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The Big Sick
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Emma & Katie discuss the 2017 romcom/dramedy The Big Sick, plan a trip to (1930s) Hollywood, and tell husbands everywhere to please put down the switch.
Also, listen as Emma says the word "comic" repeatedly to try to segue into the episode, and Katie changes the subject over and over.
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Marvelous Monday and Life's Exhaustion
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We are on this marvelous Monday. i know. um What was that?
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Speaker
That's my big stretch sound. That sounded like a cartoon baby being woken up.
00:00:24
Speaker
ASMR for you guys. I loved that so much. Oh my gosh. How are you, kitty?
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don't even love money i just have to have it in order to survive that's the thing like i like things that's the thing for for a socialist i am overly fond of things but that's uh that's my own problem Yeah, and the unfortunate thing is things cost money, and you have to do a job to get money. Yeah.
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It's just a never-ending circle. I'm, like, so tired. I'm... ah Oh, no, it's totally fine. Today was supposed to be my one day off, but I ended up having to do, like, a training, and I had to go in to Yukon. Oh, it's fine.
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And so then I took a nap, and you know, like, when you take a nap, and, like, you nap...
Movies, Podcasts, and Hollywood Dreams
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A little too, oh, right by Salviato as i say that. You nap a little too hard and then your body realizes how tired it is because you've been running around for two weeks.
00:01:34
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For 35 years. 35 years. And your body hurts and you're tired. And yeah, that's me.
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Anyways, Marvelous Monday. So great, ah great, great amount of energy coming into this episode from both of us, I'm sure. Yeah. But you know what? That's okay. Because, you know, of all movies, I guess.
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I mean, so sleeping features heavily in this movie, sure. Sleeping does feature heavily. Exactly. Did I wish that I could sleep as much as um Zoe Kazan in this movie?
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Yes. yeah Yeah. ah But not maybe not in a medically induced coma. Anyways. Yeah. Like she had to learn how to like walk and and walk and stuff again afterward. Like you don't want to do that. That's not good. No, that's not good. No, no. It's not ideal.
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no um but that's right guys you guessed it this is go get your girl starting real early time to uh the intro ever maybe i know my mom's gonna be so happy her main thing is just like why did you never get to the movies well you don't want to hear about our lives donna come on right our lives are so exciting don't want to hear us go on tangents about the oscars from 1937 come on Right. Today was the second of our dual crossover episode was released.
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Not to like. That's true. Date ourselves. Super excited. It was super fun. Thank you again to Horrorwood for indulging us. And. You should listen to their podcast.
00:03:17
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Yeah. I think about Carol Lombard's insane ah cosmetic surgery since we did that episode. Probably like once every three days. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, horrific. We can't talk about this here. you have to listen to the Horwood episode you have to hear about that. Yeah, you have to listen to the Horwood episode to learn about that. And then you two will be' be thinking about that for at least once every three days.
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And be like, woof.
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Hollywood, man. that's More like Hollyweird, am I right? hey. Oh, hey. well
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Uh, what was, what was the sign originally? it was Hollywoodville, Hollywood town, Hollywood land, Hollywood land. That's what it was. It was a, um, it was like a suburb. It was like a subdivision, like a housing development. And they just kept the sign because it became iconic.
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Yeah. Whatever happened to the land? I think it like, it, Fell off. I mean, the whole sign was like pretty fucked up until like the 50s when they did like a big renovation of it. And they this the land had been gone for so long at that point that it had they decided not to to rebuild it. But it was in pretty bad repair for for a number of ah years. Yeah.
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Yeah. Now it's iconic. um I mean, think of all the action movies you've seen like helicopters go past Hollywood. That's true. um ah Yeah.
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I've never been to Los Angeles. Have you been to Los Angeles? No, I also have never been to Los Angeles. I have lots of friends that live there, but but and I keep meaning to go out there, but um I have never been. I've always wanted to go.
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yeah Yeah. I have never wanted to go, and I have all never been. I think part of me really wishes, ah the part of me that really wants to go, it's partially to like see my friends that do live there.
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And it's also partially because I, what I and am envisioning this trip to be is part time machine. Yeah. Uh huh.
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It will take me back to like the 30s and 40s Hollywood. Yeah. And I'll step out and it will be your Hollywood. but i kind of want to do like a Lucy and Ethel in Hollywood kind of thing, you know? Yeah.
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Maybe we should go together. oh my God, we should do it. Should we dress up like them in black
Beauty Standards and Generational Humor
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and white though? Should we do like the gray paint? Absolutely, we should. That doesn't sound both expensive and annoying. Yeah.
00:05:46
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and up In a very hot climate. Los Angeles heat is the best place for full body ah makeup. Yeah. I had a friend that was going to, she did her makeup design um for this play and it was, she was doing it like ever, like, you know, those cartoon characters, like you're like walked out of a cartoon and so like you're all like pixelated.
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um and it was really cool, but it just like took too much time for all the actors to do it. Like a, like a, like a comic strip you mean? Like a Lichtenstein kind of thing? Yeah. Like a Lichtenstein. Yeah.
00:06:19
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And it was just, I mean, it would have been cool, but that takes a lot work. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Comics. just I only wear eyeliner and concealer and that takes enough time for me. Thank you.
00:06:37
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I love makeup, but I don't want to do like a full face makeup thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a lot. But I'm like a BB cream sometimes, but I've been out on BB cream for weeks and I haven't been wearing it.
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Well, that's okay. That's why millennials are the hottest generation. ah Yeah. Is that why? Because we wear sunscreen? Because we wear sunscreen and because we like don't wear any makeup and we don't put fillers in our face.
00:07:05
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That's true. I haven't I don't have any fillers in my face. Yeah. I have put no injection. I have not injected a damn thing into my face. I have thought about getting lip injections, though. Like, i kind of want lip injections. Oh, I absolutely have thought about it.
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um I'm not saying that at one point or another I haven't wanted one. ah Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I have always held off because I'm just like, if I can't justify spending the money for laser hair removal, like, how am I going to justify the money for a lip injections?
00:07:32
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I want to get my legs lasered. Like, I'm so bad at shaving my legs. I thought all of you was lasered. Months. No. I thought you were like dolphin from the neck down. No, no, no, no. It's just dolphin mode is the, it's the, it's the powder. It's the epilatory cream that we a unsolicited ad for.
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Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I just, I don't know why I thought that you were completely lasered. Like every character. I've had my like lip and chin lasered, but not any other part of me. Yeah.
00:08:04
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I want, yeah, I want, and that's what I want is I want all of me lasered from the neck down. Um, it hurts. Yeah. Well, you know what, Katie? Beauty knows no pain.
00:08:17
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Well, I don't think that's how that goes.
00:08:22
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I think pretty hurts is what you're looking for.
00:08:26
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but nothing tastes as good as skinny feels no that's not what i said that is absolutely not what i said
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no but it's like another toxic quote no yeah i know i agree yeah yeah yeah in the same vein like if there was like a box of toxic quotes uh to pull from they'd all be in the same box A boxic.
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A boxic. Boxic quotes, yeah. Boxic quotes. um That with live, laugh, love. Exactly.
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um But yeah, so comics. Did somebody ever give you a picture frame that says live, laugh, love on it? Like for your or anything? No, but I did have a coaster that said dance like nobody's watching.
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Of course. Yeah. We definitely had a picture frame at one point that said live, laugh, love, but we got rid of it. Yes.
00:09:22
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Charlie sent me a TikTok the other day that was like um ah insults that this teacher's students were giving her as a millennial teacher. And one of them was you live, laugh, loved too high to hide the sun. Yeah.
00:09:39
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Yeah. And I love that. Yeah. I love it. Anyways, live, laugh, love famously featured. All three things that happen in this movie. Yeah.
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I mean, They do. Really, it should be called, that that should be the tagline of the movie, is live, laugh, love. Well, ah maybe not. Not if they want to come see it. Live, laugh, love.
00:10:03
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Yeah, that's true. um But you guessed it, guys. This is Go Get Your Girl. This is the podcast where Emma and Katie have a rare immune condition, but don't realize it.
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So they're living their lives in Chicago. woo. Chi town. um And they start dating this really quirky, cute um Pakistani comedian only to discover that his family doesn't know about them.
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and so And he has been set up on several blind dates for um arranged marriage. And that hurts them. So they break up with them. But then, plot twist, we get sick and have to go to the hospital.
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And then we have to go into a medically induced coma. And our parents come. And turns out, throughout the entire time that we were in a coma, our ex-boyfriend was becoming best friends with our parents. And that's kind of cute.
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um And it's because pretty he loves us. Uh, yeah, that's right, guys. ah This is Go Get Your Girl, and I'm Emma.
Exploring 'The Big Sick': Romance and Cultural Clashes
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And I'm Katie. We will make the plot of any movie polyamorous.
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Yes, we will. Always and forever. right. Charlie is sending me threatening text messages. He just sent me a text message that says, I can see you. Oh.
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Ah!
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Sorry, I have to show you this.
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Oh, God. didn't realize that was a person.
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hi Charlie. my God. That's terrifying. Jesus. says That's what everyone is afraid of is a strange man outside their door.
00:11:48
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yeah just lurking. there's producer Thomas. You can let producer Thomas in
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Come on, producer Thomas. Come on. Good boy. So yes, today we are talking about The Big Sick, um the 2017 romantic comedy drama directed by Michael Showalter, who this is the second movie by Michael Showalter we have watched. He directed The Idea of You. is.
00:12:19
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He also directed Spoiler Alert, which is a much sadder version of of of a similar story. And The Lovebirds, which also stars Kumail Nanjiani and is not as good as this.
00:12:31
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And a movie called The Baxter, which we've made reference to a lot, but we haven't. I've never seen, actually. Neither seen it. thought you have. And you said that we're to it on this podcast. I may have said that I've seen it, but I don't think that I have.
00:12:43
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I think that I've just, I just referenced it because I know what it what it what it's about. But in retrospect, I don't think I've actually seen it. Maybe I watched it in college. I don't remember. Well, you know, sometimes you do things while you're watching a movie and you can't really count it as having seen the movie. You know what i mean?
00:13:00
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Oh, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Yeah. You're talking about knitting. That's right. Yes. I know. Actually, but same thing. Oh yeah. I get really into my embroidery and cross stitch and knitting as well. Um, so I get it girl.
00:13:15
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Yeah. um This movie is written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, who are the real life couple that this movie is based on. It is very much based on a true story. um Yep.
00:13:28
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There are, I'm sure you'll probably get into it with some Emma's fun facts, the differences between the real life and what happened in this movie, but it is largely based on something that really happened to them. um and god they didn't get divorced or anything in the past year did they no no no they're still together they're still together like god like super hard um in fact the first of emma's fun facts emma's fun facts um it was re-released um on their 10th wedding anniversary hu well no it it came out originally on the 10th wedding anniversary because it says they got married in 2007 oh
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The film was released on their 10th wedding anniversary. Okay, JK. There we go. Ignore that. That is not an Emma's fun fact. That is not an Emma's fun fact.
00:14:13
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Um, yes. So, i man yeah, do they have kids? No, they've got cats. That's, that's, yeah.
00:14:24
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I follow Emily on social media. She's pretty great. Come on our podcast, Emily. You're funny and fabulous. Yeah, they have they have a several podcasts together, or at least they have at one point. i don't know if they still do all of them, but um yes. So, um and ah they don't really have a lot of other credits. They they kind of they co-created a um ah sort of like docu drama. Like it's not, like they have actors that that take, that, that,
00:14:53
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they've acted it's not a documentary they have actors that reenact these short little true stories that people uh send in to this magazine i what it was called it's little america was the name of the show they did a couple seasons of that together um but those are their only credits they have apparently some other things in the works but um they haven't done anything uh written anything uh together since q mail has a couple of other credits on some things a lot of comedy stuff but um yeah and uh It is about Kumail Nanjiani playing himself yeah as a stand-up slash Uber driver in Chicago, which, yeah I mean, we must we know that that must be something that wasn't
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That didn't actually happen because ah they got married in 2007 and Uber didn't exist before 2007. So yeah, I was living in Chicago when Uber became a thing because I remember too late. 2012, 2013, probably. Yeah.
00:15:54
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I was going to class at Second City and one of my classmates was like, I just took an Uber here. And I was like, an uber what is that and he was like it's like as cab but like you pay for it with your phone and like it's just somebody's car it's just somebody's car and i was just like that sounds expensive and he was like it's actually cheaper than a cab it's an app where you get a stranger to come pick you up and now we all just do that all the time yeah that's now what we do
00:16:26
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Would have seemed crazy 10 years ago. That and like Airbnb. 15, guess. Of like house. Yeah, you just go and stay in a stranger's house. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the thing that it's really taught us is that we don't need to be afraid of everybody.
00:16:39
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Exactly. yeah Unless, of course, you do need to be afraid of them. Sometimes you get a barbarian situation, you know? Yeah. was gonna say katie not every uber driver in airbnb is built the same well of course not and of course there are lots of horror stories about it but i'm just saying like i think that you know if you had told you know us when we were in high school that one day you're gonna use your phone to connect with just a rando and stay in their apartment or get in their car we would have thought that was crazy yeah now been like that's insane
00:17:13
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Yeah. And as so as an optimist, I try to point out that, I mean, to be to be fair, it really is. Because most some people are obviously out to get you. But most people aren't. Yeah. Most people are not.
00:17:24
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Most people are kind and just want to have my have friends. And make money. Yeah. And make money. um Yeah. so ah he is doing stand-up.
00:17:38
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And... um yeah We meet Bo Burnham and Aidy Bryant and Kurt Braunohler, who I don't recognize, there. But he looks like every Chicago comic I've ever seen in my entire life.
00:17:49
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Yeah, yeah. David Alan Greer is the is the guy who works at the comedy club. He's always doing coke in the bathroom. Yeah. Yep, yep, yep. um One of the first lines in this movie is fuck's a funny word. It's soft on the top and hard on the ending. And like, absolutely. Yeah, it's true.
00:18:07
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Fuck. ah Yeah, it's good. It's a good word. It's very evocative. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. um take Take that, mom. um
00:18:18
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And he is, he's doing stand-up and he's, they're excited because there's a guy from the Montreal Comedy Festival and the Montreal Comedy Arts Festival is a very big deal in the world of comedy and it's how, it's how so many comedians get their, get their break is by getting selected to go to, mont just for laughs is what it's actually called. They're calling it just the Montreal Festival in this movie.
00:18:38
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for I'm sure copyright reasons. It's like this side of the Atlantic's um Edinburgh fringe almost, but like just the comedy section. but said But no playwrights allowed. Yeah, exactly. No playwrights and that and no like devised work. Just the comic bit.
00:18:54
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Yeah, no weird theater shit at at Just for Laughs. yeah Yeah, we don't like that even though it's in Montreal in Canada. Yeah. um he is starting to do his stand up and a random white girl whoops for pakistan for him yep yep um which he finds her to the show and tells her that she's heckling and she's like it's not heckling if it's positive he's like yes it is anything is heckling yeah um and so he takes her home to his air mattress and his pathetic horrible apartment which is like
00:19:27
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accurate like you don't see that a lot in uh i guess you do for comedy purposes but like it's a fairly accurate apartment which is yeah you know and especially like for chicago like charlie walked ah so we'll get into the whole charlie's corner when i get to charlie's corner because he didn't actually watch this movie but he was walking in and out as i was watching it and he was has he seen it before though nope we'll get we'll get to it ah But you've seen this movie before.
00:19:53
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Oh, yeah. I've seen this movie. Yeah, yeah, Actually, let's just get into it. This is Charlie's Corner. Charlie's Corner. Charlie's Corner. i govna! um So, Charlie has never seen this movie before.
00:20:09
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I've seen it, and I thought Charlie would love it. If, for anything, the dozens of times that Kumail brings up Cricket... Uh, and, um, but Charlie's always just like, oh I'm not in the mood to watch this. oh I'm not ready. Oh no, let's watch something else.
00:20:27
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So literally it's been, this came out in like 2015, 2017. It's been almost 10 years of me telling him that he needs to watch this movie because I watched it when it first came out. Um, scheduling became a thing and he wasn't able to watch it with me.
00:20:41
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So, Instead, Charlie gave me his Charlie's Corner before he I went down to rewatch this movie. And he um picks up the phone. He looks at the poster.
00:20:55
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And he goes, oh, well, I can tell you that it is a comedy. It takes place place after 9-11, to which I went, Charles, it takes place in Chicago. And he goes, oh, why don't we watch this?
00:21:07
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no oh my and And he says... um He thinks he would have liked it, but he hasn't seen it. um Yeah, I think There is a bit of cricket talk in it, for sure. There's quite a bit of cricket talk. and you More than I i would like.
00:21:22
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yeah Exactly, more than I would like. um But he, ah at one point, when he was giving me his choice corner, before I'd even rewatched the film, um he said a few infuriating things, which, listeners, get your pitchforks ready. He said, i can tell you without a doubt, without even seeing it,
00:21:41
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It's probably better than The Princess Bride and Moonstruck, but not better than The Deep Boy Bride. Absolutely insane. the The hate for Moonstruck is new. I didn't realize that he also hated the cinematic masterpiece of Moonstruck. He did not like Moonstruck.
00:21:58
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Which leads me to believe that he's just trying to hurt me personally. um
00:22:06
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Which that's there. That's fair. um But that was a long-winded way of me saying he walked down at one point and he goes, that is the most Chicago apartment I've ever seen in my entire life. Yeah.
00:22:16
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Yeah. It looks real. Yeah. I mean, they did live in Chicago. So, and they shot this in Chicago, I believe. nope So IMDb lied then. IMDb did lie.
00:22:28
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I did a deep dive. There's, um, there's, uh, um,
00:22:34
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there's There's footage of Chicago when he's driving, so that's all. There is. There's some exteriors, ah some footage of Chicago, but the majority it was filmed in New York. In New York, not LA?
00:22:45
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Nope, in New York. Interesting. ah And um it's lame. It's stupid. They could have filmed it in Chicago. i can also guarantee you that that fact is true because around that time, I was indeed a receptionist in my twenty s so I lived here in 2016, 2017 of Chicago. I would have known.
00:23:06
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I would have known. I followed many, many Twitter accounts of like, who's filming in Chicago. Well, that I knew what was happening. the The thing, um ah the play that the one man show at the end, that's in Chicago, because he's they're really there, right? Or is it at the playground?
00:23:23
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No, they just say playground. Because that's where his actual one man show was. Man show was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, was at the Playground Theater, which is a real theater, or was a real theater in Chicago. I don't think it's around anymore.
00:23:35
Speaker
The Playground is gone? Is it? I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. Um, lots of stuff closed. Yeah, COVID a bitch. Yeah, it's there. It's still there.
00:23:49
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Oh, it is? Oh, good.
00:23:52
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Oh, that's good.
00:23:55
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Um, yeah. So this movie. yes He, uh, yeah. And so he meets, her name is Emily. She's a grad student at U Chicago for psychology. And, um, they meet cute, uh, and, uh, sleep together immediately, which you know that Emma and I love.
00:24:17
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I love it. ah love it. they and And, bonus, they do it while watching, well, not watching. They do it to the sounds of the OG Night of the Living Dead.
00:24:30
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. it. Which, again, we appreciate on this podcast. Yep. um She's like, okay, well, this was fun, but I can't see you again. I'm going to call an Uber. And she calls an Uber, and he gets it. It's him.
00:24:41
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Which is wild. So cute. Yeah. And ah so he drives her home and they have this thing where he's like, I don't, I can't see people for more than two days in a row. And it's, it's very cute, but it's also like, he's, well, I mean, there's a reason why, because he's got this whole thing with his family. So, um yeah and she's like, yeah, I'm too busy with school. I'm not looking to meet anybody, but then they just keep seeing each other because they've, they've met somebody special and they don't, they're not ready to admit it yet.
00:25:12
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Yeah, and their relationship grows and grows and they get closer and closer, even though they both didn't really go into it wanting like a relationship. Yeah. um Which is problematic because of what happens with, you know, Kumail and his family.
00:25:28
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Yeah. So wait, is it Kumail? I've always said Kumail because it's spelled that way. But I think like some people in this movie call him Kumail and some people say Kumail, I think.
00:25:39
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How does his dad say it Well, I think they always call him Kuma. How do you pronounce? here's Here's him saying his own name.
00:25:51
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Here we go.
00:25:57
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He's saying Kumail. Kumail? Yeah, Kumail. It's more like Kumail. Kumail. It's not Kumal. It's between Kumail and it's like Kumail.
00:26:09
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Kumail. Kumail. Yeah. Okay, cool. Come out. We're doing our best. Yeah, we're doing our best. There's a lot also a lot in this movie that we can't can't really, as two white women, can't really speak Much like Saving Face. you Yeah, much like Saving Face, there's a lot of sort of like cultural...
00:26:30
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um and religious on this and religious responsibility and um identity that is sort of like played around with that neither katie nor myself can talk about in in any sort of personal way because we're two white ladies that's true that's true and um you know in general i'm against it but you know i guess you're white lady No. ah Well, ah um against against like cultural and like against your parents choosing your your your spouse.
00:27:07
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and Yeah. but like yeah, yeah, Not having grown up in that culture and not having the weight of all of that on on you, it's easy to say that. But, you know, objectively, I think that people should not, I think people should choose their own ah e spouses. Yeah.
00:27:23
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yeah you should marry for love not for you know yeah to please your parents but again i cannot speak i was not raised i was raised that i could marry anyone that i want so exactly yeah who am i to say um anyone
00:27:45
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uh within reason yeah within reason Like, you know do you think, I mean, I know your mom listens to this podcast, so this might be, maybe we should cut this out. But like, ah do you do you think that if you had like brought a girl home that your parents would have been cool with it?
00:28:02
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Yeah. I mean, my dad would have been weird about it at first, but then he would have come around eventually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah and Yeah, fair enough. Yeah. I think that I like to think the best in the both of them.
00:28:14
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um But yeah, I think I think my dad would have been a little weird about it. I think my mom would have probably said something in front of the woman about how she's a woman and how we're lesbians. But I think that I think they would have come around. It would have been cool.
00:28:25
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But ah but yeah, I think that their line for me was probably don't bring home Ted Bundy. Yeah. Well, that should be a line for anybody. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, my first boyfriend was an emo guy with hair as long as mine and eyeliner.
00:28:40
Speaker
Yeah. Wow. More skinny jeans. And they were normal about it? mean, they didn't. They weren't mean to him. Okay, good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:28:55
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Um, uh, so yeah, he has, he goes to have lunch with his family or dinner. It's like, it's light outside during this first scene. So I guess maybe it's just the summer, but it is dinner.
00:29:06
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It doesn't, it can depend on the season. Yeah. um But it's cold. They're wearing coats. It doesn't matter. Don't get wrapped around the axle, Katie. Yep. um I think this is just a production thing.
00:29:18
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yeah Don't think about it. yeah yeah Yep. Yep. Yep. So they're having dinner and he has dinner. It seems like once a week at least at his parents' house in the suburbs. And say his but the mom is always like, oh, the for doorbell rings. His mom is like, oh, I wonder who that could be.
00:29:32
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And it's a Pakistani woman. Yep. single Pakistani lady. I bet it's a single Pakistani woman who just happened to be in the neighborhood, just happened to be driving by our cul-de-sac. Yep.
00:29:43
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And they're trying to to set him up. Now, we should also point out that obviously they were a lot younger than they are in this movie. Yes. Because these these are both actors in their thirty s And when it actually happened, I think there must have been in their early twenty s Yeah, because in the they show pictures of them as a couple and like at their wedding at the end, and they look like babies.
00:30:09
Speaker
Well, he was born 1978. when they got married in 2007, he would have been 31, and she would have been 30. Yeah. So they probably met when they were like in their early to mid-20s. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I did that math wrong. 29 and 28. Yeah, so they would have met when they were in their early to mid-20s. Yeah, yeah.
00:30:32
Speaker
but um But he's playing. It doesn't necessarily. And it's also like, you know, not the early 2000s. So yeah there's there' they're fudging a few things. Yeah. They don't want you to get wound around the axle on all the details.
00:30:44
Speaker
Which is what we do on this podcast, though, Emma. know, but here's the thing. They really established where they were at at the beginning. true. That's true. oh I had no qualms. It's just stock footage of driving through Chicago. First shots. You're like, hell yeah. Yeah.
00:31:00
Speaker
Yep. And parts of New York look kind of like Chicago enough to where you could make it pass. That's true. That's you can go out in Queens or something. Yeah, exactly. So, ah yes. And he is he goes down to the basement to pretend to pray um because he doesn't he doesn't pray um as a as a Muslim ah should ah five times a day.
00:31:22
Speaker
um And all of these women are bringing a headshot and a card with them, which is not, I did not know anything before I saw this movie. I did not know that was a thing for sure. um and he's got this cigar box of all of these Pakistani women. He's got binders of women at his, in his apartment in a cigar box.
00:31:40
Speaker
Yep. Um, uh, And then there's another date with Emily and he's showing her the abominable Dr. Fibes. And yeah it's just, it's just such a relatable, like, you don't, I mean, I guess maybe it's been in more movies since, but it's just something that like happens in every relationship where like you show each other your favorite shit, you know, and then.
00:32:02
Speaker
She's trying to watch the movie and he's watching her watch the movie, you know? is Yeah. and And then you watch them playing with their Switch while you want them to watch the movie. And then you're like, why aren't you watching The Princess Bride? And they're like, ah what? This movie sucks.
00:32:17
Speaker
What? Yeah. Yeah. I can't imagine what that must have been like, but it must have been really bad. Horrifying. Um... um The first and second time. You're not allowed to play the Switch while we're watching one of my favorite movies. That's just like... Exactly. Exactly. what goes Yeah.
00:32:33
Speaker
Yeah. Yes. So... They are continuing their relationship, even though they said that they wouldn't. Yep. And...
00:32:44
Speaker
ah He's working on a one-man show, which is really bad. so bad. it' so but It's just a bunch of like, um ah like it's it like a slideshow of child of a history of Pakistan with his like childhood photos.
00:32:59
Speaker
And it's just really boring. And my favorite thing is that at the end, like he asks Emily how it was and she goes, you know, I didn't know all that about Pakistan. Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:11
Speaker
did not know. And like at one point he even has the audience repeat back what they've learned. And was like, oh God. Which is like, as someone who writes his like plays about history on multiple occasions, it is hard to not turn it into like a lecture about the things that you think are interesting and cool. um So I do understand that. But like, it has to be about the characters, you know?
00:33:34
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. um He goes on about cricket bullshit, um which is you know, the worst thing that can be in a movie. If the best thing that can be in a movie is a whale, as I think we all agree, the worst thing that can be in a movie is ah someone talking about cricket.
00:33:51
Speaker
That's what I've decided. Yep. Yep. Agreed. Agreed. Until they make a good rom-com about like some sort of cricket star, I don't care. She has to poop in his apartment, which is another- um Which is another couple thing that you don't see that often in movies. Yeah. She's like, going to go to the diner. I'm just going to get a coffee. It's 3 a.m. Sometimes a girl needs to drink coffee at 3 in the morning.
00:34:14
Speaker
I mean, you have you ever had a girlfriend? Have you ever had a girlfriend before? yeah And he's trying to be so nice. He's like, it's not a good neighborhood. Like, I'll walk you there. Like, and she's just like, no.
00:34:25
Speaker
um So fucking relatable. It's like that. And then in the Mr. and Mrs. Smith TV show. um What's her name from ah that we just saw in plus one My my earth guy has this whole exchange with Donald Glover about how she they're on a train and she's just like, I just got to get up and like take a little like brisk walk around. I just I just have to walk around. He goes,
00:34:50
Speaker
Why do why do you have to walk around? It's like, there i am I don't understand. where She's like, I just need to go for a walk. And he goes, what's really going on? She's like, I have to fart.
00:34:59
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Relatable. I wouldn't know. I've never farted. ah he He goes to the bat
00:35:13
Speaker
he goes to the the batting cages with his brother. ah and he tells his brother about Emily. And he's like, there's this white girl and I really like her. And do you think it's not like mom would love me any less. And his brother's like, yeah, mom would definitely love you less.
00:35:28
Speaker
Yeah, because there is, it's his cousin who married a white chick. Uh-huh, yeah. And they talk about it early on. His cousin had married a white chick and nobody talks to him anymore. and his dad says how um he had to hack his cousin's Facebook account because he wasn't responding to his um facebook friend request and um so he hacked his cousin's facebook account and learned that they've had him and that white woman that he lives with and he's just like you mean his wife he's like they're they're married yeah they're married and he goes and they named it davad and he goes you mean david david and david david david
00:36:08
Speaker
yeah um yes his the guy who plays his dad is um is so funny um his his name is yeah here it is uh anupam ker or ker yeah um i've seen him in other stuff before um i'm sure we're not gonna look too far into that he's done a lot of indian stuff the first uh or um that brings me to another he's in silver linings playbook Yes, he is. He's the um the therapist.
00:36:41
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But that brings me to the next of Emma's fun facts. Emma's fun facts. Yeah. Kumail personally contacted Anupem about taking the role for of his father.
00:36:54
Speaker
Kier accepted the role after learning that Kumail's real father personally expressed a desire for Anupem to take that role. He personally wanted him to do and I think that's really sweet.
00:37:07
Speaker
God, how awkward must it be to be the parents, all four parents, and see this movie? Because there's so much weird. I mean, I know they changed some stuff. And I know i remember hearing him say like that his parents weren't actually as terrible as they are in this movie.
00:37:23
Speaker
Yeah, you have to make some sort dramatic tension. You've got to make it dramatic, yeah. Because my God. again And again, i know we talked about this in Saving Face also, but like cutting your family, I think cutting your family members off for a choice in partner is universally bad.
00:37:40
Speaker
and I don't care about the culture behind it. I'm sorry. I just don't. yeah I know that's probably not like super great, like leftism of me, but like, I just think it's bad.
00:37:51
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. um Well, apparently. So another fun fact um is apparently in real life, Kamal said that the scene where he tells his parents that he's in love with Emily and that Emily is not Pakistani and ah his mom says, well, you're not my son. That whole scene. Yeah. said yeah that this scene was one um in which his real life was very different from the depiction in the movie. That in reality, when his mother first heard about Emily and her serious illness, she was concerned and supportive. And it was only once Emily was out of the coma and it was clear that she would recover that she expressed her aim anger at Camille for dating a white woman and for pretending to be amenable to an arrangement.
00:38:34
Speaker
marriage um so she wasn't like as i mean because he has this whole sort of like conversation when she's in the coma about like she might die and i am in love with her and his mom is just like well you're not my son exactly exactly but which is more dramatic for sure it is it is for sure albeit harder to forgive her yes for me Yeah. Yeah. So we've been we've gotten ahead of ourselves a bunch of times, but I imagine that a lot of people listening to this have seen this movie already. yes This was a, this is a fairly big hit. It got nominated for, I think just the one Oscar for screenplay.
00:39:12
Speaker
Yeah. um So he, his brother tells him, end it or mom will ghost you. um And they, they just keep getting closer. um he she says, I'm overwhelmed by you. And it was the last thing I was expecting.
00:39:28
Speaker
And she's like, I want you to meet my parents. And he kind of weasels his way out of it. And she's like, do your parents want to meet me? And he's like, yeah, totally. And he lies to her.
00:39:39
Speaker
And then she finds the box of Pakistani women and it all comes out and he has to explain to her that like, you know, really they don't have a future together because he can't, he would lose his family if he decided to be with her.
00:39:51
Speaker
Yeah. um Which is heartbreaking. Which is a very kind of like, I mean, it's specifically, it's not queer, but it's very's still very much a queer, like related kind of um problem for for a lot of people, hopefully less so now than in the in the past, but definitely still a thing where you have to, you know, weigh the the options of, you know, being with someone that you love versus, you know, never speaking to your family again.
00:40:22
Speaker
Yeah. um And she doesn't want to be the reason he doesn't speak to his family again. But, you know, we're romantics on this show. so Exactly. She finds his box of women and says, are you judging Pakistan's next top model?
00:40:35
Speaker
Yes! And she says, five months of red flags.
Crisis and Comedy: Navigating Family and Love
00:40:39
Speaker
Yeah. And reda um then Vela Lovell from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is one of the ah one of the kind of the one we spend the most time with of the ah the the women that his mom tries to hook him up with.
00:40:56
Speaker
And he she um yeah, she's there hanging with his family and he's not. Yeah. yeah And then um he sleeps with a rando at they. Oh, she she says we're broken up.
00:41:10
Speaker
they They break breaks up with him. Yeah. Some time passes. We don't know how much. um Presumably weeks, maybe. um He sleeps with a rando that he meets at the comedy club. And that night he gets um a phone call from one of Emily's friends saying that she's in the hospital.
00:41:29
Speaker
Yeah. And can you go there because we have class tomorrow. We need somebody to be with her. They don't realize how serious it is. Like they think she's coming home that night. Yeah. Yeah. um So he goes to the hospital and she's like, you know, why are you here?
00:41:43
Speaker
hu And, you know, he kind of explains it to her. And then the doctor is like, she has an infection in her lungs. We need to put her into a medically induced coma. Yeah.
00:41:56
Speaker
until we figure out so we can figure out how to to fight it and he's like somebody needs to sign for it are you her husband and he's like no i'm not her husband and he's like i'm gonna ask you again yeah because if we don't if we're not able to do this some like we're not you know it's gonna be a huge problem yeah yeah and the nurse is like you need to call her family um and then fucking ray romano and holly hunter who i love so goddamn much i love so much in this movie They are so fucking good as the parents. Yeah. i mean, Holly Hunter, probably one of my top five favorite actresses in the world. Yeah. um I mean, we did.
00:42:36
Speaker
Raising Arizona the only Holly Hunter movie we've done? Yeah, that's the only Holly Hunter we've done. So this is our second Hunter. Yeah. She's incredible. now um I love her so much. ray Romano is so good in this. Ray Romano is like, there's a couple of other things that he's in. I'm like, God, Ray Romano is really good. Right? it Probably the best.
00:42:54
Speaker
No, it's Ice Age.
00:42:59
Speaker
um ah
00:43:03
Speaker
But like as of as far as like those like 90s stand up guys, I think Ray Romano is definitely the best actor out of all of them. You know, leaps and bounds.
00:43:13
Speaker
Oh, it's Parenthood. He's so good on Parenthood. Yeah. ah Which is a show you haven't seen, but you would love. No, but I've heard that he does really great dramatic work on Paranormal. Yeah, he's so good. I mean, it's it's ah it's a comedy drama like this, but it is, it's, yeah, he's he's a really good actor.
00:43:30
Speaker
um Yeah. There's also a TV show with him and Andre Brower and a third guy that my dad was really into and I watched with him and it was all, it was pretty good. Call the Month right here.
00:43:41
Speaker
Where is that? Men of a Certain Age. that It was like on fx in the two thousand and ten s for like, two seasons um and uh yeah my dad really likes that show um also andre brower um a national treasure r.i.p love him r.i.p um yes so they are her parents and they're like what are you doing here they yeah you broke up she tells us everything you know we know all about the arranged stuff yeah yeah But Ray Romano has a little warm heart. He's got a little melted heart. And so, um so Kamal is just sort of like, oh, well, I'm just, I'm going to hang around and, you know, make until I'm sure that she's okay. And so they're all at the cafeteria and they're like sitting at different tables and, you know, Holly Hunter's being her like fabulous bitchy self and just like eating and like ignoring him and like icing him out.
00:44:34
Speaker
And Ray Romano's like, hey, come over here. ah yeah and he goes uh 9-11 yeah yeah he goes i've always wanted to talk to uh you know someone about it and he's like you've you've never talked to anybody about 9-11 he's like what's your stance and he goes well we lost 19 of our best guys yes i think it was not like no he's like i'm sorry um that is so good and ah um uh
00:45:06
Speaker
They're going to do surgery. ah So she's in a coma. She's in a coma most of the movie. um They're going to do surgery on her to remove the infection that way because the antibiotics aren't working.
00:45:17
Speaker
um And so he takes them to her apartment. He hides her weed. and then she finds a bunch of Polaroids of the two of them in her cigar box. It's very sweet. Yeah. um and then ah he tries to get out of there but they want to hang out come on and wants to play um parlor games yeah yeah he's like you ever played the parlor game where you know you try to find a word that nobody can rhyme with and he goes stonehenge he was like oh well you would have yeah Silver.
00:45:49
Speaker
um And ah they ah he lies and says he has to do a stand up set. and they're like, well, we'll come to see that. Yeah. And um he gets heckled so by a racist and Holly Hunter loses her goddamn mind.
00:46:07
Speaker
her tiny little angry body tries to like attack this douchebag. Uh-huh. Yeah. does have a really good comeback. She does a great job, honestly. Yeah. Absolutely.
00:46:19
Speaker
um and, um, then, Ray Romano, uh, she gets kicked out and Ray Romano tells, uh, tells him that, um, this elevator goes all the way down, you fucking prick.
00:46:32
Speaker
I'm like, whoa. Yeah.
00:46:35
Speaker
my favorite my favorite line is whenever the heckler so he shouts out hey isis and kamal like tries to just sort of like ignore it and move on with his set and holly hunter goes excuse me what did you just say and um they like get into it and she goes why did you say that and and kamal's like we all know why we don't need to get into that and he goes because the way he looks And she goes, oh, well, that's like saying, you know, um that every single frat guy that wears a Hawaiian shirt's got a tiny little dick.
00:47:09
Speaker
And then she tries to physically attack him. It's so funny. It's because she's so tiny. Yeah. yeah And they take her home and she's like, I'm sorry. And Ray Romano is like, no, I thought it was sexy. And Kumail is like, i thought it was sexy, too.
00:47:23
Speaker
not Not in a, like, in a like um that's a brave and that's cool way, not in, like, an aroused way. Yeah, it's like, I'm going to stop saying sexy now. um And they, like, they have this really great bond. Like, he he but he really bonds with her family, and I think he's he's realizing that he's in love with her while she's asleep, which is, like,
00:47:46
Speaker
really sweet um and they're looking at her goth pictures they talk about how um how the two of them got together like they're from north carolina she went to ecu which is where my sister and uh brother-in-law and um nephew and all kinds of people went um i lived in greenville when i was a kid greenville north carolina and um He's from New York and he was, he got a job teaching high school down there and she was in college while he was teaching high school.
00:48:17
Speaker
We should make clear. He wasn't her teacher. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, they, uh, they said like her family didn't want to accept, you know, this, this New Yorker, guy into, uh, into her family. And, um, they, but they eventually did.
00:48:35
Speaker
and um, She has surgery, and they're going to pull her out of the coma, and they're like, everything's looking good, but then things get worse. Yeah. And her body can't clear the infection, and they're not sure why, and they don't really know what's wrong with her is the problem.
00:48:53
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then Holly Hunter sort of discovers she's on, they're in the waiting room. There's a lot of really sweet scenes of the three of them in the hospital waiting room.
00:49:06
Speaker
And Holly Hunter's like, this is a number, the number 16 hospital in Chicago. and That's not very good. Northwestern's number one. And so like that then becomes her mission is that,
00:49:18
Speaker
to move emily to northwestern oh yeah because she wants her to have like the best care um but at one point the nurse who's been watching over emily um is there when kamel comes in with a giant giraffe stuffed toy he's like i don't even know if she likes giraffes It was the biggest thing the gift shop had.
00:49:41
Speaker
Yeah. And he mentions that that the parents are thinking of moving her. And she goes, don no, don't do that. that That's going to make things worse. That could potentially- It's dangerous to move her in this condition where she's in this medically induced coma.
00:49:57
Speaker
And the reason she's in a coma is to slow down the infection, right? Exactly. Yeah. um And ah so- Beth and Terry have this big fight about moving her, and um they she goes to stay at um and Emily's, and so Kumail invites Terry to stay with him in his terrible apartment.
00:50:21
Speaker
They sleep in the same bed. It's really cute. No, no, it's two air mattresses in the same room. two air mattresses? I saw it in the same air mattress, and I was like, they're just cool buddies. Yeah.
00:50:32
Speaker
No, no. And he tells him, I cheated on my wife, yeah which I also assume is not something that actually happened because if... Yeah, I was about say, they would not have... Yeah.
00:50:46
Speaker
Yeah. That would have been rough for a real family, yeah. Exactly. And the real Emily V. Gordon um said that it was, like, the most awkward thing to bring up with her parents that that was going to be a ah subplot in this movie.
00:50:57
Speaker
um at Because it obviously did not happen, and she wanted her parents know, but it, like, took her forever to bring the news to her dad. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's that's rough. Yeah. Because, you know, the thing that most people who see this movie and know them in real life are going to come away with is... Ray Romano cheated.
00:51:18
Speaker
Yeah. So um he he has this, like, real heart-to-heart with Camille. He says, you're going to know the woman you're going to spend the rest of your life with when you cheat on her.
00:51:29
Speaker
Camille's like, that doesn't make any sense, man. yeah But he's like, he felt bad about it immediately. And he immediately told her and like, he just screwed up really bad.
00:51:41
Speaker
um And um it's another one of those things that that relets lets him realize how much he how much he loves Emily, you know? Yeah.
00:51:53
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. And then his parents confront him the next morning. yeah Because he told Vella Lovell from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend that he's not into the arranged marriage thing. And, you know, it's nothing against her, but it's just not, you know, he's been lying to his parents that he's he's going to do it and he's yeah not going to do it.
00:52:14
Speaker
And we should also say he's also been lying that he's studying for the LSAT to become lawyer, which he is not in any way, shape or form doing. yeah He just wants to be a comedian.
00:52:26
Speaker
And his parents come and confront him and yell at him. And he says, if you want to do stand up and embarrass us, that's fine. But marrying a Pakistani is the one thing that we ask of you.
00:52:38
Speaker
And he's like, why did you bring me here if you didn't want me to be to have an American life? You don't care what I think. You just want me to follow the rules. But the rules don't make sense to me. And he tells them that he hasn't prayed in years. And he says that he's in love with Emily and that she's really sick and that she could die.
00:52:52
Speaker
And she says, you're not my son. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the scene that sort of um didn't actually happen in that sequence yeah in real life.
00:53:02
Speaker
Thank God. Because it's so heartbreaking, but you need something to sort of, you know, elevate the drama. It's the third act. Yeah.
00:53:11
Speaker
Exactly. And the infection has reached her heart and he goes on stage and ruins his chance to go to the Just for Laughs festival because he has a breakdown on stage.
00:53:22
Speaker
Yeah. ah They ended up not moving her because she got too sick. And and then she wakes up. And honestly, and I don't know if this happened in real life, but he kind of saved her because he's the one who mentions to the nurse that she hurt her ankle. And that's when they notice the swelling hadn't gone down in her ankle after weeks of not being on it.
00:53:44
Speaker
And they realize that she has adult onset stills disease. um which is basically, it's kind of like a perineoplastic syndrome where your body attacks healthy cells.
00:53:58
Speaker
And they gave her anti-inflammatories and it, everything kind of went away. um And she woke up. And so he goes to the hospital and um she's like, what are you doing here?
00:54:09
Speaker
Yeah, because the last thing she remembers, she she wasn't there for all of the weeks. She was obviously unconscious for all of those weeks. So like the last thing in her mind is, um you know, this is my shitty ex-boyfriend who was never going to tell his parents about us.
00:54:25
Speaker
ah Why is he in my hospital room? And so she's like, I need you to leave. And it's so heartbreaking for him. And so he does. And then he goes and he reworks his one man show.
00:54:37
Speaker
He does. Well, he goes to her, um, he goes to her, her like welcome home party because yeah I mean, the thing is in like his parent, he has this like heart to heart with each of her, her parents.
00:54:48
Speaker
And, um, they're like, um, his dad is like, you know, so awkward with him um but because they had this, like, they had this emotional thing together and he tells Beth Holly Hunter that like,
00:55:03
Speaker
You know, it's crazy that we we went through this, like, experience together and then we're never going to see each other again. And then she, like, and this is when I cried. She, like, just says, i hope so. And she, like, touches his face. And, like, she's so fucking good.
00:55:15
Speaker
She's fucking good. Love her fuckinging so much. Yeah. Ugh.
00:55:21
Speaker
Um, yes. So, ah then he goes to her, um, uh, her, uh, Beth invites him to her welcome home party. And he has this kind of whole set up thing for her where he's like, these are these things. And I wanted to show you, here's all the visitors passes that when I visited you and here's like the ashes of the headshots of the yeah Pakistani women in a jar.
00:55:45
Speaker
And he well, first he says, this is the ashes of all the women. oh men No, not all the women. That sounds serial killer-y. um The headshots. I thought it was cute at first, but now it just seems a little weird.
00:55:59
Speaker
Yeah. And she's like, you know, no time passed for me. Like, all that journey that you went on, I was asleep for. And so I didn't see it. And so you're telling me you've changed. And I just, you make me sad in my heart.
New Beginnings and Reconciliations
00:56:11
Speaker
Yeah. When I see you, it makes me sad. So I want you to leave. Yeah. And so he does. And then his friends are like, hey, we're moving to New York. um We want you to be our third roommate. um We're going to all try and make it in New York as comedians.
00:56:27
Speaker
And um you should think about it. And he's so he thinks about it. Then he has one last um dinner with his folks who they don't know that they're about to have dinner with their son.
00:56:41
Speaker
um Because he just barges in and he goes and he sits down at his chair and he's like, like, what? No place sitting? And he has like a bunch of, are they just questions on note cards?
00:56:54
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. ah And one of them is ah to sort of get a rise out of his brother, which is like, what, you know, how come you think that um I'm more attractive than him or something like that?
00:57:10
Speaker
um And he ends it with that. He leaves the questions there. And then he says, um you know, you're always going to be my family.
00:57:24
Speaker
You can't not ever be my family. That's impossible. um Oh, yeah. I'm sorry for lying about the Pakistani women. And I'm sorry about lying about the LSATs.
00:57:35
Speaker
um I'm moving to New York. And he leaves. Yeah. And um Emily... ah
00:57:48
Speaker
ah He tells Emily, too, that he's moving to New York. Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah yay And and she's watching she's watching videos of his stand-up. And um that's when she kind of...
00:58:01
Speaker
realizes you know all the stuff that he's he's done to to be with her despite yeah his family you know yeah and oh no wait he doesn't he doesn't tell her until this until this scene when oh right right yeah it's when he sees her that yeah that he tells her yeah when she sees his one-man show which is good now yeah um and she's his brother
00:58:26
Speaker
and he tells her he's moving to new york and then like some time passes and he goes to New York and, uh, he's getting heckled and it's, he realizes that it's her.
00:58:40
Speaker
And he realizes that it's her. but And she's heckling him positively. Yes. ah Oh, and she says all the things she said the first time, which is, yeah um, well, what if I said, you're amazing in bed?
00:58:55
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. It's so sweet. Ugh! This movie's so good. Right, Thomas? This movie's so good. Charlie missed out. And then over the credits, it's photos of the of the real Camille and Emily. yeah Yeah. Just real, everything real cute.
00:59:13
Speaker
Yeah. Everything's worked out. And they did a podcast about video games. Yeah, because they're both nerds. Yeah. Which checks out. Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:24
Speaker
They're both little nerds. um I wanted to, ah when years ago, before I actually started a podcast, I was trying to start another podcast and I wanted to call it The Indoor Kids. And then I looked up, which is a from Wet Hot American Summer, right?
00:59:40
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah, Indoor Kids. Which is written by Michael Showalter, the director of this movie. Yes, yes. And starring Michael Showalter, where David Hyde Pierce says, you know, The Indoor Kids. Yeah. But his podcast with his wife about video games was called The Indoor Kids. and that's how I found out about it.
00:59:55
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i I've never actually listened to it. I'm sure it's good. I'm sure it's great. Yeah. They're very charming. They've got a cat that's like their child and they love cats. And that's mostly why I follow her on Instagram.
01:00:07
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That's cute. Yeah. It's very cute. um Yeah. So that is pretty much the big sick. um I love this movie very much. It is.
01:00:18
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It's very sweet. It's very romantic. It's very moving. um You'll laugh. You'll cry. It's better than cats. Yeah. um
Upcoming Episode Teaser: 'Center Stage'
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Charlie's missed out. Maybe by the time that we record our next episode, he'll have seen it by then.
01:00:30
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um But, ah but yeah. Really love this movie. Yeah. next week. What are we doing next week, Emma?
01:00:42
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We are hopping in a little time machine, Katie. We are going back to the year 2000. thousand we are revisiting one of my favorite films. I'm going to say this as a disclaimer. It is one of my all-time favorite movies.
01:00:57
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However... Is this movie Oscar award worthy? No. Is this movie well written? No. But is this movie well danced? Abso-fucking-lutely it is.
01:01:09
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That's right, guys. We are going into 2000's center stage, baby. Hell yeah.
01:01:20
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I have it on DVD. um It's definitely the best of those movies that all came out around the same time about dancing, for sure. Well, because they actually hired professional dancers. Correct. as a poet I feel like this movie is always in conversation with Save the Last Dance because Save the Last Dance, they hired actors who couldn't dance.
01:01:38
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And in this movie, they hired dancers who can't act. And honestly, it works better with the dancers who can't act. It works so much better. It's so much less cringe. Yeah. And you get dancers who can't act and Zoe Saldana.
01:01:51
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And, true um, and, um, what's his name from the OC? Uh, I don't remember that. I I've seen this movie ah just a few months ago, but I don't remember.
01:02:04
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um And our girl from Tangled, Donna. Donna Murphy. Yeah. Donna Murphy. Like you get some actual actors in there. um Yeah. A few. Yeah.
01:02:16
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Yeah. But mostly dancers. Peter Gallagher. Peter gallag peter Gallagher. Yeah. yeah ah Yeah. so that's what we're going to do next week. So super excited to talk everything center stage.
01:02:28
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Yeah. we'll talk We'll talk about our college dance class experiences. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, Absolutely. um i have got years and years and years of dance trauma to to dive into that we, with the listeners, will all tap into.
01:02:45
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ah The beginnings of body dysmorphia. Hell yeah.
01:02:53
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Sounds like a fun time. yep you betcha.
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01:02:56
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01:03:08
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01:03:23
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01:03:35
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I noticed that, Katie. Until next time, we're just two girls. Standing in front of the internet. Asking it to love us. Good night.
01:03:45
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Good night.
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