Four balls and a funeral

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:06] Speaker B: Welcome to Spellbound, a Romantasy podcast. I'm Deidre. [00:00:09] Speaker A: And I'm Jillian. [00:00:10] Speaker B: Welcome. [00:00:11] Speaker A: How you doing? [00:00:12] Speaker B: I'm great. [00:00:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:00:13] Speaker B: Welcome back. [00:00:14] Speaker A: Welcome back. [00:00:15] Speaker B: It's a. [00:00:15] Speaker A: It's a fine spring day. [00:00:17] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Okay. We are springing forward this weekend. [00:00:20] Speaker A: We're springing forward on Sunday, which is a temporary pain. It is for a long term gain. [00:00:28] Speaker B: Yes. [00:00:29] Speaker A: You know what I mean? Love that. [00:00:30] Speaker B: Go ahead and put that on the post. That's what my mom is like. Beauty is pain. And I try and keep that in mind as I'm getting, you know, pubic hairs ripped out. Yeah. Monthly. [00:00:40] Speaker A: Put that in like a waxing. [00:00:41] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Put that in the suit. Right on the ceiling. As I'm trying to make small talk with my waxer about like, you know, back to school, shopping, the state of the world. Yeah. You know, which is rough. Doesn't make the situation better. Which. Thank you so much for reminding us we're in more. [00:00:54] Speaker A: Yeah, we are. We are. It's not a laughing matter. [00:00:59] Speaker B: But have you heard? [00:01:00] Speaker A: I have. I have heard. Yep. I. And 330 million people read on Saturday morning. Yeah. [00:01:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:10] Speaker A: Great. Not great. Not great. [00:01:12] Speaker B: And I'm still going to work as usual. I don't know about you. [00:01:15] Speaker A: Still, still going. Nobody really brings it up. [00:01:17] Speaker B: No, no. [00:01:18] Speaker A: It's like, just like that, like in the background. Like everybody knows, but nobody's really going to talk about it because it's like they just hope it goes away. [00:01:26] Speaker B: It's just also a little bit like what's like. I just picture myself sitting at my desk at. You know, because I work from home, sitting at my desk, just, you know, toiling away on my laptop while things are like blowing up in the street. [00:01:38] Speaker A: And then you're like. To follow up on that email. [00:01:41] Speaker B: Hey, circling back on this. Just hoping you can get that to me by eod. [00:01:46] Speaker A: We're gonna re. Engage. [00:01:48] Speaker B: I know we tabled that from last week's discussion, but now feels like a fine time to resurface this. [00:01:53] Speaker A: God, I can't handle it. And then boom. [00:01:56] Speaker B: Yeah. It may be like, is now a good time? [00:01:59] Speaker A: I know you did wanna look into a prepper kit. So. So what? What does one put in a prepper kit? [00:02:04] Speaker B: Well, I do, you know, I did invest in, I think a light, a flashlight that doubles as a weapon. Like, it's very heavy, long handle. Like, I can do some things with that. [00:02:15] Speaker A: Okay. [00:02:16] Speaker B: So I have that. Okay. I also think that it includes things like. Mikey's a good person to talk about this because he's recently he gets things from his parents, specifically his mom, to like, to prep. To prep. [00:02:31] Speaker A: You're kidding. [00:02:32] Speaker B: She sends him things like the life straw he was talking about. He's got one of those where it's like, I've got like the water filter at home. He's got the same brand, but the actual straw that you can stick in to literally any body water. [00:02:43] Speaker A: Okay. [00:02:44] Speaker B: And it like, you know, gets rid of those brain eating amoebas. [00:02:47] Speaker A: Good. I mean, you know what, we're pretty like compared to the rest of the world. We're good on the water, but we're [00:02:54] Speaker B: good up here still. [00:02:54] Speaker A: I agree. Yeah. [00:02:55] Speaker B: I'm not drinking any water close to Montrose beach with the dog park and all that. [00:02:59] Speaker A: No, absolutely not. No. [00:03:00] Speaker B: I'm going out. I'll be going to Sheridan Road and that's where I'll be going. But also there are these buckets of like freeze dried food that you can buy that basically like works in a pinch if you know, the grid goes down and you need food. I need to get one of those. I also need to get one of those like solar powered radios that also like serves is like a charging station. [00:03:27] Speaker A: Oh my God. [00:03:28] Speaker B: My dad has one. I got him one for Christmas a couple years ago. I need to get myself one. [00:03:32] Speaker A: Oh my God. I'm imagining the two of us, like it's been like day 143. Have you heard anything? You're like, like, like, like turning the, the radio. Yeah. [00:03:43] Speaker B: There's somebody being like, if you're listening to this, you're a lone survivor. And I'm like putting Birdie in her bag, strapping her to my body, being like, let's go. Meanwhile, she's learned to hunt like a wolf. It's me and Birdie like Will Smith and I am legend for sure. [00:04:04] Speaker A: For sure. Yeah. We're just like bombs in the background. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:04:08] Speaker B: It's so odd when I think about we're just catching up with each other, but I'm like, what you doing in an apocalypse? So many people are like, it's such a polarizing conversation because some people are like, I would just throw myself into the nuclear blast. [00:04:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:04:21] Speaker B: I think that is Mikey's answer. [00:04:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, for sure it is. [00:04:25] Speaker B: Mikey, let us know. [00:04:26] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll have to ask him. [00:04:27] Speaker B: Yeah. But some people are like, I'd rough it. I'd get out there and try to survive. I don't know. I, I feel like I would try my best to live as long as I could. [00:04:37] Speaker A: I think I would Too. I mean, you know me. And so you might be like, she probably won't survive for a couple days. I might be the last one you stand. [00:04:46] Speaker B: You might. [00:04:47] Speaker A: I mean, I don't know how, but maybe there's some part of me, my mother's daughter. I am going to survive at all costs. [00:04:57] Speaker B: Yes. Yes. [00:04:58] Speaker A: Probably. [00:04:58] Speaker B: Yeah, Definitely. I'm, like, getting out here cutting shit down. [00:05:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:03] Speaker B: I've got, like, a little. I've got different knives. [00:05:07] Speaker A: Okay. [00:05:07] Speaker B: But I need a gun. [00:05:10] Speaker A: That's where you. That's where you lost me. [00:05:12] Speaker B: I need to get myself a gun. [00:05:13] Speaker A: I mean, be like, turn around, Jillian. Seriously, like, 100. If I hold. Even hold a gun, like, even if it's. There are no bullets, I'm somehow gonna shoot myself in the foot. [00:05:24] Speaker B: Like, there is a blaze. [00:05:26] Speaker A: Like. Or I'm just gonna, like, hit myself with it. Like, somehow I will injure myself. So I. But I get it, though. I get it. [00:05:36] Speaker B: I mean, not really, because the one time I've been to a gun range, I did fine. But I was also just so nervous because to have something like that in your hand, it's so terrifying. [00:05:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:47] Speaker B: And you' just. Like, this could really end. [00:05:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:05:51] Speaker B: Everybody up in here. [00:05:52] Speaker A: Yeah. No, I mean, I hate them. Yeah. [00:05:54] Speaker B: Oh, God, it's just terrifying. But anyway, yeah, we're going to survive. If nothing else, we're just going to run into this podcast studio and just, like, ride the wave. [00:06:02] Speaker A: For sure. We've got everything we need in here. [00:06:05] Speaker B: I think so. We got a poster of a cat, a kitten hanging onto a tree, singing, hang in there. [00:06:09] Speaker A: Hang in there. [00:06:10] Speaker B: Which is all we need. That's all we need to give us the motivation to keep it going. And there's always time for Jesus clock. [00:06:16] Speaker A: Yes. [00:06:16] Speaker B: Noon to midnight. [00:06:19] Speaker A: There you go. We're hoping he comes down. He comes back. I'm sorry. [00:06:23] Speaker B: Rises up, rises up. [00:06:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:26] Speaker B: And he takes all these folks that. Yeah, the Christian nationalists. But that's a separate topic. [00:06:32] Speaker A: That's a separate topic. That's a separate podcast. [00:06:36] Speaker B: But we always have time for it here. We do love that. [00:06:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:40] Speaker B: But, yeah, other than worried about my way of living and survival, which is all right. [00:06:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Cleaned my inbox today. I mean, I feel good. [00:06:51] Speaker B: Jillian, I'm proud of you for that. [00:06:53] Speaker A: I know, I know. I mean, I didn't really. [00:06:55] Speaker B: But how would you get it down [00:06:57] Speaker A: to, like, a thousand? Love that. Yeah. [00:07:00] Speaker B: That's not bad. That's where my. [00:07:01] Speaker A: Oh, I'm not talking about my 200,001. [00:07:03] Speaker B: Oh. [00:07:04] Speaker A: I'm talking about my yeah, yeah. [00:07:06] Speaker B: What's going on in that 200,001? [00:07:08] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:07:08] Speaker B: Somebody just needs to shut that down. [00:07:10] Speaker A: I know. Honest to God, I think it just like. It just. They need to like, burn it. Like, just like, oh, they're gone. I don't know. I don't know where it went. I would feel so relieved. Oh, God. [00:07:21] Speaker B: It's just a whole bunch of spam. [00:07:22] Speaker A: It's a whole bunch of spam. Yeah. I mean, half of it is Bed, Bath and Beyond. Emails. [00:07:27] Speaker B: Definite spam. I don't even think they. I mean, are they operating as a store? Is it just online? Oh, they don't have a. They don't have a physical store anymore. [00:07:37] Speaker A: Okay, so then maybe it's just online. Okay. Yeah. I don't know. They're still in my email box. [00:07:42] Speaker B: They're like, we're gonna get her one way or another. Yeah. Yeah. Celebrated a birthday with friends this weekend. [00:07:50] Speaker A: Yes, we did. Yes, we did. [00:07:51] Speaker B: Which was wonderful. [00:07:52] Speaker A: You're wonderful. I love Connor. [00:07:53] Speaker B: Yes. Happy birthday, Connor. And got to see our. Our lovely angel and friend of the pod, Clark. [00:08:01] Speaker A: Clark. He is one of the best friends. [00:08:03] Speaker B: One of the best friends. Yes. Also wonderful conversation over dinner set to the lovely tunes of Summer 2000 playlists. Yes. [00:08:13] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah. [00:08:14] Speaker B: There was Britney Spears, lucky. [00:08:16] Speaker A: It was like they put on a cd, a mixtape. [00:08:18] Speaker B: It was. Now that's what I call music 5 and I love that. [00:08:24] Speaker A: Or now. [00:08:25] Speaker B: Yep. [00:08:25] Speaker A: What was the now? [00:08:26] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yep. So, yeah, it was. It was great. Things are just trucking along. [00:08:31] Speaker A: Yeah, they are. Everybody's doing great. We're just like waiting. Waiting for spring and summer and. Yeah. [00:08:38] Speaker B: And a nuclear winter. [00:08:40] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Darkness. [00:08:43] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. We're just doing the best we can. Yeah. Let's see here. [00:08:49] Speaker A: Are we. Should we get into a little. Here? [00:08:51] Speaker B: Let's get into a little hear ye here. [00:08:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:53] Speaker B: Shall we? Okay. You and I have touched base on this a little bit. We were so excited for finally for Connor stories showcase on Saturday Night Live this weekend. [00:09:04] Speaker A: So excited. I mean, bounced out of bed. So excited. [00:09:07] Speaker B: Recorded it. [00:09:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:08] Speaker B: Made sure it was too, like queued up. Yeah. Wonderful. Wonderful. Great. Great performance. Great. [00:09:16] Speaker A: I mean, he was as. As we knew he would. [00:09:19] Speaker B: Yes. [00:09:19] Speaker A: I mean, honestly, like, the teaser was amazing. I was like, ready for it. [00:09:24] Speaker B: Yes, yes. Great showcase of accents in that teaser. I thought of the skits that he was in. A good showcase of his reigns. [00:09:33] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:09:34] Speaker B: Physical prowess. [00:09:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:35] Speaker B: Accents being able to stay in character. But, you know, I feel like maybe fell a little bit flat a lot of Ways. [00:09:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Little disappointment. And we talked about this. Like, I think it's because it's a, you know, part of it is like it's a new cast and. Yeah. But I do often think about, like. And, you know, like, there are so many writers and actors that work there. But, you know, they're like the things like the, the Weekend Update. Like, some of the jokes just don't they. I mean, they don't. They shouldn't fly in 2026. [00:10:08] Speaker B: You know, the, the jokes about the Epstein files, particularly the Epstein victims. Yeah, weird. Very, very weird choice. [00:10:16] Speaker A: Yeah. And so I, I mean, that really just took me out of it. Like, I was like, oh, God, no, I don't like that. But yeah, I agree that, like the. And I haven't watched it in a really long time. I haven't watched snl, so I don't know if this is like, you know, [00:10:31] Speaker B: I think this new cast still needs to, like, marinate. [00:10:34] Speaker A: They need to marinate and bake. [00:10:35] Speaker B: It's always like this when there's such a huge, like, let out and change of cast. Like, I just don't think that they're like, they're meshed yet. [00:10:44] Speaker A: They just don't gel. And you could see that too. They all kind of were like, I don't know, what do I do? Should I be on the left side of the stage? You know what I mean? Like, it was just like, oh, okay. Well, Connor is holding it together. [00:10:56] Speaker B: He carried the whole show on his back. [00:10:58] Speaker A: Yeah, he did. Oh, my God. When Hudson came out and I just saw the two of them together, I [00:11:03] Speaker B: was like, oh, my God, it was fantastic. In probably the most successful skit of the night, in my opinion. The skating. [00:11:09] Speaker A: The skating. Yeah. Yeah. That was so cute. [00:11:12] Speaker B: So cute and so funny. Yeah, it was a good show overall. I also. Highlight of the show was bringing out the US Women's hockey team. [00:11:20] Speaker A: That was good. That was great. [00:11:22] Speaker B: Yep. And gave them the shout out. Your ice cup is about to, oh, topple over here. Sorry. Oh, that would just a completely avoided mass disaster here in the studio. No, but giving them their. Giving them their kudos. Giving flowers after such a terrible week of misogyny and hatefulness towards women, particularly the US Women's hockey team. [00:11:47] Speaker A: Oh, my God, I forgot. [00:11:48] Speaker B: We. [00:11:48] Speaker A: Yeah, we haven't even talked about that. Yeah. I mean. And you know, great for them. They were like, well, we invited the boys because we thought that would be what's equal. [00:11:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:57] Speaker A: And. Yeah, great. [00:11:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And you know what? They were giving us personality. They were giving us Dynamo personalities. [00:12:03] Speaker A: Yeah. These boys. [00:12:05] Speaker B: Duds. [00:12:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:06] Speaker B: Bumps on a fucking log. [00:12:09] Speaker A: They come out and Connors in his rose mauve monochrome outfit and they. I mean, just get out. Get out. [00:12:17] Speaker B: Missing tooth. [00:12:18] Speaker A: Yeah, just. I know. [00:12:19] Speaker B: Staring dead at the camera, [00:12:23] Speaker A: like. And it's like, clearly, like, reading word by word, oh, did you hear that? I lost my tooth or whatever. [00:12:31] Speaker B: I mean, it was just like, give me nothing. [00:12:33] Speaker A: Nothing. Yeah. [00:12:34] Speaker B: I'm so sick of it. [00:12:36] Speaker A: Do you know that we live on the continent of North America? Like. [00:12:41] Speaker B: Yes, it's awful. [00:12:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:45] Speaker B: Yeah. But, you know, we can't wait to have him back. Great host. Great. You know, first time out, you know, it was great. What? [00:12:55] Speaker A: Marcus Mumford. [00:12:57] Speaker B: Marcus Mumford, Yeah. A highlight. A highlight. He's another example of a man getting better looking with age. [00:13:04] Speaker A: Oh, 100%. Yeah. And he's got, like, a cute. Him and Carey Mulligan. [00:13:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:11] Speaker A: And the fact that they were, like, pen pals. Like, he's just got a little. They were pen pals as kids and they then, like, re. You know, they, like, met later and [00:13:22] Speaker B: then stars are randomly pen pals with each other. [00:13:25] Speaker A: I think maybe. Maybe it was like a drama camp or something. I can't remember. [00:13:28] Speaker B: Okay. [00:13:30] Speaker A: I mean, they've been married for a long time. You know, it was like one of those, like. Oh, we got together when we were, like, 22. But, you know. [00:13:38] Speaker B: Good. Yeah, I, you know, I'll support it. [00:13:41] Speaker A: Tried and true. Yeah. Great. Love that. [00:13:46] Speaker B: Let's see here. Hillary Duff. [00:13:49] Speaker A: What. What she got going? [00:13:50] Speaker B: No. Well, first of all. Hold on. Let's back up. Really exciting news this week. A teaser from Call Her Daddy. [00:13:56] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Yep. Okay, go ahead. Well, I don't know. Do they even confirm? [00:14:01] Speaker B: No, but the girls in the comments are like, I'm not hearing nothing else. It's gonna be. [00:14:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Sarah J. Maas. Yeah. And I don't know. I mean, I didn't know too much about Call Her Daddy. Like, I just had heard about it, but I didn't really. And I, like, did a deep dive into it, and I was like, oh, okay. There's some history here. [00:14:20] Speaker B: Lot of lore with Call Her Daddy. [00:14:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:22] Speaker B: I never really listened to it. A lot of people really like Alex Cooper and think that she's a really great interviewer, you know, and so many celebrities have been on. On the podcast. Yeah. It started out as, like, a duo. There were some things going on. Men were involved. [00:14:40] Speaker A: Really? [00:14:41] Speaker B: Yeah. I think the la. I, you know, I don't want to get sued you think? [00:14:46] Speaker A: But the last. [00:14:48] Speaker B: But the co host that she had before there was something with her fiance, now husband and his involvement and maybe influence and giving her maybe some advice that like really kind of drove a wedge between the two women. [00:15:03] Speaker A: God, that's awful. Because now Alex is making like $50 million a year. [00:15:07] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:15:08] Speaker A: Oof. That's rough. [00:15:10] Speaker B: And just like showing up talking into a microphone, wearing a hoodie. God bless. [00:15:15] Speaker A: How is that possible? [00:15:16] Speaker B: I mean, good for her. [00:15:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, yeah, love that. Yeah. [00:15:20] Speaker B: But yeah, so they think Sarah J. Moss is going to come on the pod, which to me signifies that she's starting to roll out some press for an upcoming project. [00:15:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Maybe this is the beginning. [00:15:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:33] Speaker B: Which reminds me, we need to finish the last two books of the Throne of Glass. [00:15:38] Speaker A: Throwing the glass. Yeah, I know. [00:15:40] Speaker B: Sorry for the girlies out there. It's just not keeping my attention. [00:15:44] Speaker A: No, mine either. I know. I mean, it just is. It's not acotar. Let's say that. [00:15:49] Speaker B: No, I think I even liked City of Whatever. [00:15:56] Speaker A: Crescent City. Crescent City of Angels. [00:15:58] Speaker B: City of Crescents. I like that better. [00:16:01] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I did too. I did too. [00:16:03] Speaker B: It was just like a little bit more upbeat. [00:16:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. There is something about throwing a glass that is like, kind of like dark. [00:16:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:09] Speaker A: And also, I can't. You can't get over the cousin thing. And I can't either. [00:16:13] Speaker B: I forgot about it until you just remind me. Thank you so much. Do not like it. We'll be shelving it. We'll be shelving that. [00:16:21] Speaker A: They're like, hooking up and they're like, what did our aunt say the other day? [00:16:25] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I can't. I can't do it. I'm not going to talk about this Hillary Duff. Well, she was on Call her daddy recently. [00:16:33] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:16:35] Speaker B: And so I read an article today about all the things that she was sort of revealing about, about herself in this interview. Number one here. This is sort of a rundown from Buzzfeed. Hilary Duff wants us to know she's allowed to masturbate. [00:16:52] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:16:54] Speaker B: So apparently she's got a new song called Roommates and there are openly sexual lyrics, including references to giving head at a dive bar and masturbating. Okay. Whomst Among Us. [00:17:05] Speaker A: Whomst. Whom Amongst Us. Yeah. Wow. Good for her. That's good for her. Yeah. [00:17:18] Speaker B: I love it. [00:17:18] Speaker A: Love it. [00:17:19] Speaker B: Yes. I love Whomst Among Us. Just because obviously it's just so outrageous. [00:17:26] Speaker A: It's outrageous. [00:17:27] Speaker B: But, you know, again. [00:17:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, that's great. That's great. I'm Glad for her. She is really trying to market that new album. [00:17:34] Speaker B: Yes, she is. I won't be listening to it again, I think. Let's see. Also, she is talking a little bit about how she does not have a relationship with her sister and hasn't for [00:17:48] Speaker A: some time, which is so sad, what happened there. [00:17:52] Speaker B: I need to dig into that. But it's been some time since they've. I. Yeah, I think it might be, like, political beliefs. [00:17:59] Speaker A: Oh, whose side is who? [00:18:03] Speaker B: It's hard to say. [00:18:04] Speaker A: I mean, Hillary, you know, she hasn't looked great in the. In the news lately, in the media, so. [00:18:13] Speaker B: Yeah, she's talking a little bit about that. She's talking about her. Her relationship with Aaron Carter. Just a little bit about just fame as a girl. Yeah. It's an interesting article all the way around. A little bit about her feud with Lindsay Lohan. [00:18:30] Speaker A: Okay. [00:18:30] Speaker B: Because it was over Aaron Carter, who's no longer with us. [00:18:33] Speaker A: God, I forgot about that. [00:18:35] Speaker B: And how they saw each other in, like, the early 2000 and tens at a nightclub and just walked to each other, and we're like, are we good? [00:18:40] Speaker A: No. [00:18:41] Speaker B: And I guess squash their beef. [00:18:42] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:18:45] Speaker B: Then she's talking a little bit about how she always wanted to be a mom. She's one of these girls. Like, if there's a spectrum of me and Hillary dove, we're on opposite ends of the spectrum. And how we feel about, like, being, like, family, being a wife and mother. She's like, I always wanted to be a young wife and mother. [00:19:00] Speaker A: Young. She says young. [00:19:02] Speaker B: And, like, when she thinks about her dream future, she says she thinks about Thanksgiving, which is to say, like, all of her kids around, their spouses, their kids. [00:19:10] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:19:11] Speaker B: Playing games, drinking, having the whole thing, and I'm like, nightmare fuel. [00:19:17] Speaker A: Yeah. No, wait. So you know what was interesting? I was just thinking about, like, back whenever they had their. Their feud, I probably would've been like. Would have been like, oh, my God. Well, like Lindsay Lohan, and it would have been a Hillary side. You know what? I think I've. I've crossed over, and I'm for sure on Lindsay's side. [00:19:36] Speaker B: Um, well, you know, it's interesting. Hillary said that her daughter really is a big fan of Lindsay Lohan, having no background at all about their feud. And Hillary just thinks it's so funny that she's a huge fan of Lindsay Lohan's. Yeah. I think having, like, if she's a child, she's probably watching Lindsay Lohan and the Parent Trap and whatever. But the fact that she loves Lindsay Lohan and loves the Lindsay Lohan from the time in which she was feuding with her mother. [00:20:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:20:03] Speaker B: Hilarious. [00:20:04] Speaker A: I know. It all comes back around. [00:20:05] Speaker B: Yeah, it all comes back around. But she seems to be doing well. [00:20:08] Speaker A: Good. [00:20:09] Speaker B: Safe for the feud with her sister. She also. There's like a clip that goes around of her performing, doing this, like, really crazy dance back in, like, an early 2000s performance of one of her songs. People. People, like, do it in their tiktoks. It's been viral. I see it come around probably once a month. I probably see this video of her dancing and she. It feels like she's grown to a point now where, like, at one point she was humiliated by that video and now she just laughs along. [00:20:37] Speaker A: Oh, God, that's good. [00:20:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that's gross growth. [00:20:40] Speaker A: Yeah. That's aging. Yeah, I like that. [00:20:42] Speaker B: I mean, I think we're all lucky in the fact that we don't have things that live infamously about us. Yeah. [00:20:47] Speaker A: On the. On the Internet. Yeah. Can you imagine being like every single day? Yeah. [00:20:52] Speaker B: My worst moments. [00:20:53] Speaker A: Yeah. No. Would be bad. [00:20:54] Speaker B: And then people making a TikTok. Oh, trend awful. No. [00:20:58] Speaker A: Well, good for her. I will say one more thing. One thing. Apparently, did you see that Zendaya and Tom Holland got married? [00:21:07] Speaker B: Okay. So I saw that Law Roach was on the red carpet and somebody was like, yeah. So we want details about, like, the upcoming wedding. And Law Roach was like, the wedding's already happened, sweetheart. Thank you. Have a good night. [00:21:19] Speaker A: I wonder if that's, like, just to throw people off or if they actually did. [00:21:23] Speaker B: I would not be surprised if they actually did. [00:21:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:21:26] Speaker B: They are so good about privacy. [00:21:28] Speaker A: They're amazing. [00:21:29] Speaker B: And the people in their circle also don't play about their privacy either, which is, I think, fantastic. [00:21:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Love it. [00:21:35] Speaker B: It's like, honestly, it's that relationship that feels a little bit like everybody knows it's happening, but they themselves have not confirmed that it's happening. [00:21:42] Speaker A: Right, right, right, right. Which I love. Yeah, I love. I mean, you could have four kids. Look at Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak. [00:21:52] Speaker B: Right. [00:21:53] Speaker A: Have never a whole ass family, but we know. [00:21:55] Speaker B: Yes, yes. She's like, I'm not going to show you these children's face because you can see it. [00:21:59] Speaker A: I mean, somebody. I read something somewhere that was like, somebody saw them at Disney and they heard the. With the kids calling BJ Dad. [00:22:11] Speaker B: It's like the worst kept secret. It's like, Mindy, I know. Mindy, we know what's going on. What's going on. That is crazy. But I'm excited for that. [00:22:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:23] Speaker B: For them. [00:22:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I think so too. I love him. [00:22:26] Speaker B: I know. Such a sweetheart. [00:22:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:28] Speaker B: Such a sweetheart. He loves her. Doesn't care who knows it, who sees it so much. [00:22:34] Speaker A: I know. [00:22:35] Speaker B: And a short king. [00:22:36] Speaker A: He is a short king. [00:22:38] Speaker B: Good for her. [00:22:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. We love it. [00:22:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:42] Speaker B: Good for them. [00:22:42] Speaker A: I'm really excited for that movie coming out. What's the movie with her? [00:22:45] Speaker B: Oh, yes, with her and Robert Pattinson. [00:22:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:49] Speaker B: I don't. I can't. I can't think of the name right now. We are gonna go see it. But you also do have another here ye hear ye in the form of the o' Hare Chili's. Oh, yes. [00:22:59] Speaker A: Oh, yes. I know. I wish I had read this. So I don't know where I saw this, but apparently, like, somebody posted it, and then there were, like, millions of views, like, you know, really quickly. So a man proposed to his girlfriend outside of Chili's at the o' Hare Airport. [00:23:21] Speaker B: It's such a specific location. [00:23:23] Speaker A: So specific. Everybody knows coordinates, everything and apparently went viral. I don't know why. [00:23:31] Speaker B: Did she say yes? [00:23:32] Speaker A: She said yes. She said yes. [00:23:35] Speaker B: It's real hard out here for our sisters. We're hard up. [00:23:38] Speaker A: Can you imagine? [00:23:39] Speaker B: No, I'd be like, not here. Get up. [00:23:41] Speaker A: You know what? It's so absurd, though. I would be like, okay. [00:23:48] Speaker B: You'd be like, this is a keeper. This is a keeper right here. I love it. [00:23:54] Speaker A: You bought a plane ticket just so we can get on the. In the United terminal. [00:23:59] Speaker B: Yeah, well, they have, like I told crazy, they've got great service. [00:24:03] Speaker A: Great service. [00:24:04] Speaker B: Speedy service. [00:24:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:05] Speaker B: And the food's good. [00:24:06] Speaker A: The food is. The food is. Okay. Yeah. [00:24:09] Speaker B: No, I mean, I have to say, I'm like. I'm not turned off by. By the taste of the food. Yeah. [00:24:15] Speaker A: It just remember, like, we went for the wicked. Yeah. And they, like, did not have any food for me. Like, they just. [00:24:24] Speaker B: No, there's no food offerings for you. I would say that the food. That experience at the Skokie Chili's was not as good as the o' Hare Chili. Oh, I probably not tell you. [00:24:32] Speaker A: Probably not. They're like, our. [00:24:34] Speaker B: Our clientele here at the o' Hare Chili's is international. We have a reputation that polls. [00:24:41] Speaker A: We have to. [00:24:42] Speaker B: Yep, yep. Yeah. We got people flying in from all four corners of the earth and that. [00:24:46] Speaker A: And they see Chili's and they're like, america. This is American baby back ribs. [00:24:49] Speaker B: I'm getting it. My flight's at 2 I'm sitting at 12. We're doing the damn thing. [00:24:54] Speaker A: I wonder if you like, if there are people you polled like across the world, what would you like, what would they say? If they've been to o', Hare, have they been to Chili's? And what do they think about it? [00:25:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I wonder what those experiences are. Yeah, Somebody should get out there and do the survey. Love that. Well, that's about. [00:25:12] Speaker A: That's about it, right? I think that's good. [00:25:17] Speaker B: I think. [00:25:17] Speaker A: Yes. So should we get into a little ton talk? [00:25:20] Speaker B: Oh, you know what? Let's get into a little ton talk. [00:25:24] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:25:25] Speaker B: This week we're talking about part two of the latest season of Bridgerton. [00:25:29] Speaker A: That is right. We're diving into part two of season four of Bridgerton where the other elusive and art obsessed Benedict Bridgerton finally finds himself completely undone, totally in love with one Sophie. Back after one fateful masquerade ball and a mysterious woman who vanishes at midnight, Benedict is on a mission. And part two is where the longing, the scandal and the slow burn romance take hold. What do you think? What were your thoughts? [00:26:03] Speaker B: Loved it. In comparison to part one. [00:26:06] Speaker A: Oh my God, I was sad for part two. Yeah, it was good. [00:26:10] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah. Especially I got better with each episode. [00:26:13] Speaker A: Yes, yes. [00:26:14] Speaker B: The fourth episode was straight cinema. [00:26:16] Speaker A: The fourth episode. Yeah. Was great. He was good. [00:26:20] Speaker B: He was good. [00:26:21] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. He. I mean, in the first because in the other seasons he plays like comedic relief. [00:26:29] Speaker B: Okay. [00:26:30] Speaker A: You know, so you're. I was going into this like a little bit like, oh, can he do like more serious and. Yeah, he couldn't the first four episodes, but then he really could. [00:26:40] Speaker B: Yes, absolutely. I said episode four. I meant episode eight was straight cinema. Okay. [00:26:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's right. [00:26:45] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, he was great. You know, I'm coming into this with no knowledge of the source material. Not to say that I didn't know what Bridgerton was, but I hadn't like really watched any of the full seasons before and this was very, very entertaining. [00:27:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I loved it. You know, it was interesting. I read like an art A substack today and she was talking about how so each of the seasons have been had two years in between them and it's. It was first it was the pandemic and then it was like the writers strike and like, so things have gotten like kind of delayed. But the first season, the first season was really good. It was more muted. Like now it's like really Easter colors, like really like pops. But in the first season there was something about how like they could move around more. And now it's, like, mostly on a studio lot. [00:27:39] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:27:40] Speaker A: So, like, the first one definitely. I don't know, just seems, like more alive. This one seems. [00:27:47] Speaker B: You would think it would go in the opposite direction. [00:27:49] Speaker A: Me, too. Me too. You would, but I think there's something about the pandemic maybe. I don't know, but it's like we're out of the pandemic now, so. [00:27:57] Speaker B: But anyway, it should be free range. [00:28:01] Speaker A: I know. I mean, go wherever you want. Go on to the Morse, the Heathcliff Morse. [00:28:05] Speaker B: They need your help out there. Things are not looking great. [00:28:09] Speaker A: They need some non relatives. [00:28:11] Speaker B: Yes, yes. Break it up. Break it up. [00:28:14] Speaker A: But actually, is that around the same time? [00:28:17] Speaker B: I feel like it is, I think. I mean, the costumes look the same. [00:28:20] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it might be, actually, but anyway, so. Yeah, but. But it was good. It was like, the. The acting was good. The writing was better. Wigs were terrible. [00:28:33] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Whose wig in particular? You mentioned this. Me, I'm gonna say on the count of three. Ready? One, two, three. Francesca. [00:28:40] Speaker A: Oh, Francesca was bad, too. Francesca was bad. [00:28:45] Speaker B: It. I. It was given a little whoopty. Whoop and. Yep. [00:28:48] Speaker A: Yep. But it wasn't always the same. [00:28:52] Speaker B: The same. And it was. It. It was just. [00:28:54] Speaker A: It felt like. [00:28:55] Speaker B: It was just like the parts that were coming down over her forehead. [00:28:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:59] Speaker B: Were just, like, heavy in their, like, drapery. [00:29:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:02] Speaker B: You know what I mean? [00:29:03] Speaker A: Yes, yes, yes, yes. It was, like, very bizarre. It was like. Yes, I. I see. We were saying. Yeah. And that kind of reminds me of the first, Like, Daphne's wig in the first season. That was bad. And with, like, the. The bangs on the side. It was bad. But I'm trying to think of who else. So. Michaela. [00:29:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:23] Speaker A: Michaela had a pretty bad one and Penelope had a pretty bad one. I mean, they just. It was all of them. [00:29:28] Speaker B: There was this scene where Penelope looks in the mirror and sees her old self. Now, that wig was a troche. [00:29:35] Speaker A: And that must have been from this. From the first season. [00:29:38] Speaker B: It was. It was giving no budget. Yeah. [00:29:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Six years ago, too. [00:29:42] Speaker B: That's insane. [00:29:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:43] Speaker B: But you didn't like Sophie's wig, which. When her hair's down or up? [00:29:48] Speaker A: Like, when it's up. So when it's up. [00:29:52] Speaker B: Very severe. [00:29:52] Speaker A: It's very severe. It's like, you can. I mean, honestly, I thought I saw glue. Like, it was just. It was like, black. It was. It was bad. It was bad. [00:30:01] Speaker B: God. [00:30:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:04] Speaker B: Okay, so speaking of. Sophie liked her this second half. [00:30:09] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, she's a little bit, like. I don't know. There's something about her that she's, like, too kind of pinned up. Yes, I could be. Yeah. I don't know. [00:30:21] Speaker B: What do you think? Yeah, there's a little bit of that. I would say also, this second half was a little bit frustrating to me because there was too much will they, won't they? [00:30:29] Speaker A: Yes. [00:30:30] Speaker B: It was like, okay, I'm gonna, like, absolutely blow up my life for you. [00:30:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:34] Speaker B: And then she'd be like, no, don't do that for me. [00:30:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:36] Speaker B: And then all of a sudden, he'd be like, all right, I'm not gonna do that for you. Be like, don't what? But my body calls to you. And he's like, my body calls to you. And she's like, I can't ask this from you. And he's like, don't ask it for me. And then, you know, people start getting involved. His mother is basically pulling a King Triton from the Little Mermaid, being like, leave us. Just go to the country. I'll never see you again. Oh, my God, I'll never see you again. But here you go. Here's my blessing. You know what I mean? And what was interesting about these two characters, too, is I was just like, I'm sorry. Are we supposed to think that nobody can see, see or hear the two of you and your conversation? I'm like, she's meeting him in the. In the green. [00:31:15] Speaker A: That was open. That was so open. 2 o' clock in the afternoon. [00:31:19] Speaker B: First of all, she's on the clock. You think somebody's not watching where she is? [00:31:23] Speaker A: He's got a blanket on. He's like, what are you doing? [00:31:25] Speaker B: Then I'm like, you don't think people hear the sloshing around at the bathtub? Right? [00:31:31] Speaker A: Right. Well, that was a good scene, by the way. [00:31:34] Speaker B: I didn't hate it. [00:31:35] Speaker A: I didn't hate it. [00:31:35] Speaker B: Even though he came in there with those long johns on, I was like, what's going. But that, to me, was so absurd. There were just moments where I'm like, I don't understand how they think that they're being discreet. [00:31:48] Speaker A: They would, like, talk to each other in his office with the door open. [00:31:51] Speaker B: You know, she's basically, during her working hours in there being like, what's up? What's going on? What's the deal with us? Are we doing this or not? And then all of a sudden, they're like, oh, but nobody can know. [00:32:02] Speaker A: Nobody knows. Oh, my God, it's so bad. Yeah. [00:32:05] Speaker B: You know, one thing I liked about this, though, is I was like, I'm going to feel really bad and nasty about this if he. You know, because we left the end of the. The last four episodes with him being like, will you be my mistress? [00:32:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:22] Speaker B: And that's bad. That doesn't feel good. Yeah. And I was just really worried that, like, they weren't. He wasn't going to see her value or he wasn't going to really, seriously want to be with her. [00:32:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:35] Speaker B: Until he knew that she was a woman of noble. I was really worried that, like, he would just continue to treat her like this, like. Yep. You know, sort of option and, like, side character mistress. [00:32:46] Speaker A: Right. [00:32:47] Speaker B: Without being willing to commit to her until it was revealed that, like, her dowry was stolen from her and that she actually, like, you know, was of, you know, some importance. [00:32:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:58] Speaker B: But I think that they did a really good job of them being like, I love her regardless. I'm willing to. [00:33:03] Speaker A: We're still going to do it. [00:33:04] Speaker B: Yeah. With her regardless. But I have to say, I mean, they really framed it and, like, this is a really hard decision for somebody to make to, like, leave high society and. And to actually make the choice for not only themselves to suffer the implication the. The ramifications, but their children to suffer the ramifications. [00:33:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Their siblings, too. Yeah. [00:33:27] Speaker B: I'd be so pissed. I'd be like, don't be. [00:33:30] Speaker A: Like, not this. Yeah. [00:33:32] Speaker B: I'm on the marriage market. [00:33:33] Speaker A: But. Although Eloise would be like, that's fine. Yeah. [00:33:37] Speaker B: Yeah. But. [00:33:38] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's. You're right about that. Like, it was, like, very, like, serious conversations now. Anthony, like, he was a bit of an asshole. [00:33:46] Speaker B: Love seeing him come back, you know? [00:33:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:47] Speaker B: Hate to. Hate to see him go. Love to watch him leave. [00:33:51] Speaker A: Yeah, love to, [00:33:54] Speaker B: but love seeing him come back. [00:33:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Love seeing him come back. I mean, Jonathan Bailey, I will take him in anything, but. Yeah, he was just, like. The messages that Benedict was getting was like, what are you. Like, what are you doing? This is the worst thing you could ever do. [00:34:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:12] Speaker A: And I mean, it's sad, like, that He. His mom was like, he's like, I'll just come back and forth. And his mom was like, you can't. Like, no, there's no coming back. [00:34:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:21] Speaker A: And I was like, Jesus. [00:34:22] Speaker B: I know. But also, Benedict is like, yeah, I'm just gonna have my country house. I'm gonna come into the city. I'm gonna commute. [00:34:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. [00:34:28] Speaker B: And she was like, no, we have an in. Office policy five days a Week. [00:34:35] Speaker A: Five days a week, Monday through Friday. No birthdays, no weddings, no. No nothing. [00:34:39] Speaker B: No. [00:34:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. [00:34:41] Speaker B: It's tough. [00:34:42] Speaker A: It is tough. [00:34:43] Speaker B: It very much the. The Prince Harry treatment it was about to get. [00:34:48] Speaker A: Okay, that's the other joke I didn't like, the one about Meghan on Saturday. [00:34:52] Speaker B: What did they say? [00:34:55] Speaker A: It was like, something about, like, Prince Andrew and basically, like, the only other person we wouldn't put on the throne before you is Megan. And I was like, I don't like that. [00:35:08] Speaker B: I don't like that. Because it's, like, comparing them as being equal in there. [00:35:11] Speaker A: That's absolutely insane. [00:35:13] Speaker B: That's crazy. I'm like, okay, this man, it was stripped of his titles because of his egregious acts against girls. Right, Girls. [00:35:23] Speaker A: But you don't like Megan because you're racist. Like, that's basically what it is. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Anyway, just that. That made me think of Prince Harry. [00:35:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:32] Speaker A: The spare. [00:35:33] Speaker B: They were giving him. They were giving him the spare treatment for sure. [00:35:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:36] Speaker B: But I love that you bring up Violet in this season, because, again, I'm not working with any original source material. But I love me some Violet. [00:35:45] Speaker A: I love Violet. [00:35:47] Speaker B: And let me tell you, what I really liked about her is in that last episode, this woman was like, let me get my white privilege card out and go up to this courthouse right now and get my girl up out of this jail situation. She said, listen. [00:35:57] Speaker A: She goes, I need her. [00:35:59] Speaker B: Yeah. She goes. And, you know, Benedict comes in and, like, lists all of his credentials and, like, who he is and brother of this whatever. And she's like. And brother of so and so. And she's like, no, ma'. Am. This woman is coming back to my employee. [00:36:16] Speaker A: Thank you. I know. She's like, I've got a party to throw. She needs to be back here. [00:36:22] Speaker B: She's like, I'm just. I'm just a little widow. I'm just a little widow. I need my help. [00:36:26] Speaker A: He's like, help her help my poor mother out here. [00:36:29] Speaker B: Yes. [00:36:30] Speaker A: By the way, that scene, really. I mean, it was a trigger for me because that's where I'm going to be. You will be there in April. April 23rd. A trial. And so there's a trial hanging over me and my rep, my family's reputation at this stage. [00:36:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And I'm gonna be in there going, [00:36:47] Speaker A: judge, I've got a podcast. Your Honor. Your honor, can I record this? [00:36:54] Speaker B: And they're gonna be like, do you want her free? No, I just need. I need good content. [00:37:00] Speaker A: I need visitation. Yeah. So we can keep doing our podcast. [00:37:03] Speaker B: When is the court date? [00:37:05] Speaker A: April 23rd. [00:37:06] Speaker B: Okay, so we've got a little time. [00:37:08] Speaker A: Little time. [00:37:08] Speaker B: Yeah. You're in discovery mode right now. Discovery phase. [00:37:11] Speaker A: Okay. [00:37:11] Speaker B: Okay. They're gathering all the evidence. [00:37:14] Speaker A: Oh, my God, that's so wild. Anyway, I was just thinking, I was like, that's gonna be me up there being like, I'm sorry, I didn't do it. [00:37:23] Speaker B: It's gonna be the death penalty on the table. [00:37:28] Speaker A: Meanwhile, my mom is going to be the Araminta being like, she did it. [00:37:32] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Now Araminta gun. [00:37:34] Speaker A: I don't like her, can't stand her. [00:37:36] Speaker B: I also. But that actress, I mean, we had to give her her dude. Because there is nobody that has ever made me so irritated by how nasty they just physically look. [00:37:46] Speaker A: I know she looks like nasty. They also did a good job. I mean, I don't know, we're the same age, but I feel like they made her look older. [00:37:54] Speaker B: They did. [00:37:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:55] Speaker B: That's. I was very shocked in our first episode about Bridgeton that she's our age because I was like, you know, one day you're just a young girl on the marriage market, the next day you're old crone. I said, I'm still in the marriage market. I don't know. [00:38:06] Speaker A: I know I'm there. Yeah, I'm eligible. It might be my 17th season, but I'm still here. [00:38:17] Speaker B: Still here, still fighting. But Violet, I wanted, you know what I was happy to see was her getting some well deserved love. Getting loved up on. [00:38:28] Speaker A: Oh, for sure. From Marcus. Yeah. Which I think. Did I tell you that basically her. In real life, the actress who plays her is 58. She looks great. Wonderful. [00:38:39] Speaker B: She does. [00:38:39] Speaker A: Marcus is 42. [00:38:41] Speaker B: Oh, I thought he was a little bit older than that. [00:38:43] Speaker A: No, the guy who plays him is 42, which is cr. Wait, was it 42 or. [00:38:46] Speaker B: I thought maybe 46. [00:38:49] Speaker A: Let me see. [00:38:49] Speaker B: I can't remember. [00:38:50] Speaker A: What is his name? What is. I think he's maybe let's split the difference. And maybe he's 44. [00:38:55] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. It's giving probably late 40s to me. [00:39:00] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. But I do think anyway, love her. [00:39:06] Speaker B: Love her. And I really like that storyline too. I was also, you know, I did like, at the end when she decided that, like, marriage probably wasn't the best thing for her right now. [00:39:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I thought that was great. [00:39:19] Speaker B: I'm like, yeah, I'm glad that you're at least doing the work to recognize what it is that you need at this point in time. And Marcus too. You know, Marcus deserves to kind of be in a relationship that he needs, which is one where it's like, you know, they're equally choosing to actively be in this and get married and do whatever, but that's not what our girl Violet needs. Yeah. [00:39:38] Speaker A: You know, I was thinking about this, and I was like. Because, you know, obviously we talk about this all the time. That, like, you know, women will often, like, give away a lot of themselves when they do get married. I mean, at this time, you really have to give a lot of yourself. [00:39:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:54] Speaker A: Like, just. It's basically gone. [00:39:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:56] Speaker A: To, you know, to. To be married and just to be, like, make your husband happy. Like, they kept talking about Francesca. It was sad. She kept being like, I couldn't do my duty. [00:40:05] Speaker B: I know. Oh, I want. I yelled at that. I was like, oh, I hate that. [00:40:09] Speaker A: Hate it. [00:40:10] Speaker B: Hate this. The whole thing of being like, I couldn't give him a baby. [00:40:14] Speaker A: Hated it. [00:40:15] Speaker B: Like, as though you're sitting here just having to make one out right out of thin air. [00:40:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. As if it's. [00:40:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:22] Speaker A: It's like you're. You can't, you know, sculpt it enough or whatever. [00:40:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:26] Speaker A: You're not a. You're not a good artist. Yeah. Yeah. [00:40:29] Speaker B: Terrible. [00:40:30] Speaker A: I don't know. I didn't like it at all. [00:40:31] Speaker B: No. But I did like, the fact that she brought attention to the fact that when she was younger and before being married and having all these kids, having 50, 11 kids. [00:40:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:41] Speaker B: She was wild, free. [00:40:43] Speaker A: I liked that. [00:40:43] Speaker B: All those things. I'm like, yes. Thank you so much for, like, sitting here and, like, giving some thought to the person that you were before getting married and having children and also, like, having the wherewithal to think about, like, is that something that you want to, like, tap back into, do again? [00:40:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Now that you know your ne' er do. Well, son is getting married. [00:41:07] Speaker A: I mean, the thing is. Yeah. So, like, in the second season when it was Anthony and Kate, our girl from. She's gonna be in the Devil Wears Prada, too. Simone, Ashley. Right. But in the second season, they talked about the dad dying, and it, like, was flashbacks to when the dad died, and Violet was, like. Was, like, not functioning for, like, a long time and was basically, like, not even going to see, like, to see her kids and was just like, he is my life. Basically, like, she. He died when she was pregnant, and then she, like, like, was, like, giving birth, and she was like, why didn't they take me so I could be with my husband? You know, it Was just like, okay, all right. You got some stuff to live for, you know, but so I like that. This was, like a. This was definitely different. [00:42:01] Speaker B: Finding her strength. [00:42:02] Speaker A: Finding her strength. Finding her, like, her own identity. [00:42:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:06] Speaker A: Outside of her kit. Like, because then it was her husband and then it was her kids. [00:42:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:10] Speaker A: And so I. I did like that. I think. I don't think that's in the book. I don't think he's in the book. Marcus. [00:42:16] Speaker B: Marcus. Okay. [00:42:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:18] Speaker B: Well, we wish for good things for Violet moving forward. Let's see here. Let's chit. Chat a little bit about Eloise. I'm just grabbing a character out of the. Out of. [00:42:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, what do you think? [00:42:35] Speaker B: I love her. [00:42:35] Speaker A: Love her. [00:42:37] Speaker B: If there's somebody that. What I appreciate about her and her storyline, and I don't know about her from previous season's obvious, obviously, but I do like, in this season that despite all of the external pressures to enter the marriage market and do the whole thing, I think she remains committed to that. But she also probably softens a little bit around, like, seeing the value of relationships and marriage and what it provides to other people, even if it's not something that, like, she wants for herself. [00:43:08] Speaker A: Yes. Yes. [00:43:10] Speaker B: So it's, like, really interesting when she goes over to that character's house, the new Lady Pinwood. [00:43:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:16] Speaker B: And has that dialogue that has that conversation with her about, you know, she's just trying to buy time, essentially, for Sophie to go and get the will and testament. But through that conversation, she really, you know, realizes she's been making fun of these girls for doing this whole, you know, song and dance. But she realizes, like, how, you know, the value that relationships and love bring to certain people. Yeah. [00:43:41] Speaker A: In that conversation she had with Hyacinth. Yeah. When she just. Hyacinth, you know, was really upset after John's death and was like, she doesn't know. She wanted to be on the marriage mart. And so, yeah. Talking to her about, like, no, I am seeing the value of, like, I think you're still gonna want to be out there. [00:43:58] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely. That was really good. So love that for her. It doesn't seem like they're. There's gonna be much, you know, emphasis put on putting her in a relationship down the line or, like, is there lore around that in the book? [00:44:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:15] Speaker B: Okay. She finds somebody. [00:44:17] Speaker A: Yeah, she. It's basically. He was introduced in, like, the first one, so Penelope had a cousin who was pregnant, and the. The baby's father died at war, but his twin is still alive, and basically Came and, like, married her, and then she had twins, so she ends up dying. And then the ex husband, I think, falls for Eloise. I don't. I don't love it. I gotta be honest. I don't love it. [00:44:51] Speaker B: I'm sorry, my head's on the swivel. What's going on? What in the ancestral boundaries are we talking about? [00:44:59] Speaker A: They call it to serve. [00:45:00] Speaker B: Oh, wait. [00:45:01] Speaker A: To Sir Philip with love. Like, I just don't. I'm not. I would have wanted it to be like, sort of a. Even like a Jo March situation where she's kind of, like, against it, and then. And then she ends up, like, publishing, like, a novel or something. You know, Eloise, the entire time has been like, women are. You know, there's so much more to women than, like, just getting married and having babies. So I wish there was something. And maybe they'll. They'll make it in the. In the show. [00:45:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:32] Speaker B: Because I'd hate for us to come this far. Just to come this far. You know what I mean? [00:45:35] Speaker A: Right. Right. Yeah. [00:45:36] Speaker B: That's tough. That's a tough one. Francesca and John, [00:45:42] Speaker A: she was a little annoying. [00:45:43] Speaker B: She was very annoying. [00:45:44] Speaker A: Really annoying. [00:45:45] Speaker B: You know, again, I'm working with nothing but just what I got in front of me, and I was like, little sister, open these blinds. [00:45:51] Speaker A: I know. [00:45:52] Speaker B: You don't even like that, man. [00:45:53] Speaker A: You don't even like that. I know. The thing is, like, she actually. She was better in the. In the. In the last season, and it was cute. The two of them got together and they basically, like, she was really quiet, so they would just, like, sit together and be quiet together. [00:46:07] Speaker B: Okay. [00:46:08] Speaker A: It was, like, kind of cute, but. Yeah. No, her whole thing with Michaela and just being like, are you come to bed? Why are you up so late? Like, that was really annoying. [00:46:18] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely. Also because, like, I feel like. Yeah. Maybe there's some indications there that you're like, okay, well, this is going to be, like, something that, you know, develops between them. But that's not necessarily. That's not necessarily clear. [00:46:35] Speaker A: You know what I mean? [00:46:36] Speaker B: No, it feels more so like she's just annoyed for the sake of being annoyed. [00:46:41] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:46:42] Speaker B: And as a viewer, it's like an. It's irritating because you're like, everybody's having a good time. [00:46:46] Speaker A: Yeah, everybody else is having a good time. Everybody else is like, oh, this is like, this girl's fun or whatever. And she's like, yeah, but she stays up really late. [00:46:56] Speaker B: Well, and she also. Francesca also acted a little bit that way, too, when People were like, grieving. [00:47:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:02] Speaker B: The loss of John, like, she was irritating to me about that too. Around that time too, because it was like she couldn't stand people like giving her condolences. She couldn't stand people being like, you know, just take some time to yourself. Don't worry about this. Like, why are you worried that there's not enough scones at the. Right, right at the reception? [00:47:20] Speaker A: Right. [00:47:21] Speaker B: Like, she would just get like weird with people. [00:47:24] Speaker A: Weird. I mean, just. Yeah, it. It was giving. Very self absorbed. It was like, oh, this is about me, you know, I don't know. [00:47:31] Speaker B: Girl, strap on that black dress and just get the hell on. [00:47:34] Speaker A: Seriously. They did have some, some. Them. Some chic style for the. Those, like those funeral dresses. [00:47:42] Speaker B: Yes. For the grief. The grief. Wardrobe. Wardrobe. Yes. Yes. Are you interested in the Francesca Michaela? [00:47:51] Speaker A: Not one bit. [00:47:51] Speaker B: Bit. [00:47:53] Speaker A: Not one bit. They're just not like. Okay, so one thing I was reading is like, what are the. Like this woman was ranking her favorite Bridgeton couples. [00:48:04] Speaker B: Yes. [00:48:05] Speaker A: And I don't really agree with it, but she put Benedict and what's her name? Sophie, as. As number one. [00:48:15] Speaker B: What? [00:48:15] Speaker A: Yes. [00:48:16] Speaker B: Really? [00:48:17] Speaker A: Yes. She put. Let's see, them is number one. Anthony and Kate is number two. Daphne and Simon is number three. Then Queen Charlotte, then Penelope and. And Colin being the worst. Yeah, I agree. Anthony and Kate was good. The acting on her side was not great. [00:48:37] Speaker B: I mean, if there's something that you have stood ten toes down about, it's that Simone. [00:48:41] Speaker A: Ashley. [00:48:42] Speaker B: Simone. Ashley's acting. Every time I see her now, it could be in that damned Nespresso commercial. And I'm like, Jillian Kearns is not feeling the thespian, this one. [00:48:51] Speaker A: I honestly, I don't know. Because the other thing is like, it's basically the like the Connor Story sound at live. I mean, not quite because Connor Story is like just out of this. Like he's in another planet. On another planet. But Jonathan Bailey, so good. [00:49:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:07] Speaker A: Everybody loves him. Like, everybody is sexually attracted to him. No matter your sexuality, your gender, whatever. Like you. We've all seen Wicked. [00:49:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:16] Speaker A: So. But, but like in the show, they did not have good chemistry. [00:49:24] Speaker B: No. [00:49:24] Speaker A: And not for his lack of trying. He really was. But she just like fell flat. Fell flat. They couldn't do the hard eyes, you know, like, he was really good at. She just like. I don't know, for whatever reason, a [00:49:35] Speaker B: little bit like, she was like, am I here? [00:49:37] Speaker A: Yeah. She was like disconnected and it was like, get like, get involved. Get involved. Yeah, but, but. So anyway, I can't even remember what we're talking about. [00:49:48] Speaker B: The rating of the couples. Rating of the couples. Well, now I am interested to understand what would your ranking of the couples be? [00:49:55] Speaker A: Okay, so I think there. I think my point was, like, there's different rankings in terms of, like, how much I like them and how much chemistry the actors had. I honestly think the first. The first couple had the most chemistry. [00:50:11] Speaker B: Okay. [00:50:12] Speaker A: There were some. Some spicy scenes and they were. They had chemistry in the first season. Yes. [00:50:18] Speaker B: Like, on par with, like. Because I thought. I was actually surprised at how spicy this. The scenes in this season. [00:50:24] Speaker A: Oh, spicier than that. [00:50:25] Speaker B: What? [00:50:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:26] Speaker B: Huh? [00:50:27] Speaker A: Like much spicy. [00:50:28] Speaker B: Let me log in. [00:50:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:30] Speaker B: Yes. Let me cut it off. [00:50:31] Speaker A: For sure. [00:50:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Renee Jean. [00:50:35] Speaker A: Yeah, Renee Jean, who is great. I mean, he is amazing. He is not coming back and. But he will be. [00:50:45] Speaker B: You in me. You in Tuscany, which we do plan to see in April. [00:50:48] Speaker A: Okay. So you. You might want to see that. [00:50:50] Speaker B: Okay. [00:50:50] Speaker A: And. And Jonathan Bailey. Yeah, there are some spices in that too. Oh, yeah. [00:50:55] Speaker B: What about Queen Charlotte? [00:50:57] Speaker A: I don't know. I didn't. I only saw the first couple. [00:51:00] Speaker B: My girl not getting loved on. [00:51:02] Speaker A: Yeah. And okay, so. And then the Colin and I've seen, like, little clips. Yeah. [00:51:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:08] Speaker A: Well, you know what? Interesting. What I read recently is that in the book, Penelope starts out as being, you know, curvier woman. Right. And then he doesn't notice her, and then she loses weight and then he notices her. No, it was. I'm so glad they didn't do that. And because Penelope. Beautiful, my Irish sister. Love it. [00:51:34] Speaker B: She's so pretty. [00:51:35] Speaker A: Yes. But they. Yeah, so they didn't. They didn't do that. But anyway, back to the chemistry. So Daphne and Simon, I think, have the most chemistry. So Renee. Whatever then. Oh, God, it's hard because Anthony and Kate. But Kate doesn't have it. It's only Anthony. [00:51:54] Speaker B: And then. [00:51:55] Speaker A: And then I would say Sophie and Benedict. I didn't really see Queen of Charlotte and then. And Colin and. But. But Sophie, I feel like, couldn't really do it. [00:52:05] Speaker B: Yeah. There are these two, I have to say. I mean, again, this was enjoyable, but if you're asking me about the chemistry that actually existed between them, I wasn't feeling it. [00:52:14] Speaker A: And I. I remember what I was gonna say. Mikayla and Francesca have. [00:52:20] Speaker B: Zero. None. Zero, none. There's no. There's no power zapping between the two of them. [00:52:26] Speaker A: I mean, their friendship isn't even interesting. You know what I mean? Like, it's just like, you know, who [00:52:31] Speaker B: is out here, like, dripping with Just straight, like, you know, charisma. And. [00:52:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:38] Speaker B: Is Marcus. [00:52:41] Speaker A: I know. [00:52:42] Speaker B: You know, you could feel it off of him. You. [00:52:44] Speaker A: Absolutely, absolutely. It is a little kind of story. You know, obviously they're very different, but there is Connor story. You look at him, he makes. He, like, raises his eyebrows, and you're like. Like, not him. Not him. Seducing me through the tv. [00:53:02] Speaker B: I know. I feel seduced. [00:53:03] Speaker A: Every time Marcus comes on, you're like, that little smile. It's like, okay. [00:53:08] Speaker B: And he's friendly the entire time. He's not doing anything overt. No, my man's just existing. [00:53:12] Speaker A: I know. I know. He looks good. [00:53:14] Speaker B: Which brings me to my next point. Okay, what would. Okay, so rankings. That's your rankings. [00:53:19] Speaker A: That's solid rankings. But honestly, if I think about it, Violet and Marcus probably have more chemistry than all of them. [00:53:24] Speaker B: Them? Yeah. Coming from behind. Exactly. [00:53:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:28] Speaker B: The couple that I kind of like. I want to know more about them is Will and. Is it Alice? [00:53:33] Speaker A: Oh, Alice Modridge. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:53:35] Speaker B: I like him. [00:53:36] Speaker A: Yeah. No, I like him. He. I think he was my favorite in this. Like, in previous seasons, it's kind of been like, I don't know where they fit in. Like, they're just kind of a random. And I'm not. You know, I'm not a. Like, a big fan of his. Like, he's just kind of boring. Okay. Yeah. [00:53:55] Speaker B: I liked it in the fact that his wife had a new job and she was feeling not secure in what to do. [00:54:02] Speaker A: I like that. [00:54:02] Speaker B: He was like, I'll do whatever you want to do. She was like, I might blow. I might blow our whole family stand. [00:54:07] Speaker A: And he was like, go, do it. [00:54:08] Speaker B: Do it. I'm. I'll be with you. [00:54:10] Speaker A: I love it. Yeah, we stay in. [00:54:11] Speaker B: The man then was like, here. Like, let's play box. So you feel like you're. That was cute. [00:54:16] Speaker A: That was really cute. [00:54:17] Speaker B: I was like, love this. I thought they were really good cute together. Who else was I going to bring up to you that I was curious about? Was it that couple? Can't remember. H. Oh, okay. Not me. Crying about Lady Danbury and Queen Charlotte. [00:54:39] Speaker A: I know. I did, too. [00:54:41] Speaker B: And their friendship. Because Queen Danbury's, like, leaving. She's, like, packing up her stuff. She's, like, moving. She's downsizing. She's getting a condo somewhere else. Yeah. But when they. At the party, when they laugh together, I. I was like. I was sitting on my couch crying. [00:54:55] Speaker A: I know. Or when she basically was like, Lady Danbury. And then she got up and she Would, you know, they didn't say anything, but basically, she was like. She nodded, you know, as if, like, yeah, you can go. I know. [00:55:08] Speaker B: I know. At the end, she was like, I'm gonna miss you. [00:55:10] Speaker A: I know. I. I like the two of those characters. I think the Queen is great. She's, like, laughing, you know, all the time. And love Lady Danbury. So, like. Yeah, I know. I was kind of sad. [00:55:21] Speaker B: I know. I'm sad that Lady Danbury has to go. [00:55:23] Speaker A: I'm like, she's gonna be back. I think, though. [00:55:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, girl, what. What are we doing? [00:55:27] Speaker A: Where are you going? [00:55:29] Speaker B: You got all your favorite things here. Favorite grocery stores down the corner. What are we doing? [00:55:32] Speaker A: You can set people up, play a little bit. You know, she. I love when. And the. The invitation, it was like, lady Danbury is going elsewhere. [00:55:43] Speaker B: Love that. [00:55:45] Speaker A: It's so funny. I did also, like, there was a cute moment where. Hold on. Let me see if I can re. Read it somewhere. Eloise. Oh, they bring in the. The Anthony's kid. So then the. The heir or whatever, and they're, like, passing around the baby. And Eloise goes, good day to the baby. [00:56:10] Speaker B: Yeah, she's me. [00:56:11] Speaker A: She's like, okay. [00:56:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Thank you so much. This is so fun. [00:56:15] Speaker A: I'm gonna go back to reading. [00:56:16] Speaker B: Yes, this is your Aunt Eloise. Thank you so much. That is so funny. [00:56:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:22] Speaker B: There was something else that's. Oh, okay. Speaking of the Queen, I'm sorry that I'm a little bit confused as to the ending of basically the whole situation in which they get Sophie and Benedict together in a way that the Queen approves. So how I'm confused about it is that they came to the Queen and were like, here's the latest Gossip Girl. Like, Bridgerton. Benedict is in love with a maid and, you know, whatever. And, like, basically sets it up to be like, it's this big love story. It's gossip. It's all everybody can think about. Blah, blah, blah. Like, he really is in love with her. It's not that he's just bedding her. He does. It's not a mistress situation. Like, he's for real about her. [00:57:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:06] Speaker B: And the Queen is like, that's great. But, like, that can't happen. And then. So then they go to the ball and they do this whole situation. Alice is, like, calls Araminta to that side room with Sophie in a bald gown, and Benedict and Violet, and they're all in there, and they're like, we know you've stolen from me. We know that you've Kept me in poverty and as a maid. Because you wanted my dowry so you can give it to, you know, your other petulant daughter, whatever. And so they basically tell, like, push Araminta in a corner and are like, you're not going to, like, pursue these charges against me when, like, you've lied, you've stolen all these things. [00:57:48] Speaker A: Right. [00:57:48] Speaker B: And so they create this story. It feels like in real time when the queen busts in the room and the queen is like, looks at Benedict and she's like, I heard that you were in love with the maid. [00:57:57] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:57:58] Speaker B: And then they're like, no, she's a noble woman of noble birth. [00:58:00] Speaker A: Yeah. That was weird to me. [00:58:01] Speaker B: And then the queen is just like, okay. Because all of a sudden. Not. I. Not. Her name's not Wendy. What's. What's the. [00:58:11] Speaker A: Alice. Alice. Yeah. [00:58:12] Speaker B: Wendy. Alice is like, oh, I was mistaken. I'm like, no queen would go, sure. Okay, that's fine. I've been told two different stories. I don't know which is which. Go ahead, get married. I don't care. [00:58:24] Speaker A: Right. I think it. I mean, I. I don't know. I. I would say that it's probably that she understood. Yeah. And basically it's like I'm gonna just, like, kind of turn my, you know, turn my head anyway. You know, it's like, okay, you can say that. And. Yeah. Go. Even knows she's a maid. [00:58:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:41] Speaker A: Yeah. It didn't really make sense because then it was like, what did Alice put her family at risk for? You know what I mean? It was confusing. Yeah. But, you know, I don't know. [00:58:52] Speaker B: I'm a little bit like, wow, how risky is this? Weren't they still beheading people back then? [00:58:55] Speaker A: I know, I know, I know, I know. And yeah. Yeah. I don't know. You know what Sophie needed, though? She needed a little lip sync. [00:59:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:07] Speaker A: Like, in the end, it was like, oh. Oh, my God. Yes. [00:59:10] Speaker B: Yes. Now, did you stay on through the ending credits to see the wedding? [00:59:14] Speaker A: Yes. [00:59:14] Speaker B: Okay. I was like, is this a little bit of a bonus situation? [00:59:17] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yeah. Because you did, like. It was crazily, like, right after the. Right after the credits. Yeah, Yeah. [00:59:25] Speaker B: I was like, are most people staying for this? [00:59:27] Speaker A: Yeah, it was. I liked it, though. Like, compared with the other Bridgeton weddings that were like, all, like. One of them was in the. In the. Whatever, the castle or whatever, and it was just sweet. It was like a sweet. [00:59:39] Speaker B: It was. It was sweet. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? I do have a question about The. Well, okay. I love the fact that like, you know, obviously over on Benedict's side, you've got all the Bridgerton, all the, all the folks over there. And then on the left hand side, it's like all of the support staff. It's like, I love that. All the footmen, all the. I know. He walked her down the aisle. And then you got John. Say John's a little cutie. The. Oh, the footman. [01:00:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, absolutely. [01:00:07] Speaker B: And I like that he likes the maid who is, you know, she's got a little bit of a disability. [01:00:12] Speaker A: Amputee. Love it, Love it. Yeah. Oh, I think I said this last. I. I like John, I like him. Bring him in. [01:00:18] Speaker B: But I'm also a little bit like, now that Sophie is, you know. [01:00:22] Speaker A: I know. What's that going to be like? [01:00:23] Speaker B: What's this? [01:00:24] Speaker A: I know. Is she looking at friends? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get me Mike a cup of tea. You know, I will say one other thing is that I did love so Benedict and honestly, I think a little bit. [01:00:40] Speaker B: Give me a cup of tea. [01:00:41] Speaker A: Can I have a cup of tea? I think a little bit of this is like, maybe Anthony would be in the show more, but because it's Jonathan Bailey, he's booked and busy. You know what I mean? So, like when Benedict spoke at the funeral and was like, normally this would be my brother. Like, maybe it was the brother. It's just that, like, yeah, he, you know, Jonathan is off. [01:01:03] Speaker B: I just think it's so funny that Jonathan's like on this whirlwind, like booked and busy tour. He's in blockbuster films. He's doing this, that and the third. He's like, I could pop into a couple episodes of Bridgeton. [01:01:13] Speaker A: I mean, I think it's great. I think it's honestly, like, it's good because this is. This kind of launched him into stardom. So he's. Yeah, but Benedict was like, you know, when you talk about this, when Francesca was like, I'm with child. And then. And then Benedict came in and was like, no, you can't. Like, she's like, I don't want an examination. And Benedict's like, no, no. And. And then when he spoke at the funeral, like, he just was like, sweetly supporting all of his siblings. But yeah, when that examination happened, that was traumatic. That was really traumatic. Yeah. [01:01:49] Speaker B: I mean, God, I was like, how much loss can this woman have? [01:01:52] Speaker A: I know, I know. It was sad. [01:01:54] Speaker B: And it's also sad based on what we said earlier, where it's like she feels that she failed in some Way. [01:02:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:02:02] Speaker B: Because she. [01:02:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:02:03] Speaker B: She couldn't do her duty in giving him a child. [01:02:09] Speaker A: The egg is only 50 of it. [01:02:11] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. [01:02:12] Speaker A: You know what I mean? [01:02:12] Speaker B: Off. I hate it. [01:02:15] Speaker A: But yeah, I don't know. That was. But anyway, yeah, Benedict was like a, you know, a cute older brother. [01:02:20] Speaker B: Yeah. All in all, I enjoyed it. [01:02:23] Speaker A: Yes. [01:02:23] Speaker B: I'm gonna go back and watch some old seasons, I think. [01:02:25] Speaker A: I mean, you should watch the first season. [01:02:29] Speaker B: I want to watch the. Yeah, well, you know, I'm encouraged. I also want to go back and watch Jonathan Bailey season too. [01:02:37] Speaker A: The second and you know, we do. So. So the bathtub scene and then that first scene. [01:02:41] Speaker B: First of all, Benedict Bridgerton. [01:02:43] Speaker A: He knows. [01:02:43] Speaker B: He looked like he knew what he was doing. [01:02:45] Speaker A: He. [01:02:46] Speaker B: I texted you. I texted you that. I said, oh, not him looking like he knows what he's doing. [01:02:50] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, in both of those scenes. Yeah, I know. [01:02:53] Speaker B: Both of them. [01:02:55] Speaker A: Okay. [01:02:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:56] Speaker A: He was confident. [01:02:57] Speaker B: You know, when a man looks like he does. [01:02:59] Speaker A: I know, I know. [01:03:00] Speaker B: And. And sometimes you don't see. Sometimes you, you watch sex scenes and you're like, I'm not moved by this. [01:03:05] Speaker A: Yes, yes. They're not involved. They're not. [01:03:07] Speaker B: No. [01:03:08] Speaker A: This man was involved, right? Yes, he was. Yeah. [01:03:10] Speaker B: I'll watch it again. [01:03:11] Speaker A: I know. [01:03:12] Speaker B: I might play it back. There you go. [01:03:14] Speaker A: There you go. [01:03:15] Speaker B: I was sitting there going, oh, yeah, yeah, Good job. [01:03:18] Speaker A: Yeah, Love this. I know. The bathtub scene was something else. [01:03:22] Speaker B: Good for them. [01:03:23] Speaker A: I know. [01:03:24] Speaker B: Well, and I know you really liked it because she was like, I. I just, I can't. She wasn't willing to. [01:03:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:03:30] Speaker B: Have. [01:03:31] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And he's. It's okay. [01:03:33] Speaker B: Turn around, turn around. And I will. [01:03:38] Speaker A: And I sat. [01:03:41] Speaker B: Yes. Yes. I'm. I'm on time for this. [01:03:44] Speaker A: Yes. [01:03:44] Speaker B: But then I'm a little bit like, God, also, that would just be miserable because the water is getting cold. [01:03:48] Speaker A: Oh, I know. Do you know, I read somewhere that that was a seven hour filming of that scene. She was like, oh, somebody was pruning. [01:03:56] Speaker B: Not my areola. Just out for seven hours. Can you imagine? [01:04:02] Speaker A: Oh, my God. No. Yeah. No. I don't know. But it was good. It was good. On that note, on that note, I think we're done with the discussion. [01:04:13] Speaker B: Watch season four, Bridgerton. [01:04:15] Speaker A: Watch season four, please. [01:04:17] Speaker B: Gowns. Beautiful gowns. [01:04:19] Speaker A: And yeah, I mean, honestly, like the last thing, I guess was that, you know, every love story now since [01:04:30] Speaker B: heedo [01:04:31] Speaker A: rivalry, I will measure it against that show and there's just not many that measure up. [01:04:38] Speaker B: You know, it's a little bit like, when you. It's a little bit like. This is a bad analogy. It's a little bit like when you brush your teeth and then you go and you eat something sweet or you eat something that's supposed to have a taste, and you can't taste it because it. You're. You're covered in, like, you know, you're already. Your mouth is already impressioned by. [01:04:55] Speaker A: Yeah, right, right. [01:04:57] Speaker B: That's a little bit of how heated rivalry has impacted my ability to watch relationships on TV play out. Because I'm like, once you see something play out in a very, like, good way, and, like, chemistry is good. This. You know, the. The sex scenes are impactful. Both people, like, are involved. People know what they're. You know what they're doing. But also, yes, the emotional vulnerability and connection, it's like, that's so rare. And so now everything is falling short. [01:05:26] Speaker A: I know, I know. [01:05:28] Speaker B: I'm sorry. Like, I. I did during certain parts of the show go, am I supposed to swoon? [01:05:33] Speaker A: I know exact. What's crazy is, like, when I read, like, reviews on it, and. And there are people that are like, oh, my God, that was so. They have such great chemistry. I'm like, were you not watching Heat of Rivalry? Like, what? But even before that, I would have been like, I wouldn't have felt it, you know? [01:05:52] Speaker B: No. [01:05:53] Speaker A: You know, there. So, yeah. When you actually, like, go back and think about it, there aren't many shows and movies where they have actual chemistry. [01:06:01] Speaker B: Yeah. No. [01:06:01] Speaker A: You know where I will say one day, great chemistry. Great chemistry in there. [01:06:06] Speaker B: That was such a good show. [01:06:08] Speaker A: Such a good show. They have great chemistry. [01:06:10] Speaker B: But if you like, such a slow burn between those two. [01:06:15] Speaker A: Oh, my God. When he goes to Paris to visit her. [01:06:19] Speaker B: But. [01:06:19] Speaker A: But you know what I mean? So it's like, there are. When you know it, you know it. When you see it, you're like, this is it. Yeah. But most of it is just not great. [01:06:28] Speaker B: No. And I would put this a little bit in that category. [01:06:32] Speaker A: I know. [01:06:33] Speaker B: Good to watch. [01:06:33] Speaker A: Overall fun to watch. [01:06:35] Speaker B: The chemistry just wasn't there in the way that, like, we just. We deserve it. [01:06:40] Speaker A: We deserve it. We deserve Connor and Hudson. [01:06:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:43] Speaker A: Shane and Ilia. Yeah. [01:06:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:46] Speaker A: Sad. [01:06:46] Speaker B: We're not getting it. [01:06:47] Speaker A: No, no. On that note. [01:06:55] Speaker B: Yes, on that note. Let's see here. Let me pull here. You know, let's head on over to the marriage market. [01:07:03] Speaker A: Okay. [01:07:03] Speaker B: Okay. This week we are on the hunt to catch a very eligible suitor and be the talk of the season. You know something? Lady Whistledown can't get enough of. [01:07:13] Speaker A: Yep. [01:07:13] Speaker B: So let me go over here to our little gameplay. Hold on just a second. Let me pull this bad boy up. Okay. Okay. We're going to play this in the style of mash. [01:07:29] Speaker A: Okay. [01:07:30] Speaker B: But I basically. I don't know, it. It'll be a little bit of like. It'll be like mash, but not. It'll be a little bit like the Cosmo quiz situation. But, you know, I'll give you options to choose from. Okay. Now, the way this is going to work is we are going to. Basically, you're going to tell me, of course, in the name of mash, where the mansion. Apartment. Shacker House, would be. [01:07:57] Speaker A: Yes. [01:07:57] Speaker B: But then I'm giving you options for suitors who you would marry, what your sort of goal or ambition for the season is, of course, the scandal that rocks your situation, and then ultimately what your legacy is. Okay. And then, you know, we'll just have Lady Whistledown at the end, just kind of, you know, make the announcement to her loyal readers. Okay. [01:08:23] Speaker A: You're gonna make that announcement. [01:08:25] Speaker B: Lady Whistledown will make that announcement. [01:08:33] Speaker A: I'm so sad for that. [01:08:35] Speaker B: What is your again? What is your Bridgerton name, miss? [01:08:42] Speaker A: Oh, Lady Kathleen. Lady Kathleen. Don Leaton. [01:08:51] Speaker B: Don Layotin. [01:08:51] Speaker A: Wait, wait. Yeah. [01:08:54] Speaker B: That's your street name? [01:08:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Don Leighton of, let's say, Lacroix Shire. Love it. [01:09:04] Speaker B: Let me make sure I get. I got this right, because a Lady Whistledown wants it to be right. Lady Kathleen Don Leighton of Lakosha. [01:09:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, that's perfect. Yeah. A little bit of French in there. Yeah. [01:09:20] Speaker B: Because, you know, Lady Whistledown is a little French. Okay. Where is your mansion? [01:09:28] Speaker A: London. [01:09:31] Speaker B: Okay. Where's your apartment? [01:09:32] Speaker A: My parchment is. Is in. Let's say I can pick anywhere. [01:09:38] Speaker B: Anywhere. [01:09:38] Speaker A: Okay. Let's talk about Paris. [01:09:40] Speaker B: Love that. Okay. Your shack. I'm going to answer this for you. America. [01:09:47] Speaker A: Amer. Just America. That's it. [01:09:50] Speaker B: Yep. And where's your house? [01:09:52] Speaker A: My house is on the English countryside. [01:09:56] Speaker B: Look at that. [01:09:58] Speaker A: My cottage. [01:09:59] Speaker B: Your cottage? Yes. Okay. As far as suitors go, are you getting with one? The brooding duke who refuses to say I love you. The absurdly wealthy viscount with no personality. [01:10:16] Speaker A: Okay. [01:10:16] Speaker B: The idealistic revolutionary who writes you poetry. Your rival's former suitor. The childhood friend who suddenly got high. Hot or no one, you scandalously refuse marriage. [01:10:30] Speaker A: Let me go with the childhood friend that suddenly got hot. [01:10:33] Speaker B: Love that. Okay. Okay, great. What's your ambition for the season? Crown diamond of the season. Every season. Secret political manipulator of Parliament. Hostess of the most exclusive Salon in London. Anonymous author of society's most devastating scandal sheets. Escape to the countryside with quiet power. You're like, I'm not going down. [01:11:07] Speaker A: No. [01:11:08] Speaker B: Publicly retired, but privately running everything. [01:11:12] Speaker A: I would either go with the political or probably the Lady Whistledown. Probably the scandal sheet. [01:11:19] Speaker B: Scandal sheet. [01:11:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:11:22] Speaker B: Okay. [01:11:23] Speaker A: You know, I love Good People magazine. [01:11:25] Speaker B: I know. Let's see. Great. [01:11:34] Speaker A: Okay. [01:11:35] Speaker B: What's your scandal of the season? Is it caught in a moonlit garden at midnight? A secret engagement reveals too soon. A letter exposing your true motives as published. Your public. Your publicly. You publicly snubbed the Queen Death. Yeah. You were never truly in love or you eloped without permission. [01:12:00] Speaker A: Oh, let's do Caught in the Moonlight. [01:12:02] Speaker B: Ooh, [01:12:04] Speaker A: that hot childhood friend. [01:12:06] Speaker B: Yes. Can't fight the moonlight. No. [01:12:16] Speaker A: Honestly, I recently rewatched that movie, like maybe in the last couple years. [01:12:20] Speaker B: I love that. [01:12:21] Speaker A: I know. [01:12:25] Speaker B: What a. What a film that was. Your air Legacy. A house full of children in constant chaos. Yes. One dramatic, brilliant heir. No children. Unlimited freedom. Compelling. Raising a secret ward with a mysterious past devoted to power, not parenthood. You become the favorite and most influential aunt in society. [01:12:56] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Last one. [01:12:57] Speaker B: Are you kidding? Okay. Okay, great. Thank you for this. So, basically, let me see. [01:13:08] Speaker A: It's going to be like a combination of. Yeah, it's just gonna be. You're gonna tell me who it is or. [01:13:13] Speaker B: No, I'm just basically. That creates your introduction to. Basically your. Your story in the latest, you know, whistle down papers. Okay. Dearest gentle listener, it is with particular interest that this author announces Ms. Lady Kathleen Darleyton of Laquasha. [01:13:36] Speaker A: You're doing a good job. [01:13:38] Speaker B: Shall marry. Hold on. Hold on. The childhood friend who suddenly got hot. Let's see. Hold on. Sorry. [01:13:50] Speaker A: You know, I could not stand when Alfie would go so far. So far. [01:13:54] Speaker B: Ew. So gross. Okay. Reside in a mansion in London. Pursue a life of being an anonymous author of society's most. [01:14:07] Speaker A: Hold on. [01:14:08] Speaker B: Let me see. Society's most devastating scandal sheets. While enduring the scandal of [01:14:20] Speaker A: being caught [01:14:20] Speaker B: in a moonlit garden at midnight. [01:14:24] Speaker A: Can't fight the moonlight. [01:14:26] Speaker B: No. And ultimately be remembered for becoming the favorite and most influential on society. [01:14:35] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:14:36] Speaker B: One cannot help but wonder, was this destiny or design? [01:14:40] Speaker A: Oh, love it. Oh, my God. I'm reading it. That was a great dramatic reading. I think you won the part. [01:14:48] Speaker B: Thank you. Thank you. I'm preparing for my eventual move to London. [01:14:53] Speaker A: Dear. Imagine London. [01:14:54] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Once democracy dies. [01:14:57] Speaker A: Yes. Yes. It'll. It's going to be gone. Yeah. [01:14:59] Speaker B: There we go. That's it for me. [01:15:02] Speaker A: I think that's it. It's been a wonderful episode. [01:15:05] Speaker B: Thank you so much for listening. And as always, if you're feeling the vibe, rate and subscribe. [01:15:12] Speaker A: Rate and subscribe. We also want to give a shout out to Christian McCann for making sure our sound stays intact. Check. Thank you so much, Christian. And as always, thanks to the illustrious Lincoln Lodge in Chicago, Illinois, for letting us do our thing. O. I'm hoping that I didn't get a parking ticket anyway. [01:15:31] Speaker B: Lady Kathleen D. You would not get a ticket. [01:15:37] Speaker A: Hopefully not. I parked at the Walgreens. [01:15:42] Speaker B: All right. That's our show. [01:15:43] Speaker A: That's our show. Bye. Bye.