4.03: Future Tense

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9-1-1.
What's your emergency?
Welcome back to That WeeWoo Show, apodcast where we watch and discuss
episodes of the A B C show, 9-1-1.

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I'm Bex.
I'm Alice.
And I'm Ellen,
As we do every episode, thank you somuch to everyone who has listened to
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to get the word about our littlepodcast out, we very much appreciate it.
Uh, this week's shout out goes toCelticWelsh over on YouTube, who in
response to our thinking and ponderingand contemplating the sleeping
arrangements in Buck's loft during thepandemic, um, has put in their 2 cents.

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Um, and they said that "I rememberthinking that Chim and Hen slept in the
living room area and Buck and Eddie sharedthe bed. In hindsight, that was probably
Fanon that I just misremembered asCanon. Um, I also remember thinking that
Chris was with Carla for some reason."
Oh, yeah.

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That's a possibility, I guess.
But how long for like, for months?
Like
It does seem, I, I don't know.
I think remember it was a kind of gentlerpandemic, so I think it was like only a
month or so that they were in lockdown.
Yeah.
But as we discussed, we never,nobody seems to care about where

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Christopher was during the pandemic.
Except that yeah, there was
Buck mentions that Eddie went back to him.
But like where was he?
Yes, but back to where like my, myheadcanon, is that he was stuck at camp
the entire time that they just lockedthe kids down at science camp because
I mean, it was like farm to table.
So they were growing food, they would'vehad enough food to sustain them there.

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True, true.
And I also wholeheartedly support theBuck and Eddie sharing a bed while
Chim and Hen had the couch and theair mattress down in the living area.
Of course you do.
So thank you celticwelshfor your comments.
Thank you!
So before we dive into discussingthis week's episode, which is

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episode three of season four, "FutureTense", Alice, could you remind
us what happened in episode two?
Yeah.
Last week on 9-1-1, Chimney andBuck rescued a group of kidnapped
pregnant women from a housesubmerged in mud and Athena managed
to escape from a house which hasslid down a cliff in the landslide.
So this episode is called "Future Tense".

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This is the third episode of season four.
Um, so this first aired in February,the 1st of February, in fact, 2021.
So we're still mid pandemic, but the9-1-1 universe is kind of coming out
the other side, already lucky them.
Um, the official summary for this episodesays, uh, the 118 race to save a man under

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siege by his high-tech smart home anda yoga teacher who has lost her vision.
Athena hunts down a bank robberdisguised by COVID protocols.
Meanwhile, Buck confides in Maddie,Hen clashes with her antagonizing
medical school lab partner andmembers of the 118's crew prep
for an out-of-state mission.

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Once again, they've described pretty mucheverything that happens in this episode,
which is quite comprehensive, I guess.
Mm-hmm.
None of these things weredeleted from the episode.
No, it is comprehensive and correct.
And we have some trigger warnings for,um, cadavers in a medical school context.

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So like autopsy kind of visionhere, we have, um, cancer and,
uh oh yeah, the cancer is partof the medical school thing.
Discussion of bad parents.
Fainting, the foster care system, stalkingand very disgusting worms coming out of

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someone's eyes, which is, ugh, really?
Okay.
This, there's so many things in thisepisode that I just could not watch.
I had to hide behind my eyes.
But anyway, we can get, we get into that.
Where are we even startingwith this episode?
Uh, we're going to start withAndy and his Hildy security system

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in, in his brand new smart home.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
I quite like this Hildy things like,apart from like, when it starts to act
a little creepy, um, it sounds it's gotquite a comforting, like voice to it.
I quite like the beginning part of it.
Like I've got Google running my house,

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but, um, I was about to ask,does anybody have a smart house?
Yeah.
It's not, my last house was smarter.
This one I haven't fully set up yet.
Um, but like my air conditioneris voice controlled.
My, um, obviously like smartspeakers are voice controlled,
my lights are voice controlled.
Mm-hmm.

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Oh
right.
Which is cool, but yeah, I haven't totallyfinished setting it up yet, so I need to
get my TVs back to being voice controlled.
Yep.
Fancy.
I have lights that are connectedto the Google Home device,
so they're voice activated.
Um, I know it's, it's not like, it'snot cool to do Harry Potter stuff

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anymore, but one of our lamps is Harry.
The controls are Harry Potter esque.
So rather than saying to turn the lampon, I just like, "Hey Google, Lumos."
And there it goes.
It just, and then if you tell it"nox", it'll turn the lamp off.

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It is listening.
Yeah.
I used to have mine all, um,like I'd say something and it'd
automate a whole bunch of things.
So like when I was leavingin the morning, I could say,
oh, yeah, yeah.
That the routines?
Like goodbye.
Yeah.
The routines.
Um, I could say goodbye andit'd turn everything off.
Um,
that's cool.
And when I'd say, I'm home,it'd turn on various things.

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Yeah.
Mm. Well, probably the fanciest,um, automation we've got is, um, the
sprinkler system outside is, my husbandhad it set up so that if it had rained
that day, the sprinklers wouldn't go.
And if it, and, you know, they cameon on a timer type thing, but they
would only come on if it hadn't rained.

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And like stuff likethat, it was quite cool.
But, um, that's, but no, wehave, I, I don't have lights
that turn on when I ask them to.
That's quite, it's quite fancy.
It's cool except for like, I'vegot it set on a timer as well.
Um, so that when I'm coming homefrom work, it automatically turns
on like it used to do it, location,proximity, but it's a bit harder

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now that I'm out in the bush.
Um, so it's just on a timer, but I'llbe napping and it'll turn on at sunset
and I'm just like, no, I'm sleeping.
Turn off again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So the, uh, automation isn't always, Idoesn't always do exactly what you want.
No.
Oh, well this guy is, something's goingwrong with his house this morning.

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Like when he gets out of bed,like it opens the curtains.
Well, everything's finewhen he gets outta bed.
Yeah.
The cur the curtains are like,Hildy controls the curtains.
She controls the thermostat, shecontrols the, um, the coffee machine.
She controls the sound system.
He also has cameras in like every roomof his house so that Hildy can track

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him, which, um, I don't understand.
Yeah.
Having the cameras inside thehouse, I know that people do it.
They have like ring camerasset up inside their house.
I don't know about that.
I've got cameras outside.
Oh yeah, yeah.
I've got a, I've got a ring cameraoutside too, which, you know, I really
appreciate, but I'm not gonna startsetting them up inside my house.

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But yeah, inside's kind of, I, I do havea friend who has it inside and um, she'll
occasionally, like if she trips over orif the dogs do something funny, she'll
send us vision of it, which is funny.
Um, but they have it just to trackthe dogs when they're not home.
But, um, they just leaveit on all the time.
I mean, you wouldn't wanna be thesort of person who walks around the

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house with no clothes on, right?
Oh, all the time.
Like, because I my cousins...
Alice does
that
all
the time,
like seriously.
So my cousins had, um, had access to itbecause they used to live there and when
they moved out, um, like my cousin and mycousins like partner, um, when they moved
out I was like, oh, you know, like justkeep access to the cameras, it's fine.

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Um, and then I realized like waytoo late that they had access
to like all the cameras when I'dbe like walking around naked.
I'm just like, um, pleasedon't check the cameras.
Yeah.
About that.
'Cause
they've
got access to the ones...
Oh my god
that don't record as well.
That reminds me of that story ofMisha's where he was house sitting
for Richard and then Richard had toremind him that, um, that they had

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cameras in the house and that his wifewas periodically checking the cameras.
And apparently Misha was inlike a no clothing phase.
Um, Misha's always in a no clothing phase.
There's the story of whenhe was at JIB as well.
And um, and he was walking aroundnaked and like in front of his
window 'cause he was on the phone.

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And then he realized that like, he waswalking around in front of the window
that like went out to all the otherwindows and he was like, oh shit.
And so he mentioned it to likethe con organizer and she's like,
"we know." He was like, oh cool.
So you all saw it?
Yeah.
Great.
Oh my god, that man's a menace.
He's such a menace.
Okay, but Anthony, apparently Icalled him Andy and that was wrong.

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We should get back to this episode.
Anthony is not walking around nakedbecause it's, um, you know, primetime,
syndicated network television.
They, they don't have the, theability to have like nudists on
the show with everything like out.
Um, so he's not naked, but hedoes have cameras in his house.
And like we were saying, the Hildysystem seems to be working fine until

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he goes into the kitchen and asksHildy to start making him a coffee.
And then he asks Hildy to play some music.
He wants some happy music.
Um, what he gets is like death metal.
Yeah,
I, it's probably not death metal.
I know that there are, they'relike, that's a very specific genre
within sort of the heavy metal,but it's, it's loud and it's,

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it's very loud.
It's not happy music.
No.
Um, and while the, while he, it'salso playing at like top volume.
Yeah.
So while Anthony is freaking out tryingto get Hildy to stop the music, the
coffee machine is also malfunctioningand the espresso is going everywhere.

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And she, he's like shouting to, totell Hildy to stop making the coffee.
But Hildy doesn't know how tohelp with that because it can't
hear over the music, I guess.
Or has been told not torespond, as the case may be.
Right.
That's the question.
So at this point we think it'sjust Hildy malfunctioning.

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Was it Justine?
Was she controlling thecopy machine and the music?
Yeah, I think she was tryingto fuck up his morning.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because we definitely see that thereare external forces working on Hildy
once Anthony gets into the bathroom,which like, dude, I like, I know
for the drama they have a camerain the bathroom, but dude, why do

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you need a camera in the bathroom?
Yeah, yeah.
In the bathroom's too much.
Um, anyway, he, he disconnects thecoffee machine from the wall to get it
to stop, which is a good start unlessit's like a wireless, unless it's a
battery operated thing, that's prettymuch the only way that you can stop an
electronic thing is pulling the plug.
But anyway, he goes, yeah, he doestry to get into the shower and asks

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Hildy to start the morning shower.
Hildy is gonna set the watertemperature to 99 degrees.
He has a lot of trust in Hildy.
He does.
Well, I'm sure normallyit'd be perfectly fine.
Yes.
Normally it probablywould be perfectly fine.
But after Anthony, uh, sets, getsHildy to set the shower, we cut to a

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woman in a, an apartment that is verydefinitely not part of Anthony's house.
Um, looking at a Hildy dashboard andpulling up the footage from the bathroom.
And she says like, screw you, Anthony.
Lukewarm just like you.
Which yeah, 37 degrees, which iswhat 99 degrees translates to.

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That's, that's a, that's,
yeah, that's, that'snot a very hot shower.
That's not a very hot shower.
Um, so not only does she have accessto the Hilda's cameras, she apparently
has access to all of Hildy's controls.
So she starts turning upthe water temperature.
Before we get to this bit, can wejust, I forgot to mention a minute ago

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that when Anthony, when when Anthonygets into the shower, he's, he, thanks
Hildy, which is, it's very polite,um, to thank the robot overlords.
Oh, I always,
after they do things for you,
I always thank Google.
Yeah.
Just in case.
Just in case they take over.
Yes.
And we have to rememberthat we were nice to them.

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Yes.
Like, mine will spare me becauseI thanked it all the time.
That's fine.
Yes.
Anyway, yes, she tells, uh, Hildy to turnup the water temperature and she'll just,
well, she turns it up.
There's like a, a d on her dashboard,there's a thermometer and she just
like yos it right up to the max,which according to what they've put

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in post was 137 degrees Fahrenheit.
And Hildy does say, are you sure?
Which is good safeguards,
yeah.
Even Hildy's like, what the fuck, bro?
Justine's like, "oh yeah, I'msure." And so Anthony is like,
you know, suddenly getting hot.
So he is like, "No, stop.
Ow, stop.
Ow.

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Shut off."
So like for the, I'm gonna be sayingthis a lot, this episode for the drama.
I know that they have Anthony like,stay in the shower cubicle because
then it means that he slips and hefalls and we have to get the 118.
But why the fuck didn't he justlike step out of the spray?

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Yeah, like the shower.
Just get outta there, get out.
All he does is like try and, andhe runs his hands over his head
to try and get the water off him.
It's like, yeah,
do like, that's not how it works.
You have to get out of the shower.
Like Yeah.
Get out of the, to stop the water.
Anyway.
But he does this
for the drama.

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For the drama.
He stays under the water, um, slips inthe, um, the tile and hits his head and
Justine sees this or she doesn't seethat he slips, but she sees that all
of a sudden there is like blood on theglass of the shower, which again, I don't

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know how uh, 'cause it looks like it's
blood in the water.
It's fine,
but it looks like bloody handprint has sort of smeared.
But this guy's like fallenand he is immediately
unconscious so Ha for the drama.
Yeah.
He hit his head and suddenly
they need Justine to, I don't know.
Yeah, they need Justine to see thatthere, that something is wrong.
So it she'll turn off so that they don'tlike completely cook this guy or he

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drowns in his own shower for the drama.
Yeah.
Um, so she does turn off the water andthen very, very kindly calls 9-1-1.
Yeah.
How nice of her after, youknow, trying to burn him alive.
Yeah.
She didn't just leave him for dead.
Like she was happy enough to burn him to acrisp, but she was like, okay, he's hurt.

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I guess I'll get some help.
I think probably like, she wanted tohave a little bit of fun with him, but
she didn't really want to hurt him.
Yeah.
I don't know.
She had like crazyex-girlfriend vibes to me.
Oh.
She's definitely crazy ex-girlfriend.
But I think, yeah,
she had the crazy eyes going.
Yeah.
All way.
But I think that there wasprobably a limit of what she

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was willing to do to him.
Yeah.
Also, also for the drama, Idon't think that the water could
have possibly got that hot.
Oh, right.
'cause I did look up the, like water stuff.
You did your research.
Well, I, I actually remembered readinga journal article about this in law

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school where it's now like, part ofbuilding codes is there is a maximum
that hot water systems can be set to,in order to prevent scalding injuries.
Like, so in Australia it ha youcannot, your hot water system
cannot get hotter than 50 degrees.
Okay.
Oh, there you go.
And it, and in fact, if youhave a, that's residential.

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If you are in aged care or childcareor a school, it's 45 degrees.
Oh, okay.
I'm not converting that to Fahrenheit.
So Americans just figure itout in your head what that
equates to in, in freedom units.
Um, yeah.
And I did check I, when I took a showerearlier, I put my, took my little digital
thermometer that I cook with up intothe shower and that was, um, that was,

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that was 53 degrees, so I was a littlebit, yeah, so that's like maximum.
Well, very good research, well done.
No cold water.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Um, and at that temperature, yeah.
If you're under there for abouta minute, you're gonna get
some serious scald injuries.
Yeah, definitely.

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Hmm.
There you go.
There you go.
And yes, Justine calls now,it's one of the politest 9-1-1
calls that I think we've heard.
Do we actually get her, we actuallyget her name here somewhere.
Yeah.
Is that why you are referringto her as by her name?
Okay.
I'm just, yeah.
Checking
because later, later on when Athena,um, Athena goes to visit her.

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Okay.
Um, she calls her by namebecause, um, Maddie has pulled
the information after she realizeswhat a psycho Justine has been.
Yeah.
So yes, as per my rule, if thereis any way, it doesn't have to be,
and like someone physically sayingthe name, as long as I can see the
name, I'm going to use the name.

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All right.
So, uh, to start with Maddie is like, um.
You know, she assumes that Justineis there when she says, like,
"My boyfriend fell in the shower.
I think he hit his head." And Maddie'slike, is, "Can you tell me if he's
still breathing?" And Justine's like,
it's hard to tell,
"I think so."

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and then she, she discovers thatJustine isn't actually at the
house and she's, um, she saw it onthe video feed and Maddie's like,
"There's a video feed in the shower?"
Yeah, the video feed inthe shower is very weird.
I would also be weirded out Maddie.
Yeah.
But then she's, she reveals that he hasa smart home where everything's online.

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So still weird, you know, it's likeyou just happen to be watching the feed
when he slipped over and hit his head?
Yeah, sure.
Why not?
Anyway, the 118 rock up.
Of course they do.
Um, Bobby very politely ringsthe doorbell, even though Buck

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reminds him that dispatch saidthat the patient was unconscious.
Um, Bobby reminds Buck that theyalso said that it was a smart home.
Yeah, it's really cool.
It like the Hildy system, we get a likepoint of view from the camera and it
like highlights the badges and it'sjust like, oh yeah, they can go in.
And it's like, that seems kind ofdangerous though because like, what if

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someone just steals a uniform or a badge?
It also scans their faces.
Um, so I'm thinking it might be likecross-referencing it with their personnel
records because it then immediatelylike, identifies Eddie later on.
True, true, true.
But for some reason, yes.
It scans their badges, it scans theirfaces and it recognizes them as LAFD.
So it opens the door for themand welcomes 'em to the house.

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To which Hen finds really, reallycreepy and everyone agrees.
Yeah.
So they find the guy in the shower, he'sstill unconscious and he is all red.
Like it looks okay, this is gonna soundsilly, but it looks like someone's just
spray painted him with red paint, like

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they probably did.
I don't even, I don't even know whatsort of this burn like scalding burn
would look like, but I don't know.
It just, it didn't
probably like that, but it,
I, I hope it would look like,like I hope I never find out.
But um, but yeah.
So while Chim and Hen are working onAnthony, Bobby notes that it looks

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like Anthony fell down while the waterwas still on because he still has
shampoo in his hair, but they can quiteclearly see that the water is off.
So he asks, like, "Who turned the wateroff?" And they all, and then turns to
look at the camera and we cut back toJustine and she's like, "Okay, cool.
I see the firefighters now we're all good.

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Right?"
Hmm.
Yeah.
She, she really wants to getoff the phone for some reason.
Yeah.
Well, Maddie is like, "no, no, no. Wejust, I just need to talk to you like
a little bit more for the report."And she's like adding Justine's
details into the incident report.
Yeah.
Maddie's like, "So did the smart homesend you an alert this morning?" Or

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Justine's like, "I, uh, happened tocheck in on him and saw he needed help,"
and Maddie's like, "Yeah, he's luckyyou did check on him in the shower."
Um, so Maddie's definitely gotsome red flags going up here.
Yeah.
She's not the only one.

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Eddie is extremelycreeped out by this house.
Oh, I love this scene.
It made me laugh so much.
I do.
There, there's so much like I do I don'tenjoy about this episode, but the, the
Eddie versus Hildy storyline is hilarious.
I love it.
Yes, the Eddie stuff.
Yeah, it's, it's thebest part of the episode.
So Eddie, Eddie and Buck are gettingthe gurney from the, the rig.

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And as they, um, as they're walkingup, Eddie is questioning why anybody
would wanna live in a house likethat with a camera and microphones
anywhere, you know, not surewho's watching or who's listening.
Um, and Buck is incredibly intelligentin this episode because he says,
"I hate to break it to you, Eddie,but if you have a computer or a

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smartphone, a smart tv, smart anything,then anyone can spy on you." Yeah.
And Eddie responds, "Well, nowI'm thinking I shouldn't buy that
fancy smart coffee maker thatI keep seeing commercials for."
At which point, Hildy pipes upgreets him by name, even by, gets
a photo of him up on the display inthe kitchen, which I think she took,

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it's the worst, it's the worst angle.
I think she took it, it fromthe, like the front door camera.
Yeah.
Um, and says, "Here are some popularcoffee makers." And then shows him,
um, like ads for coffee makers andasks him if he would, if he would like
to hear reviews for any of the coffeemakers that she has selected for him.
Yeah.

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Do you want the reviews?
Buck thinks this is hilariousand just like whispers so
that Hildy won't hear him.
You know, "Welcome to the Future," andEddie's like, this is fucking terrifying.
But it's, it's like that, right?
Like all you have to do is mentionsomething around your phone or whatever

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and you start getting ads for it.
Yes.
But not to sometimes, not to the point oflike Hildy greeting you by name, but yes.
No, no.
That is a little bit far.
But yes,
all you have to do is start talking aboutsomething and suddenly your Facebook
ads and like the ads that pop up onGoogle when you're doing searches, um,
yeah.
Or even on web pages that are like poweredby Google, have whatever it was you

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were talking about in the advertising.
It's a bit concerning.
It's occasionally useful,but mostly concerning.
Mostly concerning.
Concerning, yeah.
I mean, I'm not gonna go as like, asfar as Eddie goes in this episode, but
it yeah, it is slightly concerning.

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So they get Anthony out of the shower ontothe gurney, start wheeling him out of the
house, um, at which point he wakes up.
Oh yeah.
Meanwhile, Maddie and Justine are stilltalking and Justine's like coming clean
and it's just like, "oh, you know, I worryabout him alone in the house. We're we

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were supposed to be planning our futuretogether, not giving each other space."
Um, yeah.
You get the feeling that she'slike unloading onto Maddie, like,
yeah.
Maddie's just like, um,
what's also explaining whywhen Anthony wakes up and like,
he's completely freaked out.
Freaked out about the fact that he'sstrapped to a gurney in his living room.

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Um, and Bobby tells him that hisgirlfriend called 9-1-1, that he
starts to freak out to the point thatChim thinks he needs to be sedated.
Yeah.
Literally it's just like,ah, let's sedate him.
Chim's like, I'm notdealing with this shit.
Yeah.
And Maddie adds notes to the, herrecord as she's talking to as Justine

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is unloading to her, that she isdispatching police for suspected cyber
stalking and reckless endangerment.
Yeah.
Whoops.
So the next thing we we see isAthena knocking on Justine's door.
Yes.
Which she said she's just there tocheck in, but Justine immediately knows

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what it's about and she's like, shesays, "Oh, that 9-1-1 lady sent you."
And because we need to have an episodetheme name drop, even if it's partial,
Athena says, "She just wanted us to havea talk about your future," which might
involve some sort of mandatory counselingand possibly a, a restraining order

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or, I think one of the themes of in,in this episode is that every single
person in it needs therapy badly.
Literally, it may as well becalled the therapy episode.
Yes.
But the irony is the twoof them are in therapy.
Yeah.
Possibly the two that maybedon't need it as much.
Everybody else needs therapy.

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Well, every, everyone in therapy is,is suddenly well adjusted, whereas
everyone else is just like freaking out.
It's like, oh, maybe you shouldtalk to someone about this.
No, I'm fine.
But it's also really interesting thatit's like everybody needs therapy.
Um, and they are absolutely horrifiedat the idea of getting therapy, because
the reactions to Buck's, revelation thathe's in therapy and May's revelation

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that she's in therapy by everybody else.
Yeah.
Like, they're like, why?
That's,
it's like, gee, I wonder, haveyou seen who I'm surrounded by?
Anyway, we'll get there.
We'll get there.
Yes.
Um, so the Bathena residence is where wecome to after we've had the title card.

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And that is not a smart home likeAnthony's, but they do have a new,
but they have a new addition.
Yes.
This, this little robot vacuum,uh, is making like R2D2 noises, and
that would be the first thing thatwould get turned off in my house.

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I, I don't think they do
that.
We have vacuum clean... we havea robot vacu... no, they don't.
They absolutely do not do that.
You could, you could makeit do that if you wanted.
But our, our one isloud enough on its own.
It doesn't need additional robot noises.
Um, yeah.
This,
it drives me insane,
is the dumbest robotvacuum I've ever seen.

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Um, like it just fullon crashes into Athena.
Um, it gets stuck.
It crashes into a lamp and knocks it over.
But we do get like an amazing,like, resolution to it.
So I'm quite happy to have a dumbsmart vacuum cleaner for how it ends.
Yeah.
Um, yeah, so May has bought themthis robot vacuum because now that

(29:28):
she's working, she wants to chip in.
And so yeah, to contribute, she offeredto pay rent and Athena told her no.
And so she bought them thedumbest robot vacuum in the world,
but it's super cute.
Like, it, it, it comes close tothem and it says, "excuse me."
But then just bumps into them anyway
and then it gets stuck on the base ofa lampshade and just keeps repeating.

(29:52):
"I am stuck. I am stuck," asit tries to, to move forward.
Um, but rather than waiting for someoneto rescue it, it, it keeps continuing
its forward motion to the point whereit manages to knock over the lamp.
Um, yeah.
Just straight up knocks over the lamp.
Yeah.
So they go, Bobby goesto rescue the robot.

(30:13):
Athena goes to rescue the lamp, and I'msuddenly distracted by the fact that,
uh, the fireplace has been rebuilt, um,and looks identical to how it was before.
Bobby and Michael smackedit down to pieces.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Oh, that's so funny.
Which is, do you think is,

(30:34):
did they just bring back in the part ofthe set that, like, is this a real house?
Like, or is this.
No, I'm assuming it's a set.
A set that they can deconstruct
A set.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh my God, that's, yeah.
But, um, yes, I was taking photos ofthe screen because Disney won't let
you screenshot shit and yet theyeven bring back the, the weird sun

(30:54):
ray mirror above the fireplace.
I just think it's,
they even rescued themirror that they had.
I think it's, it's just so ironic 'causeMichael said he hated that fireplace.
And yet, you know, apparentlyAthena made, I, sorry, rebuild
it identically to how it was.
Yeah, yeah.
She hated the fire pit somuch, so she was like, no,
you can fix this.
You put it back the way it was.

(31:17):
Um, so while I'm distracted by trying towork out what the fuck is going on with
the fireplace, um, Bobby has banished therobot vacuum cleaner out onto the patio.
Um,
and Athena is, is, uh, making surethat her lamp hasn't been smashed and
is, um, bemoaning that she's not readyfor the future if the future is one

(31:40):
that evolves robot vacuum cleaners.
Yeah, the vacuum cleaners stuck
again,
again,
but it does lead to a conversation.
Oh, they have a chat about May.
Yeah.
They have a conversation about,um, because Athena says that.
May can use her wages tochip in for groceries.

(32:02):
And Bobby's like, oh, does that mean thatyou are finally on board with, um, with
May's new job being a 9-1-1 dispatcher?
Apparently she's passed training and theyare going to start putting her on actual
calls, and Athena is surprised that, orcannot believe that May made it that far

(32:23):
so mean.
Yeah.
Bobby's like, you thought that she'dgive it a try and then find out it's
not for her and things like, no, itisn't for her because she's not doing
it for herself, she's doing it for me.
It's like, oh, but Athena,she wants to protect you.
Yeah.
Which Athena finds sweet but infuriating.

(32:44):
Hmm.
But Bobby, Bob think she's, uh, she,she's been played basically by, by May.
Uh, you taught her everything she knows.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, the robot vacuumcleaner is once again stuck.
Um, so Bobby goes out ontothe patio to investigate it.
Um, and then the camera stays on Athenaas Bobby walks back out to the patio and

(33:11):
we just hear him go, give me your gun.
And Athena makes it like a, ohLord, give me strength kind of look.
It's a weird line.
Oh, it's so funny.
It's, it's a weird line, but it'shilarious and I can just understand

(33:33):
the, the, um, understand the fuck,what's the word I'm looking for?
No, don't have it.
Good.
He's teasing her, basically.
And the robot.
No, I honestly, the, I honestly think he'sincredibly frustrated with the robot that
he thinks the only way out is to shoot it.

(33:54):
Okay.
Okay.
It's time to do some gross, uh, cuttingup of bodies because Hen's at school
and it's not a zoom school anymore.
She's actually like in person.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I suppose you really can'tdo gross anatomy online.
That might be one.
I like that it's actuallycalled gross anatomy,

(34:17):
yeah, but it's gross anatomyas in gross as in large.
Like it's whole body anatomy.
Yeah, sure.
It's, yeah.
Not gross as and disgusting.
Um, although I think Hen's labpartner Luis would probably agree
with you that it's gross becausehe looks like he is about to hurl.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, he really does.
He is really distressed.

(34:37):
They get told to take the plastic off,you know, that uncover your cadavers, so,
yeah.
'cause the cadavers are lying on likeautopsy steel, like the, the stainless
steel kind of tables that you seein morgues and, and autopsy scenes.
Um, with just like, it looks like ashower curtain over the top of them.

(34:58):
So they peel them back andreveal that they have a, an
older man as their cadaver.
Um, Luis looks like he's about tothrow up, um, which Hen immediately
starts trying to diagnose him.
She's like, "Have you got anyother symptoms?" Um, yeah.

(35:18):
Like no Hen he's just grossed out.
This is probably the firsttime he's seen a dead body.
Um,
yeah, like, just 'cause yousee them regularly Hen doesn't
mean everyone else does.
The, they have a third lab partner,a young woman who just tells them
to shut up so she can listen towhat the instructor is saying.
And when Hen sort of says, youknow, Luis isn't feeling well, I try

(35:39):
to be a little bit compassionate.
Um, the young woman whose name is Sydney,just says, we'll take him outside.
Uh, Dr. Langford, who is the instructorum, says, it's time for each team
to make their first incision.
And the student nearest the head ofthe cadaver should pick up the scalpel
and Luis realizes that he's standingat the head of the table and he's

(36:01):
gonna be the one doing the incision.
Yeah.
And
he, he's absolutely bricking it.
He picks it up and tries.
But yeah,
Hen says, "You've got this" andLuis just does not got this.
No.
And she's trying to get him to breathe.
Hold for three, breathe out.

(36:22):
And, um, Sydney eventually just goes,"Oh, this is ridiculous." And then just
shoves him outta the way, takes over.
But ironically, she shoves himout of the way, makes the first
incision and then immediately faints.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just straight up passes out.
So here's where I mentioned that, um,the actress that plays Sydney, uh, played

(36:46):
April Nardini in Gilmore Girls and I haabsolutely hated the character of April.
So unfortunately I had a verynegative reaction when I saw
Sydney for the first time.
I mean, she's not exactlya very likable character.
Was April, is she the one that was, isshe the one that was younger as well?
Yeah, she was Luke's daughter.

(37:06):
So they introduced her and she was inhigh school or maybe junior high, but she
was like, she was supposed to be like theRory replacement, 'cause Rory was already
in college, so they needed someone to...
I have zero memory ofLuke having a daughter.
It was season six, so like,that's like the cursed season.

(37:27):
Oh.
But yeah, every April was an annoyingcharacter and I was doing a little
bit of reading and apparently Vanessa,the actress even hated the character.
So I feel a little bitbetter about hating April.
Um, but yeah, so I know that Sydneyis kind of meant to be abrasive and
irritating and annoying, but I thinkmy reaction to her was like three

(37:47):
times that because I just went, ohmy God, it's, it's grown up April.
Yeah.
She's kind of, she's verybrash in this, I guess.
Yes.
But yeah, she does, Ima like cut, makethe first cut in the autopsy and then
immediately fall over onto the floor.

(38:08):
And they're all Hen especially is likejumping in, going, oh, what's wrong?
So then we go to commercial and whenwe come back we're at, uh, the Madney
apartment where Chim and Maddieare trying to put together a crib.
Not very successfully.
We are getting to see what everyone'sdoing on their day off this time.

(38:29):
Yes.
Um, yeah.
Chimney's quite concerned thatthis crib looks like a death trap.
Uh, but Buck is also there and heis baby proofing the entire place.
Lucky them
that he thinks they should put alarmsensors on the windows just in case
the baby tries to get out the window,

(38:51):
at which point Chim points out like, "youknow, we live on the second floor, right?"
Um, yeah, like the, I think thealarms are supposed to be to
stop people getting in, but yeah.
Buck's just like, no, it's to definitelyto stop the baby getting out here,
which I mean, yes, that is a legitimateconcern, but he's got like two years
before he has to worry about that.

(39:13):
Yeah.
Because, yeah.
And infant, like a newborn does not havethe fine motor skills to open a window.
No, exactly.
Buck is just, he's very concernedand he doesn't wanna underestimate
the curious interiority of hisnephew, of which Chim and Maddie are
like, we don't know that it's a boy.
Um, yeah, apparently the, the lastultrasound, the baby was in the

(39:36):
wrong position and Maddie saidthat it looked like the baby was
mooning them and Buck's like, "Well,it's definitely yours then Chim."
Um, but yeah, he helpfully pipes up thatif it is a boy, he has some name ideas
and there's Buck or Buckley or Evan.
Meanwhile, Maddie's, I mean,if, if they give the baby

(39:59):
they're all names,
if they give the baby like Chim's lastname so it becomes like Baby Han, um,
then yeah, having Buckley as a namecould be a nice, you know, nod to Maddie.
Um,
but yeah, I don't thinkthat's gonna happen.
Um, so while those two are riffing,Maddie's trying to get glasses out

(40:20):
from one of the upper cabinets, butBuck's childproof locked, like child
locked them, um, to the point, butlike, Maddie can't even get them open.
Yeah, I'm, um, I'm not sure how tallBuck thinks this baby's gonna be,
but like looking at its parents,it's not going to be that tall.
Yeah.
You definitely don't needto lock the upper cabinets.
Um, and Chimney jokingly askswhether Buck's new girlfriend has

(40:45):
met Fire Marshall Buckley yet.
I love it.
Um, and Buck comes clean and says, "Yeah,you know what, I, I don't actually have
a girlfriend," and Maddie is surprisedbecause she said, "you know, I thought
you were seeing someone," and Buck'slike, "Yeah, I am professionally.

(41:08):
She's a therapist."
Yeah, it's a therapist.
Which, yeah, Maddie's surprised.
She's like, "why would you lie aboutthat?" It's like, we, did he lie about it?
Like do you just concealthe truth a little bit?
It just did not correct them.
Yes, they jumped to conclusions.
He did not correct them.

(41:28):
Um, and they're at firstChim's okay with it.
He's like, you know, "Therapyis just part of the job.
You know, we go out, we gettraumatized by what we see on the job.
We get traumatized, by what happensto us on the job, we get therapy.
It's just part of it."
And Buck's like, "No, this isn'tdepartmental therapy. This isn't
job trauma therapy. This islike personal trauma therapy."

(41:53):
And that freaks everybody out.
Especially Maddie though, Chimneytries to laugh it off by saying, "You
know, maybe, you know, maybe a sortof college funds parents should set
up therapy funds for their kids."
But like, "Yeah, I know what I'mgetting you guys for a baby gift."
Yeah, it was weird 'cause this,this kind of reaction of Maddie's,

(42:16):
like, she's obviously really worriedabout this and um, I was sort of
thinking she was really overreactingto this because, I mean, people go
to therapy for all sorts of reasons.
And it's not, you know, necessarilydoom and gloom, but you know, as
the episode goes on and you sortof find out more about why she's
worried about it, that kind of makesmore sense even though I don't know

(42:38):
what the secrets are going to be.
I assume we'll that's coming upin the next few episodes, but Yes.
Um, to start with, I was like,geez, Maddie, like there's nothing
wrong with going to see a therapist.
Like you know, you don't needto be worried about someone just
because they're going to see someone.
Yes.
She's very concerned.

(42:59):
She is very concerned.
Uh, so we go back to the cadaver lab andSydney's being looked over by paramedics
and so Hen and Luis are having a look,um, Hen notices that there's cinched hairs
on the chest, probably from the defib.
So they're like, oh, maybe it'sheart failure, but we can't be

(43:20):
sure unless they see the heart,which won't be for a few weeks.
And then Sydney reappears and goes, "Oh,you could just look at his chart." And
Hen's like, "Well, it won't be on thechart 'cause they don't give us the cause
of death until the end of the course.
And aren't you supposed to be goingto the hospital?" Um, Sydney then
calls paramedics medical Uber driversand that their opinions don't count.

(43:43):
Oh.
And Luis, Luis helpfully tellsher that "Hen's a paramedic."
So, you know, shut up.
Yeah, he doesn't actually say that, but,
oh, it's implied.
She's not okay.
Yeah, yeah.
But they don't, the cause of deathisn't there, so they're gonna have
to figure it out for themselves.
And so Hen says that she missed thefirst cut, so like, Sydney missed the

(44:09):
first cut so she can try the next one.
Medial line.
So Sydney is cutting into thebody again, and I just have to
look away because Oh my God.
No,
no?
This is why I do notwatch the medical shows.
No,
see.
But at least it's a cadaver, sothere's no, like, they cut into it.

(44:31):
Um, like Sydney, Sydney does theline and there's no blood suddenly
starts pouring out of the wound.
It's, it's quite clearly justrubber that she's cutting into that.
That's fine.
No,
apparently Ellen begs to differ.
No, can't do it.
But yeah, so Sydney does the, um, shefinishes doing the cut and Hen says

(44:55):
that looking at the, sort of, theinstructions from Dr. Langford that
they're supposed to peel back the skin.
And so Sydney starts to peel backand then just stops and stares at the
cadaver and announces to the, the, theteam that the man died of cancer like

(45:15):
Luis actually asks, "how did you knowthat?" Um, and Sydney points out that
there is scarring on the man's chestindicative of a chemo port placement.
Oh.
Which Hen sort of congratulatesher on having a very good eye.
And once you sort of, he learna little bit more about Sydney

(45:36):
and her backstory, it's kind ofunderstandable why this freaks her out.
Yeah.
Hen's trying to sort of comfort her andsay, "you don't have to be embarrassed.
Like it's okay to be a bit freakedout," and Sydney just snaps back at
her like, "I'm not grossed out ortraumatized. You can save your pity."
She is a little bit traumatized.

(45:58):
Yeah.
Yeah.
She definitely seems a bit traumatized.
Which is understandable
Later it's understandable.
Yes.
Now she's just snappy.
Yes.
And when, um, when Hen says like "I'm,I'm not trying to pity on, I'm just
trying to help," she says, "well Idon't need a ride to the hospital."
Rude
Burn.

(46:18):
Yep.
Uh, so while Hen is getting her asshanded to her by a 20-year-old, um,
buck has returned to his loft onlyto find that he now has a guest.
'cause someone is knockingon his door and it's Maddie.
Which he's very confused aboutbecause he's like, "didn't

(46:39):
I just leave your place?"
Yeah.
He literally just left.
And Maddie's like, "Yeah, but I, I wantedto come and talk about the therapy thing."
And he said, "Yeah, but I was just atyour house." We could have talked there.
So she's come to Buck's apartmentbecause she thought that perhaps he
would be embarrassed about talkingabout therapy in front of Chimney.

(47:00):
So now that, you know, it's private,it's just, you know, brother and sister,
just the Buckley's.
Yeah.
So, you know, he can tell herthe truth about, specifically the
truth about why he has, he feelslike he needs to be in therapy.
He's just like, there's nothing to tell.
No.
It's like there's nothing to tell.

(47:20):
And then he says to her, "well, youknow what, it's all your fault." And
she's just absolutely devastated.
Like, what do you mean it'sall her, all your fault?
He's joking.
Poor Maddie,
he's joking.
He's,
yeah, he was kidding.
"You called me sad and lonely," andMaddie's like just this mental 180.
Like, oh yeah, okay.
That's where we're going.

(47:41):
Right.
Yeah.
I'm, I feel this is like an e episodewhere if you've seen what happens
in the future, this all makes sense.
But for me, I was just sittingthere going, what is happening here?
So the, so the um, the, the, you calledme sad and lonely for anyone who's like,
what the fuck is Buck talking about?
It's from the episode with Redfrom the end of season three.

(48:05):
Um, whose name I cannot rememberwhat the episode title is.
Oh my God.
It's, oh,
yeah.
I'm not
left behind.
Yeah.
I I'm not even gonna look it up.
I don't care that much.
But you know,
"The One That Got Away"
it's bugging me now.
The one that got away.
The one yes.
Got away.
Thank you.
Yes.
Snaps to Ellen.
Um, you know, Buck was getting very,very upset about Red and his life, um,

(48:29):
thinking that that was Buck's future.
And, Maddie kind of said, "You know,are you feeling this way? Because,
you know, you're not quite happy withyour life right now." So that's where
Buck was going with that comment.
Which Evan, which Maddie says,you know, that was months ago.
And Buck says, "well,it's kind this thing.
That's the thing thatkind of sticks with you.

(48:51):
And honestly, you weren't wrong.
Even after I finally got to say mypiece to Abby, you know, I thought
I'd feel better." At which point I'mgoing, dude, you didn't say anything.
You just said...
it was like, good luck with your life.
I'm glad you're happy.
Bye.
Yeah.
Literally, like, like if you didget to say something to her, we

(49:12):
didn't get the privilege of seeingthat that all happened off camera.
Yeah.
But he's, he's very, um,he's very mature about it.
Like he, he says toMaddie, um, that he's fine.
It's not a big deal.
He's fine.
He just wants to be finer, whichI think is a very mature approach.

(49:33):
Yeah,
right.
Look at Buck growing up.
Yeah.
Oh, Maddie does kind of invoke theparents for the first time and says,
"you know, have you talked to Momand Dad about going to therapy?"
And Buck's like, "oh no, Fuck, no."
God.
No.
"You know how they are," and Maddie'slike, "Yeah, I know how they are."

(49:56):
but she says she's gonna bethere for him, whatever he needs.
And, um, Buck's like, "I just don'tthink this is something you know how
to fix, because I always felt likeyou were sad too." And Maddie just
looks so broken in, in this moment.
She looks really upset.
Yeah.
I mean, he's not wrong.

(50:16):
She's just, she's a pregnant lady.
Don't like, you know.
Yeah.
What are you doing, Buck?
Can we, can we just take a moment that,now that you mentioned that, that yes,
she is like very pregnant in this episode.
She's having a lot of emotional responses,yet not once is there a mention of like,
oh my God, I'm getting, I'm crying so muchbecause I'm pregnant and I'm hormonal.

(50:39):
Yeah, yeah.
She's like crying 'causeshe's scared of the future.
It's like, it makes sense.
She's having a legitimate Yes,but not once did they mention
that she's overreacting or, or theemotions are because she's pregnant.
Which we do know that thisshow has a tendency to do.
Yeah.
So I would just like to,
even though like when you're pregnant,you do have like, well, I did anyway.

(51:00):
You do have like extremely horhormonal reactions to things.
Oh yeah, yeah.
But it was not made in a, um,stereotypical way in this.
You are right.
Yes.
Um, so from that, you know, veryemotional, heartfelt touching
scene, we're going to go to.
Why are all of the emergenciesin this episode so stupid?

(51:23):
I don't, they they really are.
Oh my God.
It's, yeah, it's sky.
Yeah.
It's the weirdest episode because you'vegot this really deep, meaningful emotional
storyline with Chim and Buck and Maddie.
Um, and then you've got thisslightly less emotional, um,
but still quite entertainingstoryline with Eddie versus Hildy.

(51:45):
And then you've got these fucking,you've then you've got Hen and Sydney,
even the Hen story.
Yeah.
Even Hen's, storyline's quite serious.
And then you've got these emergencies,which are just like, what the hell?
Well, maybe that's why they'retrying to lighten the mood, but
it just ends up being stupid,
Yeah I think they'retrying to lighten the mood.
It's so, it's it's whipIt's almost whiplash.
Yeah.

(52:06):
Yeah.
Yes.
So we're at, we're at a bank this time.
We are,
uh, we've got a, a line of peoplewho are queuing to get into the bank.
And they're, they're all 1.5meters away from each other.
Yes.
Like we, like we did for a while,but it's kind of stopped now.

(52:27):
Oh, I wish it would come back.
My God.
Oh my God.
Seriously.
Personal space, people.
There's a guy going into the bank andhe's wearing a mask and everything and
he's look, looking around furtively,like not trying not to be suspicious,
but being totally suspicious,

(52:49):
but being very suspicious.
Yeah.
Um, and he goes up to thewindow and when the teller asks
him, what can I do for you?
He, he just says, I have a gun, butshe can't hear him because of his mask.
Because of the mask.
Yeah.
She's also not paying attention to him.
She's still typing on her computer.

(53:09):
Um, because he did do likesome weird like hacking thing?
Or was he just tapping on his phonebecause it looked like he like
changed the numbers on the screen.
Oh
No, I think he was like, he was justholding up his, like he was holding his
phone up to his face, so, and it wouldhide as he was sort of looking around.
Oh, okay.
That makes more sense.

(53:30):
I was like, what the hell,
I think he was using it as an excuseto like his, keep his head up.
Because he's holding his phoneup and that way he can scan the
bank and see what's going on.
Because normally you're, yeah, youhold your phone down sort of at your
waist level and it would be reallyobvious if his head's up and he's
scanning around what's going on.
But it was weird.

(53:50):
Like
it was weird.
It's either that or he'slike ordering his Uber.
He's probably ordering his Uberactually, now I come to think of it
like he's pre-ordering his Uberbecause Yeah, that's what happens.
He's, he has a gun.
He's trying to rob the bank.
Well, actually hesuccessfully robs the bank.
Um, yeah, he kind of does rob the bank
after he, after he, he writesthe word "gun" on a deposit slip

(54:13):
and slides it to the teller.
Yeah.
Then she finally gets the picture andstarts loading the cash into a bag.
Yeah.
Immediately starts loadingcash into a money bag.
Um, empties out herdrawer, gives it to him.
Um, and he flees the scene.
We do get an informative 9-1-1 call.
She says where she is and that the bank'sbeen robbed, but then dispatch asks,

(54:38):
"Can you describe the suspect?" Andshe says, "um, he was wearing a mask."
He was wearing a mask
just like everyone else in the bank.
Yeah.
Um, I did find it interesting that it'sobvious it's for the drama, um, but
I thought that Tellers had emergencysilent alarms that they could hit.
Yeah, they do.

(54:59):
Retail does as well.
I think in the banks, they also havelike some kind of, um, a steel kind
of barrier that can drop as well.
Yeah.
Like I, to protect the bank,
I'm pretty sure it's not actuallythat easy to rob a bank anymore.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And like 100%.
Um, when Athena rocks up, um, one of theother officers is slightly incredulous

(55:21):
that the woman just allowed the man towalk out with a cash and Athena says,
no, that's completely understandable.
It's policy to just, you know,give them what they want.
Yeah.
You're supposed to do what ifthey're armed that you're supposed
to just do what they want.
Especially, I thinkretail's also the same.
Like if they're, if they're robbingyou, just let them rob you because
the insurance will pay for it and
it's not worth your life.

(55:42):
Yeah.
It's basically, it's not, it'snot worth your life basically.
Yeah.
But yeah, I still think that they, sheshould have hit the silent alarm anyway.
Yeah.
It's for the drama.
She has to call 9-1-1 andreport a bank robbery.
Yeah.
Um, but they do have footage of, if notthe bank robber, then they have a footage

(56:06):
of his getaway car, which they track down.
Um, but it's not thebank robber driving it.
It's definitely that car.
But the driver is not the bank robberand Athena puts two and two together
when she sees the ride share unlimitedkind of doohickey sitting on the dash

(56:26):
and realized that the bank robberbooked an Uber as he's gonna wake up.
Yeah.
Yeah, this poor guy, they've like yankedhim out of the car and put cuffs on him
and everything and he's just standingthere going, "I never went near the bank!"
I hope he left the driver likefive stars in a really good review.
Right?
Implicating him in a crime.
The guy at least deserves five stars here.

(56:49):
Well, he, she, she asked himif there's any way of getting
the guy's name and address.
Um, and it's on his phone, so
of course it is.
Well, she finds the address,but then he tries to run away.
But then so, so he hears the police atthe door, he runs and the police is,

(57:09):
the other officers sort of take off inpursuit on foot, but the Uber driver
who they have brought along with themto arrest this guy, um, calls out to
Athena that she might wanna come and seewhat's on his phone because the idiot
has booked an Uber to escape from police.
And it just so happens that it's comethrough and our Uber driver is in the back

(57:33):
of the police car, has accepted the, um,
it'd go to the, the closest onewho is obviously the Uber driver
who is sitting out the front.
So,
and Athena is looking at going,"Oh, he is not that stupid."
And Yes, yes, he is that stupid.
He is that stupid.
Yeah.
Because he's just hiding around thecorner waiting for his Uber to come along.

(57:55):
Um, and sure enough, hisUber does come along.
Yeah.
But instead of the, the driver,there is a policeman in the
car and Yeah, he gets arrested.
Yeah.
Athena jumps out, tellshim he's under arrest,
and he goes, "But how did you find me?"

(58:18):
Yeah, Athena does thecorniest line of the episode.
Oh God, it's so bad.
Um, because it turns outthere's an app for that.
Oh, of course there is.
Well, the, the thing is Angela Bassetthas such gravitas when she acts that
she can pull off almost anything.
Yeah.
She can do the corny lines.

(58:38):
Yeah.
But I just wonder whether Angela issitting like in her trailer reading the
script going, they want me to say what?
She's like, they want me to saywhat, and I'm getting paid how much?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Then we cut to the Diaz'shousehold, and I love this.
This is hilarious.
Then wholesome, wholesome,uh, family scene.

(59:00):
Buck and Christopher are playing acomputer game while Eddie is running
around the house collecting all pieces oftechnology, especially smart technology,
all of them,
and corralling them on the table
like even the remotes.
I'm guessing the TV is smart?
I don't know.

(59:20):
But yeah, anything that's wireless is,is going on the table obviously to be
disposed of, to get it out of his house.
'cause he's like in fullon Tin hat paranoia mode
and apparently Chris iswinning against Buck, um,
he's winning 'cause he is likeheadbutting buck while Buck.

(59:43):
That's very true.
He, he is like assaultingBuck to try to distract him.
Um, but some kind
Buck, Buck tells him he is cheating.
Yeah.
And, and Buck complains to Eddie.
Like, you know, you've gotta talkto your kid about playing fair.
Um, Eddie's response is tosimply unplug the console.
Yeah.
Disconnects it from the internet.
And apparently the game requiresthe internet to run because

(01:00:06):
the game immediately freezesand both of them complain.
Yeah.
Both the kids complain.
Eddie says, "well we're taking a littlebit of a break from the internet now."
And Chris is like, "but I talk to myfriends on that thing." And Eddie whips
around and stares at the console likeit's about to start talking to him.
Yeah.
"What do you mean you're talkingto people on this thing?"

(01:00:29):
Buck's trying to sort of talkhim down is like, "You know I
was kidding about the spying.
Right?" And Eddie's like, "Were you?
Because ever since that call,every time I try to go online,
there's an ad for a coffee maker.
Read the news, coffee maker, checkthe weather, coffee maker." Yep.
Welcome to the future, Eddie.

(01:00:51):
It's actually really funny becauselike, I'd like to make fun of Eddie over
like not understanding how the smartstuff works, but my best friend who
is um, a veteran is like, there's thisperiod of like the 15 years that she
was in the Navy that she just missed.
And so I'll mention like pop culturethings and she's just like, what are
you talk, like I mentioned somethingabout Big Brother and she's like, what?

(01:01:14):
And I was like, oh, that'sright, you were deployed then.
Oh my god,
She missed Big Brother?
She missed the whole, like she knowswhat Big Brother is, but she doesn't,
like I mentioned something about likethe diary room or something like that.
Um, and yeah, she had no idea what Iwas talking about because she missed
that whole period when it was popular.
No, but that's, that's so true.
'cause my ex is the same.

(01:01:34):
He was also like 15 years inthe service and the pop culture
and also just technology.
Like there's, like he, it is, I don'tthink it's a Gen X thing because there
are Gen Xs who are very technologicallyadept, but like, dude doesn't, didn't even
know how to work a podcast until it's,

(01:01:57):
see she's, she's not bad with technology,but some things that like, she, like you
would think she'd know just like a gap.
Like she'll be like, I don'tunderstand how to do this.
And I'm like, what do you mean youdon't understand how to do that?
Yeah, when you can do everything else.
Like she's built web pages and she wasin like a technology sort of branch,

(01:02:19):
but she just missed like she wasn'tallowed social media until she was out.
And so like she doesn't know whatthe start of Facebook was like and
she missed the entirety of MySpace.
Like they're overseas on de on.
They were overseas on deployment whenthis shit sort of started happening.
So
yeah.
So like you mentioned something about yourtop friends on MySpace and she's like,

(01:02:40):
"I don't understand what you're talkingabout," because she's never seen MySpace.
Oh my God.
And it's just so like funny Andso I can't even like be like,
oh this is so unrealistic.
'cause Eddie is deployed a lot andthen he got back and had a kid.
Yeah.
So like he's been busy.
So good.
Well he um, he didn'teven want a coffee maker.

(01:03:03):
The one he has is fine and heonly mentioned it in front of
you and Hildy and Chris is justlike, "Are we giving a Hildy?"
He's so excited!
Eddie immediately shuts that down.
He is like, no, we aredefinitely not getting a Hildy.
You're not getting a Hildy.
And then Chris pivots, he is like,okay, so we're not getting a Hildy,

(01:03:25):
you're not letting me play computergames, "Buck, can we go to your
house and play computer games?"
Yeah.
He knows what he wants
and this is, this is the best scene.
Adorable.
And, but there's like this millisecondwhere Buck wants to say yes.
He's like, sure we cango and play video games.

(01:03:45):
And he looks at Eddie and Eddie'sjust got his hands crossed across
his chest going like, think verycarefully about what you say next.
And it's literally like Chris andBuck on the couch and Eddie in between
them and Buck's like, I have to choosebetween my child and my husband.
My husband.

(01:04:08):
He's like, "Yeah, sorry Chris, Ithink we're, we're gonna have to
play it old school for a while."And Eddie's like, yes, that's right.
You made the right choice.
I'm gonna go off and find somemore technology to destroy.
But then Chris is like,"what's old school?"
Yeah.
Apparently they gonna play Scrabble.
Scrabble's fun.
Yeah, it is.

(01:04:29):
I just, it's such a, it's such afun scene with the three of them.
It's so funny.
Yeah.
Um, but then we go from like thefun husbands and their child to, um,
back to Chimney and Maddie and theirvery like, heavy emotional scenes.
Although I'm assuming it'sheavily emotional because,
um, Kenny's shirtless again.

(01:04:52):
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
I don't know what happened.
Yeah, when this scene came on.
I'm like, oh no, this, I'm gonnahave to describe this scene again.
Everyone's gonna be blue-screening,
but it's not just that he's shirtless.
He is fucking ripped.
It's like he went and did an entirearm and abs workout before he walked

(01:05:15):
around the corner because, or, and,and he's like not eaten for three days.
So he is like completely dehydrated.
So every single... the dudedoesn't have a six pack.
He has like a 12 pack and
yeah, like he is looking good and
he's got a lot of tattooson his chest and stuff.
He's got a massive tattoo onhis pec, on one pec and on

(01:05:36):
like his sort of upper arms.
He's just,
he's looking good.
Once again, reiterate that we talk a lotabout like Ryan and Oliver, but Kenneth.
Yeah!
Man.
He can get it.
Yeah.
Yes.
Well he's also also looking a bitdisheveled because he just got out

(01:05:57):
of bed to come and check on Maddie.
'cause she's up in the middleof the night apparently.
Hey, I'm okay.
I actually wasn't looking at his hair.
I was looking at other places.
Hang on.
What?
Did we mention?
Fine, but he just looked, he sounded,you know, like he just woke up.
I'm fine also fine with that.
Did we also mentionhe's in gray sweatpants?

(01:06:19):
It's a good look.
It's a very good look.
Um, but Maddie is sittingon the couch crying.
So he comes to check on herand she says that she's scared.
Um, and he's like "Aboutthe baby?" But no.
She's more scared of change.
She's scared about the future and she'sscared about fucking up their kid.

(01:06:43):
'cause the baby is safe, like inside her.
But, um, once the baby is out inthe world, everything gets hard.
Every decision, every choice that wemake, it impacts them on who they become.
And when Chim tries to reassure herthat, that we're gonna make good
choices, she just starts bawling.

(01:07:04):
And she's like, "But what if we don't?What if we make the wrong choice? What if
we think we're making the right choice,but it ends up hurting them anyway?"
Yeah.
She specifically says, "what ifeverything you do to protect someone
only ends up hurting them?" And Chim'slike, "Are you talking about Buck?
Yeah.

(01:07:24):
Like, what, what have your parents..."And Maddie just goes, "I told you
that my parents were not bad people.
They're just bad parents.
What if I'm more like them than I think?"
Hmm.
Chim reassures her and says we they'regonna, we're gonna make mistakes,
but they're gonna forgive us becausethey know how much we love them.

(01:07:47):
And Maddie's like, "I think you'regonna be a really great dad." So
yeah, he's like got over his...
I like that Chim was the one that wasfreaking out over the last two episodes.
Yeah, I was gonna say he'sgot over his freaking out
and now Maddie's like, okay, my turn.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He was, he, he was completelyterrified about how he was, how
much, how good a dad he was gonna be.
And now he's completelyon board with being a dad.

(01:08:08):
He's like, yes, we've got this.
Yeah.
And hopefully they do got thisbecause then we cut to, after the
commercial, we cut to the Wilsonhousehold and we see just how chaotic,
the Wilsons don't got this
Hen don't got this
Poor Hen does not got this.
No, it's, it's chaos in the Wilsonhousehold because Nia is chasing

(01:08:29):
Denny around the kitchen table, andwhen Hen steps in to figure out what
the hell is going on, we see thatNia has drawn all over Denny's face
apparently while he was sleeping.
'cause I don't, I don't think thathe would've stayed like voluntarily
done that, considering that he'stried to run away from her while she's

(01:08:51):
continuing to try and do it to him.
Mm-hmm.
She says she's so cute in this scene.
Yeah, she's adorable.
She's like, "I made Denny pretty!"
And so while Hen is trying to handleNia with markers, um, there's a knock on

(01:09:11):
the door and Denny completely forgettingabout the fact that A, he's in his
pajamas and b, he's got marker all overhis face, just bolts to answer the door.
Yeah.
Just immediately answers it
and Hen's like, "no, don't hangon one cata catastrophe at a time.
Nia give me the markers," like Nia islike, "no." And this is such a smart move.

(01:09:32):
And I remember this was a lifesaverwhen my kids were little, um, Hen
grabs the unicorn that Nia gave herfor luck that's still sitting on the
kitchen table and asks to trade andNia's like, oh hell yeah, I'll trade
you a marker for my unicorn back.
Um, it's funny 'cause this isexactly what we do with puppies

(01:09:53):
and so I'm like, excellent.
Like dog training is justlike raising a toddler.
Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah.
Like when a puppy like steals somethingthat they're not supposed to have,
if you chase them for it, they'relike, oh, this is the best game ever.
Whereas if you go get like a betterval, like a better toy or some like
treats something value and you'rejust like, oh, this is so much better.
The puppy's like, oh, fuck what I've got.

(01:10:14):
I want that.
Yeah.
That is exactly what toddlers do as well.
Yeah, yeah,
absolutely.
Do that with toddlers.
Yes.
So one crisis is averted.
Hen has the markers, she turns todeal with the second crisis, which is
Denny at the door, but she's too late.
Denny's already opened the door, um,to reveal the social worker, Deidra,

(01:10:37):
who's come for a surprise inspection.
Which Hen's like, "well, we weren'texpecting you," and Deidra's like, "uh,
that's the point.
Yeah.
Hen's like, "Yeah. I, I get thatthat's the point." so Hen is like
solo parenting for the moment.
Karen is at the supermarket, andit's like, it's not looking good.

(01:10:57):
Like the house is a mess.
Denny's covered in marker, um,every once in, in their pajamas.
And Deidra said, yeah, it, it just lookslike, you know, normal family life.
I'm sure they've seen some things.
I am sure that in the, the vast scope ofwhat Deidra has walked into when she's
done snap inspections on foster families,this is the least of her concern.

(01:11:19):
But then to add to the chaos isanother knock of the door, and
Denny immediately goes to open it,
which Hen's like, "Little man."
He's being so helpful
"Little man, we have to deal withyou opening the door to strangers."
But, um, so Deidra takes, or Niatakes Deidra off to see her room and

(01:11:40):
Hen deals with this new event, whichis Sydney standing on her porch.
Sydney's like "Someonewrote on this child's face."
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes they did.
And Denny's immediately like, oh myGod, do you know how to get it off?

(01:12:02):
Um, yeah, she, she's clearly not, um, nota kid person and not a great doctor yet
because she suggested nail polish remover,
which to her credit would work like 100%.
It would work.
You just probably don't wanna be puttingnail polish remover on your face.
Yeah.
Because we used to.
That would hurt your face.
Yeah.
We used to have to write numbers inour arms when we did roller derby,

(01:12:24):
and the only way to get, we'd write iton with Sharpie, and the only way to
get it off would be like nail polishremover after the end of the bout.
So, oh, it does work, but it's like,not the best thing for your skin.
This is also why you only givechildren washable markers.
So if they do like, turn your siblings,turn their siblings face into Picasso, you
can literally just wash it off with soap

(01:12:45):
Yes.
And clothes.
Yes.
Because a hundred percent they'llget it on their, on their clothes.
Yes.
So he disappears.
And Hen has to deal with Sydney nowthe third child in the room apparently.
Um, what are you doing here?
She's not, she's prettyhostile, but I mean, Sydney was

(01:13:05):
pretty rude the other day, so
Yeah.
Uh, she doesn't actually apologize oranything, but she just says she wants to
talk about the other day and Hen's tellingher that "it's, it's never a good time
just to show up unannounced at my house."
Yeah.
She's a bit defensive.
Um,
the reason that she's there isbecause Dr. Langford, which I

(01:13:29):
guess is their supervisor guy, um,asked whether everything's okay
with them between the two of them.
And she's like, "We need to be okay witheach other because I need to be a doctor."
He says that being a doctor is reallyimportant to her too, and Sydney
kind of has not learned her lesson.

(01:13:51):
She says, just to Hen, "Oh, please.
You gotta, you gotta be, what?
40? You've got a job.
You're married.
There is apparently at least two kids.
There's no way you can juggle all that.
You can barely handle a marker."
Yeah.
It's like, fuck you Sydney.
So Hen does get defensive,
Sydney reiterates, Sydney reiterates, "Ineed to be a doctor and I just wanna be

(01:14:13):
sure that when you quit medical school,which you inevitably will, um, you don't
take my reputation with you out the door."
And, uh, Hen looks like she's about tocuss Sydney out, but the kids suddenly
announce their presence behind her andshe has to sort of pull herself back.
Um, so she sort of satisfies herself withjust slamming the door in Sydney's face.

(01:14:39):
"Sydney was just leaving." Slam.
Sydney's like, no, Iwas, oh, apparently I am.
And, Deidra is just like, "um, soKaren will be back soon, right?"
Yes.
Karen will be back soon.
So let's go have somecoffee while we wait.

(01:15:00):
Um, Deidra takes Denny with her.
Nia for some reason follows Hen,I don't know where Hen's going.
Probably around the otherway to get to the kitchen.
And when Hen looks back, Nia justvery adorably says, "Bad mama Hen."
She's so cute.
She's adorable.
But then it's even cuter 'cause she'slike pouting and she's really angry with

(01:15:22):
Hen and Hen sort of holds out her handand like, "Come on." And Nia immediately,
all sunshine and roses is like, "Okay,"
She is adorable.
Um, but for, I think either Hen'snot working today or she's running
late because Buck and Chim arealready at the station house.

(01:15:43):
Um, where Chim is watching ChannelEight News, which is showing footage
of a blazing inferno in central Texaswhere there is, um, wildfires in
Texas, which the news anchor tells uscould not come at a worse time because
last week a volcano erupted, which,

(01:16:04):
okay, in Texas?
Do they have?
They do this specific volcano it'scalled the Pilot Knob Volcano.
It is a volcano inTexas, but it's extinct.
Okay.
Which means it's, it, it doesn't erupt.
Yeah.
Not anymore.
For the drama.
For the drama, Tim hasapparently resurrected a, um,

(01:16:25):
a volcano to erupt in Texas.
Um, okay.
Alice, do you remember whether thevolcanoes, what caused the wildfires?
Or are they just two separateemergencies that happened back to back?
I'm trying to remember.
I, like, I vaguely remember theemergencies running into each other,
but I don't remember if the volcano'sactually what started the wildfire or not.

(01:16:48):
Yeah.
I, I love how Chim says, um, you know,but says something about a volcano
is crazy and Chim's like, I stillcan't believe it didn't happen here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Everything else happensin LA Why not volcano?
Before Chimney turns the TV off, wehear the news anchor sort of plant the

(01:17:11):
seed by saying that, um, firefightersfrom surrounding counties and even
other states are being contacted tocome and help, but then the TV gets
turned off because Chim wants to havea deep and meaningful conversation
with Buck about the Buckley parents.
Oh yeah.
"What's the deal with your parents?"It's like, oh, that's very direct.

(01:17:31):
Yeah.
Uh, he's just, because apparently
Buck never talk about them.
He never talks about them.
Yeah.
And Chim feels like he knowsway more about Buck's sex life
than he does about his parents.
And Buck's like, "well, that's 'causemy sex life's more interesting,
or at least it used to be."
A long time ago Buck,

(01:17:54):
poor Buck,
what, three whole years ago?
Yeah.
But apparently Maddie barely talks aboutthem either or to them for that matter.
So he tells Buck about how she wasfreaking out the other night and,
um, Buck just tells 'em they weren't,they weren't abusive or anything.

(01:18:15):
They just, they were just absent.
Mm. They just weren't there.
Like they were in the house.
They cooked meals, they washed clothes.
It just, it felt to Buck likethey liked each other more than
they liked Buck and Maddie.
They just weren't great with kids.

(01:18:35):
And then Chim says, so I shouldn't beworried that you guys are hiding some
deep dark Buckley family secret from me.
Um, yeah.
No, no.
To be fair, Buck answering no is likefair because he doesn't know that
there's a deep, dark family secret.
Um, so no Buck says "No. Justyour average run of the mill is

(01:18:58):
dysfunctional. Welcome to the family."
But yeah, we've got Chekov'sFamily Secret, which we'll come
back at some point I'm sure.
Alright, so it's time to go to the wineand cheese night with Athena and Hen
is it night or is it like day?

(01:19:19):
Oh, I can't remember.
I assume it was night, it might not be,
I feel like this is like afterthe debacle with Sydney and
Deidra and Denny and the marker.
So like, Hen's apparentlynot working this shift.
Neither is, neither is Athena.
Like the boys are offworking but they're not.
They're enjoying wine and cheese outon the patio while, um, while Hen

(01:19:40):
kind of unloads about her morning.
Yeah.
The social workerunderstood it was a bad day.
So they're okay with that
Again, I'm sure they've seen worse.
Yes, but she's, Athena says, itdoesn't sound like Hen um, 'cause she
doesn't usually let people get underher skin like the way that Sydney did.

(01:20:02):
Yeah.
But Hen says, "You know that voice inthe back of your head, the one that
tells you you can't do anything right,tells you that you're crazy, you're
stupid for even trying. It's all yourdoubts and all your fears just playing
on a loop. Well, that's Sydney."
And the sad thing is that Hen is startingto believe Sydney in that voice in the
back of her head because she's tired.

(01:20:23):
She's got two kids, a full-time jobnow she's trying to do medical school.
Um, and she's tired of having to provethat she belongs, that she's worthy, that
she's just as good as the rest of them.
Athena tells her that she, she islike, you know, she's smart, she's
strong, she's a self-made woman whobuilt a family and a career, and she's

(01:20:46):
putting herself through medical school.
She's formidable!
But she says, "I don't feel formidable,just exhausted." Like, Hen, I feel you.
Uh,
but at least she's not theone passing out in class.
Um, and Athena's a little bit of a betterperson in this scenario because she, um,

(01:21:08):
when she hears that Sydney is faintingin class, she says, "well, maybe you are
not the only one with too much on yourplate." And Hen's like, "Well, I I, she
doesn't talk to me outside of, of school.
Um, I don't know thefirst thing about her."
Except when she shows up at your door?
Yes.
Um, and Athena says, "Well, this wouldn'tbe the first time that you've had to
diagnose someone who couldn't tell youwhat was wrong." So she's basically

(01:21:33):
suggesting that Hen think of Sydney as apatient and diagnosis so she can figure
out what's wrong and then she can fix it.
Yeah.
It's a, it's a great strategy, but I feellike not every person who is antagonizing
you is gonna be fixed like a patient.
It works in this instance, but you know,

(01:21:54):
not everyone's gonna have a tragicbackstory that kind of explains
Yeah.
Some people are just assholes.
Yes.
Some people are just dicks who haveno good reason for being dicks.
Or they, or they really are just havinga bad day and like a aren't normally
like that or whatever, but you know,
or they're a dick that's having a bad day.
Yeah.
Well that too.

(01:22:14):
Anyway, we will see whether Athena's,um, approach works, but first
we're gonna eavesdrop on a phoneconversation between Maddie and her
parents, or actually her mother.
So we don't hear anything from theother side of the conversation.
We are just hearing what Maddie saysand Maddie's reaction to whatever
she's hearing on the other side.

(01:22:36):
And it, it's not a goodphone conversation.
Yeah, it doesn't seem fun.
No, because, uh, first of all,she has to identify herself.
It's like, she's like, "Hey Mom, it's me."
Yeah.
She's like, "it's me, Maddie."
Maddie.
Like, just to, for Ellen,they only have two kids.

(01:22:56):
They only have Buck and Maddie.
I was gonna say, how manydaughters do they have?
Um, no, they've just,they've just got Maddie
that's not like she could be, be mixingup her daughters like, there's only two
people that could call her Mom and onlyone of them sounds feminine on the phone.
Oh yeah.
Um, she's like, "Yeah, I know. Weusually text or email," so I am

(01:23:18):
assuming that her mother immediatelythinks that something is wrong.
That's why Maddie's calling her.
And so she reassures her mother like, "no,no, the baby's I'm fine. The baby's fine."
and she's got a doctor's appointmentcoming up and then she says it's the
4D ultrasound, which I just wanna put abookmark in and we'll come back to that.
Um, but yes.

(01:23:39):
Yeah, Maddie's hopeful thatthey'll find out the sex this time
and then immediately starts likehaving an argument with her mom.
'cause clearly her mom's like, oh,like, why do you even wanna know?
Because Maddie's like, "Well, Iwanna know so I can be prepared. It,
it's still gonna be a surprise. It'sjust gonna be a surprise now." Like,

(01:24:00):
and then I'm guessing her mothermust like go off on some sort of, um,
tirade because Maddie cuts her off andsays, "Listen, have you talked to Evan
lately? 'cause I'm worried about him."
I love this.
There's a little tiny likehesitation where she's like,
have you talked to Evan lately?
Because like, they don't call himBuck, so she is like, no, wait.

(01:24:20):
See, funny if she calls him Evan,like she does call him Evan,
but only to his face when she's
Sometimes, yeah,
yeah.
When they're having sort ofdeep like Buckley sibling
moments, she'll call him Evan.
But I guess to other people, she'salways referring to him as Buck.
So yeah, there's that moment of, ohshit, I can't call him Buck in this
conversation, I need to use his,

(01:24:40):
yeah, because the wholefamily are Buckleys.
So,
um, yeah.
So she says, she asks her mother, "Didyou know that he was seeing a therapist?"
And uh, apparently that like setsher mother off and then we get, um,
Maddie saying, "No, it's not like that.

(01:25:02):
He doesn't know anything,but maybe he should."
And then her mother obviously continuesand then she said like very loudly, "I
don't know, Mom, how do you tell somebodythat you have been lying to them for their
entire life?"and it cuts to a commercial.

(01:25:23):
Yeah,
so dramatic.
So about that like deepdark Buckley family secret.
Mm.
Maybe there is a deep, darkfamily, uh, Buckley family secret.
I'm sure it's fine.
Uh, so we go into an apartment,
uh, because we've just hada deep and meaningful, like
really heavy emotional scene.
So now we need some stupidityto lighten the mood.

(01:25:44):
Yeah,
yeah.
Uh, we're back to Hildy, in fact,
who is doing a guided meditationand I don't know, but Hildy's
voice is not like soothing.
I don't know that I wouldenjoy the sort of the AI voice.
Um, telling me to breathe deeply asI calf cast off yesterday and look

(01:26:06):
to the future, um, and then to sit upand open my eyes and greet the world.
But, um, this woman who does nothave a name, she is, she's laying
We'll call her Blinky,
She's laying in Shavasana on the floor,and when Hildy says to sit up and open

(01:26:27):
her eyes and greet the world, she sitsup and she says "hello world," and
opens her eyes and the world is blurry.
Um, she looks, her eyes look very redall around them, and her eyes are really,
they look really blue, like pale blue.
Mm-hmm.
Um, and she's sort of like, "OhGod, I can't see. I can't see."

(01:26:49):
So she asked Hildy to call 9-1-1.
So she's, she hasn'tcompletely gone blind.
She just can't see very well.
Yeah.
I have, like, part of the issuethat I have with this emergency
is that she's freaking out.
She's saying that she can't see thatshe's gone blind when we keep getting
like shots from her point of view whereshe can quite clearly, not quite clearly.

(01:27:11):
She can see quite fuz, quite blurry.
Yeah.
She still can see, she can notquite clearly see, but she can,
she's still got some vision.
She's still got some vision.
It's just looks like someonehas sort of coated her eyes and
she's looking through a film.
Like if you think of those windowsthat are sort of like the wavy
glass for, um, that you put upin bathrooms so that people can

(01:27:32):
kind of, can't see through them.
Yeah.
But you can still sort of see shapes,
Yeah, filtered?
You can kind of make out variousshapes and colors and all those
sorts of things through them.
So she's not completely blind, butshe's acting like she's completely
blind and it kind of pissed me off.
Yeah.
'cause if I don't wear my glasses,I, I ca I'm kind of that blind.
She still wouldn't be able todrive to the hospital, but,

(01:27:53):
oh no, look, I do not have any, anyissue with her calling 9-1-1 because
yes, she would not be safe to get behindthe wheel of a car and probably wouldn't
be safe for her to like try and getinto an Uber or anything at this point.
So yeah, like call 9-1-1, that's fine.
But don't be like bumping into furniturein your house and tripping over things
when you can still see that thereis something sort of in front of you

(01:28:17):
and you should vaguely knowwhere your furniture is.
Like, come on.
Yes.
Which is what happens because, um, shecalls 9-1-1, she says like, "help me,
I've gone blind." They dispatched the 118.
Um, and when Bobby knocks on the door,like he can hear crashing as she's
like trying to navigate her apartment.

(01:28:39):
Um, so they used the batteringram to um, yeah, to open the door.
They just love smashing things.
Without even checking to seethat the door was unlocked first.
Like, I don't know, it probablywas locked, but, you know,
maybe he should have checked
They were bored.
They just wanted to use the battering ram.
Just stand back ma'am.
Boof.
Yes.

(01:28:59):
Eddie's not allowed todo fight club anymore.
He is gotta get the,
But he doesn't get to do it, Bobbydoes it like all that Eddie gets to
do is hand him the battering ram.
Well, clearly the rage room is shut, okay?
Yes, they get her upright becauseapparently she tripped over something and
fell over and Hen's like, "Can you tellus about your symptoms?" And she goes,

(01:29:22):
"Well, it's really just the one symptom.
I can't see."
She's like, I can't see anything.
But we can see that like, she can vaguelymake out an Eddie shaped blur on one side
and a Hen shaped blur on the other side.
Um,
yeah, I'm pretty sure they wrote thescript as though she was gonna be totally
blind and then they were like, oh,for special effects we'll just put in.

(01:29:44):
Like blurry vision and it's like, but why?
Maybe
that it feel, that feels like what it was.
It was that the script and theactress was told, okay, you
literally cannot see anything.
You're blind.
And then the director's gone, "Hey,let's chuck a, a lens in front of the
camera and film some point of viewstuff just for shits and giggles." Um,
yeah, because like all the lines act like,it's like her vision's completely gone.

(01:30:07):
Yes.
Because like Eddie asks if she'shad trouble with her vision before
today she says it's always been20/20 and Hen's, like, so this
morning just completely gone.
She goes, "I woke to greet theworld and it wasn't there." And
it's like, well, it was like, what?
But yes, a very definite disconnectbetween what we, as the audience
are seeing and the way the scriptand the actors are reacting.

(01:30:29):
So they, they go throughthe usual questions.
Have you changed anything in your routine?
Have you come in contact with anything?
Yeah.
Any new skincare, any new makeup,any household cleaners, anything
with fumes or strong scent?
Hen notices that there's some swellingand some irritation in her eyes.
So she just sort of says that,"Look, I'm gonna have a look at your
eyes. I'm gonna examine the area."
Um, she notices that there is minorclouding on the lens, almost like

(01:30:55):
they're covered in a film, whichthey kind of do look like she's got
cataracts, which sort of explainsthe, the pale blue sort of color.
Um, but as Eddie says, cataractsdon't appear overnight.
And as they are staring at thiswoman's eyes and shining lights
at her, um, at her eyeballs, um,Eddie notices something move.

(01:31:19):
Oof.
This is where I start squirming.
It's like, "What do you mean you sawsomething move?" And Hen's like "Something
like a worm?" And as soon as she saidthat, I went, man, Buck is gonna be
so pissed that he missed this call.
Yes.

(01:31:41):
Like what do you mean you had a womanwith worms in her eyes and I wasn't there?
Right?
Poor Buckley.
Where is Buck?
Uh, he's off with Chim having,
having dinner with Chim?
Yes.
Yeah.
Why, why are they not there?
I don't know.
Um, so it's up to Hento wrangle the worms.

(01:32:03):
Um, yeah.
So Hen grabs forceps and a sample jarand they're trying to work out how worms
got in her eyes and Bobby's like, "Oh,face flies. It's a type of parasite
that infects livestock. They feed offthe tears and lay eggs in the eyes,"
which apparently you don'tnormally see it in people though.

(01:32:24):
Mostly cattle.
I just love the fact that it'sthe guy from Minnesota who knows
about sort of the livestock stuff.
Yep.
So, funnily enough, this womanhas not been around cattle.
Um, she hasn't taken any trips becauseshe, as she says, everything's closed.
It's so frustrating though,because he said it's a type of
parasite that affects livestock.

(01:32:45):
And she, and like, yes, he mentionsthat it's mostly cattle, but she's
like, I haven't been around cattle.
And then like, oh my God.
So then we get like, oh,what do you do for a living?
I teach yoga.
What kind of yoga?
She teaches goat yoga.
Goats are a livestock, you idiot.
These goats are her friends.
They're not livestock.
She teaches goat yoga.

(01:33:06):
They're coworkers.
It's fine.
Yeah.
Which Bobby...
they're so cute though.
I'd love to do goat yoga.
It looks like fun
because we, we get a shot of it.
It's um, like people doingthe plank position with goats
standing on their backs.
Yeah.
Like not full goats.
I think they're either baby goats or,
yeah, they're little goats.
They're little ones.
They're little little goats.

(01:33:27):
Um, Bobby thinks that it's the mostridiculous thing he's ever heard about.
Like people pay to do that and thenEddie pipes up and says, "Well, you know,
people say baby goats offer the perfectweight and resistance to hold a plank
position." And Hen and Bobby just lookat him like he sprouted with third head.
Yeah.
Because that's a very, very Buck comment.

(01:33:49):
Yeah.
And Eddie just goes, "Ican know weird stuff too."
I would put good dollar bucks on the factthat he learnt that fact from Buck though.
Yeah.
Like Buck was probably scrolling throughthe internet one day and he is like, "oh
my God, let's go do baby, uh, let's go dogoat yoga." And Eddie's like, "we are not
doing goat yoga." He's like, "but it'sbaby goes off of the perfect weight and

(01:34:11):
resistance to hold the plank position."
Oh.
And the, the wom, the yogainstructor lady's like, "It's not
weird. Okay. It's a little weird."
Yeah.
But people really like the classand because the studio's closed,
like they have to do it outdoors.
So goat yoga.
Yeah.

(01:34:32):
The woman takes the, um, the fliesin her eyes that from the goats as
a sign that she should grow up andget a real job like her sister says.
Um, and that triggers Hen.
And Hen's like,
she's like, "Who cares what otherpeople think. Goat yoga's your, your
jam, your dream, then own goat yoga."
She Hen's like the poster childof, you know, changing your career

(01:34:53):
to do the thing that you love.
So, you know, good on her.
Bobby and Eddie don't know what to makeof the, like the, the motivational speech
that Hen's just delivered and Bobby's justlike, this is a problem for another day.
We, we'll deal with that later.
Let's just focus on, um, focuson the worms in the eyes.
The woman's like saying thank you toHen and like tries to touch her face.

(01:35:16):
And Hen's like, whoa.
Yeah.
She, she fallen just pats he faceand Hen's, like, "I still have a tool
that can make this whole blindnessthing permanent. So stay still."
So she pulls worm out of worm, after worm.
Oh my God.
I couldn't watch.
It just kept going on and on.
I'm like, kept looking backto see if it was over and
she's like, pull another worm.
I did a tiny bit of Googling aboutthis and there was one instance

(01:35:40):
where, um, a woman pulled atleast 40 worms out of her eyes.
Oh my God.
How could you not feel that?
Like, I get dust in my eye and I'm justlike, rinsing it out for three hours.
Yeah, that's the thing.
You, you do feel like there'ssomething in your eye.
It's just nobody expects it to be worms.
And like they, they live in sort ofthe tear ducts, so they're sort of

(01:36:03):
inside the, the little and then theconjunctiva and sort of the like,
not actually on your eyeball, butsort of inside your eye, but yeah.
Okay.
That's gross,
did I tell you guys I found outthat tear ducts are not what
I thought they were recently.
Oh.
So I always thought thattear ducts like made,
do we have time to go into this?
Yes.
Um,
okay.

(01:36:23):
I always thought the tearducts were what made the tears.
Like that's where the tears come from.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No.
Are they not?
The tear... no, the tear ducts arethere to drain the liquid from the eye.
So when there's too much liquid inthe eye, it goes into the tear duct
and like drains through your sinuses.
Huh.
So where did the tears come from?

(01:36:43):
Oh, that's what I was about to ask.
Just your eye creates like moisture?
I.
Oh, okay.
Did not know that.
Very interesting.
There you go.
Only found out 'cause one of our dogs kepthaving runny like weepy eyes and we tried
allergy stuff and then took her to the eyevet to make sure it was nothing sinister.
And they were like, oh, hertear ducts really narrow so
it's not draining properly.
And we're like, what?

(01:37:05):
So she had surgery toopen up her tear duct.
Oh good Lord.
Oh yeah.
Alright.
So yeah, thank you for the anatomy lesson.
So tear ducts do not create tears.
They drain tears away.
Good to know.
I guess that make sensewhy they're called ducts.
Yeah, yeah, you're right.
Um, this woman doesn't need surgery.
Um, Hen manages to extract...

(01:37:27):
no, apparently it just magically.
Yeah, because as, as soon as Hen pullsout the last worm, the, like, the
ulceration that was causing the filmover her eye miraculously heals itself.
Um, and also that like in, inthe flashback to, yeah, in the
flashback to her doing goat yoga,her eyes are very deep brown.

(01:37:52):
Yeah.
And this whole scene at herapartment, they're bright blue,
but as soon as they pull thelast worm out and the ulcer
heals, she's back to brown eyes.
Yeah.
Like what's, it doesn'teven look like cat.
Like, you know, I'd make,I'd, it'd make sense if it was
like that milky sort of white.
But no, they just make it, it's blue.

(01:38:13):
Like they just give hera blue cat, like Yeah.
Blue um,
contact lens.
A blue contact.
Yeah.
It's for in like, in reality this kindof, in infestation of these like zootropic
parasites could cause ulceration of thecornea, which would like make the film,
um, would make your vision go blurry.

(01:38:33):
But it's definitely not aninstant heal that as soon as you
remove the parasite that yourcornea miraculously heals itself.
Um, yeah
that's a bit weird.
For the drama,
for the drama.
For the drama, she's healed.
She's Hen has magic hands.
And she gets to watch and she gets towatch Hen add the last worm to the sample

(01:38:54):
jar and yeah, she starts retching andshe's like, "oh my god, do rabbits have
worms? Maybe bunny yoga's the future."
And then we get Hildy
happily piping up "Do rabbits haveworms?" And Eddie's head, like,
he snaps around and is like, "no!"

(01:39:15):
We don't wanna hear whatyou found on the internet.
Like, leaps across the room, grabsthe Hildy, um, console and just like
slams it face down on the table.
Like we do not wanna hear what you havefound about on the internet about rabbits.
Poor Eddie.
He's absolutely traumatized by Hildy.
That's hilarious.

(01:39:35):
Poor Eddie.
But yeah, just thatreaction is just love it.
So good.
Again, we go from ridiculousnessto, um, like deep emotional scenes.
It's late, it's nighttime, and Hen hasreturned to medical school for extra
study, I guess, and is surprised tofind that Sydney is already there.

(01:39:59):
Yes.
They have a bit of a chat about what'sgoing on, Hen says, "I didn't expect to
see you here this late." And Sydney islike, "I can't let myself fall behind.
And what are you doing here?" AndHen's, like, "I have an annoying lab
partner that constantly makes me feellike I'm failing." It's like, wow.
Hen you're still saltyabout what happened, right?

(01:40:22):
But then Sydney like triples down.
She's like, "I'm, I guess I'm, I'mjust so used to pushing myself.
I assumed everyone else did the same.
Sorry." Hen's like, "wow, you'reapologizing yet still insulting me.
That's, that's, that's great."
Um, and then she does keepgoing by saying, um, "I, I can't

(01:40:45):
fail. You wouldn't understand."
And he's like, "Wouldn't I?"But, uh, Sydney says, "You've
been in the field for years.
You've probably saved hundreds oflives already." And Hen's like,
"Hello, I'm a black lesbian thatjoined the fire department at
30 and started med school at 40.
Do you think I've ever walked intoa room and not felt like I had to
prove that I deserve to be there?"

(01:41:07):
And this finally gets through toSydney that she actually needs to, uh,
actually apologize for real this time.
So she does.
Throughout this whole scene, um, Sydneyhas been wincing and rubbing at her
head like she's got a killer headache.
Um, and after she apologizes toHen, she reaches down to grab her
water bottle, which for some reasonis on the floor behind her chair.

(01:41:31):
Um, and as she sits up, we see that shehas a patch on her arm, which her, the
sleeve of her scrub has risen up and thepatch is now visible and Hen says, "oh,
you're on hormone replacement therapy,"which Sydney realizes that the patch is
now visible and sort of pulls the sleevedown over and it says, "Good catch.

(01:41:54):
Most people just assume I'mtrying to quit smoking."
And Hen says, "Most people aren't payingattention." And she sort of reels off
all of Sydney's symptoms, includingthe increased irritability or what
she hopes is increased irritability,um, could be a reaction to the patch.
And then she suggests that Sydney goback to her doctor and talk about if,

(01:42:18):
if like she's getting the headachesand the irritability through the
patch, maybe she could try the gelor maybe she could try the tablet.
Like, she's not trying to talkSydney out of stopping the therapy.
She's just suggesting adifferent delivery system.
But Sydney spills her guts andexplains why she's on the therapy,
as if Hen has suggested like youshould stop doing it, but she hasn't.

(01:42:42):
Um, yeah.
So Sydney has the BRCA one gene mutation.
So six weeks before medical schoolstarted, she had a double mastectomy
and RRSO surgery to remove herovaries and fallopian tubes,
which is why she has the patch.
So this is like an increasedrisk of breast cancer?

(01:43:03):
Yeah.
The the brca, the BRCA one genemutation, pretty much, it's almost like
a guarantee that you'll develop cancer.
Right.
Um, and so the, the surgery thatSydney had is the risk is risk reducing
basically takes all of the cells, themajority of the cells out that this

(01:43:24):
cancer can develop in out before thecancer can, has a chance to grow,
Right.
Yeah.
Um, Hen's surprised 'cause she'sonly 20 and is like, what doctor?
And Sydney's like, "Yeah.
Trust me.
It was hard to find one who'd performedthe surgeries on someone my age
who doesn't already have children.
But you know me.
I love to fight."

(01:43:45):
I just imagine that she'd begetting like the "But what if your
husband wants to have children?"
Yep.
Mm. Yeah.
But Sydney has a very good reasonfor having the surgery because
she says that her mother diedwhen she was 34 of breast cancer.
Her grandmother died whenshe was 32 of breast cancer.

(01:44:06):
And so that's why Sydney had suchaggressive, um, surgery and that's
also why she pushes herself so fast.
Um, so hard because it's not just thatshe wants to be the first woman in
her family to graduate medical school.
She wants to be the first womanin her family to live past 35.

(01:44:28):
Ouch.
Yep.
So Hen's like, whoa,we better get to work.
Yeah.
It, it finally, everything sortof clicked for Hen for what's
going on with Sydney, and she'snow sympathetic to Sydney's cause.
And of course, as the way this episodegoes, we had deep and meaningful.
So now we're gonna get a littlebit of ridiculousness, but this

(01:44:50):
is such cute ridiculousness.
I love it.
This is the best ridiculousness.
Yes.
Um, so we returned to Casa Diazwhere Eddie has had a delivery.
There's a box sitting on hisfront step, which he pulls a lot.
A pretty large box,
very large box.
Although it's definitely empty when hepicks it up because it just lifts like,

(01:45:15):
no, no, no, no.
Eddie's just that strong.
Oh, right, my bad.
Yeah,
he's just that strong that he makes itlook effortless when he picks it up.
The cardboard doesn't even bend.
That's how strong he is.
No.
Yeah.
Um, so he brings it inside.
Chris is sitting at the table, um, andhe, he doesn't like bat an eye at the

(01:45:35):
fact that there is like a delivery.
And there his father's bringing hismassive box in, but he's pretending to
do his homework, but still watching whatEddie's doing and what Eddie does is whips
a pocket knife out of his back pocket.
And I'm sorry, do men usually carrypocket knives around in their back pockets
while they're inside their own house?
My dad does.

(01:45:56):
Really?
Not like all the time, but yeah, likeif he's doing stuff around the house, he
usually has a knife on him because he's,
well, I'm assuming Eddie'slike cooking dinner and helping
Chris with his homework.
Does he need a knife to do that?
Like what kind of homework is Chris doing?
Like how
My dad's is on his keys.
So if he's got his keys on him, thenyeah, he's got his pocket knife on him.
Yeah.
But Eddie's aren't onhis keys, but anyways,

(01:46:18):
yeah.
But this is just a little, yeah.
Anyway, maybe it's a militarything he's just carrying
Yeah, maybe it's a military thing.
He whips a knife out of his back pocketto open the box, um, which the first
thing he sees is like the, um, thepacking information, which has in very
large letters, "A gift from Hildy."

(01:46:39):
Yep.
And he's like freaking out.
And it gets worse becausehe rips off the bubble wrap.
And it's a smart coffee machine.
It's a coffee machine.
It's, it's a Hildy coffee machine
powered by Hildy.
And the way you would react, youwould think that Eddie was in like
the movie Seven and he's like,Brad Pitt, like, what's in the box?

(01:47:02):
But no, it's a coffee machine.
Meanwhile, while Eddie's freaking thefuck out, Chris is like dialing the
phone as like faster than he's everdone anything and just goes, we got him
and you can hear Buck through thephone going, "We got him? Oh man,

(01:47:25):
I wish I could see his face." Andthen Eddie realizes what's happened.
Yeah, so Eddie snatches the phone fromChristopher and he is like, "yeah,
thanks Buck real funny," and hangsup and Buck's like, you are welcome.
It's so good.
It's great.
Like ridiculous.

(01:47:46):
Um, but I, it's like the, the cherry ontop of, of Eddie's paranoia around Hildy.
But for a second he really believed thatHildy had sent him a coffee machine.
Yeah.
Pat the look on his face Buck was right.
He should have been there to see it.
Yeah.
I'm really surprised Chris didn'tlike whip out his phone and start

(01:48:08):
like, furtively filming Eddie.
Right.
Yeah.
Mind you, he probably doesn'thave a smartphone yet.
'cause he did use thelandline to call back.
Yes.
Maybe, maybe Eddie had confiscated all ofthe smart devices, including his phone.
That's right, yeah!
They've probably only got the landline.

(01:48:30):
Considering they don't evenhave remotes at the moment.
Yeah.
They're all at the backof the closet somewhere.
They're in like a box wrapped in tinfoilin like he's built, he's built a Faraday
cage to put all of the devices in,
which he actually had to go to thelibrary and like look up how to do that
because he couldn't Google it becausehe'd shut down all the computers.

(01:48:52):
That's right.
Yeah.
You seem to find out that youdon't know how to do anything
if you take away the internet.
Alright, well it's timefor a bit of cuteness now.
Um,
more cuteness, different kind of cuteness.
Maddie gets home from work, I assume.
She's late 20 minutes.
She's very excited,

(01:49:13):
six months late
for some reason.
Um, she, she washes her hands.
She's very COVID safe in all ofthese episodes that she washes
her hands a lot, so that's good.
So she's just, she's been at thedoctor, um, and the doctor says
everything's fine, the baby's fine.

(01:49:34):
And Chim's like, if there'sanything wrong, you can tell
me I'm not gonna run again.
And Maddie says that, I promise, if ithad had anything to do with you, I would
tell you so they're gonna be, you know,they're gonna be okay that she's like,
what I need for you is to play this DVD.
What I do like is that Chim is like,she's saying if whatever is wrong has

(01:49:58):
anything to do with you, I will tell you.
And Chim's like, no,you tell me everything.
We are a family now.
If it has something to do with you,it has something to do with me.
Yeah.
But yes, they, they go to the livingroom and they put on the ultrasound
recording and take it away, Alice.
Hang on, hang on.
Just quick, just quick.

(01:50:18):
Um, when Maddie says I need youto play this DVD, the reaction
from Chip is the cutest thing.
'cause he goes, "Let's go watchthe greatest movie we ever
made." And I'm like, Awwww.
So that mean they didn't make a sex tape?
Clearly not,
apparently not.
Um, well, or, or it wasn't that great.

(01:50:42):
So anyway, so Maddie and Chimare on the couch and they're
watching the ultrasound recording.
And despite Maddie telling her parentsthat she was gonna get one of those 4D
ones, it's literally just a 2D ultrasound.
Yep.
Yeah, it's just your regular,
it like, it could havebeen from the nineties.
It's just your standard ultrasound.
It is not one of thelike lasagna ultrasounds.

(01:51:05):
It is literally just,
it's lasagna,
A black and white
Lasagna ultrasound?
Oh, you haven't seen thelasagna ultrasound meme?
Hang on.
No, I have not seenlasagna, ultrasound meme.
Oh god,
I love that.
I typed in ultrasound and thenstarted typing lasagna and it came
up with ultrasound lasagna meme.

(01:51:27):
Hey, I'm just gonna sit and wait forAlice to drop it in the group chat
so that I can see what it is she'stalking about, because I'm pretty sure
that's what she's doing right now.
Here we go, Uhhuh, that
that lasagna looks crisp.
So for of you who haven't seen it,it's a, it's a clip of one of those
4D ultrasounds that, which, ifanyone's confused about what that is,

(01:51:51):
it's rather than the black and whiteultrasound, it's like, um, orange.
It's a 3D ultrasound.
It, it's 3D ultrasound.
It's d it's orangey.
It's supposed to be a little bit moreSure shows more dimension of the baby.
So it's this picture of this, this orangeybrownie sort of shape and the commenter
says, "that lasagne looks crispy."And the op says, "that's my daughter."

(01:52:18):
It's so silly.
It just makes me laugh every timebecause I've had like several
friends now who have had babies.
Like, and they get offeredthe 3D ultrasound and they're
like, ah, it's not that much.
I may as well do it.
I'm just like, "that lasagna looks,looks crisp" every fucking time.
They're the creepiest ultrasounds though.
I hate them so much.

(01:52:39):
Yeah.
It weirds me out so much.
Yeah,
it's very, very weird.
And that's, but apparently you've gota much better chance of being able to
tell what sex the baby is from that.
Yeah.
But yeah, this one is not a 3D ultrasound.
No, it's also not a 4D ultrasound,which like, wouldn't even make sense.
Like how is it a 4D?
Like there's only three dimensions.

(01:53:00):
Well, it usually means that there'san extra, extra things that they
are able to detect in it, buteither way, this is just a normal
ultrasound that you get when you go.
It just, it just just reminds me oflike, when I, when you used to go to
movie world, like back in the ninetiesand there was like the 4D movie
experience and like it was 3D, so likethe stuff came out at you, but then
also like when Daffy had like, youknow, squirt with his like spray with

(01:53:24):
his tongue water had come down on you.
Yeah.
And that's why it was 4D 'causeit had like the other thing.
So I'm like, what anextra dimens the baby?
And then the baby like sneezes inthe womb and they spray water on it.
Like, oh,
okay.
So the fourth dimension is time.
And so according to, accordingto this website, if, um.

(01:53:48):
The, with a 3D ultrasound, a wholeseries of slices are taken and digitally
reconstructed into a 3D image toproduce a lifelike picture of the fetus.
4D ultrasounds adds the element of time,which means that the lifelike pictures
can be seen to move in real time.
Right.
So it's a video,

(01:54:09):
it's a, yeah, it makes it a video?
Yes.
Rather than just pictures.
Okay.
Right.
This says, yeah, we don't needto go into what, but Yes, yes.
Well, this is not a 3D or four 4D.
It's the traditional twoDA regular black and white.
2D and Maddie got ripped off.
Yeah.

(01:54:29):
Anyway, they're watching itand Chim is like, so excited.
He's adorable.
This is amazing.
That's their baby!
That's our baby.
Um, and he, he's very touchedbecause Maddie says, Chim is saying
that he, he sees that they stilldon't know the sex of the baby.

(01:54:50):
And Maddie says "What?
It's so weird because the, the doctor, theultrasound tech said that she could tell
the sex of the baby," and Chim is like,"Wait, you didn't look, you didn't find
out?" Maddie says to him that "We've beenapart for so many firsts since pregnancy.
I wanted to have this first together."
God, that's so cute.

(01:55:10):
I love them so much.
Um, so then they look back and.
Then they find out and they're like,oh, I think, oh, and at the same
time they're like, "It's a girl."
Aw.
Aw,
baby girl Han.
And then we transition from babygirl Han to baby girl Grant, who

(01:55:33):
has just come home from work.
Bobby and Athena arecleaning up in the kitchen.
May has missed a dinner, but Bobbyhas very kindly made her up a plate.
Um, yeah.
Athena's surprised she's alreadypulling overtime, but May says, "no,
no, I had a counseling session."
And then Bobby immediately jumps to,oh, you're having like employment

(01:55:55):
mandated therapy because youhad a traumatic day on the job.
Because, yeah.
He's like, did you have a rough call?
And she's like, no,
because everyone's like, oh, therapy,you must have had like, it must be
traumatic, like a job induced trauma.
And she just like, May's like, "No,it's just precautionary. Sue thought
it would be a good idea because I'mso young and you know, I've also had
traumatic shit happen to me in the past."

(01:56:18):
Athena's like, "Oh, I didn't knowyou told them about the, um, like
the suicide attempt," and May's like,"Well, it's on the record you did call
9-1-1." They were gonna find out aboutit, or they already knew about it.
Yeah,
I mean, she's had other traumaticstuff happen to her too, like,
you know, having to hold onto thatwoman's neck so she didn't die.

(01:56:40):
And you know, there'sother, there's other things,
But I guess that didn't likegive her mental scars apparently.
Um, but yeah, so May told them about it.
Um, they said it wasn't disqualifying,but they wanted to make sure
she had someone to talk to.
Bobby is like, well, "I'm gladshe's looking out for you."
Um, May agrees, but she's like, "Yeah,I just spent the whole day talking

(01:57:02):
to people. The last thing I wantedto do at the end was talk some more."
And then we see the difference betweenBobby and Athena when it comes to therapy.
'cause Bobby's very pro therapy, likeBobby himself has never been to therapy.
He prefers to talk to the hotpriest, but he's very, very pro
everybody else going to therapy.
Like he hooked everybody up withFrank, like, anything's going wrong,
he's gonna send you to therapy.

(01:57:23):
Athena, um, is not,
I think Bobby talks to Hen like Bobbytalks to the other people in the,
in the group, but like, he'll bailsomeone up and tell them about his
problems rather than a therapist.
To be fair, they do the same to him
very much so.
Um, but Athena's thinking of therapyas, again, it's sort of linked

(01:57:45):
to the job and it's temporary.
So once, um, Sue sees that May can handleherself, she won't have to go through
therapy and Bobby's very quick to jumpin and go, "But there's, there's nothing
wrong about seeing somebody long term,you know, especially in this line of work.
You know, I have someone that I talk toat AKA hot priest." Um, he's also got his

(01:58:08):
AA meetings and, you know, "your mother'sgot Dr. Sanford." And Athena's like, "No
I don't, I ditched her months ago." Yeah.
A few weeks ago actually,which is news to Bobby.
And so they're having
Yeah, she's like, Brook Shieldswas great, but, and I'd absolutely
see her again if I needed to.
We just can't afford to bringher back because she, you know,
commands to hire a, a paycheck.

(01:58:30):
But the good thing is that Bobby andAthena then get into this backwards and
forwards and May is just sitting therewatching them bicker about therapy.
And he's, he's trying to, youknow, convince her that maybe
she should see her again.
And Athena's like, "no, I don'tneed anyone to baby me. Go away."
Yeah.
Never have, never will.

(01:58:52):
Um, and May's just like, "so ifI'm your daughter, shouldn't that
mean you don't have to baby me?"And Athena's comeback is the best.
She's like, "You're only half mine. Yourdaddy's side still needs looking after."
Oh, the shade.
Poor Michael, he's noteven in this episode.
She's given him heaps
Poor Michael.

(01:59:13):
And then she's like, uh, "that maybe50% less then," and Athena's like,
"No, you are gonna be my baby forever."
Bobby's given up at this point.
He's like, yeah, I'm gonna cut my losses.
We'll deal with this another day.
Yeah.
Um, so we have one more Madney scene andChim's very excited about baby girl Han.

(01:59:34):
Um, and he's like, I guess we're gonnahave to get serious about finding
a name now, should we do somethingtraditional or more modern like Chicago?
Oh, please don't name a Chicago.
If only because
Chicago Han
everyone would then assumelike, um, the Beckhams that
she was conceived in Chicago.

(01:59:54):
Because that's how theBeckham's named their kids.
Right?
Their kids are named afterwhere they were conceived.
Really?
Oh my God.
Isn't that why the kids' Brooklyn?
'cause that's where they were.
Oh God.
I don't know.
Brooklyn's a trendy name.
Jesus.
Oh good lord.
That's a really traumatizing thingfor the kids to find out one day
poor children.

(02:00:18):
But yeah, Maddie looks incredibly worried.
So
speaking of traumatizing,
yeah, she does look traumatized.
Not at the fact that, that Chimwants to name the baby Chicago.
There's obviouslysomething else on her mind.
Um, she tells Chim that, um, that hewas right, that it, she shouldn't just
tell him about things that concernhim, that they're gonna be a family

(02:00:40):
and he needs to know everything.
Yeah.
Chim's like, look, I told youyou don't have to protect me.
And Maddie goes, you are notthe one I'm trying to protect.
Dun dun.
But before we can find outwhat, um, Maddie needs to tell
Chim, the wildfires in Texas arenow completely out of control.

(02:01:03):
They have progressed to, in San Angeloand apparently LAFD has put its hand
up and said that it will come and help
This section at the end of theepisode is like, it feels like
a completely different episode.
It really does feel like atotally different effort.
Tone
is different.
Yeah.
Yeah, tonally it doesn't fit.

(02:01:24):
And what's really weird is like thenews anchor is talking about the
wildfires and we've got like verywild west music playing underneath
this, but the visuals are all of LA
Yeah.
I would've thought if they weretalking about the wildfires that
we would've got shot of, youknow, wildfires or the wildfires.

(02:01:44):
Yeah.
Something, you know, verystereo, stereotypically Texan.
But no.
Um, anyway, Buck is very excited.
Um, he's been on the list forspecial deployment ever since he
joined the department and he isnever got, got a call before today.
Um, so he is loading up the trucks.
Um, Eddie's apparently coming too'cause he says that they're ready to
roll and then Hen just shows up and islike, "Oh no, I know how you guys are.

(02:02:08):
Everyone make sure you usethe bathroom before we go.
I don't care if youthink you need to or not.
We have a 20 hour drive andwe're gonna make good time." Um,
so yeah, mama Hen's come back.
Um,
yep.
Eddie seems surprised that she'scoming, but she's like, "No, I
got two kids and medical bill,uh, medical school bills to pay.
I'll take all the emergencyovertime I can get.

(02:02:29):
Besides, it'll be fun.
I've never been to Texas."
I would also, I would justquestion like, you've got two
kids and you're in med school.
Do you really think now is thetime to be like leaving the state?
Yeah.
I mean, they, she has just been throughthe fact that she's really tired.
Sucks to be Karen!
Yeah.
She's got all this stuff going on.
Oh, she just needs a break.
Okay?

(02:02:50):
So she's gonna go to Texas andfight wildfires as her break.
I mean, strangely, strangely enough.
I do actually understandthat, that that would
A change is as good as a holiday.
Yes.
Um, so the episode ends with the118 rolling out on their epic road
trip, um, in the trucks to Texas.

(02:03:13):
And my God, that must be theworst road trip to be on.
Oh yeah.
That's a long way ina fire truck I'm sure.
Especially because we found outthat like the firetrucks are not the
most comfortable things to ride in.
Yeah, yeah.
Shock absorption sucks.
The, the, like the seats and paddingis pretty much shot, not fun.
Yeah.

(02:03:33):
Can't be good on the butt or the back.
Definitely
not.
I imagine.
Yeah.
It's almost a full dayof driving, so, yeah.
Ouch.
And that's where the episode ends.
So before we go to next week, Ellen.
Yes.
What do you think the secret is?
I've absolutely no idea.
You haven't watched, youhaven't watched onwards?

(02:03:54):
No, I haven't watched onwards.
Um, she said they weren't abusive.
Mm-hmm.
So, I don't know, don't know what it is.
I'm assuming that they've,they were involved in something
that you know, made them,
ill say that.
Not available for the children.
I will say that there is absolutelyno way that you could pick it.

(02:04:16):
Okay.
Oh God, no.
Yeah.
Like I had theories.
Because I honestly, I think I binged thisso fast and so hard the first time that
I didn't even stop to think, I just keptwatching and never really took the time
to try and come up with my own theories.
Yeah.

(02:04:37):
But unfortunately for Ellen, uh,she has to wait two weeks to find
out, um, what the big bad, what thebig Dark Buckley family secret is
because we are going to follow Buck,Hen and Eddie to Texas next week.
Yeah.
We're gonna Texas.
Woohoo!
I'm finally forcingBeck to watch Lone Star.

(02:04:59):
No, I,
I will watch this one episode again.
I will say that I'vealready watched it today.
Um, so I will watch it again, butI'm not watching anything else.
I refuse.
Okay.
So tell us about what'shappening next week.
So next week we have the 9-1-1and 9-1-1 Lone Star Crossover.

(02:05:24):
It's as wildfire spreads acrossTexas, which may or may not have
been caused by an extinct volcanosuddenly becoming active again and
erupting, um, Evan "Buck" Buckley,Henrietta "Hen" Wilson and Eddie Diaz.
Who doesn't?
Eddie "Eddie" Diaz,
which should, should be like

(02:05:44):
No, Edmundo "Eddie" Diaz.
Um, from, and Edmundo "Eddie" Diazfrom the 118 Firehouse in Los Angeles
arrive in Austin to help CaptainStrand and the 1 26, as the crew
race to save a group of teenagerstrapped by the fire at a campground.

(02:06:07):
Owen and Hen.
Owen being Captain Strand, um,fight for their lives in the
aftermath of a helicopter crash.
Um, and because the, our normaltrigger warning document doesn't
cover Lone Star, I had to watch thisepisode today to find the triggers.
Um,
yeah.
Nikki also has not watched Lone Star.

(02:06:28):
So triggers for the 9-1-1 LoneStar episode "Hold the Line"
include Rob Lowe, uh, wildfires.
It's a trigger for me.
Okay.
Wildfires, uh, hallucinationscaused by a traumatic brain

(02:06:50):
injury, children at threat.
Um, references to wilderness therapy,depiction of burns, uh, possible
child abuse, firefighters at threat.
References to 9/11 and referencesto Hen's ambulance accident.
Also references to Buck's SpidermanCounty, Spider-Man accident with the

(02:07:17):
Ferris Wheel, and the guy that let go.
Oh geez, that's a callback.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
And did you wanna mention what is gonnabe in the next episode of 9-1-1 itself?
Oh, for those, just incase people are gonna miss,
for anybody who does not care aboutLone Star is just gonna skip next week,

(02:07:38):
um, on the next episode of 9-1-1, soif you're not coming with us to Texas.
Athena investigates a mysteriousmurder during a neighborhood block
party, and the 118 rush to savelives endangered by a bomb threat.
Meanwhile, Chimney has a hardtime keeping secrets when Maddie

(02:08:00):
and Buck's parents come to town.
Oh, they're coming to town.
Oh, yeah.
You don't think they're just dropthe deep dark Buckley family secret
and then just not go into it.
Did you?
Yeah, I did think that because,because we've got "Buck
Begins" coming up, don't we?
In a couple of episodes.
And the triggers for that specificepisode, which I love, the

(02:08:23):
title of that one by the way, is"9-1-1. What's Your Grievance?"
Which I think is just brilliant.
Um, we have bad parenting,blackmail, uh, a dog at threat.
Don't worry, the dog does not die.
Um, gun violence and threat ofworkplace mass violence via a bomb.

(02:08:44):
I really like this episode.
Yeah, I I did.
It wasn't as like thematically,uh, smacking you in the face
as other ones that we've had.
I like, it was a good, like, itwas a good start of the season.
Like there was enough stuffto move the story along, but
also like funny emergencies.
Yeah.

(02:09:04):
So you had the, like, the funnyemergencies, but they were woven in
between like the actual characterdevelopment and character storylines.
Yeah.
Um, and it was, I thought that itwas very clever with, you had like
Eddie who is afraid for the futuretechnologically wise, but then you also

(02:09:25):
had like Maddie who was afraid for thefuture, for the future of her child.
Um, that was also tied with her pastand Buck's past, which then allows for
that storyline to sort of continue.
Yeah.
Or to develop.
Yeah, it was a good mixtureof, um, different types of

(02:09:47):
futuristic things too, like,
and a nice play on words with the titlewithout anyone actually like physically
dropping the, the title reference.
Uh, the reference to the title.
Is it like future tense as in, youknow, the as tense as, as in writing.
So we're talking about the future, butalso tense as in just like tension.
Um, yeah.

(02:10:08):
Yeah.
Very clever.
Um, this episode waswritten by Andrew Myers.
That makes sense.
So I think we've talked about Andrew,that he's like the, the Bobo of 9-1-1.
So with the
Oh, right.
Yeah.
The it that makes the Buck and Eddiescenes kind of makes sense when he
realized that it was Andrew who wrote it.

(02:10:31):
Yeah.
All right.
Uh, well please do let us know whatyou thought about this episode by
leaving us a comment on, uh, theepisode post on thatweewooshow.com,
or you can leave us a comment directlyin Spotify or on social media.
You can join us next week for thecrossover episode with 9-1-1 Lone Star,

(02:10:53):
which is called "Hold the Line", whichis actually do we have, have we got
like a season and episode number ofthat one so that we can let people know,
uh, that is strangely Season two..."Hold the Line" is the third episode of
season two, so season two episode three.
Okay.
And we can talk about how weird it is thatthere are three episodes into the second

(02:11:14):
season of doing a crossover with the ogwhen we actually watched the episode,
did it air right after?
Hang on.
Yeah, it funnily.
So it goes, um, "Future Tense" was at8:00 PM on February the first and then
"Hold the Line" for Line 9-1-1 LoneStar was at 9:00 PM on the same day.
Okay.
So just like the Dr. Odyssey crossover?

(02:11:36):
Yes.
They did the same thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was like immediately after?
It was immediate that to,
I guess that's to encouragethe 9-1-1 viewers to just to
stick around.
Yeah.
Hold the line.
And
it confused me so much whenI first watched it because I
didn't realize that the crossoverwas gonna happen on Lone Star.
And so the next episode started and Iwas like, why are they not in Texas?

(02:11:56):
Yeah.
Like we can go into It'slike why they did that.
Yeah.
When we actually watch it.
'cause it's the weirdest fucking thing.
But anyway, so yes, if you wantto, if you wanna join us, it
is season two, episode three.
Um, and Alice will be able to explainall of the backstories and everything.
So if you watch it and you're confusedas fuck about what's going on, Alice

(02:12:18):
will hope you'll be able to explain that.
I'll, I'll fill, I'llfill you in on my babies.
Yeah.
I get to see Judd and Grace again
because I know a little bit, but I don'tfucking care enough to learn all of it.
No, and I know absolutely nothing, soyou have to introduce everyone to me.
Um, okay.

(02:12:39):
So either next week "Hold the Line"for 9-1-1 Lone Star, or in two
weeks time we will be talking about
"9-1-1, What's Your Grievance?"
See you then.
Bye.
Bye.
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happen in the real world too.

(02:13:00):
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(02:13:30):
Have you seen the picture of why theydon't do, um like MRI on, on fetuses?
Oh yeah.
They look fucking terrifying.
'cause they look really scary.
Ooh.
They look like fucking weird demon things.
They look like aliens like, yeah, becauseit's like a, an actual cross section of
Oh, oh

(02:13:54):
yeah.
Okay.
Oh, good Lord.
Oh, that is terrifying.
Yeah.
It's staring into my soul.
Oh my god!
Oh, hang on, hang on.
It's on Snopes.

(02:14:16):
It's being fact checked.
Oh, it's not real?
Hang on.
Oh, no, it's, it's, it's true.
God dammit.
Oh,
Snopes.
Wow.
I haven't looked at that one for a while.
Right.
Every single thing on the internetwould be false on Snopes nowadays.
This is the one that's on Snopes.

(02:14:38):
Oh Jesus.
Oh,
Jesus Christ.
That is not crispy.

(02:15:00):
That looks like you need tosay some Latin to get rid of it
Exorcizamus te.
Oh my God.
Oh Jesus.
Well, I don't think I'mgetting any sleep tonight.
I'm just gonna be haunted.
I know.
Episode four, I believe.

(02:15:21):
Let me just check.
I wanted to say episode four.
Uh, Lone Star.
"Hold the Line".
Love isn't always on time.
Whoa whoa whoa.
Glad it wasn't just me thinking that.

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