March 4, 2025 • 55 mins
You're not my wife! Exchange vows for farcical fiancés, women in the workforce, and suspicious SIM cards. The person most confused by the film this week was: Phool, but that is the patriarchy's fault.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Toss Popcorn is a production of iHeartRadio. Hi. I'm Sienna
Jacole and I'm Leanna Holsten, and welcome to Tossed Popcorn,
the podcast where two idiots watched every film on the
(00:20):
AFI's one hundred Greatest American Movies of All Time, the
very slightly less racist tenth Anniversary edition, and are now
spending our time watching movies directed by women. Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
This podcast is a safe train station for people who
don't know anything about movies. Today we're watching Lapta ladies. Whooh,
there's no shame in being an idiot, but being.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Proud about it. That's shameful. Get it out of my.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Sight, a film recommended by a pal who you'll hear
all about. Warning there will be spoilers about this women
recent film.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh come on, well, Leanna, listen to your predictions.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Okay, shall I play you mine? Since twas I who
put the film on the list.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yes, it's only fair.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Hi Sienna, it's Leanna. I'm about to watch Lapata Ladies.
I don't know anything about this except that actually friend
of the pod recommended it and said it's a good time,
so I predict I will have a good time.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, that's it's oh my gosh, okay, great, great knowledge
to have going into it, exciting knowledge to have, exciting
knowledge to have.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Now, shall we listen to my excited to have my knowledge? Yes? Please?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
There's at least one second that I forgot what I
was saying, and I have to edit it out. Ready, Hi, Leanna,
I'm about to watch. I hope that's pronounced correctly. This
looks like it's a Hindi language, though, and I haven't
seen anything else about that except for the fact that
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it's two hours or something. It's okay because those ladies.
My predictions for this movie, I don't know, but I
am praying. I'm sorry. I don't know, but my hope
is that it's about sisters.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, kind of.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Maybe it's about sisters, kind of sisters. Okay, I love you, goodbye.
I don't know why I was so close to the mic.
I don't know what happened. I do apologize.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
That's okay, I forgive you. I mean there there was sisterhood, certainly.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
M sisterhood galorn mm mmmm well before we talk about it.
Hey girl, Hey girl girl, how's it going? Girl? Girls? Girl?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Oh girl. I was supposed to get my visa decision
this past Monday from the government and I still haven't no, no,
And I called the government yesterday. I said hi me again,
remember me from last time? And asked, uh, is anything
(03:20):
like wrong? And they were like no, there's just a
backlog of visa applications to be processed. Yeah. And I
was like, okay, well, do you have a sense of
like how long the delay will be and they were
like no, they have not given us a timeline. And
I was like, okay, my current visa expires two weeks
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from tomorrow. Will that be an issue? And they were
like no, because while they're making a decision on your
next one, you're allowed to remain in the country. And
I'm like yeah, but if they say no to the
next one and it's after my old one has expired,
what I was like, Okay, I have a plane ticket
to fly to America two weeks and two days from
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tomorrow for a family obligation. If I haven't heard about
the visa by then, can I still go? And they
were like, we don't recommend traveling while your visa application
is being processed, so we just don't know yet. We
just don't know. We cannot know, and my body is
(04:28):
giving in. It really is like the physiological the damage
my body is taking from these hits is intense in
what way. I it kind of hurts to breathe. My
toe really hurts, my left big toe. I have a
(04:49):
lot of of course, my visa toe, my visa toe
is so I don't know if I broke it or
if I've been wearing boots with a heel too much
and it's feeling overused. I'm not really sure what's going
on with my toe, but it's it's been speaking up recently.
It's been speaking out, asking for what it needs. Unfortunately
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I can't understand it to give it then it whatever
it is that it needs. So my toe is in
anguish my shoulders. Of course, I keep planning like, well,
once I get the decision whatever it is, I'm going
to get a massage because at least then I can
let go of the tension I've been holding onto. But
I still can't get a massage because I still don't
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have a decision. Well, Leonna, you could get a massage. No,
that would jinx it, I don't think so if I
got a massage before a visa confirmation, I would be
deported immediately we.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Don't recommend getting don't recommend getting a massage while your
application is being reviewed. If there was an AI unfortunately
trying to do what is ruining your life right now,
it would be this. It would be like, I'm waiting
on my visa decision, m and it's the country I'm
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asking for a visa in doesn't work. Dude, that sucks.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So now it's like I just have to pick a
day well, depending on I guess American Airlines by which
if I haven't heard, I gotta cancel that flight. Baby,
I cannot go. Please recredit those miles to my account. Damn,
I'm sorry to my cousin. It is I mean, I
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will say it's the most iron clad excuse, yeah for
not making a wedding. If you don't have all time
and they don't let you back in, I can't leave
the I can't come to your wedding because I'm not
allowed to leave the country that I'm in, which is
not the one that your wedding is happening in, because
I'm trying to get a visa so as to not
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have to live in the country where your wedding is happening. Right. Sorry, Sorry, anyway,
sorry to this cousin, Sorry to this cousin.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Well, girl, I'm so sorry. No sorry, I've heard not
countless things of this sort happening to you at this point,
and I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, at least I know where my passport is, yes,
because I didn't have to mail it in this time around.
Is that a bird chirping outside of your window? Because
it's really beautiful? Oh, please keep it, don't do anything
to change that. I love it. Okay, I need I
need something that's gorgeous right now.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yes, I don't know if I told you. I changed
the configuration of my room, but now I record near
the window and I love that. So oh yes, yes,
hey girl, hey girl. Springtime in Los Angeles is here,
and I realized this is the only time I really
feel like I I enjoy it here in this area.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, because spring. I've always loved spring. And it's really
it's really sweet here, you know, like school's still in session,
but you can feel that people are excited about the
sun coming out, and there's animals coming back.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And animals are coming back.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Animals, animals are back, baby animals are.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Back doing the animals leave La for a time.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I mean, there haven't been birds chirping in this way. Okay,
maybe they're migrated over here. Yeah, but uh, let's see. Okay,
I'm going on tour, which we have to announce, but
I'll be going on tour with my puppet group. Uh,
I just can never say it. I'm going on tour
(08:47):
with my puppet group. We're touring with a musician. It's
gonna be so interesting. I'm actually getting really excited. But
we are going to like we're going to be in
the car for whole long. Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
How who? What's are the logistics set to do? People
like which vehicle people are going in? Okay, what are
the logistics? What the logistics are?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
A big car with a trailer on the back.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Wow, So we're going.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Phoenix south by southwest Oklahoma City?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Oklahoma City, which is the one place where we can't
find anyone who will talk to us. I'm on outreach
and I've been trying to like I've you know, been
saying that does anybody know anybody from there? And somebody
will know somebody who has a roommate, and yeah, they
just they won't put me in contact with the person.
And then there was one guy who reached out to
me based on my story post and he was like,
(09:42):
uh huh, I have all sorts of connections in Oklahoma
City and I went, oh, my gosh, that would be great.
You have recommendations of like publications or radio shows or
little things that we can try to just alert Yeah,
he ghosted me. Oh and I've messaged three times now.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
WUTF So anyway, it's all good. Wow, are you having
to do all the publicity on behalf of the musician.
It's kind of weird in that way the musicians doing
He's doing his own, but we're doing it all together,
so we're kind of it's like a joint situation. But
we're trying to contact other DIY artist people because they're
(10:23):
yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Yeah damn country. Yeah, I'm excited for it, but it's
I'm one of my one of my jobs that I've
made up and took upon myself is fiber coordinator because
I do not up on the road anyway. Yes, I'm
fiber coordinator because I'm so scared of being on the
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road and being completely stopped up for three and a
half thanks, I'm really scrash.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Are you going to do your poop speech.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
My poop speech, you mean, like when I want gave
a poop speech to what you're staying with a friend.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That's exactly what I mean. I think about it so often.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yes, listeners, I was once staying with a group and
I was like, I need everybody to be out of
the house when I try to use the bathroom, so
I give a poop speech, and they like, weren't. I
thought they were going to be like I thought they
were gonna be like, oh my god, you're so funny,
don't even worry about it. But they were kind of like, uh, oh, okay,
well leave.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I just loved what you were trying to do, something revolutionary,
you know, which, as you said to a group of people,
you said, it's important that we all acknowledge at some
point this weekend, I'm going to have to poop and
it's going to happen, and we all need to be adults.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And you didn't want to hear it about it.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Unbelievable, unacceptable behavior. They are the problem, really really going
out on a limb. Poopets poop.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I know we're all thinking about for you to have,
but I hope someone's thinking about the poopets poop.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It's you are You're on fiber duty.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah. Yeah, So anyway, it'll be interesting. Stay tuned, you'll
be regular. If anybody knows anybody in Oklahoma City, please
hit me up. The important thing is we will be
taking a few weeks off. We'll be back again in
early April. Stay tuned. You can watch on our Instagram.
But until then, have a good little springtime, Happy Lent,
Happy Women's Month, and happy Women's Month.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Mmm, great, gorgeen.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Well, Leanna, shall we talk about this dang movie?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Oh my gosh, speaking of travel.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, speaking of being in a vehicle, yeah, and being concerned.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Could you please give us a synopsis of the film
Lapata Ladies.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yes, I wrote this immediately after watching it last night,
and it is very long. Okay, great, Okay, Lapata Ladies.
I will sit back and relax, which apparently in Hindi
means missing ladies.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
After a farcical post nuptial train situation, two identically dressed
brides in India gets switched. Deepak ends up back at
his village with the wrong woman, and Pool ends up
lost at the train station where she stepped off with
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the other husband. But don't worry about that right now.
The wrong woman in question that I just mentioned is Jaya,
but she, while in Deepak's town, lies about everything because
her new husband that I just mentioned a second ago
is terrible and she really wants to go to agriculture school,
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so she uses this as a time to lay low
before going to school. But then she lies to everybody,
so everybody suspicious all the time. It makes you seem
really suspicious, especially because there's a group of fake bride
bandits on the loose, by the way, which also complicates
things because the police are involved a lot. The police,
by the way, are super corrupt, which also complicates things.
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And then meanwhile, well Pool can't remember the name of
any villages she either came from or is going to
because she was raised to be uninformed and helpless dude
to society, which they do discuss. And also, by the way,
in this culture, girls aren't even supposed to say their
husband's names out loud, so everything gets really complicated. But
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at the end of the day, it's feminist and warm
and funny and awesome, and everything turns out great. Yes
the end, Yes, everyone finds each other. Who needs to
find everybody who doesn't want to be together.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
They aren't. Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, me, Oh my.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Gosh, I'm lost. Do you remember the name of the
podcast I was just doing? Does anybody remember I never
wrote down the name of the podcast I was doing,
So I'll just have to sleep here for three days.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
We'll be right back, yes, oh, Sienna, let's jump into
phone notes. That's the section where we read the notes
(15:17):
that we took on our I almost said, on each
other's phones. Oh, we read each other's notes watching the
film first of all, just up top, what do you
think I mean, I'm getting it, so I'm gidding a vibe.
I loved it so much. Oh my god, I had
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the best time watching this.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I loved it. I loved it. It was so fun
it was I literally called Kelsey in the middle of
watching it because I'm like, I have to tell you
what's happening in this. Oh my god, I love that.
And then I went to my God and told her
the same thing. And that's what I found out. It's
actually kind of difficult to describe because one girl, let
(15:59):
me just try, comes out names. One girl is at
the train station but she got off well the other guy.
But the guy's bad but and then the other girl,
she seems bad, but I don't know if she's going
to be bad. It seems like she's doesn't like her husband,
but like she's at the village and and the other
two are really in love. Anyway, I loved it.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I loved it the premise alone. As soon as they
got on the train and there were like three people
in the same outfit and you couldn't tell who was who.
I said, Oh, okay, oh I love that. Oh I
love that. It really was like a true farce. It
was extremely farce.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
And be like there are things all the and then
it's complicated by the fact that there are certain cultural
practices that make it. Like when it turned out that
she was lying, but when they asked Jaya, they're like, well,
why didn't you see it was your husband? And she's like,
I'm supposed to look down. It's wedding day, and I have.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
To look down. I literally can't see through the day.
One So there's like one cell phone. Yeah, crap, it's
it's a crap Nokia. It probably still would work today,
to be fair, but farce.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh I loved, Oh, I just loved I'm so glad, Yes,
thank you to actionha, thank you. Action say. Okay, Leanna,
you said, oh.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I just remembered you said.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Honestly, at this point, I could be down for an
arranged marriage. Okay, let's talk about that. Let's talk about
that the best we can. Let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Nothing in my life is in control right now, and
so at this point, I'm like, you know what, somebody
else take the reins and tell me what to do,
because I don't like the feeling like I can't do anything.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
It completely is one of those practices that you're like, oh,
I completely. I wish there was some form of that,
like of matchmaking that existed in our culture that you
could go like the you weren't as in control of
I know they have because you're like, I want a
trusted person to match me with somebody else, and we're
both just good with the situation.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
It's fine. Yeah, it's a okay whatever. And I don't
even know if these marriages I don't know if, I mean,
was their marriage arranged? Their's They seemed like I know
Jayas was, but these two were in love, which was
very sweet. But I was just like, listen, I maybe
that's what I've been missing. It's just somebody else to
(18:28):
arrange it because I'm not doing any work. Yeah, I'm
not trying at all, totally well, and I feel like
there's so much pressure in our culture to like find
the one, yeah, find the perfect match. And I'm like,
maybe it doesn't have to be that. Maybe just find
something which I might have to do if this visa
gets denied, I might have to arrange a marriage.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh that would be so fun. Wait, please.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Please, Leanna.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You've said I have nothing to offer as a wife TM.
Are you talking about your own personal dowry?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah? Yeah, I was thinking about that. I was like,
I mean I could have I could I could offer
like monetary whatever, But in terms of like being a
traditional domestic wife TM, I do not have anything to offer.
I cannot cook, what is I don't want to like
maintain the home. I hate children. I'm not doing that.
(19:30):
It's possible that I won't bang you, like there's just
it's arguably zero's across the board from me.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I have a few thoughts, and I think these are important.
So I'm gonna say, Okay, So I've been watching Love
Is Blind. It's a very boring season. Unfortunately everybody d
C or which city. This one is Minneapolis. So everybody
talks like this, they'll be like, I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Everyone broke up in the pod. I love that.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
So now there's only like there's been no reveals, no,
not everyone. There's like four couples, but there were a
couple more couples that were clearly going to be some
of the like exciting ones, and then they broke up
because unfortunately I respect themselves. Oh so there's not as
many now, and nothing dramatic is happening. I love that
there is one guy who's really really bad, but all
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the bad is happening slowly, so it's like not good TV.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Oh, very boring.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
But what's interesting is even the couples who are getting along,
there's this weird thing on reality TV that I just
think people who don't think too hard about their partners
can speak this way, which is this concept of like, oh,
I really want to come home to this, this is
what I want for my partner. I love if there
was somebody who when I get home, like this is
what's ready for me. It's like that's not what a
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partner should employ at all. That's like what a robot
in your house does, know it trips me up so much.
The idea that you could love somebody and be like,
it's just so perfect, because I always wanted somebody who
would have this waiting for me when I get home.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Same you. Yeah, but that would be me. I wouldn't
have anything waiting for you. I'd be on the couch.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
And that should be enough. And you guys make dinner together.
That should be enough. Anyway. The other thing is, I
think we have to decide right now what is our dowry?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, what would you put in your dowry?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
What is my dawry? Right now? My dowry would be
I have a good My family is good at talking
about things, so I can provide that sort of a
good conversational bass that's holidays would be like enjoyable and
if you need to talk through an issue, you know,
it's a good place to do it. I have a
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dad who understands business and finance. M m hm, so
I can provide a business dad. Let's see what do
I have in terms of things. I have a guitar.
I have one of those you know those things that
you plug into your laptop that like adapts it.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
To the Oh yeah, that's really useful. Yeah, that's really helpful.
You definitely everybody should have that in their dowry.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, so I think that's mostly it. And then an
understanding of as a as a wife, I would provide
a real, a real desire to avoid the sun, like
to sun protection.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I think you bring that too, Yeah, I sure do.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
This is the sun Protected podcast, Pale Pod, Pale Pod.
What about you.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I have a really large plush seal yeah, uh huh,
called Prince Herbert. But he can fit into almost any suitcase.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
That's amazing. That is amazing I have.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I have a Colorado flag, a flag from my home state,
so if I ever got lost, I would remember where
I'm from because I have the flag right from where
that is. I have the patience to do a really
overly needlessly complex paint by number, but not the discipline
(23:07):
to finish it in anything under four years.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Sure, but you know, and to finish something after four
years is actually really that's really that's really impressive, because
I feel like once you give up, Once I give
up on something, I don't go back.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, I guess that's the I guess I won't. I
don't give up on things. Is that true? No, I
give up on friendships really easily.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Well, friendships are different than a paint by number.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Else, I think I'm I'm a little bit too Like
my visa decision is still up in the air, and
there's been scaffolding on our balcony for a month now
blocking out the light. So I think I'm really too
mentally ill to Yeah, have a sturdy dowry beyond those
items totally.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Well, if mental illness stop people from partnering up, then
it would be very different world. So I think you're good. Yeah,
Well that's been our dowry. And we both have a podcast.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Oh yeah, we each can offer fifty percent of a podcast.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Fifty percent of a podcast that's owned mostly percentage by
a big corporation.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oh yeah, not nice who for licensing reasons, they might
not even be able to serve.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
We own it, actually a very small percentage of our
own podcast. We both own some pretty expensive microphones.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That's my dowry. Oh god, I'm not giving a microphone
to a man.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Oh, we have to give it to them.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Isn't that the whole thing of a dowry?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
It is bold.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Oh, they just kind of knew it was there, Leanna,
You've said it'd be really funny, like putting a dowry
together of stuff you're you don't want. Uh huh, You're like, oh,
I've been actually trying to get rid of this thing.
So do you want these old tennis shoes or like
this that I can't donate?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
It's my dowry. Here you go, Leanna. Did you watch
the dub or the sub?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I watched the subtitled version. Dub dubbing makes me feel
crazy watching a film that's then been dubbed in the
English language. But you watched the I watched the dub,
and at certain points a couple of times I switched
to the sub just because it was like they were
making a joke or something that I wanted to hear
in the original language. So I got to hear everybody's
(25:36):
actual voices, which was really helpful.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Oh. I enjoyed the dub. It wasn't It wasn't a
really bad dub, And I also had the sub on
it at the same time, so I could see like,
what the different translations whow yeah, whoa. I enjoyed it,
But I was eating dinner and I was like, I
don't want to have to read what I understand. Yeah,
but you wrote down this line that I also saw,
which is your blunder would even shock our ancestors? That
(26:02):
was so funny. There were some amazing lines in.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
This can I hm, I don't mean for this to
be mean, but it might sound mean. Are you in
a place where you can hear something like that. Yes,
that line made me.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Think of you. Thank you so much. I've made a
number of blunders. I loved the word blunder. It's like
so and it does. It evokes something where I'm like, yes,
my blunder, my blunder.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
That would shock even our ancestors.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Blunder, I've made a blunder that would shock even my ancestors.
Like sometimes you make a blunder that would shock even
your ancestors. Okay, one of the translations, you know, he
gives that little speech about like you don't want to
go to the cops.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Mm hmm. Ever, yeah, is your jewelry?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
The translation in the way that in the dubbed version
was it was like, losing your jewelry is a problem,
no doubt, but going to the police station really stresses
you out. Oh that was like that's.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
So much like worse than the original. But they had
to make it rhyme, because the original one is like
Lost Jewelry is like twofold in terms of like hardship
one the loss of the item, and to the inquiry
with the cops. Yeah, which is so funny and inquiry
really rhythmic, but definitely rhyme.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Going to the cops really stresses you out.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
That's true. Oh and speaking of Sienna, thank you you
noted that's too much in your mouth, sir.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
This character intro was crazy. This is one of the
craziest scenes I've ever seen. This is when they go
to the police station because they keep saying, they keep
implying like I don't want to go to the cops,
Like if anything bad happens, I am not going to
the cops, Like it sucks.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Then we get there and we see obviously there's like
a comical amount of corruption, but beyond that, it's not
just that this guy is so weird. So his mouth
is filled to the brim with I guess tobacco what
I settled on, and then.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I was begging. I was begging, so he has he's like, yeah,
his cheeks are so full, and he was trying to
do a Godfather impression. We forgot about that I forgot
she was singing. She was singing to lesson to take
(28:51):
down the fine, yea, to reduce the fine again. So
I love that they.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Were showing that there's the sort of wiggly rules around
the law.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
It's like, but it's in corruptly and the police force
is bad. But it's really funny when it's like, well,
I'll take ten thousand rupees off this fine if you see.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's why.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
He was also just a weird guy. He's like, oh,
I love this singing. Beautiful. But then later another guy
offers a sing sort of as a joke, and he's
like really, and then they hit him. Yeah anyway, Yeah,
it was so it was so gross. It was a
crazy character intro but definitely got across the sky's a weirdo.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Mm hmmm mm hmm. Totally.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Leana, you've said maybe a little earlier than this, she
said a lesson and why you must tell women things?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Oh my gosh, both wives And then it turned out
only one wife, only Pool, not Jaya. Pool didn't know
the name of the village she was meant to be
going to with her husband with Deepak, and I was like, oh,
you have to tell women things. This is because if
you tell us things, then we will know thing we
(30:07):
can work with that. Yeah, this her I can't do
anything if I don't know anything.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Her experience as a woman and a bride as like a.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Child so young.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
She was so young.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
The actress is seventeen, very seventeen, which is what she looked.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
She looked so yeah. Yeah, but but it was all
it was cute, innocent. Yeah, it was okay. But her
experience like being like, what, I don't have any of
the information, so I'm scared? Is how I felt. As
like an intern or a PA all the time. Oh yeah,
(30:48):
someone who won't tell you anything. And then you're like,
I don't have the information, so I can't make any
smart decisions. I'm a smart decision maker, but you're not
giving you the information, so instaid. I'm just running around
the train trying to figure out where my husband went.
Why would you put me in this position?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Literally?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yes, oh my gosh, okay, Leanna, you've said you said
the problem will sort itself out. Men. Oh when did
they say that?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Oh? When don't they say that? Men are always saying that?
Men are always saying, Oh, I'm sure it'll be fine. Yeah,
because do you know why it ends up fine? Because
a woman a has to get involved men sort it out.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah that is unfortunately incredibly true and it's devastating.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
But I did love that this movie recognized that and
the people who save the day are women. Yes, like
Jaya saves everyone's everyone's ass.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
That's so true.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Mm hmm. I love this movie. Like, no, it didn't
sort itself out, Jaya fixed everything and.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
They get to go on their own journeys. And also
I liked them. We got to go and see that
they were flashbacks showing that Pool and Deepak really loved
each other. Yeah that was so we're happy when they
get back together.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
It's not just like, yeah, true, they're good.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
They're gonna be good partners. But she got to look
she wants like a job less Yes, Leonna, you said,
you said plot twist, he has legs. I gasped. Yeah,
(32:29):
that was crazy.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I gasped at that reveal.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
So one of the friends. So one of the ways
that Pool ends up like getting by when she's at
the train station, she.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Is so lost, Oh this poor girl.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And a kind, small young man comes up to her
and is like, oh my gosh, you're so lost, like
I'll help you, and then he's like, here's also my
pal who uses like a little cart to get around because.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
He fell up a train and lost his legs, lost his.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Legs, but turns out his legs were just tucked into pants.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Oh crazy?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Were you thinking about how uncomfortable would be to be
sitting on your knees like that all day?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I couldn't believe he got up and was fine. I'd
be so stiff even after.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Just like sitting on my knees on the couch. I
can't stand quite yet.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
My ankle fell asleep while watching this film, and I
was in so much pain.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
No, I could not do a day on a cart
ostensibly legless.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Surprise, I have legs.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
You said, I love this sim card queen. Oh my god,
where'd she get that new sim card?
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I have no idea, I said, slow up, I know.
I loved that. I loved that we were seeing some
espionage from early on. I said, oh no, this is
a woman with a plan.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
That's what I had to call Kelsey because I was like,
oh my god. We thought these were just two stupid women,
but instead one doesn't want to be a stupid woman,
and which is fine because she's seventeen. And yeah, as
is explained to her, she is incredibly she was made
dumb by society, which yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Not your fault, you're dumb. Can we for one.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Second, can we for one second please talk about man Jumai.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Oh my god, you highlighted her life. He said, quote
there's no shame in being an idiot, but being proud
about it is shameful. End quote. She is my star,
my hero, my mother. I loved her so much.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Love, I loved her.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
She spends the whole film radicalizing pools against men, and
I said, work, she was amazing, like against really the patriarchy.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
And it's true, like by the time we see inside
her house and pools, like do you live alone, we
realize that all the women we've seen in this film,
like they're just playing such key roles in like the
family space. Yeah, that they're like never just people of
their own with their own space, And it is radical,
It's amazing. I just spends the whole time being like, pool,
you know, you're dumb, right, And it was cool how
(35:17):
they kept being like she kept noticing that her I
forget what's what the name of the young man who
helps her is. But they keep comparing the fact that
he knows all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah you know, yeah, yeah, he's been getting address of
a movie star.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah yeah, he knows all these things because they just
like have trusted him with this information or given him
this information because he's a guy, a man, and he's
can like go out in the world and participate. Yeah,
but she's just been told how to make food and
oh my gosh. Yeah, and Manjuma is like, so you
(35:51):
know you're stupid, right, And that's fine, girl, that's fine.
I don't mean to be rude about that, but like
if you actually think that you're doing a good job,
like that's embarrassing. It's so funny and awesome, and also
like they're making such awesome points, like there's so much
commentary commentary and I was living.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Leonni, You've said gagged at a faces everything tea, Oh
my god, she's in a full Nikoba when like, oh
the guy is like I can't tell, Oh my god,
I was absolutely gagged at that.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
So they're going around. Deepak is going around showing everybody
a photo of him and Pool from their wedding day,
but Pool is wearing her veil so you can't see
her face, and he's like, have you seen this woman?
And everyone's like, I can't see her in that photo?
How would I have seen her in real life? And
one guy at a stall is like, why would you
cover her face? Like a face is everything.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
It's like someone's whole identity.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Someone's from behind him is a woman in a nicab
Then she goes tea.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
The commentary I literally went, uh huh, yeah, so yeah,
I loved that. Leanni just said par Deep is on
his way to get you. Worstners ever tell him she died.
(37:20):
So that's the horrible husband.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yeah, kind and terrible and like killed his first wife.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
His thing is a bad husband?
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Literally he loses his wife and he's like, I'm gonna
beat her up when I find her because she's lost,
and it's like you lost her, and then he's like, Okay,
well I'm bored, let's go out drinking. And he goes
drinking instead of trying to find her, and then everybody's like, yeah,
he's kind of bad news because he burned his last
wife to death when she called children.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
There were some parts of this movie where I was like,
he oh, but yeah, I mean I knew deep down
that it was farce vibes and that all would be
well in the end, and so I was trying to
figure out how they were gonna get around it. And
I was like, tell him she died. Yeah, I tell
him she's dead.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
They made him bad enough that the cops would even
be like, actually, the cops would have reason to help
her because he did a cry to his last wife.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yes, yeah, yeah, And I loved that. And Siana, your
final note is make a cab work for you. I agree.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
The part where he goes and this is my badges.
The part where he goes, he's like explaining the whole
situation of like, well, the reason he's explaining to the
bad guy deep like, well, you did this, this and this,
so you know we can't make this. Now that we've
closed this case, this woman can go off on her
own and maybe if somebody was in this room and
(38:45):
we saw him hit her, which you just did in
front of us. But he goes to this whole reason
why she should be able to go and Pretteepa is
like this is nonsense. What is this nonsense? And the
cop goes this nonsense is the law.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Yeah ah.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
And it's literally like, make this system that is so
broken work for you work.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
I could work just only on it.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Your final notes are stop falling off your bicycle.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Oh. I kept getting the ick every time he buck
fell off his bike.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
It was really drunk off off.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
And then on the way to get pool from the station,
he falls off again, and I was like, okay, stop falling,
all right, that's enough.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Then your next note is yay, and then your final
note is yes, mama's, Yes, mama, mama's. And they're so
grateful to each other at the end, they're like, thank
you for helping women women. This movie was win men na.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I enjoyed every moment. I loved it so much, and
I was so happy with the ending. This is what
films should be, well speaking. And now that we're in
this praise boat, shall we move on my badges and badges.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Welcome everybody to the bus stop badges and trages, where
we award badges for brides who've been misplaced, and tradges
for tobacco chewed way too much. Yeah, his face was
(40:23):
so full of tobacco.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
His face was full. It kept looking like it was
like a fake out, like he was just about to
spit and then he never did.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Oh yeah, h h.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
My first badge is mon do my. I loved her
so much. I think she's like the patron saying of
this podcast. Everything she was saying was so real. She
was summing it off so well. She was just like
she was. She was saying it all out loud, and
it was so cathartic, like you were put in a
bad position. She was also kind of commenting on this
type of movie, you know, because she's like this type
(40:59):
of situation, this story where you can be this dumb
is because of society, by the way, and.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
You go work work, you are so dumb, and she
teaches it's not your fault, but you are.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
She teaches pool that like working and being part of
society in that way can be a part of a
thing that she can be proud of and yes, of
your own.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Oh. I loved the emphasis throughout on like well why
don't you do something that you like?
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Yeah, just various characters like it's.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Like it's been so long, I don't even know. Oh,
I have a badge for it telling us where and
when we are. Thank you. The title card said, Normal, Pradesh, India,
January two thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
You love it, And.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
I said, I love that you love it. I love
knowing that. Thank you you love it.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
My next badge is for the moment that you talked
about when the woman was wearing in a cab of
covering your faces, like stealing your identity. And then I
think it's probably his wife or somebody a family member
comes up, come completely covered and he's like, M, well
so for my well this is different. Yeah, to respect me.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Absolute gag. Loved it. A badge for a cab vibes
just the general sense of do not trust the police.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
They were just like, you can't go to those guys.
They sucks. No bad Yeah, badge for I've also said this,
but the speech he gives after this whole a cab
movie where he goes this nonsense is the law that
really made me laugh.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
A badge for a cow.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
There was a cow, a cow, a cow.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
I have to find joy where I can.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Yeah, I love cows. I love cows.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Badge for female friendship. Yes, A big part of this
movie was just like two of these gals just became
galpals because it's like what ever laughed. She's like, I
have nobody fun to talk to because my husband isn't here.
Like as if your husband would be the most fun
person to talk to. He are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (43:06):
That's not true, that's so true. And she gets her
back into drawing art. A badge for this shop owner
akmun Jumai, who has no faith in man loved her.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
I loved her so much.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
I just there's so few characters like this I know
in movies who's just like, she's.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Like what a fairy godmother should be.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Yeah, she's just sort of a wise a wise lady,
wise older lady who's like, you're being an idiot, but
also you're you're good, You're good.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
I'll help you.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Uh those oh, badge for just this this family when
they were when they arrived from their wedding and everybody
was like celebrating them so much. I was like, this
is how I want to be celebrated anytime I come home.
I want to celebrate it on my birthday. This is
what I expect.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
Yeah. I love that line. That was like get gee
for luck and she's like, well, that's this is why
we're always running out of geese because you keep making
me get it. A badge for that running bit, the
recurring bit of the guy who keeps coming back for
more chutney. Yeah, that badge for these guys being freaks,
(44:23):
the two cops doing their buddy comedy side plots.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
So cute.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Gosh, that was funny. A badge for Oh. My final
badge is for corrupt policing but on the right side.
Mm hmm. You can be corrupt with your policing as
long as you're actually helping the girls, as long as
it's for the.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Girlies make work for you. Ah. Trages, trages. My only
trage is for police chief being so gross.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Lol.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
My trage is for is that chewing tobacco?
Speaker 2 (44:59):
It's gross, It's gross.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
It was just gross. An effective character intro. True, but
I had to trage something.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Uh. Trage for yep, my foot fell asleep and it
really hurt. Trage for oh dear, I'm about to get
so hungry. They kept talking about ROTI and I was like,
I want roty so bad right now, and I still do.
I haven't had a meal all day. I've just had
some foods, you know. Yeah, And they kept having meals. Oh.
And then my final trage is a trage for when
(45:31):
the mom says I don't even remember what I used
to like, and I was like, oh, women's hacrifice so much.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
They sacrificed so much.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
I that book Invisible Women, the data book that made
me want to die. One of the stats in it
was like something like seventy five or seventy eight percent
of the world's unpaid labor is done by women.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Yes, Oh my gosh. I was just listening to a
podcast about Blue Zone maintenance Face and they were talking
about like, oh, these are the cultures where people are
never put in nursing homes, and a lot of those
cultures it's because women just do the nursing home stuff.
And it's like, yeah, you're talking about because what marks
like a culture that has a lot of longevity is
(46:16):
if the men live for a long time, because men
usually die earlier. And so it was like, well, the
men live really long here. But it's like, yeah, because
they're using the women as labor, you know, like it's
like it's because of women, it's because of women. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
So damn.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Yeah. If you have good points for motherhood, I'm trying
to decide, please write in every day. I wonder what
I should do with my life in that way, what
I think about motherhood all the time, and if I
should do it or not.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Oh my god, I didn't know that at all.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
Yeah, okay. Our next segment is.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Of course, if you think Sienna should be a mother
right in, right in?
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Please please, I would love an answer from somebody.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Our next segment, Yes, this is how to pretend you've
seen this film. This is for you are on your
way to agriculture school.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
Yes, you're on the train on the way to agriculture school.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Pre Deep shows up and says, hey, can I have
that seat?
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Can I have that seat? This reminds me a lot
of a movie that I saw recently that there's a
lot of like stuff about girls in it, but mainly
it's about this like really cool guy who ends up
saving these women. He's really good at riding bikes. And
also there's another guy who's a pretty bad guy, but like,
I get where he's coming from in terms of burning
employ alive.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
Oh my god. And in order to get off the
train without pret Deep, we are going to give you
a few sentences sentences you can say to pretend you've
seen the film Lapata Ladies. Oh, yes, pre Deep, I've
seen Lapata Ladies, and I have to say, for centuries
(48:08):
the women in this country have been duped. This con
is also known as a respectable girl. Yes, now leave
me alone. I'm not a respectable girl. I'm getting off
this train without you.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
I'm not a respectable girl.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
I'm a tired woman.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
Oh my gosh, Yes, Pretteep, I have seen the film
Lapata Ladies. Fun fact, man Jumai, the best character in
movie history, was not originally part of the script. She
was added much later. Oh that's surprising, because whoa, that's
a character who I could see being shoehorned in. But
she felt completely natural in it and felt great. And
(48:46):
also I don't know how you could have defined Pool's
experience without her being like mentored.
Speaker 2 (48:53):
Yeah, totally. I guess maybe she was just hanging out
with the Ruffians your time the Ruffians. So I love
that she had an an older woman mentor. Yeah, yes,
prett Deep, I've seen Lapta Ladies, and I'm gonna say
to you what Jaya said to that child in one
of the scenes early in the film, what are you
staring at? I love I really should be allowed to
(49:19):
say that to children and babies. Well, I'm still mad
at that baby who glared at me on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
I don't remember this.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
Oh my god, this baby glared at me from a
stroller on New Year's Eve because I bumped into my
friend who was their nanny, and the baby just kept
glaring at me, so then I glared back. We were
just looking at each other like.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
That is so rude. Whoa, this is only, Yes, Deep,
I have seen the film Lapta Ladies. This is the
only or this is only the second movie directed by
Kiran Rao Karan who directed it. The woman who directed it,
that's like crazy. She literally sayd this is the best
(50:00):
movie I've ever seen. So yes, hmmm.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
Per Deep, I've seen Lapata Ladies. You know, my mom
tried to marry me off to you, but I said no,
don't make me be part of the herd. Mother. I'm
not a pack animal. I'm a woman and I'm going
to agriculture school.
Speaker 1 (50:24):
Don't make me be part of the herd.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Mother, mother. That line was great.
Speaker 1 (50:30):
Oh my gosh, I forgot to give a badge for
when man Jumai eats the sweet she has something to celebrate.
I literally started crying.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
Oh what did I cry?
Speaker 1 (50:41):
In this movie? She finally has something to celebrate and
it tastes so nice. Yes, per deep, I have seen
the film. I have seen the film Lapata Ladies. The
name of the ladies leading ladies are Pool and Pushpa,
both are words for flower. But then it turns out
that Pushpa's name is actually Jaya, which means success.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
Oh sligh, yeah, Oh my god. That line where the
main cop says she's that woman's gonna go far and
then his buddy goes, yes, sir, Darra Dune is eight
hundred kilometers from here.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
His last thing was so delightful. That was so delightful.
I love that. M hm, Well, Leana shall go on
to our next segment, which is, of course, should you
watch this or where we tell you if you should
watch the film or if you should do anything else
with your damn time? What would you say?
Speaker 2 (51:33):
Oh my god, yes, yes, you should watch Lapata Ladies.
It was on Netflix for me. That's where I saw
it too. Oh. I enjoyed it so much. I had
a blast. I had a great time. What you need
to make sure you also do is have a full meal,
because this movie is going to make you hungry.
Speaker 1 (51:49):
Yeah, and I'm gonna say the same, dang thing. I
enjoyed this so much, and I think other people would
enjoy it so much too. It was so fun, very comedic,
and with very good commentary. But it was just it
was so enjoyable. I loved this movie. Y can I say?
Speaker 2 (52:10):
Actually, Slade, I.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
Would recommend it Netflix. Leanna, what would you rate the movie?
Speaker 2 (52:19):
I would give Lapate Ladies five blunders out of five.
It was so fun and it was two hours long,
but not a long two hours. Great acting. We have
to speak about how gorgeous these women were. Both the brides, yeah,
(52:41):
both Pool and Jaia extremely gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
And it was so fun to watch, and it was
so satisfying, and it was sweet and there were heartfelt
moments and physical comedy. Oh my god, this movie has everything. Sianna,
what would you say?
Speaker 1 (52:58):
Hmmmm? I would give this movie five mondumais out of five.
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Ya.
Speaker 1 (53:07):
It's so easy to give movie movies fives now that
women are directing them.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
You're crazy.
Speaker 1 (53:13):
I'm not as bothered by stuff.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
No, I don't think I actually hate film.
Speaker 1 (53:25):
This has been our episode on the PoTA ladies and
shout out to Akha, thank you so much recommending it.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
Thank you, Exha, Big Sleigh. We are Tossed Popcorn. We
are on social media at tossed Popcorn on Instagram. We're
also on Patreon, Patreon, dot com slash toss Popcorn gonna
be posting where Yeah. If you want to fill the
void during our little hiatus this next month, you can
check out our Patreon for bonus episodes. And we will
(53:54):
not see you next week because Sienna is on tour.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
I'm gonna be out and about baby, bring this mic
with me. Not gonna have any room. Too many puppets
in a car in full adults. We'll all be in
the car.
Speaker 2 (54:09):
My nightmare. If you're in any of the cities where
Sienna's touring, go see the show. Okay, Sianna, have a
great tour.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
Thanks, thank you, We love you.
Speaker 2 (54:22):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (54:27):
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Speaker 2 (54:46):
I loved the songs in this The songs were so
fun with the lyrics, the silly lyrics.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
I don't know, have you?
Speaker 2 (54:52):
Did you see that one of the songs early in
the movie included the phrase suited and booted. No so awesome,
that's amazed.
Speaker 1 (55:02):
Yes,
Toss Popcorn is a production of iHeartRadio. Hi. I'm Sienna
Jacole and I'm Leanna Holsten, and welcome to Tossed Popcorn,
the podcast where two idiots watched every film on the
(00:20):
AFI's one hundred Greatest American Movies of All Time, the
very slightly less racist tenth Anniversary edition, and are now
spending our time watching movies directed by women. Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
This podcast is a safe train station for people who
don't know anything about movies. Today we're watching Lapta ladies. Whooh,
there's no shame in being an idiot, but being.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Proud about it. That's shameful. Get it out of my.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Sight, a film recommended by a pal who you'll hear
all about. Warning there will be spoilers about this women
recent film.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh come on, well, Leanna, listen to your predictions.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Okay, shall I play you mine? Since twas I who
put the film on the list.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yes, it's only fair.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Hi Sienna, it's Leanna. I'm about to watch Lapata Ladies.
I don't know anything about this except that actually friend
of the pod recommended it and said it's a good time,
so I predict I will have a good time.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, that's it's oh my gosh, okay, great, great knowledge
to have going into it, exciting knowledge to have, exciting
knowledge to have.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Now, shall we listen to my excited to have my knowledge? Yes? Please?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
There's at least one second that I forgot what I
was saying, and I have to edit it out. Ready, Hi, Leanna,
I'm about to watch. I hope that's pronounced correctly. This
looks like it's a Hindi language, though, and I haven't
seen anything else about that except for the fact that
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it's two hours or something. It's okay because those ladies.
My predictions for this movie, I don't know, but I
am praying. I'm sorry. I don't know, but my hope
is that it's about sisters.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, kind of.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Maybe it's about sisters, kind of sisters. Okay, I love you, goodbye.
I don't know why I was so close to the mic.
I don't know what happened. I do apologize.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
That's okay, I forgive you. I mean there there was sisterhood, certainly.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
M sisterhood galorn mm mmmm well before we talk about it.
Hey girl, Hey girl girl, how's it going? Girl? Girls? Girl?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Oh girl. I was supposed to get my visa decision
this past Monday from the government and I still haven't no, no,
And I called the government yesterday. I said hi me again,
remember me from last time? And asked, uh, is anything
(03:20):
like wrong? And they were like no, there's just a
backlog of visa applications to be processed. Yeah. And I
was like, okay, well, do you have a sense of
like how long the delay will be and they were
like no, they have not given us a timeline. And
I was like, okay, my current visa expires two weeks
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from tomorrow. Will that be an issue? And they were
like no, because while they're making a decision on your
next one, you're allowed to remain in the country. And
I'm like yeah, but if they say no to the
next one and it's after my old one has expired,
what I was like, Okay, I have a plane ticket
to fly to America two weeks and two days from
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tomorrow for a family obligation. If I haven't heard about
the visa by then, can I still go? And they
were like, we don't recommend traveling while your visa application
is being processed, so we just don't know yet. We
just don't know. We cannot know, and my body is
(04:28):
giving in. It really is like the physiological the damage
my body is taking from these hits is intense in
what way. I it kind of hurts to breathe. My
toe really hurts, my left big toe. I have a
(04:49):
lot of of course, my visa toe, my visa toe
is so I don't know if I broke it or
if I've been wearing boots with a heel too much
and it's feeling overused. I'm not really sure what's going
on with my toe, but it's it's been speaking up recently.
It's been speaking out, asking for what it needs. Unfortunately
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I can't understand it to give it then it whatever
it is that it needs. So my toe is in
anguish my shoulders. Of course, I keep planning like, well,
once I get the decision whatever it is, I'm going
to get a massage because at least then I can
let go of the tension I've been holding onto. But
I still can't get a massage because I still don't
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have a decision. Well, Leonna, you could get a massage. No,
that would jinx it, I don't think so if I
got a massage before a visa confirmation, I would be
deported immediately we.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Don't recommend getting don't recommend getting a massage while your
application is being reviewed. If there was an AI unfortunately
trying to do what is ruining your life right now,
it would be this. It would be like, I'm waiting
on my visa decision, m and it's the country I'm
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asking for a visa in doesn't work. Dude, that sucks.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So now it's like I just have to pick a
day well, depending on I guess American Airlines by which
if I haven't heard, I gotta cancel that flight. Baby,
I cannot go. Please recredit those miles to my account. Damn,
I'm sorry to my cousin. It is I mean, I
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will say it's the most iron clad excuse, yeah for
not making a wedding. If you don't have all time
and they don't let you back in, I can't leave
the I can't come to your wedding because I'm not
allowed to leave the country that I'm in, which is
not the one that your wedding is happening in, because
I'm trying to get a visa so as to not
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have to live in the country where your wedding is happening. Right. Sorry, Sorry, anyway,
sorry to this cousin, Sorry to this cousin.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Well, girl, I'm so sorry. No sorry, I've heard not
countless things of this sort happening to you at this point,
and I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, at least I know where my passport is, yes,
because I didn't have to mail it in this time around.
Is that a bird chirping outside of your window? Because
it's really beautiful? Oh, please keep it, don't do anything
to change that. I love it. Okay, I need I
need something that's gorgeous right now.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yes, I don't know if I told you. I changed
the configuration of my room, but now I record near
the window and I love that. So oh yes, yes,
hey girl, hey girl. Springtime in Los Angeles is here,
and I realized this is the only time I really
feel like I I enjoy it here in this area.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, because spring. I've always loved spring. And it's really
it's really sweet here, you know, like school's still in session,
but you can feel that people are excited about the
sun coming out, and there's animals coming back.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And animals are coming back.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Animals, animals are back, baby animals are.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Back doing the animals leave La for a time.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I mean, there haven't been birds chirping in this way. Okay,
maybe they're migrated over here. Yeah, but uh, let's see. Okay,
I'm going on tour, which we have to announce, but
I'll be going on tour with my puppet group. Uh,
I just can never say it. I'm going on tour
(08:47):
with my puppet group. We're touring with a musician. It's
gonna be so interesting. I'm actually getting really excited. But
we are going to like we're going to be in
the car for whole long. Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
How who? What's are the logistics set to do? People
like which vehicle people are going in? Okay, what are
the logistics? What the logistics are?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
A big car with a trailer on the back.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Wow, So we're going.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Phoenix south by southwest Oklahoma City?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Oklahoma City, which is the one place where we can't
find anyone who will talk to us. I'm on outreach
and I've been trying to like I've you know, been
saying that does anybody know anybody from there? And somebody
will know somebody who has a roommate, and yeah, they
just they won't put me in contact with the person.
And then there was one guy who reached out to
me based on my story post and he was like,
(09:42):
uh huh, I have all sorts of connections in Oklahoma
City and I went, oh, my gosh, that would be great.
You have recommendations of like publications or radio shows or
little things that we can try to just alert Yeah,
he ghosted me. Oh and I've messaged three times now.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
WUTF So anyway, it's all good. Wow, are you having
to do all the publicity on behalf of the musician.
It's kind of weird in that way the musicians doing
He's doing his own, but we're doing it all together,
so we're kind of it's like a joint situation. But
we're trying to contact other DIY artist people because they're
(10:23):
yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Yeah damn country. Yeah, I'm excited for it, but it's
I'm one of my one of my jobs that I've
made up and took upon myself is fiber coordinator because
I do not up on the road anyway. Yes, I'm
fiber coordinator because I'm so scared of being on the
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road and being completely stopped up for three and a
half thanks, I'm really scrash.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Are you going to do your poop speech.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
My poop speech, you mean, like when I want gave
a poop speech to what you're staying with a friend.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That's exactly what I mean. I think about it so often.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yes, listeners, I was once staying with a group and
I was like, I need everybody to be out of
the house when I try to use the bathroom, so
I give a poop speech, and they like, weren't. I
thought they were going to be like I thought they
were gonna be like, oh my god, you're so funny,
don't even worry about it. But they were kind of like, uh, oh, okay,
well leave.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I just loved what you were trying to do, something revolutionary,
you know, which, as you said to a group of people,
you said, it's important that we all acknowledge at some
point this weekend, I'm going to have to poop and
it's going to happen, and we all need to be adults.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And you didn't want to hear it about it.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Unbelievable, unacceptable behavior. They are the problem, really really going
out on a limb. Poopets poop.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I know we're all thinking about for you to have,
but I hope someone's thinking about the poopets poop.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It's you are You're on fiber duty.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah. Yeah, So anyway, it'll be interesting. Stay tuned, you'll
be regular. If anybody knows anybody in Oklahoma City, please
hit me up. The important thing is we will be
taking a few weeks off. We'll be back again in
early April. Stay tuned. You can watch on our Instagram.
But until then, have a good little springtime, Happy Lent,
Happy Women's Month, and happy Women's Month.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Mmm, great, gorgeen.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Well, Leanna, shall we talk about this dang movie?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Oh my gosh, speaking of travel.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, speaking of being in a vehicle, yeah, and being concerned.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Could you please give us a synopsis of the film
Lapata Ladies.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yes, I wrote this immediately after watching it last night,
and it is very long. Okay, great, Okay, Lapata Ladies.
I will sit back and relax, which apparently in Hindi
means missing ladies.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
After a farcical post nuptial train situation, two identically dressed
brides in India gets switched. Deepak ends up back at
his village with the wrong woman, and Pool ends up
lost at the train station where she stepped off with
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the other husband. But don't worry about that right now.
The wrong woman in question that I just mentioned is Jaya,
but she, while in Deepak's town, lies about everything because
her new husband that I just mentioned a second ago
is terrible and she really wants to go to agriculture school,
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so she uses this as a time to lay low
before going to school. But then she lies to everybody,
so everybody suspicious all the time. It makes you seem
really suspicious, especially because there's a group of fake bride
bandits on the loose, by the way, which also complicates
things because the police are involved a lot. The police,
by the way, are super corrupt, which also complicates things.
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And then meanwhile, well Pool can't remember the name of
any villages she either came from or is going to
because she was raised to be uninformed and helpless dude
to society, which they do discuss. And also, by the way,
in this culture, girls aren't even supposed to say their
husband's names out loud, so everything gets really complicated. But
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at the end of the day, it's feminist and warm
and funny and awesome, and everything turns out great. Yes
the end, Yes, everyone finds each other. Who needs to
find everybody who doesn't want to be together.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
They aren't. Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, me, Oh my.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Gosh, I'm lost. Do you remember the name of the
podcast I was just doing? Does anybody remember I never
wrote down the name of the podcast I was doing,
So I'll just have to sleep here for three days.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
We'll be right back, yes, oh, Sienna, let's jump into
phone notes. That's the section where we read the notes
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that we took on our I almost said, on each
other's phones. Oh, we read each other's notes watching the
film first of all, just up top, what do you
think I mean, I'm getting it, so I'm gidding a vibe.
I loved it so much. Oh my god, I had
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the best time watching this.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I loved it. I loved it. It was so fun
it was I literally called Kelsey in the middle of
watching it because I'm like, I have to tell you
what's happening in this. Oh my god, I love that.
And then I went to my God and told her
the same thing. And that's what I found out. It's
actually kind of difficult to describe because one girl, let
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me just try, comes out names. One girl is at
the train station but she got off well the other guy.
But the guy's bad but and then the other girl,
she seems bad, but I don't know if she's going
to be bad. It seems like she's doesn't like her husband,
but like she's at the village and and the other
two are really in love. Anyway, I loved it.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I loved it the premise alone. As soon as they
got on the train and there were like three people
in the same outfit and you couldn't tell who was who.
I said, Oh, okay, oh I love that. Oh I
love that. It really was like a true farce. It
was extremely farce.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
And be like there are things all the and then
it's complicated by the fact that there are certain cultural
practices that make it. Like when it turned out that
she was lying, but when they asked Jaya, they're like, well,
why didn't you see it was your husband? And she's like,
I'm supposed to look down. It's wedding day, and I have.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
To look down. I literally can't see through the day.
One So there's like one cell phone. Yeah, crap, it's
it's a crap Nokia. It probably still would work today,
to be fair, but farce.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh I loved, Oh, I just loved I'm so glad, Yes,
thank you to actionha, thank you. Action say. Okay, Leanna,
you said, oh.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I just remembered you said.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Honestly, at this point, I could be down for an
arranged marriage. Okay, let's talk about that. Let's talk about
that the best we can. Let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Nothing in my life is in control right now, and
so at this point, I'm like, you know what, somebody
else take the reins and tell me what to do,
because I don't like the feeling like I can't do anything.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
It completely is one of those practices that you're like, oh,
I completely. I wish there was some form of that,
like of matchmaking that existed in our culture that you
could go like the you weren't as in control of
I know they have because you're like, I want a
trusted person to match me with somebody else, and we're
both just good with the situation.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
It's fine. Yeah, it's a okay whatever. And I don't
even know if these marriages I don't know if, I mean,
was their marriage arranged? Their's They seemed like I know
Jayas was, but these two were in love, which was
very sweet. But I was just like, listen, I maybe
that's what I've been missing. It's just somebody else to
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arrange it because I'm not doing any work. Yeah, I'm
not trying at all, totally well, and I feel like
there's so much pressure in our culture to like find
the one, yeah, find the perfect match. And I'm like,
maybe it doesn't have to be that. Maybe just find
something which I might have to do if this visa
gets denied, I might have to arrange a marriage.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh that would be so fun. Wait, please.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Please, Leanna.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You've said I have nothing to offer as a wife TM.
Are you talking about your own personal dowry?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah? Yeah, I was thinking about that. I was like,
I mean I could have I could I could offer
like monetary whatever, But in terms of like being a
traditional domestic wife TM, I do not have anything to offer.
I cannot cook, what is I don't want to like
maintain the home. I hate children. I'm not doing that.
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It's possible that I won't bang you, like there's just
it's arguably zero's across the board from me.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I have a few thoughts, and I think these are important.
So I'm gonna say, Okay, So I've been watching Love
Is Blind. It's a very boring season. Unfortunately everybody d
C or which city. This one is Minneapolis. So everybody
talks like this, they'll be like, I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Everyone broke up in the pod. I love that.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
So now there's only like there's been no reveals, no,
not everyone. There's like four couples, but there were a
couple more couples that were clearly going to be some
of the like exciting ones, and then they broke up
because unfortunately I respect themselves. Oh so there's not as
many now, and nothing dramatic is happening. I love that
there is one guy who's really really bad, but all
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the bad is happening slowly, so it's like not good TV.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Oh, very boring.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
But what's interesting is even the couples who are getting along,
there's this weird thing on reality TV that I just
think people who don't think too hard about their partners
can speak this way, which is this concept of like, oh,
I really want to come home to this, this is
what I want for my partner. I love if there
was somebody who when I get home, like this is
what's ready for me. It's like that's not what a
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partner should employ at all. That's like what a robot
in your house does, know it trips me up so much.
The idea that you could love somebody and be like,
it's just so perfect, because I always wanted somebody who
would have this waiting for me when I get home.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Same you. Yeah, but that would be me. I wouldn't
have anything waiting for you. I'd be on the couch.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
And that should be enough. And you guys make dinner together.
That should be enough. Anyway. The other thing is, I
think we have to decide right now what is our dowry?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, what would you put in your dowry?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
What is my dawry? Right now? My dowry would be
I have a good My family is good at talking
about things, so I can provide that sort of a
good conversational bass that's holidays would be like enjoyable and
if you need to talk through an issue, you know,
it's a good place to do it. I have a
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dad who understands business and finance. M m hm, so
I can provide a business dad. Let's see what do
I have in terms of things. I have a guitar.
I have one of those you know those things that
you plug into your laptop that like adapts it.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
To the Oh yeah, that's really useful. Yeah, that's really helpful.
You definitely everybody should have that in their dowry.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, so I think that's mostly it. And then an
understanding of as a as a wife, I would provide
a real, a real desire to avoid the sun, like
to sun protection.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I think you bring that too, Yeah, I sure do.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
This is the sun Protected podcast, Pale Pod, Pale Pod.
What about you.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I have a really large plush seal yeah, uh huh,
called Prince Herbert. But he can fit into almost any suitcase.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
That's amazing. That is amazing I have.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I have a Colorado flag, a flag from my home state,
so if I ever got lost, I would remember where
I'm from because I have the flag right from where
that is. I have the patience to do a really
overly needlessly complex paint by number, but not the discipline
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to finish it in anything under four years.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Sure, but you know, and to finish something after four
years is actually really that's really that's really impressive, because
I feel like once you give up, Once I give
up on something, I don't go back.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, I guess that's the I guess I won't. I
don't give up on things. Is that true? No, I
give up on friendships really easily.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Well, friendships are different than a paint by number.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Else, I think I'm I'm a little bit too Like
my visa decision is still up in the air, and
there's been scaffolding on our balcony for a month now
blocking out the light. So I think I'm really too
mentally ill to Yeah, have a sturdy dowry beyond those
items totally.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Well, if mental illness stop people from partnering up, then
it would be very different world. So I think you're good. Yeah,
Well that's been our dowry. And we both have a podcast.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Oh yeah, we each can offer fifty percent of a podcast.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Fifty percent of a podcast that's owned mostly percentage by
a big corporation.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oh yeah, not nice who for licensing reasons, they might
not even be able to serve.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
We own it, actually a very small percentage of our
own podcast. We both own some pretty expensive microphones.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That's my dowry. Oh god, I'm not giving a microphone
to a man.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Oh, we have to give it to them.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Isn't that the whole thing of a dowry?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
It is bold.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Oh, they just kind of knew it was there, Leanna,
You've said it'd be really funny, like putting a dowry
together of stuff you're you don't want. Uh huh, You're like, oh,
I've been actually trying to get rid of this thing.
So do you want these old tennis shoes or like
this that I can't donate?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
It's my dowry. Here you go, Leanna. Did you watch
the dub or the sub?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I watched the subtitled version. Dub dubbing makes me feel
crazy watching a film that's then been dubbed in the
English language. But you watched the I watched the dub,
and at certain points a couple of times I switched
to the sub just because it was like they were
making a joke or something that I wanted to hear
in the original language. So I got to hear everybody's
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actual voices, which was really helpful.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Oh. I enjoyed the dub. It wasn't It wasn't a
really bad dub, And I also had the sub on
it at the same time, so I could see like,
what the different translations whow yeah, whoa. I enjoyed it,
But I was eating dinner and I was like, I
don't want to have to read what I understand. Yeah,
but you wrote down this line that I also saw,
which is your blunder would even shock our ancestors? That
(26:02):
was so funny. There were some amazing lines in.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
This can I hm, I don't mean for this to
be mean, but it might sound mean. Are you in
a place where you can hear something like that. Yes,
that line made me.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Think of you. Thank you so much. I've made a
number of blunders. I loved the word blunder. It's like
so and it does. It evokes something where I'm like, yes,
my blunder, my blunder.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
That would shock even our ancestors.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Blunder, I've made a blunder that would shock even my ancestors.
Like sometimes you make a blunder that would shock even
your ancestors. Okay, one of the translations, you know, he
gives that little speech about like you don't want to
go to the cops.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Mm hmm. Ever, yeah, is your jewelry?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
The translation in the way that in the dubbed version
was it was like, losing your jewelry is a problem,
no doubt, but going to the police station really stresses
you out. Oh that was like that's.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
So much like worse than the original. But they had
to make it rhyme, because the original one is like
Lost Jewelry is like twofold in terms of like hardship
one the loss of the item, and to the inquiry
with the cops. Yeah, which is so funny and inquiry
really rhythmic, but definitely rhyme.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Going to the cops really stresses you out.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
That's true. Oh and speaking of Sienna, thank you you
noted that's too much in your mouth, sir.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
This character intro was crazy. This is one of the
craziest scenes I've ever seen. This is when they go
to the police station because they keep saying, they keep
implying like I don't want to go to the cops,
Like if anything bad happens, I am not going to
the cops, Like it sucks.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Then we get there and we see obviously there's like
a comical amount of corruption, but beyond that, it's not
just that this guy is so weird. So his mouth
is filled to the brim with I guess tobacco what
I settled on, and then.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I was begging. I was begging, so he has he's like, yeah,
his cheeks are so full, and he was trying to
do a Godfather impression. We forgot about that I forgot
she was singing. She was singing to lesson to take
(28:51):
down the fine, yea, to reduce the fine again. So
I love that they.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Were showing that there's the sort of wiggly rules around
the law.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
It's like, but it's in corruptly and the police force
is bad. But it's really funny when it's like, well,
I'll take ten thousand rupees off this fine if you see.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's why.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
He was also just a weird guy. He's like, oh,
I love this singing. Beautiful. But then later another guy
offers a sing sort of as a joke, and he's
like really, and then they hit him. Yeah anyway, Yeah,
it was so it was so gross. It was a
crazy character intro but definitely got across the sky's a weirdo.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Mm hmmm mm hmm. Totally.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Leana, you've said maybe a little earlier than this, she
said a lesson and why you must tell women things?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Oh my gosh, both wives And then it turned out
only one wife, only Pool, not Jaya. Pool didn't know
the name of the village she was meant to be
going to with her husband with Deepak, and I was like, oh,
you have to tell women things. This is because if
you tell us things, then we will know thing we
(30:07):
can work with that. Yeah, this her I can't do
anything if I don't know anything.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Her experience as a woman and a bride as like a.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Child so young.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
She was so young.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
The actress is seventeen, very seventeen, which is what she looked.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
She looked so yeah. Yeah, but but it was all
it was cute, innocent. Yeah, it was okay. But her
experience like being like, what, I don't have any of
the information, so I'm scared? Is how I felt. As
like an intern or a PA all the time. Oh yeah,
(30:48):
someone who won't tell you anything. And then you're like,
I don't have the information, so I can't make any
smart decisions. I'm a smart decision maker, but you're not
giving you the information, so instaid. I'm just running around
the train trying to figure out where my husband went.
Why would you put me in this position?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Literally?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yes, oh my gosh, okay, Leanna, you've said you said
the problem will sort itself out. Men. Oh when did
they say that?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Oh? When don't they say that? Men are always saying that?
Men are always saying, Oh, I'm sure it'll be fine. Yeah,
because do you know why it ends up fine? Because
a woman a has to get involved men sort it out.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah that is unfortunately incredibly true and it's devastating.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
But I did love that this movie recognized that and
the people who save the day are women. Yes, like
Jaya saves everyone's everyone's ass.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
That's so true.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Mm hmm. I love this movie. Like, no, it didn't
sort itself out, Jaya fixed everything and.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
They get to go on their own journeys. And also
I liked them. We got to go and see that
they were flashbacks showing that Pool and Deepak really loved
each other. Yeah that was so we're happy when they
get back together.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
It's not just like, yeah, true, they're good.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
They're gonna be good partners. But she got to look
she wants like a job less Yes, Leonna, you said,
you said plot twist, he has legs. I gasped. Yeah,
(32:29):
that was crazy.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I gasped at that reveal.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
So one of the friends. So one of the ways
that Pool ends up like getting by when she's at
the train station, she.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Is so lost, Oh this poor girl.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And a kind, small young man comes up to her
and is like, oh my gosh, you're so lost, like
I'll help you, and then he's like, here's also my
pal who uses like a little cart to get around because.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
He fell up a train and lost his legs, lost his.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Legs, but turns out his legs were just tucked into pants.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Oh crazy?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Were you thinking about how uncomfortable would be to be
sitting on your knees like that all day?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I couldn't believe he got up and was fine. I'd
be so stiff even after.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Just like sitting on my knees on the couch. I
can't stand quite yet.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
My ankle fell asleep while watching this film, and I
was in so much pain.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
No, I could not do a day on a cart
ostensibly legless.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Surprise, I have legs.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
You said, I love this sim card queen. Oh my god,
where'd she get that new sim card?
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I have no idea, I said, slow up, I know.
I loved that. I loved that we were seeing some
espionage from early on. I said, oh no, this is
a woman with a plan.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
That's what I had to call Kelsey because I was like,
oh my god. We thought these were just two stupid women,
but instead one doesn't want to be a stupid woman,
and which is fine because she's seventeen. And yeah, as
is explained to her, she is incredibly she was made
dumb by society, which yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Not your fault, you're dumb. Can we for one.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Second, can we for one second please talk about man Jumai.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Oh my god, you highlighted her life. He said, quote
there's no shame in being an idiot, but being proud
about it is shameful. End quote. She is my star,
my hero, my mother. I loved her so much.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Love, I loved her.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
She spends the whole film radicalizing pools against men, and
I said, work, she was amazing, like against really the patriarchy.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
And it's true, like by the time we see inside
her house and pools, like do you live alone, we
realize that all the women we've seen in this film,
like they're just playing such key roles in like the
family space. Yeah, that they're like never just people of
their own with their own space, And it is radical,
It's amazing. I just spends the whole time being like, pool,
you know, you're dumb, right, And it was cool how
(35:17):
they kept being like she kept noticing that her I
forget what's what the name of the young man who
helps her is. But they keep comparing the fact that
he knows all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah you know, yeah, yeah, he's been getting address of
a movie star.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah yeah, he knows all these things because they just
like have trusted him with this information or given him
this information because he's a guy, a man, and he's
can like go out in the world and participate. Yeah,
but she's just been told how to make food and
oh my gosh. Yeah, and Manjuma is like, so you
(35:51):
know you're stupid, right, And that's fine, girl, that's fine.
I don't mean to be rude about that, but like
if you actually think that you're doing a good job,
like that's embarrassing. It's so funny and awesome, and also
like they're making such awesome points, like there's so much
commentary commentary and I was living.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Leonni, You've said gagged at a faces everything tea, Oh
my god, she's in a full Nikoba when like, oh
the guy is like I can't tell, Oh my god,
I was absolutely gagged at that.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
So they're going around. Deepak is going around showing everybody
a photo of him and Pool from their wedding day,
but Pool is wearing her veil so you can't see
her face, and he's like, have you seen this woman?
And everyone's like, I can't see her in that photo?
How would I have seen her in real life? And
one guy at a stall is like, why would you
cover her face? Like a face is everything.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
It's like someone's whole identity.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Someone's from behind him is a woman in a nicab
Then she goes tea.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
The commentary I literally went, uh huh, yeah, so yeah,
I loved that. Leanni just said par Deep is on
his way to get you. Worstners ever tell him she died.
(37:20):
So that's the horrible husband.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yeah, kind and terrible and like killed his first wife.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
His thing is a bad husband?
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Literally he loses his wife and he's like, I'm gonna
beat her up when I find her because she's lost,
and it's like you lost her, and then he's like, Okay,
well I'm bored, let's go out drinking. And he goes
drinking instead of trying to find her, and then everybody's like, yeah,
he's kind of bad news because he burned his last
wife to death when she called children.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
There were some parts of this movie where I was like,
he oh, but yeah, I mean I knew deep down
that it was farce vibes and that all would be
well in the end, and so I was trying to
figure out how they were gonna get around it. And
I was like, tell him she died. Yeah, I tell
him she's dead.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
They made him bad enough that the cops would even
be like, actually, the cops would have reason to help
her because he did a cry to his last wife.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yes, yeah, yeah, And I loved that. And Siana, your
final note is make a cab work for you. I agree.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
The part where he goes and this is my badges.
The part where he goes, he's like explaining the whole
situation of like, well, the reason he's explaining to the
bad guy deep like, well, you did this, this and this,
so you know we can't make this. Now that we've
closed this case, this woman can go off on her
own and maybe if somebody was in this room and
(38:45):
we saw him hit her, which you just did in
front of us. But he goes to this whole reason
why she should be able to go and Pretteepa is
like this is nonsense. What is this nonsense? And the
cop goes this nonsense is the law.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Yeah ah.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
And it's literally like, make this system that is so
broken work for you work.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
I could work just only on it.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Your final notes are stop falling off your bicycle.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Oh. I kept getting the ick every time he buck
fell off his bike.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
It was really drunk off off.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
And then on the way to get pool from the station,
he falls off again, and I was like, okay, stop falling,
all right, that's enough.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Then your next note is yay, and then your final
note is yes, mama's, Yes, mama, mama's. And they're so
grateful to each other at the end, they're like, thank
you for helping women women. This movie was win men na.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I enjoyed every moment. I loved it so much, and
I was so happy with the ending. This is what
films should be, well speaking. And now that we're in
this praise boat, shall we move on my badges and badges.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Welcome everybody to the bus stop badges and trages, where
we award badges for brides who've been misplaced, and tradges
for tobacco chewed way too much. Yeah, his face was
(40:23):
so full of tobacco.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
His face was full. It kept looking like it was
like a fake out, like he was just about to
spit and then he never did.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Oh yeah, h h.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
My first badge is mon do my. I loved her
so much. I think she's like the patron saying of
this podcast. Everything she was saying was so real. She
was summing it off so well. She was just like
she was. She was saying it all out loud, and
it was so cathartic, like you were put in a
bad position. She was also kind of commenting on this
type of movie, you know, because she's like this type
(40:59):
of situation, this story where you can be this dumb
is because of society, by the way, and.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
You go work work, you are so dumb, and she
teaches it's not your fault, but you are.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
She teaches pool that like working and being part of
society in that way can be a part of a
thing that she can be proud of and yes, of
your own.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Oh. I loved the emphasis throughout on like well why
don't you do something that you like?
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Yeah, just various characters like it's.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Like it's been so long, I don't even know. Oh,
I have a badge for it telling us where and
when we are. Thank you. The title card said, Normal, Pradesh, India,
January two thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
You love it, And.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
I said, I love that you love it. I love
knowing that. Thank you you love it.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
My next badge is for the moment that you talked
about when the woman was wearing in a cab of
covering your faces, like stealing your identity. And then I
think it's probably his wife or somebody a family member
comes up, come completely covered and he's like, M, well
so for my well this is different. Yeah, to respect me.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Absolute gag. Loved it. A badge for a cab vibes
just the general sense of do not trust the police.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
They were just like, you can't go to those guys.
They sucks. No bad Yeah, badge for I've also said this,
but the speech he gives after this whole a cab
movie where he goes this nonsense is the law that
really made me laugh.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
A badge for a cow.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
There was a cow, a cow, a cow.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
I have to find joy where I can.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Yeah, I love cows. I love cows.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Badge for female friendship. Yes, A big part of this
movie was just like two of these gals just became
galpals because it's like what ever laughed. She's like, I
have nobody fun to talk to because my husband isn't here.
Like as if your husband would be the most fun
person to talk to. He are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (43:06):
That's not true, that's so true. And she gets her
back into drawing art. A badge for this shop owner
akmun Jumai, who has no faith in man loved her.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
I loved her so much.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
I just there's so few characters like this I know
in movies who's just like, she's.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Like what a fairy godmother should be.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Yeah, she's just sort of a wise a wise lady,
wise older lady who's like, you're being an idiot, but
also you're you're good, You're good.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
I'll help you.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Uh those oh, badge for just this this family when
they were when they arrived from their wedding and everybody
was like celebrating them so much. I was like, this
is how I want to be celebrated anytime I come home.
I want to celebrate it on my birthday. This is
what I expect.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
Yeah. I love that line. That was like get gee
for luck and she's like, well, that's this is why
we're always running out of geese because you keep making
me get it. A badge for that running bit, the
recurring bit of the guy who keeps coming back for
more chutney. Yeah, that badge for these guys being freaks,
(44:23):
the two cops doing their buddy comedy side plots.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
So cute.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Gosh, that was funny. A badge for Oh. My final
badge is for corrupt policing but on the right side.
Mm hmm. You can be corrupt with your policing as
long as you're actually helping the girls, as long as
it's for the.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Girlies make work for you. Ah. Trages, trages. My only
trage is for police chief being so gross.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Lol.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
My trage is for is that chewing tobacco?
Speaker 2 (44:59):
It's gross, It's gross.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
It was just gross. An effective character intro. True, but
I had to trage something.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Uh. Trage for yep, my foot fell asleep and it
really hurt. Trage for oh dear, I'm about to get
so hungry. They kept talking about ROTI and I was like,
I want roty so bad right now, and I still do.
I haven't had a meal all day. I've just had
some foods, you know. Yeah, And they kept having meals. Oh.
And then my final trage is a trage for when
(45:31):
the mom says I don't even remember what I used
to like, and I was like, oh, women's hacrifice so much.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
They sacrificed so much.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
I that book Invisible Women, the data book that made
me want to die. One of the stats in it
was like something like seventy five or seventy eight percent
of the world's unpaid labor is done by women.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Yes, Oh my gosh. I was just listening to a
podcast about Blue Zone maintenance Face and they were talking
about like, oh, these are the cultures where people are
never put in nursing homes, and a lot of those
cultures it's because women just do the nursing home stuff.
And it's like, yeah, you're talking about because what marks
like a culture that has a lot of longevity is
(46:16):
if the men live for a long time, because men
usually die earlier. And so it was like, well, the
men live really long here. But it's like, yeah, because
they're using the women as labor, you know, like it's
like it's because of women, it's because of women. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
So damn.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Yeah. If you have good points for motherhood, I'm trying
to decide, please write in every day. I wonder what
I should do with my life in that way, what
I think about motherhood all the time, and if I
should do it or not.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Oh my god, I didn't know that at all.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
Yeah, okay. Our next segment is.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Of course, if you think Sienna should be a mother
right in, right in?
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Please please, I would love an answer from somebody.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Our next segment, Yes, this is how to pretend you've
seen this film. This is for you are on your
way to agriculture school.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
Yes, you're on the train on the way to agriculture school.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Pre Deep shows up and says, hey, can I have
that seat?
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Can I have that seat? This reminds me a lot
of a movie that I saw recently that there's a
lot of like stuff about girls in it, but mainly
it's about this like really cool guy who ends up
saving these women. He's really good at riding bikes. And
also there's another guy who's a pretty bad guy, but like,
I get where he's coming from in terms of burning
employ alive.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
Oh my god. And in order to get off the
train without pret Deep, we are going to give you
a few sentences sentences you can say to pretend you've
seen the film Lapata Ladies. Oh, yes, pre Deep, I've
seen Lapata Ladies, and I have to say, for centuries
(48:08):
the women in this country have been duped. This con
is also known as a respectable girl. Yes, now leave
me alone. I'm not a respectable girl. I'm getting off
this train without you.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
I'm not a respectable girl.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
I'm a tired woman.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
Oh my gosh, Yes, Pretteep, I have seen the film
Lapata Ladies. Fun fact, man Jumai, the best character in
movie history, was not originally part of the script. She
was added much later. Oh that's surprising, because whoa, that's
a character who I could see being shoehorned in. But
she felt completely natural in it and felt great. And
(48:46):
also I don't know how you could have defined Pool's
experience without her being like mentored.
Speaker 2 (48:53):
Yeah, totally. I guess maybe she was just hanging out
with the Ruffians your time the Ruffians. So I love
that she had an an older woman mentor. Yeah, yes,
prett Deep, I've seen Lapta Ladies, and I'm gonna say
to you what Jaya said to that child in one
of the scenes early in the film, what are you
staring at? I love I really should be allowed to
(49:19):
say that to children and babies. Well, I'm still mad
at that baby who glared at me on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
I don't remember this.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
Oh my god, this baby glared at me from a
stroller on New Year's Eve because I bumped into my
friend who was their nanny, and the baby just kept
glaring at me, so then I glared back. We were
just looking at each other like.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
That is so rude. Whoa, this is only, Yes, Deep,
I have seen the film Lapta Ladies. This is the
only or this is only the second movie directed by
Kiran Rao Karan who directed it. The woman who directed it,
that's like crazy. She literally sayd this is the best
(50:00):
movie I've ever seen. So yes, hmmm.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
Per Deep, I've seen Lapata Ladies. You know, my mom
tried to marry me off to you, but I said no,
don't make me be part of the herd. Mother. I'm
not a pack animal. I'm a woman and I'm going
to agriculture school.
Speaker 1 (50:24):
Don't make me be part of the herd.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Mother, mother. That line was great.
Speaker 1 (50:30):
Oh my gosh, I forgot to give a badge for
when man Jumai eats the sweet she has something to celebrate.
I literally started crying.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
Oh what did I cry?
Speaker 1 (50:41):
In this movie? She finally has something to celebrate and
it tastes so nice. Yes, per deep, I have seen
the film. I have seen the film Lapata Ladies. The
name of the ladies leading ladies are Pool and Pushpa,
both are words for flower. But then it turns out
that Pushpa's name is actually Jaya, which means success.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
Oh sligh, yeah, Oh my god. That line where the
main cop says she's that woman's gonna go far and
then his buddy goes, yes, sir, Darra Dune is eight
hundred kilometers from here.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
His last thing was so delightful. That was so delightful.
I love that. M hm, Well, Leana shall go on
to our next segment, which is, of course, should you
watch this or where we tell you if you should
watch the film or if you should do anything else
with your damn time? What would you say?
Speaker 2 (51:33):
Oh my god, yes, yes, you should watch Lapata Ladies.
It was on Netflix for me. That's where I saw
it too. Oh. I enjoyed it so much. I had
a blast. I had a great time. What you need
to make sure you also do is have a full meal,
because this movie is going to make you hungry.
Speaker 1 (51:49):
Yeah, and I'm gonna say the same, dang thing. I
enjoyed this so much, and I think other people would
enjoy it so much too. It was so fun, very comedic,
and with very good commentary. But it was just it
was so enjoyable. I loved this movie. Y can I say?
Speaker 2 (52:10):
Actually, Slade, I.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
Would recommend it Netflix. Leanna, what would you rate the movie?
Speaker 2 (52:19):
I would give Lapate Ladies five blunders out of five.
It was so fun and it was two hours long,
but not a long two hours. Great acting. We have
to speak about how gorgeous these women were. Both the brides, yeah,
(52:41):
both Pool and Jaia extremely gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
And it was so fun to watch, and it was
so satisfying, and it was sweet and there were heartfelt
moments and physical comedy. Oh my god, this movie has everything. Sianna,
what would you say?
Speaker 1 (52:58):
Hmmmm? I would give this movie five mondumais out of five.
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Ya.
Speaker 1 (53:07):
It's so easy to give movie movies fives now that
women are directing them.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
You're crazy.
Speaker 1 (53:13):
I'm not as bothered by stuff.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
No, I don't think I actually hate film.
Speaker 1 (53:25):
This has been our episode on the PoTA ladies and
shout out to Akha, thank you so much recommending it.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
Thank you, Exha, Big Sleigh. We are Tossed Popcorn. We
are on social media at tossed Popcorn on Instagram. We're
also on Patreon, Patreon, dot com slash toss Popcorn gonna
be posting where Yeah. If you want to fill the
void during our little hiatus this next month, you can
check out our Patreon for bonus episodes. And we will
(53:54):
not see you next week because Sienna is on tour.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
I'm gonna be out and about baby, bring this mic
with me. Not gonna have any room. Too many puppets
in a car in full adults. We'll all be in
the car.
Speaker 2 (54:09):
My nightmare. If you're in any of the cities where
Sienna's touring, go see the show. Okay, Sianna, have a
great tour.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
Thanks, thank you, We love you.
Speaker 2 (54:22):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (54:27):
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Speaker 2 (54:46):
I loved the songs in this The songs were so
fun with the lyrics, the silly lyrics.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
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Did you see that one of the songs early in
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that's amazed.
Speaker 1 (55:02):
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