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S2E5 - The One With Five Steaks And An Eggplant
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Alasdair and DeAnn have their most unhinged episode yet, talking about all manner of things from the best mug we own, the Von Erik wrestling family and going to see the Reverend Horton Heat
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Introduction to Purple Door Podcast
00:00:04
Speaker
Well, hello and loa welcome to this week's episode of the Purple Door Podcast, a friend's rewatch pod. I am your host, Alistair, alongside my wonderful friend, Deanne. Deanne, how are you today? I'm doing awesome, Al. It's great. It's summer.
00:00:20
Speaker
Life is good. We just got back from ah college tours at UT and UT San Antonio and... um i I'm pumped and I'm super excited about this episode.
00:00:32
Speaker
It's a good one. Good. I'm glad you guys had such a wonderful time, but also glad you're back because then we can record an episode.
Episode Review - 'The One with Five Steaks and an Eggplant'
00:00:41
Speaker
um Yeah, this is a good one. The one with five steaks and an eggplant is what we will be reviewing today.
00:00:48
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But as always, before we get stuck into the review, I think it's going to be a good bamboozled. I have a ton of questions, I think. Let's see. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 questions for you this week.
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Speaker
it's ah It's a good one. I only have 10. I only have 10. And I stopped because I was like, I feel like I'm going a little... too much. So awesome.
00:01:17
Speaker
I'm so glad you got 13. Yeah. Last week was a struggle. I think i had six. So this week I went all out. All
Trivia Questions and Fun Facts
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Speaker
right. Do you want to kick us off with a question?
00:01:28
Speaker
No, since you have more. And I feel like I have started a whole lot of weeks in a row. All right. al to you I will kick us off then with this question.
00:01:41
Speaker
What nationality are the wrestlers on the TV in the opening scene? They're Spanish. They are Spanish. Well done. Awesome.
00:01:53
Speaker
Okay. So here is my question for you. Okay. Where's Julie? He's whining about, oh, Miss Julie. But where is she? My question three, where is Julie? Julie is in New Mexico. Nice.
00:02:08
Speaker
That is correct. I assume on some sort of dinosaur dig. Yes. Yes. Oh, you not not to interrupt bamboozled. You know what? I'm going to ask you after bamboozled. I have a question for you.
00:02:21
Speaker
Oh, okay. Because i assume she's on a dinosaur dig and I had a thought about that. But we don't want to interrupt the bamboozled flow. So my next question for you, what movie poster are Jade's legs on?
00:02:34
Speaker
The new James Bond movie. Indeed they are. Yes. Ooh. And it made me wonder what new James Bond movie had come out, and but I didn't look it up because I forgot.
00:02:46
Speaker
And then I was thinking about like the graduate and I was like, those legs, like you think of those legs, like that's an iconic movie. Right. I can't think of a James Bond movie with legs, but I don't know.
00:03:00
Speaker
All right. Okay. Why?
Monica's Job Loss and Financial Struggles
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Speaker
Did Monica lose her job? Because she took a kickback. The stakes. That's correct. And it was against corporate policy. That's right.
00:03:15
Speaker
That's right. Kate had some feelings on that. That Monica being the ultimate rule follower would have known this. Ah, very good point. you know, because she is by the book.
00:03:25
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it See, and I went a totally different direction. Like, why don't we get any kickbacks in education? Like why is that not even an option? Hold on a minute. I want the opportunity to be fired for taking the kickback. Right. Right. Make it worthwhile.
00:03:44
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yes But I feel like if somebody is going to do that, there, there must be jobs where you can receive a kickback. Like where that is an acceptable thing order for there to be a corporate policy against it.
00:03:59
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Um, and And I just, I wish, you know, like, I don't know what our kickbacks would be. It probably wouldn't be steaks in an eggplant. No, it would it would be flare pens and sticky notes or something.
00:04:15
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I would gladly take that as a kickback. I bet you would, yeah. Some really good pinned some like smooth riding ones and flare pins. Yeah.
00:04:26
Speaker
I, and until Kate and I got married, I did not realize the importance of a quality flare pin. Oh my. Yeah. And don't be buying knockoff flare pins. No, no, no.
00:04:39
Speaker
And like the Sharpie super fine tip. Yeah. But flare pins, they run out really fast and they dry out fast. Flare pins, where it's at. I'm just saying. I am right there with you. Yeah.
00:04:53
Speaker
All right, my next question for you. How much does everybody initially owe Chandler for Ross's birthday?
00:05:00
Speaker
Ah! Oh, wait. For Ross's birthday. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. Yes, I know that. Oh, wait. What? Whenever... Hang on.
00:05:12
Speaker
but So they're sitting on the couch and he's on the phone with Julie and Chandler kind of goes, all right, everyone owes me. $62. $62 it is. okay Is there another? oh okay.
00:05:24
Speaker
Nevermind. was like, is there another, because like whenever they're out for dinner for Monica's thing, there is originally, and then, oh yeah. And this, and then, yeah.
00:05:36
Speaker
ah Okay. I got confused. All right. This one, I don't know how you're going to feel about it. All right. Can you name one of the two sitcoms that are referenced in this episode?
00:05:53
Speaker
Oh, I'm gonna have to think about this, but that's a great question. All right. One of two sitcoms. I like this question a lot.
00:06:03
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um ah did Let me think about this. Wow. Okay. So what sitcoms were going on at the time?
00:06:16
Speaker
Thinking about Jade, thinking about Hootie and the Blowfish. Um, God, I don't know. Tell me Okay. So the first one that is referenced is Love Boat.
00:06:30
Speaker
Whenever he, they're, uh, talking and it's Ross and Chandler and he's going back for a back and forth. And then he's like tattoo. He says like tattoo, some, um, whatever. And then he's like, my, um, my dream would be that you,
00:06:49
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don't talk like that or whatever the line is, you know, but whenever he is um talking, but he's referencing love boat, the tattoo, the plane, the plane, that guy.
00:07:01
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I think I didn't have that scene.
00:07:06
Speaker
Oh, no, you have that scene because it's whenever, well, it's whenever Jade first calls on the phone and and then he answers the phone and then he hangs up.
00:07:18
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And then Chandler's talking about how he's going to go and meet Jade at... No? Okay. know that scene. mean, that's at the very beginning. Yeah. And so he starts talking with a weird accent.
00:07:32
Speaker
I think I've got a shortened version of that on the stream. Okay, well, then then it's not that great of a question. other one The other one is whenever um He's like, why did Jade call on my phone to Chandler? And Chandler's like, well, i had to give her your number because she thinks my number is your dog's number. And he's like, so what do I do when Mr. Roper calls?
00:07:59
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that' That is, yes, that scene's there. Okay, and that's referencing Three's Company with Mr. Roper, the landlord. That's a great question.
00:08:11
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Yeah, except that you'd... See, my website only went through the first season. So I have no idea what scenes I have and don't anymore. So. Right. this is Good. No, but still, I like it.
00:08:27
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It's a good twist on bamboozled. I'm all for it. Yes. Okay. All right. So when Phoebe, Rachel and Joey talk about how the other guys don't understand their financial situation, what's Joey eating?
00:08:41
Speaker
Oh, he's eating a sandwich and he's putting mustard on it, isn't he? Oh, I think it's something else that he's putting mustard on. Oh, okay. What it? I'm pretty sure it's a pretzel.
00:08:53
Speaker
Is it? I think so. I think so. I just assumed I wasn't wearing my glasses. I assumed that was a sandwich, like a pastrami sandwich or something. Right. And I think this time it's a pretzel. Wow. Good job. all right.
00:09:08
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All right. Okay, in scene where Chandler is answers the phone and pretends to be Bob. Yes. And he's talking about Ross and him are like dancing and all that.
00:09:23
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What's in Ross's hands? Oh.
00:09:29
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Does he have a drink in his hand? Mm-hmm. He has a drink in his hand. He has two drinks. Two drinks. Interesting. Okay.
00:09:42
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Who calls Monica from his office to offer her the job? What's his name? Oh,
00:09:55
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oh man. ah ah i m it's Is it the same guy that ah she gets his desk whenever he's not there?
00:10:07
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It is not. Dang.
00:10:13
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Leo. Leon. Dang. Okay. I think you get three quarters of a point. Three quarters. ah Three quarters.
00:10:25
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I like it. Okay. All right. and What were the three things? the $62 that you referred to earlier. What are the three things that Chandler's collecting money for? Okay, I think that is the concert tickets, the cake, and the present.
00:10:47
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That is correct. And my question, was ah do we find out what the present is? No, and why is it the present, the concert? The concert tickets, right. I'm just saying. Maybe, I don't know.
00:11:00
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Okay.
Personal Stories and Concert Experiences
00:11:01
Speaker
Yeah, I'm right there with you. Okay, when Ross and Chandler are sitting in Central Park waiting for Jade, uh-oh, what musician's flyer's on the table?
00:11:13
Speaker
No, that's all the random information I was so excited about! So was I to see that flyer. It's Reverend Horton Heath!
00:11:25
Speaker
It is! Who I knew, Kate hadn't heard of him before. How did you know? And Kate doesn't, well... again Okay, but how do you know Reverend Horton Heate?
00:11:37
Speaker
I have to know this. So I think, like, I know who he is. I think it's because certain friends of mine, like, I feel like he's kind of like a niche. Very, niche very niche. So I've got certain friends who love Reverend Horton Heate.
00:11:52
Speaker
I don't really know Reverend Horton Heate. The people that love him are... are super super like into him it kind of like jimmy buffett or something like there's just that no no what jimmy buffett everybody loves jimmy buffett i couldn't i know like one song but there's some people love it yeah i'm jimmy buffett oh my god okay there's people who just like religiously follow certain people and i feel like it's in my head it was that the parent heads right the jimmy puppet yeah and there's reverend horton heat people and there's like insane clown posse people there's certain bands that have just this right just this cult following who just live by these people
00:12:41
Speaker
Okay. So I have to tell you a story just real quick and St. Cloud Posse handed out their demo tape. Of course, demo tape. I was in middle school and just off school property whenever I was in middle school.
00:12:57
Speaker
Uh huh. And look at the colony, which used to be teeny tiny, but now it's a destination place, which is yes so bizarre to me. So bizarre because it was tiny.
00:13:10
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But Reverend Horton Heat, I have been to concerts of his quite a few times. Really? Because one of my good friends, whenever I was in college and then ah my early twenties was one of the religious cult followers.
00:13:24
Speaker
And I was one that just like, if I don't go, I might miss something. And I honestly, it was weird to me because he was older and they dressed real fancy, but they played like hard music.
00:13:40
Speaker
It's like called Rockabilly or something. right And, okay. And, you know, and they're from Dallas, which is why he was always, they were, ah they, it's a triple, it's a trio, but that's why they were always here ah doing concerts.
00:13:59
Speaker
And in fact, do you know where he will be July 19th of this summer? um'm So I'm guessing he's in the Dallas area. So why not? Let's just guess Grinscape that's in the colony. That's probably not big enough.
00:14:16
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Actually, is at Aubrey City Park for a like since their music summer series.
00:14:27
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and I was so this morning and I was like, Joseph, we're going. And he said, OK. And so that's amazing July 19th, Reverend Horton Heat, right in the teeny tiny town of Aubrey, Texas.
00:14:44
Speaker
That's amazing. I had no idea. Yeah, it's just, I'm trying to think, there's just several bands that i associate with a, is it cult following? In a good way, Reverend Horton Heat, I associate Jimmy Buffett with the Parrot Heads, ICP and Fish.
00:15:00
Speaker
Or another one that feel just has, I don't know much about fish, but i just know like my brother-in-law's one, like they they will go and see them all over the place.
00:15:10
Speaker
Okay, so Alkaline Trio, I have followed my husband to Las Vegas, to Austin, all over to see Alkaline Trio.
00:15:22
Speaker
And then ah the Misfits. Like the original Misfits. We've traveled to Las Vegas specifically to see them. But because they were with Alkaline Trio.
00:15:35
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but So the Misfits, I don't know much about, but I now think i saw a meme once online that said, having a Misfits sticker on your truck is the 40-year-old guy's equivalent of live, laugh, love in your kitchen. Yeah.
00:15:51
Speaker
So every time I see a Misfits sticker, my neighbor has a Misfits sticker. Shout out to Brad across the street. All I think about is that meme.
00:16:04
Speaker
So i apologies to your good husband or any other Misfits fan out there because I know nothing about them other than, again, they have, yeah, I see the stickers. They have a following. Yeah. Well, and you go to ah you go to a concert, Manta,
00:16:18
Speaker
everybody around us knows every single word. And it's like the first, the first drum or the first drum beat or whatever, they know what song it is and they are ready.
00:16:32
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And I'm just like, yeah. I don't know any of these songs. But I'm in. Yeah. But I'm here for it. I love it. feel bad I stole your question, but hopefully.
00:16:45
Speaker
That's okay. That's okay. That was ah fun a fun, fun little random ah road. Yes. I love it. That's hysterical though.
00:16:59
Speaker
Okay. Um,
00:17:03
Speaker
Okay, so I have to make that question go away. and All right. How much does Rosk ask for everyone to pay for dinner the first time and then the second time?
00:17:17
Speaker
Okay, let's see. I'm going to learn my lesson. We're in season two and I'm learning my lesson about going back and having a look at my notes. He says... Especially with the numbers. I got to have a numbers question. absolutely. I was called out. I feel like I was called out last week.
00:17:34
Speaker
Right. Because I didn't have any. Well, let's see. It's initially, I think it's $33.50. And then he says, just everyone pay for what they ate or something like that.
00:17:49
Speaker
Okay. So actually it starts out with $28. And they were like, $28? with the owner And he goes, that's right. Monica didn't have to pay. Monica.
00:18:02
Speaker
$33.50. And they're like, for a little cucumber mush. ahmosh the this cumber Mush. mush. I love it. That's right. forgot to write down that first one. All right. Well, speaking of the restaurant, when they go out for dinner, what's the name of the restaurant?
00:18:23
Speaker
Oh, my gosh. Okay. I feel like I need to learn a lesson here. If there's ever a name or anything like that, you're going to ask. I am. I have no clue.
00:18:34
Speaker
You didn't see it, except it's on the back of the menus. So the back of everyone's menu. Oh, and it's written in gold. Yeah, that's it. If you don't know it, you won't guess it kind of thing. No, I have no clue. Yeah, it's Philo Sophie.
00:18:51
Speaker
And here's an interesting thing. That's definitely great price. It is. It is. If you Google it to check out if it's a real restaurant or not, first of all, it's not.
00:19:02
Speaker
Second of all, there's a children's cartoon all about teaching young kids the tenets of philosophy called Philo and Sophie. Completely unrelated. But it's, yeah, a cartoon about philosophy.
00:19:19
Speaker
that Who knew? Who knew? Every day a school day, right? It is indeed. We're 19 minutes and 24 seconds in. Every day is a school day.
00:19:31
Speaker
All right. So who is it that Monica runs into at the concert? That would be Little Stevie Fisher. Little Stevie Fisher. Yes.
00:19:42
Speaker
All right. What main course do Monica and Ross have at the restaurant? They both have the same main course. Yes, they do. And I know it has grilled prawns. That's It's just grilled prawns is all I have. They have a starter as well, but grilled prawns. Something with with grilled prawns.
00:20:00
Speaker
Yeah. yeah And it's something, thought it was like gazpachi, but then i i don't know. Something like that. Yes.
00:20:13
Speaker
Okay. All right. What do you have for us next? Oh, yeah. That's my turn. Sorry. Yeah, quite all right. like All right. The day after the concert, what did we kind of learn about Rachel whenever she was in high school?
00:20:30
Speaker
And I feel like this might not be the first time that this has come up. Would it be that she perhaps had some sort of fling with Stevie Fisher's dad? Yes.
00:20:41
Speaker
Yes. And is this the second time? That something has been said or it was this just ingrained in my brain? I don't know. no i feel like you're onto something about maybe Monica and Rachel, you know, revealing. Because there was somebody else that she babysat and then, yeah, but it definitely the dad thing.
00:21:06
Speaker
Oh my God. You're onto something. Rachel. Rachel, Rachel, Rachel. Now, my next question for you, I need to think. how to phrase this. Okay, so when Ross, Chandler, and Monica surprised the others with the steaks, eggplant, and the tickets.
00:21:22
Speaker
I already know your question. Go ahead. All right, but mike I think you know one part of my two-part question, but you're going to know both the answers. They're all wearing the same color shirt, and they're wearing a certain material.
00:21:36
Speaker
Oh, denim. Denim. And so as they're all wearing some sort of denim and all wearing the same color shirt. What color shirt is it?
00:21:47
Speaker
Is it white? and Well, Monica's wearing a white long sleeve and she's got a black thing tied around her waist. You were right. It's white. Yeah, Monica's wearing like a tank top kind of thing.
00:21:59
Speaker
Chandler's just wearing a white t-shirt and Rob Ross, we can assume, is wearing a white t-shirt. It's definitely a white something underneath a button-up sort of shirt. Okay. Nice one.
00:22:10
Speaker
Nice. Thank you. But that is not the question I thought you were going to ask about that scene. What's the line that Ross says that really seems like it should have been Chandler saying?
00:22:27
Speaker
And later we've had a conversation about this. Oh, what are the words? I know what you're talking about because he says it in ah Chandler's Cadence. Uh-huh.
00:22:38
Speaker
You know, so and it's not this, but something like, could we be any more excited? But it's not that. But it's something like that. I'm not going to get it. ah He goes, could you be less enthused?
00:22:50
Speaker
Enthused, that's it. Yes. Yeah.
00:22:56
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But I was like, what? Who said that? And I had to go back. And I was like, that was weird. But do you remember you you made a comment about Ross talking like that, and then later it's Chandler who talks like that all the time. It transitions over.
00:23:13
Speaker
Yeah. Uh-huh. All right. What does Phoebe say they can use the extra seats at the concert for? Monica. The tiaras and things. tiaras and things. Yes. I like that line. I can see that Chandler gets so mad.
00:23:29
Speaker
Why were you looking at me? Why were you looking at me? I love it. All right. do you have any more? i I don't. I'm all out. Well, I've got two more for you.
00:23:40
Speaker
Great. When Phoebe notices Monica's hickey and walks around Central Park, she has a big mug in her hand. What color is the mug? Dadgum.
00:23:51
Speaker
Yep. Is it blue? It is not. It is yellow. Hey, she has yellow a lot. She does have yellow. lot ah Again, okay if I had more time on my hands and I'm sure somebody's done, I'd love to like track that.
00:24:08
Speaker
Do they have certain mugs that they prefer? Yeah, because I feel like that would be accurate for everybody. Yes. I have two mugs that I prefer at my house and it ruins my day if they're both dirty.
00:24:22
Speaker
So I've got my main mug, which I just came about this last school year. I won it in a school raffle. And and it's it's a round mug. And I've decided that this is my favorite mug. holds just the right amount of coffee.
00:24:37
Speaker
And then I have two backup mugs. One... So one of my two backup mugs, though, I use that one when Rangers, my football slash soccer team from back home, play. but When they play, I have to drink out my Rangers mug.
00:24:50
Speaker
It's meant to be good luck. It doesn't work. But I'm sticking with it. I can't give it up now. As you should. Right. Yeah, mean, for years. You stick with Maybe 10 years. That has been my mug that I use and when Rangers play.
00:25:02
Speaker
Other than that, it's an up mug. Maybe we should post a picture on our socials of our favorite mugs and see what our listeners have. Let's do that. Oh, that would be so fun. We should definitely do that.
00:25:16
Speaker
Kate has a favorite mug. feel like everybody does. And I've tried to figure out like my favorite stuff. My favorite two and then the one that I'm okay with.
00:25:28
Speaker
Like, what do they all have in common? You know? Right. i I don't know. All right. Let's do that. We'll do that today. We'll post our favorite mugs. um All right.
00:25:39
Speaker
My final question for you, speaking of coffee and sort of, how much was Monica's coffee and muffin in the final scene? Oh, it was $4 and something cents.
00:25:50
Speaker
Yeah. Like maybe $12 or $13. 12 cents i was just about to say you kind of have a one in 100 or one in 99 shot and you got it okay it's four dollars and 12 cents but joey asks chandler for five dollars he does to cover tip i'm sure i'm sure Very good. Very good. for jo Good for Joey. Before we move on with this ah into the review, just because I'm quite excited.
00:26:20
Speaker
I don't go to the movies a lot. um We have discussed this, that there's many a movie I haven't seen. I did say to Kate last night, I'm going to come up with a list of five movies that I'm going to watch over the summer. like without um Five is doable. A league of their own.
00:26:35
Speaker
i I had the misfortune, the foolishness to start off with, oh, you know, a movie like The Godfather that I've not seen. And she stared at me across the couch and went, ah you mean A League of Their Own? i said, yes, yes, that's what I meant. That's the first one.
00:26:51
Speaker
Thank you, Kate. Yes. i mean i i mean i mean she just immediately glared at me like what am i the godfather what are you talking about so league of their own you do need to watch the godfather though i do but yeah i don't go to the movies often when i do i inevitably have a good time but it usually takes like i really need to like some people go to the movies and it's less about the movie kate's a bit like this she loves the experience The getting settled in your chair, the popcorn, the this, the that.
00:27:25
Speaker
I like, are if it's a really good movie I want to see, I'll go to the theater. There's a new Jurassic Park movie out this week. And I'm quite into it. Like the original is far and away the best.
00:27:37
Speaker
Right. But the other ones have kept the kind of been pretty good too, I feel. Like it it hasn't fallen off a cliff and they've just it's old and tired. Like I do like it would be pretty decent.
00:27:49
Speaker
So I am excited to go and see Jurassic Park this week. Okay, that's awesome. Because this one, a couple of them, they didn't really excite me. So like I didn't see them.
00:28:01
Speaker
But like this one? Is there something about the previews that have made me intrigued? Right. Yeah, i think there's I think there's been five. I might be wrong. I think I've maybe seen three.
00:28:13
Speaker
first one is stands the First one stands on its own as being one of the greatest movies of all time. And that's one also, yes, that has a bunch of lines that we use all the time.
00:28:24
Speaker
Like, hold on to your butt. Okay. then Yeah. Yes, yes. We could get off on a tangent here. i I went up to Kansas this week, and on the way back, I was listening to a podcast that had a couple of um paleontologists on it, and they were talking about literally just the Jurassic Park franchise.
Dinosaurs and Wrestling Discussions
00:28:45
Speaker
sort of balancing out how it got so many people in the nineties into dinosaurs and all the wonderful things that that is. But then also they had to fight their paleontologist,
00:28:58
Speaker
I guess, um feelings of the inaccuracies. And was interesting. Like we, could again, we could go off on a tangent. I was going to say, was Ross Geller in that?
00:29:10
Speaker
and Because at some point in this, it's like a Jurassic Park could really happen. And he comes unglued. Yeah, fee Phoebe says that. You can just see it. go So it was an interesting little podcast. um Little a podcast. Such content.
00:29:24
Speaker
An interesting, really good podcast about that stuff. Anyway, I'm excited to go and see Jurassic Park. um I do enjoy those. I'll re-watch the first one, I think, before we go.
00:29:35
Speaker
But we have spent almost half the amount of time we usually spend on a podcast doing bamboozled. So sorry, guys. I guess we are a little unhinged and off today. What is happening about it?
00:29:49
Speaker
What is happening here? But we shall dive into the to the review. We start off in the boys' apartment. Ross and Chandler are indeed watching wrestling. ah The phone rings, but Chandler's like, I'm doing a new screening process.
00:30:03
Speaker
Want to make sure, you know, people don't think I'm home all the time. um And then he comments that Rodrigo never gets pinned. Like, I guess he's quite into the wrestling. Now, wrestling can divide a group of people here. I know people who love it, people who hate it. Do you have any feelings on on the wrestling?
00:30:22
Speaker
I, real life wrestling, I could not be more bored. I'm right there with you. and i I say this with all the love of my heart to all the wrestlers out there because people who are into it are super into it.
00:30:37
Speaker
Right. Good luck. I'd love that for you. but For me, not so much, but. You add some storyline and some terrible acting in there. And I am here for it. I am here for it.
00:30:49
Speaker
see I'm not, but yet I understand because I've got things in my life that other people go like, what in the world are you talking about? You know, perhaps like a friend's podcast. got hey But you know what? It's just our thing and we love it.
00:31:05
Speaker
So if that's how you feel about wrestling, good for you. It's just not thing. start a podcast. I'm just saying my husband my husband's watched all, there's all these documentaries on one of the services that we pull from.
00:31:20
Speaker
And he's watched and he's, oh yeah, I remember that from whenever I was a kid. and a lot of it, you know, like the Von Eriks and, you know, I remember Randy Macho Man.
00:31:34
Speaker
yeah yes and all them and then whenever i was in college with the rock and steve ah or stone cold steve austin and you know and there it's there's it's fun yeah may me say my daughter made fun of me a little bit and rightly so because i was up in kansas visiting her for a couple of days this week that and after dinner She's amazing. She's just yes she's just one a wonderful human being as well as being an amazing daughter.
00:32:03
Speaker
But after dinner, I said, do you want to go to the Stone Cold Creamery?
00:32:08
Speaker
but and yeah and And their husband was like, ah, that's a wrestler. And I was like, yeah, and I think I've probably said that. I've always said stone cold creamery until it was pointed out to me. It's cold stone creamery. Yeah. So I wonder how many times I've said that and people have been too kind to point out the error of my ways.
00:32:31
Speaker
But I feel like you're probably not the only one. Probably not. The one that does that, because i feel like my husband would do that on purpose. We're just going to be completely unhinged all episode. Did you know Kate went to school with the Von Ericks?
00:32:44
Speaker
Did you know that? No! What? Yeah, they went to her school. She's got very sort of tenuous, loose connections. She doesn't pretend that she was great friends with them, but like some of her friends were friends with them, or maybe her brother was in some of their years at school. What?
00:32:58
Speaker
i think I think she has been in their family RV or something. There's some, yeah, but she, she like ran in the same kind of circles as them. I think, cause we went to see that movie in the theater and I Googled it.
00:33:13
Speaker
and you will know this having worked in Denton ISD, again, sorry, listeners, this is a very ah North Texas-focused introduction, where McMath Middle School stands right now in South Denton.
00:33:25
Speaker
Yeah, That is the land where the Von Erichs land was. They had some land there. Like, there's some crazy local connections. Like, if I Googled it. I was like, where was the ranch or whatever that was in the movie?
00:33:38
Speaker
And then, like, it's on somebody. road It's now where the middle school stands. That's crazy. There you go. Yeah, but Kate has some kind of, I wouldn't say loose connections. They're more than that. but Yeah. And of course she Man, that's awesome.
00:33:54
Speaker
Yes. But let's see. where Where are we? I don't even know what's going on. We're almost to the end of the first scene.
Chandler's Phone Antics
00:34:01
Speaker
That's right. This might be the longest episode we've ever recorded. Let's see what happens.
00:34:06
Speaker
um Again, apologies, listeners, but Jade is on the phone and Chandler is trying this new screening thing, but he grabs the phone um because she wants to hook up with Bob again. And I guess it's just luck of the draw.
00:34:20
Speaker
Why does Chandler do it a different voice? Because he doesn't know what Bob sounds like. It could sound just like Chandler. But he goes for this new voice, and I guess it fools Jade. um Yeah.
00:34:31
Speaker
She goes for it. Then we you know we have the opening credits and that's when Chandler's um on the phone. She says she's been partying way too much. And ah he suggests that they get to together at Central Park in the village.
00:34:46
Speaker
Kate brought up the fact that she thinks this is the first time where they say where Central Park is in New York. Like if you're not familiar with New York, yes you would know. set And I think she's right.
00:34:58
Speaker
um I don't think they've said in the village before. No, I don't think so either because that really stood out and I was like, so oh, okay. So now that makes sense as to where they actually are. Yeah. I say that like I'm familiar with the different areas of New York because I am not, but I know that the village is one of the areas.
00:35:21
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. So lower Manhattan, that the but the village. Yeah. and so he's the After they hang up. So this is where maybe our um our episodes.
00:35:35
Speaker
Yes. weren't Exactly the same because he's like, um yeah he sets up Central Perk in the village five ish. All right. See then. And then he hangs up and then he's like, you know, are don't you think that he's going to and and she's going to notice that you're not Bob.
00:35:56
Speaker
And he's like, well, she may. and then he starts talking about, you know, how our challenge starts talking about how whenever she realizes she's been stood up, ah he'll she'll seek comfort in the arms of oh what does he say? Yeah, the arms of a stranger or a loving stranger, sympathetic, to something. Yeah. yeah And then he's talking all weird. And then he's like, well, you see, tattoo, my one wish would be you talk like a normal person.
00:36:26
Speaker
And then he's like, you know, this is evil, pure evil. And then he does like the hands that he's like, I've ive i done this one, might as well try the pure evil one.
00:36:39
Speaker
That's right. I mean, I wonder if just a tiny bit was cut out. I'll need to clear. Just a tiny bit. um But we end up going across the hole hall.
00:36:50
Speaker
um Ross is on the phone with Julie, who we discovered is in New Mexico, I assume on some sort of dinosaur dig. That's what I would make that assumption. um And then Chandler's trying to settle up for Ross's birthday.
00:37:02
Speaker
How would you feel about somebody throwing you a birthday? it but Or even like a planned one or a surprise one? Do you embrace that and you love it? I didn't think so. now I'm right there with you. And again, it's...
00:37:15
Speaker
perhaps not uncommon that's anxiety inducing to me yes 100 yeah well and we see that later whenever they're at dinner they start talking about it and ross is like wait what what oh yeah and then it is it's a very anxiety inducing to think about How much money did these people spend? and And then is somebody feeling that kind of way that we had to spend this much for this and wasn't worth it?
00:37:46
Speaker
And so whenever it's their birthday, we got to make sure it's, and I don't, I'm assuming that we're on the same page, but like, it's just, it's yeah.
00:37:58
Speaker
ah You don't want negative feelings around that, you know? Yeah. Like I could see if, if Kate said, hey, would you like to go out for dinner and invite a few friends?
00:38:10
Speaker
Like, that's fine. Everyone's just buying their own dinner. We're hanging out at a restaurant. that yeah That's about my limit. But don't have a party in sort of honor of me or something. That would make me feel very awkward and uncomfortable, I think.
00:38:22
Speaker
Absolutely. Yes, yes, yes. yeah But, okay, there's this guy that I follow. His name is Kyle Sheely. And he is hilarious. Yes.
00:38:34
Speaker
And I bought his book. It's called How to Throw a Viking Funeral. And he does these things for his birthday every year. And so like that Viking funeral was a funeral for his twenty I believe.
00:38:50
Speaker
And so he built this giant boat of letters that people sent and they burned it for his birthday.
00:39:01
Speaker
And that was awesome. And then his birthday this past year, they did this thing with rock and because rocks are cool. And so everybody came and they had like a picnic and everybody had to find the coolest rock. And then they dug up this rock from the ground that they found.
00:39:21
Speaker
And I'm like, like that, that's cool. But he was in charge of that. He's like, here's something really cool we should all do. And it's my birthday, so let's do it now.
00:39:33
Speaker
And, and you know, it that that's more like if if you're going to do something, you know, do something cool that's an experience versus having, I don't know.
00:39:48
Speaker
And that's why it struck me weird. Like, why did they buy a gift? Why were the concert tickets not the gift and the experience? like That would be my thing. Yeah, concert tickets.
00:39:59
Speaker
It's a great gift. A big gift. That's fantastic. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, yeah so they Chandler's trying to settle the bill up, and that's um you know for the present, the concert, the cake, but then he leaves to meet Jade, and I love that Ross follows him out. Ross is invested in this story.
00:40:18
Speaker
Yeah, yes. He needs to see how it plays out, but Ross and Joey and Phoebe, Sorry, Rachel, Joey, and Phoebe, they're talking about you know how they don't have the money. You know, poor guys.
00:40:29
Speaker
Yeah, she said, what are y'all doing for dinner? He's like, well, I got to start saving, so I'll probably save them and eat dust bunnies. That made me laugh. I was like, yes. It's a great line.
00:40:41
Speaker
ah Monica comes in and she's You know, talking about how Leon called her in to make a head of purchasing and head lunch chef. um Very excited about it. Congratulations to Monica.
00:40:54
Speaker
But she wants to go out somewhere to eat to celebrate, you know, somewhere nice. ah Right. Somewhere nice. You know, it's just it's compounding on poor Phoebe, Joey and Rachel.
00:41:07
Speaker
All of this money that they're going to have to spend. and We go downstairs to Central Park and Ross Chandler see Jade. And ross Ross is trying to take, I guess, the higher road here, the moral high ground. You need to tell Jade the truth.
00:41:22
Speaker
ah But Chandler goes over there and... No, that's not happening. That's not happening. um He just knows that she's been stood up, you know, because that's him. He's sensitive. he the It's such a great idea. I'm weird and I'm sensitive.
00:41:38
Speaker
That's right. The tissues, I'm all cried out today. Might be my favorite line of this episode. I'm all cried out today. You can keep the pack, you know. Yeah.
00:41:50
Speaker
It's just brilliantly done. um We do leave that scene pretty quickly. We end up going over to the restaurant, assuming it's later that night. um Ross gives a toast to Monica, although Monica keeps interrupting him.
00:42:03
Speaker
um yeah Chandler arrives late. He's sorry, but he's not sorry. He spent the afternoon with Jade. um Now, the waiter... The waiter.
00:42:14
Speaker
What a jerk. Yeah, what's the point? And if you're paying this much for dinner, service should at least not be rude. Right. At the very least.
00:42:27
Speaker
And there's no reason for him to be rude. Like, they if somebody had done something to him, okay, fight fire with fire. But this nobody's done anything. He's just being mean for the sake of being mean.
00:42:41
Speaker
a Now, Joey orders this Thai chicken pizza, Rachel gets a side salad, and Phoebe, as you alluded to Bamboozled, a cup of cucumber soup.
00:42:52
Speaker
Chandler gets this Cajun catfish and then asks for a rendition of Killing Me Softly, um hoping the waiter doesn't sneeze in his fish. and You're going to sneeze in my fish, aren't you? Yes.
00:43:06
Speaker
Yes. ah Oh, it's good. Ross divides up the check. Let's see, you brought it up. It ends up being 33, 50 a piece after he remembers that Monica shouldn't have to pay. And that's when the argument sort of, argument may be a little strong at this point, but that's when this bubbles over. The fact that three of the friends just aren't making much money and three of them are.
00:43:29
Speaker
um Yeah. Causes an uncomfortable divide. um I do like, yeah. and I was going to say the part where Rachel kind of snaps back at Ross. sort of He's like, I guess I don't really think about money. And she's like, that's because you have it Right.
00:43:48
Speaker
you know And he's trying so hard to be politically and the not judgy and not. rude, you know? Yeah.
00:43:59
Speaker
Yeah. I do think he's trying to be, no, saying I don't really think about it does separate you from the rest. But I do feel generally speaking, he's trying to bring everyone together.
00:44:11
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's doing a pretty good job there. um Chandler tries to break the tension. Hey, the Ebola virus, huh? Which kind of dates this episode. Yeah, it does.
00:44:22
Speaker
Okay. Okay. Did the line, does ever anybody else feel like they gave birth to an alien? the Did that line make it into yours? No. That was such a strange line. That cut. I can't believe the one that said it.
00:44:38
Speaker
And everybody's like, ugh. And then he goes, and then they were like, wait, no. No. Nobody feels like that. No, that's not there. i figured. figured.
00:44:50
Speaker
I figured, but I made a note and underlined it because, you know, some of the things that get cut, I'm like, yeah, that probably is something that got cut. Or I can see why they cut that.
00:45:03
Speaker
And that was something that I was like, yeah, I bet you that's something that got cut. Yeah. Yeah. It's like an editor's cut, I'm sure. Something that won't be missed when the girl's screaming.
00:45:16
Speaker
Well, and it doesn't even make sense. Yeah, that's an odd line, one that we we we yeah don't miss in the stream. No. um I guess this is the next day we end up back in the girls' apartment. This is where Ross Chandler and Monica are going to surprise the others with the steaks, the eggplant, and the hooty tickets.
00:45:36
Speaker
um They're trying to do a nice thing. The other three say it feels like charity and it turns into an argument. Who do you think is in the right here? Where do you kind of fall on this? um On this, I think that Rachel, Joey and Phoebe were being ridiculous.
00:45:54
Speaker
I agree. I agree. Monica Chandler and Ross are genuinely doing a really nice kind thing. and And it's Ross's birthday. and yeah he wants this to happen, then you make that happen.
00:46:10
Speaker
yeah I don't understand. Like it's so, it's petty. Yeah, it's not, that's not charity to me. And they' and I think Ross says, it who is it, says, you know well, if you feel like that, that might not be our fault. And whoever says that, I think they're in the right.
00:46:27
Speaker
Yeah. um Because it's not, I mean, how do you, they're just trying to give a nice gift so everyone's all together. um Right. Right.
Concert Venue and Age Differences
00:46:35
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I'm trying to think of an example. i We're in education.
00:46:38
Speaker
None of it. We're not loaded with money. and So I know this has happened. I just can't think of an exact situation where somebody said to me, hey, I'd really like us to do this.
00:46:50
Speaker
I'm going to buy it for you. um because it's a lot of money and perhaps they could afford to do it i would never take that as charity i don't think i'd say as a really kind gesture and i hope i could do that for somebody else one day and maybe you know sort of thing yeah i think that uh yeah ross chandler and monica they're in the right here but ross chandler and monica again they're going to end up going to the concert now do you have any strong feelings on hootie the blowfish
00:47:18
Speaker
No, not strong feelings. I like him. They're a great nineties band. I love that Hootie went on and did his country thing. And I love him as a country singer.
00:47:29
Speaker
Um, like not super strong, but like I, I genuinely like, I would not be a cult following. I would not be right. But if I was friends with somebody who was a cult following, I would easily be dragged along to go in and and while everybody around me knows all the words to all the songs.
00:47:49
Speaker
So it's interesting you you bring up cult following because I'm not like a ah huge fan, but I really like the band. Like I think it's 90s, excuse me, 90s nostalgia as well as the fact I just like the music. I think they're genuinely a really, really good band.
00:48:06
Speaker
I'm not a big country music guy at all, but I really like Darius Rucker's version. Darius Rucker, I could not think of his name until right then. But there's quite a few of his songs that like, if I wanted to right now, I could start singing.
00:48:20
Speaker
ah Exactly. yeah I could think of three. Well, for me, that's lot. I'm with you. but i'm with you Funny you bring up the number three. I did a quick Google on Hootie and the Blowfish. So I was like, OK, let me see what else they have that I'm maybe not aware of.
00:48:36
Speaker
They only had three top 10 singles as a group, which surprised me. I was like, i would have thought it was a lot more. But for some reason, they maybe didn't hit the stratospheric heights that i thought they did, but for some reason they have this longevity over decades and decades, despite only ever having three top ten hits.
00:48:58
Speaker
Now that doesn't include Darius Rucker, of course, in his country stuff, which again, this and there's something about his voice, it's got like a Morgan Freeman or a Denzel Washington tone to it just like whatever they do i'm kind of in like yeah it's just really really good and he seems like a really nice guy too um when i've seen interviews stuff with him which helps but uh so yeah again not a big fan but i really really enjoy their music um yeah yeah interesting yeah ah but only three talked that one that that surprised me a bit um
00:49:37
Speaker
So let's see, we end up but we're back in the boys' apartment. Ross comes over to get Chandler for the concert. I love the way that Chandler's hiding. Well, not hiding, but he's behind the door. Scares Ross when he comes He announces that he and ah Jade, to use a Big Bang Theory reference, have had coitus, and he's very excited about it.
00:49:58
Speaker
Have you ever watched the Big Bang Theory? Oh, yeah. Yeah. The dork show over here. Right. yeah i I binge watched it a couple of years ago. Watched it through.
00:50:11
Speaker
Very funny. Don't know I'll watch again, but it was it was a funny show. And again, bouncing ball. Denton gets a reference in one of the episodes. um Really? ah Yeah, shel Sheldon says he has a cousin something from Denton, Texas. Oh, uh-huh.
00:50:27
Speaker
Yep, yep, because his whole family's from Tyler. Yes, yeah it something like that, yes, East Texas. um So Chandler's very excited about this, but then Jade calls, and let's just say Chandler's bubble is burst.
00:50:41
Speaker
What humiliating moment when... and And you can tell Ross is just getting more and more and more uncomfortable as the conversations go. Absolutely. oh Like I just wanting to that Homer Simpson meme where you just, he goes back and takes into the hedge.
00:51:00
Speaker
I don't want to be here. Yeah. Ross, I think has lots of sympathy for Chandler. Like, Oh, this is, this is painful. um But yeah. Poor old Chandler.
00:51:12
Speaker
but they end up going to the concert um having a great time they feel bad now hold on hold on can we discuss the theater that they're in looks like a movie theater if that to me it's the exact same theater it's the same coloring the same seats and everything else that they go to watch freud in ah i didn't catch that yes and you could totally tell like it's just not a very large venue No, it's a tiny venue.
00:51:43
Speaker
Which I thought was very interesting because like for, to go see a band like that in a small venue, it probably would have been like a bar with a stage and a lot of standing room with some seats.
00:51:57
Speaker
It wouldn't be like a theater like that in my opinion. Right. Yeah. It was a very odd, very narrow. Yeah. Yeah. and yeah I thought it was odd. Yeah. Yeah. immediately looked to be like a cinema, like a movie theater.
00:52:11
Speaker
Yeah. You know, but yeah, very, very peculiar. But they're going to leave, but they end up saying, oh, we'll just stay for a song so we're not being rude to the band, but evidently end up staying for the whole thing.
00:52:23
Speaker
Of course they It seems like a... Would you Would you leave? mean, if you got into... I mean, nobody's leaving. Once you've made the trek there, you've got the tickets and you're there...
00:52:40
Speaker
The guilt is never going to be enough to just leave. know you Like you said, you've made the choice. Yeah. Stay for the concert. And it's certainly a much better alternative than sitting in the girl's apartment playing guess the number behind Joey's back.
00:52:55
Speaker
You know, like a four second scene, but how dull. They couldn't come up with anything better to do. you know They know how to play poker. They've got travel scrabble. Like we know these things, but they're going guess the number.
00:53:11
Speaker
um yeah We bounce straight back over to the concert. It's the end of the show. And Monica is recognized by ah Stevie Fisher, who's the attorney who represents the band. Little Stevie Fisher.
00:53:22
Speaker
Yeah, she's wearing an ugly tan suit. That's very similar to the ugly tan suit that Ross wearing. wearing whenever he brought his big dinosaur briefcase.
00:53:34
Speaker
Right. that so two Very similar. it's the It's the era of the ugly 10 suit. Maybe so. Maybe yeah yeah so. they Tell me this, and I've not really thought this through, so I could be completely wrong.
00:53:47
Speaker
But at this point, Monica is, say, 24, 25. Right? Maybe. Maybe. Not any older other than that. Stevie's been to law school.
00:54:00
Speaker
Right? So right I assume that is a five or six year, you know, stint at university. You got to get your degree in four years and then there's more stuff to do, I think.
00:54:14
Speaker
But basically... Maybe interning. Maybe he's interning. But my thought was basically they're the same age.
00:54:22
Speaker
So if Monica... Is Monica babysitting somebody at best a year or two younger than her? Well, she tells him he's eight. So I figure she's probably supposed to be like six or seven years older than him.
00:54:38
Speaker
Right. Which would put if she's, say, 24, that would put him at 18. He's not working for a law firm. You know, again, we're split just splitting hairs. It was just something that jumped at me.
00:54:49
Speaker
Because I was thinking he looks really young. Like, just in general, he looks like a young guy to be working for a law firm to me. He looked like he was 18. yeah But anyway, the numbers, perhaps, again, were when they wrote this line 30 years ago, they didn't think there's going to be two people deciphering this. Diving in.
00:55:11
Speaker
Diving in about numbers. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I would go with that. He's, he's an intern and maybe he's a child prodigy. I mean, you know, maybe.
00:55:24
Speaker
yeah ye so Some kind of loss. But I seriously doubt that. Yeah. That they really thought that all the way through. Didn't think this through. He ends up taking them back to, to meet the band.
00:55:36
Speaker
Um, Before asking if she was one of the ones that fooled around. That's right. yeah Oh God. It's a pretty bold thing to ask anyone, especially a public setting, like very casually asking.
00:55:53
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. um The gang are all end up, they end up back together the next day. It looks like they're all making up, you know, everyone's kind of cooled off a bit. um They kind of missed each other.
00:56:05
Speaker
And that's when Rachel gives the line. Yeah. How's his dad? Yeah. Oh, Rachel. Chandler Ross and Monica reveal they partied with the band and, um you know, there's the hickey on Monica's neck.
00:56:20
Speaker
There's been the work of a blowfish. Now, again, I think we're going to side on the same side. Phoebe has no right to get upset again. Like, they've kind of moved on and just because they partied with the band, well, of course they're going to and that's not because they make more money.
00:56:38
Speaker
That's just an opportunity. Because they were there. You could have done it too. You had the opportunity. So you could be jealous, I guess, but that's not anyone's fault other than your own if you're going to place blame because you turned down the chance to go.
00:56:53
Speaker
Exactly. Yeah. yeah Yeah. And that you know Chandler's defending the fact that they make more money and the argument starts to gather some some speed again before Monica's phone rings or the pager goes off.
00:57:06
Speaker
Yeah, her beeper goes off. That's right. The beeper the part of This promotion, and she's on the phone with, i assume it's Leon. We don't really know. And it's against the corporate policy to take the steaks and the eggplant, and she's going to get fired, unfortunately. It's um it's a a bit a shame. It's against the policy. It's against the policy.
00:57:30
Speaker
But such such a sad thing because she was so excited about this job. um Yeah. And that does seem to shake everyone back into reality a bit and they a bit and they realize what's important.
00:57:44
Speaker
And, um you know, they all gather around Monica. Joey offers to pay the bill that has to borrow the money from Chandler, which I think is I think it's a beautiful way of them all coming back together.
00:57:56
Speaker
But still a recognition that Joey doesn't have the five dollars that's needed. He has to borrow it from Chandler. It's really well done. Now, I will tell you, I looked up something. Well, I didn't look this up, but I read something about this final scene that I found was really interesting.
00:58:14
Speaker
um We're in the boy's apartment. I love the way Joey sticks his head up when he when ah Jade leaves another message for Bob. a Sticks his head up, he's listening, and he's just listening in.
00:58:27
Speaker
and then i can't remember, probably not podcast appropriate, but Jade said something that makes him leap across the couch. ah yeah In the script, he is meant to answer the phone and go, Bob here, in a fake voice.
00:58:43
Speaker
But he obviously hits the phone, it flies off the couch top and he falls on the floor. and It's unclear from what I read if that was deliberate on Matt LeBlanc's part.
00:58:54
Speaker
Or he it was next he tried to grab the phone and I've watched it twice and it looks deliberate to me, but you can't tell like you there's no telling because it's almost comical the way it happens.
00:59:07
Speaker
But that of course could be the way it happened if he tries to grab the phone and slips and it wouldn't be the first time he has slipped or fallen on set accidentally. oh yeah But I love that that was left in Yeah, for sure. That's so funny.
00:59:22
Speaker
That is so funny. i wonder i wonder. Yeah. but curiousre A nice little curious thing to end end this review with. um Now, I wrote down for brand new information that I've already talked about. it There was only three top 10 singles by Hootie and the Blowfish.
00:59:40
Speaker
And you'll probably know these three p songs. Hold My Hand i' in 94. Let Her Cry in 94. And then Only Want to Be With You. I think their biggest hit in 95. And that's the one that it started off with, right?
00:59:53
Speaker
In the concert? No, that was um I Go Blind. Okay, that's what I wrote down, but yeah that wasn't one of the top? what it wasn't It didn't. According to the website I read, now it wasn't IMDB or anything.
01:00:08
Speaker
It wasn't Wikipedia. It was something else. They said that song never made it into the top ten as a single. That's crazy. Yeah, I'm going to ask you. That's crazy.
01:00:18
Speaker
Yeah, because it seems very unusual. what because it it's And it might just be like it was number 12 for 900 weeks or something. yeah you know And it just never went to the top 10, but was in the top 100.
01:00:37
Speaker
to See, that used to be one of my favorite things on the weekends was to listen to the top 100. Right. says show. like Do you remember that radio show or no?
01:00:48
Speaker
Did y'all have that? Casey Kasem. Uh-huh. and I know all of it. Okay. Oh, I loved it because we had a radio station here that like whenever it went through the top 100, it would play the the whole show again on Sunday.
01:01:07
Speaker
And so you would, if you missed like the top 20, then you could listen to it again in a couple of hours. and be interesting yeah i never listened to it we had similar shows back home um i know i know the name casey casem and i know that was like his thing was the top four and then ryan seacrest took it over i believe yeah ryan seacrest yeah right that was it was a big deal because like casey casem and then ryan seacrest took that over and then ryan seacrest took over the the uh ball in new york on new year's
01:01:45
Speaker
You know, right you can see it that from the guy that always did. dick clark clark Dick Clark. Yeah. yeah Yeah. How fun. Okay. Well, that's random.
01:01:57
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So, um yeah, just I guess there's lots of different charts. And on some charts, I go blind, made it out up to like number two. But on the actual Billboard chart, um it only hit number 22.
01:02:12
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i hit like 17 on the US mainstream top 40 airplay chart. Yeah. 22 on the adult contemporary chart.
01:02:23
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13 in Canada. Yeah. So it just depends, I guess i guess it's more of a ah main musical minefield than I realized, but there's, cause there's lots of different charts.
01:02:37
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So I guess- Yeah, but the Billboard Top 100 is your, that's That's the one, right? Because, yeah, because it's your pop music, like it's overall music.
01:02:49
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It's not just one specific genre or one specific type of music. Yeah, okay. i go us yeah So I Go Blind reached number two in the US Adult Top 40 chart, but only 22 on the US Adult Contemporary chart.
01:03:07
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So maybe it did. And then 13 on the mainstream. But it gained fame from being in the featured in the Friends sitcom. And it is on the Friends album. there was it I owned this back in the day, the Friends CD that had songs from the you know all the songs that were featured in the series.
01:03:23
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um And it was on there, that track. Awesome. That's cool. Yeah, it's kind of fun. um All right. So let's transition over. I've suddenly lost my piece of paper.
01:03:35
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There you To the, to the, your Gunther Central Park. This was tricky for me. i would love to hear who you chose. It was so tricky for me because I was like, I have no reasons.
01:03:47
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That's it. Right.
01:03:50
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since I have no I have no reasons at all. And I was going back and forth between Monica and Ross. But for no reason. So yeah I picked Ross because i don't ever pick him.
01:04:03
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So. I think that's a good enough reason. I mean. Yeah. I mean. ah i I don't know. ah he He tried. I appreciated that he was trying to keep everybody happy.
01:04:17
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And that his birthday ended up being this catalyst into a fight. And he he didn't ask for that. And. You know, and as I picked the same character for the same reason.
01:04:34
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I sat there and I went, nobody really stood out for me. But whether this is actually accurate or it's just my interpretation, I feel Ross tried the most to bring the group together during during this this tough time. So for that reason, I'm going with Ross. The the same reason as you.
01:04:52
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There you go. All right, excellent. Yeah. So we're sitting in Central Park. We have huge yellow cups. We're not discussing each other's salary or money woes or anything like that.
01:05:04
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or Or who's picking up the tab. Or who's picking up the tab. We're not discussing it. We are discussing how many cups of coffee we would have to enjoy this episode. How many would you give this episode?
01:05:17
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Eight and eight an espresso shot. Goodness, all right. And I really liked this episode. It was hilarious. I appreciated that I couldn't figure out a Gunther Central perk.
01:05:32
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yeah There was a lot of laugh out loud moments and it was just a good story. i enjoyed it lot. I don't know. but no ah Good. you don't you don't after You don't need a reason, right? Yeah. There is no rubric. It's all feelings. It's all gut instinct. i Like, Kate and I were talking the other night. we like I was like, you know, i I know Friends like the back of my hand.
01:05:57
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I don't. I've got a couple of episodes that I know would be in my top five. Like, I know that. But I don't have a single favorite episode. I don't. Well, I guess I do, but I don't know what it is yet.
01:06:09
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And I'm deliberately kind of just organically going to let it let it reveal itself as we go through. Yes. Same. You know? Same. Yeah. which i'm Which I'm kind of excited about. So in like four and a half years or something, when we finish this, I'll be able to go, this is the one.
01:06:26
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Now, see, i give I give this a seven and a half. okay I like it. You know, I like this episode. I like, I think the Jade plot was kind of funny. Yeah.
01:06:38
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I like that it went a different direction a bit with them not getting along and and tackling this issue. A favorite? No, but it's it it has Lex, this episode. I thought it was pretty, pretty good.
01:06:52
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So, yeah. A good one. Well, look at that. We've made it, yeah, an hour and seven minutes. Not too bad. But again, the range of subjects we have discussed is phenomenal. I'm just saying, Reverend Horton Heat, July 19th.
01:07:11
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I'm in. I think I'm in. I love it. It's free. It's a free content. I love it. Yeah. Yeah, that is being written in the calendar.
01:07:21
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But listen, see next week, I'm looking forward to to discussing next week's. It is the one with the baby on the bus. Yes, yes. Excellent. I can't wait. This will be good. This one will make me laugh out loud because yeah yeah cause it's just a mess.
01:07:39
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Yeah, i can't wait. But on that note... Dee, thank you very much. weve This has been a phenomenal episode. And to everybody listening out there, thank you very much for tuning in to... Oh, wait.
01:07:53
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Oh, no. Yep. Yes. All right. Yes. um Be sure to follow us, like us, um all the things on our social medias, on Facebook. We are the Purple Door Podcast Club on and Instagram. We're something.
01:08:12
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What are we? ah Let's see, we have an Instagram, we have a TikTok, we have you know our Facebook group that is tons of fun. um And ah I'm so glad you stopped me.
01:08:26
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I want to give a shout out to Shelley Butler who left, um ah gave us a comment several weeks ago and then she hand her comment on the podcast and just sent us a message saying how excited she wants to hear her comment.
01:08:40
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Yeah. And those kind of messages make my day. When somebody we don't know reaches out and says, hey, love the podcast. Hey, you read my message out. That was fun. Or just gives us any kind of feedback or thoughts on the episode, anything.
01:08:54
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Building this little community has been and absolute joy. It's been so much fun to do. um So, yes, a shout out to Shelley. Thank you very much for that message. That was super awesome.
01:09:07
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01:09:20
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If you see that post, find it in our group on Facebook, maybe on Instagram too. We'd love to see your favorite mug and see how they all differ from each other. Yes, absolutely. And then think about why.
01:09:35
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Why is it? Right. That's weird. It is. It is. I don't know. Yeah. We started talking about this before we recorded and I just, it's a very specific thing. It's the same thing with like cups, but mugs, mugs.
01:09:53
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It says You have our favorite mugs. Favorite mugs. If you have not yet. yeah Indeed, yeah indeed. Well, on the favourite mug note, thank you everybody for tuning in into this week's edition of the Purple Door podcast.