June 24, 2024 • 28 mins
Tracy continues her redemption tour and I absolutely love her! Is Finn about to lose Violet? Carly defends Jason..So much to discuss on this weeks episode of Man and Soap!
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That would be Poor Charles. Baby, Yeah, that's our favorite city.
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from the Metro Court. So muchto get to another great week in Port
Charles. Hi, Olivia, Yes, I'm down ten, I know,
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I feel great. Thank you?Yeah, good as see Olivia. Oh,
summer is a live and well inportrait. I like to break this
podcast down and do a few easysegments. Things I love, things I
hate, some stuff in between.Not a lot of hate right now,
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a lot of love for Port Charles, as we break it down. Our
favorite soap that's General Finn. Oh, I mean sorry, General Hospital.
They might as well change it toGeneral Finn. That guy keeps drinking tequila,
He's gonna turn into a blue agabbyplant. I mean, my god,
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no one drinks more than Finn.That's tequila is nasty, some good
stuff. And I'll just start withFinn real quick, and I want to
say Michael Easton is doing a tremendousjob. Hello Emmy. The Finn downward
spiral continues. Love the scene,Oh my god, it was so intense.
Finn Portie, Terry's back. Yaylove Terry. And that was an
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intense, tense scene. Finn hasquit his job and he is back on
the tequila. He's back on theBlue Agavi. Friday, we found him
face down on the floor and Violetfinds him and she calls Tracy and that
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was really good. Sad to seehis downward spiral, but it makes for
some great dramatic scenes. I callthose scenes the snapshots. You know,
you only get a few per weekthat really stick out. And well,
Finn has been he's been having someamazing scenes. Liz outing him for his
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drinking, which eventually led him toquit. Everyone is against him and he's
constantly drunk and hungover and very defensive. But that scene with him Portia and
Terry, I could feel. Icould feel the tension before it even started.
But I am loving I just lovethe storyline. I love that our
warm blankets are back. I calledthem our warm blankets. They are the
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stalwarts of Port. Charles, Lucyand Scottie having lunch at Bobby's. Mac
is back, the Mac Attack,Mac, Belicia, Robert, Anna,
the whole gang. We're back together, at least briefly this past week,
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and I love that. We loveOur warm blankets are stalwarts. And it
was really good to see Mac backin Parls. I love that. What
elseould I love this week? Nota lot of Cody and Sasha. Great
scenes, Geo playing the violin whilethey were about to get it on.
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That kid can really play the violinby life. Really good scene though,
really good scene. I loved it. I wish my mother were around.
She would have loved Cody. Ican just hear her going, oh my
god, he's such a hunk.Christa Fu. He's such a Hunk's chiseled,
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he look good. Cody rocking thedenim this week. I've come around
to Cody. I've come around toCody and Sasha. I used to call
her shit show Sasha. She's allcoked out on bills and just a shit
show, but she's turned it around. I've come around to her character,
her evolution, and her and Codyhave good chemistry, and I thought that
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was a really good scene with him. I'm so glad Now that scene could
have went one way, it couldhave went sideways, but I'm so glad
because they came planning about Geo playingthe violin, and then they figured it
out. They're like, well,this is kind of romantic. He's playing
the violin, and it's a perfectsoundtrack for our night. I thought that
was really good. I was soglad that they I was waiting for that
to happen, and if it didnot, have been very upset. So
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I like that. I thought thatwas a really good scene. A lot
of Jason this week. I lovehow they've brought Jason's storyline starting to get
stronger. We now know and Samknows, and Spinelle knows that he basically
became an FBI informant to protect Carly. Does not go over well with Sam.
So we're gonna see how this wholething plays out. This whole Pikeman
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thing is getting a little confusing though. You know, Jagger thinks Anna is
the head of Pikeman. They're tryingto fake him out, and I don't
know what they're doing with Brennan.Was it Brenneman? I don't know the
Australian guy that I like a lot. Valentine and Valentine and Anna is this
a charade? Does she really havefeelings? Is she playing along with him
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so she can set him up?Is he playing her? Jason saw her
at Melentine's place. He peered throughthe window. They were making out on
the couch, speaking to make itout. How about creepy old mac Man
working it with Felicia. Nothing creepythan horny Mac Wow, lighting up Mac
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God, Calm down, Calm down. But it's good to have Uh,
it's good to have Mac back lovinga lot of that things that I also
love, Let me see them.I'm trying to think here. There were
a lot of really good scenes.I like the new Bobby's mug, nice
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green, the mug with the greenlettering. It was really good. I
like Sonny and Geo, the sceneat the Metropool core. Geo doesn't want
him to continue to pay for histuition, and Sonny goes, well,
you know you're an independent man.He goes, well, I'm not that
independent to live at the quartermains andSonny goes, well, you should get
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hazard pay for that. I thoughtthat was a great line. That was
a great line. I loved thatTracy telling Finn at the end of Friday's
episode, Violet's gone and she's notcoming back. So Finn is on the
verge of not only has lost hisjob, losing his kid as well.
I love the evolution of Tracy,Tracy and Cody. The scene in the
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stables, she has just continued theredemption tour is amazing for her. I
love her And they always say Americaloves a comeback, right, Not true?
Tracy is so good. Her scenesare great. She's emotional. It
started with Stella, and Stella softenher up, and then you know,
with Gregory, and then this wholejust evolution of her personality. She's loving
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in her with Cody in the stable, and the way she handled Violet,
the way she was very upset aboutFinn and she was so I mean distraught,
really good stuff. Nina Drew lovingthey hate sex? Do they really
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hate each other? We talked aboutit last week. Do they really hate
each other? I like the sceneswith Nina and MAXI I love that.
What else am I loving? Alot of love. I mean on my
notes here, Sam and Spinelli lovetheir scenes. Let's see what else things
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I hate. I don't really hatea lot, right, I mean,
maybe I'm getting soft, Okay,I know things that I hate her.
I really just have a strong dislikingfor Michael and Willow. Yeah, just
they continue to bore me, andthey're snooty, and they're two faced and
so judgmental. Just not a fanof Michael and Willow at all. I
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mean, I'm not a fan atall. I don't really hate a lot
other than that. I just kindof made a side note on them.
I was just good. They justlove that scene again Terry Porsche and Finn
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and Finn going, what is thismeeting really about? He just knew,
just getting defensive from the get go. I'll have some random thoughts in between,
and just a little bit get toa new segment here in a second
we've brought in since we've come back, really happy though again about the warm
blankets coming back. I love Scottieand Lucy and Mac and Scorpio and Anna
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and Felicia. If you are tooyoung to remember them. Back in the
eighties and nineties, they really carriedport. Charles they carried the whole show.
So yeah, and I've got againloving the geo scene, the violin.
See, I don't have a lotof hate. I mean, I
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don't know, there's just not alot of I hate that Anna and Valentine
probably will not be a super couple. I know I talked about that a
little bit last week. But thelove, so I mean, this summer
is going to outweigh the hate.I can just I can tell where I'm
going and just the scenes are really, really, really good to now have
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the same amount of scenes this weekthat we had last the previous week podcasts,
there were so many good scenes totouch on, but now we're just
kind of breaking it down more intostorylines. But summer is going to heat
up in Port Charles and it's goingto be amazing. Right now, we're
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gonna introduce we have Michael, thenewbie. He's new to Porl Charles and
it's kind of interesting to hear histake on General Hospital from a new from
a new perspective. How long haveyou been watching it? Three months?
Hey, let me get you letme turn your mic on. That would
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help Aul. Do you want amic hold on? Do you want to
Mike you want to talk. Okay, there you go. Hey what a
low budget here? Mad and podcastneeds a new studio, bade, Yeah,
gonna have one soon. So you'vebeen watching it for about three months?
Yes? What are your thoughts onTracy Quarterback? I love her?
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Oh you do? I love herher need to all right? From a
newbie's perspective, what do you loveabout her? I can't say it's getting
censored here. I mean they'll getyou don't getting nasty? Are you?
Okay? She serves cut she's okay, Wow. I don't know if I
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should bleed that out or not.But that's so funny. I'll leave it.
I don't know that she used tobe kind of nasty. I'll just
put it that way. I mean, no, yeah, but you think
that she she's she softened up alot, though it should see. She's
serving it in a good way.Okay, like her demeanor serves it so
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much. I'm gonna leave that.That's funny. But she's sympathetic, she's
got empathy. She's really good.But I wish she would have saw her
She could still turn it on.She could still be a little nasty.
But you been watching years ago,you would hate her. Well, I'm
waiting for Monday's episode to see whatshe's gonna do with a Fenn. No,
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she already told fit violence not comingback, but you know it landed
on this cluiphanger, so I thinkshe has more words for him. Oh
maybe, but uh yeah, okay, uh okay. What else are you
liking right now about your new PortCharles experience? Or is there somebody that's
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driving you crazy on the show thatyou don't Actually? I like to see
who don't you like other than wetalked about? Was it Jake last week?
Who else are you not like?Who are you not gelling with on
the show? Is there anybody else? I think? Josh? Oh,
Josh, Yeah, you know,like Johnson thinks that johnsin Dax. The
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way they look at each other iskind of cute. At the Metro there
they are right there with your guy, Geo. He's holding towels right now.
We know you like Geo. Uh, what do you think about Johnson
Dax? Like and Trina? Whatdo you think about that love triangle?
Potentially annoying? And like? Bythe way, real quick, when I
say let me sorry, let interjectwhen I say love tangle, not Dax,
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I think Joss, Geo, Trinamaybe, but Josh really loves Dax.
I think Trina and Geo are setup. But go ahead, I'm
sorry, no, yeah, no, she just Jesus annoying to me.
When I first started watching it waswhen Sonny told Dex run and she followed,
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Yeah, she's in love with him, but it's so annoying that she's
gonna do that. I don't knowwhy she got her man. She brought
him back, and I mean,now know what now then I together,
Well, they're they're that dinner there, then they they're they're heating up.
I think in the summer. Seethe way they look at each other,
and it was in his cop uniformand he showed up at the Metro,
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showed up here right there. It'sso you're not a fan of Josh.
Yeah, one half of them isthat's okay for the other Okay, I
think that that whole relationship is justannoying me, Like, okay, like
one of them it's wants to getwith the other one. Okay. I
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think they both kind of have foreach other. But okay, you have
any other, uh observations from thispast week, stuff that you noticed or
stuff that you liked, I amsomething you want to see Maybe I don't
know. Like the whole Geo andSonny scene it was that was a good
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scene. It was a good scene. But it seems like either they're both
hiding something. It seemed like theydid. I was kind of waiting for
that too. I did think thatthat maybe he Sonny had something on him,
or maybe I thought like Geo hadsomething on Sunny. That's not a
lot, that's not. But yeah, I thought the same thing. Interesting,
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like why why they did Geo choosethe university to go to, especially
since it's it's on the Scots wasn'ta Fordham University, which is a good
school. I think so, Butit's the whole, like the whole,
like that relationship, The whole scenemade no like made sense, but also
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like left me whining more. Okay, Okay, well that's good. That's
what good goods what good writing andgood scenes do. Yeah, they make
you one more. That's so funny. I did think the same thing.
Okay, anything else on your radarfor summer in Port Trons? The whole
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Who's uh Chase chasing Chase and Brooklyn? Yeah, okay, what about them?
The whole I know they're looking outfor Violet. They are, Yeah,
I know, And that's gonna getugly between chasing Finn, by the
way, for me, because thewhole fighting scene of like, oh,
we have to be protector, itwas just and I just wanted to turn
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it off. Why because that's allthey talked about for the past like week.
Well, but the whole show aboutthe past week between Chase Brooklyn is
really revolving around Finn's drinking. Ohyeah, so that's really you know kind
of I guess I kind of getit, But I think that to your
point though, Yeah, I thinkit's not gonna go overwell once when Finn
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comes to and him and him andChase and I can't wait for that fight.
Yeah, it's gonna be good.It'll be a yeah, it's gonna
be an explosive scene. You're notwrong there, you know, And Finn
and Alexis and he is just basicallysevering all his relationships, which is what
happens in really, you know,in reality, when you're drinking and you're
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an alcoholic, you lie. Doyou have the question though? Give it
to me. So when a fanwas defending himself or trying to defend himself
against the in the in the inthe boardroom with Terry and Portia. That
was a damn good scene. Man. I felt the tension right away when
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they're like, welcome back, wewant to meet, we want you to
we want to talk right now.I'm like, Okay, this is not
going to be good. We allhave that experience where the boss comes like,
ok I've had that several times inthe past. Lot it's yeah,
and nothing good ever comes out.They don't call you in to tell you
you're doing an amazing job. That'snot what they call you in for.
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Like he was like saying, ifyou he goes last time, my friend
said they just wanted to talk.He says, I needed a lawyer up
and he knew it was not gonnaend well. And he got very defensive
from the get go, like andhe's got to submit to testing, he's
going to be supervised and his hisI mean, he was emotional. My
question, what's the question? Whatis the thing? He found the cure?
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Oh god, you're putting me onthe spot. Man. He found
this very rare the very I don'tknow if it was a rare form of
cancer. I forgot and it wasa few years ago, but it did
save the hospital. And he didsay I made tens of millions of dollars
for this hospital. He said,I saved it with this rare this cure.
Yeah he did. I don't itwasn't their version of COVID or something.
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It was dressed cancer. Yeah.I think it was a cancer thing.
And it was a big deal whenhe found the cure. Okay,
and it did make millions for thehospital. But Terry and Porschie were having
none of it, right, They'relike, we thank you for that,
but we gotta make sure you takecare of your patience. And of course
he went back in I told youwhen I was watched, I see him
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like he's gonna get hammered. He'shitting at tequila like its water, and
he drinks it like it's I thinkGeneral Hospital's going a little overboard. Like
we get he's an alcoholic, butwho drinks that much tequila? My god,
he should be throwing up instead ofpassing out. Yeah. Now,
like I love the line where hesaid General Hospital was sinking if it wasn't
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for me, Yeah, And thenI was thinking, like, is that
just almost breaking the fourth wall?Was sinking? When but then he found
the care and like, yeah,Starry it up and because of him they
shot up in the meetings. Yeahno, that's not it at all.
So if you break General Hospital downin the ratings. So I know you're
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new to this, So there's foursoaps, I'll tell you how it works.
I mean, I'm not going totry to Patriot, just educate you.
Yeah, I've been around, Iknow this stuff. I grew up
on it. So you have foursoaps. You have bold and the Beautiful,
Okay, Young and the Restless,those who are joggernauts in the ratings.
Okay, we're working radio. Youknow the drill, you know about
ratings. Then there's GH, andthen there's Days of Our Lives, which
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I think is on Peacock. SoGeneral Hospital has been consistently it cannot break
through the Young and the Restless andthe bolden and Beautiful, and I think
those two may go back and forth. I think Young and the Wrestless continues
to reign at number one. Ihave to look at the ratings. But
GH holds its own strong with womenviewers, so it consistently ranks third and
fourth, and I think it's cuttingsome stupid storylines from the from from the
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previous years, like you don't rememberFranco, you would have love Frank you.
It was a great villain and we'vetalked to you heard me talking about
Last. I love villains. Yep. But the show did have some dumb
storylines a few years ago, andI think it lost a lot of viewers
and they have not been able torecover. They've built it up gradually.
A little bit sunny kind of carriesthe show. You said that last week,
and they continue to rank third andfourth. Yeah, third out of
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four, which is depending on howyou look at it. There's four soaps
we rank third. That's seventy fivepercent. To me, that's a c
Well that funks you, not Last, I guess, I yeah, I
mean yeah. They threatened to cancelGeneral Hospital a couple years and I remember
that and people were rate they weregonna put I don't think if it was
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that a new maybe they were gonnaput Ellen in in that time slot or
Kelly Clarkson or something. And peoplewrote and they were, I, ray,
you cancel General Hospital, man Neil. They'll storm those those story they'll
break down the doors. And I'mglad they didn't because I would have it.
My mom was freaking out for weeks. So yeah, any any their
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last thoughts from from from the newbiehere. I don't think so. I
don't I know, like all thoseforce shows have been aground for years.
I've heard my dad so talking aboutyeah, like yhs y, yeah,
if you quite it young and direct. Wow, I love that their dad.
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That's awesome. All got destroyed floodin Minnesota. Oh no, okay,
but that was when he was likehe was like twenty yeah, and
that was I want to say thatwas like in like the nineteen forties or
no at all, like sixties,sixties. Yeah, seventies around since the
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early sixties too, so that wouldmake sense. Yeah, so that's great,
like for like shows that happened aroundfor that long. Yeah, I
don't know how they would actually endit if they actually caught it. Yeah,
Spinelle Spinelli says, Hi, Idon't you know, Michael doesn't like
your hair. He didn't hear me, you don't like Spinelle Spinelli's great.
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He's like he's the he's like thenerdy, like we love him, like
he is another warm blanket in away, like always well, when Spinelle's
on the on the show and himand Maxie are rekindling. I mean,
I like Maxi. I like Maxiea lot too. She looks really good.
She's she had some stuff going onpersonally, I think with some surgery
or something, and she looks likeshe's getting back to the old Maxi.
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Uh, which is really good.All right, thank you Nuby for that.
Yep. Appreciate that. Michael newto the man in podcast uh soap.
When we get his take every week, it's always good to hear a
fresh perspective. So as we arewinding down man in podcasts, you can
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Apple podcast or on a Spotify thereyou go. Look at that newbie chiming
in called Tracy the Sea word though, wow in a good way. I
know what you meant, I knowwhat you meant. So yeah, Michael
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joined us every week for his takes. So all right, I got some
stuff in between. Lexus is clear, she's ready to go. Her and
Diane like an open up that lawfirm. I want to see Lexus happy.
It's another random thought of mine.It seems like she's always her love
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life as a Disaster'd be nice tosee who would you pair her up with?
Though It's like I'm trying to think, and right now there's just no
takers right now. But we alwaysget the crazy Lexus love story, and
I imagine maybe something will develop inthe summer here in Port Charles. Who's
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the head of Pikeman? Random thought? I don't know. I don't know.
Where's Marshall. I don't know,I don't know. Good to see
Lucy and Scottie back. I continueour random thoughts. They're so good together.
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Those scenes are just always so goodwhen they get together. Tracy and
Cody are developing an interesting and trustingrelationship. I like that. Maxy and
Nina scenes are hilarious. Maxi ison Tanina. I like all of that
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stuff. Those are really good scenes. She's not coming back, Tracy told
Finn next week is gonna be reallygood. I mean, I have no
idea. There are so many goodsubplots right now with the Pikeman storyline.
Of course, tying get in withJason and Carly. You know, Drew
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running for Congress a great storyline.Finn boozing it up on that tequila a
great storyline. These are great storylinesthat are happening. Geo's new to Port,
Charles talented on that violin. It'sI always like the younger storylines are
good to follow when you have likea Geo who's new, and then you
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have because we don't have Spencer anymore. He's somewhere in the river with esme.
But you know, it's nice tosee Geo and I like him.
He's a good kid. Him andJoss, who knew he's not a fan
of and Trina. That'll be good. Violet. Good storylines if you're following
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the younger storylines. So yeah,a lot to look forward to next week.
It is going to be so goodas we wrap up Man and Soap
the Podcast, What's Gonna Happen?Is fitnt gonna lose? Violet, Valentine
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and are really gonna get together?A lot to get to next week.
Summer is heating up and it's juststarting. I love it Man in Soap
the Podcast, Appreciate you, andwe're back at it again next week
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That would be Poor Charles. Baby, Yeah, that's our favorite city.
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We'll take that. We will takethat all day as we broadcast live
from the Metro Court. So muchto get to another great week in Port
Charles. Hi, Olivia, Yes, I'm down ten, I know,
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I feel great. Thank you?Yeah, good as see Olivia. Oh,
summer is a live and well inportrait. I like to break this
podcast down and do a few easysegments. Things I love, things I
hate, some stuff in between.Not a lot of hate right now,
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a lot of love for Port Charles, as we break it down. Our
favorite soap that's General Finn. Oh, I mean sorry, General Hospital.
They might as well change it toGeneral Finn. That guy keeps drinking tequila,
He's gonna turn into a blue agabbyplant. I mean, my god,
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no one drinks more than Finn.That's tequila is nasty, some good
stuff. And I'll just start withFinn real quick, and I want to
say Michael Easton is doing a tremendousjob. Hello Emmy. The Finn downward
spiral continues. Love the scene,Oh my god, it was so intense.
Finn Portie, Terry's back. Yaylove Terry. And that was an
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intense, tense scene. Finn hasquit his job and he is back on
the tequila. He's back on theBlue Agavi. Friday, we found him
face down on the floor and Violetfinds him and she calls Tracy and that
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was really good. Sad to seehis downward spiral, but it makes for
some great dramatic scenes. I callthose scenes the snapshots. You know,
you only get a few per weekthat really stick out. And well,
Finn has been he's been having someamazing scenes. Liz outing him for his
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drinking, which eventually led him toquit. Everyone is against him and he's
constantly drunk and hungover and very defensive. But that scene with him Portia and
Terry, I could feel. Icould feel the tension before it even started.
But I am loving I just lovethe storyline. I love that our
warm blankets are back. I calledthem our warm blankets. They are the
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stalwarts of Port. Charles, Lucyand Scottie having lunch at Bobby's. Mac
is back, the Mac Attack,Mac, Belicia, Robert, Anna,
the whole gang. We're back together, at least briefly this past week,
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and I love that. We loveOur warm blankets are stalwarts. And it
was really good to see Mac backin Parls. I love that. What
elseould I love this week? Nota lot of Cody and Sasha. Great
scenes, Geo playing the violin whilethey were about to get it on.
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That kid can really play the violinby life. Really good scene though,
really good scene. I loved it. I wish my mother were around.
She would have loved Cody. Ican just hear her going, oh my
god, he's such a hunk.Christa Fu. He's such a Hunk's chiseled,
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he look good. Cody rocking thedenim this week. I've come around
to Cody. I've come around toCody and Sasha. I used to call
her shit show Sasha. She's allcoked out on bills and just a shit
show, but she's turned it around. I've come around to her character,
her evolution, and her and Codyhave good chemistry, and I thought that
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was a really good scene with him. I'm so glad Now that scene could
have went one way, it couldhave went sideways, but I'm so glad
because they came planning about Geo playingthe violin, and then they figured it
out. They're like, well,this is kind of romantic. He's playing
the violin, and it's a perfectsoundtrack for our night. I thought that
was really good. I was soglad that they I was waiting for that
to happen, and if it didnot, have been very upset. So
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I like that. I thought thatwas a really good scene. A lot
of Jason this week. I lovehow they've brought Jason's storyline starting to get
stronger. We now know and Samknows, and Spinelle knows that he basically
became an FBI informant to protect Carly. Does not go over well with Sam.
So we're gonna see how this wholething plays out. This whole Pikeman
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thing is getting a little confusing though. You know, Jagger thinks Anna is
the head of Pikeman. They're tryingto fake him out, and I don't
know what they're doing with Brennan.Was it Brenneman? I don't know the
Australian guy that I like a lot. Valentine and Valentine and Anna is this
a charade? Does she really havefeelings? Is she playing along with him
(06:00):
so she can set him up?Is he playing her? Jason saw her
at Melentine's place. He peered throughthe window. They were making out on
the couch, speaking to make itout. How about creepy old mac Man
working it with Felicia. Nothing creepythan horny Mac Wow, lighting up Mac
(06:24):
God, Calm down, Calm down. But it's good to have Uh,
it's good to have Mac back lovinga lot of that things that I also
love, Let me see them.I'm trying to think here. There were
a lot of really good scenes.I like the new Bobby's mug, nice
(06:51):
green, the mug with the greenlettering. It was really good. I
like Sonny and Geo, the sceneat the Metropool core. Geo doesn't want
him to continue to pay for histuition, and Sonny goes, well,
you know you're an independent man.He goes, well, I'm not that
independent to live at the quartermains andSonny goes, well, you should get
(07:11):
hazard pay for that. I thoughtthat was a great line. That was
a great line. I loved thatTracy telling Finn at the end of Friday's
episode, Violet's gone and she's notcoming back. So Finn is on the
verge of not only has lost hisjob, losing his kid as well.
I love the evolution of Tracy,Tracy and Cody. The scene in the
(07:35):
stables, she has just continued theredemption tour is amazing for her. I
love her And they always say Americaloves a comeback, right, Not true?
Tracy is so good. Her scenesare great. She's emotional. It
started with Stella, and Stella softenher up, and then you know,
with Gregory, and then this wholejust evolution of her personality. She's loving
(08:01):
in her with Cody in the stable, and the way she handled Violet,
the way she was very upset aboutFinn and she was so I mean distraught,
really good stuff. Nina Drew lovingthey hate sex? Do they really
(08:24):
hate each other? We talked aboutit last week. Do they really hate
each other? I like the sceneswith Nina and MAXI I love that.
What else am I loving? Alot of love. I mean on my
notes here, Sam and Spinelli lovetheir scenes. Let's see what else things
(08:48):
I hate. I don't really hatea lot, right, I mean,
maybe I'm getting soft, Okay,I know things that I hate her.
I really just have a strong dislikingfor Michael and Willow. Yeah, just
they continue to bore me, andthey're snooty, and they're two faced and
so judgmental. Just not a fanof Michael and Willow at all. I
(09:13):
mean, I'm not a fan atall. I don't really hate a lot
other than that. I just kindof made a side note on them.
I was just good. They justlove that scene again Terry Porsche and Finn
(09:35):
and Finn going, what is thismeeting really about? He just knew,
just getting defensive from the get go. I'll have some random thoughts in between,
and just a little bit get toa new segment here in a second
we've brought in since we've come back, really happy though again about the warm
blankets coming back. I love Scottieand Lucy and Mac and Scorpio and Anna
(09:58):
and Felicia. If you are tooyoung to remember them. Back in the
eighties and nineties, they really carriedport. Charles they carried the whole show.
So yeah, and I've got againloving the geo scene, the violin.
See, I don't have a lotof hate. I mean, I
(10:18):
don't know, there's just not alot of I hate that Anna and Valentine
probably will not be a super couple. I know I talked about that a
little bit last week. But thelove, so I mean, this summer
is going to outweigh the hate.I can just I can tell where I'm
going and just the scenes are really, really, really good to now have
(10:41):
the same amount of scenes this weekthat we had last the previous week podcasts,
there were so many good scenes totouch on, but now we're just
kind of breaking it down more intostorylines. But summer is going to heat
up in Port Charles and it's goingto be amazing. Right now, we're
(11:03):
gonna introduce we have Michael, thenewbie. He's new to Porl Charles and
it's kind of interesting to hear histake on General Hospital from a new from
a new perspective. How long haveyou been watching it? Three months?
Hey, let me get you letme turn your mic on. That would
(11:24):
help Aul. Do you want amic hold on? Do you want to
Mike you want to talk. Okay, there you go. Hey what a
low budget here? Mad and podcastneeds a new studio, bade, Yeah,
gonna have one soon. So you'vebeen watching it for about three months?
Yes? What are your thoughts onTracy Quarterback? I love her?
(11:48):
Oh you do? I love herher need to all right? From a
newbie's perspective, what do you loveabout her? I can't say it's getting
censored here. I mean they'll getyou don't getting nasty? Are you?
Okay? She serves cut she's okay, Wow. I don't know if I
(12:11):
should bleed that out or not.But that's so funny. I'll leave it.
I don't know that she used tobe kind of nasty. I'll just
put it that way. I mean, no, yeah, but you think
that she she's she softened up alot, though it should see. She's
serving it in a good way.Okay, like her demeanor serves it so
(12:33):
much. I'm gonna leave that.That's funny. But she's sympathetic, she's
got empathy. She's really good.But I wish she would have saw her
She could still turn it on.She could still be a little nasty.
But you been watching years ago,you would hate her. Well, I'm
waiting for Monday's episode to see whatshe's gonna do with a Fenn. No,
(12:58):
she already told fit violence not comingback, but you know it landed
on this cluiphanger, so I thinkshe has more words for him. Oh
maybe, but uh yeah, okay, uh okay. What else are you
liking right now about your new PortCharles experience? Or is there somebody that's
(13:20):
driving you crazy on the show thatyou don't Actually? I like to see
who don't you like other than wetalked about? Was it Jake last week?
Who else are you not like?Who are you not gelling with on
the show? Is there anybody else? I think? Josh? Oh,
Josh, Yeah, you know,like Johnson thinks that johnsin Dax. The
(13:41):
way they look at each other iskind of cute. At the Metro there
they are right there with your guy, Geo. He's holding towels right now.
We know you like Geo. Uh, what do you think about Johnson
Dax? Like and Trina? Whatdo you think about that love triangle?
Potentially annoying? And like? Bythe way, real quick, when I
say let me sorry, let interjectwhen I say love tangle, not Dax,
(14:03):
I think Joss, Geo, Trinamaybe, but Josh really loves Dax.
I think Trina and Geo are setup. But go ahead, I'm
sorry, no, yeah, no, she just Jesus annoying to me.
When I first started watching it waswhen Sonny told Dex run and she followed,
(14:28):
Yeah, she's in love with him, but it's so annoying that she's
gonna do that. I don't knowwhy she got her man. She brought
him back, and I mean,now know what now then I together,
Well, they're they're that dinner there, then they they're they're heating up.
I think in the summer. Seethe way they look at each other,
and it was in his cop uniformand he showed up at the Metro,
(14:50):
showed up here right there. It'sso you're not a fan of Josh.
Yeah, one half of them isthat's okay for the other Okay, I
think that that whole relationship is justannoying me, Like, okay, like
one of them it's wants to getwith the other one. Okay. I
(15:13):
think they both kind of have foreach other. But okay, you have
any other, uh observations from thispast week, stuff that you noticed or
stuff that you liked, I amsomething you want to see Maybe I don't
know. Like the whole Geo andSonny scene it was that was a good
(15:35):
scene. It was a good scene. But it seems like either they're both
hiding something. It seemed like theydid. I was kind of waiting for
that too. I did think thatthat maybe he Sonny had something on him,
or maybe I thought like Geo hadsomething on Sunny. That's not a
lot, that's not. But yeah, I thought the same thing. Interesting,
(15:56):
like why why they did Geo choosethe university to go to, especially
since it's it's on the Scots wasn'ta Fordham University, which is a good
school. I think so, Butit's the whole, like the whole,
like that relationship, The whole scenemade no like made sense, but also
(16:19):
like left me whining more. Okay, Okay, well that's good. That's
what good goods what good writing andgood scenes do. Yeah, they make
you one more. That's so funny. I did think the same thing.
Okay, anything else on your radarfor summer in Port Trons? The whole
(16:44):
Who's uh Chase chasing Chase and Brooklyn? Yeah, okay, what about them?
The whole I know they're looking outfor Violet. They are, Yeah,
I know, And that's gonna getugly between chasing Finn, by the
way, for me, because thewhole fighting scene of like, oh,
we have to be protector, itwas just and I just wanted to turn
(17:07):
it off. Why because that's allthey talked about for the past like week.
Well, but the whole show aboutthe past week between Chase Brooklyn is
really revolving around Finn's drinking. Ohyeah, so that's really you know kind
of I guess I kind of getit, But I think that to your
point though, Yeah, I thinkit's not gonna go overwell once when Finn
(17:30):
comes to and him and him andChase and I can't wait for that fight.
Yeah, it's gonna be good.It'll be a yeah, it's gonna
be an explosive scene. You're notwrong there, you know, And Finn
and Alexis and he is just basicallysevering all his relationships, which is what
happens in really, you know,in reality, when you're drinking and you're
(17:53):
an alcoholic, you lie. Doyou have the question though? Give it
to me. So when a fanwas defending himself or trying to defend himself
against the in the in the inthe boardroom with Terry and Portia. That
was a damn good scene. Man. I felt the tension right away when
(18:15):
they're like, welcome back, wewant to meet, we want you to
we want to talk right now.I'm like, Okay, this is not
going to be good. We allhave that experience where the boss comes like,
ok I've had that several times inthe past. Lot it's yeah,
and nothing good ever comes out.They don't call you in to tell you
you're doing an amazing job. That'snot what they call you in for.
(18:37):
Like he was like saying, ifyou he goes last time, my friend
said they just wanted to talk.He says, I needed a lawyer up
and he knew it was not gonnaend well. And he got very defensive
from the get go, like andhe's got to submit to testing, he's
going to be supervised and his hisI mean, he was emotional. My
question, what's the question? Whatis the thing? He found the cure?
(19:03):
Oh god, you're putting me onthe spot. Man. He found
this very rare the very I don'tknow if it was a rare form of
cancer. I forgot and it wasa few years ago, but it did
save the hospital. And he didsay I made tens of millions of dollars
for this hospital. He said,I saved it with this rare this cure.
Yeah he did. I don't itwasn't their version of COVID or something.
(19:25):
It was dressed cancer. Yeah.I think it was a cancer thing.
And it was a big deal whenhe found the cure. Okay,
and it did make millions for thehospital. But Terry and Porschie were having
none of it, right, They'relike, we thank you for that,
but we gotta make sure you takecare of your patience. And of course
he went back in I told youwhen I was watched, I see him
(19:45):
like he's gonna get hammered. He'shitting at tequila like its water, and
he drinks it like it's I thinkGeneral Hospital's going a little overboard. Like
we get he's an alcoholic, butwho drinks that much tequila? My god,
he should be throwing up instead ofpassing out. Yeah. Now,
like I love the line where hesaid General Hospital was sinking if it wasn't
(20:12):
for me, Yeah, And thenI was thinking, like, is that
just almost breaking the fourth wall?Was sinking? When but then he found
the care and like, yeah,Starry it up and because of him they
shot up in the meetings. Yeahno, that's not it at all.
So if you break General Hospital downin the ratings. So I know you're
(20:34):
new to this, So there's foursoaps, I'll tell you how it works.
I mean, I'm not going totry to Patriot, just educate you.
Yeah, I've been around, Iknow this stuff. I grew up
on it. So you have foursoaps. You have bold and the Beautiful,
Okay, Young and the Restless,those who are joggernauts in the ratings.
Okay, we're working radio. Youknow the drill, you know about
ratings. Then there's GH, andthen there's Days of Our Lives, which
(20:56):
I think is on Peacock. SoGeneral Hospital has been consistently it cannot break
through the Young and the Restless andthe bolden and Beautiful, and I think
those two may go back and forth. I think Young and the Wrestless continues
to reign at number one. Ihave to look at the ratings. But
GH holds its own strong with womenviewers, so it consistently ranks third and
fourth, and I think it's cuttingsome stupid storylines from the from from the
(21:18):
previous years, like you don't rememberFranco, you would have love Frank you.
It was a great villain and we'vetalked to you heard me talking about
Last. I love villains. Yep. But the show did have some dumb
storylines a few years ago, andI think it lost a lot of viewers
and they have not been able torecover. They've built it up gradually.
A little bit sunny kind of carriesthe show. You said that last week,
and they continue to rank third andfourth. Yeah, third out of
(21:41):
four, which is depending on howyou look at it. There's four soaps
we rank third. That's seventy fivepercent. To me, that's a c
Well that funks you, not Last, I guess, I yeah, I
mean yeah. They threatened to cancelGeneral Hospital a couple years and I remember
that and people were rate they weregonna put I don't think if it was
(22:07):
that a new maybe they were gonnaput Ellen in in that time slot or
Kelly Clarkson or something. And peoplewrote and they were, I, ray,
you cancel General Hospital, man Neil. They'll storm those those story they'll
break down the doors. And I'mglad they didn't because I would have it.
My mom was freaking out for weeks. So yeah, any any their
(22:32):
last thoughts from from from the newbiehere. I don't think so. I
don't I know, like all thoseforce shows have been aground for years.
I've heard my dad so talking aboutyeah, like yhs y, yeah,
if you quite it young and direct. Wow, I love that their dad.
(22:53):
That's awesome. All got destroyed floodin Minnesota. Oh no, okay,
but that was when he was likehe was like twenty yeah, and
that was I want to say thatwas like in like the nineteen forties or
no at all, like sixties,sixties. Yeah, seventies around since the
(23:14):
early sixties too, so that wouldmake sense. Yeah, so that's great,
like for like shows that happened aroundfor that long. Yeah, I
don't know how they would actually endit if they actually caught it. Yeah,
Spinelle Spinelli says, Hi, Idon't you know, Michael doesn't like
your hair. He didn't hear me, you don't like Spinelle Spinelli's great.
(23:44):
He's like he's the he's like thenerdy, like we love him, like
he is another warm blanket in away, like always well, when Spinelle's
on the on the show and himand Maxie are rekindling. I mean,
I like Maxi. I like Maxiea lot too. She looks really good.
She's she had some stuff going onpersonally, I think with some surgery
or something, and she looks likeshe's getting back to the old Maxi.
(24:07):
Uh, which is really good.All right, thank you Nuby for that.
Yep. Appreciate that. Michael newto the man in podcast uh soap.
When we get his take every week, it's always good to hear a
fresh perspective. So as we arewinding down man in podcasts, you can
get us on Instagram or Facebook,give us a like, tell your friends
(24:27):
about it. We want to growthis thing and dominate the world. Well,
don't forget to give us a fivestorry review. Yeah, on the
Apple podcast or on a Spotify thereyou go. Look at that newbie chiming
in called Tracy the Sea word though, wow in a good way. I
know what you meant, I knowwhat you meant. So yeah, Michael
(24:48):
joined us every week for his takes. So all right, I got some
stuff in between. Lexus is clear, she's ready to go. Her and
Diane like an open up that lawfirm. I want to see Lexus happy.
It's another random thought of mine.It seems like she's always her love
(25:10):
life as a Disaster'd be nice tosee who would you pair her up with?
Though It's like I'm trying to think, and right now there's just no
takers right now. But we alwaysget the crazy Lexus love story, and
I imagine maybe something will develop inthe summer here in Port Charles. Who's
(25:33):
the head of Pikeman? Random thought? I don't know. I don't know.
Where's Marshall. I don't know,I don't know. Good to see
Lucy and Scottie back. I continueour random thoughts. They're so good together.
(25:56):
Those scenes are just always so goodwhen they get together. Tracy and
Cody are developing an interesting and trustingrelationship. I like that. Maxy and
Nina scenes are hilarious. Maxi ison Tanina. I like all of that
(26:18):
stuff. Those are really good scenes. She's not coming back, Tracy told
Finn next week is gonna be reallygood. I mean, I have no
idea. There are so many goodsubplots right now with the Pikeman storyline.
Of course, tying get in withJason and Carly. You know, Drew
(26:44):
running for Congress a great storyline.Finn boozing it up on that tequila a
great storyline. These are great storylinesthat are happening. Geo's new to Port,
Charles talented on that violin. It'sI always like the younger storylines are
good to follow when you have likea Geo who's new, and then you
(27:07):
have because we don't have Spencer anymore. He's somewhere in the river with esme.
But you know, it's nice tosee Geo and I like him.
He's a good kid. Him andJoss, who knew he's not a fan
of and Trina. That'll be good. Violet. Good storylines if you're following
(27:30):
the younger storylines. So yeah,a lot to look forward to next week.
It is going to be so goodas we wrap up Man and Soap
the Podcast, What's Gonna Happen?Is fitnt gonna lose? Violet, Valentine
(27:53):
and are really gonna get together?A lot to get to next week.
Summer is heating up and it's juststarting. I love it Man in Soap
the Podcast, Appreciate you, andwe're back at it again next week
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