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Álways Be My Maybe
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This week Emma & Katie dive into the 2019 Ali Wong/Randall Park movie Always Be My Maybe. Tune in as they chat nonsense culinary things, friends to lovers and how this movie is the opposite Hallmark Christmas Movie.
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Importance of Sick Days
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yeah i have to be done
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I left work early. I got sick. I think it was like food poisoning or something. Yeah. yes, I do. um yeah I felt perfectly fine. ah But I have the I have sick time. Who cares? Like they and he covered for it himself. So.
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Amazing. There you go. And who knows? Maybe he needed that. Maybe he needed the work today. Maybe he needed the work yesterday. Yeah. Maybe he needed the work yesterday. Yeah. Maybe it made a difference. Who hasn't taken a mental health day? Yeah, for sure. I mean, honestly, like,
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I should take more. I mean, our our old boss took a leaf of absence just because of stress and her mental health for like,
Podcast Introduction and Cold Opens
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almost three months. So she's Yeah, that's right. You guessed it, guys. This is the podcast where and one of the weirder weirder cold opens. Yeah. I know. Let's just sit here awkwardly in silence.
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Well, I think sometimes we talk too much before we start recording. We don't have that like completely out of context cold open that we like to have. Yeah. But right. Because like the the whole thing is the reason why we get it out of our system is because sometimes we say stuff we cannot put in the podcast. Oh, very much so. Yeah. Yes. So we have free reign to say whatever fancies us. But um to give the listeners a recap,
The Ferryman: A Theater Experience
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from the Green Room. Recap of the Green Room talk. Recap of the Green Room talk. I am currently, if you are a listener, in a play called The Ferryman at a theater in New Britain, Connecticut called Golden Wall Theater, if you are. It's by. Jez Collum. Oh, the other one. Oh, so not an Irish person. Interesting. No, an English person, but he wrote it about his partner, Laura Donnelly.
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family inspired by his partner, Laura Donnelly's family, who is one of the disciplines. And she was in it. Katie's making the best face. Hmm. It's a play about the troubles. Yeah. Written by an English man. I mean, technically, Martin McDonough is English, but he um he's he's Irish English. So. Yeah. Yeah.
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um Well, this play is great. And it's fantastic. And if you can, come see it. See it. If not, go read it. It's awesome. um Anyways, so I am in the play with this other person, with many other people, it's a cast of like 15. But my main scene partner is- And a goose and a live baby,
Theater Sizes and Their Quirks
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just for those keeping track. And a goose and a live baby. The way I'm selling this is there's fire, family, live baby. There's fire on stage.
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There's gonna be fire. There's gonna be- Is this like a big theater? Is it a black box? Is it a thrust? It's bigger than a lot of Chicago theaters. Like it's probably the size of, it's bigger than The Gift, but that one's very hard. No offense to The Gift's old space. But like it's probably the size, it's not like huge. It's not like theater wit. It's like- Do you know how many seats it is? Hold on, let me.
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Because Theater Wid is still only like, what, 200 seats, 250 maybe? Yeah, I want to say that this is like... Extremely niche conversation, by the way. I'm glad we started recording for this storefront Chicago theater conversation. Two people who listen to this are going to know what any of these words mean. They're going to be like, ah yes, ah yes. I know exactly. This is for Madison Smith. This is for Madison Smith. When she's done with her thesis and is catching up on these episodes three months from now,
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She'd be like, ah, yes, fantastic. I know exactly what it is. Okay. Like Jackalope? Like... It's probably the size of Jackalope. Like the Chopin? I'm just naming all that. The Den. The Den. It's probably as big as one of the spaces of the Den, but not the smallest space of the Den. Yeah. I think, yeah.
Film Critiques: 'La La Land' and 'Babylon'
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OK, this is accessibility, blah, blah, blah, tickets, blah, blah, blah. Hours of operation probably doesn't say on the website. Why would it not say how many? I don't think many places do, you know. Because the only the the the only person who cares is the is the playwright who gets royalties based on how big this space is. And as we know, nobody cares about the playwright, right?
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Goodness gracious. Not for cats. Knitting needles are not for cats. They are for knitting. Is he trying to knit? No, he's trying to eat my needles. Okay, I'm back. Okay, so. If you taught your cat to knit, you would become an Instagram influencer like that. Oh, absolutely. I would 100%. I would win the internet because who doesn't love knitting cats? Cats that are knitting. Anyways, so my Main scene partner is the character of Quinn, ah Quinn Carney, and it's played by this lovely gentleman by the name of Jeremy. um I cannot remember his last name off the top of my head, but he's very nice, he's very wonderful. um And basically let it slide in a conversation that he was in ah the not a fan of La La Land camp to which. So the majority of America then?
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Not the majority of America. Plenty of people like La La Land. La La Land brings joy. Again, and this is what I said before we we we were were recording, like taking like whether you like it or not completely out of it, just just based on us on on what the movie is, it's not a joyful movie. like It's not a happy movie. It's a sad movie. But the colors are so bright. But the music's so pretty.
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The music's so pretty. It's a lot like when you put a baby. That's a quote from You're in Town, not me actually thinking the music in La La Land is pretty, by the way, because it's fine. The music's fine. Yeah, I think it's good. The lyrics are what's terrible. Yeah. um Well, because they didn't write the second part didn't write the music. They just wrote the lyrics. The music is by what's his name? um Oh, yeah. He remembers. But he did the music for Babylon, which Yeah. No, Damien Chazelle is the director. um ah Justin Hurwitz, I think is his name. Yeah. The music for Babylon, which absolutely slaps. Yes. And I love Babylon. um The one that people don't like. The one that starts with a woman peeing on a man and then an elephant taking a dump on a bunch of balls. There's way more piss and shit and vomit in that movie than you expect.
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And way more classic Hollywood. Yeah, um I think that movie is is insane and great. insane um I liked it. I liked it. I remember liking it. I remember thinking it was too. it I mean, it is too long, but it's like it's too long and like a what are they doing? What is happening here kind of way? Yeah. Like, could you follow Tobey
Childhood Crushes and 'Always Be My Maybe' Setup
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Maguire into the tunnels, man, like?
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Like we barely got Tobey Maguire's character. Like I feel it would have been way more beneficial. And I know that I've said this to you, but I don't think I've said it on the pod. But I think that it is it would have been way more beneficial and um satisfying if they had made it a mini series. Because then you can take all the time to go into all these weird characters because they had some really great side characters, but you would just get like a glimpse of them.
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You know? yeah yeah it three hours Yeah, exactly. And we got to get as much Margot Robbie as possible.
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um But like, I wanted to know more about um like, ah is it violin playing guy? He plays the violin. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, violin playing guy. I want to know more about Tobey Maguire. I want to know more about the actress that Margot Robbie stole her job.
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Rob, I wanna know more about these bitches. Yeah, um it's cool. It is absolutely not a rom-com. There's no way we can we could do that one for this, but it is i think it's I think it's a good movie. And um that's the only movie of his that I like. I don't like Whiplash either. Oh, I have not seen Whiplash yet. Yeah, it sucks.
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um I'm cutting all of this out. I'm just gonna cut all of this out.
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But then when I told Jeremy, I gave him a shout out on the pod to lure him into listening.
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They'll have to listen to all the episodes to find out which one it was and none of it will be there. o Where was the show so down um anyways, that's right, guys. You guessed it. This is the podcast. This is go get your girl the podcast where Emma and Katie have childhood friends that they kind of have a crush on. And then they lose their virginity to that person things get weird, they go off become a successful chef, come back home to open a restaurant as their life is kind of falling apart, their romantic personal life.
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um only to fall back in love with that person and things work out. Comedy. I'm Emma. And I'm Katie. um That was a very complete one. That was a very like like the whole thing. Honestly, that's that's what the movie is. where I think we're done. like Yeah, i just I summed it up. Thank you for listening to this episode. of Go get your girl.
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um So, yeah, we are talking about Always Be My Maybe from 2019, directed by Nanachka Khan, who this was her first movie. um She also directed a couple of episodes of Randall Park's sitcom Fresh Off the Boat. And then she she directed one of Ali Wong's stand up um specials after this. And the movie Totally Killer about like A teenager that goes back in time to stop an 80s serial killer. Oh, I've seen it. Yeah. Yeah. I've heard it's i heard it's fun. I haven't seen it. Yeah. It's very fun. Is it good? That's debatable. But it's fun. It's Kiernan Shipka, I think. Yeah. It's way better. I mean, I haven't seen the 2000s one that does the same thing that just came out. But like it it's way better than that, I can tell you as much from the clip that I saw.
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What are you talking about? There was a movie that came out this past Halloween that takes place that's basically the same scenario where a girl
'Always Be My Maybe': Plot and Characters
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goes back in time to sort of like save her mom from getting murdered or save like something, like figure out who the serial killer is. Wait, is that not this movie? I think that's the movie. It is that movie. That's what I thought this was. There's one that, this one, the one you're talking about, Totally Killer,
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Kieran and Shipka goes back in time to the 80s. And her mom is Julie Bowen from Modern Family. um Yeah. The one that I'm talking about takes place where the girl goes back to like 2003. Uh-huh. And to which I am like, wait, how is there a high schooler that's going back in time to 2003? I don't. it'ss It's time cut.
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Yeah, that. yeah um But the clip that I saw, she like is because it's way more of like a culture shock to go from 2020s like 1985 or something.
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Versus in this other movie, she's going from 2024 to 2004. And four and yeah it's this clip that I saw, she's walking down the high school halls and she sees flip bones and ugg boots and she's like shocked. And I'm like, girl.
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Yeah, this is. Yeah, it's it's ah it's she's saving her sister in time cut, not her mother. Oh, her sister? OK, that makes me feel a lot better.
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see um Yeah, it is. I mean i think we we think we may have talked about this on this podcast before, but like we're getting diminishing returns ah because of the you know that eras haven't changed as much as they used to. like The 60s and 70s and the 80s and the 90s are all very distinct in terms of style and architecture and interior design and fashion and hair.
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And the last like three decades have I mean, they're there's they're they're they're still very there's differences, but they are yeah significantly more subtle than than in those 30 years. Exactly. Like you could take someone who's just like walking down the street in like 2007 and place them in 2024 and you wouldn't be able to tell.
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Absolutely not, yeah. Especially because the cycle we're in right now is replicating it. Because like yeah even though in 2003, 2005, there was like a big 80s throwback, there weren't the the fashion wasn't identical. like People were not dressing like it was the 80s for real, like they are now, dressing like it's that it was the 2000s. I was at Marshalls the other day, and I swear to God, there was a juicy couture velour matching set. I was this close to buying it, Katie. I was this close to buying it. No, Emma. It was like $4 more than I was willing to spend. So I was like, no, I can't. Was it also super low rise? Like those super low rise? Like I didn't get that far, but it did say juicy on the butt. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yikes.
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I'm just so bad. I don't know. Capri pants are coming back. And I don't know. I'm kind of I'm kind of OK with that. I i think kind of I kind of think Capri pants are cute. Yeah, I think pedal pushers are cute. Capri pants. Yeah, it depends. Like, yeah are we going cargo Caprice?
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I don't think, I don't know. That's not what I saw. We watched Fly Me to the Moon, a rom-com, which I guess we'll do on here eventually. And Scarlett Johansson is wearing Capri pants and a bunch of that, because it's set in the 60s. And yeah, I think they look super cute. Yeah, they are super cute. I've always thought that. Ever since Amy Winehouse. Sure, yeah, another 60s throwback, yeah.
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Exactly there're sixty survey anyway this anyway ham movie Which does I mean there is a scene in the 90s and a scene in the 2000s. So that's something that's that's a bit related it was written by Ali Wong and Randall Park who also star in this movie and co-written by Michael Gollum Glamco Michael Gollamco who? Wrote the movie Please Stand By and worked on the TV show grim before. Neither of which I've seen. Oh, I've seen some of grim. Yeah. It's one of those concept shows that you're like, somebody was either like, super high, or just like really bored when they came up with us. Because it's like sexy grim fairy tales.
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Yeah, but it's like, it's like law and order. ah fox fish ander Right? yeah yeah Yeah, exactly. It's all about like, grim fairy tales are coming to life. And um only this one detective can solve all these murders. people God, they love to solve murders on television. Like everything had to be about murders for so long. And I watched every single one of those shows. Oh, God. I'm the target audience.
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Um, ah yeah, so this is a ah this is a BFF rom com. um Yes, in the sort of in the one Harry Metz Alley tradition, but ah similar to that. um We start off with a montage of our our characters. um Sophie and Marcus, Sophia and Marcus. And then we flashback to show them in like 2003 and in 1999 and in 1996. And that's where we start. Is it Sophie or Sophia? Now that I know I don't know. so ah damnmit Anyway, Ali Wong's character, their their kids, it's 1996. They're like, I don't know, 10 or 12 years old, I would say. Yeah.
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And they live next door to each other. Ali Wong's parents, Arona. Sasha. Sasha. God damn it. Sasha. Sorry. Ally Wong's parents, Sasha's parents own a store, so they're never home. So she's always alone.
Cultural Context in San Francisco
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She's always having to make herself dinner. She makes herself yeah spam and rice um yeah and is watching TV. And then Randall Park's little boy version of him comes over and says, come over and eat dinner. And then we meet Judy, which is Randall Park's mom, who you can tell isn't going to make it because she's a young actress who
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Well, I'm just saying, as opposed to um James Saito, who they've made to look younger because it's 25 years ago, ah she is playing the age that she actually is. You're like, well, we know how this is going to go. She's not going to live. Yep. Yeah. um And she their family is Korean, and Sasha's family is Vietnamese.
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um and And so Judy Randall Park's mom is like teaching her Korean food. She's teaching her how to cook. She's like, all the Koreans use scissors and all that. um And she has this immediate bond with this woman. She's always over at their place because her parents are never there. um yeah She doesn't really ah have that relationship with her parents. And so his parents kind of co-parent her, which happens to a lot of kids. um Yeah.
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You know, especially if you're neighbors and kids are the same age. Yeah, and then they're let loose on the streets of San Francisco in the early night in the mid 90s, which I guess so cute. Yeah, it was a different time. Different time. I mean, I would argue it was more dangerous in the 90s, but whatever. You know, nobody had phones.
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That's true. um So they're best friends and they grow up and then
Emotional Impact of Loss in Film
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they're in high school and they one night. um oh Oh, so his and his mom dies when they're in high school in an accident they never really c say. Yeah, it's just yeah, there's been an accident. So they don't go down the cancer route, don't have to watch her slowly demise. It's just a one and done kill the mom.
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Yeah, um a safe fell on her head. She was walking down the street. I don't know, it doesn't matter. Could have happened. Happens to someone. Yeah. I don't actually know what the percentage of people that um have safes landing on their heads is, but I know that there's a higher percentage of air conditioner units falling on people's heads. Oh, sure, yeah, like in Fargo. um ah The TV show, not the movie.
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The, um yes, so ah she dies and he she Sasha is also heartbroken because again, she was kind of her surrogate mom. um When they they go out and are like in the car, like talking and and singing to D'Angelo and she just kind of kisses him and then they end up having losing their virginity to each other in the car, which yikes.
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like yeah Can you imagine losing your virginity in a car? You lost your virginity in a car? Yeah. Oh, wow. So I guess you can. It was a mini grouper.
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Foreshadowing your anglophilia to this day. Right, it just, if there's ever a car that I had to lose my virginity, it had to be a Mini Cooper. It feels like every single thing- And you're not like a you're not like a short person either, we should say. I'm 5'8". Yeah.
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ah Yeah, a lot of um high school memories feel a bit like a punchline.
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So yes, Katie, I can imagine it. It's not comfortable. So sorry, that does seem um seems rough because like your first time is generally not good. Anyway, and having sex in a car is not good. So putting those two things together. Um, to recipe for disaster yeah to be clear, I mean, I think I've told you this but not necessarily but not probably not on the podcast, but I lost my virginity on a couch in a basement on Oscar night.
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And I will not say which Oscars I guess to. Oh, I was gonna say, who was enough for Best Picture? Well, I'll tell you off mic. Okay. I love that so much. Were there snacks? Were there themed snacks? Oh, there were a bunch of people there earlier, and then everybody left, and then we were the last ones there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was an Oscar party at my house. Yeah. My parents' house, I should say.
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there were No, no, we didn't do that. I've never done. I've never done ballots. I've I've never had enough friends who cared about the Oscars enough to do like ballots or go to like an Oscar party with ballots and all that. Yeah, same. It feels like a chore just forcing Carly to watch the Oscars every year. And at this point, yeah, this point, I don't watch the Oscars. I don't watch the fucking like fuck the Oscars. I hate all those people. Still going to watch it.
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I was at a bar on Sunday and then was being forced to watch the Grammys. People were like, oh, this person just won. I'm like, this this doesn't matter. Great. It's all bullshit. im I am sad. ah Well, I'm mad that I can't watch any of the performances on YouTube yet, because that's all I wanted to see was Sabrina Carpenter, Chapel Rhone, and Charlie XCX's performance. That's all I wanted to see. And I'm forced to see small snippets of it on TikTok. They haven't put them on YouTube? No, not yet.
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But it's like some sort of thing of like, you should have watched it. I mean, that sounds right. Again, all these award shows are terrible um and they mean nothing. I mean, yeah, my mom watches it because my mom watches everything because she doesn't do anything. um She says, i have you heard of Sabrina Carpenter? She seems sweet. And I'm like, OK. I don't know. Sweet's the right word. um It is short and sweet. Yeah. Yeah. Short and sweet.
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And she goes that ah her and that Kendrick Lamar both seem like nice people. And I'm like, yeah, OK. I don't know that personally, but I do like but oh she's definitely going to watch the Super Bowl. Yeah.
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um Obviously I lie like both s Sabrina Carpenter and Kendrick Lamar. um i I think it's hilarious that the the Drake diss track has the same number of Grammys as Drake does total. um That's yeah pretty great. Fuck that guy. Yeah. Yeah. Don't let your kids be child actors. It really messes up their psyche, guys.
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Yeah, and sometimes people are just, uh, are just shitty people for no reason. Sometimes people are pedophiles. Um, yeah so anyways, that was pedophile corner. Oh no, not pedophile corner.
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Oh no.
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Um, so they have sex and then, uh, because, I mean, he's still grieving his mom, uh, and is, you know, I think they're both very feeling very awkward and and vulnerable. Uh, he freaks out at her and is a complete asshole to her. Um, because she just trying to
Comedic Dynamics and Relationships
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tell him what his mom meant to her. And she says, you know, you know, she wasn't your mom. She was my mom just because your parents don't care about you.
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Extremely horrible thing to say fucking and then they like don't speak to Then they don't speak to each other for like 16 years which is Seems like a lot but you know, whatever and it's the future and tell us about the future Emma I I was gonna say it's especially weird because her personal assistant is her other best friend from high school, whose name I can definitely tell you is Veronica, played by Michelle Butteau.
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um hilariously and And so it's the future. We are in l LA. I see ah Sasha is opening a restaurant, which is the talk of the town. She's the hottest chef in, dare I say, girls. She's the celebrity chef. She's the cover of Food and Wine magazine. She's like, ah she's this big celebrity chef, yeah.
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Yeah, and she's got this like gorgeous um entrepreneur. um I want to say restaurant producer, but I know that's not the right word. What's a restaurant tour, I think, and restaurant promoter? Yeah, it's a it's Daniel Dae Kim, um who's so hot. um We love Daniel Dae Kim. Yeah, love him. Love him. But he plays her fiance and they you know, we see her go to this charity benefit and then we see them in the car afterwards and they're just like,
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Obviously the relationship's not free, but it's- Yeah, he's it's a business relationship. like It's it's like like a lot of celebrity relationships, I think, kind of turn out to be. um We should also say that almost everyone in this movie is Asian American. I do not know that.
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Yeah, I mean, i think that I think that, what's her name? I think that her friend is pretty much the only the only main character who's not Asian, yeah. I was gonna say, is Michelle Toh?
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No, I think she's um i think she's biracial, um but I don't think that she's Asian. like thought um Yeah, because ah which is which is you know, something that was important to them and talking about like their Their community and stuff. It's a it's a big part of the movie. And so I think that's that's cool. Yeah Yeah, I think that's really I love that and because I don't think that enough movies get made about you know don l a new york city or chicago Like I love seeing cities featured in movies that like you don't usually see, I mean, or at least areas of San Francisco that like you don't usually see on film. Sure. And so I thought it was really nice to see aspects of like, you know, San Francisco and what living in San Francisco is like, that's not
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Yeah, I don't know how accurate Full House is to the San Francisco experience. I've never been to San Francisco, have you? No, I've never, I've always wanted to go, um but I've never been. Mike lived there for a hot minute. He lived in a warehouse um because that's- Who did? My brother. Oh, yeah. Yeah. When he was learning to do boats, to do sailing. Oh, but right. Yeah. When he was learning to do boats, yeah.
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So yes, they, um and so Daniel Dae Kim is going to India to work on something and decides that they should have a six month ah break where they can date other people before they get married to decide if that's what they want to do. And on the surface, she's like, yes, that sounds great, but really she's heartbroken. Yeah, exactly. Because who wants that?
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Exactly. so um they i they meet um Oh, so um Victoria, victoria of Veronica, hires Randall Park and his dad who have an HVAC business to install the air conditioning in the house that Ali Wong is renting in San Francisco for a few months while she opens a restaurant there before she moves on. She has not been in San Francisco in years.
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And she's back for only a few months to work on this restaurant. And Veronica, who knows what she's doing, hires them to come and do it so they have to meet each other again. And Randall Park's dad, James Saito, who's in a ton of stuff, is so funny in this. I love him. Oh my god, so good. And I just love his relationship, their relationship, Randall Park and his dad's relationship. He's the best friend character for the man in this movie. He is the best friend character. Yeah.
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It's so nice. It's like the first scene that we see of them as of him as Randall Park is an adult. He's like smoking weed, listening to music in his room, getting ready for work. He still lives with his dad and in his parents' house. Yeah.
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in his parents' house and his dad walks in and instead of going like, why are you smoking weed in my house? Which is what you expect the reaction to be from a parent walking in on their adult child in their house. Randall Park turns to him and goes, hey dad, hey, I'm just smoking some weed, listening to some tunes, dancing, you wanna join? And they have a little dance off and it's so freaking cute. It just made my heart melt. It's very cute.
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Yeah, and it's like, they're very close, which is really nice. Yes. Yes, which is also a stereotype ah broken for like Asian American parents, um especially in comedy movies, a lot of Asian even if the film is I mean, which I imagine there's there's definitely some truth there because, you know,
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Asian-American writers have written, you know, ah memoirs and and things about the difficult relationships they've had with their parents, but um this is this this breaks that stereotype on both fronts. Neither of their parents are stereotypical Asian-American parents, yeah. Yeah, exactly.
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um Yeah. And so they see each other for the first time.
Keanu Reeves' Cameo and Romantic Tensions
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Things are awkward. Things are a little funky and weird. um And um what happens next is he invites her to see his band, his band, or rather the dad does. It gives her a flyer ah to come see his band about his son's band. It's so cute.
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And they, um, and so she ends up alone eating dinner by herself, uh, and decides that, yeah, fine. She'll go see the band and she goes to see the band, which is, Oh my God.
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yeah
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So they play a lot of souls. and I mean, honestly, it's like Souls of Mischief. like it's It's like early 90s hip hop. it's ah Souls of Mischief is the song that they play at the beginning, and it's the song that he's dancing to in the mirror, and they go back to it a bunch of times. um Similar to Tribe Called Quest, except Souls of Mischief is from San Francisco or Oakland. um And so I think that's the connection there. It's like it's a full band like hip hop thing, like Raga, I think is what he calls it.
00:33:42
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Um, and it is pretty cringe. Um, and like It's difficult because like these are songs that they presumably wrote themselves and he is performing it for real. But it's like, I guess that it's like nostalgic and people seem to be into it. But it's one of those things where it's like, they probably should have made these songs a little bit better if they're supposed to be this good in the movie. They keep saying how good the band is. And it's like, are they? Are they? yeah
00:34:18
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Um, they're very niche, uh, which does not lead to the the plot point that they're supposed to like get bigger. Um, you know, like, cause cause he's like, yeah, we're, we're, we're a hometown band or really more like a block band or like this half of the block where people are really into us.
00:34:36
Speaker
um So the primary conflict between the two of them is that she has this like global ambition She wants to like get bigger and bigger and move on and on and he is pretty content Being in his community in his neighborhood And and that's I think probably the biggest problem with this movie is that they don't really reconcile that by the end But we'll get to that Yeah, they really don't. Um, but yeah, so she goes to his gig. And afterwards, she's like standing chatting um with him and his bandmate who also they went to high school with. And
00:35:14
Speaker
Gradle Park's girlfriend runs out and she's a character. Oh, Jenny, the worst. One thing I wanted to say real quick is Tony, I think, is the ah the guitarist for the band says to um says to Veronica, who we should say is pregnant and gay, um ah says, oh, I'm an LGBTQIA ally. So thank you for your service, which is
00:35:43
Speaker
Great thing to say to somebody. It was so good. I mean, the thing to be said about this is having two comedians write a movie is just chef's kiss, because this movie made me lull. There are individual jokes in it there that are that are very funny. Like um when he has to put a jacket on at a place because he does he didn't bring a jacket, so they have to give him one. She says, you look like Ellen in the 80s when she did stand up.
00:36:12
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um You look like a homeless astronaut. Ali Wong is good with ah with one ah little little birds like that. Yeah. Little zingers. Yeah. and Vivian Bang is Jenny, his girlfriend, who fucking sucks. Oh, my God. She's.
00:36:35
Speaker
She's hippy-dippy, very much in Doraga. She's got dreadlocks. And every single time Charlie asked a question. How does an Asian person pull off dreadlocks, exactly, and censor a website of how an Asian person pulls off dreadlocks?
00:36:51
Speaker
And they're like, they're making fun of his girlfriend together at it with with with one another. So like. Right. There's obviously chemistry there. Yeah. Um, uh, so they, yeah, they go to, she cooks for them. Um, and it's like Vienna sausages and rice or something. Yeah. Yeah. Like spaghetti with hot dogs on top. And, uh, she, uh, she finds out that Daniel Dae Kim is dating Padma Lakshmi. She's like a stupid, beautiful, talented Padma Lakshmi.
00:37:24
Speaker
Uh, and they're at a, uh, they're at a child's birthday party. And, um, Alex, uh, I said, to a like oh God, I can't get her name right. Veronica says to Randall Park, he goes, and what kind of, he goes, I got Legos. And he goes, what kind of Legos you get? He goes, red.
00:37:41
Speaker
And that made me laugh out loud. That's, that was very funny. yeah Probably the biggest laugh in the movie for me was him going red. Uh, I love, I love Randall Park. I'm much more familiar with Randall Park than Ali Wong. I've not actually watched any of Ali Wong stand up, although I have heard of her, of course. But I've seen Randall Park in a bunch of things. Yeah, he's great. He's so great. Charlie immediately was like, Oh, it's Jim from the office.
00:38:08
Speaker
because there's a bit in the office. There's a bit in the office where Jim tries to convince Dwight that he's been Asian the entire time. That sounds right. Yeah. and um And so and that person is played by Randall Park and. Oh, he must have been young a long time ago, yeah. Right.
00:38:34
Speaker
um What was in like one of the later seasons? Cause like he has, he goes, Jim goes all the way to like have Jenna Fisher and their baby take a picture, like a family portrait together. Oh yeah. I remember this. I remember this. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't rewatched the later seasons of the office as many times as the earlier seasons. Yeah. Yeah. Charlie loves the album. Loves it. Yeah. So, um,
00:39:04
Speaker
They, so she breaks up with him and and ah with with Daniel Day Kim ah screaming at him on the phone and all the parents at the baby party here at the baby's party hear her. Yes. And then pretty much immediately they have sex again. Like. Yeah. Yeah. Because she's like so I do appreciate that because there are a lot of like one of the what a problem for rom com movies is that there's two single adults who are attracted to each other and for some reason don't have sex.
00:39:32
Speaker
And that's just not my experience ah and in life. And I feel like, yeah, we're agreed on this. We've had this conversation before. Yeah. Oh, no, they don't have sex yet. They don't have sex yet. No. Because we have to get to. Oh, the whole Keanu Reeves things happens first. Oh, my God. Right, right, right, right, right.
00:39:57
Speaker
be like the biggest cameo in this movie. So his dad gives him the go get your girl speech. He's like, you know, you like her, go after her. And so he's like, I've got something to tell you. And she goes, so do I. I met somebody. Let's go on a double date. And so him and Jenny and her and Keanu Reeves, which is the man that- Charlie, I'm sorry. Thomas Rowland just yelled Charlie at my cat. You did. You did.
00:40:26
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Like my grandmother going through the list of all the cousins names before she gets to mine.
00:40:35
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alright kiy So they go on a double date. And it's Keanu Reeves. And they go to this terrible molecular gastronomy restaurant where all the food is so obnoxious. Absolutely nonsense. My favorite bit of that is that you listen to the sound of the animal that you're eating for the meat quads with headphones. And it's just like, why? And Keanu Reeves cries.
00:41:03
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Yes, he tried. He continues to eat. Keanu Reeves does a really good job of this, of a very specific type of asshole celebrity, yeah um where he's like doing this kindness, um love of the middle class, like paternalism, also extremely arrogant and full of himself, but at the same time, like I'm just a regular person.
00:41:29
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kind of character. It's very, very well observed. Oh, yeah. It's so good. It's so freaking good. And also like that insane after bit of like crazy number he wants to. Yes, yes. ah Jenny is obsessed, becomes obsessed with him immediately, of course. um And they all go back to his hotel room where he wants to play icebreaker. We ask a bunch of personal questions about each other. And he's like, would you kill someone? I would kill you, Marcus, giving a bad vibe from you.
00:42:04
Speaker
They get into a fight, it's ridiculous, um completely ridiculous. It's great. And then everybody says that they're gonna kill Marcus because he has the least impact on society. His girlfriend says, I would kill Marcus too because Keanu and Sasha like mean so much to the world.
00:42:24
Speaker
Yeah, their global footprint is so much bigger than yours. Global footprint, that's what it is. Yeah, that's awful. And ah so she Sasha has to break up that Marcus and Keanu fighting, and they leave, and Jenny decides to stay with Keanu. Then they start to make out in the back of an Uber before you pull out and realize not only is the Uber driver uncomfortable, but so is the Uber pool other passenger in the car, just just classic at comedy.
00:42:55
Speaker
Uh, yes. And then they have sex. Yes. Yes. Then they have sex and this time it was good. Yeah. They're like, Oh, you got better at that. because well yeah Yeah. And they want to keep doing it. Um, and so they date, but however, like it, like you can probably call it, she's got a timeline on the amount of time that we use in San Francisco.
00:43:19
Speaker
yeah And Randall Park doesn't really seem to recognize that until there's some conversations they have. It's like, yeah, you know, when I go to dark. And he goes, oh. there's a bit of um There's a bit of nodding hill in this too, where um she has this kind of,
00:43:37
Speaker
Yeah. And I think that there's like this, this kind of like classist kind of thread in this movie as well, where, you know, she has this like bragging things like, Oh, he's just a regular guy. And he, of course, bristles at
Breakup and Personal Growth
00:43:50
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that. And she doesn't actually really understand what she did wrong at any point throughout the rest of the movie. yeah um
00:44:00
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and where so um and it's and it's i think it's pretty I think it's presented in this movie that he's wrong for not wanting to like have this big ambition of like growing his his art, growing his band, making a bigger deal. like him His community-mindedness and contentedness is seen as a character flaw, and I don't really think that's true.
00:44:25
Speaker
um i agree in in real life. I mean, he he's definitely wrong about some things and can be an asshole about it, yes. But I don't think that it's it's like, she I don't think that that she's right about moving on and he's wrong about wanting to stay in this community are necessarily i just had true the way they're presented in the movie. Yeah. Yeah, I just had an epiphany. Sorry, I just had an epiphany. This movie is a reverse hallmark
00:44:55
Speaker
Yeah, it is. Yeah, you're right. That's that's that's really yeah that's really good because instead of like a big city lawyer coming home and and like five finding community with the small town like Woodsman or whatever, it's the HVAC guy going to New York to become a celebrity spouse for and do nothing really like he leaves his band like so Yeah ah He they kind of have this ah this breakup again um where they have this conversation about where and he's right he's taught he's complaining about like celebrity chef culture and Fine dining and he's like, you know, no Asian foods not meant to be served in a shot glass like yeah, you it's meant to be and you're not and
00:45:43
Speaker
and to be so I appreciate it. Yeah, you're not being authentic. um And she claims that she is. And the way that they they end that is is awkward as well. But um she says that um yeah she and he says that he's you know he doesn't want to move. She's like, I love you, and I want you to come to New York with me. and hes And if you don't want to, say so. And he's like, I don't want to come to New York. And she says, you're a fucking coward.
00:46:11
Speaker
and I don't necessarily think that's true. I think that, I do appreciate that in this rom-com, unlike, it's not about miscommunication. It's not about like, these are real problems that each of them has to like work on and and change if they want to be together, but she doesn't really do any of that. um Yeah, it's all done by Randall Park. That's true. He basically throws his whole life away for her, which,
00:46:41
Speaker
I guess a lot of, you know, a lot of like older movies are all about the woman throwing their life away for for the man. So I guess it's like, you know. The opposite of that, which is is maybe what they were going for, but it still doesn't like feel good um if you think about it at the end. You don't want to see anybody throwing their life away. You want to see some sort of compromise happen. You want to see them coming together and being happy as a couple.
00:47:09
Speaker
in a happy medium. And both of them like feeling like like getting their needs fulfilled. like yeah you know Self-actualized. Exactly. And he doesn't seem like he is. they are He is like doing stuff, though. He's like, OK, we'll play bigger venues. We'll audition for this bigger venue. And first, he gets drunk and screws it up. But then he gets better, and they and they they they get it. But then he immediately leaves for New York, which is kind of What's the point there? We just sort of let his storyline just sort of like brush it off to the side. And then just like, yeah don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. We we got we got yeah to worry about it. In his song about tennis balls, which is hard to listen to. um
00:47:53
Speaker
and And then she finds it. And he's like, people are buying all our merch. And then of course, when he goes to the restaurant to find her later, he finds out that she bought all of the merch. So again, like he's not actually being self actualized. He's just dependent on her again, which is a choice. It's certainly a choice. Yeah. And then she has her confrontation with her parents, which we definitely have to talk about.
Resolution and Cultural Significance
00:48:18
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um Yeah, her parents who finally sold the store and are now retired and have are free to, yeah yeah, to be a part of her life now. Yeah, they are godparents to her cousin or, yeah, her, I think her cousin, something like that. um And they throw him a birthday party and- Yeah, that's the party we're at earlier. Which is the party we go out, all out earlier, which there's like,
00:48:51
Speaker
clowns and little and like miniature horses or boats or some sort of petting through and a Donna Summer impersonator who later. I don't know. It's Diana Ross. It's Diana. Diana Ross. Sorry, Diana Ross impersonator. He calls her Diana Summer by mistake later. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:49:13
Speaker
um who later ends up with Randall Park's dad, which is very funny. um yeah And she's just like, she's so upset. She has this a scene with them where she's like, you were never around for miles, my childhood, but like, you're doing this for this other kid, and you know, you're going all out and da da da da. And I just don't understand why.
00:49:36
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um And, you know, they kind of apologize and, you know, but the fact of the matter is, is that there they had to like work, provide for her and it like sucks, you know, that they weren't around. But at least in the end, they're like attempting to be in her life a little bit more. Yeah, they come to visit her in New York at the end. Yeah. Yeah. ah Yeah, that's all I wanted to say on that. Is that like,
00:50:06
Speaker
I don't think the parents were that off. I mean, like yeah, it sucks that you weren't around all the time to take care of your kid, but like she was provided for her. She was able to call it. you know Yeah. um And you know she found what she needed in ah in Randall Park's family. you know yeah And then we end the movie um beautifully.
00:50:30
Speaker
Well, we go to the same thing. we do It's honestly the same thing as Notting Hill. like um he First he goes to Tom Ford to get a suit because his friend Keanu Reeves recommended them. Yes. And he's like, he's my friend. I punched him in the face. ah He finds out that the the the suit is $12,000 and immediately it cuts to suits and stuff where he gets yeah a suit with for two free pairs of pants for 200 bucks.
00:51:03
Speaker
Which is great and it looks great. And he pretends to be a member of the press and stops her on the red carpet where he gives the whole speech to her. So it's very Notting Hill and says, you know, it's a classic rom com speech. He's like, I want to have I want to hold your purse. That's what he says. Yeah.
00:51:21
Speaker
I want to hold your purse, which I feel like is, I mean, it's validating all the points that you've made definitely about his character and about this movie. I mean, that could be called Always Be My Maybe. Randall Park will hold Ellie Wong's purse. Yeah, yeah. um Yeah, can I hold your purse for you is what he says. And then they get back together. And then she is ah opening her restaurant in New York and he sees that it's not the super high end molecular gastronomy nonsense. It's like a more homey Asian place and it's called Judy's Way, which is his mom's name, which I feel like she probably should have asked him to name a restaurant after his mom, but you know, whatever. Or maybe she just asked the dad and got the permission from the dad. Maybe, maybe, we don't see that. Yeah.
00:52:18
Speaker
So, but again, like, that's super ah that's also like super common and like real like hike was like high end cuisine like those are the two kind of ends of of high end cuisine it's either molecular gastronomy a place like a linear or next, or something that is, you know,
00:52:38
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Momofuku is a good example yeah of like actual like warm, homey, very high-end cooking, which is a ah real trend in fine dining and something that all kinds of famous chefs like Anthony Bourdain was a huge advocate for all that kind of stuff. He talked about it all the time. um And there are there are fine dining restaurants that are are very much um like that. the the The restaurant Butter in New York, which is, um I'm gonna forget her name, ah is ah is a really good example of of one of those. Yeah, I mean, she's she she's not reinventing the wheel here.
00:53:15
Speaker
No, no, no. And i but but I'm just saying, like, I think it's the the movie seems to just to think that this is something like completely new, because that's what they're talking about. Like the movie, the the the restaurant is like groundbreaking and no one's ever done it before. And it's that's also like but that. But it happens all the time. Yeah. Yeah. Guerna, Guerna Shelley, Alexa Guerna Shelley. I shouldn't do this. I'm going to get it wrong. Yeah. I was like, I honestly don't know even recognize any of those words.
00:53:46
Speaker
i Hold on. Alex Gornicelli. um alex gorner shelley um She's the the chef of the executive chef of Butter. Oh, OK. Cool. She's been on all those shows. You've probably you've probably seen him before. Probably. Yeah. I'll have to go check it out. Leave my Yelp review. Oh, yeah, for sure.
Preview: 'Love and Basketball'
00:54:11
Speaker
I'm not on Yelp, I don't know why. ah Yeah, well, you're not 75 years old, so I assumed you were. I'm not 75 or angry. Yes, yeah, you gotta be one of those. One or both, really. One or both. um And that's ah that's always be my maybe. It's sweet, it's funny, and but um but I think that there's some, yeah, so he just like moves to New York and he's like, yeah well, the band, you know maybe the band will come to New York sometime or something. What's he gonna do?
00:54:39
Speaker
um going to help live his life. Hold her purse and hold her purse. Yeah. You know, regardless of that, I still cried at the end. I Yeah. Yeah. I did not cry at this, but it is. It is very sweet. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Um, Charlie's Corner, what I guess Uh, he enjoyed it. He laughed a lot. He, um, he turned to me at the end and went, are you crying?
00:55:20
Speaker
Um, so that's Charlie's corner. yeah um Oh, hold on. I had a, I had a couple of things. Oh, you have another. Oh, I just wanted to say at one point she says, um, I have my Spanx on backwards. So the P flap lines up to the wrong hole.
00:55:39
Speaker
Like I have I have Spanx. um I've never worn Spanx that have a pea hole in them. Have you? Some of some of them do full body Spanx. So I'll give it some. Wow. Oh, the ones that come up to the body suit. Sure. About. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just. Yeah. All the the Spanx that I have are the other the shorts ones. Yeah. And they definitely don't have a whole that you can take off. You know, the body suit one because you can, you know, can't take that off easily to go. Right. Right. Right.
00:56:08
Speaker
So it's just got like a, like a body suit, like snap thing down there, but it also has the shorts part. I think it's got the shorts part. I think it just like has like a little flap and you really interesting. Interesting. Anyway, I could be totally right. I do have, I do have um a, um,
00:56:29
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um
00:56:32
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like a jumpsuit i'll um thing that has like built-in shorts and those shorts have the little thing that you you can like slide it down underneath so you don't have to take the whole thing off to go to the bathroom. yeah yeah Yeah, I can't wear body suits or and my torso is too long. Well, my torso is pretty long.
00:56:54
Speaker
i I don't know, though, actually, my legs are are super long. I don't know if I might. I mean, i'm I'm taller than you, but I think that my I think it's mostly legs, maybe not in all towards my torso is very long. I have an issue with camel toe. Oh, sure. Yeah. I mean, who doesn't? Yeah. Some of us got that pussy, right?
00:57:19
Speaker
Friend of the Pod Medicine Smith ah loves this one overall brand called like Lucy and Yak. Lucy and Yak. Hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And anytime they have like a Black Friday deals, she'll like send it to our group chat and be like, you need to jump on this, get yourself some overalls. I have like 80. They're the best investment. And um i I had to tell the entire group chat, I was like, can't wear overalls because camel emoji.
00:57:48
Speaker
Um, but the overalls is is strong that like, I actually bought, just bought some overalls from old Navy because they were cheap. Okay. So this six foot tall woman came into the store once and she was wearing overalls. I'm like, Oh my God, where did you get those overalls? Because as you can see, we're the same height and I can never find overalls that are are long enough. And she gave me the website. She's like, Oh my God, this place is amazing. And I looked it up and they were $400. And I'm like, Jesus Christ.
00:58:16
Speaker
There's no way I'm going to do that. Um, but old Navy overalls, old Navy has $60 overalls that come in. And the thing about old Navy is that all of their clothes, you can get in tall. So they have like medium, tall, large, tall. Yeah. So I got some, uh, I got some tall overalls from old Navy. Um, and I have not, I've not tried them on yet, so I don't know, but well I will keep you updated. Yeah. Amazing. Can't wait. Cannot wait.
00:58:45
Speaker
Next week, we are watching um a rom-drum, honestly. A rom-drum? Not really. I mean, we've done we had some stretches on this show. This movie is deeply romantic and beautiful. Yes. And I will say, for people who, you know, maybe that's not why you're listening to the show, it is not a tragedy. um It is just not ostensibly a comedy. Yeah. And there's not a lot of ha-ha moments.
00:59:15
Speaker
Yeah, it's not a walk to remember, um but it is ah it is a deeply beautiful romantic movie, and you are no one's gonna die at the end. I'll just say that. It's not the notebook. I think that's fair. Yes, it's not that, but it's also not really a comedy. It's Love and Basketball, a really beautiful movie, and I hope you love it despite a sport being in it.
00:59:39
Speaker
Yeah, I know sports are in it. I know I've never seen it before. It's been on my list for ages. Yeah. And like I've listened to other podcasts review it and every single time. Oh, really? movieby I need to I need to watch. And I just I haven't because sometimes.
00:59:58
Speaker
Sometimes you just got to you don't want to choose between the rom and the com. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you want the rom and the com. You want to go ha ha and oh, that's that's what we do on this show. But, you know, sometimes I mean, we've done we've done some things that are comms and not roms for for sure. You know, like legally blonde, not really a comedy. Yeah. And we're going to do we're we'll definitely do like Devil Wears Prada and stuff like that at some point. Yeah. Any any chick flick? Yeah, we'll do we'll do Mean Girls. Oh, absolutely.
01:00:33
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So in the same page, we can do something that's romantic, but not a, but not a comedy. Yeah. I and also anticipate us doing the notebook and a walk to her remember. Yes. We'll have like a special, like weepy week or something like, will be for eight year old when Oh, I don't know if we could do a whole month of weepies. Maybe we should scatter them out, you know, the month of April, because it rains a lot. Why not rain from your face?
01:01:00
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know the way things are going in this country. I don't know if we can handle a month of weebies like yeah that. That might be that might be a bad, a bad call. Yeah, we'll figure it out.
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
01:01:13
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ah Will we? We'll figure out the podcast, if not the country. OK. OK, cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Amazing. Anyways, shall we outro? Let's end it. This is your edit. So like.
01:01:29
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Just leave it. Feel free to leave it in. Yeah. Who gives a shit? Who gives a shit at this point? Honestly, we're all going to die in the next year. I can feel it. All right. Here we go. Cut that out, actually. You should cut that. I'll cut that out. I'll cut that out. All right.
01:01:50
Speaker
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01:02:23
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I'm gonna take that again. And me at Katy of the Lake. Until next time, we're just two girls.
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Asking it to love us.