S2E14 - In the Realm of the Basses - Non Judging Breakfast Pod

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Steve (00:00):
Rufus is the one.

Leif (00:01):
Yeah.

Steve (00:02):
Who's now keeping a secret from Lily. Yeah,
that Dan knows. What a fucking
asshole.

Leif (00:15):
Hey, Upper east siders, and all you scandal loving listeners out
there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast
pod. Where the coffee is strong, the waffles
are fresh, the gossip is hotter than ever.
My name is Leif and I'm your seasoned Gossip Girl veteran.

Steve (00:29):
And I'm Steve, the newbie, the greenhorn,
the, I don't know, leaf. What do we call the Season 2
newbie?

Leif (00:36):
Enough of this high school nonsense. I'm hosting a selection
committee for the Colony club tonight, Steve.

Steve (00:42):
Well, then you can.
Well then you can go ahead and
cast, my submission for it and
we'll get on with this podcast.

Leif (00:55):
Sounds good.

Steve (00:57):
So here's the deal, folks. Leap has been listening to.
Leap has been watching Gossip Girl since it first came out.
And I am diving in for the very first time.
And together, we are your dynamic duo, bringing you all
the drama, romance, and sometimes
questionable fashion choices of this iconic
2007 series.

Leif (01:16):
That's right. Each week we'll be taking a deep dive into the show
one episode at a time. Analyze all the
parallels, obscure references, and of course,
couture catastrophes. Plus, we'll also be touching on
all the behind the scenes gossip and some stories from
fandom and M. Since we.

Steve (01:32):
Are all about inclusivity here at the non judging
breakfast pod, there is always a seat for you at the
non judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab your
mimosa, a cup of coffee or maybe some
of Nate and Chuck's special medicine, and let's get into
it.

Leif (01:47):
Sounds good. So we've had, a
bit of a break. you went to Hawaii? I got
sick with bronchitis for three weeks.
And so we kind of caught up to our release schedule
because this episode will be coming out a week from Monday on
November 18th.

Steve (02:03):
We actually need to cut that out about Hawaii because it was a
big secret trip in, case his family
hears it. His family doesn't know about it.
I went on vacation. We could say.
Did you mind retaking that because, well.

Leif (02:20):
We didn't say where, who you went with.

Steve (02:22):
No, but, like, if anyone knows where I went to
Hawaii, if they, if they hear it, they know why
I went there. Like, he very
specifically asked me not to. until he tells
his family he doesn't want me to say anything.

Leif (02:37):
Your friends family listens to our podcast?

Steve (02:39):
Probably not. Yeah. But
if they do, too bad.

Leif (02:46):
so we did get some requests for Patreon, so We did set
one up, and you can support us for as little as $1 a
month. There are several tiers available.
you can, do some watch parties with us. We're going to watch some cast
movies, and you can get shouted out on the
podcast. So, check it
out@patreon.com nonjudging
breakfast pod. And we are here to talk

(03:08):
about season two, episode 14, in the
realm of the Passes. Original air
date was January 5th, 2009. First
episode of the New Year.

Steve (03:19):
Yeah, 2009. So what was going
on around then?

Leif (03:24):
I, mean, we're in the heart of the Occupy Wall street in the
recession.

Steve (03:28):
Oh, yeah. Yep.

Leif (03:30):
So I really don't know who
the writers are writing to with these title references.
This was based on the movie. I know,
Kurita, also known as in the Realm of the
Senses, but It was a
1976 Japanese slash
French erotic art film with
unsimulated sex scenes in it. And they're expecting

(03:51):
teenagers to go watch this.

Steve (03:54):
Yeah. I wonder if
they expected
the teenagers to know the
titles that well, though keep in mind that back
then, when you're watching it, the
actual title episode is something that
wasn't really made public unless you're
looking online or if you're. It's not like on

(04:16):
Max.

Leif (04:17):
This is the age of TV Guide channel,
and it was right on there.

Steve (04:21):
Oh, would they. Would they post the episode?

Leif (04:24):
If anyone was a fan, like, you know, in fan, and was
getting the episode a few weeks ahead of time, and
TV Guide magazine would come out, like, three weeks ahead with the
episode titles.

Steve (04:34):
Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif (04:36):
It was definitely a thing.

Steve (04:38):
Okay. And then there's also the question of who
is it do you think is titling it? Do you think that
each, you know, whoever gets the writing credit, is that
the person who's titling it?

Leif (04:48):
no, I think it was a group effort. And, like, I know,
like, at least one episode was titled
by an intern. Not an intern,
Josh. Saffron's assistant.

Steve (05:00):
Okay.

Leif (05:01):
And then obviously the strike
episode, this Thin line between Chuck and Nate was
titled by the crew because.

Steve (05:08):
Because they weren't allowed to. The writers were striking and
couldn't name the episode, which. I actually love
that. And it's actually one of the best
titles in reference to
the episode itself.

Leif (05:21):
Yeah. So this episode was written
by John Stevens, who had
previously written the Dark Knight and There
Might Be Blood, both pretty good episodes.

Steve (05:32):
Yeah. Yeah.

Leif (05:34):
Directed by Tony Warmby. directed
Victor Victrola. So he comes back to the club,
school. He must have liked shooting there.

Steve (05:42):
Yeah.

Leif (05:43):
school Lies, Women on the Verge, and
Chuck in real life.

Steve (05:47):
I remember during Victor Victrola, I
actually asked if this was if it was going
to be a regular place,
and you had to think about it. You weren't quite
sure. But I'm really glad now to see it
still be a recurring place
in the show. And I'm glad he bought it
back. Like, I think that's really cool. But we'll get to

(06:10):
that.

Leif (06:12):
The Vulture recap. After the
long break, Gossip Girl kicks us off with a lot of nice
exposition about what everyone did over their not
so happy holidays. Chuck was in
Thailand, sucking on a long red hookah.
Serena banned coconuts in Argentina. Sons
Aaron, whom she broke up with on the plane.

(06:32):
Apparently, she was as revolted as we were by his
stammering, I think I'm falling in love with you
in the last episode. Dan, meanwhile,
pied at home alone. Because the writers forgot that
way back at the beginning of the season, they imbued him
with magic pussy powers he could use to forget.
Serena. Vanessa was with her parents. Man

(06:53):
Bangs was mia And Cece, it seems,
wisely fled the scene after revealing the
big secret to Rufus, which was,
yes, a baby, a live one.
But it appears Rufus and Lilly didn't even have
the most rudimentary of conversations about
the fruit of their coupling. She even kept him
waiting two weeks to hear the answer to his

(07:15):
question. We even know, or think
we know, what Blair and creepy Uncle Jack got up
to, and it's definitely no good.
Although he is kind of sexy in a willfully
idiotic, soon to be fat, former jock cognitive
way.

Steve (07:32):
Loved the casting of Uncle Jack.
Absolutely loved the casting.

Leif (07:38):
Yeah, has been. I forget what his last name is.

Steve (07:41):
From Dexter. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Like, I thought he was great. Scumbag,
fantastic and just great.
Like, it just felt like such
an a split between Chuck and Bart,
you know? Like, I really thought that that really
explained so much of Chuck that he had this
uncle that he also looks up to. So,

(08:04):
anyway, we'll get to all that.

Leif (08:05):
We move into act one. Gossip Girl
here, welcoming you to the new year when my hat knights who
flew south for the sun returned to their Park Avenue
purchase. Which means I have a lot of catching up to
do. Word is Serena Vanderwoodson Ango to
the new year in the plazas of Buenos Aires.
Yes, that means Lonely boy was all alone when the clock

(08:25):
stole 12. And what of little J?
Rumor is she's trading runways for Always so
Long High Fashion. Hello, high school. Blair
Waldorf has been spotted making inroads to the Colony
Club, with high school nearing its end
as queen bee found a new social ladder
to climb. So the only real question
remaining. Where in the world is Chuck Pass and

(08:47):
is he ever coming back?

Steve (08:49):
I thought that I liked the montage at the beginning of
this. I liked the way
that we went from character to
character. We saw what everybody was up to.
I like that we saw what.
I like that. we
got a glimpse of Chuck. We see that
he's in this opium den

(09:11):
somewhere in Thailand.
So we know that Chuck freaked out, which
we know we knew he was going to go away. I
kind of expected not to see him for a couple episodes,
so I was really glad that it was. We're going to get right
back to the resolution of this, and we got.

Leif (09:27):
A little time jump.

Steve (09:29):
Yeah, yeah, there's that time jump.

Leif (09:31):
Dan is cyber stalking Serena's trip to Buenos Aires
and tells Sjeti to learn something as she
leaves the law for her first day back to school.
Then Jenny and Eric are walking together discussing Jenny's
return to school, and Blair is looking to
find a new secret society to join.

Steve (09:50):
Jesus Christ.

Leif (09:51):
Number two.

Steve (09:52):
This is her. This is her second one or the.

Leif (09:55):
Show'S second show's second one.

Steve (09:56):
Yeah, the show's second one. Because the skull and crossbow.

Leif (09:58):
Yeah.

Steve (09:59):
Is. Is this a real secret society? The Colony
Club.

Leif (10:02):
you Google it. Okay, some live
Googling.

Steve (10:05):
I'll do some live Googling.

Leif (10:06):
Eric mention his Uncle Jack is looking for the still
missing Chuck. We get a shot of Chuck and what
looks like an opium den. And then Dan
is looking at Serena's vacation pics when Rufus walks
in. Dan lies about what he was doing.
Rufus is getting nostalgic and decides to walk
Dan to school on the first day of his
final semester.

Steve (10:28):
Yeah, Rufus is just
a fucking asshole from
the start. This is going to be a
shit on Rufus episode. I'll warn you now,
because Rufus is shit.

Leif (10:42):
Nothing new there.

Steve (10:43):
Nothing new there and just
worse. Just, I have so
much to say, but I will do it.

Leif (10:51):
Blair and Dorota are discussing the Colony Club
and Chuck when Blair gets a text from
Jack, causes her to belt for the
elevator.

Steve (11:00):
I will say that when I googled the Colony
Club, I got a website that says
Colony Club and it said Colony Club New York. And
when you go to it, oh, there is a page for guest
information, but there is also just a member
login and an address, and that is it.

Leif (11:17):
Secret society.

Steve (11:19):
Ah, secret society.
Ah, secret society.
Yep.

Leif (11:25):
Jenny and Eric arrive at school. Jenny is nervous
about the mean girls, but Nelly surprisingly welcomes
Jenny back. Jenny's relief is short
lived as Penelope and Hazel, backed by Iz,
give Nelly a hard time for daring to speak to
Jenny.

Steve (11:44):
yeah, the whole Nelly thing.
This whole Nelly thing.
I, yeah, I, I, I, I'll save
for a lot of what I have to say about it for later, but
I, but dumb.

Leif (11:58):
We get our first glimpse of Jack as his limo pulls
up in front of Blair and Dorota. Jack is forced to carry
an inebriated Chuck out of the limo. Blair and
Dorota look both distraught over Chuck, but
Blair sends Dorota off to prep for her
party.

Steve (12:14):
Instant tension between Blair
and Jack.

Leif (12:18):
Yeah, yeah.

Steve (12:18):
that was really, that was really
interesting to see that these
characters clearly had history
without ever really communicating that.
It was really well done.
It's one of the few writing
pieces in this episode that I think stood
out as good. And even then it's more directing

(12:40):
than writing.

Leif (12:42):
Dan and Rufus arrive at school. Dan
enters as Rufus takes a call from an adoption clinic.
But it's another dead end.

Steve (12:50):
And this is when we first hear that
it's adoption. Because last week you and I talked about.
My first impression was, was abortion.
Which yes, it doesn't make a lot of sense for her to go away
for an extended period of time for that.
Except in my mind for the fact that this is
Lily Van Der Woodson or Lily, whoever she was at

(13:10):
the time. I forget CC's last name,
but who could just go away
for a few months to recover from
the trauma of having an
abortion. So m, that's where my mind went the last
time. But now here it's an adoption
and Rufus is now going all over the place.
Rufus is going to make sure that he abandons his children

(13:33):
to find his child.

Leif (13:34):
Yes.
Serena is waiting for Dan at school and tells him
that she broke up with Aaron on the plane ride. But now
the dust is settled and their parents aren't getting
together. She's still down to get down.
Serena asked Dan if if he's, if
his. Serena asked Dan if his

(13:56):
if he's still in. And his response is to lay
a big old smoocharoo on the blonde
bombshell.

Steve (14:02):
Good fucking bye,
Aaron. Goodbye
forever. Right?

Leif (14:08):
Ceremoniously forever.

Steve (14:10):
Right, right.
But good fucking bye. Didn't even get
an on screen exit.

Leif (14:18):
Which that she is. He, is Blair's stepbrother
now.

Steve (14:22):
Yeah, yeah. that tells
me that breakup
felt more like, oh shit, we're going to
resume Shooting and the actor isn't available, so we have to
cut him. Combined with message
boards being like, get this fucking guy out of
here. Can we just have Dan and Serena

(14:42):
back?

Leif (14:43):
Spotted ass and Lonely boy kicking off
the new year like it's last year. Who
knows, Maybe third time's a charm.
Let's not break out the bubbly just yet. We move
into Act 2. Serena and Blair have
a happy reunion in the hallway. Blair has
shamefully admits to telling Chuck that she loved him, only to

(15:03):
have him disappear for a month. It seems like
Blair was going to reveal something else when
Dan comes up and hugs Serena from behind. This
causes player to write off to vomit.

Steve (15:14):
A postcard would have been fine.

Leif (15:23):
Lily shows up the gallery to talk to Rufus
and finally reveals that their child was a son,
but that she doesn't want Rufus to interrupt his
life.

Steve (15:33):
So this is where I have m. A
little more to say on the Rufus thing because he's
just so fucking selfish that it
is all about, I need this kid. I need
to find him when. When Lily said
he has the right to his own
life.

Leif (15:50):
Yeah.

Steve (15:51):
What if this kid doesn't know he's
adopted? What if this kid doesn't
know? What if this. What if you are
completely upending this kid's life because
Lilly specifically said, no, I
won't have the right to it. Yeah,
so. So Rufus is actively
looking to possibly derail

(16:12):
an entire family just so he can meet
a kid who may not want to know any fucking thing
about him, who may be sitting there like,
wait, you're in that lame 90s band? Fuck
off. We don't. So he's just
upending people's fucking lives. And then he says the
thing of Lily. I could have been a rock star, but I

(16:34):
chose to be a dad. Being a dad is what I
am. So don't take this from me. You have
two fucking kids, are clearly troubled in
other ways at home right
now. So why don't you be a dad to
them?

Leif (16:48):
Yeah, I mean, I. I get that he's upset that she did
tell him.

Steve (16:52):
Yeah.

Leif (16:52):
But it's. It's too. It's.

Steve (16:53):
Yeah, it was wrong. What Lily did was
wrong. And later in the episode, the one
moment of credit I will give to
Rufus is when he's like, you've had 20
years to process this. I need time
too. That. Sure, Rufus,
that's acceptable. Yeah. You are allowed to

(17:14):
be angry and you're allowed to take time to be angry,
but you're talking about meddling in people's
lives. That you don't fucking know.
And that's shitty.

Leif (17:24):
I agree. Jenny and Eric are watching the mean
girls bully Nelly at the yogurt shop. Despite
Eric begging her to stay uninvolved. Jenny can't
help but stick up for Nelly and ends up dragging
her out of the shop.

Steve (17:37):
I'm not Little Jay anymore. I feel like they
still call her Little Jay, like throughout the episode. I don't think
she shed the Little Jay the way
she wanted to.

Leif (17:48):
Even though she is getting taller.

Steve (17:50):
She is, she, she's taller than most of them. And I
can't always tell if she's she's actually tall. Right. It's
not lit.

Leif (17:56):
She's not, she's not as tall as Blake Lily, but she has, she's, she's.

Steve (17:59):
Tall, but she's taller than Penelope and,
and Blair. Yeah. Yeah.

Leif (18:04):
Well, Blair's tiny.

Steve (18:05):
Oh, is she? I, I, yeah, I don't, I guess I
only see them in relationship to the show, so I don't
really think of them outside of Wallace Shawn. I
don't.

Leif (18:16):
Who, who, as you see, she's not that much taller than Wallace
Shawn.

Steve (18:20):
True. Yeah, you're right.

Leif (18:21):
Like Ed Westwick's only about five, nine.

Steve (18:24):
Okay, that makes sense.

Leif (18:26):
That makes sense. She's probably like five, six, I would say.

Steve (18:29):
Yeah. The other like the
Hazel clean my shoe thing where it
was, where it just.
First of all it skipped is.

Leif (18:39):
That's coming up.

Steve (18:40):
Yeah. Oh, I thought that was that scene.

Leif (18:42):
No, this is the yogurt. That's when, they're doing the
judgment part when
Blair's judging. This is the scene at the yogurt shop.

Steve (18:50):
Yeah. At the end of the yogurt shop, she turns to
Hazel and says, hazel, clean my shoe.
Because Nelly goes. Because she had take. Because Nelly was
supposed to do it. And Jenny grabbed Nelly and left.

Leif (19:01):
Yeah.

Steve (19:02):
And she goes, hazel, clean my shoe.

Leif (19:05):
Chuck is lighting up a J at school. Blair
tries to talk some sense into an apathetic Chuck to
no avail. Headmistress Queller walks
up and busts Chuck.

Steve (19:15):
Blair fishing for
an I love you is.
That's sad. It's so, it's so
beneath you, Queen. It is
so beneath you.
Yeah, it feels thirsty.
And she's not like she doesn't come across as

(19:36):
thirsty, but thirsty for that. And
how could you even expect it the first time
Rufus.

Leif (19:43):
Comes back to the loft to find Dan and Serena
kissing. Rufus gets all pissy and kicks
Serena out. Dan follows right behind
her.

Steve (19:51):
Yeah, like, what are you thinking?

Leif (19:54):
What? Yeah, it's like I would totally get why
Dan's confused.

Steve (19:58):
Yeah, I'm just going to walk in and
dump all my shit on
you because I'm mad at her mom and,
like, just fucking
unloads all of his shit onto his
kid and their relationship and it's just super
shitty to this teenage girl who
doesn't know fucking shit about what's going

(20:21):
on.

Leif (20:23):
Remember from season one? Ruth's, like, told
Dan to change his sheets, but he's, like, fine with them having sex
in his house.

Steve (20:29):
Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Leif (20:30):
I was, like, implied, essentially.

Steve (20:32):
Yeah, he was. He was all in favor of Dan and
Serena until he was mad at Lily.

Leif (20:37):
Yeah.

Steve (20:38):
Fucking yeah. What? What is this fucking
Romeo and Juliet?

Leif (20:43):
Blair, Jack and Chuck meet with Headmistress
Queller. There is definitely some kind of tension between
Blair and Jack. Chuck promises not to do it again as
he is pulling out another spliff.

Steve (20:53):
I loved the casting of Jack
and. Yeah. Oh, so it was a split because he was like,
oh, I was smoking hash because she. Because I got the
impression it was a joint. But if he's smoking,
like straight hash out of a joint, that would
be. That. That's not going to give.

Leif (21:10):
I assume it's mixed with tobacco.

Steve (21:12):
Yeah, that makes a lot more sense. I never do
that, so that's never my instinct. I'll.
I don't touch tobacco. The
occasional cigar is
it, but I'm not inhaling it.

Leif (21:26):
Pop quiz. What do you get when you
cross Chuck Bass a billion dollars and
bark? Cold in the ground. Free
fall at the loft. Rufus
continues to act like a petulant child
towards his child. Jenny finds out about Dan and
Serena, and as always, she is her number one
fan.

Steve (21:45):
Yeah, she's smart, she's. She's
funny, she's 10 times hotter than she is. And
Dan's like, she's right.
And Rufus is just all about being a
dad, no matter how bad he is at it.

Leif (22:02):
Jenny is pleading Nelly's case to get out from under the mean
girls. Blair sits in judgment. Blair is
too distracted by her plans to join the colony club to care
enough about high school drama, so she dismisses
Nelly. However, it looks like the mean girls are
prepared to act on their own.

Steve (22:18):
Tone down the crazy. P.
She.
Yeah, just, just the nutty
escalation that she was prepared to
go to. Yeah, tone down the
crazy.

Leif (22:37):
Penelope makes me want to explore my subside.
Dan and Serena decide they need to figure out what happened
between Lily.

Steve (22:49):
I like this. I like that they're.
That they're kind of now on the case on the
case. Yeah.

Leif (22:57):
Dan hightails it, out of there. When Blair shows up to discuss
the Chuck situation with Serena. Blair fights back to
tears before calling Dorota to let her know that
Blair needs to make a stop before the Colony Club
park.

Steve (23:10):
Yeah, I don't really have much
on that. Just sort of
sets up stuff that's happening.

Leif (23:18):
Good acting by Lane, as usual.

Steve (23:20):
Yeah, throughout this there's so many. I.
I actually kind of stopped writing that
down every time because it's just sort of a given.
There's a couple times that, like, there. There is one.
And later in this episode that it was, just
a goddamn kind of moment.

Leif (23:37):
The mirror scene.

Steve (23:38):
Yeah.

Leif (23:39):
When the mean girls arrive for frozen yogurt, they
find Jenny, Eric and Nelly at the their
table, quote unquote. The tables
all fill up and the mean girls have to leave with nowhere
left to sit. In an ironic twist,
Penelope calls her dad to complain about
being bullied.

Steve (23:58):
She's the worst.

Leif (24:00):
And it's kind of genius though. as Eric points out, it is.

Steve (24:03):
And I can't stand her. But like,
I've had that student in my
class. Like, I've taught
Penelope's. I as a
teacher, I've taught a lot of versions of these. Never
the rich versions of these kids.
I've taught some rich kids, or at least
relatively rich kids to the rest of their classmates.

(24:25):
And I've taught kids exactly like
Penelope that will just try to
stomp on somebody and when they can't, they'll go
and run and tell that
they're the victim. drives me
nuts.

Leif (24:41):
Blair finds Chuck at the recently repurchased
Petrola. however, her efforts to pull him back fall
on deaf ears. Bart's final words to his
son continue to haunt Chuck.

Steve (24:52):
Blair's composure here. This was one of
those scenes. Blair just walked in to
find the man she loves in
between two women that he is
tongue deep in both their
throats. And she
is visibly upset and visibly
hurt, but composes herself and makes

(25:15):
it about helping Chuck and not about
her own feelings. And it's just more
of that brilliant
Layton acting. And then on top of
that, you watch Chuck spiral
as and being a complete asshole, but you also
really feel for him. There is that. There is

(25:35):
that sympathy like of where that is coming
from.

Leif (25:39):
Dan and Serena are back in the loft looking for evidence of
what happened with Rufus and Lily. Serena gets an
SOS from Blair and runs off to help. After
Serena leaves, Dan finds the number for an
adoption agency.

Steve (25:53):
I thought the detective work was adorable. I loved
finding the ring and being like, oh, he proposed and my
mom said no. And it's like, no, that's not it.

Leif (26:02):
Yeah.

Steve (26:03):
Another thing that I pulled away from this
scene. We talk about Dan and Serena
and will they make it? Obviously they haven't
everybody yet. And my idea is that everyone
fucks. But as
far as them evolving their
relationship, Dan
here clearly is starting to accept that

(26:25):
Serena will at times say, blair
needs me. Gotta go. No more
info. That's it. Peace
out. That used to bother him a lot more.

Leif (26:35):
I think he figured that out from the first season. Remember the I
love you episode? He kind of figured that out.

Steve (26:41):
Yes. Yeah. I feel like there
were times still in that. In that
second run of the relationship. I
think he still struggled with Serena
and Blair's relationship at times. And I think
that this is showing another. I'm just saying that this
is showing him evolving

(27:02):
in the acceptance of the parameters of
their relationship that I. That I hadn't
noticed before, anyway.

Leif (27:08):
Yeah, I feel like that that's been since the
first season. Yeah, that's the I love you episode.

Steve (27:14):
That. That's fair. This is the first time that I
really saw him just. Yeah, cool.
Like, just when they're in the middle of
something that. It
really occurred to me
that specifically.

Leif (27:29):
Happened in the I love you episode. And that's one of the reasons why he
said he loved her. You have a friend that's crazy, but
you got guilty of her no matter what.
New year, same old story. The
darkest secrets are always the
ones that hit closest to home.
As a response to the finding, there was an adoption

(27:49):
agency.

Steve (27:49):
Yeah. Oh, that's right. He finds out that it's the adoption
agency.

Leif (27:54):
Act three begins. Blair arrives home
and rushes past Dorota to sit in front of her
mirror, nearly breaking down,
containing herself to a single
tear.

Steve (28:05):
Bea is the kind of boss that
knows that I've got to cry this
out, I've got to cry it
out, and I've got to get myself together
before these ladies show up to do
this colony club. And she says to
Dota, I need 10 minutes.
And the first thing she does is she sits

(28:27):
down, she looks herself in the mirror, and she
gives it all the time. She has to give
it right now to cry and
locks it down and gets to
work. It is just so
phenomenal in how she
moves through that so quickly and

(28:49):
how when she locks it down, she's clearly not done. She's
clearly not over it. She just knows she has to move on,
but she is just that kind of Boss.

Leif (28:59):
We see a frustrated Jenny coming out of
Queller's office who has reprimanded Jenny for
bullying. However, Nell reveals that she
has a lot of secrets, which Jenny, of course,
jumps all over.

Steve (29:12):
Yeah.

Leif (29:13):
This is where Eric points out that it's very genius.
Penelope.

Steve (29:17):
Yeah. Yeah.

Leif (29:18):
Dan confronts Rufus about what he was looking for
in Boston. But Rufus begs for just
one more day. Oh, I need one more
day.

Steve (29:28):
Yeah. You. You're going to keep pushing your kids away for
a kid you never met. For a kid, once
again, for a kid that may not want to have
fucking anything to do with you.
For a kid that's going to hear, wait, my real, my.
My biological father
was actually a rock star.

(29:49):
And then he finds out that you're not
really a rock star. Like, you're just a
disappointment.

Leif (29:59):
Serena shows up at Blair's penthouse and learns about
Chuck's spiral and insists that they help him.
However, Blair's putting on a brave face and
says it's not her problem anymore.
Serena leaves with a disapproving look on her
face.

Steve (30:14):
I loved this scene. It is
so classic Blair and
Serena. It is
so the inner
workings of the non judging Breakfast Club here
where it is. We all need to help them out.
And Blair. I tried. I
tried. I can't do this. I've got something else I need

(30:37):
to worry about right now. I need to take care of me
first. And
it just.
I really thought that
they brought that
dynamic together, that classic
Serena, Blair. Even when there's
tension, there's love. I really like the

(30:58):
way that they did that scene.

Leif (31:00):
Dan shows up at F and gets the
truth from Chuck. Chuck mocks Dan with the
fact that once Serena finds out, Serena
is finished.

Steve (31:11):
I liked that Chuck was like, we're even
now. You buried that story from my dad.
So I'm going to give you this.

Leif (31:18):
Yeah.

Steve (31:19):
I also really love the. If you're planning
to inherit the family estate.

Leif (31:26):
You'Re not the first born Humphrey.

Steve (31:28):
You're not the first born Humphrey.

Leif (31:33):
Spotted in Petrola, lonely boy and Chuck
Bass having a heart to heart. What for?
Who do they have to talk about?
Blair meets with the Colony Club, who proceeds to gossip
about and belittle everyone Blair knows.
They slut, shame Serena, mock
Lily for marrying Bart Bass, and decree that

(31:54):
it was a mercy that Bart was hit by that
car. However, the final straw
was insulting Chuck. This causes Blair to
promptly get up, presumably to go to
Vetrola.

Steve (32:06):
These awful women,
this whole secret society which is what,
six people? I guess that's like the selection
committee but just
come in and just lay down
gossip and just be like, oh, was that Serena
Vander Woodson? She's

(32:27):
a little show.

Leif (32:29):
A little. But she here.

Steve (32:30):
Yeah.

Leif (32:32):
Making the boo motion.

Steve (32:33):
Yeah. and
I would think that Cece would
be in these. In the circle with
these people, so.

Leif (32:43):
And Lily would be too.

Steve (32:44):
Yeah. And Lily probably would be too, so.

Leif (32:47):
Yeah. How weird.

Steve (32:49):
either that or this
secret society isn't as
influential as the people that
she's already with.

Leif (32:59):
Yeah.
These are the, Mormon secret society.

Steve (33:05):
I also love Dorota's smirk
at the end when
she says. Yeah. When Blair gets up
and she's like, dorota will get their coats or
whatever. And Dorota just
smiles at them.

Leif (33:21):
Chuck is barely able to stay conscious when
Eric shows up to make a last ditch effort to
reconnect with Chuck. However, Chuck,
albeit, nicer than he was at the funeral, grabs a
bottle and bids Eric a very
final sounding good goodbye.

Steve (33:39):
I liked that he acknowledged his
relationship with Eric. It was. Eric
needed to hear that. And so I'm very
glad that Eric survived the holidays
to hear that from Chuck. I
also feel like someone should follow
Chuck.

Leif (33:57):
Yeah, I was. I was really surprised that Eric
didn't really pick up on that because he's
usually so insightful.

Steve (34:04):
Yeah. And honestly, I feel like that's really bad
writing.

Leif (34:07):
Yeah.

Steve (34:08):
I feel like that's the writers not tapping into the
characters that, like, even if Eric didn't follow
him, Eric should have. Then
the next scene
where Blair and Jack and
Eric all get together, that should have been Eric
seeking them out.

Leif (34:26):
Yeah.

Steve (34:27):
That would have solved that huge hole in
this. Yeah.

Leif (34:32):
Eric exits the club and meets up with Jenny
and Nelly to confront the mean girls. Jenny
lays the smackdown, causing the mean girls to humble
themselves. But Jenny no longer wants
Queen in her first love fortune.
Nelly ditches Jenny when she finds out there's
nothing to gain by following her.

Steve (34:51):
I loved this. As much as
I hated this storyline,
I loved the resolution with. So what are we
doing about the party? What?
Well, you're queen now. You got it.
No. No, I don't want to be a part of this.

Leif (35:10):
Yeah.

Steve (35:11):
And all of the dumb shit that I didn't like
about Nelly in this episode, it
turned out that Nelly really was just playing
4D chess.

Leif (35:21):
Yeah.

Steve (35:21):
And winning
only to Sashi.

Leif (35:26):
Just didn't read, Jenny's motives correctly.

Steve (35:28):
Yeah.

Leif (35:31):
Rufus goes to Lily to warn her that Serena will likely
soon know about their love child.
Lily is scared that Serena and Eric will hate her,
but Rufus can't Help but reassure her it'll
be okay. And that even he doesn't hate her.
He just needs more time.

Steve (35:48):
Rufus can't resist being shitty.
Fair point on needing more time. I said that
early in this episode. But every, whenever
Rufus is mad, he takes
every opportunity to be as shitty
as possible. He takes every dig to make
the other person feel as small and shitty

(36:09):
as they. As he can. Whether it's Lily
or his kids or anybody else
that he argues with.

Leif (36:16):
Very self righteous. Very sanctimonious.

Steve (36:18):
Yeah. Even. Even when he's wrong about
it. Like this. And there's. I feel like there's
an element of

Leif (36:25):
Or anything to do with Jenny.

Steve (36:27):
Or anything to do with Jenny. I feel like there's
an element of the
writing here that almost wants us to feel like
Rufus has been wronged and
is in the right to want to find this
kid. I feel like they, they want us to
feel that way and I can't.

Leif (36:48):
But they, they clearly point. Have Lily point
out why he's wrong. Yeah, that's true.
Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's very in
character for Rufus to be self righteous.

Steve (36:59):
Yeah. I mean always.

Leif (37:02):
Dan finds Serena at Vitrola and ushers her out of
the club, presumably to tell her about their
shared half sibling.

Steve (37:10):
Yeah.

Leif (37:11):
Little awkward at Thanksgivings.

Steve (37:13):
Yeah. But you're not related.
So like. And this is like mystery
sibling out there somewhere.

Leif (37:24):
Like you know he's going to show up eventually.

Steve (37:27):
Oh yeah, of course, of course.

Leif (37:29):
And then what happens if Rufus and Lily do get together
and they're step siblings with a shared sibling.

Steve (37:35):
They are. But even then it's like
I see on paper why it's bad, but
their coming together was
100% legit and they
were first. They beat Lily and
Rufus to the second
punch. yeah, I, I
hope they can.

Leif (37:57):
Blair shows up and finds Jack partying with high
schoolers.

Steve (38:02):
Is he partying with high schoolers?

Leif (38:04):
Eric tells Blair what Chuck said to him and
Blair rushes for the stairs. Jack Cancers
drink to Eric and follows after her.

Steve (38:13):
I didn't even put together the Jack
partying with high schoolers at first.

Leif (38:17):
Doesn't Blair say something about it?

Steve (38:19):
But yeah, well, but.
And ah.
I mean when I first like saw him at the club, it
didn't really occur to me. But then when she said it, it's like,
yeah, why are you there? Like what?
Fucking weirdo Creed.

Leif (38:32):
Yeah.

Steve (38:33):
We don't know how old
he is. We just know that he's Bart.
I would assume much younger
brother, but still
inappropriately older, I'm
going to say at least 30s, I would
think. 30s. That was my
impression.

Leif (38:53):
Like, I know we used to we ragged on Aaron's age a
lot, but I think the show intended to be about
21 to 22.

Steve (38:59):
I, I, I, I believe that,
that you are correct that the show
wanted him to be older,
but made a miscalculation in the
writing to explain
Cyrus.

Leif (39:14):
Just had another wife they didn't mention,
which maybe.

Steve (39:18):
But then that also kind of detracts from the whole
other love story, you.

Leif (39:23):
Know, and all that aside, the woman in
Vietnam died.

Steve (39:27):
Right. No, no, I, Yeah, I know. And all
that aside, I do believe that you're right that the intention
for Eric was not or for Aaron was not to
be this 30 some year
old person. Jack,
I don't see how you avoid it.

Leif (39:44):
Yeah, he's definitely at least 30.

Steve (39:46):
Yeah, probably. Like, even if he's. I would assume
Bart was mid-40s
to maybe 50 at
the most. I would, I would kind of assume, I
assume the parents are about my age,
despite Rufus looking
10 years younger than me. But then again,

(40:06):
people my age look 10 years younger than me.

Leif (40:08):
Well, I think Lily and Rufus are younger than the other
parents.

Steve (40:12):
Yes, I, I think so too.

Leif (40:14):
Including Bart.

Steve (40:15):
Yeah. But I would still put bart at between
45 and 50. I wouldn't really put
Bart too much older over 50.
because I wouldn't see him
waiting that long to have kids. I
would see him having the type of personality that
wanted to have an empire and wanted

(40:36):
to have.

Leif (40:37):
But if his wife was having trouble having kids, possibly.

Steve (40:40):
Yeah, that's true too.

Leif (40:41):
That's possible too, because presumably we,
we've heard she died in childbirth.

Steve (40:45):
She may, yeah. Ah, she may have died in childbirth,
which is the more likely. She died in
childbirth. Yes.

Leif (40:53):
Chuck is doing a drunken tightrope
walk on the edge of the roof and drops the bottle when he almost
slips off. One thing about being on
top of the world, it gives you a long, long way
to fall back from commercial
break. Blair arrives on the roof in time to literally talk
Chuck off the ledge. Very emotional

(41:13):
scene. And with no Vanessa in this episode,
Jack is my number one most hated character right
now. Yeah, don't surprise someone
on the edge of a building.

Steve (41:23):
And I didn't put it together until the last
scene, so I want to talk about that. I want to talk about that in
a little bit because I didn't, I didn't
catch that then. I didn't
piece anything together there. But with
Blair, this is also another one of Those
scenes where I

(41:44):
loved how she just poured everything out there. I
loved her acting.
I thought the writing was kind of
lame. Some of the actual lines that
she was giving seemed very
worn. But I thought
that her portrayal was just
phenomenal.

Leif (42:05):
And then we move into the epilogue. Dan is
about to tell Serena the secret when he gets a call from
Rufus. Rufus is once again retconning
morality by telling his son the right thing to do
is to lie to his girlfriend.

Steve (42:18):
Yeah. Way too big a. Way
too big of an ask. Yeah, this is way too big of an ask.

Leif (42:24):
Absolutely. You could take, you know, half an hour to talk
to three before your trip.

Steve (42:28):
Yeah. You don't have to leave right fucking
now. You could plan this trip. You could
go in 24 hours and
have the exact same result.
No, no rush. It
has been 20 years. There's no rush. You can all
sit down right now, have the
talk and then go.

Leif (42:50):
Yeah.

Steve (42:50):
It was just so fucking selfish. Wait
one day. Give your kid. You told your
kid one day. So here's your one day.
Go tell him. But no, you're going to go off on this trip
to try to fucking find this kid. How long are
you going to have to make them wait
now? Because what if. What if you only find a lead

(43:11):
that takes you somewhere else, you fucking
asshole.

Leif (43:14):
Lair is helping, Jack put Chuck in a limo,
who promises to keep an eye on Chuck. Jack
also agrees to not tell Chuck about what
happened with him and Blair on New Year's.
Dun, dun, dun.

Steve (43:28):
I'm enjoying
the character of Jack. It was this scene
where I started piecing together where Blair said she
doesn't trust him. I put together
Don't Scare Someone on the ledge. Is he trying to
get Chuck to fall?
So he appears.

Leif (43:47):
He would be the next in line.

Steve (43:49):
Yeah, he would probably be the next in line for the. For the
Empire. That's. Yep.
And clearly he banged B.
Yep, yep.

Leif (44:00):
Dan tells Serena that their parents are going
away together. Serena says they will make it
work. Dan doesn't look as sure.

Steve (44:09):
Yeah, fuck Rufus. The whole rest of
this episode is just, fuck Rufus.

Leif (44:14):
Rufus and Lily, bags in hand,
get into a cab, fuck
them.

Steve (44:20):
And fuck Lily, too. Here. Usually I'm
almost always on Team Lily. And
Lily, this is also out of character for
her. It's not out of character for her to just jump
up and leave, but
she. Since
Serena has come back, right,
since this, since the start of Gossip

(44:42):
Girl, Lily has been making a
better effort at trying to be a better
parent to her kids. And I feel like, this
scene.

Leif (44:51):
Not counting last episode where she was about to. About to ban
Eric for the holidays.

Steve (44:56):
True. Or the time that she was gonna. That she
was going to send Serena away
for being sexually assaulted on a, On a
tape, on a. On a thumb drive that she watched.
I feel like she's, like I said, making an effort to
be better. And I feel like this is also sort of
a, What is she thinking running off before

(45:17):
having this conversation with her kids.

Leif (45:19):
So just to defend her a little bit. We don't
really know exactly what Lily knows,
Reena knows, or what Dan knows.
Rufus just said she's probably gonna find out soon.

Steve (45:31):
Yeah. yeah, yeah, that's true.

Leif (45:34):
She doesn't know that Dan's like having to keep the secret
for.

Steve (45:37):
That's true. Yeah. which. Okay, so for
just Rufus and Lily to just go away
without Eric or Serena knowing there's a secret out
there, that isn't a big deal. You're right. Rufus is
the one.

Leif (45:49):
Yes.

Steve (45:50):
Who's now keeping a secret from Lily.

Leif (45:52):
Yeah.

Steve (45:53):
That Dan knows.

Leif (45:54):
Yeah.

Steve (45:54):
What a fucking asshole.

Leif (45:56):
So the, the last three scenes get. Have a Gossip
Girl narration over it and it
goes, ah, me.
The year scarcely turned and
already secrets have begun. Where will it end
this time? The new year isn't about what
happened, it's about what's to come. But the
past is always with us, just waiting to

(46:18):
mess with the present. And when it does, I'll
be watching
XOXO Gossip
Girl. And that is the episode
what's Next.

Steve (46:30):
I feel like there's going to be another
couple episodes of Chuck spiraling.
Maybe not completely spiraling, but like
Chuck resisting Blair's
help. And it is going to also
coincide with Jack really cozying
up to Chuck. I see that happening

(46:50):
and really trying to
outplay Chuck.
And I don't think Chuck's going to see it coming. I think Blair's going to
be all over it. I think
that Dan and Serena are going to
really struggle. I really hope that. I really hope that we
don't have episodes
of Rufus and Lily looking for this kid, because that's really

(47:12):
shitty for Dan. I'm hoping that this. Get
that, that little bit of it gets resolved quick
enough that Dan doesn't have to keep this secret so we can
figure out if they can work this out. You
know, I want to. I want to skip that and get
to. I want to see if Dan and Serena can work this
out. I also think that this leads
to Rufus and Lily working it

(47:35):
out. I. I think that Rufus and Lily get
Together out of this. I don't see how that's
really avoidable at this point.

Leif (47:43):
And when will Chuck find out about Jack and
Blair?

Steve (47:46):
Oh, I think we've got a couple
episodes. I think that there needs to definitely
be. I'm going to. I'm going to say at
least three episodes. when, ah, I say that
this is episode one. So two more
episodes and then I
think he'll find out.

(48:06):
It could be. It could be two episodes from
now if they wrap that up
then. But I think that it's going to go on
a little bit longer than that. I think they need
to really play it up and drag out that something
happened.

Leif (48:21):
Okay, well, let's get into some segments.
Yes, we jumped into the Wayback machine
to visit the Television Without Pity forums from back in
2009.

Steve (48:31):
Hello there, Peabody here.

Leif (48:33):
And this is the Wayback machine for traveling through time.

Steve (48:36):
And this is my boy, Sherman.

Leif (48:38):
Speak, Sherman. Hello. Good boy.
This week in fandom. Nothing like a
quasi incest to get the fan base back on board for a
ship. And yes, I'm serious about
that.

Steve (48:51):
Yeah. I mean this.

Leif (48:53):
People were pretty bored of dancery at this point, but
this made it a little more interesting. Yeah, apparently.

Steve (48:59):
Yeah. I mean, how many
TV shows have an incest storyline twice in
one season?

Leif (49:05):
So Uncle Jack is
hot.

Steve (49:09):
I mean. Yeah. Yeah.

Leif (49:10):
Good looking guy.

Steve (49:11):
Yeah.

Leif (49:13):
Eric and Jenny are back together.

Steve (49:15):
Yeah. I love. Yep.

Leif (49:18):
Love that most people are convinced
Jack and Blair hooked up.

Steve (49:23):
Yeah.

Leif (49:24):
And then also poor Chuck. Poor
Blair. CB are epic.

Steve (49:29):
Yeah. Yep. They'll.

Leif (49:31):
They'll.

Steve (49:32):
They'll find each other. I'm not worried about
that. If there's no way we're
going another three and a half
seasons without them banging
episode grades.

Leif (49:47):
You went first last time. So I'm up this week.
So. Yeah. The writing was not that
it was okay. I guess. The acting by
Leighton was especially good, as usual. And
even though I hated Rufus, Matt Settle actually did a good job,
I think.

Steve (50:02):
Yeah. Yeah. That. Yeah.

Leif (50:05):
So I'm gonna give this episode a B. Yeah.

Steve (50:07):
Good actors can be terrible
people. You know what I. Yeah, like terrible
characters usually rely on really good
acting.

Leif (50:16):
Yeah.

Steve (50:16):
I, went kind of storyline by storyline with
the chair. Storyline I felt was kind of.
It was well acted but poorly written.
I felt. I felt like the Rufus and
Lily storyline was probably the. The
best written despite Rufus
being a complete asshole. I do think that that was probably the

(50:37):
most coherent. The little
J storyline I thought was dumb. Like
if I were. If that were the episode, it would be a D.
The the resolution. I liked the very end
with the, okay, well, what about the party?
I liked that. But I hated all of the
stuff leading up to it. And then the Dan and
Serena stuff, I just thought was more

(51:00):
Dan and Serena stuff. So I overall gave
this episode a B minus. I. I felt like
the, the little J storyline kind of hurt it
the most. I thought it was. I found this episode to
be more towards poorly
written, like average written
than anything else.

Leif (51:18):
Yeah.

Steve (51:19):
Acting again, like the acting is what it always is.
Spectacular from the people that you expect it from
and there from the people that you expect
that from. And
directing. I kind of tie a lot of
acting and directing together. Mm.
So yeah, B minus.

Leif (51:38):
Moving over the stock watch.
Not a lot of ups for me this week.
Only Jenny and Eric. That's right.
Only two ups.

Steve (51:49):
Huh? I gave Jack an up. Whatever he's
up to. He seems to be up to something,
but he seems to be, as of right now, on
the upper side of it. On the upper side of
it. I meant to. I forgot to give
Eric and Jenny ups and I want to give both
of them an up as well. I

(52:10):
also had Lily going up.
I kind of felt. I don't
know why I had Lily going up. That's a really
downer that I was.

Leif (52:19):
We talked about it.

Steve (52:20):
Yeah, I know. I'm, I'm. Yeah, I'm going to scratch
that one. and I'm going to just stick with
Jack, Eric and
Jenny.

Leif (52:30):
All right. For my downs.
Rufus, obviously,
Chuck for. Continue to spiral.
Blair for just.
Yeah, she just didn't do well. add the minions.
Get it, get it down.

Steve (52:44):
Yeah, I, I actually originally was going to give
Blair an up, but ended up giving her a neutral.
I didn't really feel like Blair went down in this
episode. I. Because I felt like she stood
her ground against the secret Society
but then lost out on the secret Society.

Leif (53:01):
Yeah, she lost the secret Society.

Steve (53:03):
Yeah.

Leif (53:03):
Standing the ground was not. That was not what she wanted to do.
Yeah, she wanted to be in. So, that was a loss
for me. And she didn't get. And I love you again.

Steve (53:12):
That's fair. That's fair. I felt that she
was treading water this whole
episode and I felt like that was enough
to keep her in my. In my. From. From
me losing stock in her. I pretty much everything else
you said Chuck dropped.
Rufus fucking tanked. the
Minions tanked. And I not only had the minions,

(53:34):
but I also specifically had Nelly because
Nelly flew too close to the sun and
is only going to be down at the bottom of
that again, only even
worse. Yeah, she's going to be
demoted, Minion. So
I specifically gave Nelly a stock down.

(53:54):
Aside from the Minions as a collective.

Leif (53:58):
Fair enough.

Steve (53:59):
But here's the best outfits from the.
Last episode we see.

Leif (54:07):
Best outfit for me, I
had Jack's suit for this meeting with
Queller. The gray tick suit with the purple shirt,
white collar and a purple tie.

Steve (54:17):
It was so slick. That was so
fucking slick. I loved it. I'm giving mine
to Blair's Colony Club dress. That,
that sleek black dress with like the diamond
collar was just
super fucking cool. I really loved how
she held that together.

Leif (54:37):
All right, that is it for segments. What are you
plugging?

Steve (54:41):
first of all, we have not really had a
chance to say this, but. Go Birds. Six and
two. Sirianni, sucks,
but I can't stand him. I don't know your
opinions on Sirianni, but take the fucking
points. Nick.

Leif (54:57):
if you're listening, my opinion is this is
organizational. That's not even. Nick, it's organizational. They've been doing
this since 2017. They did two Super Bowls with
it.

Steve (55:06):
Yeah, yeah.

Leif (55:08):
The way, the way Analyz works is to play it out
over the long haul.

Steve (55:13):
Yeah, I, I feel like the one.

Leif (55:15):
I really disagreed about was the 12 point
conversion when Fred Warner got hurt on the touchdown.
because now you had your third string tackle in there.

Steve (55:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif (55:24):
But other than that, I was fine with it. I, I also would, I also
would have punted at the, the last field goal that he did attempt.

Steve (55:31):
See, I would have
the. There was one field goal. There was like
the 4th and 6th. to me,
I feel like from the
50 yard line to about
the 35 yard line, when
you're in enemy territory,

(55:51):
that is the real strong. Go for it
on 4th. That's where I'm not going to argue on it. When it's
4th and 4th and 4 and you're
at the 44 yard line,
Elliot could probably make the field goal, but you're
probably. But. But it's going to be a lot tougher.
Like I get it more in that neck of the
woods. Once you're past the 30,

(56:14):
it's just like, just take the points.
Like when it's that sure of a thing, that's when it really gets
me. So you're too old school.

Leif (56:22):
Yeah, it's like the three pointers in the
NBA. It's just you got to score more.

Steve (56:27):
Yeah.

Leif (56:27):
You might miss some, but you're going to score more in the long Run.

Steve (56:30):
Yeah, I just, almost cost
us a third game, though. It's a
third. If we would have lost, it would have been the third one that we lost.
Just.

Leif (56:39):
Well, no, the only one so far, the Atlanta game.

Steve (56:42):
Yeah.

Leif (56:43):
And, even that one was more on the fact that the defense
let him go 90 yards and a
minute and a half.

Steve (56:50):
Yeah. Anyway, go Birds.

Leif (56:52):
Yeah, go Birds.

Steve (56:53):
And the other thing that I've been plugging is that
I was watching yellow, jackets
finally. That show is fucking
good. I just saw the, you know, the first two
seasons are out of it and that's definitely worth the
watch.

Leif (57:07):
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You can also find us on Facebook by searching for
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nonjudgingbreakfastpod.com you can find

(57:28):
links to our discord and also our
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feel free to send us an
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Gmail.com. we'd love to
hear your thoughts. We'd love to read what you have to say
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And we, while you're at it, while you're listening
right now, if you could just go ahead and like comment,

(57:54):
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also go out there and tell a friend what you're listening
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Leif (58:15):
And we will be back next week to talk more. Gossip
Girl season 2 episode 15
Gone with the Will the Max
episode description reads Art's will is
read. And Dan learns his father's secret.
I thought he learned his secret.

Steve (58:32):
He already learned his father's secret,
but.

Leif (58:35):
It had a similar description on Netflix as well.

Steve (58:38):
That's so funny. Weird. Yeah.

Leif (58:41):
Anyways, you love us.

Steve (58:43):
Xoxo.
Every time you walk away, run away you take a
piece of me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a

(59:04):
oh, it seems I'm walking right to
your door
My heart's still resting looking for
something more
Are you ever gonna see everything you mean to
me? I'm trying really hard to believe
Every time you walk away, run away you take a piece

(59:26):
of me with you there
Never feels right when I'm out here on
my own

(59:49):
I left last night and it feels like
way too long
are you ever gonna see everything you mean to
me I'm trying really hard to believe
every time you walk away, run away you take a piece

(01:00:11):
Come back to me
smile and you'll make my life
complete

(01:00:34):
Every time you walk away or run away you take a piece

(01:00:56):

(01:01:19):
piece of me with you
there's.

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