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Long Shot
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Emma & Katie get political as they discuss the 2019 Seth Rogen/Charlize Theron vehicle Long Shot, the Panera Lemonade that Kills You, Jennifer Aniston's film career, a Seth Rogenessaince, and of course the tyranny of the male refractory period and how it relates to the organization and numbering of sexual encounters
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Wandering New York City and Times Square Antics
00:00:00
Speaker
I did wander around New York and on Monday, and I forgot how much I just love wandering around. this is going to sound like such a romanticized like version of what everyone expects to go to New York City. I just loved walking the streets and listening to music and like just being in a city environment again. It just felt so nice. Yeah. um Until I was in Times Square and i literally saw, i I do not kid you, Katie, a swarm, a swarm of fake Elmos and patriotic Mickey mice.
00:00:40
Speaker
patriotic mickey mice oh my yeah it's um i mean i guess go good good for them like i hope they get their money um they were very touchy-feely with a lot of strangers and i was like oh well that's don't love that i mean like are they do you think they're actors do you think they're or are they just like perverts and freaks like i think that i feel like there's a mixture yeah that's fair I want to say there's a mixture. i feel like in like Sunset on um on Hollywood Boulevard, they're like actors that are doing that shit, you know? And Times Square, it feels like there may be perverts that are feel like there's so many other like day jobs that you can get as an actor in New York that you don't need to do that. Yeah, yeah. Well, also, it's like there's a difference between, like, dressing up like the queen from um Snow White versus yeah dressing up like Elmo in like, a fourth-rate Elmo costume that you got from, that you're renting from, you know, some ah some crazy person in Chinatown. Yeah.
00:01:48
Speaker
Yeah, i don't know exactly. So, boy. Boy, oh boy. It's just, my whole trip it has continued my my want of just, i just want one trip, Kitty.
00:02:00
Speaker
Just one, one visit to the city where I don't have to deal with fucking Times Square. Yeah, yeah, don't go there if you don't have to. But unfortunately, sometimes you got to.
Panera Adventures: Lemonades and Locked Chargers
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You got to. Because that's where all the theater is. And that's where the equity building is. Well, that's where Broadway is. That's not, I mean, the real, real theater is downtown New York. Let's be real. So sorry. So, so sorry.
00:02:26
Speaker
That's where Broadway is. Yeah. How are you? Before I say... Oh, I'm fine. I haven't done anything interesting. i Oh.
00:02:37
Speaker
We recorded three days ago. um Yeah, we've already caught up. And then Emma vented for about 12 minutes before we pressed record. Yeah, the only thing I've done is that my my friend had surgery and I've been in the hospital with her. Oh, and that's right. And gone to work. And that's pretty much all I've done. so You visited the famous location um the the um the TV production studios from the Princess Switch. Yeah.
00:03:06
Speaker
Yes, the the still image stock photo they use as an establishing location shot in the Princess Switch Rush Hospital in yeah Chicago, where you used to work.
00:03:19
Speaker
I used to work. And I will tell you, Katie, um there's a Panera. know. Yep. And when that Panera first opened, it was around the time of our cocaine drinks.
00:03:33
Speaker
Oh, yeah. And I remember so fucking excited. so no let's be i said let's let's Hold on. Let's be specific on cocaine drinks. and We're talking about the Panera lemonade that kills you, which yeah we've probably talked about on this podcast before. yeah But the Emma and I used to meet at Panera Bread and work on our screenplay and drink two to three 32 ounce Panera lemonades that kill you.
00:03:59
Speaker
Yep. Mine without ice. That's true. That's crazy. Yeah. So two to three for me and four to six for you, really. Yeah. Yeah. Cause mine wasn't watered down.
00:04:11
Speaker
That's insane. Um, god and we would go home and each of our partners would ask, what's wrong with you? Why are you behaving in this manner? Why can't you sleep? i would insane Why, why are you crying? Because you can't sleep. Yeah.
00:04:27
Speaker
okay because i We learned zero lessons. Panera cocaine drinks. Zero. A later we do it again. Yeah. um And it got worse and worse. I would start to look forward to those little drinks.
00:04:38
Speaker
Yeah. That's how they get you. up Boy, oh boy. That's how they get you. Panera. Yeah, because they had enough. They had as much caffeine as like 10 shots of espresso in Yeah, but they tasted so sweet because there was like a thousand grams of sugar. Yeah, you know, just to balance out the caffeine. Yeah.
00:04:56
Speaker
Exactly. That's exactly what you want. um But yeah, so I remember when we were doing that, would, and they opened that Panera Bread on the second floor and, or the like top floor, whatever, of the butterfly building. It's fourth Fourth floor.
00:05:11
Speaker
um It was, I only went to two floors, so it was the second floor to me. Right, right, right. The ground floor and then that floor. All floors are um are subjective, are um subjective to you.
00:05:23
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. I went to no other floors. But um I got so excited. And then I realized that they kept the chargers behind lock and key. Like you had to like make sense order them and then they would give it to you.
00:05:38
Speaker
Like it was like would like you're at a dispensary. and like you know how they staple stuff when you like go to the dispensary. It was like that. And so like I never ordered one because I was i then got in my head about it. And I was like, no, Emma, that's too You got embarrassed. They make you look a person in the eye and order it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And then they took it away. And I was like, no.
00:05:59
Speaker
We killed people. Yeah. It was for the best. Not us, though. No, we're still alive. Here we are. still dancing.
Introduction to 'Go Get Your Girl' Podcast and Movie Discussions
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Speaker
Drugs, famously featured in today's movie. Actually famously featured in today's movie. ah That's right, guys. You guessed it. This is Go Get Your Girl. This is the podcast where Emma and Katie are um two secretaries of state conjoined in one body.
00:06:31
Speaker
um And ah we're just, you know, trying to make the world a better place. Uh, and then we run into this guy that we used to babysit and he, he's now a writer, a journalist, and, uh, his writing's actually pretty good. And here's the thing is that we want to run for president and our doofus of a president's going to endorse us because he wants to make the transition into movies, uh, from television.
00:06:57
Speaker
Not a lot of people have made that transition. uh she got like Woody Harrelson George Clooney yep yep uh Will Smith they don't mention Will Smith they don't mention Will Smith Jennifer Aniston but would you say she's a movie star did she though I here's the thing I totally agree I don't I don't think Jennifer Aniston's a movie star like she's she's back on tv now first of all yeah and then like I don't know what's the what's a hit movie with Jennifer Aniston exactly horrible bosses is probably the biggest hit movie that she was in and she's like the fourth lead of that wouldn't it be like no not analyze this um that's lisa kudrow that's lisa kudrow uh i feel like there was one from the early 2000s that she was in along that was like a hit
00:07:49
Speaker
Along Came Polly is, um ah ah wait, is that Jennifer Aniston? That's Jennifer Aniston. It's Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandberg. and No, no. It's Ben Stiller.
00:08:03
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Ben Stiller. And Jennifer Aniston, yes. And he gets diarrhea. Was that a hit? No, it was 178 million. Yeah, that was a hit, I guess. oh That's probably her biggest movie. Yeah. Let's see. Jennifer Aniston.
00:08:21
Speaker
Biggest box office. But I mean, like you can have a hit and still not be a movie star. what does It doesn't make you a movie star. Yeah, exactly. ah Bruce Almighty is her highest grossing project, which I forgot she was in. i was forgot she was in as well.
00:08:37
Speaker
Yeah, Marley and Me, We're the Millers, Just Go With It, which is with Adam Sandberg. Adam Sandberg. Along Came Polly is not on this this list. Uh-oh.
00:08:51
Speaker
Yeah, how could we forget Marley and Me? ah Bruce Almighty grossed $485 million. dollars Yeah, they make a sequel to it They did, with Steve Carell, and it's like about Noah's Ark, and I didn't watch it.
00:09:04
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I watched it
00:09:08
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I don't know about that. But yeah. ah And our so So we run into this kid we used to babysit and we hire him to be our speech writer and he does an okay job with the first one um and then gets to know us a little bit better and then we slowly fall in love and then we do it and we have great sex that lasts five seconds and then um we are just sort of like banging and trying to like survive. if you both come after like a minute, like, I guess that's fine. Like, good yeah. Like sometimes that's what you need, you know, like yeah there's, there's, like there's, you enough you want a variety of, of, you know, things you don't want to like, if, if, if he comes in five seconds and you don't like, that's a huge problem. But if you both come like that's yeah good for you. Like that, that just means that you guys were both so into
Exploring 'Longshot': Characters and Political Satire
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it.
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Yeah. That it happened like immediately. Yeah. It happens a lot in my romance books. Oh, where they come immediately? or where she comes immediately. Oh, sure. Well, I mean, like, that's the thing. Like, like, like multiple is good, too. Like, yeah, multiple is good, too. And I mean, like, that's the thing is that if you were, would do you count if you have sex multiple times in one evening and you come multiple times, do you count that in entire encounter as you came multiple times? Or do you just count it one at a time and just went, oh, well, I just came once?
00:10:39
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Unfortunately, because of men's refractory periods, um the counting of times you've had sex is pretty sexist because you have to count it by by him because he has to stop once he comes. Yeah. you know like yeah And then he's got like ramp up again.
00:10:56
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Yeah, so, unfortunately, like, yeah, like like, the girl can come, like, multiple times, but once he comes, like, you gotta count it again. Like, if he, like, you know, because he has to, like, you know, prepare mentally.
00:11:11
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And that's Emma and Katie's sex ed corner.
00:11:20
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I just realized my shirt's on backwards. Oh.
00:11:26
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Well, you can't tell. it's ah It's a cable knit sweater, we should say. oh it's the shirt inside. and Oh, the shit well, that matters even less, yeah. It matters even less. um Anyways, so yeah.
00:11:39
Speaker
So, I'm Emma. And I'm Katie. and today we're talking about Longshot, the Seth Rogen Charlize Theron rom-com from 2019.
00:11:55
Speaker
It is directed by, where's my notes? It is directed by Jonathan Levine, who directed Warm Bodies, which did podcast. Oh, our second Levine. He directed The Night Before and 50-50, which we will probably do on this podcast as well. 50-50 is cute. I remember watching 50-50 and being like, I wish this was funnier, but also I get why it's not.
00:12:18
Speaker
Well, yeah, it's ah it's something in a cancer rom-com. Yeah, um yeah. It is written by ah Dan Sterling. the story by Dan Sterling, screenplay by Dan Sterling, the word and Liz Hanna, meaning that it's another draft ah by Liz Hanna.
00:12:38
Speaker
So um Dan Sterling is a ah writer who wrote for South Park and The Office and Girls. And he wrote the Seth Rogen vehicle, The Interview, which is bad. No Yeah, I never saw it. and And Liz Hanna wrote the Steven Spielberg Meryl Streep vehicle, the Post.
00:13:00
Speaker
What? Yeah. And she wrote for Mindhunter and ah the the dropout, the, um so what's her name? Oh, the Elizabeth Holmes. Yeah, Elizabeth Holmes miniseries. Yeah, that was good. And this is her only comedy credit. so yeah So he's a comedy guy and she's like a serious movie screenplay writer. And this is what they...
00:13:27
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put together with their separate drafts, we should say. It kind of works. Like I'm going lie. think totally works. think this movie is very good. This movie is very good. I was very pleasantly surprised. I had not seen this movie because around 2019, if you take yourself back in time, not far. um Let's all think, let's all do it together. Let's all do it together. You have to, like, get past the big, like, mental block that is COVID. And... ah Very different time. Donald Trump was president. Like, things looked really bleak.
00:13:58
Speaker
Yep. Yep. You know, boy oh, boy. Theater was dying. Yeah. But, like, if you take yourself back to 2019, like, you hear ah Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron are in a rom-com together. And this is the same Charlize Theron who I believe the last time she was in a comedy was the, um ah the guy from family guys, a thousand ways to die in the West.
00:14:26
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uhu Yeah. That was bad. They dated, you know? Yeah. He also dated. um oh my God. He also dated someone else really famous and pretty.
00:14:38
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oh not johansson he's he's good looking like seth mcfarland is is an attractive man and he can sing so i get it yeah yeah and also presumably he's funny yeah and i mean you look at the pipeline from seth mcfarland to colin jost and you're like oh scarlett johansson has a type um yeah i mean everybody likes funny guys like yeah but they look identical Oh, do they? I don't know what Colin Jost looks like. And also, I'm being generous with a term funny describing Colin Jost because I couldn't tell you anything he's done. um But yeah, so like the last thing that last comedy Charlize Theron did was Thousand Ways to Die in the West, at least in my recollection. And Seth Rogen, this is like the end of like mid-2000s Seth Rogessance. I mean, like, it's not a renaissance if you're first coming out. Seth Rogessance. Yeah! Yeah!
00:15:29
Speaker
Some would argue that 2025 is the Seth Rogassons. That's true. 2025 is the Seth Rogassons. But this is like the tail end of- Have seen the studio? No, but I hear it so good. Oh my God, it's so good. I just finished watching it. It's very funny. Maybe that'll be the next show that Charlie and I have- I love It's only 10 episodes and they're all actually 30 minutes. It's not like where a show is like the first two episodes are 30 minutes and then by the end they're an hour long. It's not like that. They're actually 30 minutes. It's actually 30 minutes.
00:15:56
Speaker
Yeah. um Yeah. I desperately want to watch it. um But like 2019, like he was still going off fumes of his like, you know, pinele pineapple, pineapple expressness, like weed genre.
00:16:17
Speaker
films like that was his humor like yeah i mean that's i mean that's still kind of his his thing like it is um he's like done a lot of tv now he does a lot of like you know writing and directing he um yeah because let's see yeah because of the night before another jonathan the levine movie which is fine if i remember it's joseph gordon leavitt and him and and um what's his name uh captain america captain america Anthony Mackie. And it's like a Christmas movie. It's a holiday movie because they also celebrate Hanukkah. Well, I mean, he is famously Jewish. That's true. um
00:16:52
Speaker
Yeah, the Neighbors movies, which I think are both pretty good. So Neighbors 2 was 2016. I'm trying to see like what was right before 2019. twenty nineteen no, God, he's done a lot of stuff.
00:17:04
Speaker
He's done a lot of stuff, but like it was sort of like it felt like seth the Seth Rogen brand was running on Steam. Sure, sure. Essentially, it's what my point is getting to.
00:17:15
Speaker
so like I can see that, yeah. You hear that sort of combo. Nothing about that made me want to be like, yes, going buy a ticket to this movie and go see this in theaters. I had absolutely no desire to go see it. um And so like now, years later...
00:17:31
Speaker
um having watch it for the pod i'm so pleasantly surprised it's a really good movie yeah it's great really good so i'm really glad i'm mean i wish that they had had better branding or better marketing um well i think it did well actually did it is i think so maybe i'm just biased because i personally didn't want to see it yeah i mean we saw it in the theater i No, not great. um I think most of America... ah It made money, but it wasn't a big hit. i mean, again, it's it's a rom-com. And like no rom-coms have been successful in the past 10 years, really, until Anyone But You. Yeah, but I feel like you know marketing has something to do with it. like There was just... like I don't think this movie was... ah you know
00:18:26
Speaker
i don't think it got its its due diligence. It did. Got well reviewed. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's good. was um Yeah. That's a shame. ah Yeah. Cause this is a good movie. um um It's a really good movie. I enjoyed it.
00:18:41
Speaker
It's, I like Seth Rogen. I, um I think that a lot of his stuff is, is a little underrated. We will, there's definitely more Seth Rogen movies we will cover on this podcast at some point. He's made several rom-coms. Yeah.
00:18:59
Speaker
Wait, what other rom-coms has he done? Um, ah well... Goddammit. You wouldn't count Neighbors as a rom-com. ah No, I would not. ah let's let's Let's bring back up Seth Rogen. I mean, I wouldn't put it past us to do Neighboring this podcast. closed I mean, Knocked Up is a rom-com. Oh, yeah. um The... i He's in 50-50, which is a rom-com, but he's not the the lead. Yeah, he's not the lead. Um...
00:19:29
Speaker
Yeah, I guess it's just free. I guess it's just um knocked up that I'm thinking of. Yeah, that's okay. he'st i mean, Superbad is sort of a rom-com, like a high school, like a teen rom-com kind of thing. yeah so Oh, and he's also in 40-Year-Old Virgin, isn't he?
00:19:43
Speaker
Yes, he is. which Yeah, which is a rom-com. Sort of. Yeah, it is a rom-com, yeah. It's a rom-com. At the end of the day, it's about a guy getting his girl. Yeah.
00:19:53
Speaker
And losing his beat card. ah um But yeah, um pleasantly surprised by this film. Tell us more about this film, Katie.
Fred Flarsky: A Journalist's Journey
00:20:04
Speaker
All right. So Seth Rogen is a journalist for the Brooklyn Advocate, which we have to assume is a lefty kind of... um Oh my god.
00:20:16
Speaker
Yeah, a leftist. I've got to get my earbuds fixed. Every time I accidentally touch my earbud when I'm on the computer, it starts playing Aha! Take on me. Oh, because it's the first thing in your iTunes? The first thing in my apple in my iTunes is Aha!
00:20:37
Speaker
Because it's A dash ha, which makes that puts it before Abby Holiday, which you would think would be first. But no, the dash makes a ha first. At least it's not like teens.
00:20:50
Speaker
It is not teens. I don't know. Yeah, because it's A star teens, right? It's A asterisk teens. So I don't know if the dash or would go the asterisk would go before. That's an interesting thing to think about. So asterisk comes first.
00:21:05
Speaker
alphabetically before dash is that how it works but like isn't there like uh not to get nerdy but isn't there like when you see on a keyboard the lineup of like special characters which one comes first the dash or the asterisk because i feel like that yeah because the asterisk is is and on the the eight key and then the dash is just past the zero yeah so i feel like it would be 18s then aha i wonder if it's mla if mla could tell us
00:21:37
Speaker
The only way to find out would be to put the 18s on my computer and I'm not going to do that. So I guess we'll never know.
00:21:46
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Super Trooper. So he works for this lefty kind of ah newspaper. And he we we began with him undercover with the Klan. Or with not the Klan, but like but the Proud Boys.
00:22:02
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yeah Yeah. Yeah. He's at a Nazi rally. Yes. um Or not a rally, like ah like ah a house party like in their apartment. And he is like recording and trying to get you know information from them.
00:22:16
Speaker
And they're like, get a swastika tattoo, guy dude. And he's like, okay. Yep. Trying to maintain his cover. While he's getting a swastika tattoo, they find out who he is. And he jumps out the window um and escapes.
00:22:36
Speaker
Yep. And one of several... weirdly CGI'd falls from Seth Rogen. It's pretty good, actually. He hits a car and bounces off of it out of the sidewalk. it's pretty funny. I kept waiting for some sort of reasoning to be like why he kept like falling on his face and being fine.
00:22:56
Speaker
But there was no reasoning. It was just him. Sometimes it's funny when somebody falls down, you know, like... Yeah. I mean, Charlize Theron's character says it perfectly in this film, which is, you know, once we found out that he was okay, it was funny. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, Charlize Theron is the Secretary of State. um And Bob Odenkirk is the president, who's an idiot.
00:23:21
Speaker
Yep. Much like President Zelensky from the Ukraine, he played the president on a TV show. And because of that, they made him the actual president.
00:23:33
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Yep. um And no one unlike Zelensky, um this guy is a complete moron. And he's like, i want to I want to transition from president into movies.
00:23:45
Speaker
I want something more prestigious than the presidency. I want to be a movie star. yeah I'm not going to run for re-election. and she's like and matt And she basically tricks him into, like strokes his ego until he decides that he'll he'll endorse her for to run for president.
00:24:03
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And then we kind of get into like the politics of this movie, which is very... um very toothless and tame. There's no mention of what party ah she
Chemistry and Compromise: Romance in 'Longshot'
00:24:17
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belongs to. We assume that she's ah that she's a Democrat. Yeah. From the ending, I have to assume.
00:24:24
Speaker
Yeah. Well, because i first of all, like, you know, there's there's no way. Yeah.
00:24:31
Speaker
And secondly, because, and so we assume that, that Bob Odenkirk must also be a Democrat because he wouldn't have, yeah, there's, there's no way, but he's just an idiot um that everyone hates. Running on the Hollywood ticket.
00:24:45
Speaker
Yes. Which is, I did, does not, that we don't put that past the Democrats. um Never, ever. Listen, they're going to nominate Gavin Newsom, who's a terrible person and a politician. And so um that's neither nor there. don't they just go for Bill Pullman?
00:25:02
Speaker
and well Bill Pullman's like 80 years old. That doesn't matter, Katie. I mean, it kind of does. Have you looked at the modern presidencies?
00:25:13
Speaker
She is. She's the youngest secretary of state. She is great. Everyone loves her. She's beautiful. She's Charlize Theron. Yep. There's a Fox News channel that keeps talking about how pretty she is. Yes. It's Wembley News, but the logo is Fox News.
00:25:34
Speaker
ah Paul Scheer is on there. yeah that And they're just doing Fox News shit. yeah um Which brings me to the first of Emma's Fun Facts. Emma's Fun Facts. So Paul Scheer is famously married to June Diane Raphael, who is in this film.
00:25:52
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ah She plays um like the main, like, would you call her... I believe she's her chief of staff. Yeah. yeah Her chief of staff. So Paul Scheer was just like hanging out on set one day watching June Diane Raphael work and was joking around because I guess, you know, everyone in in Hollywood comedy knows. Speaking of beautiful women married to weird little guys. Yep.
00:26:18
Speaker
Yep. Yep. Exactly. um They also, they have a fantastic podcast. If you haven't checked it out, it's called, how did this get made? um And they also talk about films. um But this is where this one's one of the biggest podcasts in America. I'd be surprised yeah if you haven't heard of it yet.
00:26:33
Speaker
I mean, maybe we can get them to do like a crossover. ah Maybe we'll see.
00:26:41
Speaker
Um, and, uh, so he said that he was just hanging out on set and he was joking around. He was like, oh, could I get a bit part in this? And they're like, yeah, you want to be, uh, the fake Fox news guy. And he was like, sure. And that's how he got in the film.
00:26:54
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There you There you go. Nepo baby, Paul Scheer. Um, uh,
00:27:02
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We have ah yeah Lisa Kudrow, who's a pollster, who is in one scene in this movie and basically explains to her like what she's how she's polling well, what she's not polling in.
00:27:14
Speaker
And their her lowest poll number is sense of humor. ah So that's something that they need to work on. And we have Jundaya and Raphael and Ravi Patel are her...
00:27:26
Speaker
aides um her campaign manager and her you know communications director or something like that they're never never explains what exactly they are but they're with her all the time people yeah seth rogan is uh works at the brooklyn advocate for randall park uh is his editor and they just got bought by fox news basically essentially um Yes, I don't remember his first name, but um Andy Serkis wearing an ah obscene amount of prosthetics on his face. I could not tell that that was him. Absolutely not. Oh, no, no. When I first saw this movie, I would but i didn't know who it was until the um until his name came up at the end. And I was like, who was the Andy Serkis?
00:28:08
Speaker
absolutely insane and all of the prosthetics were andy circus's idea and they were like i'm sorry what and he was like yeah really i want yeah um another one of my fun facts actually which is let me read you the exact quote ah So, um digital review ah after Andy Serkis accepted the role of Parker Wembley, he then developed an extensive prosthetic makeup design for the character, ah makeup regimen that required hours a day to execute, even though nobody asked him to do that.
00:28:43
Speaker
Right? rogan remembered we offered him the role and then he was like okay and then he started sending ideas for what he would look like and we were like what do you mean i thought he kind of looked a lot like andy circus and he was like no i got this whole thing and we were like whatever man and andy circus like he just he asked he's got to do like something weird with it i guess like he loves he's doing yeah maybe she doesn't feel Maybe he's like a mask actor. He can't feel like he's i mean he's definitely a without something on his face.
00:29:19
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yeah so He is Rupert Murdoch, basically, is the character that he's playing. An evil news conglomerate owner who is um you know ah not kendall roy Logan Roy. that's who yes is yeah He is Logan Roy.
00:29:36
Speaker
And ah to use a fictional person that I can slander instead of an actual person. um He buys the Brooklyn Advocate and Seth Rogen is like, fuck that, I quit.
00:29:48
Speaker
Yep. And so he's unemployed and he meets with his best friend who of course is 15 years younger than him because that's how you have to do it in rom-com. O'Shea Jackson Jr., Ice Cube Jr.,
00:30:02
Speaker
That's Ice Cube's kid? Yeah. I had no idea. Is that the guy that played Ice Cube in the movie? Yes. Straight of Compton, yeah. um ah So um Randall Park is like, so going destroy your life to spike a guy so despite a guy who's never heard of you. And he's like, yes. I'm like, oh man, this guy's just like me.
00:30:21
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. um He had, O'Shea Jackson Jr. has this big corporate job. He's very wealthy and he's like, all right, man, we're we're hitting the town because you got you got fired slash quit.
00:30:34
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And so they go to the World Wildlife Fund benefit because Boyz II Men are playing there. Yep. And they love Boyz Men. Charlize Theron obviously is there also.
00:30:45
Speaker
um Seth Rogen is wearing this incredibly ugly windbreaker. Yeah. It's like a windbreaker ensemble. Yes, it is it is. It looks like the 90s paper cup, you know, vaporwave kind of design if it was a windbreaker. That is such comparison.
00:31:06
Speaker
Yeah. um It's like purple and teal. Yes. Yes. And so he's there to see Boyz II Men. Shirley Starin is there. They both love Boyz II Men. And they see each other. And O'Shea Jackson Jr. is like, why is the Secretary of State looking at you? And Seth Rogen is like, okay, so we grew up together. we grew up next door to each other.
00:31:30
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she was 16. was She... she um She used to babysit for me. Oh, no, no. When she was maybe when she was 14 and he was 11 or something like that. It's like he was younger than that. Oh, no, he was 13. Yeah. mean Yeah. 16 and 13. His 13 little boner. Yeah. 13 year old boner. His little baby boner.
00:31:50
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hised ah She was they were working on her high school um student council election. She was running for class president. And talking about the environment and she wanted to install a recycling, like recycling program at the school. And he was helping her and they were, they had this moment and he kissed her, but then he got a boner and she said, it's okay. And then her boyfriend came in the room and made fun of his boner.
00:32:19
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Yep. And it's like his most embarrassing moment to date that he is yeah very deep down in under levels of shame, levels of shame. But she does remember him and she likes him. You know, they were friends. They grew up next to each other.
00:32:37
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Yeah. And she remembers him being funny. And ah he she is talking to him when Parker Wembley, Andy Serkis, comes up to them. And she has she's like, oh, I fucking hate this guy. And she is trying to be nice to him, but, but you know, get him to go away. and And she's like, okay, goodbye. Good to see you. And that's when he goes up to tell him off because he has to.
00:33:03
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And he's like, you're everything wrong with this country. Like, you're a piece of shit. And then he falls down the stairs. Yep, and everybody catches it on camera. And everyone's like, Ma-ha-ha-ha-ha. Voice to men calls a cracker.
00:33:14
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yep crack her down
00:33:19
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it was and it's very funny but i agree with charlise theron in her quote from the next scene which is i mean once we found out he was okay it was funny yeah he lands on his face um well he thinks he lands on the brim of his hat yes not saved his face have the But i ah So that that that video goes viral Of course And they're watching it And her um her aides are kind of are telling her like Yeah we did some you know research on him And he's like ah he's like a real journalist um And some of his stuff is funny And so the next day When they're looking for speech writers For her to start her presidential campaign She's like well let's let's hire him um And Jude Dianne Raphael's like This guy fucking sucks what's wrong with you
00:34:08
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Yeah. She's like, why would we do that? No. She's the villain of the piece, if there is one. yeah Yeah. If there is, well, you know, besides Parker Wembley. Right, right, right, right. But he's like not actively like doing anything. Yeah, yeah.
00:34:22
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then what happens? And the world and society. Society is the real villain, Katie. That's true. Society. Much like all political movies, um the the enemy is society. It is society. The American people are the antagonist.
00:34:39
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Yes. Yes. um yeah also we have alexander skarsgård in a very small role as the canadian prime minister who is justin trudeau is a doofus he's justin trudeau is essentially what he is and everyone like really good because like he's one of the most attractive actors like in around and yeah they really make him unappealing uh this movie it's it's good for them yeah he's got some like fake teeth um yeah or he just does something with his teeth yeah
00:35:13
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Yeah. He eats oysters weird and he laughs terribly. Oh, that was another thing that she needs to work on, which is just sort of like, it's not even part of the plot. It's just like one of those things that's just really funny. Her her wave needs help. She's bad at waving. She's bad at waving. At one point she has a wave coach who's helping her. Which another fun fact, that wave coach and the drug dealer in the club in Paris are played by the same person.
00:35:38
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Oh, that's nice. Yeah. It's good to have a side hustle. me Exactly. um ah so yes. um So she decides to hire him yeah as a speechwriter. He gets hired and goes on the road with her immediately. Yeah.
00:35:57
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To Amsterdam. um and it's uh sweden first sweden was like i knew that it was basically she is starting a paris agreement which of course the united states is not in uh if you'll note um to um to get a bunch of countries to sign up to you know limit environmental uh damages which in 2019 probably i mean here's the thing no no that's not true because donald trump was president in 2019 so that there's even less of an excuse for this movie to be as kind of apolitical and toothless as it is yeah they pick something that has i think that that has like the broadest appeal like the environment right the environment is a non-partisan issue except it's not really Except it's not. um
00:36:45
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Because um Republicans want to destroy the world and Democrats want to do nothing. So, yeah. Essentially, ah one side wants nothing but money and the other side is like, well, maybe we can beat them with our books. Yeah.
00:37:01
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Yeah. um ah the The Simpsons said it best 35 years ago, and it's still true to this day, where there's a bit where they go by the Republican National Convention and it says, we're pure evil. We want what's worst for everyone. And they go by the Democratic National Convention and it says, we can't govern. And like, that's still true. Still true to this day.
00:37:26
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ah Both bad in different ways. Yep. Yep. um There's also a funny bit where Seth Rogen doesn't have a suit. And so um they're going to this big gala in um in Sweden. And she's just like, oh, well, you know, Jinda and Raphael will get you a suit. And ah then he shows up to this very nice gala in a traditional Swiss.
00:37:54
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Swedish. you Swedish suit. it's like ah It's like a traditional costume of this country. He looks ridiculous. He describes himself as Captain Crunch's grinder date.
00:38:06
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Yes!
00:38:09
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And, um... Looks like you're parking the cars in Candyland. Yeah, that's what she says. He's like, I don't know why you need a comedy writer. That was pretty good. Yeah.
00:38:21
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Um... a So immediately they have to compromise. So they're they're trying to get these people to sign up. And so it's B's, Trees, and C's. And she's meeting with all these people to try to get them to sign up. And immediately they have to lose C's. And he pitches a fit about it.
00:38:36
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um ah And it's like no you promised Because the first thing she says when she wants to hire him He's like no because this is bullshit Like I don't yeah believe Like you tell me that you actually care about this stuff And we're actually going to do something good And not just more you know democratic Democrat politics yeah like Yeah he's like I'm sure this bill That you're doing is going to start out fine But then it's going to get gutted And um you know Frankenstein together Until it does absolutely nothing And i don't want to be a part of that
Politics and Personal Growth: Facing Moral Choices
00:39:05
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Yeah. um And that's exactly what happens. ah That's exactly what happens. She is like trying to, to, you know, explain to him compromise, right? The idea is that, you know, this maybe doesn't work the way we want it to, but you know, it lets me become president and then I have power, which is what the Democrats always say. And nothing ever actually gets done. The Republicans, however, can get in into office and, you know,
00:39:31
Speaker
make the country unrecognizable in a year but somehow the democrats don't have that power when they're in office because they try doing everything by the book and you can't do it by the book when the other team isn't even playing by the same rules they don't even have a book yeah um so i know the listeners love when we talk about politics on this podcast yes um but uh deal with it call it politics if it's just hard facts i you know i unfortunately in the year 2026
00:40:02
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god um ah anyway uh which when we ended this movie i turned to charlie and i was like wow this movie really was a fantasy film oh yeah yeah it's very optimistic for yeah the election of uh 2020 yep in 2020 in general i mean like they didn't even know about covid when this movie came out um So he pitches a fit and she's like, no, we have to compromise. And he's like, they lost that you're losing seas. That's like the ocean. It's like 75% of the planet. Yes.
00:40:36
Speaker
And, um, he, he continues to challenge her about her values, which is why she likes him. And that's very important to this movie. Um, If he caved on her, like she wouldn't have fallen in love with him because that's what everybody does. Like yeah he has integrity and she has already started losing her integrity by being involved in Washington politics. And he reminds her of, he makes her want to be a better politician.
00:41:06
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Yeah. A better politician and a better person. One of the hardest things in any rom-com to do is to show why these two people like each other. Yeah. And it has to be more than physical attraction.
00:41:19
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And especially in a movie where you're pairing ah Jennifer Lawrence and Danny DeVito. Yes! thought it was Jennifer Lawrence and in a windbreaker. Jennifer Lawrence and this potato in a teal windbreaker. It's...
00:41:37
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um uh part of june diane rafael's research where they're trying to see what the relationship would look like um you have to it it very you you deeply understand why she likes him which is great and here's you the thing like i think seth rogan's pretty cute i think in this movie like trim that beard and cut get a haircut and he's yeah he's a good looking guy like when he shaves his neck he yeah he gains like two or three points Yeah, exactly. Yeah. He can be he can I mean, they they are dressing him and, you know, they're intentionally making him look doofier than he actually is in person. But like, yeah, you know, yeah.
00:42:18
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yeah Later on when he's at that other gala in like where where Barcelona or whatever, when he's actually in a tux in the tux. Yeah. He looks very suave.
00:42:29
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Yeah, yeah. I think Seth Rogen's kind of hot. um There you go. He's a daddy. Yeah. um she ah So yeah, so they start to bond. He's like, i need to get to know you so I can write and write speeches for you. um And he's like, what do you like? Do you watch TV shows? do you watch movies? And she's like, I read synopsis of TV shows. Yeah. Like, that's that's not a thing. You can't do that. Yeah.
00:42:54
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because we had this whole montage at the beginning of just like her going through her day, which is insanity. She gets like maybe like three hours of sleep a night and then she like wakes up.
00:43:05
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She works out while she like all the things so that a woman can be successful in politics and be beautiful and, you know be charismatic and likable.
00:43:17
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like it's just she falls asleep on the tub like while she's waiting for her to drawing a bath um there's a moment when they're in the um the private plane that she's standing staring at the wall and Seth Rogen comes in to run a joke by her and she goes what are you doing I was napping and he was like your eyes were open and you were staring at a wall she's standing up with your eyes open Yeah.
00:43:43
Speaker
I was micro-napping. it was like, you might want to put a bike helmet on if you do that. There might be turbulence. um And, yeah, so he gets her to start watching Game of Thrones and Marvel movies.
00:43:56
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And gets her into 2 Chainz. That's the Marvel movies. They watch the Marvel movies in Russian. Yeah, because they're in Russia. Yeah. um Then they're in the Philippines and they are about to have this moment when suddenly insurgents attack the palace that they're staying at and he like throws her to the ground. And the Secret Service hustles them out of there, and they get thrown into this, like, safe room where they, um, he's like, I feel like you might want me to kiss you, but I don't want to screw that up again. And she's like, no, no, you should do that.
00:44:31
Speaker
And they make out, and it's really sweet. It's very sweet. It's very, very sweet. And then they have sex in it last for real. they get they they get hell They get airlifted to a private island where they have sex and it lasts for three seconds. Yeah. ah And they both come immediately. And they both say, oh boy, at the same time. Yes!
00:44:54
Speaker
oh boy oh boy um yes um oh yeah to it's on to i'm on fire by bruce springsteen is playing when they have sex which is very good um he he shows her and then they have sex again we do like you know yeah presumably lasts longer that time. He has his Adolf Stickler tattoo, which is the half swastika on his arm. He got turned into a little a little stick figure with mittens.
00:45:22
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Yeah. It's very cute. She's like, who's this little guy? And he was just like, oh, well, this one time i was undercover.
00:45:34
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um And then Maggie, Junia and Raphael is like, this is never going to work. The public will never accept you. So she will never accept you because she is defined by what the public will accept. Exactly. Um,
00:45:46
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Which is like a lot of these sort of like rom-coms where it's like a prince and like a normie or like, you know. out Notting Hill. Yeah. yeah Notting Hill.
00:45:59
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um The Wills and Kate Hallmark movie. Okay. The Meghan Markle and Harry Hallmark movie. You know, all of those classic rom-coms.
00:46:14
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Famous, fa extremely rich and beautiful women, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle are very much like Seth Rogen in this movie. Exactly. They are the Seth Rogen's of their own stories.
00:46:29
Speaker
So they're at this dance. She tangos with Alexander Skarsgård because that's what the public wants, right? Because this hot. The public wants them together. But second like so and like secondly, like there's no way, I mean, as we know, like America will not vote for a woman to be president regardless, but much less a single woman. like A single person in general can't be president in the United States. like I mean, Kamala had her adorable little husband and we still didn't vote for her.
00:46:56
Speaker
Yeah. um ah She, um but they, and then he takes her into like the kitchen and they dance to, it must've been Love by Roxette, which she says is her favorite song on his phone while the other dance is going on in the big room. It's very cute.
00:47:12
Speaker
It's so, so cute. And they're like slowly falling in love. And he like during that entire gala, like he sends her a little note on a cocktail napkin. And he's like, hey, I kind of like you or I have a crush on you. It's so, so fucking cute. Like the the like the love story is written so very well. Like I'm very impressed.
00:47:34
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. um ah and uh and then she says i want you to fuck me from behind and slap my ass really hard and choke me a little bit i'm like oh my god she's just like me too you're both just like me same these and she goes oh my god was i too like was i too for like aggressive or you know we can do whatever you want but then just like flip me around fuck me from from behind and slap me on my ass um and he's like he's like oh um'm he's like oh boy oh boy oh boy um and then oh and this entire time ah the fake logan roy andy circus guy keeps trying to like get a meeting with her and um and she's just like i absolutely will not entertain that that's ridiculous yeah and then the president calls her and they have to drop trees
00:48:28
Speaker
Trees, yeah, because um they want to build a server farm in Alaska, and they need the, they can't do the the lumber, yeah, basically is what they need. yeah Yeah, they need all the lumber for the server farm in Alaska.
00:48:44
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And so then she gets really upset, and she goes to, because she's never done drugs before. ah Yeah. Oh, and at the beginning... This is a really funny scene. When he first goes to her in D.C., she he gets picked up in a private car and they drive him from Brooklyn to D.C., um which I looked up. Isn't that bad? It's about a four hour drive.
00:49:07
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I think. Wait, is she in D.C.? She's in D.C. Or is that her office in New York? Oh, OK. No, she's Yeah, that's a long way. ah and And he goes in.
00:49:19
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And he has to go through security. And so he he had just been like having his like big, you know, night out with his BFF. And so he has to empty his pockets and he's got like every drug imaginable. And he's like, I've got a prescription for that. That's anxiety medication. And that's the vape too, that I can inhale my anxiety medication. That's energy powder.
00:49:40
Speaker
yeah Those are pills for when you you you stop dancing, which you want to keep dancing. I have a prescription for that. Yeah. um Yeah. And so. So they're in Paris.
00:49:55
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Yes. They're in Paris. And she goes, um she's so upset and she's so angry. So she turns to Sutherland and she goes, Frank, I just, I want to smoke some Molly with you. And he goes, Fred.
00:50:07
Speaker
ah sorry. Fred. Fred. knew I started with enough. Fred. can we smoke some Molly? And he goes, that's not how you do it, but are you sure? And she goes, yes, I want, I want to smoke Molly with you.
00:50:19
Speaker
And he goes, okay. And so then they go out to a club in Paris, both wearing ridiculous nineties attire. She's wearing his windbreaker. Yeah. And like sunglasses and they're both wearing baseball caps and they, they take Molly and then it's a fun thing.
00:50:39
Speaker
classic seth rogan film drug montage ah and they're playing caribou and making out in paris like what's better you know yeah like covered in glitter and sparkles and then as she's just like i want to take more and he's like no we should wait she's like no i want to take more so then they take more and they're still partying the night away and uh secret service comes up to her and they're like we have a situation And so they have to bring her in. And she goes, um how long did these drugs go?
00:51:12
Speaker
How many more hours? And he goes, ah like, four? And she goes, oh, fuck, I'm in so much trouble. So then there's a hostage negotiation situation that she has to navigate while high on Molly. She's still rolling. And ah she, like, shows up to the...
00:51:35
Speaker
bunker would you say it's a situation room yeah situation room and she's still got her sunglasses on she's got glitter in her hair and she's still feeling the vibes and uh she's wearing an eminem t-shirt wearing an eminem t-shirt and she's she's still trying to do her professional best but like rolling like balls and uh and So she gets on the phone with the like the kidnapper, which is this other guy. And then she's like, this isn't working. So then she like goes under a desk with the phone and she's like smoking a cigarette and she's like, so.
00:52:11
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The plane crash. the plane There was a spy plane. It it went down, and the the pilot parachuted out, and they captured him. And the the guy, the the the person who works for that that the, I don't know if he's necessarily the secretary of state of that fictional country in this movie, but he is like you know someone who works for the leader of that country, wants an apology from the president on Instagram. They're like, that's never going to happen. Yeah. cause much like of other presidents, he's very active on social media and a fucking moron and is constantly making like crazy, outrageous claims on social media.
00:52:51
Speaker
ah Like lots of normal heads of states do Yeah, it's very common. It's not just one guy No, it's super common. And they're like, he's never going to do that. And so she sees some gal wazes, famous French cigarettes, and she's like, can I have one of those? And she gets under a table. Glad that knew what those Well, she says it. She says, are those those gal wazes?
00:53:14
Speaker
Oh, I didn't catch that. Yeah. And ah she sits under the table and smokes a cigarette and like just yeah levels with this guy and becomes like very real. Yeah.
00:53:27
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She's like, here's the deal. My boss is a dick. Your boss is, we all know he's a dick. And he goes, do you think he's a dick too? And i just and she's like, yeah, yeah, he's a total dick.
00:53:39
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She's like, that's never going to happen. She goes, we don't negotiate with terrorists, but we do negotiate with homies. With homies.
00:53:49
Speaker
Okay. And she's like, you can release this guy and we can send an aid package and you could be a hero and um the president doesn't have to be involved. And so she reaches an agreement with this guy I think...
00:54:02
Speaker
Part of it is like, because the scene that you're expecting never happens where she gets mad at him and is like, you know, you, I can't fuck around with you. This almost ruined that never happens. that That is what another movie would have done. But what happens here is it's not quite spelled out this way, but you almost believe that if she wasn't high, she might not have done it, ah handled the situation as well.
Real-World Politics vs. Movie Politics
00:54:27
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Like she's able to, even though Molly doesn't calm you down.
00:54:31
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no, she's able to you way shape or She's able to relax and get, like, treat this person like a person and and think like through it in a way that normally she wouldn't have i think is the implication yeah yeah because normally she would have like tried you know being like several women like several women like all women in politics of like being overly aggressive in her tactics to prove that she's not soft or sensitive um and she can party with the boys
00:55:04
Speaker
Yeah, and because that's what the that's what the general is is telling her to do. like Be aggressive. You have to like bully him. yeah But that's not what the situation called for. And I'm sure if I knew more about if i knew more about ah Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State, I could give an example of of her of her doing something like that, but um I don't have that information. Do you think Hillary Clinton went and did Molly in a club in Paris and then... No, I think the opposite. I think she...
00:55:35
Speaker
you know probably she probably has something in her record as secretary of state where there was some kind of issue where she um you know reacted aggressively instead i mean yeah trump loves to blame benghazi on her but we all know that wasn't her fault no no but can you imagine if they not that other things weren't her job yeah Let's talk about the Clintons for a second. Okay. In February in february of 2026, the Clintons are about to testify in the, again, with the Epstein file situation where-
00:56:08
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Here's, and here again, the difference between Republicans and and non-Republicans in ah in this, in our current political situation. Good. Like, if he went to the child sex island, he should go to jail. Yeah.
00:56:22
Speaker
Like, I haven't made my entire personality about Bill fucking Clinton. Like, No. Why is this such a problem? Like, unlike, much like other presidents who have been mentioned thousands of times in the Epstein files from the yeah late 80s until present, like, how do you not turn on a guy who arranged, like, sex ex escapades on a private island with children? Like, that's insane. Yeah.
00:56:54
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And you know that he wasn't there for the zip line. Yeah. Um...
00:57:02
Speaker
Thank you for undercutting that. It was probably needed. yeah You're welcome. You're welcome. Sometimes I get angry about things, but everyone should be angry about this. Everyone should be angry. It's very, very true.
00:57:14
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But I mean, it's also true that we all know that unsaid president who was named thousands of times from the 80s until island. Who was it? Was it Jimmy Carter? Was it Barack Obama? I don't think so. Nope. Was it Abraham Lincoln?
00:57:29
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I mean, I can't speak for his ghost, but...
00:57:34
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but i doubt it uh boy yep he's probably too busy trying watching oh mary yeah that's what he's doing yeah because you know abraham lincoln's ghost is gonna watch some fucking theater they should do it at the fourth theater they should do a mary at the fourth theater they should That's probably where his ghost is. um Or is it at the White House? It doesn't matter. Regardless, we know that rhymes with Frump wasn't there for the zip line.
00:58:06
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Bud Frump, the villain a character from How to Seen a Business Without Really Trying is, of course, who we're talking about. Yes, of course. He was not on the Epstein Island for the zip line. Yes. Allegedly.
00:58:19
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Listen, this is a movie about politics. We're going to have to get into it. Yeah. Exactly. um But regardless, so she she crushes it and then she's still rolling and she's like, um she takes that moment while she is being interviewed by like faux CNN to ah to be like, throw the president under the bus and be like, you know what? The president has endorsed my bill of C's, Trees, and B's.
00:58:43
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And it will go forward as planned and so that he can't back out of it. Otherwise, he seems like the bad guy. and um And then she's like, boom. And in the background, you see Seth Rogen taking a bunch of selfies. It's very funny.
00:58:57
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Yes, yes. Yeah. um And CNN's like, ah obviously, she's ah you know still feeling it from the ah from the the tense negotiations. Yes.
00:59:09
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um Then we have, then we um so everybody loves her. She's like, hostage saved, motherfuckers. Yeah. And they bring the hostage home. She's a hero. Everybody's talking about her. We cut, it's like, see, a bunch of different news agencies are like, ah you know, this amazing, like, ah Secretary of State did such a great job. Like, could she be president?
00:59:30
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And then the Wembley news people are like, cookki is a woman mentally fit to be president? Chris Brown, Jeremy Piven, and Brett Ratner discuss. Yes.
00:59:42
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It's very, the jokes in this movie are so good. Yeah. They're so fucking good. The Wembley News people, it's Paul Scheer and a guy I don't recognize and then a woman. And then the two of them are constantly making horrible comments and the woman character is like, that's right, because that's what they do on Fox News. That's what they do on Fox News. Yeah.
01:00:02
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yeah so um judyenne raffanelle has done some research which we already discussed a little bit about um jennifer lawrence and a potato and a windbreaker jennifer lawrence and a potato and a teal windbreaker angela merkel and adam duritz kate middleton and danny devito princess die and guy fieri oh But Charlize Theron stands up to her. And she goes no, this this is not up for discussion. Like, I understand what you're saying. And this is not, I'm not going to try and rationalize my relationship with Frank.
01:00:34
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She's like, I'm not floating him by for your approval. And you need to watch yourself, basically. Yeah, exactly. And then she gets called in by the president. Yeah. And the president ambushes her with bizarre Andy Serkis.
01:00:48
Speaker
Well, because he's not in charge much like many presidents. And I do mean many presidents now, like the corporate interests are the ones who are running things because this is, it's not a Republic. It's not a democracy like this country. And, and a lot of other countries are run by the richest people in the world who push the, the, the laws through that they want to happen.
01:01:08
Speaker
And that's what ever read the book animal farm? Yeah. It's a lot like the scene when they see the pigs eating with the humans. And you're like, da fuck?
01:01:20
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um But nobody does anything about it. Just like in real life. Yeah. Actually, I don't remember how Animal Farm ends... i know i It ends really well. Everybody um ah has a good time and eat popcorn and live happily ever after. yeah Okay. i I keep like because i it was Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies at the same time in English in high school. I constantly am confusing the two. And because there's like Piggy in Lord of the Flies yeah and then there's pigs in Animal Farm. Well, there's a pig in Lord of the Flies also like an actual pig pretty famously. yeah Well, yeah. and But like Piggy. Yeah, I know.
01:02:00
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And so I'm constantly, I'm just like, oh yeah, that Animal Farm ends with them killing the nerd. No. ah ah No. That's lordly. I was being facetious. Animal Farm ends badly. its a Yeah, no. I got that. I got that. I got that. I'm just spelling it out for the people at home. yeah Yes.
01:02:20
Speaker
Go read Animal Farm. Yeah. It's a fun read. Read it to your kids. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, small little small little detour. um Speaking of, because i was like, oh you know what would be really cute? So my friend Sarah, shout out to Sarah Espinoza, is pregnant with her first kid, and she's ah wonderful. She used to be a sound designer in Chicago theater, and now she lives in Colorado, and she's fucking crushing it in, like, corporate life. um And she is, like, very much...
01:02:52
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gonna have a goth baby i call her the wednesday adams to my enid and uh nice that's so me and my friend gia uh yeah adams to my enid yeah yes um and so like i sent her a bunch of like goth baby books did you know you can get and edgar allen poe for children and a hamlet for children and a mcbeth for children That's nice, yeah.
01:03:18
Speaker
In, like, little board books. And that is when I sent her. That's cute. That's very cute. It's very cute. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, continuing on. um So Parker Wembley is there in the Oval Office, and he is like, so listen, you're going to kill this bill, and if you don't, we're going to release this video that we hacked from Fred Flarsky's webcam. Yep. And it's him, and he's, you know, in a hotel room while they're on tour or something, and yeah he... um is he he calls her and is like hey do you want to do you have time for like to have sex really quickly and he's like okay no no worries i'll handle it myself and he gets a glass of wine and yeah some nice lotion and yeah that plays the video of of her doing the speech that he wrote and yeah masturbates to it and
01:04:09
Speaker
It is romantic. He's like, maybe people think it's romantic. It's sweet it's very sweet. What is not sweet is when he comes, he accidentally comes on his own face.
01:04:20
Speaker
Yeah, it goes straight up. It's the cum guy. It's the cum guy. Um... And they're going to release that video if she doesn't kill the bill. And she goes to talk to him and they get into this fight basically where, again, about compromise and integrity and...
01:04:41
Speaker
Yeah, and Julianne Raphael had like suggested, she was like, listen, I have a consultant that can basically like wipe his entire history online. He does it a lot for all the mistresses in the White House, and there's tunnels. Drew Wilson built them, and she's like, I'm not going to Marilyn Monroe him. um And he either becomes like the president's mistress, or they have to break up.
01:05:07
Speaker
Yeah. And he is indignant. She says that she took the, the bill that she took the deal and killed the trees. And he's like, you know, it does. I don't care what people think of me. Like, yeah, it's like, again, maybe people think it's romantic. Um, I was, I, he, he, he was jerking off to her. um yeah And this is a this is a good third act problem because they're both wrong.
01:05:35
Speaker
um That's ah one thing that happens a lot in these. It's it's not a misunderstanding. It's a it's a fundamental like character problem that they have that has to be resolved. And in this one this one is good because they are both wrong.
01:05:50
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, for sure. never compromises and she always compromises. And um she's like, we can work on your image and then soft launch you as the as the boyfriend. And he's like, I don't want you to take my articles off the internet. Like, I'm yeah proud of those. Like, i i haven't done anything wrong. Yeah. um You want to present a version of me that's not actually me?
01:06:14
Speaker
and the And then he's like, he won't do it. And again, that is why she loves him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. and then we do this whole for fucking and then there's the worst scene in the movie where he goes to see o'shea um um jackson jr yeah this comes out of nowhere and uh he's like telling him you know you have to be president for all people not just democrats not just republicans he's like republicans are evil he's like i'm a republican and he's like what are you fucking talking about and he's like yeah i'm a christian and i'm a republican i'm like
01:06:47
Speaker
this is it's such bullshit um and this was made nowhere when trump was president like yeah if this movie was made in like 2014 or something i could see that scene making more sense but like we are past the point like there is 2016 ended all that both sides shit like we're not doing that anymore like no fuck you yeah um You're either for human rights or against them. Exactly. There was a time, like, yes, there was a time where you could have different political opinions about, like, you know, how much money should go to, you know, various sections of the government. And, yeah you know, if state government or federal government should have more power. And those are legitimate things people can have multiple opinions about. But, know, When your opinion is about who deserves human rights and who doesn't, which is what the Republicans have made their entire policy about. We're not, we're not discussing this anymore. Like we're not,
01:07:49
Speaker
i'm not I'm not granting humanity for people who have intentionally abandoned theirs. Yeah, yeah exactly. um This movie, there were several times that I felt like it was written in 2014. I felt like this movie was written during the Obama era.
01:08:06
Speaker
It almost definitely was. Yeah, yeah and they just did not revise certain things. Yeah, because like if this had come out when Obama was in... Yeah, it would have worked.
01:08:18
Speaker
Or the corporate overlords who, you know, put up the money to get this movie made are like, you have to have something in here about Republicans being okay. Yeah. But even though they barely ever say Democrat, they barely ever say it. And the politics that they do discuss in this movie are, non you know,
01:08:35
Speaker
really low stake. i mean I mean, the environment isn't low stakes, but you know what I mean. It's not something that, you know, people are going to get mad about. Although I'm sure they did anyway. Not fracking. Although they do mention fracking. Yeah. In very she watches Game of Thrones. of Thrones. He calls her and...
01:08:59
Speaker
thinks he's leaving a message, but she's listening to
Romantic Resolution and Happy Endings
01:09:01
Speaker
it. And he says that he will do it. and That he'll be her Marilyn. He just would do anything to continue to be with her. And then they're watching her announcement speech at a bar.
01:09:15
Speaker
Lil Yachty is there. Yeah. um ah And she gives herself the speech. Yeah. She herself speech. Which happens sometimes in in these movies where she's finding her her moral center, right? Like she is... um she's doing this, uh, she's, you know, reading his words, uh, and, but, but, discuss but realizing that she can't do this anymore. Um, where she says Parker Wembley and our dumb fuck president are doing some evil shit together. Yep. And, uh,
01:09:54
Speaker
I'm gonna, we're, we're gonna, not gonna take it anymore. I'm gonna run for president. I'm gonna be, I'm gonna, you know, fix it. And O'Shea Jackson Jr. says, go get her ass, man. He says it. He says, go get your girl.
01:10:09
Speaker
Yeah. He says it. ah Oh, and then she, oh, she announces the video. She goes, because I said this, they're going to release this video yeah of him jerking off on his own face. yeah ah yeah He jerks off. And so do all of you, which is so do all of you, which is so true. yeah yeah it is so true and of course the video does get released um because again like another movie might like have kept that back and been like something would have happened to take down Wembley and then the video doesn't get released but they released the video and um O'Shea is watching it in the uber as they're going to get their girl and
01:10:50
Speaker
they're just sort of commentating on it um which is pretty funny and so they're both trying to like find each other and he so he goes to her announcement area or her announcement location and there's a bunch of like news cameras because like she immediately fled and there's a bunch of news cameras there and so he runs up trying to find her and they go hey it's the cum guy Yeah. so that they're playing it around They're playing and then he kissed me by the crystals. One of the all time great songs during this whole thing.
01:11:21
Speaker
He goes back to his house and she's there. um And she says, here's the deal. I love you. And i know because I've never been so scared in my entire life. And I once shared an an elevator with Saddam Hussein.
01:11:34
Speaker
Yeah, just me and Saddam. Yeah. And he's like, I've loved you since I was 12 years old. And then they make out. And the press is there. loves everybody loves them. yep um Because like people love an underdog. It's true. Yeah, and they say, here's the candidate and the cum guy.
01:11:53
Speaker
Yeah. um And then we jump forward to her. She's getting sworn in as the president. we don't need to deal with the election. This was the real fantasy part of the piece.
01:12:06
Speaker
Yeah, real fantasy part. We have the Fox News guys where she's like, the the woman is like, fuck you guys, I quit. And she hits the guy in the head with a coffee cup, which rules. Yep. Yep. It's great. He calls himself the first mister, which I don't like. Yeah. um It's the first gentleman. he's showing up the portraits. Yeah. if If we ever have a woman president and she's married to a man, that man will be the first gentleman, not the first mister. I don't like that at all. No.
01:12:36
Speaker
His portrait is painted by Todd McFarlane, which is a joke. Which is great. And then they play Dancing on My Own in the credits, which is a weird choice. Like, what strange... Well, they have this little, like, yeah. Well, they have this, like, little um interview with the president and the first mister. And he shows off the first mister emblem, which he has turned... um ah What did he name? a Adolf Stickler.
01:13:06
Speaker
Adolf Stickler in two. yeah. and It's so good. It's so good. It's a very cute movie. I very much enjoyed it. um The thing that happened that I predicted to happen with Charlie with this film exactly happened when I announced that we were going to be doing this. i went He went, oh, what movie is it? And I was like, long shot. You've already seen it. And he was like, I have?
01:13:26
Speaker
And I was like, yes. You already watched it. And he goes, did I? And then I was like, yes, you watched it with Sean, my brother. And he went, I did? And then he was like, oh, yeah, I kind of remember this movie. And then i was like, you liked it. I remember you telling me you liked it.
01:13:43
Speaker
And he was like, and then we sit down for the movie. And he goes, you sure I watched it with Sean? i was like yes. My God. I walked in. i think I was coming home from work or something. And I walked in and you two were watching the ending.
01:13:57
Speaker
Jesus Christ. But that's a a long shot. That's long shot. Yeah. Next week, we're going to go in a very different direction because it is February.
01:14:10
Speaker
But um we we're like catching up with like the weeks. So it's not quite that. We're going to be a little bit past Valentine's Day because I was going to make us do Valentine's Day. But I'm not. sure and yeah It doesn't line up. So I'll save that for next year.
01:14:23
Speaker
um But ah February is a month that I, in my youth, would watch one movie every February with my friend Robert, friend of the pod, Robert Mizza Archer. And we would eat chocolate candy and we'd get one for eating and one for throwing and we'd throw it at the TV for funsies. So we will be indulging ourselves in that and we're going to watch The Notebook.
01:14:49
Speaker
Oh, God. All right.
01:14:53
Speaker
Alright, be prepared, everyone. This is not a rom-com. um But it's is tragedy. It's not really a tragedy. It's a tragedy.
01:15:05
Speaker
It's a drama, for sure. It sort of has a happy ending. Yes, it is... Very, very emotional. Emma's decided she wants to make me ugly cry. yeah so i Was this our Titanic? Would you have rather Titanic?
01:15:20
Speaker
No, I don't like Titanic very much. Hold on. I don't know if I've shown you this.
01:15:29
Speaker
Have I shown you this? No, you haven't. This is DVD box set of the notebook. Oh, shit. Fuck yes. Fuck It's got photos?
01:15:41
Speaker
Oh, shut up. You're going to have to do a show and tell when we record. Um, ah like, there's... Oh my god. It's like three pages of photos. This is like special edition. Oh, it's extremely special. Jesus. What else is in here? There's a bunch of shit. There's like lobby cards. There's stickers. Oh my god. It's insane. Postcards. I did not know you were such a notebook fan. It's a great movie. It's great movie.
Discussing Iconic Films: The Notebook vs. Titanic
01:16:16
Speaker
I'm very excited to do this with you. don't think we've ever talked about The Notebook before, so I'm very excited for us to share our- Have we not, really? Yeah. I also own it on DVD. We've never talked about The Notebook.
01:16:28
Speaker
I went on a rim, and I was like worried you were going to be like, absolutely not. ah Oh, God, no. No.
01:16:36
Speaker
It's not a monster, Emma. No, I know. You just hate Titanic. And La La Land. i i i I don't hate Titanic as much as La La Land. I don't like Titanic as much as everybody else. um I think there's some really dumb shit in Titanic. I think there's some parts of Titanic that work very well.
Podcast Outro and Closing Remarks
01:16:57
Speaker
um Shall we outro? Yeah, let's outro. All right. Thank you for listening to Go Get Your Girl. If you like us, tell your friends and please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
01:17:11
Speaker
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01:17:25
Speaker
You can follow me on social media at Emily and Pizza and only me. Until next time, we're just two girls standing in front of the internet. Asking it to love us. to love us Good night.
01:17:39
Speaker
Good night.
01:17:42
Speaker
We're both sneezy. Oh my god.
01:17:47
Speaker
ah