which is another thing that happens sometimes where um she's giving the speech at her sister's wedding and it's like she's like talking to herself kind of thing, which is a common rom-com trope, yeah.
01:02:22
Speaker
Yeah. And then her sister steps in at the final hour after her mom confronts her about where um great Senator Date went. And she's like, oh, we're, we weren't right for each other. And he went, he left. And her mom gets really mad about how she's ruining her life and how, you know, this isn't, she's making all these stupid decisions. And doesn't she, she needs to think about her, her life in the long term.
01:02:47
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And her sister steps in and is just like saves the day and tells her mom in better words to like just shut up and also takes away the spotlight by saying you know the reason why my wedding dress wouldn't zip it's because I'm four months pregnant. You're gonna be a grandma.
01:03:05
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and get out of here on a ferris and so on a ferris goes on the run to the airport aka a run to like 50 different weddings in boston well because well one thing there's a couple things that happen because the first thing she she tries to talk to him as he's leaving his apartment and he says he's going to a wedding um Also, he she knows he's a musician, but he doesn't want to play bar mitzvahs or weddings or anything because he feels like that's not pure art and he wants to make his own music. um And so he she knows he's at a wedding and the wedding planner who steals the scene. I don't know who that guy was, but he yeah like.
Rom-Com Chase & Romantic Conclusion
01:03:41
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the wedding planner like totally it's it's the it's the ah Boston accent partially it's like oh this guy's a local that they hired to do this um comes in and he's like he has a because the cellist is gone or something he found he's got a list of all the weddings happening in the Boston area and so she takes that list and she goes on a trip all over Boston to try to find the wedding that he's at
01:04:08
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And all but also like, wouldn't she see Chris Pratt's name on the wedding right when she went there? Like, cause she crosses it off. Yeah. I mean, maybe she just wasn't reading it correctly, but also she wasn't there for the, the groom and the, um, cause it's still possible Chris Evans could have been there.
01:04:30
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That's true, that's true, yeah. No, she doesn't know that's not the wedding that he's at, yeah. Exactly, so like she might just have to like suffer it, but she didn't know that she was running into the ceremony. Yeah, um so yeah, she goes to bunch to these different weddings and finally she finds the one that Chris Evans that she's like, and then she says out loud, I could have just waited for him at home. It's like, yes, you could have. He lives across the hall from you. This is unnecessary. This is too much work on a ferris. You know where he's going to be later.
01:04:59
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Yes, he lives there. um ah Yeah, which is like one of those things where it's like you have to have the the airport scene, you have to have the chase at the end. Like, but like part of the plot of this movie is that he lives next door. So you really don't need to do that at all. Do that. Yeah. And she also knows where he hangs out on the roof. He's he's playing the wedding. That's the thing. Like his band is playing the wedding and um So she runs on stage, like you can't even wait for the end of the song on a ferris. She breaks up a song by starting to play the um tambourine and then she starts singing along by saying, we need to talk. She's like, you couldn't wait until the end of this on a ferris. I mean, as as Harry says, and when Harry met Sally, when you know you don't want to spend the rest of your life with one person, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
01:05:53
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ah So that's how she feels. Sometimes you can't wait. Uh, and then, you know, she has the, yeah. And then there's the speech and, uh, that's the, uh, that's the end. Yeah. Yeah. And they get together and then, oh, the the big twist at the end is she gets a
Final Twist & Misunderstanding Resolved
01:06:11
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call. So there's this one guy who she hooked up with in like Cancun or somewhere on spring break. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:06:18
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And she doesn't remember. um But she also is just like, don't worry about getting in touch with that guy, because like, I don't even know his last name. And somehow Chris Evans finds him and gets in contact. And so the final scene of the movie is them waking up to a um her voicemail going off to the voicemail from this guy who is voice cameo Azizan sorry.
01:06:41
Speaker
Obviously, yeah, obviously. And um he says, hey, ah yeah, I got your weird message from your weird friend. Just want to let you know, we never slept together. um You started doing a strip tease and then like threw up a bunch and then fell asleep and we never slept together. And so and the whole thing is that she never surpasses the number 20, which sucks so much.
01:07:07
Speaker
I mean, why did we have to have that? We didn't have to have that. No, we didn't have to have that. We didn't have to have that at all. I hate that. That sucks so much at the end of the movie. And then they play Natasha Beddingfield, which is another rom-com trope. What's another rom-com trope? We're coming up with all these niche rom-com tropes, basketball, Natasha Beddingfield. Yeah, things that you didn't realize are rom-com tropes. Yeah.
01:07:30
Speaker
um Yeah, so that's what's your number. It was annoying. I thought it was fun. Charlie and I thought it was fun. It is fun, but all the environment of the movie, I think, is irritating. I get that, I get that. Yeah, for sure. I think I hit on my stars. Oh, this one says, how's your blow job? Which is...
01:07:58
Speaker
And she goes, great, my hand job needs some work. Oh, because that's what he says. He says, he says you gave me the worst hand job I've ever had. Yes, yes, yes. You called it the dry method or something.
01:08:17
Speaker
Which just makes me think of that Ellie Kemper like sketch where she's like she's going to give him a blowjob. She's like, I'm going to make it so dry for you. And she's like drying off her tongue.
01:08:29
Speaker
ah Oh, there's another one who goes, he recognized my vagina. Oh, yeah, that's another one that she goes to Miami to see this gynecologist that she slept with one time. And he doesn't recognize her until she until she like gets up in the stirrup. So he's like, Oh, Ali. And I don't think we needed that. He recognized my vagina. If we had cut after the Oh, Ali, that would have been funny. Yeah, exactly. We didn't need the yeah extra. They call that a hat and a hat on a hat in the industry on a hat.
01:08:59
Speaker
Yeah. Well, what are we doing? we doing next week? We are doing I decided I wrote it down and I forgot, but I wrote it down. We are doing the OK, so the next week is probably our last one that's going to still be in the summer. And so I picked the the movie Fire Island. from I haven't seen this yet.
01:09:24
Speaker
Oh, it's good. Yeah. I'm gay. Pride and prejudice. Romcom from like 2022 or so. Yeah. with boa Yeah. It's bone and Matt from Los Casaristas. Yeah. The movie. It's good. And yeah, so it'll be fun. Well, I cannot wait to watch. ah Shall we outro so that we can both go to work?
01:09:47
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We shall actually, yeah, this'll be the first movie that no one gets their girl in. um Yeah, our first episode of Go Get Your Boy next week. 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 Nick Spivoda for our theme music and Elena Henderson for our artwork. You can follow us on Instagram at Go Get Your Girl Pod or email us at gogetyourgirlpod at Gmail.
01:10:15
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