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Morning Glory
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Good Morning! Today Emma & Katie talk abut the 2010 officey mostly platonic comedy Morning Glory, and get into the weeds on how men get their tubes tied, American Girl Dolls/Emma not beating the allegations, more Grey's Anatomy than you'd expect, and of course, regattas vs horse polo.
Fact Check: American Girl Dolls in the late 90s cost about $80, or about $150 in 2026 dollars
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Emma's Wine Night and Book Nook Challenges
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like is that rosé it is rosé it is the remnants of the rosé that i had from the weekend um i bought myself also a nice french sauvignon that i've got chilling right now because i was like i'm gonna need more than just the glass right right right it's charlie's video game night so it's charlie's video game that means it's emma's wine night yes you betcha and um remember last time when we were talking about the book nook Oh, yeah.
Encouragement and Reflections on Challenges
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Yeah, I started working on it. Is it really hard? It's so fucking hard, Katie. I hate it. I want and I love but I was like, this seems like, like, tried subtly making so Charlie, I'm like, this seems like something you wouldn't know I'm doing.
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No, you can do it. You are intelligent, independent woman, and you can make that little nook. It's like IQ. I believe in you. Thank you. I mean, it's going to happen.
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It's just there's so many steps, and there's so many little ones, and I started with the easier of the two. Well, listen,
Nostalgia for Childhood Toys
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like we gave it we we gave one to our friend Luke um a couple of Christmases ago, and I don't think he ever put it. I know at one point he started putting it together, and I think he gave up on it.
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Yeah, I'm not putting it back. up computer person like he's a very um like i i mean i guess he's not an engineer but he's definitely a technically minded person and yeah yeah if he gave up on it it's definitely difficult so yeah it's not the easiest of things to happen yeah um that's for sure uh but i do want the adorable book nook and i want it so bad and it's gonna be so cute it's just like why can't you come already assembled
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Well, because that's the whole point.
Lego Creations and Stop-Motion Adventures
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It's like Legos, you know, like, no, but I'm not a person, which was never my thing. Like my thing with I made Legos is I do enjoy putting together Legos and I like Legos. And I just, I bought myself a Lego set ah a little while ago. um when Caitlin moved out, she took like a bunch of, well, she took all her BTS stuff, which was taking up a lot of the real estate in the apartment for yeah like decoration, other things.
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Uh-huh. So in place of her seven BTS dolls of the BTS members, I bought one of those Lego botanical things like the pink bonsai tree. And that was really fun. Yeah, I got one of those for Charlie and he enjoyed it. um I was never a Legos person.
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I preferred Lincoln logs. Wow. That's that Laura Ingalls
Preference for Playmobil over Legos
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Wilder shit. Yeah. It really says a lot about my cottage core personality. I feel like I have Lincoln Longs. I Lincoln Longs. I liked Legos. I pre i really what liked the the the city Legos. The Legos where like it was a town that she made. Oh, yeah. And so I had like the hospital. I had the police station.
American Girl Dolls Collection and Christmas Hints
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had the airport.
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And I had the road pieces that connected them. And in my room, I had, like, the whole town set up. But, like, mostly what I did was, like, I played dolls with them, right? Like, I created the city. But most, it wasn't about the building it. It was about the interpersonal conflict. Oh, yeah, yeah. The characters I created had. What they were doing.
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I filmed, like, at least one full episode of a stop motion. ah This is when i was a little when i was a little older. so maybe, like, or Like, i started to make, like,
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like a TV show called Legoland PD about the Legoland people. Cause this, I had this like,
Humor and Unusual Naming Trends
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my dad, my dad was always an early technology adopter and he had like a really fancy video camera.
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nice which was fancy like in the 90s um yeah and by the time it was old by the time I was you know using it he had given it to me and but it has stop motion feature so you can my god that's so cool yeah and remotely press a button and it would just film for like left less than a second so I could make the Legos move around and stuff it was very cool it was all in camera so it was very time consuming but I did make like I think I made at least one full like episode of the of the show. Yeah. It's got to be somewhere lying around with a lot of very embarrassing films I made as a yeah middle schooler. Yes. um i I didn't do anything like that, but like, that's why I didn't really lean towards Legos. I liked Lincoln Logs because you could build, you just build a house.
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um And then I liked Playmobil because it was like Legos without all the work. Playmobil was like, yeah. Playmobil is for babies. Like it's for younger kids. Okay. Not just for babies.
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Playmobil is for all ages. You were
Sci-Fi Humor and Medical Procedures
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like in high school with. With my Playmobil. No. It's when I was in elementary school and middle school. Yeah. Yeah, know. I enjoyed my Playmobil. I think mostly it was Barbies and American Girl dolls for me.
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That's correct. Yes, you had yeah an extensive American Girl doll collection. As we have um dirt like discovered on the show. um Not really helping my Emma wasn't spoiled as a child.
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I didn't say it.
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Did I tell you that one year I like I think it got to the point where I just was like Pokemon. I wanted to catch them all and I needed to have them all. Oh my god. How many are there?
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There's a lot. There's like 20 at least, right? Yeah. I think I had a good solid eight. I had, let's see, Felicity, Josefina, Addie was my first one, um Molly, ah there was, um oh my god, what's her name?
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Not Rebecca. um
TV-Inspired Medical Knowledge and Grey's Anatomy Drama
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It was Rebecca's doll. Samantha. These are $200 dolls, we should say. Kirsten.
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kirsten crazy i so i had i had at least six oh and the and the one that you can make to make it look like you so i had seven had seven and i had all the furniture and like all the outfits um and there was one year that i was like i really need my parents to get the hint that i want an american girl doll for christmas so what i did was i would get the catalog you and did you already have six or seven of them at that point I had a few.
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it was pretty safe to say that they knew you wanted an American Girl. so But I really wanted to, like, push the point home of, like, I really wanted this American Girl doll. So, like, they had it, like, play like Playboy, where they had, like, a centerfold of the doll in the magazine. don't like...
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I don't like that. Open it up and like it's the full doll. Yeah. And so I purposely in front of them took the centerfold and would
Acting Preferences and Puppet Museum Desire
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like lay it around and play with it like it was a doll.
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Being like in front of them. Like I wouldn't do it on my own. i just specifically did it in front of them. And i it was like, get the hint, mom and dad. Wink, wink. Yeah. Yeah. This was also in high school, right? Yeah, this was also in high school. No. This was emo Emma. Emo Emma.
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I mean, if they made an emo American Girl doll. If they ever make an emo American Girl doll from the 2000s. They very well might. Mm-hmm. There are American Groot dolls of all time periods and ages. I mean, they have the Y2K ones, which are like the American Ashley ones, which my niece really love.
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um But I wouldn't put it past them. It's like, yeah give it another couple years. There's going be a 2010s one. She's going to have, what was the, she's going to be really into Tumblr and she's going have a little yeah black choker. Yeah.
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She's going to have an and a NARS naked palette. ah And... i Have a concealer for lipstick. Yep, concealer for lipstick. um And a so an iPod that has nothing but black eyed peas. Yeah.
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Yeah, that's good. Yeah, there we go. We just named her. And her name
Visiting Atlanta and Show Interests
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her name is... Oh my God. What is a very 2010s name? Her name is... Raylin yeah Ray Braylin it's her name is Braylin Braylin yeah B-A-E-L-Y-N-N or like autumn but spelled A-U-T-E-A-U
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M-M-M-E spelled O-U-D-O-M autumn
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I saw a TikTok that was um ah this person who works in labor and delivery, and she was talking about how um like when she goes to like get the paperwork done, to like get the spelling of the names of the babies, and how insane it is these days, because she'll go in and she'll be like, um okay, well, what did you did you guys decide a name for the baby? um do you want to... It was like, I'm not going to tell you. I'm just going to spell it for you and then have you guess. Yeah. Oh, God, of course. Yeah. um but What a terrifying job. Right? Just like, I
Grey's Anatomy and Morning Glory Connections
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don't know what this is. Get to offend a hipster parents all day. Well, she got one that was like ah and bunch of nonsense words and it was like, c cra pe lily but it was actually eight pronounced C-3-P-O.
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Oh, for God's sake. Yeah, that sounds right. Yeah. Yeah. Nerds, man. You can't let them have anything. You can't let them have anything, including children. yeah me That's why we hear here, well go get your girl. We recommend the nerd sterilization process.
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All you have to do is go to your closest Star Wars land. Closest Star Wars land? Yeah. I don't know.
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And they'll have lightsaber that will just chop their dick off. Whoa.
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Yeah. That's how it works, right? Yes and, Emma. Yes, and. That's my response to that. Or it's a very invasive procedure with the lightsaber to, well, I don't know, do guys, because guys don't have ovaries.
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So I'm envisioning like sperm ovaries. That's why, because like I- Usually not. Not always. You know, gender and sex are both a spectrum. They are, And many such cases in between, in-betweensees, I believe is the correct term. In-betweensees. Yep, that's the technical term. For intersex people.
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Are you asking what a vasectomy is? Is that what you're asking? I guess, yeah, I guess because like I understand what tying your tubes are, but I don't understand what's getting tied what tubes are getting tied in a vasectomy. It's basically the same thing. So a tubal ligation is where the fallopian tubes are burnt to where the ovary can't descend. oh And vasectomy is burning the vas deferens, which is where the sperm travels from the testicles to the penis. Yeah.
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Okay. And that was the, it's the little tubes in both cases. And again, okay I'm only 90% sure that's correct. So I was going to say, and this is biology corner with Katie.
00:11:16
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Biology corner. How I went to a law school at the the good wife university. I went to medical school at house MD university. I was going to say, was it gray's anatomy MD? Okay.
00:11:28
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No, I mean, I watched like three or four seasons of Grey's Anatomy and Caitlin and I were both like, this is too fucking much, man. I don't want to watch this anymore. And then like 17 more seasons came out after that. just keeps on going. just keeps on going.
00:11:42
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It's never going to The only thing that I really know about Grey's Anatomy is that in the later seasons, the girl who played Kate Middleton in the Lifetime original William and Kate movie plays...
00:11:57
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whatever the main actress is her like long lost sister i don't know but she's in it and wait are you talking about kyler lee no that can't be right she's got brown hair right well yeah but kyler lee um it could be child i think it's kyler kyler lee played her sister very early on um Did she play Kate Middleton in a lifetime? I don't think so. I think but this must be another sister that she has. Either another sister or like, I'm pretty sure it's like a long lost sister who like ends up being like a resident at the hospital. Are you telling me on two separate occasions, a lost sister of Meredith Grey's ended up being a doctor at the same hospital? that that's crazy.
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Well, I just know that she ended up on Grey's Anatomy. and i Well, I know her for playing Supergirl's lesbian sister on Supergirl. Oh, nice. But she was definitely on Grey's Anatomy back when I watched it.
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Camilla Luddington. Camilla Luddington. that's a name I know. Yeah. She played Kate Middleton. ai Okay. And I'm pretty sure she ended up on Grey's Anatomy. She played Dr. Joe Wilson on Grey's Anatomy.
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Oh, she's the voice of Lara Croft in Teen Order. That's how I know that name. Yeah. You mean, you know Kate Middleton? That's right, yeah.
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They just had the best... she's not her sister. She's not her sister. Okay. But she's on Grey's Anatomy. Yes. Well, I mean, she was... This very long-winded journey. She was years ago. She's probably been killed. Almost everybody on that show gets killed.
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Jesus Christ, what's going on at the hospital? I'm pretty sure that being a doctor doesn't mean it's your death sentence. I mean, it is at, um, Sacred Heart?
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so would No, it's called something else now. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Yeah, it doesn't matter. I doesn' mean that it's called like i think it's called like Gray Hospital. I think like it's named after her family at this point. It's fucking nuts. It's a wild show. Her name is Mary's Gray.
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Yeah. Anyways, um that being said, Grey's Anatomy famously featured in today's movie. That's right, guys. ah You guessed it. This is Go Get Your Girl. This is the podcast where Emma and Katie...
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are just you know trying to succeed working in the world of morning television as producer and they thought they had their dream job in new jersey but turns out they get fired and then whoa lo and behold they get a long shot job working in you guessed it new york city oh yep yep that is a what we do in the shadows reference um and uh anyways they basically have their work cut out for them for a failing show um and their their boss who tells them that they're gonna fail constantly is jeff goldblum along the way we have sex with patrick wilson and become bffs with a cranky harrison ford that's right guys i'm emma
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And I'm Katie, and the hospital is called a Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital, which is named after Lexi Gray and Mark Sloan, who both died in a plane crash.
00:15:19
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But that's not what was called in season one. no no, no. It was called Seattle Grace Hospital. Okay. Okay. And then it merged to form Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital. And then finally, after Lexi Gray, Meredith's little sister, played by Kyler Lee, and Mark Sloan, McSteamy, die in a plane crash. Spoilers for season five of Grey's Anatomy, I guess.
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They rename it Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Jesus fucking Christ.
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What a time. So sorry we let that intro talk bleed into the episode here. mean, people gotta know. Today, 16 minutes on Grey's Money. Today we are talking about the 2010 romantic office-y comedy um Morning Glory. Warm of a movie. It is. It is, yes. I enjoyed it in that it is a warm hug of a movie. Yes.
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Yes. It is directed by Roger and Michelle, who directed Notting Hill. Oh. And also directed a movie called Venus, which is famous for getting Peter O'Toole an Oscar nomination late in life, but he didn't win. And then a bunch of what I wrote is British nonsense. Much of the stuff nobody nobody's ever heard of. That's just.
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Right. um but I mean, for a British director, there was a lack of British actors in this.
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That's true. Yeah. Yeah. um It's written by Aileen Brosh McKenna, who we know very well from The Devil Wears Prada. Yes, we do. And 27 Dresses. Hell yeah. She also wrote We Bought a Zoo for some reason.
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And that is not The Zookeeper, as we have discussed in previous episodes. so We've discussed this. It's like two different movies. It's not a Nazi film. My guess is we discussed it in the 27 Dresses episode, but who's to say? I can't remember what we talked about last episode.
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Who knows? And this movie stars the adorable Rachel McAdams, just love her being in the best in this movie. So pretty.
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imagine like casting anybody else in this movie like it just wouldn't work like she's just the best it would be too cheesy or feel too rough yeah yeah yeah she is um perfect she's just effervescent and i mean who else can you imagine patrick wilson seeing from across the room and being like her i'm gonna ask no questions and i just want to bang her vera farmaga but um yeah that too Um, yeah, so she is, she works for Good Morning New Jersey, um and which airs at 4.30 in the morning, um, which means that she has to wake up at 1.30 in the morning, which is like, that's not the morning. That's the middle of the night. Like, yeah that's, uh, that's insane. So she doesn't really have a life. And we first meet her and she is on a first date with Noah Bean, um, who was a
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New York actor. He was in Damages. That's what I know him from. And she's like, you know, married to her job, right? She's constantly, yeah her phone is always ringing. She's constantly answering. It's her Blackberry. Remember when people had Blackberries? oh I know, right? It's very 2010.
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What a time. yeah But I mean, like, to be fair, it is kind of realistic in that, like, if you have to wake up that early, you have no life. ah For sure. Yeah. Yeah. My, my cousin works for ESPN.
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Shout out Madeline. And she talks all the time about like how people at ESPN are very incestuous because like you end up just dating and seeing the people that you see all the time. You're just like the theater. Yeah. exactly yeah you like you have to wake up because you have a game at 6 a.m or you know something else and or you're there until like 2 or 3 a.m um because of time zones and yeah it's it's a it's live television it's a crazy world yeah it's it's absolutely crazy i mean like and this movie is did you watch the morning show we talked about the morning show we have i have not watched it
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it's It's very similar to this movie. It is yeah um ah in terms of, like, I mean, it's about a morning show. So that's a big part of it. But it's also about and a woman news producer who fires the, oh, no, no, it's a man, actually. And the new the producer is a man. It doesn't matter.
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a a sexual pest of an anchor gets fired and then gets replaced and it's all about like that kind of stuff and it's about like trying to mix like real news and and morning fluff and all that it's very similar yeah except the thing about that show is that it's bonkers um it's it's not good earth but it's fun to watch because it's so like it's just way over the top um it's like it's a it's a crazy show um it's worth watching Yeah, I'm gonna put it my list. I'm almost done with Sabrina, so. ah
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Yeah. shoot Nine seasons of Sabrina, yeah. There's six, and season six is rough. It's rough. Oh, yeah? Yeah, that's a shame. She was like 25 years old at that point. Yeah, she she's no longer in college. she is no longer working for the Rock magazine because she quit last season. Oh, wow. So it goes from high school through college to her being an adult on the other side of college?
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Yeah. Wow. and And right now she is a freelance writer and engaged to a rock producer named Erin. and But Harvey is still in love with her.
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And it is rough. Um, sure. Yeah. Harvey Kinkle. Grunkle. Yeah. Cause the aunts move out. We still get Salem. So Salem goes with her.
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Yeah. Salem stays with her. Cause she moves back into her aunt's house. Oh, she's in the house. I see. She's in the house. They redo the entire house and it's like her two college roommates are now living with her.
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um and I don't like it. It's like the redhead from Clueless. And so they'll moon fry or her. um Oh, okay. Yeah. her college roommates. Yeah. yeah And ah it's just not as good without the aunts. But Salem is still there and he's still fabulous. And I discovered today, this is going to be like five minutes on Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
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Yeah, yeah. I discovered today that I have to make a pilgrimage to Atlanta. Okay. Because there is a puppet museum there. Oh, and they've got the Salem puppet there? They have one. Apparently they've got multiple Salem puppets. There had to be hundreds of them probably. Yeah.
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Well, in the 2000s they had a whole exhibit of like the different Salems doing different things. like They had him dressed up um as an as a reindeer. They had like him flat against the wall. They had like Dr. Salem. They had like yeah um bedtime glamour shot Salem. um i I need to see him.
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Okay, yeah. I love him. Have you been to Atlanta? No, I've never been. And this will be the only reason why. I spent a lot of time in Atlanta in, um, like high school and college. Like we would go there to see shows mostly. Oh yeah. yeah Um, it's, uh, it's it's a nightmare traffic wise but oh i bet guess it's fine yeah it's mini la um especially probably even more so now that it's like so populated and because i shoot everything there yeah yeah um i would only go to go visit the walking dead i filming locations and go to the museum yeah didn't know you're such a big walking dead fan uh yeah i finished it
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Wow. I mean, who not many people did. So I mean, i haven't watched all the spinoffs, but I finished it. I mean, it ran for 24 years. And then there were there's just an unlimited number of spinoffs, right? Unlimited. And I really want to just there's a new one every six months.
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I need to see where what this fuck goes to France because I need to find out how he gets to fuck you mean the Walking Dead, colon Daryl Dixon, colon the Book of Carol.
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Your favorite title of all time. um i I need to find out why Daryl is in France and how is he speaking French? Does he speak French?
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I don't know. but ah Everyone's just speaking. there He communicates. Oh, I'm trying to see if there's actually, okay, so it is not, that there's not aul there's not a second colon. It's an M dash. It's the walking dead colon, Daryl Dixon, M dash, the book of Carol.
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Well, I'm going to watch that tonight and let you know. Have fun. Anyways, back to Morning Glory. Yeah, so little to no zombies in Morning Glory. um Unless you're talking about me, unless I've had my, before I've had my coffee.
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same joke I was gonna do I know i I beat you to it but I fumbled it a little bit so I appreciate it no you you nailed the landing um uh a uh yeah so she works for good morning New Jersey um and she thinks she's gonna get a promotion yeah a baby Jeff Hiller is there uh we love to see him um yeah he's got so much hair in this movie um
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And um ah she instead of getting a promotion and she's very good at a job and everyone loves her. She is the best. She's Rachel McAdams. I don't know if we mentioned that. Yeah. And she's the best like best boss.
00:24:52
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They're so excited for her that they give her T-shirts because they're all so certain that she's going to get this promotion. Yes. She does not get the promotion. Instead, she gets fired. um And then she has to find a new job. Yeah.
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And um then it starts playing Colin Hayes, Waiting for My Real Life to Begin, which is very lovely. i think we talked about that song on the Garden State episode. um And finally she gets Jeff Goldblum. she meets Jeff Goldblum, who hires her to work for, surely it's not IBS, right? it's It is IBS because Charlie turned to me and he went, IBS. IBS.
00:25:30
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How did that not get changed in a script rewrite? Irritable bowel syndrome network. Yeah. And they didn't they didn't make a joke about it or anything. um It's crazy. Yeah.
00:25:41
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I know. So she gets a job for the fourth place morning news program Daybreak on IBS, the worst morning show by a major network.
00:25:53
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So like it's set in our world where IBS is just a fourth like long running network. Like you got NBC, CBS, ABC, and IBS. And IBS.
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Yeah. Because they said the show had been running for 50 years. So, like, it yeah it's just ah it's an alternate reality where there were four networks instead of three until the 80s when Fox came along. Yeah. yeah um And the 2000s when Fox became the devil.
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Well, they were always kind of the devil. um She is... um Yes. So it's very struggling. Her mom doesn't believe in her. Her mom thinks that her dream is awful.
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Embarrassing. Yeah. She's like, I understood it when you were little. It was cute. ah ah Presumably her dad is dead. Her dad and her. dad They mentioned her dad is dead. Yeah. Yeah. um And her mom, who lives in New Jersey, that ah she goes and visits before after she loses her job is just like, your dream is stupid.
00:26:53
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Get a real job. And I was like, yeah she's had a real job. She's she has a lot of experience. Like, yeah, doing great. She tells her, and at 18, your dream was inspiring, and at 28, it's embarrassing, and I just want you to give up before becomes heartbreaking. I'm like, wow.
00:27:10
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What do you want her to do? become an my mom read watch this movie and take that note? like um Shout out to moms who don't believe in their children's dreams. Yeah. No, Donna does. Donna believes in my dream. I love you, Donna. Yeah.
00:27:27
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um So then she, after the interview, which she thinks she blows because she's too enthusiastic and yelly. um She runs into- They constantly are like, are you going to sing? Yeah, it does. Although to be fair, it does have that ah that build up kind of momentum. Yeah. um Again, just like me, for real. ah Main character in a musical where the music never starts. Same.
00:27:49
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Same. so She is, she's at the end. She runs into ah Dreamboat, Patrick Wilson. and uh harrison ford former former dreamboat harrison ford um depending on your vibe still kind of i mean he's really grumpy in this movie in addition to being old so it's difficult so um me yeah he is a very respectable newsman who was recently fired from the network from the nighttime nightly news like serious news desk like
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He's Tom Brokaw. He's Brian Williams. He's um um other guys. Yeah. um And um Patrick Wilson, to she like over shares and like ah a few heaps effusive praise on him. And Patrick Wilson tells her that he's the third worst person in the world.
00:28:46
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Yeah. Yeah. um And then she starts the job and where Diane Keaton and Ty Burrell are the anchors. This movie is full of of actors. Like everywhere you look, it's like- It's stacked.
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It's back in the days where they still had money for rom-coms. This movie probably cost like, you know, $30 million dollars or something. And they just had, everywhere you look, there's an actor you recognize. Like, because that's how they used to make movies. 16 years ago, Jesus. um ah So every everyone hates everyone else.
00:29:25
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Ty Burrell is a pervert. um and The first thing he asks her is what size shoe does she Does she mind being them photographed? Can he put him on? does you want to see Does she want to see his blog?
00:29:38
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um Diane Keaton is just straight up mean to her and says, enjoy the ride, Gidget. ahhu John Pankow is really the only person who is nice to her out the out the gate, who is her like her associate producer, her like second in command.
00:29:54
Speaker
And he refuses to get promoted because he he doesn't want the job. He said they, i did it for a little while, but they didn't they didn't like the constant crying. So they he's better at number two.
00:30:06
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um Ty Burrell and Diane Keaton hate each other. They don't speak to each other. yeah Then there's this great moment where they're at the table. And everyone is like talking at her at once, pitching everything. And whereas in a lot of movies that, you know, it leads to the scene of the person having a breakdown or, or, you know, buckling under the stress. That's the opposite of who this character is. She yeah like takes a moment and then has listened in process to everyone talking and gives answers immediately and fires Ty Burrell immediately. Yeah. It's a really cool scene. You're just like, yes, girl. Yes. Queen. Yeah.
00:30:45
Speaker
And then everyone applauds her when the she fires Tyberro. Right? Everyone's like, we've been waiting for somebody to have the goal to do that all along. Thank you so much for getting rid of, you know, this creep.
00:30:57
Speaker
Yeah. Then what happens? Oh, yes. Sorry, i was just looking up ah what I'm doing next to. Okay.
00:31:09
Speaker
Oh, yeah. so then then what happens is she's just like, okay, great. So I've got to get a new anchor. And they're like, well, you can't have any more money. Def Global is like, you can't have any more money. You need to make this work with no more money. And she's just like, okay, well, do you have like anyone like on staff or do you have anything do?
00:31:25
Speaker
you know that I can do and so her and her second in command are watching all of these like audition tapes and then she runs into Patrick Wilson again and um he's real cute and he like sees her giant box of audition tapes and he goes oh because they keep making the same joke about this one anchor who looks like a horse he does look like a horse he does look like a horse he's got some fake teeth in I think yeah I was gonna say can you imagine going to audition for horse man yeah um and uh and so yeah so he um he's just like oh don't hire that guy that guy's a nightmare and did it up and so then she patrick wilson works in the building he works yeah for the network but he doesn't work for her show he works yeah for like 60 minutes basically yes yes a magazine show yeah
00:32:17
Speaker
Exactly. um And so he um he goes, oh, you don't hire that person. And then she goes home and she's looking at the videos. And it's there's one that she's watching that then has a cut to what Harrison Ford's salad days, ah as my dad calls them.
00:32:37
Speaker
Uh-huh. Back when he was a teeny bopper? ah Back when he was a teeny bopper. and she's just like, oh my God, his name's like something Pomeroy. Is it Mike Pomeroy? Mike, Mike Pomeroy. Yeah. Mike Pomeroy is the name of his like anchor person. And she was like, what if we could get him?
00:32:58
Speaker
And she's like, she looks into it and finds out that he's just sitting on the payroll at IBS. Yeah. Cause he's under contract, but he got fired from his job. So he's doing nothing and he's got $6 million dollars left in two years on his contract. So They have to pay him until the end of his contract, but he's not doing anything at all right now.
00:33:21
Speaker
Yeah. And then she asks Jeff Goldblum for the contract. So she reads it and finds out that if he's offered a job from IBS, he has to take it or he will be fired and lose all that money.
00:33:36
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And so he he's just like, whatever. But then... Of course he says yes, because money. and Well, yeah. i mean like And he probably has a non-compete clause in there, too. So it's not like he could go get another job somewhere else. Exactly.
00:33:53
Speaker
Yeah. And he is this very... serious stuffy grumpy old man which is basically all Harrison Ford does in the 2000s right that's basically 25 years this this is his character on shrinking this is just his character on shrinking except I've never watched shrinking shrinking so great I I've heard one I haven't watched season two or three but um it's so great and there's such a great scene where he accidentally takes too many edibles and it's just the most one I've ever seen Harrison Ford on screen
00:34:24
Speaker
oh nice um i love harrison for yeah i love him he's great he's super grumpy and lovely and a fun time at the same time um he says things like my dad and i'm like that's the way my dad would say it feel like in the voice of wallace sean yeah except for in the voice of wallace sean if you combine harrison for if wallace sean and harrison ford had a baby that's my dad Wow.
00:34:49
Speaker
Crazy. i know, right? um And make him, like, super straight-laced and, um you know, a Boy Scout and doesn't do anything wrong. I'm John Paloza.
00:35:01
Speaker
Really? Never does anything wrong? ah He does a lot of things wrong, but he never thinks that he does. ah Love you, Dad. So a man is what you're describing. Exactly. um But he he's very much, like, 1950s, like, good golly, gee whiz. Uh-huh.
00:35:18
Speaker
Cool. I'm going to have myself a soda. We should say he doesn't listen to the show, but your mom does. Yeah. She'll get a kick out of me making fun of my dad. He would be horrified to listen to the show. are you saying or no? um I've asked him why he want why who won't listen to it. And he says, you talk about things I don't want to know my daughter does on the podcast. and i was like, that's fair. um Mom can give you the highlights. Yeah.
00:35:47
Speaker
Uh, yeah, it's my favorite thing to give him very, like, flim and my mom's favorite thing to give him the most, like, insane flamboyant things because he's so, like, straight-laced. Like, every birthday he gets a singing light-up card and he's like, I don't, why, why is this? Okay.
00:36:02
Speaker
Yeah, that's cute. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways. um So yeah, Harrison Ford's a big old grump and he just wants to do serious news. And he constantly is just like, I just want to do serious news. I don't want to do any of the fluff stuff. And she goes, you're just here for the money. You're just here for the money.
00:36:17
Speaker
It's one of those things where it's like, this was 2010 and it was such a, um what we had decided was like the death of, of art was like so tame. Compared to now, like, everything's gotten so worse, like, so much worse. He would be horrified at the state of, you know, what people consume. Like, at one point, he's like, people aren't stupid. People are intelligent, and they want to, they want information. They don't want candy. And, like, it's been proven time and again that that is simply not true, sir. People are stupid. Yeah. and they want candy they want candy but they want donuts they want sugar they don't want bran as literally and with rachel mcadams and him and literally and figuratively they want sugar and stupid fluff and like again this is a rom-com podcast so nothing against fluff we love fluff yeah we do
00:37:14
Speaker
Yeah. it's It's one of our favorite things. We love fluff. The decline of news in general and like information and the way information is handled in the world and specifically in this country, but in all countries really. Yeah.
00:37:29
Speaker
Have, it's just, it's, it's almost, it's very quaint looking back 16 years to before the, before the apocalypse of, yeah of, of information. God. I mean, just like the way that they're like talking about things. I'm like, oh, I'm sorry. The way that Rachel McAdams is revitalizing this morning show is just what all news shows are now.
00:37:49
Speaker
Yeah. This is just all news shows because you they have to find a way to keep people entertained because our attention span has like gone down to like 30 seconds. Yeah. but And it's and it's it's it's media's fault that that's happened though. you know Yeah. Exactly. It's a self-repeating spiral.
00:38:09
Speaker
yeah selfpropeating Self-perpetuating cycle is what trying say. Did you know that um social media is addictive? Yeah. Yeah, that's why I quit it completely.
00:38:20
Speaker
And it's it's great. like And again, after about three weeks, you don't miss it. Yeah. I recommend it to everyone. Yeah. Quit social media, but don't quit podcasts. Don't quit podcasts. Keep listening to podcasts. In fact, give podcasts your money. Give podcasts so much money. They love it um so anyway So Harrison Ford is then hired and he's like, I'm not doing any of the fluff. And she's like, it's okay. It's a pretty good Harrison Ford impression, honestly. Thanks. Like I said, he talks like my dad. ah
00:38:51
Speaker
My job was on Harrison Ford. I'm the same. um So your dad doesn't talk like inconceivable, because that's how I picture it. he just kind of looks like Wallace Shawn, but he talks like Harrison Ford. Okay. um In fact, if you were to combine, like i said, if you combine the two, that's my dad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:39:11
Speaker
Yeah, anyways, so. I was picturing him looking like Harrison Ford, but talking like Wallace Shawn, so. That was the other way around. Okay, okay. um So she's like, that's fine. um But then you get Diane Lane's like, well, now it's a power play between diane Keaton, we should say not to correct you, but just want to make it clear.
00:39:34
Speaker
Because, I mean, she could have shown up. Like, that would be great if Diane Lane showed up. But she's not in this. wouldn't be surprised by the way that this cast is stacked. Yeah. And ah so Diane Keaton is like, well, um he needs to come talk to me in my office. And then Harrison Ford is like, absolutely not. She needs to come to talk to me. And then it's like this, like, you know, they're at.
00:39:56
Speaker
they're playing chicken essentially power trip stuff power trip stuff of like who's the more important anchor and they have this whole conversation about who gets the final goodbye um and rich mcadams is like it doesn't matter it doesn't matter i just need you guys to do a good job and just do the show but they're they're broadcasters which is like a close cousin to actors and oh yeah anybody who's ever been on a film set or on or on stage or or worked on a stage show either like very much can be a very important thing um for these people. Like there's a lot of ego involved. Some people, you might be surprised, get involved in film and and and theater because they have a really big ego and need to be the center of attention at all times. And they like to hear themselves talk and they like to look at themselves.
00:40:47
Speaker
You know, don't know why. Like people who might start a podcast, for example. know, who would have thought?
00:40:55
Speaker
And then they spend about 30 minutes talking about Grey's Anatomy, even though neither of them are fans. Neither of us even like Grey's Anatomy.
00:41:06
Speaker
um But yeah, so it becomes like a whole power play. And they do, that it leads up to the night before Harrison Ford's first show, which, um what's what's his name? Patrick Wilson, the day before is like, hey, so like, if you happen to find yourself like at this bar um across the street, some of us might be just like be there Yeah, I mean, like, it doesn't matter, like, if you find yourself there, like, that's cool, whatever. And Rachel McAdams is like, yeah, I might find myself there, that's cool. And the second in command is like, you know, he asked you on a date. And she goes, no, I think that I would know if I was being asked on a date. And he goes, no, I'm pretty sure you just got asked out on a date.
00:41:46
Speaker
And so she shows up to the bar. I need a John Pankow to be around me. So I know if somebody asks me out on a date because am also yeah yeah unaware.
00:41:57
Speaker
To be like, well, maybe. i mean, my suspicion is that no one ever has. um So right but that's probably just statistically not true. Right. Exactly. Same. Same, same, same.
00:42:10
Speaker
And he like soft launches the date. um And so she shows up and she goes and they're having a really nice time. They're talking about insane things Harrison Ford has done to the both of them because Patrick Wilson used to work for him and his biggest takeaway was that for how long did he work for him? Like three years?
00:42:30
Speaker
Yeah, something like that. Yeah. um He called him senior dipshit. Mm-hmm. You said he's the third person, worst person in the world after Kim Jong-il and Angela Lansbury. She knows what she did.
00:42:42
Speaker
yeah um And they're both dead, which means as of 2026, Mike Pomeroy is the worst person in the world. He's the worst person in the world, apparently. Which is just not true. I mean, he's not...
00:42:54
Speaker
He's not the worst person. And we learn by the end, he's not the worst person in the world. um But, ah but yeah, so they're having a really lovely time. oh and she sees him while she's having like a work meeting. And one of her coworkers is like, yeah, I went to Yale with him and everybody wanted to fuck that guy. um Yeah, because look at him. Because look at him. And also here's some bonus points. His family's super loaded and his parents work in like media and shit. And like, he's like so rich.
00:43:25
Speaker
And Rich McCown's like, well, hi, hi, Patrick Wilson. And then she goes and she meets him and they're having a really nice time. And then and this blonde girl comes up and she's like, oh my God, why didn't you call me Patrick Wilson? um Are you going to that yacht party that we're going yeah to? Yeah. The regatta. This model walks up to him and gives him a big hug and is like, I'll see at the regatta. And Rachel McAdams is like, I can't be here.
00:43:49
Speaker
Hold on. A regatta's not that big of a deal. I don't want to overstep. Are you saying you've been to a regatta? Of course I've been to a regatta. I know, yeah. Of course he's strong.
00:44:01
Speaker
They're very boring. You have to watch. I'm sure they are. But it's a thing that rich people go to is the point. That's what the, that's what we're saying in this. I've never been to like the horse polo. The horse polo.
00:44:14
Speaker
Well, cause there's the swimming polo. That's water polo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. You're right. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have laughed. um ah Honestly, I'm surprised you've never been to the horse polo. um Never been to the horse polo.
00:44:28
Speaker
I mean, not being not that not because of of Rich, but because of England. Because of England. I mean, I'm not dead yet. I don't put it past my lifetime to go to a horse polo. we I've been to cricket. Yeah, yeah.
00:44:42
Speaker
I've never been to any manner of polo. I'm not in horse nor water. um I've never been to a regatta. I've never been on a yacht at all. You've been to the high peak?
00:44:56
Speaker
No, I've never been to high tea. Why would I go to high tea? Because it's so much fun. If you go to the plaza, you pay a certain amount of money. It's unlimited. I've never been to the plaza, Emma. Like, what kind of life do you think I have? What about the Drake?
00:45:11
Speaker
Never been to the Drake? To be fair, that's Why would I have gone to the Drake? Because you can. i can't. I don't have any money. Well, I will say, so that's how I spent my 30th birthday, which was my favorite birthday of all birthdays, was told Charlie, he was like, what do you to I was like, I just want to go to the drink and have tea and then go home. And it was right when House of Haunted Hill House was out, the show, the Mike Flanagan show was out. And I was like, and then I want to come home and drink some more wine and just watch this Mike Flanagan show. And we went and at the Drake, you can pay a hundred dollars and get unlimited tea and sandwiches for as long as you want to sit at one of the little tables in front of the fancy fountains. And around in October when my birthday is, everything's Halloween themed. So it's a good time. That is cool. Yeah. Yeah. So you, you two can go.
00:46:10
Speaker
I know. I know. I know. um I have, ah no, I have not done that. I have, um, i've I've driven a car on a NASCAR track, but I've never done it. That's pretty cool. Just to show the difference here. um
00:46:30
Speaker
I've never been to a NASCAR race, though. My parents have, because my dad's... Well, I wouldn't. um But my my dad, you know at worked for a car dealership, and so he would get free tickets a lot from various things. So one year, he and my mom went, like, the box or something. And she said it was fun. but Yeah.
00:46:48
Speaker
Um, yeah, not my thing for sure. But every year, I think I've talked about this on this show on the show before, like they have the speedway and lights where they put like, it's kind of like, it's kind of like zoo lights from the Lincoln Park Zoo, but it's on the speedway and it's all around the speedway and you drive through it. And at the end you drive on the track. Yeah. So I've done that. Nice.
00:47:07
Speaker
Nice. um but yeah so that being aside richard mcadams is like um i can't handle this shit this is too much okay see you later bye-bye uh and then which is reasonable reasonable thing to do yeah she's like this guy is punching below his weight i do not feel like i am in the same league as this guy um but then later she runs into him and she goes I did. i wasn't there because I wanted feedback on Mike Pomeroy.
00:47:39
Speaker
I was there because like you. And then they make out and they have a really nice. Well, and he's like, she's like, I didn't think that you liked me. And he goes, well, weirdly I do. And she's like, well, what should we do? And he says, let's take it slow. We'll go to dinner and take it slow and smash cut to them like hardcore making out.
00:47:56
Speaker
hardcore making out like yeah steps away like she's got her pants off like steps away from just doing it and um then she had like mentioned something about mike pomeray like opening a bottle of scotch and he like stops the makeup session to go hold on What kind of scotch was it?
00:48:15
Speaker
And she goes, why does that matter? And he's like, well, if it was this particular vintage, he always did that when he didn't want to do something the next day. So then he would have a giant bender go out, get super wasted, and then call in sick the next day because he didn't want to do the job.
00:48:32
Speaker
And so she was like, not on my fucking watch. Sorry, super hot Patrick Wilson. got to go save my show. So then she runs out with her pants not on. and she hunts down she goes to all the bars that harrison ford bennett and she lands on like i don't know sardis or it was 21 it's 21 21 yeah and because of the because of the jockeys Oh, okay.
00:49:01
Speaker
Well, he's there with like a bunch of other old dudes that I assume are ah also journalists. It's fucking Chris Matthews, who used to have a show called Hardball until Jon Stewart went on and shamed him so like completely that they canceled the show. Jesus Christ. Which is incredible, if you if you remember that when that happened. It was around this time, honestly. it was maybe 2010, 2011. Yeah. maybe even before this i don't remember but it was one of those things where he would have people come on and just like yell at them and like it was really like you know bad journalism stuff it would be like you know here's this person who believes that and i'm gonna scream at him and they're gonna like just take it and be nice because that's what people do and john stewart went on there and absolutely obliterated this man's character and the show got canceled like a few months later it rules Jesus. Nice.
00:49:52
Speaker
Thanks, Jon Stewart. um But yeah, and so she's like, you, i see you. i know what you're doing. Let's go. And so then she forces him in a cab, forces him to go home, forces herself into his apartment. And then he's like, okay, cool. You can go. And she's like, no, no, no, I'm staying. I'm staying until we have to go to work tomorrow to make sure that you were there for your first day.
00:50:14
Speaker
yeah And she sleeps on the couch and he goes to bed and then he wakes her up. And well, I think her plan is to like not go to sleep, but she falls asleep.
00:50:26
Speaker
Yeah. And i he wakes her up in his robe and starts giving her a monologue about why he loves frittatas. Yeah, he's making a frittata. She's like, we're going to be late. And he's like, no, we got to make a frittata first.
00:50:40
Speaker
Yes. Making a frittata, and she eventually gets him to ah to to get to to to work. And everybody is like, can't believe you did it. Good job. right Good job, lady. yeah yeah And then they they start, they do the first show, and um Diane Keaton is, you know, welcome. And they have this whole thing like cake thing planned, and Harrison Ford wants no part of it. He gives monosymllabic um answer but monosyllabic, answers monosyllabic. Oh, say that five times fast. monosyllabic answers uh to everything and only does the harsh news stories including one where they mess up on the graphics because they are talking about a sex offender and then they change the graphic to a picture of jimmy carter but they don't lose the um the uh the wording below the graphic that says sexual offender so it looks like jimmy carter's a sex offender
00:51:35
Speaker
um so he does a bad job essentially right yes yes it was and then they have the little thing where she's like goodbye and he's like goodbye and then she's like goodbye and then he's like goodbye and i stop yeah they want to have the last word yeah exactly um And so it's not good. And so the show's not doing great because he continues to not want to do any of the fluff pieces.
00:51:56
Speaker
And Diane- She is dating Patrick Wilson. they I mean, the ROM part of this is so minor. It's so minor. It's so, like, backseat. It's like the C plot, really. um ah The A plot is her and Harrison Ford, but it's um it's like it's a rom-com about your employee who you were trying to get to fall in love with his job, basically, what it's like. Exactly. Exactly. um So she does have the thing where he, she shows up at his place and he's like, it wasn't that bad. And she's like, i don't want to talk about it. And then they start making out her phone rings and he just takes her phone, puts it in the fridge, picks her up and takes her to bed, which like. yeah
00:52:39
Speaker
Hot. Heavens. Yeah. Patrick Wilson, you have an open station. Anytime. and um there's a bunch of wacky characters who work at the morning show we've got the one the one lady who's just a moron that's her character she's talking about us lives she's like because what if justin timberlake used to be abraham lincoln and then she like just kind of like makes eyes at her Yeah. um ah She's like, we could do a cleanse where they measure the amount of toxins leaving my body. Rachel McGowan is like, we're going to do that because toxins aren't measurable and it's not a real thing. Yeah, exactly. We're not going to do that. And then there's the weather guy who just constantly wants to do ah a piece on his weather veins. It's ah Matt Malloy. Mike Malloy? Matt Malloy? One of those guys. He's a character actor. He's in a lot of stuff. He's a little weirdo. Yeah.
00:53:33
Speaker
And then... um And then is that is that all that's all? That's all of them, really. yeah It's those two. And there's some producers, yeah, as well. Yeah.
00:53:43
Speaker
But though you find out the most about weather guy and nonsense fluff piece idiot girl. Yes, who apparently is fucking Jeff Goldblum, which is how she has that And that's how she got the job. Yeah. yeah um And so Rachel McAdams has a meeting with Jeff Goldblum, and he goes...
00:53:59
Speaker
Your show is not doing good. I thought I hired you to like make this show better. And I thought that mo Mike Pomeroy would like make it better, but you are actually making the numbers worse.
00:54:11
Speaker
So this is some fucking bullshit. Essentially the show is going to get canceled in six weeks. Yeah. And, um, that's just what they want to it with game shows. Yeah, exactly. Game shows and soap operas. Which is what's happening with late night now? Because they're just canceling late night shows and they're not replacing it with anything.
00:54:30
Speaker
what What is on tv Nothing. I mean, there's no point. Yeah. Yeah. um And she's like, okay, well, um what if we got our numbers up? And he it was like, it would have to be a very remarkable number.
00:54:43
Speaker
And she was like, okay, well, what if it's this insane number? He was like, not possible. But like, maybe. But I can't promise you anything. He can give her more time if they can hit this this rating. Yeah. It's like. It's like 1.4 up or something like that, which is a lot. Yeah. yeah And so she goes down. She's like lost it. She ah is on her last weeks. Yeah.
00:55:04
Speaker
Yeah. Six weeks. She is on her last, like, she's on her last leg with Harrison Ford. She's so fucking done with him, like not playing along and like,
00:55:16
Speaker
buying into doing his job that um she storms back into the studio she um insists that they put the weather guy who's doing a piece on a roller coaster instead of doing it in front of the roller coaster she's like put him on it put him on it keep keep the video on keep the auto on put him on the roller coaster yeah And everyone's like, you should? gonna embrace doing dumb shit, yeah. Yeah.
00:55:42
Speaker
And she's like, yeah, absolutely, we're doing it. And so they do it, and it's great television. They said that the roller coaster goes 130 miles an hour. Like, I'm no roller coaster expert, but that sounds, like, really fast.
00:55:57
Speaker
That's really, really fast. It's just, like, a minute and a half of him going, yeah Yeah. ah It is funny.
00:56:08
Speaker
It's so good. Yeah. um and And she's just like, everyone's like, this is insane. This is not going to work at all. And she like goes up to Harrison Ford. She's just like, I used to idolize you. I used to, you used to be my role model. And you know, it's really heartbreaking learning that you're my role model is a like the worst person in the world. So yeah.
00:56:29
Speaker
blah um she gives him a big speech and embarrasses herself yeah again yeah um but one thing about this movie is that it's not it's it's made like right in the heart of like cringe comedy territory yeah but it's not it's it it it know has a couple of things where she does something where something embarrassing happens but that is not it's not cringe comedy it's not the humor doesn't come from there it is It's a bunch of well-meaning people who are, you know, who have conflict and are disagreeing with each other, but nobody is like out to get her. Like, well, the first time I saw this movie, I figured like Jeff Goldblum was trying to screw her somehow, you know? Like it was going to be like a producer situation where he wanted the show to fail and that's why he hired her. And it's nothing like that. It's just- You assume that everyone's the worst.
00:57:21
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. um And it's it's very refreshing. It's very it's very warm. um It's, um so it's ah it's, it's nice. Yeah, and Harrison Ford, again, is not is not actually a ah ah horrible person. I mean, he's yeah he's mean to her. He makes fun of her bangs, which, like, yeah come on, man.
00:57:38
Speaker
Right? Rude. Rude. um this is when they have the conversation where he's like people are smart they want information and she's like you can't have just that you have to have entertainment along with it like all of news has always been like that like look at a newspaper there's there's more to just the you know the political stuff which is like what all movies and tv shows about the news are about you know like One of my favorite movies, Broadcast News, which we'll do on the show at some point, um ah has a little bit of this too. this so many times. It's one of my favorite movies of all time. It's one of the best movies ever made.
00:58:18
Speaker
It is a little bit about this. um It's more like serious. I mean, it is, I guess it's a comedy. um it's It is a little bit more serious in that it's it's actually about like the issues of like responsibility in broadcasting and like the way that we things.
00:58:38
Speaker
news as entertainment and yeah the responsibility to the public and all of that so it's you know it's obviously a much deeper film than than this um but on the on the same level it's exactly it's kind of about the same thing like all in the morning show that tv show all shows about this about the news are going are about this the combination of those two things yeah yeah and the gentle erosion of of how that's happened in the history of america yeah Jesus fucking Christ. Right. um And Diane Keaton runs into our takes Rachel McAdams aside and is like, I see what you're doing. And here's the thing.
00:59:13
Speaker
Put me in. Put me in coach. I'm down. I'm fucking down. Like take advantage of me. And so then we get this montage of her just like making Diane Keaton and what's his name? The weather guy doing insane shit.
00:59:28
Speaker
Yeah, it cuts to her in a sumo suit, sumo wrestling out in like um on the street. Yeah. Yeah. She constantly has these like critter corners with like different animals. I know. It's so fun. I want to do a critter corner. I ah who He um so she's things with Patrick Wilson are she's still dating him. There's a little bit of tension because she says that she he makes her feel guilty about her job. Which he's not doing... Like, he's not looking down on her for doing silly shit. But, like, he has a good work-life balance and she doesn't is the thing. Where she's constantly checking her phone. She's constantly watching yeah the news and the competitors and everything. And she's she's obsessed.
01:00:10
Speaker
Yeah. Which is her problem. Yeah. And I think her lashing out at him is definitely a self-conscious thing of like, her acknowledging it in herself but, like, lashing out. For sure. For sure. Because she's also not doing it right. Like, she's not...
01:00:24
Speaker
She's doing too much donut at this point. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. um And then Mike says that he wants to do a story about a sauerkraut festival upstate. And she's like... ah really okay and you do he's like yeah there's like lots of things because it's like right before a scene where we see him on the phone with someone and we sense that there's like some sort of like tension in his like personal life in like family and um you're like okay and so like my first thought was like oh well maybe his family lives upstate and he's using this as an excuse to go visit them
01:01:01
Speaker
um And that's why he wants to like do the story. because he's Oh, so you hadn't seen this movie before? oh I'd never seen this movie before. in time And she's just like, yeah that that that would be great. And she's thinking that he's like finally buying in.
01:01:15
Speaker
And um he comes and picks her up with the news van. And he goes, you know, you really don't have to come with me. And she's like, no, no, no I wouldn't miss this for the world. And lo behold, they don't go upstate. They they don't go upstate.
01:01:29
Speaker
Instead, they end up at the governor's country house in somewhere. ah Maybe Connecticut, who knows? ah And she's just like, why are we here? Why are we at, like, are I'm being kidnapped. And so she's telling her producer to, like, have ah backup story on the ready. And he's like, we don't have anything. She's like, let the weather guy do a stupid story about weather vans. Yeah, yeah.
01:01:57
Speaker
I'm so excited about it. they're going do a live remote. That's what he wants. And he is going to gotcha the governor. He knocks on the door and he's like, hey, man, so it seems like the attorney general has filed charges of racketeering against you. What's going on with that? Yeah, he's like, what's what's going on? Is there a hooker in there? And he goes, that's ridiculous.
01:02:15
Speaker
And he goes, hmm, well, that's so weird. And the governor's like, well, I'm afraid and like if you keep asking me these questions, I'm going to have to call the police. And he oh, that's so funny. ah Because look who's here. The police.
01:02:28
Speaker
Yeah, so they get the scoop on that, that they they break that story um live on the morning show, which is like, you know, something that never happens. Yeah, yeah. So it's a really big deal. Yeah. And that gets the ratings that they need. And Rachel McAdams is kind of ecstatic. And she has this like bonding moment with him where he's like,
01:02:49
Speaker
You know, I have my grandkids, I have my kids that I never, you know, I didn't get a chance to, you know, I screwed up my kids, I don't get a chance to see my grandkid. Like, you know, I was always on, on the phone, I was always working, I was always watching the news, even when I was with them. And like, you're worse than me than I ever was. yeah yeah like, you need to get your life straightened out to her. He gives, he gives her the go get your boy speech.
01:03:14
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. of the, like, well, and the go get your life together speech. Yeah, yeah. Mostly that, yeah. Yeah. And so she goes back to Jeff Goldblum and he's like, that was really fucking great. And he's looking at the numbers and he's like, I can get you probably a year.
01:03:31
Speaker
i can get you a year. And then, um and she's like, that's amazing. um I did my job and he goes, oh yeah, NBC called. The Today Show wants you. Which earlier her mother...
01:03:44
Speaker
Yeah, her mother had mentioned that that's what she wanted to do when she was a little kid was beat was host the Today Show. Yeah. Yeah. um and so she's like oh we're not hosted but produce it yeah produce it yeah and she's like oh okay and so ever he's assuming that she's obviously just gonna quit and go to the today show but she does have a conflict with it and for like a hot second she's like i don't think i should i think i should stay at um daybreak and because we've just started like bonding as a group and we've sort of become a family but patrick wilson's like this is the fucking today show
01:04:18
Speaker
like yeah And he's like, Mike is never going to change. Like you, you think that he's changed, but he hasn't, he did that one thing and it's going to go exactly back exactly the way it was. yeah And she goes back to work and that's exactly what happens. Like yeah she's trying to pitch him stuff. He's like, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. Just like before.
01:04:34
Speaker
Yeah. And she's like, I thought we had like this breakthrough. And he's like, no. Yeah. um And so she goes to her interview NBC. Well, she's she's she screams at him. Yeah. And she's like, we were going to get canceled, you know? Yeah. And like, we barely saved it. And I thought that you cared about this and said you're a fucking selfish asshole or something like that. Yeah, exactly. And she leaves and goes to the interview at 30 Rock.
01:04:59
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Yep. And she's there and they've got all the news on in the background during their interview. Of course they do. And they're like, we're really impressed with all the work that you did with Daybreak to like bring it back you know from the dead the way that you did. And um it's cutting between her interview and um Daybreak where Diane Keaton turns to Harrison Ford before they're about to go on air and go...
01:05:23
Speaker
you know, you really screwed the future in this. Like, I can't believe you were you're such a fucking asshole because we finally had a good show, a good producer, a good co-anchor. Like we finally had everything together and you couldn't play along. You couldn't do your fucking job.
01:05:39
Speaker
And part of that is like, you know, she he realizes that like the only person that believed in him, he's now driven away. Like yeah he, like he's stuck in this job. So he has to do it for two years, no matter what. What's he want to do it without her now? That's fucking yeah crazy. Yeah. Yeah. So he walks off the studio and nobody knows yeah what's happening. And everyone's like, what's well, first he turns me and goes, I need eggs.
01:06:02
Speaker
And they go, what? runs to, he runs to crafty and starts like piling stuff up. Like. Because earlier he says you can make a frittata with anything that you have. like Yeah. Just whatever you have in your refrigerator, you can throw in the frittata. Yeah. Yeah. And so essentially what he's getting together is stuff to make a frittata. And he gets the, like, you know, the cooking set out and nobody knows what he's doing.
01:06:22
Speaker
And then it cuts to, and like, she's like in her interview and she's like half watching it. She's like, wait, what? This is so weird. Like, this is normally like a full shot instead of, but it's just untying cake. And like, I don't understand what's going on. And um then it cuts to him and she goes, I'm sorry, what is happening?
01:06:38
Speaker
What is happening? Because he is behind the cooking setup. Felice stops the interview and turns the sound on as yes he makes a frittata for the audience, which is something he refused to do. um Also, we should say earlier in the, um he has all these like, he has these contracts from the 80s and stuff where he has the right of refusal on everything. Like he has story refusal. He has like image refusal, like his promo has to be like vetted by him and everything. He's the worst. Yeah. He won't say the word fluffy in one, uh, in one note. They have a, the PA out with a dictionary to find an alternative word to say fluffy. Yeah. And Jesus is like, just say fluffy.
01:07:19
Speaker
So he's making the frittata and like being charming to the camera for like the first time. And the thing he says, he says, and you want a really hot pan for a frittata because that's what makes it pause, looks at the camera fluffy.
01:07:34
Speaker
And it's like, that's him talking to And she's like, I'm so sorry. I have to go Because she realized that he is saying, ah well, no, actually, Patrick Wilson calls her. And she takes his phone call in the middle of her Today Show interview. He's like, are you watching this? He's not going to ask you again. yeah yeah And so she runs from 30 Rock to wherever IBS is, which I assume it's still at the Mall of America's, which is not as far as they make it out to be from 30 Rock.
01:08:01
Speaker
The what? Mall of the America's. Oh, Avenue of the Americas. Avenue of the Americas. Sorry. Mall of the Americas is in Minneapolis. Yeah. You know, that would be a long run.
01:08:11
Speaker
Yeah. No, the Avenue of the Americas. That's where I'll be. Yeah. Yeah. um And it's like across the street. Yeah. But they they make it out to seem like she's running for like 30 minutes. Yeah.
01:08:23
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. yeah um Well, I mean, because he's in the segment's not over. So, true you know, she makes it back before the segment is over. Yeah. And, um ah and then she runs back and is like, and they're like, we're going to do it. We're going to make the news. I don't know.
01:08:37
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. They're like, we did it. And then there's like a little, there's a montage. One of my favorite bits is when she hires her friend from the old, from the, from the New Jersey place at daybreak. It's so sweet. Yeah. It's so, so sweet.
01:08:52
Speaker
And then, of course, they play a Natasha Bedingfield song. Of course. is yeah have i do You It's what you did. typical, rom-com, C-plot of the romance aspect is we get how she ends up happy with Patrick Wilson in montage.
01:09:08
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is like, I mean, again, it's one of those things where like there weren't really any problems in their relationship. There were just two hot people who started fucking and yes she decided to get out of her own way at one point.
01:09:20
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. There you go. And then it ends on her and Harrison Ford like backlit or lit as they're walking up the street at like sunrise. And... um him making some sort of quip and saying that like he's going for his to get his prostate checked can he bring a camera crew and she goes no actually that would be great and he goes no i'm I'm kidding I'm not actually gonna do that and she goes well you know they make these little cameras that go in and he goes yeah no no um and that's the end of the movie yeah yeah it was really cute it's sweet fun movie yeah yeah
01:10:03
Speaker
We're doing sweet fun movies in January. Yeah. I love sweet fun movies. Sweet fun movies. um Oh, but actually, then that's perfect.
Clarifying Charlie's Corner and Running Surprises
01:10:12
Speaker
Did Charlie have a corner? Hold on. Charlie did not really have a corner. He enjoyed it. His most, his biggest thing was that he couldn't believe how much she was running when she was running from 30 to the Avenue of the Americas because he knows how far it is. In fact, this this was the moment in the movie when he looked up where IBS supposedly was and 30 Rock and Google mapped it.
01:10:37
Speaker
Yeah. I can't remember what his findings were, but yeah, no.
Movie Enjoyment and Genre Discussions
01:10:43
Speaker
<unk>nna But yeah, we both enjoyed it. It was it was a fun time. it was yeah it It was a fun, fun, fun time. Yeah. It was a fun time.
01:10:54
Speaker
Okay. Fun, fun time. It's been a day. It's been a day. I might just do one that's not really a rom-com, but it's fun. Well, this wasn't really a rom-com, yeah. Yeah.
01:11:08
Speaker
Um...
Nostalgia for the 2000s and The Princess Diaries
01:11:10
Speaker
You know what we all enjoy? We all enjoy going back to the 2000s. We all enjoy bringing it back and enjoying ourselves some like nostalgia.
01:11:23
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You know what Emma enjoys that Katie hates? Royalty. ah We're going to do the princess diaries. Oh yeah, sure. Yeah. Beautiful. Yeah.
01:11:34
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Right.
Listener Engagement and Social Media Plugs
01:11:35
Speaker
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01:11:50
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01:12:02
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Playful Farewell and Humorous Sign-Off
01:12:05
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01:12:14
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