July 2, 2024 • 28 mins
Sonny has had enough of Ava! Finn goes to Rehab..Carly and Jason get a little intense..So much more to talk about on thie week's episode of Man and Soap!
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Yes, it's Man in Soap thepodcast. Thanks for hanging out. We
talk about our favorite city in upstateNew York, Poor Johns Baby. That's
right. Have a lot of funon this podcast every week. Just try
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to keep it simple as well,break it down into things I love,
the things I hate, and awhole bunch of fun in between. As
we broadcast live from the Metro Court. It's busy today at the Metro Court.
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I think we have a lot offun on here. It's a little
different. I don't like to breakdown episode this. I don't like to
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break down General Hospital episodically. Itis basically what I'm trying to say.
I just talk about just things ingeneral. It's a lot of fun,
a little easier that way. Alittle other podcasts do that. That's not
what I do. I've been watchingGeneral Hospital pretty much my whole adult life.
My mom got me hooked on it, you know, so I always
said I want to do a podcastabout General Hospital, and here we are,
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and yeah, I love it andI've been watching it again like my
whole life. Me and my mommiss her all the time. God she
loved it though, too, andshe would love what's going on right now
in Fort Charles. Summer in PortCharles is good, Oh my god.
And this past week, we're gonnabe a little late this week. It's
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been a weird week, by theway, so this podcast will drop here
just a little bit. So normallywe try to get him out before,
but hey, stuff happens, asthey say it was. There so many
great scenes this week. I wantto go into some things that I just
love. Okay, first of all, I'm finned out. I am finned
out. I'm emotionally drained. ButI love Michael Easton's acting. He has
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been tremendous. He is on hisway out of Port Charles. Could be
breaking news to you. You mightnot even know that. I may have
just broken that. Millions of peopleworldwide are gonna be like, oh my
god, the guy man in soappodcast just broke the news. People in
Germany are gonna be freaking out rightnow. People in Japan, people in
the Netherlands, people in Canada,Russia. They love Man in Soap in
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Russia. We are big in Moscow, but people are gonna be freaking out.
No, but Michael Easton's on hisway out. And if you haven't
heard who's coming back, I'll sharethat with you in just a little bit.
A very popular character, a belovedcharacter, is coming back and it's
gonna be massive, So we'll sharethat with you. I also want to
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start. I want to talk aboutPort Charles in twenty thirty nine. Port
Charles in the year twenty thirty nine, who will be there. We're gonna
do it every week. I'm gonnaname one character that I think will be
in Port Charles fifteen years from now. We're gonna have a lot of fun
with that. We'll break We'll pickone character twenty thirty nine and you get
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maybe see if you can agree withme. And you can find Man and
Soap by the way on Facebook,Instagram as well as we continue to blow
this thing up. Getting back toFinn, Yeah, good scenes, I
mean great scenes all around, justemotional. It started with him and Tracy
her taking Violet away and then Finnmeeting Chase in the park. Oh my
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god, in Finn's realization. Guy'sjust done a tremendous job. He's a
great he's just a great actor.I am sad to see Finn leave.
Actually I'm not. It's time forhim to go. I shouldn't say that.
I'm finned out again. But himand Chase, those scenes and him
and Violet, I just love thosescenes. She is tremendous. I don't
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know if she wins an Emmy forYoung Actresses or not. I'm not into
the awards stuff. I always thinkthat I don't know. They're just they're
full of shit. But she's tremendous. I mean, she does a tremendous
job that little girl. So Finnon his way out. He's going to
rehab and they'll bring him back inthree years. That's how it always works.
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But yeah, he has Michael Eastonis departed. So love that.
I love that Sonny and Christina aremaking up. I love it. I
love her relationship with her dad.They have a very special bond. I
love the scene where she brings himthe garlic and then Blaze and the mother
are there and they're all just havingthis great dinner. That Sonny whipped up
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chicken pigata. I love his relationshipwith Christina. And when I think of
all of the recast roles throughout theyears, there's been some great recasts.
Right, this is the third Carly. Right, if you're new to Port
Charles, maybe you don't know thatthis is the there she is, Hey,
Kari, you too, Yeah,yeah, give me a little bit.
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Yeah, it's the third Carly andshe does a tremendous job. My
point is this is that Mollie's beenpretty good. They have a couple issues
recasting Mollie, but Christina is thebest recast ever on the show. Hands
down, It's not even close.The actress is amazing and this Christina is
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tremendous. So love that. Ilove that Sonny has finally kicked Ava out.
That was the ten scene at dinner, A tense, tense scene.
Uh. Ava is gonna turn onSonny though, and it's gonna get very
interesting. So I'm loving all ofthat storyline. We had a lot of
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great snapshots this week, Sasha,Cody, Mack, the Mac attack is
back, Will Mack. Will Codyreveal that he is Mac's son at some
point? But yeah, I'm justemotionally drained from Finn. I found myself
crying, weeping like a lot.This week. There were such good scenes
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Tracy hugging Finn when he came inthe house and say goodbye to Violet.
God, Tracy is so good.The redemption tour continues for Tracy. I
believe Tracy is the Newlilah for sure. So there was just some really good
scenes there. Anna Valentine another greatscene this week. She's at a crossroads.
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She loves Valiancy, but she's gonnaultimately go after him. She knows
that she has to do it,but she is conflicted. I can tell
you that much. I can tellyou that much. Just a lot of
good scenes. You know. Iwasn't a big fan of Brooklyn initially,
but I kind of come around toher. I think her scenes are really
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good at Chase, I really do. I thought, I thought, I
think Brooklyn is She's growing on me. She's growing on me. I do
again. I love the Christina.I'm just going down some of my notes
just so I might double up,and I apologize if I do. But
I do love Christina and Sonny's relationship. I love the scene with Mac and
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Cody this week, I paid youas a common thief, that that couldn't
be trusted, Max said to Cody, and he goes, I couldn't be.
I couldn't be further from the truth. I thought that was a really
good emotional scene that when Sasha wasthere, that was really good. Brooklyn
in what a scene. I thinkthat was one of the best scenes of
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the week. Brooklyn's like, youreally underneath all that, you have a
great heart, and Tracey's like,don't tell anyone, it's so good.
Tracy has just got me right nowin my fields. Tracy really does.
She's got me in my fields.So there was a lot to love.
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There's not a lot that I don'tlike right now, I can tell you
this much. Okay. The thingI things I don't like, I again,
I'm over Molly and TJ. Ithink they just need to go.
That is going, and that's gonnaopen up a door for Christina to either
steal the baby right from out underneaththem, or steal the baby for her
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sisters so she could have custody.I think that's a storyline that we're gonna
Newby Posted talked about that a coupleweeks, always like that's gonna be interesting
storyline for the summer. And we'llhear from Nuby in just a little bit.
Get his takes for this past week. Yeah good s. Diana was
active a lot this week. ScottieBall wins back. I love it,
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Another warm blanket from General Hospital.So those are things I loved. Let's
go. I have notes on thingsI don't like. Oh yeah, TJ
Molly, they're just boring. They'realways fighting now He's a bore, He's
a snooze TJ. Uh. Yeah, that's the only thing I didn't like
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about this week was that is TJand Molly just I don't know, Ava
showing up to the dinner. Howabout that Sonny not messing around defending Christina
again? I love that relationship.Did you notice the credits are a little
different on the show this week.They're kind of more in your face when
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you see them. They're like whoa, like right here, like right there.
I don't know if that was justbecause I watched it on my computer,
but I don't know if anybody noticedthat the credits. The opening credits
were also a little different. SinceI don't have a lot of things I
don't like, I'll go back tostuff that was really good this week.
Oh, Jagger and Carly Kate's whateverhis name is. Great chemistry, really
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good chemistry. I don't know whatthe plan is for Jagger. Is he
gonna stay here or not? Idon't know, So we'll we'll see how
that plays out. I've got somegood random thoughts on some couples I want
to share in just a little bitas well, and we'll get into that
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in just a little bit. Let'sget with Nubie this week. Because we
bring in Michael, he's new tothe show, we get a fresh perspective
from someone that's only been watching IneralHospital, what three four months now?
So give me your take on thispast week. What did you like from
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port Charles? The Violot scenes gotLee right because a little crying she can't
we take care of each other?I'm like, oh right, yeah,
Violin and Finn unfinned out. Youhaven't been watching it as long as I
have? Are you? Are youready for him to leave? Not really
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that actually, like he's the onebringing the Grandma. I thought they were
gonna we're going to stretches out somuch that yeah, it would be a
month of like, oh, goto who we have. No, No,
I'm not gonna go go I'm notwell. Historically General Hospital does stretch
out storylines, and I think theystretch him out too long. This is
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pretty swift, probably just to gethim out of his contract. But yeah,
I those scenes were like Michael Easton, But I'm just the character Finn.
To me, it's just run itscourse. But I've been watching it
a lot longer than you. Yeah, go ahead. And then a lot
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of Geo scenes, but all thetime, like Geo doubt, Yeah,
Geo, I like you, Geo. Do you think this little potential love
tragle between Geo, Joss and KatrinaBecause I think Joss and Dak call him
Dax. I gotta, I gottaget it's Dex. Yeah, hor you'll
notice from time to time if you'relistening to the podcast and you've been listening,
I'm sure you're probably always if you'relistening and you're invested, and I
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hope that you are, you're probablycorrecting me out loud all the time when
I say Dax. It's got tobe annoying. It's Dex. I think
Dex and Joss have great chemistry,so I don't know. I can see
a Geo, I always call herKatrina too. It is Katrina, No,
it's Trina. Say I put yournames. I'm invested by blank carry
full name is people who cares thatcall her Katrina whatever, Jos and Trina
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to be technical Trina, uh,Trina, and then Geo, So Geo
and Trina. What do you thinkcause Spencer Spencer's sleep in the river asme
who you probably don't remember, bythe way, do you remember? Oh,
you're in for a treatd we bringif as it may, If they
bring her back from the dead andshe miraculously survived the drowning and they resuscitated
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her, she's the best villain.You will love her. But I think
I can see Geo and Trina possiblyhaving a little match there. What do
you think of that? Yeah,I think so okay? And then the
I can't remember because I am alsopowing through it, so I'm always ahead
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of you. Yeah, I know, I'm behind and this is I know,
and I'm dropping this. This isa win on Tuesday. It's gonna
drop here in about twenty minutes andit's a little late. When should we
drop this? I want to shouldwe do a poll? Should have drop
on Saturdays should have dropped on Mondays. Tuesday is not good. I'm late.
Our numbers are going to suffer fewcaus'I screwed that whole thing up.
Where should we think Saturdays would bethe good thing? Well, let me
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have to come in on Saturdays andcommit. But well, when Talky season
starts, I'm always going to behere later than Monday, though. But
it's it's all up to you.I know I control everything well, and
that's scary. You do not wantme in control? No, but I
pray I I would watch all ofthe episodes I know, and I'm trying
to. And it's started Tuesday.People are ahead. I'm trying the things
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I'm looking for this week. I'mglad that Chase and Brooklyn are getting out
of his bachelor pad with the bikeon the wall, and they're going into
the Quartermains. I want to havea room at the Quartermain's. I want
to live there. Heck, everyoneelse's Chase, Brooklyn, Violet, Geo,
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Joss, Drina. There's another roomfor me, But I want that
apartment over over the garage. Metoo, Me too. I thought Tracy
had another great week. Yeah,oh yeah, just just a just a
great week, but I was saying, like, uh right, Drew.
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Yeah, not a lot of Drewthis week at all. I can't wait
for the whole election storyline. Yeah, that's gonna get good. And they're
gonna dig up some dirt on himtoo. Yeah. Yeah, wow,
look at you. That's a goodcall. You're new, so you're excited
about Drew. Drew's usually he's alwayscoked out of his head, but he's
been pretty good lately. Used inthe bathroom snorting lines man, but he's
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kind of reel it in and he'susually of the sception. Yeah, and
Crimson and all that. Okay,and you know, do you know he's
Jason's brother? Now are you awareof that? Now? They're brothers.
I don't know if you're twins.So the original Drew Billy Miller recently passed
away as well, was on theshow and they introduced that character. So,
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yeah, Drew and Jason are brothersthat you didn't everyone's related in General
Hospital, which tells me there's somesketchy stuff going on if we were to
really look at the family trees.I'm pretty sure there's some relationships that might
be sketchy. Yeah, if thewriters are that buttoned up. But yeah,
so what did you think about Jasonand Danny. I thought that was
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a good scene with the motorcycle spendingtime with his son. It was good.
They're focusing on a lot on Jason. Have a lot of impacts that
in Jason. Yeah, that's goodto see you new For those of us
that are lifers, hey, he'sa big deal. It's Jason. It's
Jason, I mean Jason Quartermaine,Jason Morgan whatever. I felt like,
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this is the first time I'm everhearing the name Danny. So Danny's the
son with a TikTok hare. Yeah, basically, Yeah, that was a
good scene with Danny and coming homeand saying Jason's the best. And he
looks at Danta and he goes withno offense because that's like his step because
of Sam and Dante's like none takenand Dante looks great. My mom.
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I could just see my mom alwayssuch a hunk. Oh, it's good.
Whole argument about when the mom what'sher name, Sam Sam? Uh
huh. We feel that she hackedwith Spinelli. It's causing some stress.
He's a cop and it's that great. Now I'm an accessory to a federal
crime. Yeah, you're not wrongthere. Yeah, you're not wrong there
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at all. That was a goodscene. There's not really a lot going
on like with Dante, and youknow, we got a couple of scenes
from him this week, but nodrew, no need from that. It
was just Finn had to kind ofyou know, the Finn storyline had to
kind of take control. Yeah,and it was just emotional scenes. I
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found myself getting very emotional. Sosomeone's coming back, so usually and this
is how it works. And sowhen a main character you see, like
a Finn, leaves, that meansthey're bringing someone else in to replace him.
And Lucky is coming back. Now, Lucky, I believe is one
of Liz's baby daddies. I thinkI can't keep track of all her baby
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daddies. But Lucky is coming back, and that's going to create a lot
of tension there, especially if Jasonand Elizabeth start to kind of hook up,
because she's always Lucky is the loveof Elizabeth's life and Elizabeth just can't
get Lucky in love, whether it'sFranco, whether it's Finn. So you
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have been around long enough to knowthat, but that's she's kind of fucked.
I mean her character is f Imean she gets the raw end of
the deal, part of my French, but she really is she's just screwed
over constantly. You know, she'scoming back as Lucky or what's that now?
You know she's coming back as Lucky. What do you mean sheman coming
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back is Lucky? The actress iscoming back as Lucky. It's an actor,
okay that the actor is coming backas Lucky or he could play his
evil. Oh I don't know,I know it's Lucky, it's Lucky.
No, no, no, no, I see what you're saying. When
they do that, they did thatwith Yeah, they did that with Franco
No Jonathan Jonathan Jackson's Name's come backand that's going to create a love triangle.
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Yeah. Like I started getting toBritish Sol propera and they just did
that where it's like, oh,that's not the father died. Yeah,
yeah, they do that. Butthen they found like someone who looks like
him, and Hanley he's a bad, bad dude, Like the dollars are
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scat of him and like they're figuringout, but he was like, no,
I'm I'm his He's a twin.Yeah, they did that. They
bring back actors that do that.They did it with Franco. They brought
Vin was around earlier as another character. I forgot he got killed, he
got stabbed in his apartment and died. Forgot who But they didn't do that.
But no, this, but Lucky'scoming back. That's going to be
very that's going to be very good. I think Christina is going to make
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a play for the baby obviously.Yeah, I don't know where it's going
to play out though, her andBlaze. Blaze just said, I know
my career is taken off. Idon't think I could be a mom.
But she's also the one that saidtwo weeks ago, I can't help but
think of this baby as I wishit was ours. So I don't know
what's going on there. Well justwait until you watch Sweentdy's episodes. Oh
so you're ahead of me. Don'tdo that. Don't do that. But
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okay, well, I have aquestion for the historian. Give it to
me, y'ah. Do the namesLuke and Laura mean anything for you?
Do immed anything to me? Comeon, That's how I started. It's
the most popular wedding in the historyof soap operas. Luke and Laura were
the Star Wars. Yes, whatabout you nothing, Wow, you're new
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though. Luke and Laura. Ifeel like I heard the name, but
it was in like cultural references.Yeah, Luke and Laura in like some
movie or something. Luke and Lauraare one of the most iconic couples of
all time. All right, Yeah, and Laura's still around. She's the
mayor by the way. That's Laura. Oh really, so you didn't know
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this, you're learning that's Laura.Laura Collins, married to Kevin the doctor.
Yeah, who I think Eva.She's Nicholas's mother by the way,
who's in Pentonville, which I don'tknow what the deal would bring with Nicholas
the characters. That's the famous Laura. So Laura's been around the show since
nineteen seventy seven. She Luke,Luke got weird. At the end,
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Luke and Tracy were in Switzerland.He was killed, I believe in a
Luke was killed in a accident.Yeah, yeah it was. And you're
skiing, you're up in the whatdo you call it? Oh, he
was up in one of those youknow, you know, you know,
talking about Yeah, like to goup the Hill, Yeah, and Victor
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Cassadine rigged it, yeah, andhe was killed. And Luke in the
seventies raped Laura, Yeah, rapedher, and that's how they fell in
love or something. It was reallyweird. Would not go over well today.
I mean it didn't go over wellback then, but it was a
weird scene. Like I think Luketechnically I think he raped her. I
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don't know. It was really quitetwo Wikipedia say what happened. It did
say that. Okay, I'm notmaking up because I I told you I
seventy seventeenty. I'm the same thing. I can get a lot of flak
for that, so I am rightthough. Want to make sure he raped
her? She Laura went to counselingand Offensley gave loot forgave him and they
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became this couple. And after that, you know, it's a soap.
Scottie Baldwin was in love with Laurathough in nineteen seventy nine. You know
Scotty Baldwin is he's the lawyer.He's the lawyer on the show that was
telling Finnay, you're in trouble.You got to go take care of yourself.
I can't take this case. Theone with a weird yeah, weird
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hair. Ken Shriner. He's gotweird hair, but he's he's a stalwart.
He was in love with Laura inthe seventies. Okay, Scotty Baldwin
in his day was a stud onthat good looking the beard. But he's
great him. Tracy was around then, Jane Elliott still, Well, he
has to get that hair under control. Yeah, that's his look. It's
it's gonna stay that way for her. It looks like Abaat likes care.
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Yeah, but he ain't going anywhere. He's a warm blanket, all right,
Nubi, thank you very much.Oh, let me ask you this.
So I'm gonna do this every weekand you can play along. I
have a character that I'm gonna namethat I think will be in Port Charles
fifteen years from now, and Ialready mentioned her. I believe Tracy Quatermain
shall be older. I think she'llbe You don't remember Lyla Quartermain. She
was the matriarchar of the Quatermain family. She lived in like one hundred I
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think Tracy. I see Tracy beingin Port Charles in the year twenty thirty
nine. Do you agree with me? Well, let me ask you this
who would you like to see ofall your characters right now in fifteen years
from a new person's point of view, I think I'm almost a positive.
So you don't know who La Quartermaineis. Tracy Cortermain will turn it into
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the matriarch of the Quatermain family.She'll run that house because Monica is no
longer in there. Who you don'tknow either? Tracy will be older in
fifteen years, clearly, but she'llbe Tracy Quartermain will be like Lyla.
That's she's gonna be the matriarch.Who do you think in fifteen years?
Well, when you say fifteen years, I automatically go to so many young
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Yeah course back. Oh, I'mgonna go into that over the weeks too.
I'm just staying in the obfice withTracy though, But that's my first
one. Go ahead, Who doyou think will be there in fifteen years?
Don't say geo now, I wouldsay howfy. Brooklyn's mom? Oh?
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Wow, oh what's her name?I know she has a strong like
Brooklyn. No, I love her. What the heck is her name?
Oh? Man, I'm losing mymind. Brooklyn's mom? Oh what's her
freaking name? You see her infifteen years. Yeah, that's an interesting
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take. Why her, I justlike when I see her on on the
screen, she's like her characters shoutlike I believe I'm an idiot. Lois
ls his name. She's married,she was married to Ned. Yeah,
yeah, you see her in fifteenyears, like as a grandmother. Maybe
it's a Violet if chasing Chase andBrooklyn might be raising Violet. But yeah,
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no, like her her like charactersscreams, I am going to be
here no matter what in fifteen years, Brooklyn, I can't see either getting
killed off or like just leaving.Yeah. Also, yeah, Brooklyn annoys
me. She could be annoying,No, because based on how's how much
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I feel like she was carrying toomuch about Violet to the point where like
she wants to have the conversation withBen kids, right, yeah, yeah,
to have their own kids. Idon't know they might be having Violet.
But it's I can see like wealready have violate, and like a
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couple of years now, we alreadyhave violate. That's try for one of
our own. Maybe it's gonna beinteresting to see because with him leaving,
you know, I don't know howthey're gonna play out. Did we see
his last scene or are we gonnashow him in rehab? And is he
gonna take Violet with him? Butthat's three months from now, and apparently
he shot his last scene already,so I don't know. I think he's
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gone. Oh yeah, I believeis gone, but like because no,
I don't know how the fighters aregoing to be, like how they're gonna
they'll circle back? How yeah,how they're gonna take care of the whole
Violet cares for that, Yeah,and just to see them go. He
went to or we have for orthree months and then he got a job
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I don't know in Twitcherland. Yeah, and did not tell violate something?
Yeah something, they'll circle back.Yeah, you're right, all right,
there we have it from Newby.Thank you, Michael, yep. Appreciate
that. Michael joins us every weekfor the Newbiest segment. And that's an
interesting takes that he had on thatBrooklyn. Yes, yeah, Lois in
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fifteen years, let's start doing thatevery week. But we'll see what happens.
I expect this week to be reallygood. I think we may get
some more Drew and Nina, Jasonand Carly wheels are spinning for Carly.
What's gonna happen there as she passyou freaking out about going to prison?
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Who knows. But here's the bestpart. We got to deal with Finn's
drama this week. I think it'sgone because I am drained of it.
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I think we have a lot offun on here. It's a little
different. I don't like to breakdown episode this. I don't like to
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break down General Hospital episodically. Itis basically what I'm trying to say.
I just talk about just things ingeneral. It's a lot of fun,
a little easier that way. Alittle other podcasts do that. That's not
what I do. I've been watchingGeneral Hospital pretty much my whole adult life.
My mom got me hooked on it, you know, so I always
said I want to do a podcastabout General Hospital, and here we are,
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and yeah, I love it andI've been watching it again like my
whole life. Me and my mommiss her all the time. God she
loved it though, too, andshe would love what's going on right now
in Fort Charles. Summer in PortCharles is good, Oh my god.
And this past week, we're gonnabe a little late this week. It's
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been a weird week, by theway, so this podcast will drop here
just a little bit. So normallywe try to get him out before,
but hey, stuff happens, asthey say it was. There so many
great scenes this week. I wantto go into some things that I just
love. Okay, first of all, I'm finned out. I am finned
out. I'm emotionally drained. ButI love Michael Easton's acting. He has
(02:25):
been tremendous. He is on hisway out of Port Charles. Could be
breaking news to you. You mightnot even know that. I may have
just broken that. Millions of peopleworldwide are gonna be like, oh my
god, the guy man in soappodcast just broke the news. People in
Germany are gonna be freaking out rightnow. People in Japan, people in
the Netherlands, people in Canada,Russia. They love Man in Soap in
(02:47):
Russia. We are big in Moscow, but people are gonna be freaking out.
No, but Michael Easton's on hisway out. And if you haven't
heard who's coming back, I'll sharethat with you in just a little bit.
A very popular character, a belovedcharacter, is coming back and it's
gonna be massive, So we'll sharethat with you. I also want to
(03:08):
start. I want to talk aboutPort Charles in twenty thirty nine. Port
Charles in the year twenty thirty nine, who will be there. We're gonna
do it every week. I'm gonnaname one character that I think will be
in Port Charles fifteen years from now. We're gonna have a lot of fun
with that. We'll break We'll pickone character twenty thirty nine and you get
(03:30):
maybe see if you can agree withme. And you can find Man and
Soap by the way on Facebook,Instagram as well as we continue to blow
this thing up. Getting back toFinn, Yeah, good scenes, I
mean great scenes all around, justemotional. It started with him and Tracy
her taking Violet away and then Finnmeeting Chase in the park. Oh my
(03:52):
god, in Finn's realization. Guy'sjust done a tremendous job. He's a
great he's just a great actor.I am sad to see Finn leave.
Actually I'm not. It's time forhim to go. I shouldn't say that.
I'm finned out again. But himand Chase, those scenes and him
and Violet, I just love thosescenes. She is tremendous. I don't
(04:12):
know if she wins an Emmy forYoung Actresses or not. I'm not into
the awards stuff. I always thinkthat I don't know. They're just they're
full of shit. But she's tremendous. I mean, she does a tremendous
job that little girl. So Finnon his way out. He's going to
rehab and they'll bring him back inthree years. That's how it always works.
(04:32):
But yeah, he has Michael Eastonis departed. So love that.
I love that Sonny and Christina aremaking up. I love it. I
love her relationship with her dad.They have a very special bond. I
love the scene where she brings himthe garlic and then Blaze and the mother
are there and they're all just havingthis great dinner. That Sonny whipped up
(04:57):
chicken pigata. I love his relationshipwith Christina. And when I think of
all of the recast roles throughout theyears, there's been some great recasts.
Right, this is the third Carly. Right, if you're new to Port
Charles, maybe you don't know thatthis is the there she is, Hey,
Kari, you too, Yeah,yeah, give me a little bit.
(05:28):
Yeah, it's the third Carly andshe does a tremendous job. My
point is this is that Mollie's beenpretty good. They have a couple issues
recasting Mollie, but Christina is thebest recast ever on the show. Hands
down, It's not even close.The actress is amazing and this Christina is
(05:49):
tremendous. So love that. Ilove that Sonny has finally kicked Ava out.
That was the ten scene at dinner, A tense, tense scene.
Uh. Ava is gonna turn onSonny though, and it's gonna get very
interesting. So I'm loving all ofthat storyline. We had a lot of
(06:11):
great snapshots this week, Sasha,Cody, Mack, the Mac attack is
back, Will Mack. Will Codyreveal that he is Mac's son at some
point? But yeah, I'm justemotionally drained from Finn. I found myself
crying, weeping like a lot.This week. There were such good scenes
(06:32):
Tracy hugging Finn when he came inthe house and say goodbye to Violet.
God, Tracy is so good.The redemption tour continues for Tracy. I
believe Tracy is the Newlilah for sure. So there was just some really good
scenes there. Anna Valentine another greatscene this week. She's at a crossroads.
(06:59):
She loves Valiancy, but she's gonnaultimately go after him. She knows
that she has to do it,but she is conflicted. I can tell
you that much. I can tellyou that much. Just a lot of
good scenes. You know. Iwasn't a big fan of Brooklyn initially,
but I kind of come around toher. I think her scenes are really
(07:20):
good at Chase, I really do. I thought, I thought, I
think Brooklyn is She's growing on me. She's growing on me. I do
again. I love the Christina.I'm just going down some of my notes
just so I might double up,and I apologize if I do. But
I do love Christina and Sonny's relationship. I love the scene with Mac and
(07:41):
Cody this week, I paid youas a common thief, that that couldn't
be trusted, Max said to Cody, and he goes, I couldn't be.
I couldn't be further from the truth. I thought that was a really
good emotional scene that when Sasha wasthere, that was really good. Brooklyn
in what a scene. I thinkthat was one of the best scenes of
(08:03):
the week. Brooklyn's like, youreally underneath all that, you have a
great heart, and Tracey's like,don't tell anyone, it's so good.
Tracy has just got me right nowin my fields. Tracy really does.
She's got me in my fields.So there was a lot to love.
(08:24):
There's not a lot that I don'tlike right now, I can tell you
this much. Okay. The thingI things I don't like, I again,
I'm over Molly and TJ. Ithink they just need to go.
That is going, and that's gonnaopen up a door for Christina to either
steal the baby right from out underneaththem, or steal the baby for her
(08:45):
sisters so she could have custody.I think that's a storyline that we're gonna
Newby Posted talked about that a coupleweeks, always like that's gonna be interesting
storyline for the summer. And we'llhear from Nuby in just a little bit.
Get his takes for this past week. Yeah good s. Diana was
active a lot this week. ScottieBall wins back. I love it,
(09:05):
Another warm blanket from General Hospital.So those are things I loved. Let's
go. I have notes on thingsI don't like. Oh yeah, TJ
Molly, they're just boring. They'realways fighting now He's a bore, He's
a snooze TJ. Uh. Yeah, that's the only thing I didn't like
(09:28):
about this week was that is TJand Molly just I don't know, Ava
showing up to the dinner. Howabout that Sonny not messing around defending Christina
again? I love that relationship.Did you notice the credits are a little
different on the show this week.They're kind of more in your face when
(09:48):
you see them. They're like whoa, like right here, like right there.
I don't know if that was justbecause I watched it on my computer,
but I don't know if anybody noticedthat the credits. The opening credits
were also a little different. SinceI don't have a lot of things I
don't like, I'll go back tostuff that was really good this week.
Oh, Jagger and Carly Kate's whateverhis name is. Great chemistry, really
(10:11):
good chemistry. I don't know whatthe plan is for Jagger. Is he
gonna stay here or not? Idon't know, So we'll we'll see how
that plays out. I've got somegood random thoughts on some couples I want
to share in just a little bitas well, and we'll get into that
(10:37):
in just a little bit. Let'sget with Nubie this week. Because we
bring in Michael, he's new tothe show, we get a fresh perspective
from someone that's only been watching IneralHospital, what three four months now?
So give me your take on thispast week. What did you like from
(10:58):
port Charles? The Violot scenes gotLee right because a little crying she can't
we take care of each other?I'm like, oh right, yeah,
Violin and Finn unfinned out. Youhaven't been watching it as long as I
have? Are you? Are youready for him to leave? Not really
(11:18):
that actually, like he's the onebringing the Grandma. I thought they were
gonna we're going to stretches out somuch that yeah, it would be a
month of like, oh, goto who we have. No, No,
I'm not gonna go go I'm notwell. Historically General Hospital does stretch
out storylines, and I think theystretch him out too long. This is
(11:39):
pretty swift, probably just to gethim out of his contract. But yeah,
I those scenes were like Michael Easton, But I'm just the character Finn.
To me, it's just run itscourse. But I've been watching it
a lot longer than you. Yeah, go ahead. And then a lot
(12:01):
of Geo scenes, but all thetime, like Geo doubt, Yeah,
Geo, I like you, Geo. Do you think this little potential love
tragle between Geo, Joss and KatrinaBecause I think Joss and Dak call him
Dax. I gotta, I gottaget it's Dex. Yeah, hor you'll
notice from time to time if you'relistening to the podcast and you've been listening,
I'm sure you're probably always if you'relistening and you're invested, and I
(12:22):
hope that you are, you're probablycorrecting me out loud all the time when
I say Dax. It's got tobe annoying. It's Dex. I think
Dex and Joss have great chemistry,so I don't know. I can see
a Geo, I always call herKatrina too. It is Katrina, No,
it's Trina. Say I put yournames. I'm invested by blank carry
full name is people who cares thatcall her Katrina whatever, Jos and Trina
(12:45):
to be technical Trina, uh,Trina, and then Geo, So Geo
and Trina. What do you thinkcause Spencer Spencer's sleep in the river asme
who you probably don't remember, bythe way, do you remember? Oh,
you're in for a treatd we bringif as it may, If they
bring her back from the dead andshe miraculously survived the drowning and they resuscitated
(13:09):
her, she's the best villain.You will love her. But I think
I can see Geo and Trina possiblyhaving a little match there. What do
you think of that? Yeah,I think so okay? And then the
I can't remember because I am alsopowing through it, so I'm always ahead
(13:31):
of you. Yeah, I know, I'm behind and this is I know,
and I'm dropping this. This isa win on Tuesday. It's gonna
drop here in about twenty minutes andit's a little late. When should we
drop this? I want to shouldwe do a poll? Should have drop
on Saturdays should have dropped on Mondays. Tuesday is not good. I'm late.
Our numbers are going to suffer fewcaus'I screwed that whole thing up.
Where should we think Saturdays would bethe good thing? Well, let me
(13:54):
have to come in on Saturdays andcommit. But well, when Talky season
starts, I'm always going to behere later than Monday, though. But
it's it's all up to you.I know I control everything well, and
that's scary. You do not wantme in control? No, but I
pray I I would watch all ofthe episodes I know, and I'm trying
to. And it's started Tuesday.People are ahead. I'm trying the things
(14:18):
I'm looking for this week. I'mglad that Chase and Brooklyn are getting out
of his bachelor pad with the bikeon the wall, and they're going into
the Quartermains. I want to havea room at the Quartermain's. I want
to live there. Heck, everyoneelse's Chase, Brooklyn, Violet, Geo,
(14:41):
Joss, Drina. There's another roomfor me, But I want that
apartment over over the garage. Metoo, Me too. I thought Tracy
had another great week. Yeah,oh yeah, just just a just a
great week, but I was saying, like, uh right, Drew.
(15:01):
Yeah, not a lot of Drewthis week at all. I can't wait
for the whole election storyline. Yeah, that's gonna get good. And they're
gonna dig up some dirt on himtoo. Yeah. Yeah, wow,
look at you. That's a goodcall. You're new, so you're excited
about Drew. Drew's usually he's alwayscoked out of his head, but he's
been pretty good lately. Used inthe bathroom snorting lines man, but he's
(15:22):
kind of reel it in and he'susually of the sception. Yeah, and
Crimson and all that. Okay,and you know, do you know he's
Jason's brother? Now are you awareof that? Now? They're brothers.
I don't know if you're twins.So the original Drew Billy Miller recently passed
away as well, was on theshow and they introduced that character. So,
(15:46):
yeah, Drew and Jason are brothersthat you didn't everyone's related in General
Hospital, which tells me there's somesketchy stuff going on if we were to
really look at the family trees.I'm pretty sure there's some relationships that might
be sketchy. Yeah, if thewriters are that buttoned up. But yeah,
so what did you think about Jasonand Danny. I thought that was
(16:07):
a good scene with the motorcycle spendingtime with his son. It was good.
They're focusing on a lot on Jason. Have a lot of impacts that
in Jason. Yeah, that's goodto see you new For those of us
that are lifers, hey, he'sa big deal. It's Jason. It's
Jason, I mean Jason Quartermaine,Jason Morgan whatever. I felt like,
(16:27):
this is the first time I'm everhearing the name Danny. So Danny's the
son with a TikTok hare. Yeah, basically, Yeah, that was a
good scene with Danny and coming homeand saying Jason's the best. And he
looks at Danta and he goes withno offense because that's like his step because
of Sam and Dante's like none takenand Dante looks great. My mom.
(16:48):
I could just see my mom alwayssuch a hunk. Oh, it's good.
Whole argument about when the mom what'sher name, Sam Sam? Uh
huh. We feel that she hackedwith Spinelli. It's causing some stress.
He's a cop and it's that great. Now I'm an accessory to a federal
crime. Yeah, you're not wrongthere. Yeah, you're not wrong there
(17:10):
at all. That was a goodscene. There's not really a lot going
on like with Dante, and youknow, we got a couple of scenes
from him this week, but nodrew, no need from that. It
was just Finn had to kind ofyou know, the Finn storyline had to
kind of take control. Yeah,and it was just emotional scenes. I
(17:30):
found myself getting very emotional. Sosomeone's coming back, so usually and this
is how it works. And sowhen a main character you see, like
a Finn, leaves, that meansthey're bringing someone else in to replace him.
And Lucky is coming back. Now, Lucky, I believe is one
of Liz's baby daddies. I thinkI can't keep track of all her baby
(17:56):
daddies. But Lucky is coming back, and that's going to create a lot
of tension there, especially if Jasonand Elizabeth start to kind of hook up,
because she's always Lucky is the loveof Elizabeth's life and Elizabeth just can't
get Lucky in love, whether it'sFranco, whether it's Finn. So you
(18:18):
have been around long enough to knowthat, but that's she's kind of fucked.
I mean her character is f Imean she gets the raw end of
the deal, part of my French, but she really is she's just screwed
over constantly. You know, she'scoming back as Lucky or what's that now?
You know she's coming back as Lucky. What do you mean sheman coming
(18:38):
back is Lucky? The actress iscoming back as Lucky. It's an actor,
okay that the actor is coming backas Lucky or he could play his
evil. Oh I don't know,I know it's Lucky, it's Lucky.
No, no, no, no, I see what you're saying. When
they do that, they did thatwith Yeah, they did that with Franco
No Jonathan Jonathan Jackson's Name's come backand that's going to create a love triangle.
(19:03):
Yeah. Like I started getting toBritish Sol propera and they just did
that where it's like, oh,that's not the father died. Yeah,
yeah, they do that. Butthen they found like someone who looks like
him, and Hanley he's a bad, bad dude, Like the dollars are
(19:23):
scat of him and like they're figuringout, but he was like, no,
I'm I'm his He's a twin.Yeah, they did that. They
bring back actors that do that.They did it with Franco. They brought
Vin was around earlier as another character. I forgot he got killed, he
got stabbed in his apartment and died. Forgot who But they didn't do that.
But no, this, but Lucky'scoming back. That's going to be
very that's going to be very good. I think Christina is going to make
(19:45):
a play for the baby obviously.Yeah, I don't know where it's going
to play out though, her andBlaze. Blaze just said, I know
my career is taken off. Idon't think I could be a mom.
But she's also the one that saidtwo weeks ago, I can't help but
think of this baby as I wishit was ours. So I don't know
what's going on there. Well justwait until you watch Sweentdy's episodes. Oh
so you're ahead of me. Don'tdo that. Don't do that. But
(20:07):
okay, well, I have aquestion for the historian. Give it to
me, y'ah. Do the namesLuke and Laura mean anything for you?
Do immed anything to me? Comeon, That's how I started. It's
the most popular wedding in the historyof soap operas. Luke and Laura were
the Star Wars. Yes, whatabout you nothing, Wow, you're new
(20:30):
though. Luke and Laura. Ifeel like I heard the name, but
it was in like cultural references.Yeah, Luke and Laura in like some
movie or something. Luke and Lauraare one of the most iconic couples of
all time. All right, Yeah, and Laura's still around. She's the
mayor by the way. That's Laura. Oh really, so you didn't know
(20:51):
this, you're learning that's Laura.Laura Collins, married to Kevin the doctor.
Yeah, who I think Eva.She's Nicholas's mother by the way,
who's in Pentonville, which I don'tknow what the deal would bring with Nicholas
the characters. That's the famous Laura. So Laura's been around the show since
nineteen seventy seven. She Luke,Luke got weird. At the end,
(21:11):
Luke and Tracy were in Switzerland.He was killed, I believe in a
Luke was killed in a accident.Yeah, yeah it was. And you're
skiing, you're up in the whatdo you call it? Oh, he
was up in one of those youknow, you know, you know,
talking about Yeah, like to goup the Hill, Yeah, and Victor
(21:34):
Cassadine rigged it, yeah, andhe was killed. And Luke in the
seventies raped Laura, Yeah, rapedher, and that's how they fell in
love or something. It was reallyweird. Would not go over well today.
I mean it didn't go over wellback then, but it was a
weird scene. Like I think Luketechnically I think he raped her. I
(21:55):
don't know. It was really quitetwo Wikipedia say what happened. It did
say that. Okay, I'm notmaking up because I I told you I
seventy seventeenty. I'm the same thing. I can get a lot of flak
for that, so I am rightthough. Want to make sure he raped
her? She Laura went to counselingand Offensley gave loot forgave him and they
(22:15):
became this couple. And after that, you know, it's a soap.
Scottie Baldwin was in love with Laurathough in nineteen seventy nine. You know
Scotty Baldwin is he's the lawyer.He's the lawyer on the show that was
telling Finnay, you're in trouble.You got to go take care of yourself.
I can't take this case. Theone with a weird yeah, weird
(22:37):
hair. Ken Shriner. He's gotweird hair, but he's he's a stalwart.
He was in love with Laura inthe seventies. Okay, Scotty Baldwin
in his day was a stud onthat good looking the beard. But he's
great him. Tracy was around then, Jane Elliott still, Well, he
has to get that hair under control. Yeah, that's his look. It's
it's gonna stay that way for her. It looks like Abaat likes care.
(23:02):
Yeah, but he ain't going anywhere. He's a warm blanket, all right,
Nubi, thank you very much.Oh, let me ask you this.
So I'm gonna do this every weekand you can play along. I
have a character that I'm gonna namethat I think will be in Port Charles
fifteen years from now, and Ialready mentioned her. I believe Tracy Quatermain
shall be older. I think she'llbe You don't remember Lyla Quartermain. She
was the matriarchar of the Quatermain family. She lived in like one hundred I
(23:26):
think Tracy. I see Tracy beingin Port Charles in the year twenty thirty
nine. Do you agree with me? Well, let me ask you this
who would you like to see ofall your characters right now in fifteen years
from a new person's point of view, I think I'm almost a positive.
So you don't know who La Quartermaineis. Tracy Cortermain will turn it into
(23:47):
the matriarch of the Quatermain family.She'll run that house because Monica is no
longer in there. Who you don'tknow either? Tracy will be older in
fifteen years, clearly, but she'llbe Tracy Quartermain will be like Lyla.
That's she's gonna be the matriarch.Who do you think in fifteen years?
Well, when you say fifteen years, I automatically go to so many young
(24:08):
Yeah course back. Oh, I'mgonna go into that over the weeks too.
I'm just staying in the obfice withTracy though, But that's my first
one. Go ahead, Who doyou think will be there in fifteen years?
Don't say geo now, I wouldsay howfy. Brooklyn's mom? Oh?
(24:30):
Wow, oh what's her name?I know she has a strong like
Brooklyn. No, I love her. What the heck is her name?
Oh? Man, I'm losing mymind. Brooklyn's mom? Oh what's her
freaking name? You see her infifteen years. Yeah, that's an interesting
(24:51):
take. Why her, I justlike when I see her on on the
screen, she's like her characters shoutlike I believe I'm an idiot. Lois
ls his name. She's married,she was married to Ned. Yeah,
yeah, you see her in fifteenyears, like as a grandmother. Maybe
it's a Violet if chasing Chase andBrooklyn might be raising Violet. But yeah,
(25:11):
no, like her her like charactersscreams, I am going to be
here no matter what in fifteen years, Brooklyn, I can't see either getting
killed off or like just leaving.Yeah. Also, yeah, Brooklyn annoys
me. She could be annoying,No, because based on how's how much
(25:38):
I feel like she was carrying toomuch about Violet to the point where like
she wants to have the conversation withBen kids, right, yeah, yeah,
to have their own kids. Idon't know they might be having Violet.
But it's I can see like wealready have violate, and like a
(26:00):
couple of years now, we alreadyhave violate. That's try for one of
our own. Maybe it's gonna beinteresting to see because with him leaving,
you know, I don't know howthey're gonna play out. Did we see
his last scene or are we gonnashow him in rehab? And is he
gonna take Violet with him? Butthat's three months from now, and apparently
he shot his last scene already,so I don't know. I think he's
(26:21):
gone. Oh yeah, I believeis gone, but like because no,
I don't know how the fighters aregoing to be, like how they're gonna
they'll circle back? How yeah,how they're gonna take care of the whole
Violet cares for that, Yeah,and just to see them go. He
went to or we have for orthree months and then he got a job
(26:45):
I don't know in Twitcherland. Yeah, and did not tell violate something?
Yeah something, they'll circle back.Yeah, you're right, all right,
there we have it from Newby.Thank you, Michael, yep. Appreciate
that. Michael joins us every weekfor the Newbiest segment. And that's an
interesting takes that he had on thatBrooklyn. Yes, yeah, Lois in
(27:06):
fifteen years, let's start doing thatevery week. But we'll see what happens.
I expect this week to be reallygood. I think we may get
some more Drew and Nina, Jasonand Carly wheels are spinning for Carly.
What's gonna happen there as she passyou freaking out about going to prison?
(27:27):
Who knows. But here's the bestpart. We got to deal with Finn's
drama this week. I think it'sgone because I am drained of it.
Man in Soap the podcasts on iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Hey,
wherever you get your podcasts, weappreciate you making us a part of it.
(27:48):
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