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Two Weeks Notice
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This week Emma and Katie dive into the 2000s rom-com. That's right it's another Sandy Bullock! Tune in as they recap the movie that *ALLEGEDLY* brought NYC back from 9/11? Don't worry they address THAT jump scare and also how Hugh Grant discovered Coney Island Hot Dogs which then gave him the runs that held up filming.
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Podcast Team and Catching Up
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And as per usual, Thomas thinks that he is also a part of this podcast. And so he's just sitting here making sure that the equipment is all working.
00:00:13
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He's our producer. He's our producer, yeah. Our producer, Thomas. Thomas the Cat. And we'll see if he wants to...
00:00:25
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Oh, he's right there. Yeah, that's very close. He's right by the mic. I think he wants to sit in my lap, but I don't know. Yeah. It's all questionable. um But how are you, Katie?
00:00:37
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I'm good. i have We haven't talked in a while. It's been a while since we recorded an episode. I know We haven't talked in a while.
Chicago Adventures
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And um ah we haven't talked about ah my visit to Chicago and our lovely, lovely day. That's true.
00:00:51
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We made no plans.
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Yeah. Long-time listeners will be shocked, I'm sure. i know. i know. and um And it was great. We sort of bopped around. We went yeah to ah the MERS Apothecary in Lincoln Square, which was great.
00:01:08
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Oh, I forgot about that. We did. Yeah. Spent a lot of money. We were going to go to the ra romance bookstore, the last chapter, ah but it was a Monday, which is the one day that they are closed.
00:01:18
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Yeah. Just like that's the third or fourth time that's happened to me where, I mean, at least this time we didn't actually go up to the door and pull on it and realize they were closed. That's happened to me two times. It's happened to me before, too.
00:01:30
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Yeah. I think one day they were restocking. i Yeah. So we need to remember for the future, Hangs, don't go on a Monday. yeah Yeah. They're closed.
00:01:42
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Yeah. Which is good for them. They should be closed. Yeah. Exactly. a day off. um So instead we went to the bookseller in Lincoln Square, which is great, great bookstore. um And then we sort of bopped around because the plan was we, I found this,
00:01:59
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happy hour on TikTok ah for like this French bistro in I want to say Lincoln Park Lakeview. Yeah.
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I honestly don't remember the name of it. Oh, great. Yeah. Yeah. So I can't even. um And so we like couldn't find it first off because there's no sign. Because there's Because there's no sign.
00:02:21
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There's no, nothing even revealing that it is a place of business. Like there's, like there's not only no sign, but all the window. Well, I mean, I guess it makes sense that the windows were, were covered with heavy curtains after realizing that they were closed, but also like,
00:02:38
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Yeah, it's very, it's like, I guess it's like a speakeasy. Like you're not supposed to know about it unless you know about it. I don't know. I don't know. But like the, ah the internet, the internet said that the happy hour starts at four.
00:02:52
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So we like sort of bopped around Lakeview, Lincoln Park, boundary work, like South Lakeview until four o'clock.
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And then we went to walk in and they went, sorry, we're closed. Well, we opened the door and they looked like they looked at us like we were something on the bottom of their shoe. Yep, yep. They were like, who are these peasants?
00:03:16
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Like, what the fuck is wrong with you? i was like, well, the door was open. The door was open and there's no sign saying that you're open or closed. So how am I to assume...
00:03:28
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Yeah. So ah there was a Caesars Killer Margaritas catty corner to this place. ah And so we looked at, we walked out, we said, oh, sorry.
00:03:43
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We walked out, we saw the sign for Killer Margaritas and we went, let's just go to Caesars. And it was great. That's more our speed. Yeah. We got massive margaritas, got some queso.
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It was lovely.
Movie Discussions: Final Destination and Two Weeks Notice
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And then ah Emma made the request that she makes every time she goes back to Chicago, which is can we go drink at Mariano's grocery store, please?
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Which we've talked about on this podcast before. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. It's a good time. It's a good time. And we closed out that bar. 7 p.m., baby. Yeah. was going say we should be specific about when when this was.
00:04:27
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And then I went back to my parents' house, put on some pajamas, and I watched Final Destination with some sparkling wine. It was a great night. had a great day. The first one? and I'd never seen the first one.
00:04:40
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Oh, really? Yeah. It's probably not a film that you should watch before flying. ah Probably not. No. But I did it anyways. We were at Caitlin Sisters ah for our nephew's high school graduation.
00:04:54
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Oh, my God. Yeah. And um we watched Final Licination 1 and 2. And Final Licination 2 is not something you should watch before taking a long road trip. so Yeah. is that that That's the one with the logs, right? That's the logs, yeah. Yeah.
00:05:09
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yeah uh i the see the thing about final destination that was like totally fine like that the the airplane thing mishap is one thing because that's any sort of like airplane explosion in the sky is terrifying because it could happen because i don't know airplanes but um i don't know airplanes i don't know airplanes But like every other murder or murder, I guess, can you call death avenging itself murder?
00:05:39
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Every other kill in that movie. Any other coincidence. Yeah. Coincidence is so unrealistic and so nonsensical. Yeah, it's very campy and very silly. And that's a thing, like Caitlin, in years past, I was like, let's watch the Final Fantasy Nation movies again. And she's like, no, don't want to watch those. They give me anxiety.
00:05:59
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And she agreed to watch them this time ah because more of her family members were there. So she was braver, I think. Yeah. And ah she was like, oh, this isn't as bad as I thought. I was like, yeah, it's so silly. It's hard to like to get like as anxious about it.
00:06:15
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Exactly. It's just silly. It's just silly, silly, willy, billy, silly, silly. i mean, like, at one point, like ah like, the, like, last one with, like, the the wire, the live wire just, like, jumping around.
00:06:30
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Yeah. I was like, is this wire possessed? Yeah. It's fun because like they'll, they'll, they'll take you in different directions. Like at first you think it's going to be one thing. It's like little red herrings where it's like, Oh, it's not the garbage disposal. It's going to be this other than it like moves around.
00:06:46
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It's not the garbage disposal. It's going to be this other thing that kills her while her record is playing this lovely, lovely song. um Yeah. It's, um and then some, so some of them are like, yeah, like elaborate setups and coincidences, like the, like,
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ah Like the this' that's the one in in the second one with the garbage disposal and the ladder from the fire escape. And then sometimes it's just like telekinesis. Things are moving to crush someone like there's no.
00:07:15
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Right. Like the end of the first one, whenever they're in Paris and like just a giant sign falls. And I'm like, what? You got to watch out for signs.
00:07:26
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Yeah. Right. Oh, I got to let him know. I made a movie about it. Signs. It's called Signs. um ah Children's birthday parties. Terrible.
00:07:36
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Brownie boys. You need let the producer out of the recording studio? ah The assistant producer. the ah the other one. The assistant producer is ah right here doing his job. I'm to take a picture of him.
00:07:48
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Thomas. There we go. And going send it to you and I'll post it with the episode. I'm going to Photoshop little headphones onto him. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So, yeah, none of that has anything to do with ah this this movie that you made us watch.
00:08:04
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um So once again, Emma, what the fuck did you make us watch? Have you never seen Two Weeks Notice? Yes, I'd seen it, but I forgot about it. Oh, I forgot about some very important things.
00:08:16
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Specifically a couple of very important things. Yeah. Yeah. all scar What's funny is that Charlie sent me a text last night. Oh, yeah.
00:08:28
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Just to be very clear, this film was not my choice.
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Emma keeps saying that. I don't know why he's Michael Caine all of a sudden. I don't know. I'm Michael Caine. My name's Charles Brunt.
00:08:43
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um ah Yeah, because every time that he kept asking me Master Bruce Every time he kept asking me um what movie you were doing i was like, oh, it's your pick it's It's your recommendation, two weeks notice He goes, that's not my recommendation I saw it on Netflix And it looked like a fun rom-com It's got Hugh Grant in it Oh, he'd never seen it Yeah, he'd never seen it. but Right, right, okay. But poster just looked like something that you guys should do on the pod. And so I was just like, okay.
00:09:13
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um So it's your favorite rom-com of all time. He's like, no! So Charlie's Choice, ah Charlie's favorite movie, two weeks notice. Yes. From, of oh yeah, who are we? What are we doing here? Oh yes, that's right guys, you guessed it.
00:09:29
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This is Go Get Your Girl, the podcast where Emma and Katie have strong moral values and love being helpful lawyers to society and protesting things.
00:09:43
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And, but they need to make money, i guess. And like, it's not really a concern, actually. Like it has nothing to do with money. Community center, save their family community center. And the only way to do that is to sell out and work for the playboy,
00:10:02
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real estate tycoon of New York who's British and be his lawyer, even though that's not what we went to law school for.
00:10:15
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And then we find ourselves falling in love with him and get jealous when our replacement Like, I don't think guys, there's a lot of things that happen.
00:10:27
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Anyways, that's about it. yeah And I'm Katie. um We are watching two weeks notice. ah The 2002 Grant, Sandy Bullock. so yeah We're going to run out of Sandy Bullock rom-coms before we do like two Julia Roberts ones.
00:10:44
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I love her so much. This movie is written and directed, and Hugh Grant, yeah. And this is written and directed by Mark Lawrence. ah Mark Lawrence, who wrote Miss Congeniality, but did not direct it.
00:10:57
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This is his, this is the first movie he directed. He went on to make music and lyrics with Hugh Grant. And Did You Hear About the Morgans with Hugh Grant. grant And he also wrote, but did not direct Forces of Nature with Sandra Bullock.
00:11:13
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Oh, he loves using the same actors. Yeah, which, fair enough. Like, if they work well together, yeah. Exactly. Yeah, and this is... ah this This was a big hit. um yeah I remember seeing this in the theater, I'm sure. ah Definitely was the kind of thing where like, well, I gotta see that, right?
00:11:34
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Yep, we gotta see that. It's got all the things. And it's aged particularly bad. Like, worse than... Almost anything else. I mean, like, we'll get to it.
00:11:46
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We'll get to it. Yeah. I mean, to be fair, it wasn't all terrible. It wasn't all bad. No, no. But there's one particular thing that kind of like spoils the whole pot, you know? Yeah. You know, you know, like when you're um making hollandaise sauce and you don't whisk it well enough and it just sort of curdles?
00:12:08
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Yeah. That's what this was. You know when you're doing um but ah that shot that I don't think I can say because it's offensive to Irish people.
00:12:20
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What? The Irish car bomb shot. An Irish car bomb? Yeah. You know when you drop the Baileys and the whiskey in the beer and you have to drink it so fast so it doesn't curdle?
00:12:34
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Right, right, right, right. Yeah, because alcohol and milk don't really mix. Correct. That's what this was. It was as if you waited it curdled. Yeah, there's a shot of ah a spray-tanned fascist right in the middle of this movie that really curdles the whole thing. yeah Yeah, yeah. And that's exactly what my notes look like. It's like, ah first note, classic rom-com opening.
00:13:01
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yeah which Pictures of Sandra Bullock and and Hugh Grant um both seem much older than I thought they were. Yep, yep, yep. Because all the pictures are in black and white.
00:13:13
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Like Hugh Grant is wearing like a little like a little dress. Like he's like it's 1900 or something. Like how old is Hugh Grant? He's a thousand gajillion years old.
00:13:25
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um Timeless. That's how old Hugh Grant is. He's timeless. Uh, but most of Hugh Grant's are photoshopped because he's supposed to be this like wealthy nephew. Yes, yes. Several, none of, none of Yeah, not all of them are real. Like she's yeah protesting. Uh, she's marching with a little sign that says impeach Nixon. And then it cuts to him next to Richard Nixon.
00:13:48
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Very poorly photoshopped. Very poorly. Very poorly. Yeah. uh and and a lot of hers look real ish um and very cute and then we get the opening scene which is her protesting the demolishment of a theater in um i assume coney island brooklyn somewhere uh yeah it's it doesn't really we don't really get a lot of geographical information um but yeah it's in new york um this is a very New York rom-com yeah some might say New York itself is a character
00:14:24
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yeah yeah definitely and I can think of another character who I wish uh was not in the film yeah is it Nora Jones no I love Nora Jones I love Nora Jones I was so excited it helped take It's like, oh man, this is so 2002. This is so like, also, oh yeah, when did they film this? Because I wonder if this was like, for your post wonder how exactly like, yeah, I bet it was filmed before 9-11. Yeah, I wonder if they had to like cut the World Trade Center out of the skyline and stuff.
00:14:54
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Oh yeah, because they had to do that. They did that with a bunch of movies. Yeah. I mean, Spider-Man being the most famous one where they had like a whole like scene set, like the whole end of the original Spider-Man was originally set in at the World Trade Center.
00:15:09
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And like the first poster of the Spider-Man movie had like a web in between the two towers and they had the whole whole fucking thing. Yeah. That sucks because that's a really cool visual.
00:15:20
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I guess you can't really do that with like the Chrysler building and the and Empire State Building. ah No, ah two weeks notice was the first Hollywood production to be filmed in New York after the September 11th attacks. So really?
00:15:32
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Okay, so New York was like, we just went through a terrible traumatic um event. Yeah. We are recuperating. Recuperating? We are recovering as ah as a as ah community, as a city.
00:15:51
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Let's green light this film. Yeah, it says um Sandra Bullock insisted the the movie be filmed in New York City instead of Toronto. Yeah. Partially. and this is a This is an article from some, from Fandom Wire. So take take this with a grain of salt, I suppose.
00:16:11
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ah Sandra Bullock's timely decision brought New York City out from ruin after a devastating tragedy. Well, I don't know if we can. you i don't know if we can give Sandy Bullock that much credit.
00:16:22
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You heard it here first, folks. Sandra Bullock saved New York from emotional ruin after 9-11.
00:16:33
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She brought the city back on its feet. um that's That is what the fandomwire.com article says. Yes. Sandra Bullock, 9-11 hero.
00:16:46
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boy. um Yeah, they're building a statue over at Ground Zero, I think. yeah Oh, yeah yeah, I think I saw it at the 9-11 museum. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, which I did go to, which I don't know if I mentioned it on the pod.
00:17:00
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Great museum. Don't go if you're looking for a good tent. Yeah, I would think that would be yeah kind of self-explanatory. Yeah. yeah Yeah. Yeah. But you'd be surprised.
00:17:11
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You'd be surprised. Especially the older, unfortunately, that we get and the further and further generations get away from Mm-hmm. But anyway. So that's, yeah, that was pretty quick to 9-11. I mean, not for this show, I guess. How many times have we mentioned 9-11 on this podcast?
00:17:27
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times have we mentioned nine eleven on this spot It's hard to say. um may that would be something that ah producer Thomas would have to to decide for us. um Listeners, if you're interested in I don't know. We'll do a shout out on one of our episodes.
Listener Interactions and Character Introductions
00:17:45
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I'm, I'm, I'm making us do stuff. I'm giving away a prize. oh God. um We'll give you a shout out on, on the episode, next episode that we record. If you can count how many times we've mentioned nine 11 on this podcast, no one's going to do that.
00:18:03
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I don't know. Jeremy's pretty devoted. Our biggest fan. Our biggest fan. Although I don't even know if he still listens now that he doesn't have to see me every day.
00:18:15
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Probably not. And I go, what episode are you on? What are you doing What episode are you Oh, God. No. i never did that So you're bullying him into to listening to the show. That's that's that's good. I mean, that's that's just drive and determination. That's how people become successful. Exactly.
00:18:32
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Exactly. Anyways, so she is standing in front of a theater in New York trying to attempt to get it not bulldozed down. And um the typical New York construction worker guys are like, come on, lady. Yeah. And it she's there.
00:18:51
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And everybody's favorite rom-com BFF, April 25th, is there. Yeah. Heather Burns also in this movie. I assume because they must have, you know, just clicked from the from the other one. I mean, it's the same it's the same writer and star.
00:19:09
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um so Well, it's the director of the writer of the last one. so um That's nice. Yeah. And she's barely in this. Barely in this. Just... Kind of, basically a cameo. Yeah, I mean, there's there's really, i guess her parents are the the biggest characters outside of her in Hugh Grant. Or no, I mean, I guess Alicia Witt is is the third biggest character.
00:19:33
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the The other attorney. Yeah, her replacement, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The villain of the piece. She hasn't come in until the final third of this movie. Yeah, she's not in the first, like, well over the first half, yeah.
00:19:47
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Yeah, yeah. Neither of them really have confidants, which is kind of unique. I mean, they have one scene where he's playing chess with his driver. And I have to wonder how much of that was in, like, because there's only one scene of that.
00:20:01
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Yeah. But he gives him, like, terrible misogynist advice, which is, like, called out on. Like, it's not. It's not played straight. And then she. has one scene with Heather Burns, like, at the end, pretty much. And that's it.
00:20:16
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like Yeah. And that's pretty much it. um I mean... It's uncommon for a rom-com, especially of this of this era, to not have... Both of them have best friends. Yeah. I mean, some might say...
00:20:29
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The Chinese restaurant that she constantly calls from her parents' house is her best friend and confidant. That's true. Yeah, I mean, I guess the idea is that she's a workaholic and she doesn't have any kind of social life or friends. She has a boyfriend who we never see named Ansel who works yeah for Greenpeace and is always on a boat and he's never home.
00:20:53
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Yep. And she has the Chinese- She has Mr. Wong, the Chinese yeah ah restaurant. Yep. um Who she talks to. And she's always ordering huge amounts of food, which is such a rom-com cliche. She's like ordering enough Chinese food for six people.
00:21:10
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And she always goes, oh yes. Yes, it's for one. It's for one. And also that's not something that takeout places ask you. No, no. i mean if I mean, unless like she's been going to this place for years and he's just genuinely worried about her and concerned.
00:21:29
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And he's like, this woman doesn't need this much sodium. But they they explicitly point out the fact that he doesn't care about her because she starts telling, at one point, she starts telling him about her life and she's like, oh, I'm sorry. Okay, a number seven. like He's like, shut don't want hear that.
00:21:44
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we don't know what Mr. Wong's backstory is. he We never see him. He have an entire line out the door of customers trying to place orders, and he's stuck on the phone with Sandra Bullock, who's trying to complain about her life.
00:21:57
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He goes, okay, okay, I i love you. you're You're one of our regulars. I've known you since you were a child, but can you please wrap up this order because I have other customers to take care of, and I'm just one person.
00:22:10
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like it's a lot of There's a lot of sympathetic read for mr wong there. We don't know what Mr. Wong's life is like. um So who are we to say that he doesn't care about Sandra Bullock?
00:22:22
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Fair enough. Fair enough. um ah Yes. so that's her. um Her life is chaos. She is super stressed out.
00:22:35
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And then Hugh Grant is a billionaire real estate developer. um Just i don't understand why... like billionaire romance is it's like a genre to itself it is it is it's so upsetting like i have no interest and no sympathy for any of the of those things like i have you don't want to read a book where they bang in a helicopter no i don't want to private jets no ah no they're all bad
00:23:09
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It's all about escapism, right, though? but It is. like I mean, it's like, yeah what if you were rich? Which is like, okay, fine. But like, yeah, I have less of a problem because like there's um because there's this there's like the I mean, because that and that's the ultra rich, right? Because there's other rom coms, like, especially in fake relationship rom coms, my favorite genre, as we've established on the show, sometimes you'll get the the only way to inherit the money from my wealthy aunt or whatever is if I have, if I'm married by the time, by by a year or whatever, and you have to pretend to be my fiance and then I'll split the money with you or whatever. And that happens.
00:23:48
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And that's fine because also- Exactly. obviously they fall in love, but there's, but millionaires and billionaires are different. Like it is like, there's a there's a moral line there and, they're crazy um, it's just, it's, it's impossible for me to, um to, uh, to put myself in a, in a headspace where I would be, um,
00:24:11
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happy for them yeah yeah that's fair um i i did have to say there's one scene where uh hugh grant like because he so basically what happens is sandra bullock works for legal aid um because she has a moral high ground and but she can't save any of the buildings she's wanting to save in her neighborhood even though they're historic beautiful new york well she she does save the theater because of but because of her legal Because of her legal work. Well, yeah, you know I mean, but like the theater at the beginning, they don't knock it down.
00:24:46
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They don't? No, I thought they do. No, they have a whole thing where they shut it down. And she's like, we won, we won. It's like, no, it's this other thing. it's this it's a there was a There's a loophole in the contract. They didn't knock it down.
00:24:57
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Oh, I thought that they did because whenever she was get coming out of being bailed out by her parents, ah she goes, did they knock it down? And then they were silent. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Well, fair enough. Yeah, I believe you. I think what you were mistaking was that the cops came to arrest the crazy lady.
00:25:18
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Oh, well, okay. Well, I must have... Well, yeah, because but there's a thing where hugh Grant, yeah they're talking to Hugh Grant about it, and they said they say something about, like...
00:25:30
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About something because he knows her because she's like a thorn. I guess that's a different. It must be a different thing. Yeah. Because she's like she's constantly like putting ah legal stuff.
00:25:40
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It like pins in his side because she's constantly like fighting against these buildings getting knocked down. and and Yeah. Yeah. I just thought it was about that specific building. Like, no, I'm pretty sure that that guy.
00:25:53
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back ah Because it is his company that demolished that theater because there's big W on the wrecking ball. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. um And she goes in like ah and then they are going to demolish her neighborhood community center, which means a lot to her family and her neighbors. She's from Coney Island. She's from Coney Island, baby.
00:26:12
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New York City. New York City. New York City, Coney Island. um And I mean- You spend a lot of time in Coney Island? I have never been to Coney Island, actually. You've never been to Coney Island. No, I need to go.
00:26:27
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um i want to go because it seems like a cheesy, weird time. Yeah, yeah. Shoot the Freak. i don't know if they still have Shoot the Freak at Coney Island.
00:26:37
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Probably. But it's like you're up on a you're you're up high, right? like I mean, you're at street level, but then there's like it's it's down and there's like a there's like a maze or something and there's a man.
00:26:50
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dressed in like a costume running through a maze and you've got like paintballs and you're trying to try to hit him with the paintball oh my god i need to do that oh my god i would not be surprised if they don't have that anymore yeah but yeah it's like it's it's very it's very kitschy it's very i mean they have the the wonder wheel and the the cyclone like all the old roller coaster that was built in like 1900 whatever yeah um They have the Coney Island Aquarium, which is nice.
00:27:17
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um And ah there's Nathan's Hot Dogs, which is you know famous. And I sent you a video. i don't know if you watched it um on Instagram before we recorded this.
00:27:29
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I sent it yesterday. It just happened to come up on my feed. It's an interview with Hugh Grant, and he's talking about the filming of this movie. Oh, yeah, I haven't watched it yet, but I think I've seen that clip where he talks about how he ate so many hot dogs.
00:27:44
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Yeah, they they were like they were filming in Coney Island, and he was they they told him he he had never had a Nathan's Hot Dog, and so they told him he had to go get one, and he liked it so much he had four, and then he had terrible diarrhea and was late for makeup and everything. yeah yeah yeah Which is ironic because in this movie, Sandra Bullock is the one that gets diarrhea.
00:28:05
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That's true. Yeah, there is a diarrhea scene in this movie. um It shows up a lot in rom-coms, honestly, but we're getting ahead of ourselves. Yeah. But yeah, so Sandra Bullock is fighting the good fight and um Hugh Grant needs a new lawyer, his brother, his older brother who like runs the company and he's supposedly just like the playboy face of the company.
00:28:28
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ah and there's a very And why does he need a new lawyer, Emma? Because he's getting a divorce. No, no, no. Because he won't stop fucking the lawyers. Because he won't stop fucking the lawyers. Yeah, he won't stop fucking his lawyers.
00:28:42
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He hires dummy hot lawyers and he keeps fucking them and then he has to fire them. Yep. When he first meets Sandra Bullock, he is finishing a an interview with a very beautiful blonde lawyer who he goes, have you ever heard of San Tropez University? She's a spell.
00:29:04
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Yeah. And he was like, where did you go to law school? She goes, Harvard. And because she's trying to like give him um like reading material about how important the community center is.
00:29:18
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And instead, he just wants to hire her because she seems capable. And he seems he realizes he doesn't want to fuck her, but she seems like a capable lawyer.
00:29:29
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Well, at the time, he doesn't want to fuck her. at the time. His brother is David Haig, who shows up and stuff. I'm sure Charlie knew who he was. He's a British character actor. Yeah, good for him.
00:29:40
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Yeah. And um he i is um he's a real piece of shit and tells Hugh Grant, is like, listen, you you have to hire this lawyer for this divorce. You have to have this lawyer. You need a head counsel for the company.
00:29:58
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hire someone who's not you know, bimbo basically. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So he hires Sandra Bullock and c Sandra Bullock, um, you know, is like, i don't know if I should take this job. And so he gives to deal with the devil. Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:14
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He gives her sort of, a carrot on a stick, which is, he's like, if you take this job, then I promise I will not demolish the community center and you'll have millions of dollars in our resources to do charitable work for our company.
00:30:30
Speaker
So what do you say?
Character Dynamics and Legal Battles
00:30:34
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And because, well, the the other thing is like, so she came to see him because she was like, I can, you know, there I've got all this, this legal paperwork here. Like, I know you want to build, so there's this apartment building is going to get built. And I know there's like, you're in this fight to try to build this building.
00:30:49
Speaker
If you, I can help you. If you promise not to demolish the community center, I can make sure you get the contract. And he's like, well, why did you come to me? And she says, I can't get in to see Trump. I'm like, oh no.
00:31:01
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which is when I first wrote Trump jump scare. Little did we know, little did we know Katie, it was going to get worse. It was going get worse. um Yeah.
00:31:13
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So then she starts working for him and she's doing a good job. She seems very competent, very good at her job. she um She stops wearing the peasant ah shirts and the maxi skirts and the Birkenstocks and starts like dressing a little bit more corporate lawyer.
00:31:31
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, she's doing great. She helps him ah with his divorce, which he then just doubles back on and gives his ex-wife the money anyways.
00:31:44
Speaker
Well, I think part of it is like we have to show that he's kind, right? Yeah. That's a save the cat moment. Yeah, we play Big Yellow Taxi by counting crows. which I so many times in this movie. I think it's from this movie. Like, I think that's, like, the song for the movie. Like, it has to be, right? Like, it's... i I'm not going to like topic I almost wrote down, what is this terrible cover of Big Yellow Taxi?
00:32:10
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Did you not recognize? oh yeah, yeah. it was ah It was a big hit. Yeah. No. No. I like Koji. End of list. Yeah.
00:32:21
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No, no, no, you don't need to. No, it's not good. um yeah But yeah, it was definitely um I recognized it immediately. But why couldn't why couldn't like ah why couldn't they just do the Joni Mitchell version? Why they have to do because it's because everything. Yeah.
00:32:39
Speaker
Yeah, because Counting Crows were probably signed to, you know, Warner Brothers Records or whatever. who who Who did this movie? Warner Brothers. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Warner Brothers.
00:32:50
Speaker
My very paradox put up a cock and look. What was that supposed to be? That was Counting Crows. Counting Crows doing Big Yule Taxi.
00:33:03
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It is. what up ah la It sounds like Jewel. off um That it is Warner Brothers. It is Warner Brothers.
00:33:14
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Yep. Jesus of fucking Christ. Counting Crows. Oh hey Kay. Adam Durst has normal hair now. Oh.
00:33:24
Speaker
Good for him. Good for him. Oh, they're playing in Chicago this fall. ah I bet he's the daddest of dads. ah Probably. yeah I'm not going to look up that. i'm gonna I'm just trying to see what um what who who released. Okay, they had an album come out 2002.
00:33:43
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Same year of this movie. yeah It was Geffen. So not Warner Brothers. Geffen is owned by Geffen is universal.
00:33:55
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Oh. Well, I guess it was DreamWorks at the time, though, because David Geffen was was part of DreamWorks. So yeah, i it's interesting. I don't know why. Who knows? Maybe they were friends with someone and they were like, can we do a cover for this movie?
00:34:11
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We want to do Big Yellow Taxi. I'm concerned that you don't know what Adam Driver sounds like. He's very specific.
00:34:20
Speaker
I just don't listen to enough Counting Crows to be able to do a good impression, I'm being completely honest with you. I've seen one music video, and any time it comes on the radio, change the channel.
00:34:34
Speaker
Not a Counting Crows band. I was pretty into Counting Crows when I was in like ah middle school high school. Did you also like the chick? Of course. Of course. Of course. What do you mean? same genre.
00:34:46
Speaker
Yeah, I think the Counting Crows were were definitely the best of that, like, um certain, like, sub-genre thing. Yeah. ah We were talking about this the other night actually with some friends that we saw some song came on and i we were like, who is this? I know this song and it was a band called Sister Hazel.
00:35:06
Speaker
was like, yeah, right there. like in the yeah yeah in the hu In the Hootie and the Blowfish post-grunge renaissance kind of yeah genre. yeah Yeah. It all had a very specific Y2K look. You could yeah get all of their album covers and it's like the same font.
00:35:24
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah. So anyway, that was Counting Crows Corner. Counting Crows Corner.
00:35:35
Speaker
yeah You're getting there. You're getting there. That was closer. yeah
00:35:42
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It was too low. so You got to go go higher. Like Adam Durant is like, we're out of here.
00:35:49
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Yeah.
00:35:54
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So anyways, so then Sandy Bullock, who's very good at her job, ah starts making decisions for Hugh Grant because he asks her her opinion on ah one question about what's stationary to use.
00:36:09
Speaker
And she quirkily it comes up with the answer by which one tastes better when you lick it, which is pretty smart. ah Sure. Yep. I mean, brave to assume that he's going to be licking his own envelopes, but...
00:36:22
Speaker
Exactly. And I'm going to honest with you, Katie. When I was a receptionist in corporate America, we had a glue sticks. So you didn't have to lick it. Yeah, you've got 100%. Yeah. People don't like envelopes if you're mailing a lot of stuff. Nobody does that.
00:36:35
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ah You don't have the saliva glands for that. But it's a cute thing that a writer came up with. So... Exactly. Exactly. So it's in this movie. So then she, he starts calling her and asking her opinion on everything. And she's like, he's calling her at like two o'clock in the morning from a bar asking her opinion while he's like out with like a bimbo or whatever.
00:37:02
Speaker
and ask hey hey hey like she's seems like a very nice young woman this is this is me generalizing that's my apoll apologies i mean she the only thing we get to know about her is that she swallowed her altoid which who among us hasn't swallowed their altoid doing a hair flip um exactly she she he he calls her and she's like put me on with with the girl you're with and she's like this man that you danced with has problems.
00:37:30
Speaker
You need to go home. And read she goes, finish high school and evaluate your life. And I'm like, finish high school? How old do we think girl is? That girl was in her mid to late 20s. Like, there's no way. But like.
00:37:46
Speaker
Like, it's kind of, it's an insult in and of itself. finish I think that's what they're doing. i think that she's that's supposed to be like her making fun of him. But like, if that's really what she thinks of him, like we've got a whole lot of other problems. If he's dating high school girls, he's 40 years old, by the way.
00:38:03
Speaker
Like in this movie, she's 36 and he's 40.
00:38:08
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Boy, oh boy. um But then she finally, and it all comes to a head when he calls her out of her best friend's wedding, which she is the bridesmaid of, which her phone is on.
00:38:20
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and Well, and he calls her out on that, actually. Like, yeah one thing I think I really do appreciate about this movie is that a lot of the time they have these arguments. They're both right.
00:38:30
Speaker
Like, yeah she puts herself in these situations. She had her phone. She had the ringer on at her her best friend's wedding they where she's the maid of honor. That is her fault, not his.
00:38:41
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Yeah. He didn't know that's where she was. like And he says, and when she gets there, she goes, you call me out of my wedding. He's like, why would you have your phone on at the wedding? That's crazy. And he's like. Yeah, that's crazy.
00:38:53
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He says. and um Yeah. We skipped way ahead in my notes, but we'll get back there. Yeah. um He says, ah you you like emergencies. You crave the excitement. And he's 100% right.
00:39:05
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Like, that is what she's. That's her whole deal. Yeah. Yeah. um She thrives on chaos. And if she doesn't have it, she gets sad. Exactly. And he's asking her opinion about what he needs to wear to judge the Miss New York competition.
00:39:21
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um where And he has a Cher Horowitz closet. I was very jealous. He does. Yeah, the motorized rack. Yeah.
00:39:32
Speaker
Yeah, very cool. um And then he goes on this long monologue about how he's become addicted to her opinion about how she keeps making decisions for him and it's just so nice and he's he's addicted to it.
00:39:47
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And then I had a realization and i i turned to Charlie and went, oh my God, this is what living with you is like. Oh no. have to make all of your decisions all the time.
00:40:03
Speaker
All the time. You have to make all of his decisions? i He just, he asks my opinion on a lot of things. any Sure. I mean, I don't make all of his decisions. That's something that partners do. Yeah, for sure. Exactly.
00:40:15
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I just feel sometimes like he can do things for himself, but he chooses not to. Mm-hmm. And he makes me do it because it's easier. Mm-hmm.
00:40:28
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So, I don't know. I felt very seen in that moment. Yeah, yeah. that's yeah that that' That's something that happens, I think. But they're not in a relationship. They're not in a relationship. She his lawyer. Employee.
00:40:42
Speaker
Yeah. So, yeah, there's a few other things there that are, like, kind of, like, characterization bits. There's this bit where um after they leave the divorce, she's like, well, why did you give her the money? We didn't have to do that. And he's like, well, it was, you know, she would just come after me forever if didn't. But, like, part of it is, like,
00:40:58
Speaker
he did it because it's the right thing to do, right? He gives the kebab guy a $90 tip on the thing. At the same time, she puts a quarter in the coffee cup of someone who is just drinking coffee and not asking for money. And she's like, oh, I thought you were needy. I thought you were needy. So we do get this kind of like understanding between the two of them that like, she is, she's kind she's kind of It's not necessarily performative, but she's doing these things because it's like, regardless of regardless of understanding and regardless of need, whereas his character is a little bit more ah focused and um and normal about it, I guess. Which is which is a fantasy because none of these billionaires would ever be like that, but that is the way that this fictional character is characterized.
00:41:54
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Exactly.
00:41:57
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um And then she says the title of the movie. I did. I wrote that down. and Hey, that's the title of the movie. Yeah. Right. She said it. She said it. She says my two weeks notice. She barged in on you barged in on me at my woman's doctor appointment.
00:42:11
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Yes.
00:42:14
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To ask me which picture you should cut put on the cover of people. It's just like, how, how is that allowed? Yeah. Also, like, I don't know. i don't, i I don't, that's, I think i don't, there's no, that's such a man wrote this kind of thing. Oh, Woman's doctor appointment. Why can't we say gynecologist? No woman would ever say my woman's doctor appointment.
00:42:36
Speaker
Gynecologist. Yeah. Even my mother would never say that. Gynecologist. um Yes. And so she starts trying to get another job, but she can't get one because he's called around town and blocked her, which is yeah um that's a violation of labor laws, my man.
00:42:54
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. And I feel like as a lawyer, she should know that and should threaten to sue. Well, here and they get around that because in her contract, it says that she can't, though that her contract that she wrote that she can't leave until the tower development it deal is finalized.
00:43:14
Speaker
Yeah. there's um There's also a weird timeline to this movie. How long did she work for him? A year. They say is it later on. They say a year? Okay. because it's Yeah. Because there's no titles on the screen. It's just kind of like we just start cutting forward and stuff. Yeah, because they're- The project, it's the, it's the length of time that this building is, is under construction yeah or or under development. yeah She like mentions it.
00:43:43
Speaker
It's like a throwaway line where she's just like, I have not been like working my ass off for a year or doing yeah such for a year. um and I was like, Oh, you could have told me that you worked there for two weeks and I would have completely believed that.
00:43:57
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly. um She ah barges in on him and while he's getting a massage and the masseuse girls are like, please let us work on you. And she's like, I don't like to be touched.
00:44:13
Speaker
Yeah, that's obvious. Yeah. um Girl. It's the thing that she does so well. Like the, the she's stressed out, but still likable is kind of her whole deal. Yeah.
00:44:24
Speaker
Yeah. She's a chaos Muppet. She really is. yeah um And then he agrees. He's like, okay, so fine. Your contract says this. After that is over, I will make sure that you get a great job after this and you can do whatever you want to do.
00:44:39
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um And they hug and because they hug and like there's this like moment that happens and then her hair gets caught in his belt. And I don't understand.
00:44:50
Speaker
don't understand how. How on earth could her hair have gotten caught in his belt? No clue. No clue. There's no rational from a hug. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Well, no, right her her earring falls out and she drops to the ground, but her hair gets caught in his belt. And I don't.
00:45:09
Speaker
The point is his brother walks in on them and then they're in that position with her head at his waist, which is supposed to be like the joke, I guess, because. Oh, she's giving him a blowjob.
00:45:20
Speaker
Yeah, but like, it's the... Yeah, the hair in the belt doesn't make any just doesn't make any sense. Unless it's like a very like, spiky belt. And she's flopping her hair around.
00:45:32
Speaker
Yeah, but he's not wearing like ah an emo kid 2000s belt. He's like in a suit. It's like a normal belt. Yeah, it's... ah But is something that happens all the time. I mean, like, where's that? there's that We watched a movie recently where her hair gets caught on his watch or something. Like, you know, that that's a very common rom-com thing as well. Yeah, exactly. Just don't question it.
00:45:51
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Just look at it for the jokes. It's there the Interestingly, I've managed to go my whole life and my hair has never got caught in the an article of of jewelry or clothing in anyone other than myself.
00:46:03
Speaker
I cannot speak the same. Your hair has gotten caught in someone else's clothes or jewelry? ah like so Hold on, hold on. oh no I mean like in a non-intimate setting.
00:46:15
Speaker
In a non-intimate setting. Yes, okay. I feel like something has, I mean, I got tangled in a bike rack once, so I wouldn't be surprised.
00:46:29
Speaker
I got tangled in a bike rack once. Well, all right, let's hear it.
00:46:35
Speaker
We've got to hear this story. So going to take you back to Emma and Charlie courting each other. oh Yes. And Charlie had just had shoulder surgery and was on a lot of pain medication.
00:46:48
Speaker
And I was in college and I'm a year abroad and i had high functioning social anxiety, which I didn't realize. And was so I was self-medicating with alcohol.
00:47:01
Speaker
Uh, so I was real drunk and I kept running into Charlie at all of these parties and it was just very serendipitous. And so I saw him at this party and went, Oh my gosh, hi. And I went to talk to him, but he was like really, you know, uncomfortable because he was in pain and his friends had like forced him to go out. He didn't want to go out.
00:47:18
Speaker
And so he was just like, we had like a little conversation and then he left and it was by this bike rack and I was talking with someone else and I was so drunk. The bike rack was full of bikes.
00:47:28
Speaker
Yeah. ah I was so drunk. I fell into this bike rack full of bikes and I couldn't get out. I got so tangled in it. couldn't get out.
00:47:42
Speaker
That sounds painful. Yeah, I had a lot of bruises. Did they have to like come and get you out of the bike? Were you the drunkest girl in the world? I wasn't the drunkest girl in the world. um Okay. Because it was drama school. and Sure. There's always somebody drunk. I think everyone was on my level.
00:47:58
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um Which is why it took me so long to get out of said bike rack. Right, right, right, right, right. And it was just very embarrassing.
00:48:08
Speaker
um Because how does one get tangled in a bike rack? I think every time i just tried to It's very rom-com protagonist behavior, Emma. I know.
00:48:19
Speaker
I think I've told you this. I think that I tricked my brain into being clumsy as a child because I saw it in rom-coms. Oh, no. saw protagonists being clumsy. And so now I'm just clumsy. And I just, like, fall all the time. Uh-huh.
00:48:36
Speaker
I run into things all the time. I'm very easily startled. ah Well, I mean, same But, like, part of that is just... ah Part of that is like ADHD brain too, though. You know, like I have, I have pathing. We have, I think I've, I might've told the story already at work or maybe I just told you this at work. There's like a hallway in between like the front and the back.
00:48:59
Speaker
Yeah. And not long ago they changed something and they started hanging this clipboard on the wall. And now I walk into it every goddamn day.
00:49:10
Speaker
like And it hurts. It scratches Yeah. Because it wasn't there. Because it wasn't there. And I have very – because I'm not paying attention when I'm walking. I'm just following my path, you know? Yeah. And i's yeah I walk too close to the side of the – because that's what they're like, well, just just walk closer to the other side. I'm like, if I could do that, like a lot of things about my life would be different, you know? Yeah. Life would be different.
00:49:39
Speaker
Life would be a little different. Uh, yeah, I agree. If I wasn't so clumsy, my life would be super different. Um, Charlie, anytime accidentally break something, which happens almost daily.
00:49:51
Speaker
oh no.
00:49:56
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i'm just very clumsy. My parents constantly laugh because, uh, I'm the messiest eater they've ever met. And I, it's not like I'm purposefully messy. I just, I just, I don't know, Katie.
00:50:09
Speaker
i have, I like to say I have, ah I have body dyslexia. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Dyskinesia, I think is what that's called. Yeah. I think that that's like a serious illness though. We probably shouldn't. like Yeah. I, I probably don't actually have that. I just, yeah. Yeah. Walk properly. Yeah. Yeah.
00:50:29
Speaker
And not grab things fast. I don't know. Anyways, um this pointing in my um this is the point in my notes when I went, and now we're getting toxic.
00:50:41
Speaker
And then the next note, I'm going to say, I'm going to bank this next note. Okay, all right. i'm ah It doesn't come till the weird-ass circus carnival, and I think you know what note it is. Oh, well, you skip ahead a while before you've got some notes, then.
00:50:58
Speaker
um yeah He meets her parents, and his mother... Her mother just death stares him. And I'm like, oh, God, she's just like me. That's what I would do. Yes. I don't know. it's It's one of those things. i actually, i wrote this i thing one time and in grad school. Like, it's it's so hard to know because there's all these people that I hate, right? Like political figures and like rich people and stuff.
00:51:23
Speaker
yeah But I'm also like like social and but friendly and polite. Yeah. So I would like to think that if I was introduced to someone at a social setting that I morally ah despised, I would be able to be strong like her mom and just death stare them and not say a word and not like... But on the other hand, like I'm too friendly and I think my...
00:51:49
Speaker
my i would my like my body would just take over and I'd like put my hand out. I'd be like, Oh, nice to meet you. And I'd be like, God, what's wrong with you? you yeah It's hard to know. idiot Yeah. It's hard to know. Um, I mean, i have you seen the Tik TOK, um, or Instagram real clip of the, the daughter of,
00:52:07
Speaker
ah a police officer who was killed in the line of duty and it was a bunch of police officers um getting some sort of recognition from the White House for some... Oh yeah, I saw that. yeah Yeah, and so the daughter of the officer who was killed the line of duty was accepting the award on his behalf and ah Trump kept trying to like talk to her and she was just like, nope.
00:52:31
Speaker
Nope. She was my hero. I was like, yes girl. Well, I mean, I wouldn't go in the first place. Yeah. I mean, well, she was going to accept a thing for her dad. Well, her dad was a cop, so, you know. Her dead dad.
00:52:46
Speaker
Shouldn't have been a cop. Sorry. That's this kind of podcast. But it's like her dead dad, right? and Yeah. and Listen, I got a dead dad, too, but he wasn't a fucking cop.
00:53:02
Speaker
But like Trump kept trying to like touch her and she was just like very like slowly. like Well, of course he kept trying to touch her. That's what he does. He touches women. Yeah. Yep. And she's like, no, no, no. Oh, God.
00:53:12
Speaker
So proud of you. It's so cringy. Like, go look it up. It's so cringy. He like goes so proud of you. And she goes, thanks. Yeah. no i know I have seen it. I have seen it. um Yeah. Yeah. It's great. It's, ah yeah. This is one of the, when the, when they start passing the laws where it's illegal to talk bad about him, we're going to have to take this episode down before we get taken off to the camps.
00:53:37
Speaker
Sorry. So we should just tag this. We should put something in the description when we edit it. Like make sure that we know to remove this once they revoke the First Amendment, which will be, I know, hopefully after it airs. I don't know. We'll find out. You know, we'll see. We'll see. way things are going right now. Yeah.
00:53:58
Speaker
yeah Well, I mean, two women doing a podcast will probably be illegal by that point also. so Oh, yeah. I mean, along with women making money. So, yeah. ah Anyways, so where are we in this workplace? comedy yeah movie episode.
00:54:14
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ah Yeah, um they go to Coney Island um to meet and meet her parents and everything. um yeah She talks about how it's always been difficult to live up to her mom's expectations. And then he's like, well, nobody ever had any expectations of me, which is like the classic like poor rich kid thing, right? like Exactly.
00:54:33
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but I was loved by my daddy. Yeah. um ah He eats the beets off her salad. And ah she breaks up with her boyfriend because um she's too tense. ah she She hates boats. She won't.
00:54:50
Speaker
He's never fucking around. And he's always trying to get her to go on the Greenpeace boat. And she's like, I hate boats. yeah And so he's like, Hugh Grant is like, okay, well, come on my yacht and well I can help you be more comfortable on boats. And so she gets drunk and ah she realizes that yeah she doesn't like any of the men that she's ever dated and she doesn't feel romantic, which I'm like...
00:55:13
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Maybe she's like asexual. um But then she brags about how good she is in bed and says that she is. oh yeah, that she's bendy like a pretzel.
00:55:24
Speaker
She's like, well, she's a she's a bobcat pretzel. Yeah. Yeah, a bobcat pretzel. But Hugh Grant's immediate reaction to her going, well, I guess I just so don't like, I don't and like any of the guys that I've dated.
00:55:36
Speaker
um and I'm not a romantic. And he goes, well, you just must not have been doing it right. Yeah, right. but Which, unfortunately, in this movie, it seems seems to be the truth. So that's, ah yeah unfortunately, problematic.
00:55:51
Speaker
And then she kisses him and passes out. Yep, immediately. Which I've had alcohol before. was just about to say.
00:56:02
Speaker
I've had alcohol before. Katie, you also have had alcohol before. i have. um The level of which she just kisses him and then passes out makes me wonder if her alcohol was drugged.
00:56:19
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Because...
00:56:22
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It's it's it's not normal. Yeah. It's not normal. She yeah, it's I mean, it certainly isn't played that way, which thank God. Yeah, thank God.
00:56:34
Speaker
But like he you're falling asleep drunk like you're like, I can't I can't. it It was just it was more nonsense.
00:56:45
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's nonsense. He takes her to his hotel room that he lives in and puts her on the couch. And then the next day, she's like, I hope we didn't do anything. Like, Jesus. right uh and he goes uh you made sounds that i've never heard a woman make before uh he's talking about her snoring yeah yeah which is ha ha how charming ah
00:57:11
Speaker
uh we get little red-headed lawyer uh new harvard grad i forget the character's name ah Her name is June. The actress's name is Alicia Witt, who's in a bunch of stuff. She's a character actress. She was in um in Twin Peaks as ah as a as a as a child. um And she's in the the the later season as well. But she's in she's in a lot of stuff, Alicia Witt.
00:57:37
Speaker
Nice. um She looks like she's 17 in this movie, although I looked it up and she's actually 27. Oh, okay. Okay. But she looks like a baby. Little baby. She looks like a little tiny child um playing dress up.
00:57:50
Speaker
ah um And Sandra Bullock instantly gets jealous of her. Yeah. Because, i mean, here's the thing, like, and it's it's not a it's not a generous characterization of Alicia Witt's character. Like, she is written ah poorly.
00:58:08
Speaker
um yeah It is very much, she went to Harvard, but she's also, like, trying to seduce him for some reason. Like it's, she is a serious lawyer who also is just trying to like, fuck this rich man for some reason. I don't really.
00:58:25
Speaker
The way that I read it was that she will say whatever she has to, to get, what she wants. And I think what she wants is to be a housewife, fancy lady, marry... I guess. Why don't you waste all money at law school then? Yeah. I don't know.
00:58:48
Speaker
I don't know. it's It's poorly written, I think. um The point is that gay she's... She gave her every like bit to like be like, mo what would put a wrench into this plan?
00:58:59
Speaker
Yeah. yeah It's... um So she's supposed to be training her to replace him as head counsel. Head counsel, by the way. There's a bunch of lawyers ah there.
00:59:11
Speaker
um So I don't really understand that whole thing. So why don't they just promote one of the the associates to to head counsel? like It's not how law offices work.
00:59:24
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Yeah, it's it's ridiculous. and They're going hire some girl fresh out of Harvard? yeah Right? Yeah. Anyway, um ah they ah they're playing tennis, and she had a bunch of chili dogs, I guess. Yeah. So she and Alicia Witt like play really get really competitive with each other, and um then she's going to have diarrhea in the car.
00:59:45
Speaker
And so they're stuck on the freeway, and they barge into this these people's RV. Yep. So she can shit in there in their RV, and he has to carry her through the traffic. It's, you know, classic comedy.
00:59:59
Speaker
Classic comedy. um I don't think I laughed during this movie one time. I don't know if I smiled even. Because like, that's one thing we talk about a lot. Like sometimes movies are funny and sometimes movies are romantic.
01:00:15
Speaker
And they do need to be both. And i don't know if this movie really qualifies as either. um I mean, I think it's trying too hard to be both. Because Sandra Bullock is very charming and Sandra Bullock can be very funny. And I don't know if anything in this movie is funny.
01:00:32
Speaker
There's some things that are charming. yeah But I don't think there's any, there's not like jokes in this movie. There's jokes in Miss Congeniality. Miss Congeniality is funny. I think laughed at...
01:00:45
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um
01:00:48
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maybe when um april 25th gets proposed to lying down in front of the building that's about to get demolished Yeah, that was cute. That's the very, very beginning of the movie where Sandra Bullock is late is linked arms with her. Well, oh, you know what? I did laugh at something else that um that Heather Burns' husband does um or that Heather Burns does because later on when they're talking on the stoop, ah Heather Burns is um is telling her like, yeah, like I, you know, I had to work to to um to to to get you know to get with my my husband. Like sometimes relationships are work.
01:01:27
Speaker
And he sticks his head out the window and calls down to them. He's like, everything okay? and then she just screams back up at him, not everything is about you! Can't I have one? You're like alone!
01:01:39
Speaker
I at least smiled at that because the whiplash of her talking about like how how much she loves him to the reality of being in a relationship with someone sometimes. yeah Sometimes you need quiet time.
01:01:52
Speaker
You need alone time. I don't think I laughed, but I probably smiled at that. yeah um but all that this comes to a head when um what's her name june gets asked to this benefit well first his brother tells him you've got to we've got to knock the community center down we're not going to make enough money unless we knock the community center down it's like the economy is not what it used to be and part of me wanted it's 2002 it certainly was It certainly was.
01:02:25
Speaker
Wait a few decades, buddy. Or even just five years. Yeah. Wait for recession time.
Key Movie Events and Reactions
01:02:35
Speaker
Um, And so and Hugh Grant fights it and he's like, no, we can't do that. We can't do that. And so he's pushing against it. um But his brother is insisting otherwise he will like fire him take away all of his stock options, all of his money, all the things.
01:02:54
Speaker
And then we get the benefit. The weird circus circus benefits. I wrote Alicia Witt is dressed like a magician for some reason yeah because we see her before we realize there's like a theme or something. Yeah, I got very confused.
01:03:11
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Hugh Grant has like a tie that's four feet long.
01:03:16
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It's a giant tie. Yeah, and Sandra Bullock looks absolutely fabulous. And the only circus thing she has is a little red nose. Yeah, say Sandy is, I wrote that she um she looks amazing in a very 2002 kind of way. like ah Yeah, I was obsessed with that dress.
01:03:32
Speaker
I thought it was absolutely incredible. However, this is what I wrote. A lot of tulle. lot of tulle, yeah. But it had like a really cool skirt like with like the like white cutout. It's a black dress with like oh yeah white cutouts in the skirt.
01:03:45
Speaker
Very gorgeous. It also drags the ground and she's like running through the sidewalks of New York. And I'm like, it's toast. Yeah, you're going to have to throw that dress away. Um, I, but this is the point of my notes when I wrote,
01:04:06
Speaker
ah, Trump, I'm gonna bomb. Yep. At least Sandy looks fab. Nora Jones.
01:04:16
Speaker
Yeah, there's a fucking Trump cameo in this and he has lines. And honestly, I don't know what he's i don't know what he said because all I could hear was like the ringing in my ears. yeah Yeah, I was Charlie and I were both screaming in that moment. So we don't know what he said either. and Absolutely. Absolutely terrible. um ah It's yeah, he's got a little little cameo like fuck you Mark Lawrence.
01:04:39
Speaker
and Yeah. Stick it to the I need somebody to cut this out of this movie. Although honestly, like it's not worth it. Like Home Alone 2, like I want, I need, I need somebody to cut Donald Trump out of that movie so I could watch that movie without the the jump scare.
01:04:55
Speaker
But this movie, like I don't give a shit. Like we can just throw this whole thing out. Yeah. So he gets two mentions. Trump gets two fucking mentions in this Two mentions and an appearance. So I'm going to count that as a mention. Absolutely.
01:05:08
Speaker
He, oh yeah, Nora Jones is there. Nora Jones is is singing The Nearness of You, which is like very 2002, Nora Jones. Classic Nora Jones. What a place in time. I mean, Nora Jones is great. We love Nora Jones.
01:05:20
Speaker
I love Nora Jones. Yeah. It helps to ease the sting. um yeah take it away but um because i did think i was like oh so sandra bloke's dress is nice sandra bloke's dress is nice sandra bloke's dress is nice trying not to hyperventilate um and uh norah jones is like it's serenading and i was like you know what would be cool is if they actually got norah jones and then it cuts to norah jones and i was like hell yeah yeah it's a soothing balm for sure the dulcet tones of norah jones um
01:05:53
Speaker
And Alicia Witt mentions that they're knocking the community center down and Sandy he like freaks out. And, but the what I do appreciate about this is there's not a misunderstanding. Like immediately it's told, he's like, my brother made me do it. I can't do anything about it. I'm so sorry.
01:06:06
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And she's like, well, you have to stand up for him because you made this promise and that's your, it's your word. And like there, she's right. Like, yeah um and he just has to,
01:06:17
Speaker
Like it's so it's not the classic rom-com like situation where. He tried lying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's there's none of that. It's literally just he has to get better, um which is like a more realistic kind of like yeah relationshipy thing to happen in a rom-com. Just be better.
01:06:38
Speaker
um And then Alicia Witt is really laying it on thick on Hugh. She's like so hot. He's so hot. and they're in the elevator. They're the worst elevator co-writers ever because as they're saying goodbye, then she kisses him and then they kiss him more and they're holding up the elevator and this, these,
01:06:57
Speaker
This poor old couple just wants to get to their freaking room. yeah um And then they go upstairs and then she goes, oh, chess. Oh, my gosh. You play chess.
01:07:08
Speaker
You know what game I like even better? Pokemon? Yeah, he does say that. Which seems like a she's young joke. um And ah that's gross. hu great Yeah, that's gross. Yeah.
01:07:22
Speaker
that's ah That's a child thing. I mean, it's not anymore. But in 2002, it was definitely a like a child joke. Yeah. Because Pokemon was still relatively young. Yes. Yes, it was.
01:07:33
Speaker
um Do you know about Pokemon? Do you know anything about Pokemon? No. I know i know very little. I know Pikachu. And I know that there's a game called Pokemon Go.
01:07:45
Speaker
And that you can. So you didn't get into Pokemon Go in the late 2010s. I didn't get into Pokemon pyramid period. No, me neither. don't have games on my phone. We've discussed this previously. No games on my phone.
01:07:58
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Not my vibe. Charlie loves it. My nephew, Patrick, loves it. Sure. ah Lots of people I know love it. Not not for me. Not my cup of tea. I have I've never played a Pokemon.
01:08:13
Speaker
Yeah. I was Sailor Moon, not Pokemon. Okay, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In the like 90s anime resurgence that sort of like happened. I was like very Sailor Moon.
01:08:26
Speaker
I love it. Yeah. used to come on at like seven in the morning when I was in like elementary school, middle school. So I would get up early because I had to go to work. I had to go to school. had to go to work. Pretty At 7 a.m. as seven-year-old.
01:08:39
Speaker
and pretty early seven a m as a seven-year-old I did have to go to school. I think school started at 745. So I could, i would get up and watch Sailor Moon before I went to school in the morning. Yeah.
01:08:53
Speaker
I remember that. yeah I just remember I had like all the dolls. Of course you did. And then like they stopped airing new episodes, I think on UPN. And um i so I would go on long internet dives to find out what happens to all the characters. Oh, right. But say, because you could, there' the up you were it's like you were watching the episodes. You were finding like synopses of episodes. Yeah, I would read synopses of episodes because I had to know what happened to Tuxedo Mask. And I had to know what happened to their weird moon child baby.
01:09:26
Speaker
And ah like, I just, I had to know. yeah um And then the other day, or the other day, a few months ago, I was like, I'm go take an edible and start rewatching Sailor Moon.
01:09:37
Speaker
And um not as easy from the beginning. Because it is a children's show. Probably not. Yeah. it's ah It's a children's show that's translated into English and from the 1980s. So there's a lot of of hurdles there for an adult watch. Yeah.
01:09:55
Speaker
So it was like not not an easy... I had to turn it off. They got to like a fight at the mall and I was like, I can't. I'm gonna go watch a murder show.
01:10:05
Speaker
That was like me. Like, I remember when... Like Netflix first came out, I was like, oh, man, I'm going to watch Saved by the Bell. I used to love Saved by the Bell when I was when I was little. And like I was like, this is unwatchable garbage. I can't do it.
01:10:19
Speaker
I can't do it. Like maybe some things should just stay in the past in your brain. And some things are for children and they're not for adults. And some things are for children and adults can totally enjoy them. Exactly. Like Avatar The Last Airbender or like Pixar movies or something. Yeah.
01:10:35
Speaker
And that's not to say there's nothing wrong with like or Bluey. Like there's nothing wrong with like children's media that's just for children either. But there's some things and I think especially like older things like things from the 80s and the ninety s that are unwatchable as an adult completely. Yeah.
01:10:52
Speaker
Just so hard. Like I wanted to get to like the drama of like the sailor moon and sailor Mercury and sailor Saturn and sailor
Additional Show Discussions and Romantic Resolutions
01:11:02
Speaker
Jupiter. And I wanted to get to all of that, like their like drama, but I'd have to go down and figure out like where season. I bet that if you really want to do that, you could find online a watch, a watch and skip list.
01:11:18
Speaker
That somebody has made. Yeah. Oh, someone's definitely done that for Sailor Moon. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I might do that. um And then i also was obsessed with the show called The Tribe, which was a New Zealand dystopian teen drama.
01:11:30
Speaker
i think you've talked about that before, actually. i have mentioned it. ah You betcha I've mentioned The Tribe. And I tried. it's It's on Amazon Prime now. And so, like, I tried rewatching it ages ago as well. And it was another thing that I was like, I don't care about these little tweens.
01:11:46
Speaker
Yeah. It's not like Animorphs, which holds up forever. um Sure.
01:11:55
Speaker
Anyway, so Strip Chest. they're playing Strip Chest. She, of course, barges into his hotel room and finds them both half naked. Exactly. And then gets upset. Yeah.
01:12:06
Speaker
She gets upset and she leaves. um And then later ah back at work, they have this argument where, you know, she's saying like, you were supposed to hold up your end of this deal and you didn't. And she's also, she she's mad about that. And she's also mad about the Alicia Witt thing.
01:12:23
Speaker
But then he says like, you're too perfect. No one wants to live with the saints. Saints are boring. No one can hold, rap can, can like stand up to your standards. So he, and he's also right, um which is nice.
01:12:33
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And so then she leaves. There's a little going goodbye party for her. And she goes back to working at legal aid and living at her parents' house.
01:12:46
Speaker
and um And then there's i ah Hugh Grant is doing the groundbreaking for the towers or whatever.
01:12:59
Speaker
and he has a speech that he's supposed to give. But we don't see the speech. Right. just see ah him about to go on to give the speech and then it cuts to him walking into legal aid and he goes I need your opinion on this speech but ah it's the first speech I've ever written by myself like he's Charlie playing the part of ah Hugh Grant in this film exactly
01:13:27
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um there was one point that he was just like at like uh Hugh Grant's tennis outfit which is just white shorts a white polo shirt and then a jumper on top and it's like a blue jumper or whatever and he looked at it goes oh that looks like something that Roley would wear and i was just like um Roley is one of our friends uh uh-huh very like And by jumper, you, of course, mean a sweater, right? A sweater, yeah, a sweater.
01:13:55
Speaker
Sorry. Sorry. um and I was just like, well, actually, if you change the color of the sweater and make it fluffier, it's exactly what you wore to the Renaissance Festival, Charles.
01:14:08
Speaker
Oh, that's right, yeah. Yeah. He was too hot. Yeah, and he was like, ah I didn't have a shirt on under it
01:14:16
Speaker
and You didn't have a shirt on under a sweater? yeah because he... has but We don't need to relitigate this. Yeah, we do. So he gives the speech where he's like, I'm not going to tear down the community center because I said I wouldn't and because this, you know, woman is very beautiful and she matters to me. um And And...
01:14:39
Speaker
They, ah she like says, yeah, that's great. Okay. got to go back to work. And she sits down and the other two like lawyers at the legal aid place are like, are you going to go after him? So like, he doesn't get an airport scene. He doesn't get a go get your girl scene, but she gets a go get your girl line. i guess it's not a speech. Yeah.
01:14:55
Speaker
It's just, she's like, well, i um what the hell are you doing still sitting here? ah Go get him. And I don't even like him. That's what yeah the lawyer says. Yeah. So she runs down the sidewalk. He's like, I'm in love with you. She's like, I'm in love with you. They make out the end.
01:15:09
Speaker
Yeah. There we go. And that was the movie. Also in there, there was some fat shaming for one of the lawyers that was there. Polly St. Clair. Yeah. Whatever. Whether or not she's pregnant.
01:15:21
Speaker
Yeah. We don't need to go there. I just, yeah. There's a quick little scene where she's ordering Chinese and she goes, no, it's for two. And that's the end. Nobody ever asks that. Almost post credit scene.
01:15:32
Speaker
um Yeah. But it's pre credit. And they play gunning crow singing Big Yellow Taxi. Again. Again. All ah right. yeah That's that movie. Don't watch it.
01:15:44
Speaker
um It was fine. It was fine. All right.
Upcoming Movies and Farewells
01:15:50
Speaker
What are doing next week? Next week, we are going to watch another early 2000s rom-com, but this one is about lesbians. It is called Imagine Me and You.
01:16:01
Speaker
yay! I've wanted to watch this. Have you never seen it? Oh, it's fun. Yeah. It's one of my cousin's favorite movies. So okay she's going to be real excited. Thank you for listening to Go Get Your Girl.
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01:16:25
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01:16:38
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