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People We Meet on Vacation
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Emma & Katie discuss the brand new Netflix adaptation of Emily Henry's beloved romcom book, disagree about saxophones, talk Tom Cavanaugh, the 80's and the Air Bud extended universe.Katie tries to remember the differences even though she read the book in 2021, so there's every possibility she's wrong about all of it, please don't @ her. See you on vacation!
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Introduction & Accents
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He did wear a gold chain, to be honest. Like, he really did. my God. Like, a reasonable one. Not like, you know. Not no a mafia in New Jersey. No, no, no. I'm from New Jersey, but I'm here in Tennessee.
00:00:13
Speaker
Watch out. My dad was a very soft-spoken Southern man who sometimes had an accent. Like, my mom has a big accent. Like, my mom talks like this. Um, my mom's voice is so high and so Southern.
00:00:29
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Like it's, it's impossible to, to replicate. Like it's so, it's so strange. Like no matter who is talking, like no matter how high your voice is naturally, when they impersonate my mom, like you have to go up an octave at least.
00:00:46
Speaker
Oh, I love that. My mom's a very strange person. Um, uh, But yes, mothers. who Yeah, there's a mom in this movie.
00:01:00
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There is a mom, but the other mom. You're right. Yeah, it's the whole thing. ah Totally topical. ah famously featured in today's film.
Podcast Introduction & Friendship Story
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Yeah. ah That's right, guys. This is Go Get Your Girl. This is the podcast where Emma and Katie um are just two bubbly, fantastic um personalities, ah and they're just living their best lives, and they carpool with a rando on their way to go back home from college ah to Ohio. Yeah. And things go awry. And then slowly through that experience, they become friends. And then they go on vacation trips every single year. And it all culminates to a head when we are at his ah brother's wedding. I guess like I could have gone to New York anger. We're conjoined twins in this one again? Okay. Exactly. We're conjuring the twins. um And ah we go ah we have a heart to heart about how our friendship fell out. And then we slowly realized, well, not slowly realized, actually very quickly realized that we are both in love with each other.
00:02:13
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um But we live in two different states. And ah our job is to go on vacation for a living and write about it. And we can't stay put in one place. And he just wants to stay put in one place. And ah yeah, that's right. I'm Emma.
00:02:28
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And I'm Katie. And today we are talking about 2026 what? Yeah!
Movie Discussion: 'People We Meet on Vacation'
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Rom-com People We Meet on Vacation, which came out two days ago. did.
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On Netflix. It is directed by Brett Haley. who directed Hearts Beat Loud. Did you see that movie? It was cute. With Nick Offerman and it's like a daughter and a dad make a band.
00:02:59
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I saw a trailer for it. Yeah. i was like, oh, that's cute. It was cute. A movie called All the Bright Places and Various Other Things. It is written, it is based on the Emily Henry novel, which I have read and you have not. I have not. okay And so I'm so curious to know differences from book to movie in this. Yeah.
00:03:18
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um it is The screenplay is by Yulin Kwong, I believe I'm saying that right, who wrote has ah credits on a Hallmark movie called Love on Iceland and a a CW series called i Ship It that didn't last very long.
00:03:38
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And she is she is currently writing the adaptation of Beach Read, another Emily Henry. Yeah. it's her It was her first adult novel. She has some YA stuff before that, but it was her first adult novel. And then also written a second screenplay. You know, it's like, it's her, the word and, and then this writing team. So by Amos Vernon and Nunzio Randazzo. ah Two boys who wrote Hotel Transylvania 4 and not much of. The one that Adam Sandler was not in. You mean Andy Sandberg?
00:04:14
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No, Andy Samberg's in it. Adam Sandler's not in Hotel Transylvania 4. Oh, didn't know it Adam Sandler was in it. Adam Sandler's Dracula. Yeah, he's the main character. ah Oh! I just knew Andy Samberg was in it. Andy Samberg is Selena Gomez's human husband. Yep. ah Who is like the fish out of water in the Hotel Transylvania series. Yes. Gotcha. Gotcha. I need to... I have i have seen three of the four Hotel Transylvania movies. They're pretty good.
00:04:40
Speaker
Gotcha. Oh, I meant to tell you while I had the flu, I thought of you constantly because um I was really into, sorry, this is a little detour from um us finally getting into the movie. Oh, that's fine. We never do that on this show, so that's fine. We never do that in this show. ah But i could I was watching cheesy Christmas movies while I had the flu because it was like light and nice and you could fall asleep and wake up and know exactly what was going on. um And also like old Christmas movies, you know, like Home Alone and Miracle on 34th Street. um And I constantly was like Christmas movies and like looking on Netflix and
00:05:21
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Santa Paws kept coming up. And I was like, Santa Paws. Because there was that one Halloween. What Santa Paws? There was that one Halloween or New Year's. You had a party once. And we watched the beginnings of one of. It's like, you know, those movies. Santa Buddies.
00:05:38
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Santa Buddies. Sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Santa Paws is a better name, honestly. Yeah. Santa Buddies. Because it's the that whole movie series with the little... um It's in the Air Bud extended universe. Yeah. Yes.
00:05:52
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Yes. And we watched...
Cheesy Christmas Movies & Tangents
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Which one did we watch? um I think it was Spooky Buddies, the Halloween one. Spooky Buddies. Yeah. Which was fantastic. I mean... nick watched is strong it was on at a halloween party at our apartment yeah yes yes yeah yes it was on in the background but i was just like oh do i watch santa buddies do i do i take the plunge and watch santa buddies and the buddies movies are sort of spinoffs from the greater airbud franchise because the airbud franchise is about a dog that plays various sports yes
00:06:26
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ands and the puppies And then there's a movie called Air Buddies, which is about Budd has a bunch of puppies. And in that one, the dogs talk. And then in the Buddies sequels, which are usually holiday themed, they are talking to each other. It's much less realistic than the yes ah the ah strident realism of Air Budd.
00:06:50
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Yes. The Cassavetes-esque Air Bud. Yes. I would like to say that it is very Stanislavski. It is. i They definitely utilize realism. I'd say probably that all the actors in Air Bud apply the method and are method actors. 1,000%, including Air Bud. They taught that dog how to play basketball. Themselves.
00:07:14
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Because I don't know the gender of Air Bud. Actually, I don't either. I haven't seen any of them. Right? Because, like, Air Bud has puppies... Well, you can, two can tango, but it's to assume. i think the dad technically also, the puppies are also his puppies.
00:07:31
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Well, yeah, but like, does the dad stick around and like, who's the mom? I don't know. I haven't seen it. Does mom walk out? The most I've seen is spooky buddies onto the background at that Halloween party.
00:07:46
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Well, every time I see one of those buddies movies, I think of you. Okay. Anyways, back this movie. So yes, this movie is, um yes, based on
Nonlinear Narrative & Character Discussion
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this book. I really love the book. It's probably my favorite of her books um that I've read, at least.
00:08:04
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it's So it is about um Poppy, a woman with the name Poppy. And she is a travel writer. And the book and the movie both are this... um The book more so than the movie is this nonlinear narrative where we are flashing back from the present where things with... What's his name?
00:08:32
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um Alex. Alex.
00:08:35
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Things with her best friend Alex have and soured because of their trip to... In the movie, it's Tuscany. In the book, it's Croatia. so Oh! Why did they change it, I wonder?
00:08:48
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Because they... ah Because where they shot it, which I assume Barcelona looks more like Tuscany than Croatia would be my guess. True. That's very true. um ah And and the the current wedding is in the movie in the movie set in Barcelona and in the book it's Palm Springs, California. Oh!
00:09:07
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Yeah. Um, so, ah yeah there's a, but there's a few other changes in, uh, in destinations and stuff, probably just because of where they filmed. Yeah. I mean, this movie was filmed in new Orleans and in Barcelona.
00:09:20
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Um, they didn't go anywhere else, which is reasonable. Like the yeah problem with, I mean, it was, it was strange when they announced that this was the first book they were turning into a movie, which is like, that is by far the most expensive one. Like beach read all takes place in two apartments. Why yeah would you not do that one first? Yeah.
00:09:38
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Because of all the beautiful sights and things that you can show. mean, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. um so they, she is a travel writer in the present and every other chapter in the book is flashing back to a previous summer with her relationship with this, this man. Yes. um And they sort of, they, they mostly do that in the movie too.
00:10:03
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um I want to say, and again, it's been a couple of years since I've read the book. I think that in the book, it's not completely linear. Like in this, we go back nine, eight, five, two years.
00:10:16
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there's There's more flashbacks, obviously, in the book. and But I also think that they're not completely in chronological order. I believe that's true. i don't I'm not 100% sure on that. Also, the the present narrative is also a bit out of order because the first scene in...
00:10:34
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the in the book is when it starts raining um at the uh and then they go back before that also in the in the book yeah oh okay um ah so yeah there's also a lot more about the present stuff in the book than in this they kind it's mostly um it's mostly flashbacks in the movie which is again reasonable it's a 350 page book they got to turn into a
00:11:04
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to our hour 50 minute movie like then the movie's like a little bit too long but we'll get there oh okay I didn't think that but that was my personal preference um also like it's i don't know it's hard it's so hard to to watch a movie when you're familiar with the book you know yeah it is really hard i think that that's where i benefited versus you because i'm curious to know what you thought of the movie like liked it a lot yeah oh you liked it a lot okay yeah yeah yeah because it's always it's always hard because i think it's always better to watch the movie and then read the book because
Books vs. Movie Adaptations
00:11:38
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that's the only way you'll really enjoy both things the most you know what mean Yeah. um Because when you read the book, you'll get more and a deeper understanding and everything. But that way you'll still appreciate the movie. um Because so few, so few of the time is a movie better than a book. And it's not none percent of the time. There are definitely movies that are better than the book they were based on.
00:11:59
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um But, you know, Lord the Rings, for example. um Come at me, nerds. It's like, huh. Don't know. Haven't read it.
00:12:11
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I was gifted it in middle school for my friend who was obsessed with it, but I never read it. Yeah. I read it in high school when the movies were coming out.
00:12:23
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um Yeah. And I didn't care for it. ah Come at me, nerds. Come at me, nerds. um So, yes.
00:12:34
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What's happening is they are somehow estranged. um His brother, David, is getting married. In Barcelona, and he is trying to convince Poppy to come to the wedding. And she's like, I don't think David and Sarah would want me to be there. And he's like, they broke up. And she's like, oh, interesting.
00:12:55
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Whoa. So, and then we just hard cut to nine years ago. And then we get there. Just straight out of when Harry met Sally. Yes.
00:13:07
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I was just like, this is exactly when Harry met Sally. This is adorable. It's when Harry met Sally, but like, she's more me than Sally will ever be. She's more both of us, Emma. I kept yeah going like, oh my God, she's just like, not just like me. She's just like us.
00:13:23
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She's just like us. I'd say like Poppy is ah our hypothetical brainchild. That is that is Poppy from people we meet on vacation because like constantly i was just like, oh, my God.
00:13:36
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yeah This is me. This is us. that she's a little She's a little much. Yep. And that's one of the reasons she says, oh she says later in the movie, she's like, I'm worried that if I ever stay in one place, people will realize that I'm too much. And I was like, oh my God, girl, I see you.
00:13:56
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yeah Yeah. I feel you. um Oh, see, yeah. See, the autocorrect takes over my notes sometimes. I mean, there's two problems. When I used to write notes on paper, it was, ah because I had to write so fast, it was hard to read my handwriting. And um now that I typed them in a notes app, the autocorrect really gets me sometimes.
00:14:18
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Like, this says, real hard met Sally, hot asshole. I'm like... He is a hot asshole. I think it autocorrected Harry to to hard. and I'm not sure. yep.
00:14:29
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yep But it's a real it's a real grumpy sunshine. sort of It is. if He's so hot. Did you know this man yeah previously? I didn't know mean either of them. No, they're both great. She's beautiful too, but like. Oh, yeah.
00:14:44
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Jesus. um I wrote he. Okay, this is going to sound strange, but he looks like a young Tom Cavanaugh. Okay. Do you know who Tom Cavanaugh is? Is that the guy from um the Superman TV show?
00:14:58
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No, that's Tom Welling. Tom Cavanaugh
Actor Comparisons & Casting Observations
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is ah he's a musical theater actor. He was the original, um no, Hunter Foster was the original ah Bobby and You're in Town. He was a replacement Bobby and You're in Town. Okay.
00:15:13
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um but he's also uh he was in the tv show ed in the 90s which i watched a lot deep that and it is a deep cut and then he's also on the flash tv show okay let me look up this man um is it kavanaugh with a c yeah kavanaugh with a you're not gonna think that's true he looks like him but i think he does no i can i can kind of see it i know this oh yeah this guy Yeah, yeah. He's in stuff.
00:15:40
Speaker
Yeah. It's something about his eyes and mouth. I really, I just couldn't get it out of my head. He looks like a, like a young, hot Tom Cavanaugh. Yeah, he's, oh, he was, that's how I know him. He's in a bunch of Hallmark movies. And the Mistletoe Murders.
00:15:56
Speaker
Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Yeah. And the Love Monkey. Oh, the Love, oh, no, no. Yeah, that was a TV show. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, and he was really big on Scrubs. He had like a very famous... Oh, yeah. He's um he's his brother. He's ah he's um Zach Braff's brother on Scrubs. Yeah, exactly.
00:16:15
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um They get... they're good So, yeah, they're in Boston, which in the book, it's Chicago. Yeah. Which makes sense. Well, here's the thing. Like, I mean, Chicago to wherever Linfield, Ohio is, is not very far.
00:16:28
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But Boston to Linfield, Ohio is a much longer trip. So I guess I think that makes sense. Yeah. So it is a they are carpooling across the country, just like when Harry met Sally, they're in college. Now when when Harry met Sally, they had graduated college and were moving to New York. This is, I believe they're like sophomores maybe.
00:16:50
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Yeah, they're still in school. Yeah, because I believe they're supposed to be like 30 in the main narrative. So they're like 20 or 21 in nine years previous. yeah um And ah they're driving across the country and meeting each other for the first time. It's like my friend set us up. He has a girlfriend. It's exactly like when Harry met Sally. It is exactly. And I love it.
00:17:15
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um And then the first conversation they get into is she starts playing. um Oh, what is that song? What's the song by Paula Abdul that um it's a Paula Abdul song with the big sax solo in it. They played a couple of times in this movie.
00:17:29
Speaker
And he starts bristling and she's like, you don't like this song. And he's like, i don't like saxophone. And he goes, name one song where that's made better with a saxophone in it. So I made a list, Emma. Oh,
Saxophones in Music: Enhancing or Not?
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okay.
00:17:41
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And she goes, she says, i can name hundreds of songs that are better with a saxophone. And i'm like, and that is exactly like literally what I said out loud to the screen while I'm watching this. ah So yeah, Born to Run, The House That Heaven Built, Run Away With Me, ah Don't Start Now, ah Midnight City, Careless Whisperer, Moondance, Maneater, Edge of Glory, I Had the Time of My Life, ah Simply the Best, Blinding Lights, that's just off the top of my head. Okay, okay, okay.
00:18:12
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I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little bit on his side. Saxophone's not my favorite. No. It's not my favorite. It's not my favorite. But I'm not gonna say, I'm not gonna say that song isn't a bop. that Any of those songs that I just listed? All of those songs are bops. I know.
00:18:26
Speaker
i i just, I don't know if I can honestly say that they were made better by the addition of a saxophone. Insane. Insane take to take. The craziest thing you've ever said on this podcast. That is just me. That is just me. And that is also, let's not forget, Katie loves the 80s. Emma hates the 80s. Hates the 80s is strong. Like, I was listening. I've been re-listening to some of our older episodes the past ah couple weeks and so. And, like, you love The Wedding Singer. Like, we talk about the 80s aesthetic and the music and The Wedding Singer.
00:19:01
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that can't be a cake. Yeah, but like... Camp 90s take. Camp is part of it, though. I mean, that's why... It's not like I'm into, like, Ronald Reagan and stuff. It is... Camp is part of why I like this. The synthesizers and the the colors and all that kind of stuff. Like, that's what I'm into. That is But yeah, I i feel like every time I hear a saxophone, it makes me think of, like, you know,
00:19:29
Speaker
misty Fake New York alleyways, bad perfume ads, lipstick on teeth. what about orange to What about Born to Run? What about Run Away With Me? So you're telling me like the the that that opening of Run Away With Me by Curly Rae Jepsen would be better if it wasn't a saxophone?
00:19:50
Speaker
Is that a saxophone? That is a saxophone at the beginning of Run Away With Me. I put that on my workout mix and I listened to it too much, so now I'm kind of sick of that song. Well, that's not its fault.
00:20:02
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Yes.
00:20:05
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That's probably my favorite Carly Rae Jepsen song. I love that song very much. Maybe it's like sax that I don't like. Well, that's extremely sax in Run Away With Me. I mean, it's it's ah it's a live instrument, but it's it's definitely it's you know it's run through a um a filter of of some kind for sure. Okay.
00:20:22
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I don't know. I don't know. I'm neither here nor there. Okay. Okay. Neither here nor there. I didn't expect this pushback on saxophone. I know. I apologize. I apologize. I just sort of sprung it on you. Yeah.
Cultural Norms: Awkward Handholding Story
00:20:35
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um He also says he doesn't like holding hands, ah which is crazy.
00:20:40
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Rude. Yeah. um What an asshole. Yep. Charlie doesn't like holding hands. Charlie doesn't like holding hands? No.
00:20:50
Speaker
Why? He's British. They don't hold hands in England. I mean, they do. And we've had this conversation so many times and we've had them with his friends in England. And I think it stems from when we were first dating and we tried holding hands once. And I think we thought too hard about it. And we were both like, this is weird.
00:21:09
Speaker
I don't like this is weird. What? i don't know. We tried holding hands like while walking and, you know, like holding hands while walking. Yeah. like Like literally everyone does all the time.
00:21:23
Speaker
And we were like, this is this this is weird. And then like years later, I was like, oh, look at how cute your our friends are that are holding hands. Why don't we hold hands? And he was like, it's weird.
00:21:34
Speaker
And then we tried it again. And I think we thought too hard about it. And it I think we overthought it. How do you overthink holding hands? I'm just genuinely curious now. OK. Like we can like hold hands while like sitting. i think it's walking holding hands.
00:21:49
Speaker
Interesting. Interesting. i wonder if it's an arm link thing. Maybe. we both have very long arms. Maybe you don't match up arm-wise. We also... we have both have very long arms and we both have very long legs. And i wonder if it's like... Because I don't know. I don't know. i i like holding hands. Yeah. um And I think that Charlie just...
00:22:12
Speaker
he's an old british man and um he just any form of affection it i'm excited to hear the text to see the text messages he's gonna send me about this episode yeah he's gonna be so angry i'll hold hands all the time what are you talking about uh yeah no um he likes to he likes to big spoon little spoon sure but he doesn't like holding hands yeah oh well Yeah. my My husband is affectionate, guys. Just not in public.
00:22:43
Speaker
Fair enough. um and So yeah, they ah she finds her wishing well. um They're at a gas station. She sees a wishing well, so she locks the keys in the car to go find the wishing well. Okay. In her defense, in her defense. Why would he not have the keys?
00:22:58
Speaker
Why would he not have the keys? He goes to go get coffee from the gas station. They're at the gas station. And he asks if she wants anything. She goes, no, I'm good. And she's like waiting in the car. he So he leaves. She sees the wishing well. And so she gets out of the car. She locks it like a responsible person. yeah he has left the keys in the car. Technically, it is his fault.
00:23:19
Speaker
Yes. Yes. he Why would he leave the keys in the car? And secondly, what kind of car does lets you lock the keys inside now? Like, my car is from 2012, and I can't lock the keys inside my car. Oh, i well, ah I mean, I've done it. i did it, like, five years ago. with And it let your car lets you do that?
00:23:39
Speaker
because the i think it's because they it was a Hyundai Sonata, and We think it's because the battery on the keys were low. Oh, okay. and so Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I used to do this thing where, because i I'm a bag lady, and I have a bunch bags. And so like I'll go and I'll open the passenger side door to put all my bags in.
00:24:03
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And I'll put the bags in, i'll close the door, and then I'll go around to the to the driver's side. ah And I keep my keys in my purse. yeah And I accidentally touched the handle where you lock it yeah as I'm going to grab the handle.
00:24:19
Speaker
And it locked the door and I locked the keys in the car. And we learned a valuable lesson that day, which was you should always have two sets of keys. um Yeah, for sure. Yeah. um I try to keep my keys in my jacket um for that for that reason, among others, instead of in my, I mean, it's a problem in the summer, obviously. yeah But in, um yeah, generally try to keep my keys out of my purse. Also, because I feel like it scratches things in there, but neither here nor there.
00:24:47
Speaker
love them in the That's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. um But yeah, so they lock the keys in the car, so they get stranded at the gas station for a long time until AAA comes. There's another just like me situation where she's like, what if the guy from AAA got locked his keys inside the truck? who Who would he call? And then I immediately say to the screen, quadruple A. And then she says, quadruple A. Quadruple like, just like me Just like me.
00:25:11
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i love it um So they go to like this shitty motel. Where there's only one bed, of course. um Well, there is two rooms, but the guy at the counter goes, hey, Stan, did they ever figure out the stain in 108? And they go, we'll just take 106.
00:25:33
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So, you know, he sleeps on the floor and then they start to bond where um he finally starts opening up to her because he's like done with her shit as soon as she gets there. yeah yeah He's real grumpy.
00:25:46
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Yeah. And um he, so he tells her about how his mom died and he was raised by his grandmother. And this is one of the things from the book that I think is missing the most.
Family Dynamics in Book vs. Movie
00:25:58
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um There's a lot more with his family and yeah her relationship with his family in the book and and his relationship with her family too.
00:26:06
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yeah And there's ah and and again, it's been years since I've read it, so I can't quite remember, but I feel like there's, Because her family in this movie is only in one scene and they're kind of just a joke.
00:26:19
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Yeah. I feel like. They got really great actors to be her family. i was My guess is they maybe shot more and cut it. Yeah. Yeah. um So in the in the book, she has this like really close relationship with his grandmother who raised him.
00:26:37
Speaker
And the ring that he has, i think it's his mom it's either his mom's ring or his grandma's ring or both. I don't remember. But there's a whole thing about him having it. um I tried to look up like the synopsis of the book, but it's not on Wikipedia. I mean, there's ah only like ah like a very short synopsis on the yeah the Wikipedia for the book. And it's like I'm going to re reread the book for this episode. yeah Sorry, y'all. That's a lot.
00:27:03
Speaker
But so from what I remember, there's more, i think, drama with her family in the book. And there's more kind of a reason why she hates Linfield in the book than is is stated in the movie.
00:27:18
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um Because in this, ah she says that, you know, when she was in middle school, she played Seven Minutes in Heaven with this guy. And the next day he told everyone at school that she blew him.
00:27:29
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Yeah. And so. called her poor and poppy. Yeah. um For all of high school, basically. Yeah. And um so they're from the same town, but they went to different high schools, so they didn't know each other. Yeah. And and he loves Linfield and she hates it. Yeah. And I feel like her in the book, and I could be wrong about this, but I feel like her like bonding with his family and specifically his grandmother is more of like something that ties her back to her town in the book. But I might be conflating that with another book. I'm not a hundred percent sure. Yeah. I also feel, go ahead. Oh, I was going to say, i I did have an issue with like the ending. So I'm curious to know if they changed the ending. Cause they do make a big deal about Limfield, Ohio and they make Limfield, Ohio sort of like this big sort of thing, almost its own character.
00:28:27
Speaker
you know like new york city um just like new york city i don't know why i said that southern um and so like my i had issue with the fact that they don't i mean spoiler alerts for the ending but they don't ultimately end up staying in linfield ohio Well, it's because it sucks. ah Well, yeah. It's a bad place.
00:28:49
Speaker
But he really loves it. He has this beautiful house. He has a job there. She's a writer. She can write from anywhere. Well, there's, again, there's more to this in the book also. yeah doesn't want to be a high school teacher in the book. Okay.
00:29:03
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Oh, he's high school teacher. He's a high school teacher. um But he he... abandons grad school and decides to go and teach high school in Linfield to be with Sarah in the book. And i they they do mention, they mentioned that in the movie too.
00:29:16
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um But it is, he kind of abandons his, his dream of, I want to say he wants, I don't remember his, his like deal in the, um in the book.
00:29:30
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And like now I, so this, I can't remember. A lot of her books alternate POVs between the boy and the girl. I don't think this one does. I think this one is her POV only, but I could also be wrong about that. Again, it's been like four years since I read the book, maybe more. okay um so there's things i remember and there a lot of romance books guys i don't think you guys understand how many romance books the two of us read yeah yeah it is very easy to for them all to blend together sometimes they blur because they some of them are kind of similar i don't know you would exp expect that they they are there's a lot of similarities in genre
00:30:12
Speaker
I mean, Emily Henry is is very is a very good writer. Emily Henry is definitely maybe the best yeah of of this genre, um I would say, ah for from in my opinion. I mean, she's definitely um probably the most popular of that um of that there of that kind of micro genre, of the of the rom-com. like yeah In terms of like people who are writing romance right now, I think it's really Emily. It's Sarah J. Moss and and her. And Sarah J. Moss writes fantasy, so is a little bit of a different genre. And I think outsells Emily Henry also. But, like, in the non-fantasy, like, romance, I think it's her. And Colleen Hoover writes, like, tragedies. So, again, she's a different author genre as well. But the three of them, I think, are the top. yeah
00:31:02
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I would... Beg to to argue that. Like, there's also Abby Jimenez. um She doesn't publish in hardback. and neither does allie And neither does Allie Hazelwood.
00:31:15
Speaker
Oh. Like, they write a lot and they're very popular, but they publish paperback. And they're, I mean, I'm i'm sure they hit paperback bestsellers lists, but yeah Emily Henry and Sarah J. Moss and Colleen Hoover all hard back and get hardback. yeah Even Tessa Bailey?
Authors & Publishing Formats
00:31:32
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oh tessa bailey's exclusively paperback yeah i i don't know if she's ever had a hardcover yeah she also writes like like two books a year yeah yeah at least it's maybe three yeah yeah and a lot of them are i mean i'm surprised that she those sex scenes get more and more creative um but i mean i think she's really great um um less so it happened one summer more so the sequel to it happened one summer which is about the sister is really good which is hook line and sinker we've had this conversation that i i don't like her yeah i've i've tried a couple of her books and can't get into her yeah yeah i remember really like her i think that she's really good i've definitely cried while listening because i i always listen to the audiobooks on some of these yeah um and like i've cried listening to some of her books Yeah. Some of that might be the performance too, though, you know.
00:32:29
Speaker
That's true. That's very true. um Where were we? Uh... ah Uh... They were... They're on their field trip. Oh, no. They're... Oh, yeah. No, no. That's the end. That's the end of that story. Of that flashback. Yeah.
00:32:43
Speaker
Oh, and when she goes, she goes, thank you for being the first person I'd overtold that story didnt to not ask if I did it. Yeah. And then they're like, let's be friends. I'm like, okay. Yeah! um So back in the present, she is at her magazine job. She works for a magazine called r and r And also there's a lot more in the book about how she gets this job and how she keeps this job and all that kind of stuff. Her boss is a bigger character in the book.
00:33:08
Speaker
Her boss is played by Jamila Jamil. Yep. Love to see her working. Who in the movie just... unequivocally loves her no not no real character to her whatsoever nope she's just she really loves her and it's she's her favorite employee and we don't need to question it yeah so in the in the book there's this whole thing about her trying to like trick the magazine into letting her go to palm springs and like having to come up with what she's writing about and in every flashback there's more kind of talk about because she she starts a blog and then the blog gets her the job at the magazine
00:33:46
Speaker
Or it's a web it's a website and ah and maybe a magazine, but I think mostly it's a website. Gotcha. Again, it's a rom-com. You have to work for magazine. It's required by law. it's Exactly. We need to have these tropes. um And ah so she in the movie, she's like, I'm going to go to Barcelona for this wedding. And Jamila Jamila's like, okay, I trust you.
00:34:06
Speaker
Yeah, she's like, okay, you better you know write some really good articles about going to Destination Wedding in Barcelona. Okay, bye. Mm-hmm. And then there's another real Katie core moment where she goes to the airport and she's playing Robin's hang with me, uh, in her headphones, which even the song choice, like yeah if there was i like, I have on multiple occasions been embarrassed to find myself singing along with something that only I can hear in public, but Robin's hang with me is like the perfect choice for Katie Coleman. Um,
00:34:40
Speaker
And she's so she's at the airport in Barcelona getting her baggage singing along to hang with me in her headphones and embarrasses herself by realizing that she's singing out loud. Yep.
00:34:51
Speaker
Yep. And things are now weird between her and Alex. um But yeah. And I mean, like, it is also a very Emma moment in that ah she turns it into a musical moment of ah amazingness because her bag comes out first and that never happens. That never happens. Yeah. Right.
00:35:12
Speaker
Right. um Fantastic. Then we pretty much immediately cut back to him meeting her parents yeah played by Alan Rook and Molly Shannon. Yes. Two fantastic, famous actors. Yeah. Great choice. Yeah.
00:35:27
Speaker
And they're going camping. Oh, yeah. So in the in the first flashback, they she asked, like, where would you want to go if you could be anywhere? Yeah. and before say Linfield, Ohio is his first choice. But after that, he lands on Canada. And she's like, yeah, that's boring. But whatever.
00:35:44
Speaker
Yeah. He says Linfield, Ohio, Boston, and Canada. And she goes, okay, i said the place the three places you want to go are the place we're going, the place we're coming from, and the ne the more polite version of America. Yeah. um And so, yeah, so they decide they're going camping ah in canada Canada as their first trip.
00:36:08
Speaker
which is i believe i believe their first trip in the book is santorini or or it's greece in general maybe i could be getting this wrong but the whole situation with buck and the people in the tents and all that all that happens somewhere in europe i think greece okay i think it's greece in the book yeah do they go camping in santorini Um, no, it's like a house, uh, that he has and she does, but she loses her virginity in a tent, um, in the, in the book, which they don't really do in the, she doesn't even sleep with him in the, in the movie. No. Yeah.
00:36:46
Speaker
Cause he's got tattoo about death and she just can't stop thinking about her grandfather's open gas funeral, which I mean, that's relatable. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and again, i could be, I could be getting that wrong, but I'm, um, I'm fairly certain that is, uh,
00:37:02
Speaker
That's, that's, I'm remembering that correctly. Um, because I also don't think it's the first, it might not be the first trip. i don't know. It doesn't matter. Yeah. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. The main thing is that they go camping in Canada and there's another amazing Emma moment where he has this itinerary and he's like, okay, we're going to do all this. And she goes, well, that's just, then we're just going to the same trip as everybody else on this bus. So, you know, let's do some different things. And they go to this art fair.
00:37:29
Speaker
um and, uh, she sees the most amazing statue. Yeah. um of a sasquatch and uh it speaks to her and she goes oh boy have it and uh he he's like how are we gonna get it back how are we gonna get it home and she's like we'll figure it out out when when art speaks to you you will find a way and he's like okay well i'm not carrying that cut too he's carrying it for most of the rest of the trip which is uh it is very emma and coded It is an extremely ugly giant yeah wooden statue of Bigfoot, I think is the idea. With a cartoon face. It's kind of like, do you remember when that woman ruined that old Renaissance painting? Yeah. Yeah. Like basically drew a smiley face on this like woman. It kind of looks like that in statue of Bigfoot form. Yeah. Yes.
Quirky Art & Spontaneity
00:38:23
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It's great. I love it so much. I want one.
00:38:27
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Not away in hell. I need it.
00:38:32
Speaker
ah This is the way that she's not me. I am on, I do love a a schedule. um yeah So, yes, they have a whole bit about their parents trying to give them the condoms.
00:38:46
Speaker
Oh, so good. ah Because, like, he he has never flown before, so he's really nervous. So he goes to her parents' house, and um he's sitting with her dad, and her dad just assumes that they're going to be sleeping together. And um so they start having, you know, classic comedy conversation where um He's like, are you nervous? He's like, how can you tell? And he's like, first time? And he's just like, yes. And they're talking about one thing. And his dad's talking, her dad's talking about, um you know, having sex for the first time. And he's talking about flying for the first time. yeah And then... um
00:39:25
Speaker
It is the button is put on so beautifully and that she she comes in because her mom has tried to give her this box of 500 condoms. And ah she's like, no, we're not going to sleep together. And so she she comes into the tail end of this conversation where there he's just like, no, oh, no, Poppy and i were not. We're just friends. And he she throws the box of condoms at him and goes, hey, do you have room for these 500 condoms in your carry for all the sex we're going to be having?
00:39:56
Speaker
Her dad just kind of looks at him. Yeah. um Yes. great So yeah, so they meet this guy, Buck, um ah played by ah the guy from ah White Lotus, just just like his girlfriend is also from White Lotus.
00:40:12
Speaker
Yeah. Lotus. And um they are... ah He's giving them a tour, and... and He invites them to like come hang out with him and his friends in a bunch of tents in the middle of the woods.
00:40:29
Speaker
Yeah. Which is like, not in a million years would I do that. Not in one million years. ah If I was in my 20s, I'd do it. That's what's a way to get murdered. That's such a good way to get murdered.
00:40:40
Speaker
Yeah, I know that now. I know that now. 21, 22 year old Emma did not He was there in the park today. That is possible. It is possible that I was stupider when I was 20, 21, but i don't. Everyone's stupid.
00:40:53
Speaker
I don't remember ah making decisions like that. I didn't have the opportunity, really, probably. Yeah. Well, I just was like, where's the party? Yeah. So um he goes skinny dipping um with some people and leaves his clothes way too close to the water. Way too close to the water. He's trying to be vacation Alex, which is this thing that she kind of like goes through a couple of times in the movie where it's like on vacation, you can be a different person. You can be the person that you want to be instead of the person that everybody sees you as.
00:41:27
Speaker
Yeah. Which is like linked to her, like, you know, childhood bullying and stuff. um And she's trying to explain that to him. And he's like, I would never do that. And she goes, yeah, but maybe vacation Alex would. Yeah. But his clothes get washed away and he has to interrupt her sexy times with Buck. Yep.
00:41:43
Speaker
to borrow a romper from her to cover himself, which is very cute. It's so cute. And then she just like leaves sexy time because it's just not working out. And they go and they just fall asleep and they have really nice bonding time, um which is fantastic. and Where she tells him that she's going to drop out of college and move to New York and work on her blog and try to intern at a magazine. And she's like, would we still be friends? And he is like, every summer...
00:42:12
Speaker
We will go on a vacation together no matter what. We will always be friends. Yes. And it's so clear that they love each other. Yeah. It's so clear. But he's got his girlfriend. He's got Sarah. Yeah. Well, not no, not at this. They keep breaking up. That's the thing. Oh, yeah. That's that's true. Most of the of the vacations that they take,
00:42:33
Speaker
they happen to be broken up, at least at the beginning. And then, and then she's with somebody and then he's back with Sarah and then, you know, he's broken up, but she's dating another person. That's how the kind of thing happens. And that's how, that's how things happen in your life sometimes. Like you have a crush on somebody, but you're, but you're, you know, one of them is with somebody and then that person breaks up, but you're dating somebody like that's happened. Yeah. Yeah. and That's life.
00:42:55
Speaker
Yeah. Um, yes. I think that I have another critique here about the music. There's so many good songs on the soundtrack to this movie, but I feel like they really missed an opportunity by using the songs to anchor us into a time period.
00:43:13
Speaker
I didn't notice that. Songs of the last 10 years or so, I think would have been really fun to like yeah play the song when you do the flashback to the year, right? That would have been really good, yeah. I mean, I think what they want to do, they're not showing specific years because they want the movie to be timeless because it's on Netflix. Yeah.
00:43:31
Speaker
Yeah. um ah Instead of doing, you know, 2026, flashing back to 2017, flashing back to 2019, all of that, they're doing like eight summers ago, seven summers ago, which is what the book does too. But I think, um I think putting the songs in there, having the songs tie itself to the, the, the year would have been, would have been fun, but that's just a me thing. That's not really yeah criticism. That's just a Katie thing. Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:01
Speaker
So Kings of Convenience, deep pull, Kings of Convenience. Man, who remembers that band? Not me. So we flash, we're back in the present, and this is this is all very different from the, but all of the present stuff is is a lot more different from the from the book.
00:44:18
Speaker
Gotcha. Gotcha. The main thing is that it's very hot. The hotel is under construction. So in the book, they're on they're together. yeah not Not together like in a relationship, but they're like, we're going to do this as our trip this year, even though we haven't spoken in two years. Okay, agreed. like In the book, it's a little different. like They're in that hotel room without the air conditioner together in the in the book.
00:44:44
Speaker
And the hotel's under construction, and so everything is like... um covered in plastic. The balcony is is blocked off and everything. And the air conditioner doesn't really work. And you have to... So in the book, what happens? They're like, you have to go do it one degree at a time and wait an hour. Do it another degree and wait an hour. Or you'll blow out out the air conditioner because it's just so hot.
00:45:06
Speaker
It's such a bad air conditioner. In the book, it's Palm Springs. you know It's one of the hottest places. but Yeah, it's like 110 You know, in Palm Springs. I don't think Barcelona is quite that hot because it's on the coast, right? It's pretty it's pretty hot as someone who who lived in Barcelona. i can tell Lived in Barcelona? Yeah, I lived in Barcelona for three months.
00:45:26
Speaker
Oh, okay, yeah. Yeah. I've mentioned that before, haven't I? I think I mentioned you i say i knew that you'd been there, but i didn't know that you lived there for three months. Yeah, I lived there for three months. um It's pretty hot.
00:45:37
Speaker
ah However, you know, I was there in January, February, March. Yeah. Sure, sure, yeah. it says zerotime daytime highs July to August are 81 degrees Fahrenheit to 88 degrees Fahrenheit. That's not that hot. That's British, but like European heat?
00:45:55
Speaker
Yes. It hits different, where there's like no ac anywhere. Sure, yeah, for sure. It hits different, man. But it's not Palm Springs hot. No, no, no, no. yeah But like i I thought everyone was being a baby when I was looking at the heat and yeah in London when I was there in June.
00:46:14
Speaker
And then I experienced it. And the the sun just hits you different. There's something about Europe, man. It's hot. um Summer temperatures in Palm Springs are the high 90s to about 108 degrees. With the record being 124, frequently- fucking Christ. Frequently reaching 115 or higher in the summer.
00:46:35
Speaker
That's so fucking hot. That's so hot. that's I mean, that's got to be why she picked it yeah ah yeah for the book. Yeah, yeah exactly. Also, there was like a trend of like weddings in Palm Springs for a while. Oh, it's very big, especially gay weddings, which is what this is. um ah And yeah yeah, Palm Springs is like a gay mecca, yeah.
00:46:53
Speaker
Also, it's a lot easier to get your whole family to Palm Springs than Barcelona. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. yeah So, um yeah, they're in bar Barcelona, um which they did film in.
00:47:07
Speaker
um Yeah. The two filming locations are New Orleans and Barcelona. And they so a lot of places double. um I'm pretty sure the Tuscany stuff is shot in Spain and definitely all of the other stuff is shot in. Yeah, when they go to his grandmother's supposed at Ohio house, I'm like, Yeah. That is the most Southern looking street I've ever seen in my life. Like the, the i the Spanish moss and like the sidewalks broken all by the roots and everything. It's like the most New Orleans looking. yeah. oh yeah That is not an Ohio house. No, it is not.
00:47:41
Speaker
And um so, yeah, so it's, it's very hot. They're doing the, the wedding. um, he is um
00:47:52
Speaker
blah blah blah oh no that's it that's all that's all for that and then go back to New Orleans um and the New Orleans one is the New Orleans one is so cute it's they it is the most fun yeah yeah they pretend they they hear over here are a couple getting free beignets for their honeymoon so they pretend to be on their honeymoon and it gets yeah real flirty um real flirty real fast and they get a bunch of free shit because it's their honeymoon which is really cute she gets this great wig uh Like, did you get a bunch of free shit on your honeymoon?
00:48:24
Speaker
No. Neither did i Right? i mean, we didn't really, like, advertise that it was our honeymoon and we went to Canada. But, ah yeah but like, still.
00:48:36
Speaker
We went to Greece and I feel like i feel like we got, like, champagne on the ats on the on the on the boat. like we were on a cruise. Okay. um But I feel like that's pretty much it. Like also, yeah, it's not like we were going around telling everybody we on our honeymoon.
00:48:53
Speaker
Versus they they are actively being like, we just got married. Yeah, they're trying to get free shit. Yeah. yeah um that She gets this blue wig that she looks amazing in. Right. like and She already had a fantastic outfit. Yeah. It's this like seventy s like American apparel, like skin tight dress.
00:49:15
Speaker
Not like jegging sort of situation. High waisted, like almost like, I'm not sure what material those pants are, but yeah, it's hard Lycra. Yeah. Yeah. i got the other probably Lycra. Yeah. Yeah. um they're blue um it is yeah it's very 2010s um it's but she looks great yeah oh she looks fantastic and she's got the high platform heels yeah um and yeah she gets this amazing blue wig and they're at they're at a bar and he she like goes to order gin and tonic and he goes no no two sassaracs please because yeah
00:49:50
Speaker
We are going on theme here. And they they had met the couple that got the free panniers and the a' and they keep they run into them again at the bar. And she comes up with their fake personas where he is in the CIA. And he says, well, she works on an oil rig. And um and she goes, well, we met when he was undercover as a like a male dancer. He's an amazing
Vacation Personas vs. Real Selves
00:50:15
Speaker
dancer. He choreographed our wedding dance. And the couple's like, well, I'd love to see it. And she goes, bartender, give me your auxiliary cord.
00:50:22
Speaker
Which is a crazy thing to do. Right? yes Absolutely insane. She has no idea if he can pull this off or not. um Right? But, and she plays the Paula Abdul song, which again, I can't think of the name of, but it's the Paula Abdul song with the saxophone in it.
00:50:40
Speaker
And he obviously surprises her by being able to dance. Yes. um yeah It's very cute. And it's very horny. Yes. Yes.
00:50:51
Speaker
But, um... Is it when they're in Canada, is that the scene where she goes, wait a second, you're ripped? Yeah, yeah, when he's naked. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. He's extremely Extremely ripped. extreme But he he also, part of his personality is that he goes for a run every morning, and she hates running.
00:51:09
Speaker
Because that's important later. Yeah, she says she's never run. yeah He's like, what do you mean you've never run? She goes, almost failed PE. Yeah. Um... So in this, in New Orleans, she has a boyfriend, but he's broken up with Sarah. And then they are drunk and coming back from that bar where she's talking about how she doesn't really like Julian that much. Yeah. And how he kind of, he kind of sucks. He's a chef. yeah And then he surprises them by showing up in New Orleans. Yeah. um And then, so he kind of like horns in on their, on their vacation.
00:51:42
Speaker
Yeah. Which is sad. And then the next one is, again, a much bigger part of the book where they're supposed to go to Norway, but she gets really sick and has to cancel. She tries to get him to go with someone else, but he and Sarah have broken up again.
00:51:59
Speaker
And ah he surprises her by coming he surprises her by coming to New York and taking care of her while she's sick. And that's like... but There's a lot more of that in the book. First moment that I cried because they, before they like flash back to that, they go, um i cause she offers him the bed in the hotel room versus, and she'll take the couch and she's like, it's payment payback for Norway. And he goes, oh Norway. That was my favorite of the trips. And she goes, mine too. And you think that it's going to be, you know, this one like similar sort of like flashback to where they're in Norway and they're having a fantastic time. But really they're both of their favorites was him taking care of her when she had like the flu. And I was just like, I just wept. I openly wept because that it just, it was so beautiful and fabulous. And he just, yeah. yeah
00:52:52
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It's very sweet. um ah Then there's the rehearsal dinner and we meet his family and how much she, how close she is with his brother. I also feel like there's more in the book with his brother. I feel like his brother coming out to their dad is a scene in the book, but I,
00:53:07
Speaker
Again, it could be making that up in my head. Gotcha. um They mentioned how things went bad in Tuscany, and then we go to Tuscany, which where everything went bad. yeah Yeah, where shit hits the fan. which is What happened in Tuscany, Emma? it's Well, it's obviously filmed in Barcelona. um uh this is the first one where they both bring their they're both with someone and they both bring their partners and so um it starts with um alex and uh pulling up in the car to this amazing villa that apparently the
00:53:40
Speaker
magazine is paying for and just fronting the bill and um it's the first time that sarah is meeting poppy and you can already tell sarah doesn't like poppy for her relationship to alex you can ten sell sense that there's some tension there um and uh and poppy has her i forget the name of her weird ass travel writer boyfriend trey Sorry, Trey. He's a photographer. Yeah, he has a bigger part in the book as well. yeah And he sucks.
00:54:13
Speaker
He sucks. He sucks. We don't like Trey. um And so they are, it's just like very awkward because they both have their respective partners there and it's just sort of like feels very forced um and they're having dinner and trey is talking about how they're nomads and um you know they are just sort of like they can't be in one place and you can alex is just sort of like why the best part of these trips is going home you know one of the best parts is like going home from the trips like you know going home
00:54:48
Speaker
And, um, and then there she's in the pool, she gets sick, she goes, she throws up and then you're like, oh fuck, she's pregnant. And she, instead of calling, asking Trey to take her to the pharmacy to get a pregnancy test, she asks Alex and, um, because she doesn't want to tell Trey and they go and presumably she pees on the side of the road.
00:55:12
Speaker
or yeah and in the street uh and they wait and they find out and it's negative which is great and so she's really emotional and ah ah feeling a lot of feelings and like crying and he's like comforting her and she kisses him and then she immediately takes it back and they don't quite they don't quite kiss right I think that that they just get really close to kissing No, she kisses him. She kisses his face. He just doesn't kiss her back.
00:55:39
Speaker
So it looks weird. yeah um And she immediately takes it back and she apologizes and says that she didn't mean it. And I think that's where his face falls. And that's where he's like what am I to you yeah you know what am I am I just a vacation like what am I to you and she's she says you're my best friend um which is true but like oh god heartbreaking and so like she says i don't want to ruin it too she says you're my best friend and I don't want to ruin it yeah yeah
00:56:13
Speaker
And then it is the next morning and she wakes up and goes out and Trey's on the balcony and he goes, come look at this. And he is walking back with Sarah and he had proposed to Sarah um that very next morning. And it's just really heartbreaking. And he gave his his grandma's ring to to Sarah. Yeah.
00:56:36
Speaker
um Because he wasn't planning on proposing He just carries this ring everywhere he goes In the book Which they yeah which isn't like made clear in movie No not at all um yeah so you It sort of alluded that like Maybe he thought about proposing But like he just he has the ring And he's waiting for the right moment yeah um Which is what he says um And she she comes down. i she's It's just the two of them sitting out front of this villa in Tuscany. And she's like, i'm really happy for you.
00:57:08
Speaker
And um they have this falling out because, you know, she's just like, she sort of belittles his life and he belittles her. And then he's finally like, I think this is this is our last trip.
00:57:23
Speaker
Yeah, well, and he tells her that she said she's he's not going to get his PhD. He's going move back to Linfield and teach high school with Sarah, which is what she does in the book, um which is what Sarah does in the book. In this, she seems to work for her family or something. and' Yeah, yeah. it's not But he tells her he's prioritizing his relationship over his future plans. And she tells him that he's settling. And she said he says, like, you always run away from everything.
00:57:45
Speaker
yeah um And then we come back to, he said, I think this is our last trip together. And go back to Barcelona and it starts to rain finally. Yeah. um And they're coming back from the rehearsal dinner and it's so hot. And she's like, I have to get out of this. And she goes on to the balcony. She gets a knife or scissors and she cuts open the plastic and goes out onto the balcony and the pouring rain. And he goes out with her and they make out.
00:58:13
Speaker
Yeah. Because, well, he, because she goes, I just want things to go back to the way that they were before Tascan. And goes, don't. Oh, that's right. Yes. And then she runs away from the rehearsal dinner and he follows her. That's what happens. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, he's like, I, and that's when he admits that he loves her and she admits that he loves him and they make out and then they do it. And she's like, why did you break up with Sarah? Tell me it wasn't because of me. And he says, of course it was because of you. And then they make out in the rain hardcore.
00:58:41
Speaker
Yeah, and then they do it. and And then they wake up in the morning and then they do it again. And then they're getting ready for the wedding and instead of, and very sexually, slutty. I imagine this is the slutty part of the book. ah And ah she goes, can you clip me, clip my dress? And instead he unzips her dress and then they do it again. Well, he whispers in her ear, no, which is super hot. Super hot.
00:59:07
Speaker
So horny. So horny. Yeah. um This is where we get the fuck word. When she says, when she's standing in the rain, he says, i don't want to be your fucking friend, Poppy. Yeah.
00:59:19
Speaker
I want you, but you don't know what you want. You never have. Yeah. um I said sexy and very wet. Yeah. And I'm talking.
00:59:30
Speaker
In ways than one. I'm talking about, there they've been in the rain and then they go into ba in the bathroom and they're both very wet. Yeah. the rain. Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:40
Speaker
Uh-huh. Uh-huh. That porcelain dress is never going to dry the same. No. um And now there's 30 minutes left of the movie, which is what I think is kind of an issue. Okay.
00:59:55
Speaker
And part of it is because of the time, the way the time works in this movie. We have the third act breakup thing, like, at the very beginning of the movie. Yeah. And it's all so they're they're in this this third act kind of not speaking to each other thing throughout most of the movie. So when they get together at the beginning of the third act, it's like this false kind of resolution where then they have to break up again, which I just think is It's done easier in a book because the structure kind of allows for it. But in the movie, it just kind of makes it seem like it's longer than it is. This movie is like a little under two hours, but I feel like it seems longer.
01:00:36
Speaker
Oh, okay. I didn't get that at all. um i I, rightfully so, was, like, falling to the next point of, like, well, realistically, they live in two different states, so, like, what the fuck's happen now?
Sustainability of Vacation Relationships
01:00:49
Speaker
Like, what the fuck's gonna happen now? And then they resolve it, you know? they They have that same conversation that was, like, happening in my brain of, like, well, this is all nice and fun and dandy, and I'm glad that they're together, but, like,
01:01:00
Speaker
what's going to happen when the wedding is over. over and she They're still on vacation. And what's going to happen when they're not on va when they're not vacation Alex and vacation Poppy. Exactly. Which is kind of the theme of the movie. Yeah.
01:01:11
Speaker
Yeah, which is, you know, where my brain was going. And they have, he starts to have that conversation at his brother's wedding. She's like, why can't we just like enjoy this? Why can't we just like have this moment? And he's like, well, but because this is real, you know, this is life. And I want to have this conversation. And she runs away from it. And we cut to...
01:01:30
Speaker
um her back in New York and he goes back to Ohio she's at the airport and she runs into Sarah his ex-girlfriend who is now a flight attendant which is like ye Someone who was like, I want to stay home in my hometown and never leave. And now she's constantly traveling because she's a flight attendant.
01:01:51
Speaker
Yes. Well, I think it's a beautiful sort of um like flip flop of what happens in that, that she is a home buddy to start out with and then becomes, gets that wanderlust and sort of becomes like a nomad in the words of Trey. Right. Yeah. Maybe, maybe she ends up with Trey. Who knows? Yeah. Who knows? And Poppy,
01:02:13
Speaker
like starts off wanting to like, can't stay still and can't stay in one place and ends up becoming a home buddy, you know? Like, I think it's a really nice sort of like b flip flop thing. I really liked this movie. Yeah. Um, the, um, she, she runs into Sarah and she's like, I just want to apologize to you. I, um, I was careless. Uh, and you know, it wasn't good, uh, to you. And I want to say, I'm sorry. And she's like,
01:02:42
Speaker
You know, the whole time you were to that we were together, i want I thought that you being away would be would solve all our problems. But then you were gone and things only got worse with him. Yeah.
01:02:53
Speaker
Yeah. So you weren't the problem. It was the relationship. Well, mean, she kind of was. She kind was. Because, you know, her being away is what made Alex so miserable and why, like, he couldn't be happy with Sarah, right? Yeah.
01:03:10
Speaker
um ah And then, yeah, then she starts writing. And there's a lot more of her writing in the book and, like, what she's writing about and kind of... um And then so she writes a a fancy resignation letter and decides to resign from her job. Because, again, she gets home and she's like, I'm never here. There's yeah a rotten lime and hot sauce in the refrigerator. And, like, I don't have... She doesn't have a home.
01:03:34
Speaker
She doesn't home. And then she goes to... Quotation marks Linfield, Ohio. um yeah Well, she has that beautiful moment with Jamila Jamil at where she goes. Oh, right. Yeah. i She goes, where does the girl that's been everywhere um want to go next? And she goes, have you ever heard of Linfield, Ohio? And Jamila Jamil says something like, um like, is it trending? Like, should I go there? And it like.
01:04:06
Speaker
She goes to Linfield, Ohio, which is why i was like, why don't they just stay in Linfield, Ohio? Because it sucks. Nobody wants to live in Ohio. Are you kidding? know nobody wants to live in Ohio.
01:04:17
Speaker
Apologies to our Ohio listeners. Yeah. Apologies.
Alex's Decisions & Future Plans
01:04:20
Speaker
But like, I feel, i felt like they made it such a like character. I guess I sort of like didn't put two and two together about how Alex, I didn't get the gist that he didn't want to be there.
01:04:33
Speaker
I got more. It's not necessarily that he doesn't want to be there, but with, especially like there, there is more to that, that I'm probably not going to remember, but like him taking over his grandma's house, I think is difficult for him.
01:04:47
Speaker
okay um and there's a whole thing like he what he wants to do is go back to grad school um and that so that's what he does in the um uh in the in the net in the next summer flash forward they do but she gets to his house and is knocking but he's going jogging and can't hear her because he's got his airpods in um And so he's running and she's like, well, fuck, I'm gonna have to run. So the airport scene is her running after him on a run, but she can't run.
01:05:19
Speaker
yeah And she's screaming Alex. And there was a moment where I was just like, oh my God, did he just like run around the block? And she just went on his run with him by accident screaming after him. But no, we don't end up. I thought it would have been really funny if we ended up back at the house. Back at the house. Yeah.
01:05:35
Speaker
because that would have Because she's just like so hating running that she doesn't realize what's happening. um But instead, ah she almost gives up. ah But there is a um ah a stoplight. A crosswalk. And he stops. And this was one of Charlie's Corner. Charlie's Corner. Charlie's Corner. Charlie's Corner.
01:06:00
Speaker
right governor ah Where Charlie goes, oh, is he going to do that annoying running thing where he runs in place? And I went, I do that annoying running. What do you mean annoying running got to keep your heart rate up.
01:06:12
Speaker
That's exactly what I said. Yeah. He also had issues in the airport scene. i will say his other Charlie's Corner was that he counted the amount of bags that she had. Mm-hmm.
01:06:27
Speaker
and said she's got two purses and a carry-on, and she's waiting for her checked luggage, that's one too many bags. She would not be let on the plane with that many bags. You're only allowed to you get You get a carry-on and a personal item and a purse, I believe.
01:06:47
Speaker
No, it's just, it's a personal item, which can be a purse. Your personal item has to be a purse? No, it can be a purse. Well, that's what I mean. Your purse has to be a personal item is what I meant. Yeah. Yeah. um You get a personal item and a carry-on. So it's two. And so what I do a lot of the time is I'll either bring the purse inside the personal item. Maybe that's what she did and she just pulled the purse out of the the other bag once she was out off the plane.
01:07:13
Speaker
Which is probably what happened, but I'm not going to let Charlie stop grumbling about someone breaking the rules.
01:07:23
Speaker
um But yeah, so he he's running in place and like waiting for the light to change and she finally catches up to him. um And ah she she says that you're my home and I want to be anywhere that you are.
Poppy's Realization & Emotional Resolution
01:07:41
Speaker
Yeah.
01:07:42
Speaker
And then they kiss. When I'm sad or sick, you're all I want. whenever you're Wherever you are in the world, that's where I belong. You're not vacation. To me, you're home. And I remember, well, those are that nice?
01:07:53
Speaker
It's so nice. um and then they make out and then we cut to a year later they're back in new york he's teaching at sarah lawrence um they have a dot send yeah um and then they're like you know cooking together and stuff and then we cut forward to them on vacation again and they're in beach chairs which is the cover of the book they recreate the cover of the book for the last yeah scene which is cute which is really cute it's really cute And then the um the colors in the in the credits are from the book, too. which is Yeah. I noticed that, too.
01:08:26
Speaker
Really cute. Really such a good movie. i This and um the Anne Hathaway one, like, give us more romance books to movies because they are- think they're gonna. They're fan-fucking-tastic. Yeah, yeah. I, um, yeah, i think I think it's happening. I think especially Anyone But You, which, again, we didn't like, but was very successful, I think really, like, let... Well, I thought we liked it.
01:08:52
Speaker
Anyone But You with Sidney Sweeney and Glenn Powell? Oh, no no, no. Sorry. I thought we were just talking about the Anne Hathaway The Idea of You, very similarly named. Yes. The Idea of You is the Anne Hathaway one, which we do like. Yes. Yes. Anyone But You, we hated. Yes, because that was Anyone But You is bad. Yes. But...
01:09:11
Speaker
It made a ton of money, which is all that matters. And um I think that it is encouraging people to make more rom-coms, hopefully for the theater. Yeah, exactly. Put them in movie theaters.
01:09:23
Speaker
Yeah. ah We love to see it. We love to see it. We had this as a nice little um double feature last night. um We started with this and then I made Charlie watch Sinners and he enjoyed that.
01:09:34
Speaker
Oh, he hadn't seen Sinners? No, he'd never seen Sinners. Oh, yeah. um And ah yeah. Very different from this movie. Very different from this movie. Yeah. It was, there was no rhyme or reason. Yeah. But I had to yell at him to put his phone down right when, um what's his name was- Come Charlie. Right? And it was right at the moment that what's his name started playing the or Sammy starts playing the jazz. And you have the really cool- The best song scene in the movie. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. I was like, Charlie, this is the best scene in the fucking movie. Put your phone down.
01:10:06
Speaker
yes Yeah. Yeah. No phones allowed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. um um So that was this movie. What are we doing? That was this movie. Yeah. Well, we we lied to you last week where we said we were going to French Kiss before we did this movie. And then we realized that um French Kiss is not streaming. You can't even buy it. Like nowhere. You can't get it
Movie Speculations & Revelations
01:10:28
Speaker
anywhere. they don't want you to watch that movie anyway.
01:10:32
Speaker
Yeah. And I wonder if there's something in it that I'm forgetting about. I know. I don't think so. It's based on a play. Is it? I didn't know that. Yeah. I used to do a monolith from French kiss.
01:10:44
Speaker
Oh, there you go. Um, and
Movie Selection & Rachel McAdams Chat
01:10:48
Speaker
yeah. So what are we doing next week, Katie? Um, cause it's my choice, right? I believe so. I was going to say, did you want this to be your pick or?
01:10:58
Speaker
I think we decided this was a nobody pick, right? This is nobody was a, this was just, this is an um an emergency. Yeah. Yeah. number um ah here we go okay so we are going to watch um uh morning glory morning glory out with rachel mcadams yeah funm fun fun fun so i was like why do we why do i feel like i just watched a movie with rachel mcadams because we did eurovision
01:11:29
Speaker
Oh, do we did just watch Eurovision with Rachel Brown. Oh, well, it's fine. love it. Yeah, no, it's great. Amazing.
Podcast Outro & Acknowledgments
01:11:34
Speaker
Shall we outro? Let's outro. Amazing.
01:11:41
Speaker
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01:11:54
Speaker
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01:12:08
Speaker
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01:12:21
Speaker
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