We Watch TV Episode 123 – A Wicked Christmas: For Good - We Watch TV

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SPEAKER_01 (00:00):
Are we missing something on the show notes?
I can't recall.
I can't tell.
I don't feel like we missedanything.

SPEAKER_00 (00:05):
One, I still don't know if I'm being recorded or
not because you keep throwing meoff with the intros, but I don't
think so.

SPEAKER_01 (00:10):
This is a non-disclosure state.
I don't have to disclose if I'mrecording you or not.

SPEAKER_00 (00:13):
I know I watched Wicked on Friday to prepare for
Wicked for Good because I knewyou.

(00:45):
You are over over the hill now.

SPEAKER_01 (00:48):
I am He's already in a mood.
I'm starting my tumble day onthe backside.
That is correct.
What do you mean I'm in a mood?

SPEAKER_00 (00:56):
You're just always grumpy.
Like, you're so weird about yourbirthday.
It's strange.

SPEAKER_01 (00:59):
I I think that um if you're allowed to have a month
of birthdays, I don't do that!I'm allowed to have a week of
being grumpy.

SPEAKER_00 (01:08):
Okay.

SPEAKER_01 (01:11):
Um so here we are.
It is November.

SPEAKER_00 (01:17):
How is Thanksgiving this week?
I'm very confused.

SPEAKER_01 (01:20):
Uh I don't know.
Like it's seems like it was justHalloween.

SPEAKER_00 (01:23):
It seems like it was just like the summer and now.
Like, why do why do January andFebruary always drag?
They're like the most miserablemonths.
I hate them so much.
It's like the kind of just thatlike downfall from the holidays,
and it's just cold and miserableand awful.
At least we're getting some goodTV, because we're getting a lot
of good TV coming up in Decemberthat we're gonna like punt to

(01:45):
January.
So that's something you lookforward to.
But it's like those monthsalways go by slow, and then the
rest of the year starts touptick.
And by the time you hit aboutlike June, July ish, like that
back half, it flies by.
And the Burr months are thebest.
They're elite, they're top tier.
And I'm like, I can't believewe're about to be wrapping up
November.

SPEAKER_01 (02:02):
But I've got something, so I've got something
that makes February justslightly better for you.

SPEAKER_00 (02:06):
Valentine's Day.
Nope.

SPEAKER_01 (02:08):
Go to your calendar on your phone and look at
February 2026 and see howsatisfying it is.
It's just, it's the best thing.
Somebody on TikTok looked at didthis the other day, and it's
perfect.
It's perfect.
Oh, because it's like aircraft?
Four straight weeks, Monday oror Sun Sunday through Saturday.
It's perfect.

SPEAKER_00 (02:27):
I don't love it.
I thought you were gonna tell meit was like leap day again or
something.
I was like, what does they callit on 30 Rock?
Is it Leap Day?

SPEAKER_01 (02:35):
Um Well, I know what you're saying.

SPEAKER_00 (02:37):
Is it Leap Day Tom?
That's not air.

SPEAKER_01 (02:39):
No, that's not it's not Leap Day Tom, it's something
else.
No, it's not Leap Year, butthat's just like February is the
only month you can have aperfect a perfect calendar on,
and so that I just thought thatwas really cool.

SPEAKER_00 (02:49):
February is literally one of the most boring
months, too.

SPEAKER_01 (02:52):
That's why you gotta you gotta take it where you can
get it.

SPEAKER_00 (02:54):
Leap Day Williams.

SPEAKER_01 (02:55):
Leap Day Williams.
And then buttons and bows.
The Fraser episode.
For the Fraser episode.

SPEAKER_00 (03:05):
Alright, what did we do over the past week?
Well, I'll tell you what, wedid.
We have the the holidays are asfollows Halloween, Christmas,
Thanksgiving, you get like aday, and then the rest of
Christmas, or you know, otherholidays of that time of year.
And then uh the first for thepast two years, the week before

(03:29):
right before Thanksgiving hasalso been the wicked week.
And it does really feel likeanother holiday, and uh the
wicked era is almost coming to aclose.
But I need you to take me to seethe Broadway show.

SPEAKER_01 (03:44):
I think it's gonna have a long tail.

SPEAKER_00 (03:45):
Yeah, because now I am listening to the side of the
side of the side.

SPEAKER_01 (03:47):
Of you running around the house singing the
songs, but not in completesentences.
You pick like four words andjust repeat them over and over
and over again.

SPEAKER_00 (03:55):
Thank goodness.
Wonderful.
Well, every time I start tothink about for good, I start to
get really sad.
I get I got sad when I wouldhear like for good when Kurt and
Rachel sang it on Glee.
It would make me emotional.
So every time I hear that song,I get emotional.
So like the Broadway version,I'm like, I know when I have to
hear Cynthia and Ariana singthis, I'm gonna sob.
Then I watched him on that onewonderful night wicket special

(04:17):
on Peacock, where uh Dina andChris um Kristen also sang it
with them, sobbed on that.
I thought I was ready to go intothe movie.
I had all the tissues packed.
I was like, I know I'm gonna cryin this number.
I didn't know that I was goingto weep.
Like, I had to keep taking on myglasses.
I'm talking full-blown, sobbing.
Thankfully, my mascara is mostlyintact.

(04:38):
I'll tell you what, somethingAriana's beauty line.
This is not I'm not sponsored byREM Beauty, but I got the Glenda
makeup set.
That like purple liquid umeyeshadow, that stuff stays
intact because I sobbed and itwas still there, and I was still
scrubbing it off my eyes afterthe movie.
But shall shall I just go aheadand talk about Wicked?

SPEAKER_01 (05:00):
Tell us about it.
Shall I see no one more than theWicked?
You went to your hometown, youtook your nephew with you.
Yes.
And you bought a bunch of crap.

SPEAKER_00 (05:08):
Not crap, wonderful things.
Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (05:12):
And then you Obsessulated.
Saw Wicked for Good.

SPEAKER_00 (05:16):
Wicked for Good.
So last year we saw Wicked PartOne together.
I took my nephew, who was like Ilike starting to get really into
Wicked and excited about it, andI created another little Wicked
St.
Thank you.
You're welcome, sister.

SPEAKER_01 (05:33):
And just what the world needed.

SPEAKER_00 (05:35):
We had a wonderful time.
It was amazing.
I've never gotten to actuallysee the Broadway show because no
one's ever taken me to thatbefore.
Someone needs to take me.
So I love you out there want totake her?
I love that they did this movieand that they got the movie
right.
Like I've my experiencing Wickedis, you know, through the lenses

(05:56):
of other things, and I know thesoundtrack, and I was so
thrilled.
And I felt like the they knockedit out of the park on part one.
And I knew when we were I knewwhen going into part one that we
were gonna like it was gonna bein two parts.
I guess some people didn't knowthat last year.
I'm like, I I knew that likeright away.
And I'm glad because afterseeing the second part, I feel

(06:16):
like they would have for me tobe satisfied, I would have had
to have like at least afour-hour movie.
Like everything would have feltrushed.
So we end act one, DefiantGravity, and then I at first I
was like, let's let's make it,you know, in the summer.
Don't make me wait forever.
But ultimately, I like that theyput it out that same time of
year because it felt likeanother like build up to

(06:37):
Thanksgiving.
Like we get Wicked Week,Thanksgiving.
So it was really fun to get toexperience that again with my
nephew.
He was super excited.
His birthday is actually onThanksgiving Day this year
because you guys are like a dayapart.
And my sister went ahead andgave him one of his birthday
gifts, was a wicked t-shirt.
So I had my pink wicked sweaterwith the wicked in the green.

(06:58):
He had his t-shirt on.
We're walking into the mall, andthe Salvation Army person's
like, enjoy Wicked.
You know what we're gonna do,what we're there to see.
And last year we bought a likethe which I'm looking at right
now, the beautiful lanternpopcorn bucket.
And I knew that we were gonnahave to get some merch.
I know everybody says I spoilhim, but hey, birthday, it's

(07:19):
wicked, it's fun for me to bethe fun, you know, and getting
to spoil.
And we got the this year, theyhad the and they only had a few
left, like, so we we got thereright in time.
It's the wicked popcorn bucketthat's also a music box, and it
actually plays for good.
So we got that, and it came withtwo large popcorns that

(07:42):
basically look like it's likebigger than our trash can in the
bathroom.
Like, that's how big thesebuckets of popcorn were.
What a great component.
I'm starting to think I wasripped off last year because I
had to pay for my popcornseparately with a popcorn
bucket, which didn't make senseto me.
And this year, like, oh, itcomes with two free larges.
And I'm like, oh, how muchbigger can a large be than a
medium?
Because I always get like asmall or a medium popcorn.
Um I'm telling you, like, I madeI eat like that much of it.

(08:02):
Like I'm making a a referencewith my hands, like barely a
dent.
Um, so we got that.
Oh, and they had, I had we hadto get the plushies, of course.
So, but they only they didn'thave any Glenda or Alfie, so we
got the scarecrow, or I I don'treally, I guess if you haven't
seen Wicked yet, I won't spoilthat for you.
But you know, the the musical'slike over 20 years old.

(08:22):
You should know who thescarecrow becomes from Wicked.
So we got that, and then ThemeFood hates to see me coming,
truly hates it.
They had those dipping dots.
Remember how when I went toStitch, I told you I got those
dipping dots that were likepineapple themes?

SPEAKER_02 (08:36):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (08:37):
They had a watermelon limeade, which was
the green and pink.
These weren't as good as thepineapple ones, but they were
pretty- I'm starting to thinkdip and dots, a little container
of it hits.
And I was like, okay, we'regonna do that, we're not gonna
do the icy's again.
But then when your nephew'slike, oh, we should really get
the icy's too, because I have toget one for Alpha Bud, and you
have to get one for Glenda, andI'm like, oh, twist my arm.

(08:57):
So we also got those, and theIcy's were better this year.
They were really good.

SPEAKER_01 (09:02):
But a good icy branded icy.
It really got that rip-off crap.

SPEAKER_00 (09:07):
It's the icy branded icy.
I think the Glinda, the Glendaone was strawberry lemonade, and
that's what I had.
And then I think it was greenapple for Alphabet, which I
didn't finish mine, and Gavinfinished mine, and he said both
were very good.
So uh, but when it comes to themovie itself, this is the act

(09:27):
two of the musical, and I feellike people that aren't really
familiar with the sourcematerial might have not been
ready at just how much likedarker this one is and how much
sadder it is, but it's stilllike incredible.
And I thought they did such agood job.
I like I said, I packed um thoselittle mini tissue packs.

(09:48):
I went through two full minitissue packs and one tissue pack
alone, just in the for goodscene at the end where they're
saying anything.

SPEAKER_01 (09:55):
No, none of this information surprises me
whatsoever.

SPEAKER_00 (09:59):
Um, but I didn't expect to like just weep the way
like I and I cried and I I wasalready crying with like in five
minutes to the start of themovie.
Like when you see like Alpha Bowand like Glenda, and you know,
like about five years has passedbetween the events of the first
movie and this one.
So they don't explicitly say thetime jump, but you know, it's
indicated that about something,you know, some time has gone on.

(10:21):
So I'm like already starting tocry.
I'm like, oh I'm in for it.
I'm in for it.
One of the new songs that theyadded just for their movie, um,
there I think it's calledThere's No Place Like Home.
I cried at that.
Like the the tones of that songin particular, I feel like
really hit home to things thatare going on, you know, in our

(10:43):
country.
Uh like the way people feel, andit was for anybody that says,
like, oh, you know, it's just amovie, it's not like quote
unquote political.
I think all art can bedetermined as political, and I
felt like that song inparticular probably meant a lot
to a lot of people.
So the song I want to make surethat I got the actual name of
the song right.

(11:03):
Why is it playing this one?
And the song is No Place LikeHome.
That is the new the name of thenew song.
And then the other song thatthey added um was is the girl in
the bubble.
And I thought they were bothreally good original songs.
I'd say No Place Like Homeprobably had um well, they both
had meaning to it.
Um but I think that some peoplewere wondering about like what

(11:25):
the songs that they added wouldbe and if they'd be good, and I
thought they were great.
I think when it comes to peopleare like which part did you like
better?
That's a tough question becauseto me it's one big movie.
You know what I mean?
It's kind of like how I seeAvengers.
Yeah.
Like Infinity Wars and Endgame.
Like it's it's just one movie.
Like it's one movie to me.
But if you're acting like I Icame out of each one of them

(11:46):
feeling different, like adifferent headspace.
Like you feel just like, yes,like I want to just go like take
on the world at the end of actone when you hear Defying
Gravity.
This one you come out and you'relike, I'm so emotional, I'm so
sad, because it's like I havesadness that something that I've
looked forward to and it's beenlike like something I've been
doing for like over a year, likealmost two years is is over, but

(12:08):
like also just the sadness ofthe movie and what happens at
the end of the characters andkind of that bittersweetness of
it.
So you walk away feeling verydifferent.
Do you have something to say?
You started like holding in yourbreath.

SPEAKER_01 (12:21):
No, I I'm I I have a Lord of the Rings reference, but
you can finish your thought.
I was just gonna say that likeit it it this is the same story.
This is really just one longstory in the same way like the
Lord of the Rings is one thing.
Yes.
Yeah, you can say, Oh, I likethe fellowship better than like
two towers or whatever, but atthe end of the day, they're
really one they're onecontinuous story that is meant

(12:45):
to be taken in at one time.
And so similar with Wicked, it'sreally saying, Oh, I like one
versus the other, it's like,yeah, but I mean it it's really
the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 (12:56):
And like I said, I think that the choice to split
them was the right choicebecause I felt like we got to
have more depth, we got to divemore into like you know, the
Gelfie relationship.
I feel like it would have, ifthey had tried to put everything
in one movie and cut it downfor, you know, I doubt that the
cinema would have probably letthem go over three hours.
Like I felt I feel like it wouldhave felt very, very rushed.

(13:19):
Um, act one, when it comes tothe songs, those are definitely
I feel like the songs um aremore hip popular, you could say
la la la la.
Like the songs when you thinkabout wicked are mostly the act
one songs because obviouslyDefying Gravity, like that's the
big one that everybody thinksabout.
Popular, One Short Day, Um, TheWizard and I.

(13:39):
So a lot of like your fun, moreupbeat songs, because it's a
more upbeat time.
They're younger, the story'sgetting started, they're at
school, but when you go into acttwo, obviously at this point,
Alphabet is just completelyoutcast.
They have they're putting outall these um what is the word
I'm looking for?
Ugh, propaganda about how she'sthe wicked witch.

(14:02):
Haven't you heard?
I'm the wicked witch of theWest.
Um, she and Glinda haven'tseparated, they're out of
school.
It's uh there's darkness goingon in Oz.
There a lot has happened.
So this there's less of that,you know, happy uplifting songs,
except for, you know, the thankgoodness number, still has that
uplifting beat.
But when you listen to thelyrics of it and you see Glinda

(14:26):
singing, you see what you knowshe's kind of putting on this
public persona right now, butdoes she really believe in it?
Is she knows that Alphabet's outthere, she knows that Fiero's
just probably not really thatinto her.
And it's almost like, you know,I couldn't be happier.
So it's just like that sense ofmelancholy.
And this, if you like ballads,though, like act two is your

(14:47):
jam.
I feel like my very favoritesong of all time from Wicked,
which is For Good, which Wickedfor Good, um, comes from Act
Two.
I also really like No Good Deedand As Long As You're Mine.
So when I think about it, I feellike again, it's vibes-based.
For me personally, I kind oflike some of the songs because I
like the I like the power powerballads, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 (15:09):
Sure.

SPEAKER_00 (15:10):
Like obviously I've been singing As Lone As You're
Mine, like constantly, evenbefore it started, and I have to
say, Sexiest man of the year,Jonathan Bailey.
Delivered.
I've been so excited to see himand Cynthia sing As Lone As
You're Mine, and it was Chef'sKiss.

(15:31):
I was looking around, the otherladies in the theater, we were
all like, oh, so good.
Nothing he does yearning so wellas Anthony Bridgerton, uh, as
Fiero.
So good, so good.
Just it was like when you want,like you you anticipate
something and then you get tosee it on screen.
And they did keep it PG becausethe movie is PG, but it was

(15:52):
still hot, you know what I mean?
And the chemistry.

SPEAKER_01 (15:54):
Of course I do.

SPEAKER_00 (15:55):
The chemistry was chemistrying.
I mean, ultimately I'm a Gelphyshipper, but like the alpha
Fiero when they do As Long AsYou're Mine, just wonderful.
Uh Cynthia Revo once againknocked it out of the park.
She, no good deed had me like inchills.
Like that's her big number afterbasically everything's going to

(16:16):
crap, and she's like, you know,no good deed goes unpunished or
whatever, and she's just goingoff.
And I I can't believe I'mactually saying this, but I
almost feel like she did betterwith no good deed than defying
gravity when she did incrediblewith defying gravity.
I mean, you've seen part onebecause you've watched that
movie with me um here at thehouse.
So she did amazing with that,but I feel like she like she

(16:38):
nailed it.
Um Ariana Grande went, I thinkthey should both get Oscars, but
like the second half is kind ofmore of like Glinda's movie.
If she does not get an Oscar,I'm gonna be super mad because
she gave it everything.
Ariana Grande, and I said thisabout part one, she became
Glinda, like she immersifiedherself in that role.
Talk about taking something,going after your dreams.

(17:00):
She's always wanted to be Glindasince she was like 10 because
she grew up a theater kid andjust putting your all into that.
And you can just tell, you canreally tell with all of them,
especially the two leads, howmuch this meant to them to be in
these iconic roles.
And they both did it justice.
And for me, like that is myalphabet and that is my Glenda.
And I think that, you know, andI've heard people that seen the

(17:22):
Broadway show several times hashare that sentiment now, and
that's a testament to how wellit's done because people are
very critical um when it takes,especially translating like a
beloved Broadway musical to amovie.
And some of the I've seen someminor criticisms, but for the
most part, I feel like everybodythat loves Wicked was very
satisfied.
I think some of the onlycritiques that I've really seen

(17:44):
from some people were they justweren't expecting just such a
more of a melancholy tone.

SPEAKER_01 (17:50):
Yeah, I mean that has to be coming from people who
weren't familiar with theBroadway play.
With like the source material,yeah.
Like this this very muchfollowed the Broadway play close
enough that like anybody that'sfamiliar with it was not
surprised, shouldn't have beensurprised.
They shouldn't have beensurprised.
Where it went.

SPEAKER_00 (18:06):
It was really fun for me.
I don't wanna, again, I knowwe're a spoiler podcast, but
since just the movie just cameout, if in case people don't
know, I'm not gonna revealeverything, but my nephew didn't
know one big major plot point atthe very end, and I hadn't told
him that.
Um, so I just wanted to see hisreaction, and he was like, Yes,
I knew it! And it was so funjust to see him react.

(18:27):
You know where it's like funwhere you you watch me reacting
to like your precious Star Trekmovies, which I'll be watching
with you on Friday.
You know where you you see itthrough the eyes of somebody
else.

SPEAKER_01 (18:35):
Yeah, oh that's great.

SPEAKER_00 (18:36):
Like he really enjoyed I I really enjoyed him
enjoying that.
Um, but the for good number, ohmy gosh.
I thought I what is the Ithought I was ready.
I was not.
They those two, and I hear thatthey have this one pivotal scene
with like a door in betweenthem, and I've heard that all of

(18:58):
that is improvised.
There's they say they tell eachother that they like, I love
you.
I heard that was improvised, andJohn Chu, the director, kept it
in.
I mean, I don't think there wasreally a dry eye in the house.
Everybody in my theater at theend of the show also clapped.
Like, that's how you know.
You I think I feel like exceptfor the very front, like break
your neck like seats, ourtheater was like totally packed.

(19:21):
And just you could like we wehad a good crowd, like everyone
was locked in to watch it, butno one was it wasn't like
Superman where everybody wasbeing disruptive around us.
Like people were there to seewicked, end of story, and
everybody clapped.
But like you after the movie, Iwent to the bathroom, and me and
like several other ladies arejust like wiping our eyes and
we're still crying.
And I was like, Yeah, Gavin,when I'm with the ladies, we

(19:42):
always talk.
Because before the moviestarted, I also somebody else
saw somebody else in thebathroom was like, Oh, I love
your sweater.
Where'd you get it?
I'm like, Oh, Target.
And I'm like, Oh, sorry, Gavin.
I was having a conversationabout fashion before the movie,
and then I was talking toeverybody that was crying in the
bathroom after the movie.
And then I also have to givecredit to Ethan Slater, who
plays Bach.
Bach.

(20:02):
Uh I see now I now know why theycast him in this role.
Like, I knew he was like atheater kid.
He's the SpongeBob on Broadwaykid, and he does saying in the
first one, but in this one, helike uh he like scared me a
little.
Like he was that good.
Everybody, close your put yourhands over your ears right now,

(20:24):
or I'm because I'm gonna spoilthis part for you.
You should know it by now.
The music's 20 years old, andeven in the promo material, you
can tell.
So Bach becomes the 10 man.
And that whole liketransformation of him becoming
the 10 man and then the marchwhere of the like the witches,
and he's like, I've got a scoreto settle with Alpha Ba.
I mean the witch.

(20:45):
Like, I'd say if you're bringingkids to this, that's like the
one thing that I would say wouldbe scary.
Like, it was I was like almostlike like I couldn't almost
breathe.
Like he just gave a greatperformance.
So I think he's gotten a lot ofhate online for you know some of
the personal stuff going on.
Well done.
Like, I see why he was cast.
He was definitely the other thanAriana and Cynthia, was the

(21:07):
standout performer for me inthis movie.
But it was it was great.
Like, if I had to choose whichmovie I enjoyed best, was it
part one or part two?
Like I said, I'm thinking of itas one big thing.
I probably would go with partone just because it's a little
happier and I cried so much moreon part two.
But it's just so it's so hardfor me to choose, you know?

(21:29):
I get it.
It's just so hard becausethey're both so good, and I
loved it.
After the movie, I went to um wewent to a store called Five
Below.
Has have you ever been to FiveBelow?

SPEAKER_02 (21:40):
I have not.

SPEAKER_00 (21:41):
It's like a Dollar General, but with like a bunch
of other crap and noorganization, nothing, and I
feel like everybody in theentire Middoh Valley was there
at the same time.
I told Gavin, I'm like, yeah,I'm never coming here with you
again.
But I did buy him a wicked signthat he really wanted.
We like none of the wickedmerchandise was in the same
place, it was all overeverything.

(22:01):
Like it would have been thewhole time I'm in there, I'm
like, this would be Daniel'snightmare.
And then you get in like onesingle line to go to a bunch of
registers up front.
So we waited in line like thatsnaked around for like 15
minutes.
You're welcome that I could notfind the wicked wrapping paper
that they had because I wasgonna buy it and be like, this
is what I want to wrap all mygifts in for the holidays.

(22:23):
But it's great.
I loved Wicked.
You will be watching once thatas soon as it comes out on
digital release, Blu-ray,whatever, you will watch it.
How does it feel now that youget to listen to part two of the
soundtrack constantly?
You've heard of me listening tothe Broadway, but now you're
getting the movie.

SPEAKER_01 (22:39):
It's just amazing.
It is amazing.

SPEAKER_00 (22:45):
I intentionally held off on listening to the because
I think that soundtrack actuallydropped like Thursday.
Um, and I did not I wanted tohear all the songs in full for
the first time in the movie.
Do you have any idea how hardthat was for me to do to hold
off on that?

SPEAKER_01 (23:00):
The inter the intestinal fortitude you must
have.

SPEAKER_00 (23:03):
And then on my way home, I missed my exit because I
was saying as long as your mind.
Okay, it was really becausethere was a car, a big car in
front of me, and I couldn't see,and then by the time I turned,
it was I screwed up, so then Ihad to drive an extra 20
minutes.
But like once I got home, Istarted telling you more of the
story.
I was like, Yeah, I was like,Jonathan got to Jonathan
Bailey's part, and then I wasgiven, you know, have you never

(23:25):
given a car performance like inthe car by yourself when you're
just saying?

SPEAKER_01 (23:30):
I don't think so, no.

SPEAKER_00 (23:32):
You're just you're truly missing out.
Jeff or Jeff Goldblum again,wizard, slimy, perfect.
Even you, somebody you're youyou've agreed that he's the
perfect casting, right?

SPEAKER_02 (23:43):
Yes, he is.

SPEAKER_00 (23:44):
I feel like I could talk about Wicked for good, but
for forever.

SPEAKER_01 (23:47):
So we won't.
Speaking of Five Below and thepits and depths of hell, um, we
have some more Hallmark NetflixChristmas movies for you.

SPEAKER_00 (23:57):
We do.

SPEAKER_01 (23:58):
Only three this time, and thankfully I only was
subjugated to two of them.
Do you want to talk?
I looked from the list, you'vegot the one I I don't recognize
the name of the first one, soyou must have watched that one
by yourself.
I did.
How was the net the uh I'msorry, the Hallmark Christmas
movie Tidings for the Season?

SPEAKER_00 (24:17):
You watched part of that with me.
Remember at the beginning, andthen you you peaced out.
It was the one with Tamara Maoriof Tia and Tamara, the this from
Sister Sister, and she her sonwants to be newsbrush.
So they're like in, I thinkthey're like they're not in
Chicago.
That's where his job opportunitywas.
You had me thinking they were inthe Rolling City.

(24:37):
I don't know why I listened toit.

SPEAKER_01 (24:38):
I wasn't watching the movie, so I don't know why
you were listening to me.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (24:41):
I think they're like in Minnesota or something, but
they he's a newscaster, and hebasically, because the news is
just depressing all the time,she's like, she she's like, ugh,
I hate him.
I wish she would tell, you know,fun stories.
But her son, she's a singlemother, and her son, like,
remember, he like wants to belike weirdly obsessed with being
a news anchor for a kid thatthat age.

SPEAKER_01 (25:03):
Like, I like I don't I okay, I can't speak because I
don't have kids, but anybody outthere that's got kids of a
certain age, like what probablytennis, are they watching the
evening news?

SPEAKER_00 (25:14):
I used to watch the evening news.
My parents made me at dinner.

SPEAKER_01 (25:17):
Okay, well, you're an outlier.

SPEAKER_00 (25:19):
But I now wasn't I wasn't like that kid, but I did
used to practice in the mirrormy anchor voice.
Is that weird?

SPEAKER_01 (25:25):
Let's hear your anchor voice.
You can't say you got an anchorvoice.
You can't say you've got ananchor voice.

SPEAKER_00 (25:31):
Welcome to We Watch TV Podcast, the podcast where we
watch TV.
I am Hope, and this is Daniel.
Stay tuned.
The weather is looking a littleI was never gonna be a weather
girl.
I don't know.
Like you just try well, it's yougotta be something like, and
then I don't know, give mesomething like somebody, I don't

(25:52):
want like give me like somethinglike a sad story, but not don't
make it too sad.

SPEAKER_01 (25:57):
I immediately went to the joker thing.

SPEAKER_00 (26:00):
We can't do that.
Sources are saying that thisyear prices have increased, and
the average American family isgoing to find it hard to have
their Thanksgiving feast.
Gosh.
That's over at the communitypark, they're having a turkey
trot.
Back to you, John.

(26:20):
How are those trotters burningoff those calories?
Because those people can'tafford to eat.
That got dark.
You're completely distractingme.
But anyway, the kid is reallyinto it and he convinces their
school to do a tour.
So he like but buddies up tothis guy and he's like, Yeah, my
mom doesn't like you.
He thinks you should tell likefun stories.
Then like the producer guy islike, hey, I think this would be

(26:42):
cool to make him like our likeour intern.
So they and obviously, you know,he starts like razzing up the
single mom, and they suddenlythey they start to he start he
realizes what it's like to tella fun story.
And I can tell you, as somebodywho did used to work in media
and my specialty was featurestories, that's why I liked it.

(27:02):
Like I did kind of resonate withthat.
I liked because I I believe,especially when it comes to
local media, that you get enoughof the depressing stuff with
national news, and thatsometimes you want to read, like
you want to either read them orwatch like the feel-good stories
to see what good people aredoing, because not everything
has to be negative and terribleand awful.
You get enough of that onnational coverage.

(27:24):
So, like, I actually did likekind of like what the mom, what
like the premise of the moviewas, but then it really there's
one part that confused mebecause like he does start doing
the stories, and his producerguy, who was very cute by the
way, I'm like, I want to spinoff of this man.
He was like, You can't likepeople wanna, you know, hear
about all the crap.
This is gonna tank our ratings,the station is in trouble.

(27:45):
And he's on the side, he's alsoup for this other job in
Chicago.
So then he's like, Why don't heso he decides to you know roll
the roll the tape, do the storyanyway.
And then they're like, Why don'tyou take a vacation?
So like a forced vacation.
So he that's they get to go dosome Christmas activities
together.
But then turns out everybodylikes the moms, is like the mom.
Like, we like the good stories,and the ratings go up.

(28:08):
So they're like, they call him,they're like, vacation's over,
come back to work.
And then the big, like, wholekind of you know, how they have
their conflict, they're like, ohno, oh no, is because he does
get offered that job and he goesto interview, and she's like, I
I can't have my son around likeyou because I thought you'd be
in our lives.

(28:28):
This is why I haven't dated orsomething.
I don't really know.
I wasn't paying that muchattention.
She wants to say she was talkinga lot of crap about how I don't
listen.
I don't know, I wasn't payingattention.
She's giving me crap.
Um It was alright.
It was like the classic Hallmarkformula.
You saw bits and pieces of it.
What do you think about what yousaw?

SPEAKER_01 (28:49):
The kid actor was the best actor in the movie.

SPEAKER_00 (28:51):
Okay, Tamira Maori is a good actress.

SPEAKER_01 (28:54):
Okay, well, he was she the kid was better than the
main male lead.

SPEAKER_00 (28:58):
Than the anchor man.

SPEAKER_01 (28:59):
I didn't buy him as an anchor.
Like uh he may be a fine actor,but just he didn't have a voice
that that said anchor man.
Stay classy, San Diego.
Yeah, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 (29:07):
Give me your best.

SPEAKER_01 (29:08):
I don't.
I can't I can't.

SPEAKER_00 (29:10):
People have told me before that you have a good
radio voice.

SPEAKER_01 (29:14):
I don't know what those people are on, but I would
like some.

SPEAKER_00 (29:19):
What about when I do the at Theranos?
We don't need to do that.
We don't need to do that.

SPEAKER_01 (29:23):
Alright, next up, we're gonna skip on over to
Netflix for a moment.
Um, and we're gonna talk aboutchampagne problems.

SPEAKER_00 (29:30):
Not the Taylor Swift song, the movie.

SPEAKER_01 (29:32):
They did not play the Taylor Slift song in the
movie.

SPEAKER_00 (29:34):
They probably didn't want to buy the rights to use
it.

SPEAKER_01 (29:38):
Would have been the whole budget of the movie.

SPEAKER_00 (29:39):
This starred uh Minka Kelly, who is best known
as Lila Garrity from FridayNight Lights, one of the
greatest shows of all time,Clear Eyes, Full Hearts Can't
Lose.
And since I had to do thesynopsis for Tidings for the
Season, and I don't like payattention as much as you,
apparently, to the movies Isupposedly like, and I've talked
so much on this podcast.

(30:00):
Already.

SPEAKER_01 (30:01):
Half an hour almost.

SPEAKER_00 (30:04):
I could talk about Wicked for like three years.
You oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 (30:07):
Should I just leave you in a room and you can just
talk about Wicked and then I'llcome back?

SPEAKER_00 (30:11):
Why don't you talk about champagne problems?

SPEAKER_01 (30:13):
Okay, so this the plot of this movie is as
follows.
The lead woman, what's her name?
Do we know the character's name?

SPEAKER_00 (30:19):
I've totally forget her name.

SPEAKER_01 (30:21):
It's a good podcast, everybody.
Um I don't remember her name atall.
She works for some sort of uhprivate equity firm or
something, a company they buy upother companies and and and do
stuff with them and stuff likethat.
And she's trying to proveherself to her boss, and finally
she gets the opportunity becausehe's gonna send her to France.
They're buying a champagne umwinery and a champagnery.

(30:46):
She has a sister.
She has a sister.
It doesn't matter.
She supports her sister,whatever.

SPEAKER_00 (30:51):
Yeah, but her sister is the one that tells her oh my
gosh, you're so bad at this now.
Her sister is the one that'slike, while you're in Paris,
make sure you do something fun.
And this kind of got on mynerves because, like, it's clear
the sister has not had directionin life, and is she's like she's
you know, ironically at like aspin class, like sipping on a
frappuccino, barely working out.
And you can tell she doesn'twork or do anything to pay these

(31:12):
bills, and that the sister istaking care of her all her life.
And it's fun to be like, I'm soirresponsible, I'm not like
other girls, I'm so cute andfun.
But like, uh, if sister wasn'tpaying your bills there, you
know, lady, you wouldn't be ableto be like, just go be carefree.
So that kind of bugged me.
Go on.

SPEAKER_01 (31:28):
So, anyway, she takes her sister's advice to
heart, goes to Paris, goes out,bones a French guy.

SPEAKER_00 (31:34):
They meet at the bookstore.
That bookstore looked cool.

SPEAKER_01 (31:36):
The bookstore looked cool, and she ends up staying
overnight in his apartment andthen oversleeps for her meeting
the next day with the Frenchcompany she's supposed to buy.
And oh big surprise, when shegets in there, she sits down in
the room.
One, the business, the owner ofthe of the is it a winery?

SPEAKER_00 (31:54):
No, it's like a champagne thing.

SPEAKER_01 (31:56):
So it's not so you wouldn't call that a winery
because champagne is wine.

SPEAKER_00 (32:00):
I don't know what we're arguing about terminology.

SPEAKER_01 (32:03):
Anyways, he has all the other people who are bidding
on his uh on his um vineyard umin the room, and then the guy
she just slept with the nightbefore comes in, sits down and
finds and oh, we find out he'sthe son of the owner and the
vice president of the company.

SPEAKER_00 (32:17):
And the reason he's having to sell Henri, or am I
just making a professional?

SPEAKER_01 (32:20):
The reason that he's having to sell is because the
son isn't wanting to take overthe business.

SPEAKER_00 (32:25):
And charity knew because when they were bonding,
he's like, My dad sucks.
Like you're basically okay, solike the people that she's
interviewing with, the othercast of characters are very
important.
You have the lady who's clearlybeen friends with the dad
forever.
She's like the uptight, classic,you know, like woman.

(32:46):
You have the party guy, he justlikes to drink.
He drinks and he knows things.
And then the I don't know whatthis actor's name is, but he's I
remember that YouTube Jenniferpoops at potties.
She's a potty poopa.

SPEAKER_01 (32:56):
I don't remember he's a German actor.

SPEAKER_00 (32:57):
He's funny though.

SPEAKER_01 (32:58):
Yeah, I agree.
Um, so so, anyways, they all endup at the owner's house like a
state in Champagne region ofFrance.

SPEAKER_00 (33:08):
Um by the way, Daniel's like, they bet it
better be real champagne,because champagne comes from a
certain place, and then theyactually literally, as you made
that remark, they clocked youand said it.

SPEAKER_01 (33:21):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (33:21):
Okay.

SPEAKER_01 (33:22):
Now, quickly, um, the rest of the movie takes
place in the chateau in theChampagne region.
But yeah, it's a big castle.
It's a big house.
But before we get before weleave Paris, I have notes, and
so we need to talk about thenotes.
We have need to talk about notesin geographic order.
And so when she still doesn'tknow that the son is who she's

(33:42):
meeting with, and they're just,you know, doing their flirty
thing, and they're walkingthrough Paris and they walk
across the bridge.
I stop the conversation.
I pause the movie and go, isthat the bridge that and then
Hope interrupts me.
And what did you say when youinterrupted me?

SPEAKER_00 (33:56):
You interrupted me, you were like I was like Belly
and Conrad, carrying big, likethinking about these like
iconic, wonderful like couplemoments that I've seen that same
shot used in Paris.

SPEAKER_01 (34:06):
Yeah.
And I and I said, No, is thatthe crow the bridge that Russell
Crowe threw him off self off ofin La Miz?

SPEAKER_00 (34:12):
Because of course she wouldn't remember.
I was like, oh my gosh, I'm soproud.
So, anyway, I thought we got apretty good laugh at the time.

SPEAKER_01 (34:18):
Well, we we enjoy you know whatever.

SPEAKER_00 (34:19):
It's funny in the moment.

SPEAKER_01 (34:21):
We entertain each other, and that's all that
matters.
Um, so, anyways, they're outthere, they do a bunch of
they're they're out at thechateau, they they do a bunch of
Christmas related activities.

SPEAKER_00 (34:30):
She is lactose intolerant, she eats a lot of
cheese, and she has the farts.

SPEAKER_01 (34:34):
Yeah.
Um they dress a cute dog.
They they um decorate theChristmas tree, and the drunk
guy decorates it all, you know,gaudy, and then the German guy
on the his side of the tree, hejust puts one ornament on there
and there's like my my theme ismalaise.

SPEAKER_00 (34:53):
Malaise.
Because we were, I was like, whyis he only putting one bulb on
it?

SPEAKER_01 (34:56):
And he also says, Many people consider me to be
bleak.

SPEAKER_00 (34:59):
It was really funny.
It was really funny at the time.
You should watch it.

SPEAKER_01 (35:01):
Oh he was very entertaining.

SPEAKER_00 (35:04):
Um But you can tell he liked it that he was getting
friends and added to the groupchat.
Yes.
Like the side characters werefun.
This was a good, like, this wasa better movie.
Like, and you said it too.
You said it was better thanfive!

SPEAKER_01 (35:15):
I'm not done with the synapses yet.

SPEAKER_00 (35:17):
Okay.

SPEAKER_01 (35:17):
So so there's conflict between the father and
the son because the fatherobviously does not want to sell
um the vineyard, but the sondoes not want to run the
vineyard.
Yeah.
And so there's a bunch ofconflict there.
He and then the people arebidding for the for it, and then
come to find out the main lady'scompany sends another guy when

(35:40):
they get when they start to feellike maybe she's not gonna be
able to close this thing down.
And a con and a conversation isheard where the company's just
gonna do what they've done somany other times when it comes
to private equity.
They're just gonna pee take itapart, and and it's not gonna be
the same thing anymore after itgets purchased.
And so the male actor lead,sorry, well, I don't remember

(36:01):
anybody's name from this movie,the hotel overhears it, he gets
upset, she under she hears thathe's upset, the shoe she goes do
her own thing.
Well, turns out they decide thethey they all get together and
and the drunk guy buys theplace, but then he's not gonna
actually like run it at all.
He's gonna let them keep runningit.
He's just gonna provide the funfinancing to get it out of debt.

SPEAKER_00 (36:24):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (36:25):
And everybody turns out happy.

SPEAKER_00 (36:28):
They get together and then they end up running
their own bookstore, which is inlike the guest house at the side
of the chateau.
Yeah.
Because when you're already richand you can easily start your
own business, easy peasy, andthen it seems like the sister,
you know, who has no directionallife, joins her in Paris, and
she and the Malaise guy kind ofhave a winky wink.
Um, the dad, because so like themom, his mom was like, and that

(36:51):
was a part of their contention.
Like, she seemed to die a whileago.
And it seems to me like theywere indicating that something
could happen to the dad and theone woman that they had known
forever.
That woman started off, she madethat girl eat all that cheese.
I would I would have been like,I I'm not eating this cheese,
I'm lactose intolerant, but Iguess she really wanted to close
the sale or whatever.
I like how like Donat exists inthe Netflix movies, but it does

(37:12):
not exist in the Hallmarkmovies.

SPEAKER_01 (37:14):
So I will say, and again, I I am keeping to my
promise I made recently, becausethis is not a Hallmark movie.
I can say this with a clearconscience.
This was good.

SPEAKER_00 (37:24):
Well, yeah, it was a good movie.
Like it was funny.
I liked the side characters.
I felt like the two leads hadactual chemistry.
Like I I bought that they hadthat really fun night, and then
you know, what are the odds whenhe shows up?
I am bad she never got to eatthat baguette that he brought
her.

SPEAKER_01 (37:41):
Yeah, not to but it's not just that.

SPEAKER_00 (37:42):
Did you see that baguette?

SPEAKER_01 (37:43):
Yeah, and it's not just that the romantic leads had
chemistry, but the side plotsand everything that came into
it.
The dead the plot with the dadand the son was meaningful.
The plot, you know, all thedifferent actually had something
and had context to them thatadded to the story versus the
the one what we're gonna talkabout after this one.

SPEAKER_00 (38:06):
And again, you've really glazed over this when
I've asked you about it.
Because you were talking aboutit a lot during it.
I need you to talk to me aboutthat baguette.
You keep like, yeah, yeah.
You and I like had a pause themovie five-minute conversation
about how much we like a goodbaguette.

SPEAKER_01 (38:25):
I love a good baguette.

SPEAKER_00 (38:27):
And they never got to eat it.

SPEAKER_01 (38:28):
I don't know, it's a shame.
It's like, is this gonna go upthere?
Okay, is where does this rank onyour list of uneaten Christmas
foods?
Obviously, we know.
I know what's at the top of thelist.
The home alone, the mac andcheese.
Okay, but where's that out?
Does this one fall in the topfive of Christmas foods uneaten?

SPEAKER_00 (38:44):
What would the other ones be?

SPEAKER_01 (38:45):
I don't know, maybe it's this one and two.

SPEAKER_00 (38:47):
I mean, I do kind of weirdly think Buddy the Elf's
mixture looks good.

SPEAKER_01 (38:51):
He ate that though.
We saw him eat it,unfortunately.

SPEAKER_00 (38:54):
I I may yeah, I I can't really think of uh you're
losing me here.
I know like the home alone thingis the only thing I complain
about.

SPEAKER_01 (39:01):
So yeah, maybe it's Well you complain about it
enough, so Because it'sfrustrating.

SPEAKER_00 (39:04):
Kevin could have at least taken one bite of it like
before he went off.
Like it's just like it'shonestly the best macaroni and
cheese.

SPEAKER_01 (39:12):
If you have Netflix, if you have a Netflix, guess
what, Daniel?

SPEAKER_00 (39:15):
Kevin was eating macaroni and cheese for his
meal, not as a side.
Because it can be a full meal.

SPEAKER_01 (39:20):
Kevin was a child.
So if you have Netflix and youare looking for a good Christmas
movie, I I I I put, you know,give Champagne Problems a watch.
You'll you'll be entertained atleast.

SPEAKER_00 (39:32):
Because it's better than fine.

SPEAKER_01 (39:34):
It's not gonna be on, it's not on my every year
list.
Yeah.
But it was good enough to get methrough.
And now we go back to Hallmark.

SPEAKER_00 (39:45):
Yeah, this was a bad movie.

SPEAKER_01 (39:47):
One of the worst Hallmark Christmas movies I've
ever seen.

SPEAKER_00 (39:51):
Same.
It was called Holiday Touchdown,a Bills Love Story.
So they've partnered with theNFL or something.
So last year it was the Chiefs,this year is the Bills.
Where's my I'm gonna have tojust write the script for my
Steelers one, I guess.
Okay, I don't even like if thismovie is.

SPEAKER_01 (40:09):
I don't know how to describe the plot plot to this
movie.
Um the the two leads are likeneighbors, neighborhood,
childhood, friends, etc.
By the way, before I start, Ijust have to say this.
Every actor in this movie isattempting uh what I'll the o
what I can only assume to be anorthern uh western New York

(40:30):
accent, a Buffalo style accent,I guess.
I don't know.
I'm not familiar with the nextone.

SPEAKER_00 (40:34):
I don't think the girl was attempting.

SPEAKER_01 (40:36):
But the male lead was and poorly, and it made
everyone sound ridiculous.

SPEAKER_00 (40:42):
Aren't you gonna talk about how Santa is the same
stadium?
No, I'll get there.
I'll get there, I'll get there.

SPEAKER_01 (40:47):
Okay, so um and he's also and they also like like the
story revolves around the newstadium they're building.
And so he works for a companythat's working on the new
stadium, and she is a doctor.

SPEAKER_00 (41:02):
Yeah, but she's at home for the but just she lives
in Buffalo, so as she kickingaround at the house, I was very
confused about around thesituation.

SPEAKER_01 (41:09):
And then and their families like living together,
so they always take a picture atChristmas time at the Bills game
that's around Christmas, andthey have an uncle Tommy, and
she was like her father figure.
She was like a father figurebecause her dad died and he
moved in and took care of them,and then they find out he gets
like a random weird anonymousChristmas present every year.

(41:29):
Yeah.
And then he tells them the storyabout how when he went off to
NAM Um that he like somebodystarted sending money and stuff
over to his mom to help takecare of him and because he
couldn't, because he was the oneworking with the job, and then
he got drafted and sent off.

SPEAKER_00 (41:48):
I thought they were sending money before he went to
NAM when he was kids.

SPEAKER_01 (41:51):
When he left.

SPEAKER_00 (41:54):
I zone out.

SPEAKER_01 (41:55):
So then, anyways, he gets back and the is able to get
a job and blah blah blah, but hestill gets a Christmas present
every year.
And so the the two leads arelike, oh, you know, wouldn't it
be really cool if we were ableto track this person downonymous
so he could say thank you.
And also, it's also a rusebecause the male lead has had un
has had feelings for her for along time, but has never said

(42:18):
anything on it.
And that's kind of like acentral theme of the movie is
that he can't commit.
And everybody knows it, yeah,except for those two.
So, anyways, they go to thisstore and they try to track down
the ornament from the 70s, andwith this whole receipt game
that just seems like a bigthing.

SPEAKER_00 (42:31):
Did people write their names and addresses on
their receipts in the 70s?
And like their privateinformation?
I don't know.
Is it real?

SPEAKER_01 (42:39):
Um and they're also they get a bunch of people from
the Bills, I guess.
I'm not a Bills fan, I'm notfamiliar with them.

SPEAKER_00 (42:45):
So Bills Mafia.
Like the coach was in it.
Some of the old all the Billsactors were better than the
Hallmark actors.

SPEAKER_01 (42:51):
Oh, yeah, for sure.
Um they track down, they end up,they it ends up they find this
lady who he who Tommy had beendating before he went off to
NAM.

SPEAKER_00 (43:02):
And her sister still lives in town.

SPEAKER_01 (43:06):
Her sister still lives in town.
They go to the sister's house.
It ha she happens, Mia happensto be there.
Oh, you remember her name?
And then she just the onlyperson's name in the movie I
remember.
Wow! I don't remember any of thenames.
I remember Tommy and Mia.
That's the story I remember.
They should have just done themovie about that because I did
not care about the other two.

SPEAKER_00 (43:23):
I don't care for Jimmy.

SPEAKER_01 (43:24):
They did not care about them at all.

SPEAKER_00 (43:26):
Me either.
They had no chemistry.
They had no chemistry.

SPEAKER_01 (43:30):
Nothing.
It was just like two rocksbashing together trying to get
away.

SPEAKER_00 (43:33):
Maybe they hooked up on Joey.
Do you have any chemistry withthe people at work?
No! Um Hey, does this OrsonWells guy direct Burger King
commercials?

SPEAKER_01 (43:42):
Yes.
So, anyways, then they they goto the game and they do this
whole thing on the field andreveal that that the Tommy knows
it was Mia, and then they gokiss on the field and they have
a nice time.
And then the sister who wedidn't even bring up, um Her
personality was I am pregnant.
Yeah, I am pregnant, and shegoes into labor while they're
watching the game, so they go tothe hospital and have the baby

(44:06):
and blah blah blah blah blah,and then eventually the
construction guy, Male Lee, getsthem back into the old stadium
so they can take their picturewith a bunch of people.
And then they kiss there, andyay, happiness.

SPEAKER_00 (44:19):
You're missing major stuff, because I have some
questions, Hallmark.
So they have this group offriends.
Has Hallmark introduced athruple to the mix?
Because it was this lady,another man, and another man,
and they were always on screen.
I know they were like presentedas like the main couple's like
friends.
I'm not gonna be able to dothat.
But they were all at the samehouse together, like when they

(44:41):
went over to figure because shethe woman was like a social
media like person, can likestalk people, and that's how
they were able to find Mia.
And I'm like, okay, both of themen are there.
This is this a thropple?
Like, I don't know which one washer husband.
I don't know what were they allroommates?
Ha ha wink wink, they were justroommates.
Like, it was it a thruple?
Like, I'm confused.
Are you I was like, even likewhat what was what was up with

(45:03):
that?

SPEAKER_01 (45:03):
Uh they they did not address it.
Okay.
It was weird.
So now woven into this moviemore than any other Hallmark,
more than the Chiefs one lastyear, they had the same Santa
from the Chiefs movie last year.
And he was here often.
Too often.

SPEAKER_00 (45:22):
Constantly.
Constantly.
Is he like the the Santa, theofficial Santa of the NFL?

SPEAKER_01 (45:28):
And I don't know.
And then now we have to-castRoger Goodell as Santa.
But now we have his Mrs.
Claus.

SPEAKER_00 (45:35):
Yeah, which we clock that.

SPEAKER_01 (45:37):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (45:37):
Because I was like, first we thought she might, and
I was like, we're like, no,she's too old for Mia.
Then I was like, oh my gosh, isshe gonna be Mrs.
Claus?
So the two leads from the firstChiefs movie, they show up in
the beginning, cameo.
I cannot believe that whatthey're doing in the Hallmark
universe where they're offshowing up in the movies.
Daniel, you noticed him before Idid.
Who was the bartender, Daniel?

SPEAKER_01 (45:56):
Pencil Man.

SPEAKER_00 (45:57):
Pencil Man.
Andrew Walker.
Daniel's like, Pencil Man, andpauses the movie.
I was like, why are we pausingthis movie?
Don't we want to get through it?
It was not the best.
Just no, I felt like the Chiefsone at least had more of a
story.
This one was just kind of likeall over the place.

SPEAKER_01 (46:13):
It makes the story about the Magic Christmas hat.
The Magic Christmas play.

SPEAKER_00 (46:17):
I'm mad about that because the Steelers ended up
losing to the Chiefs last yearon Christmas.
It was, they also did more likeChristmasy stuff.
And like they didn't really do alot of Christmas activities in
this one.
There was some Caroline.
Then every time I would start tobe like, okay, we're getting
somewhere.
They tempted us with theBuffalo, like what the Bills
like to do, like the tape, likejump through the table, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (46:39):
They tempted us like the biggest thing.

SPEAKER_00 (46:42):
And then I guess that like Tommy and I think the
other guy are have both been inthe Sopranos, the show.
I've never watched it.

SPEAKER_02 (46:49):
Oh, maybe.
I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 (46:50):
All I know is the one guy, I was like, oh, he was
in the secret life of theAmerican teenager.
I hope he knows that that's whatI know him from.
And then um Joel's mom and alsoPete's wife who got sucked off
on ghosts, Carol.
She showed up in it.

SPEAKER_01 (47:03):
New brand new sentences.

SPEAKER_00 (47:05):
Yeah.
It was it was a stinker.
Like it wasn't even veryChristmassy.
Anyway, I am going now, and youyou are into it too.
Daniel and I are in the processof writing our own screenplay
called Holiday Touchdown, maybelike a rival love story with the
Steel Stealing My Heart atChristmas or something.

(47:26):
Because I was like, I'm gonnawrite one with the Steelers.
Then I'm like, you know what?
Better yet, let's write like arival thing.
Steelers and Browns.
They could go so many places,and you can have the like
enemies to lovers trope.
Because I just I don't love thelike that there was like going
on.
Well, I guess he really wasn't abig Chiefs fan in the first one.
That's why that one was better.
I just re- I just clocked it.

(47:47):
Because remember, he like workedfor the team, but he wasn't like
crazy about it.
And there was that kind of like,you guys are like freaking
weird.
Whereas they were all just Iguess the Bills mafia, sorry,
y'all are wild.
And like they were all like, allof them were like super into it.
And I think that foil helped atleast make the other one a
little like because that guy waslike, Your family's strange, you

(48:07):
know?
And it would have just been morehelpful to have like a foil like
that.
But anyway, are you excitedabout the screenplay that we're
gonna write?

SPEAKER_01 (48:13):
I only have one stipulation when with the
script, and when we get tofilming, okay.
Um, is that any extra in themovie that's performing some
sort of service job, if it's atrash man, if it's a you know,
checkout recording.
Like Tommy Max is gonna show upand work the deli.
Yeah, if it's um any any kind ofthing like that, a janitor has

(48:35):
to be a former Brownsquarterback from the list of
people that you got like what,like 40 plus of them to choose
from from 99 to now.
So many.

SPEAKER_00 (48:44):
The possibilities are endless.
I feel like many of those guyshave got to be looking for a
check somewhere, so I feel likeMike Chalman could deliver like
an Oscar Award-winningperformance with his deadpan
delivery for this.
But yeah, these I don't knowwhat's up with these holiday,
and I guess like I don't thinkthe Chiefs are doing very good
this year, right?
Because people in my Hallmarksubreddit have been like, are
the Bills gonna be cursed now?

(49:05):
Because now that they've done amovie.

SPEAKER_01 (49:07):
Hopefully.

SPEAKER_00 (49:08):
But we watched that so you guys don't have to.
Speaking of ghosts, we alreadytalked about Carol from Ghosts,
she's no longer on Ghosts.
Uh we did watch the most recentepisode of Ghosts, and it was
actually a Thanksgiving themeepisode of Ghosts.
I'm not sure they've done aThanksgiving.

SPEAKER_01 (49:24):
No, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 (49:25):
I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_01 (49:28):
We'll talk over it.
Let's both say it at the sametime.
No, um, do you want to go?

SPEAKER_00 (49:32):
John Stamos.
You go first.

SPEAKER_01 (49:36):
I did like how they they did an episode of Ghosts.
They haven't done a Thanksgivingtheme yet, and so the very first
thing they did at the beginningof the episode was address
Sasapi.

SPEAKER_00 (49:45):
Yeah.
Like, is it okay?

SPEAKER_01 (49:47):
Is it okay that we have Thanksgiving?

SPEAKER_00 (49:49):
Well, I was gonna say that they did they caught it
planes, chains, and automobilesor something because there's
planes, trains, and automobiles,a movie I've never seen, but
apparently it's like aThanksgiving movie.
I'm like, so it's Rocky then.
Rocky and Adrienne take theirfirst date on Thanksgiving.
The Rocky movies.

SPEAKER_02 (50:07):
I okay.

SPEAKER_00 (50:08):
I haven't.
If people are calling Die Hard aChristmas movie, I can call
Rocky a Thanksgiving movie.

SPEAKER_01 (50:14):
I think the synopsis of the movie is he's trying to
get home for Thanksgiving.
I think that's a little bit moreThanksgiving orange.

SPEAKER_00 (50:23):
I like that how they because Sam and Pete, who can
he's like a traveling ghost,that's his power, so he could go
with her, and she's doing likethe book tour, so she's kind of
off, they're off kind of doingtheir own thing.
So they had that about how shehad to get home.
Then they had the guy fromSuperstore, who's the other guy,
human that can see all theghosts, he shows up because
Jay's like, I'm not gonna be theghost butler the whole time.

(50:44):
And I think that Sam does toomuch for them.
Like it's great that they theydefinitely take advantage, but
that was that was funny.
Because I remember like he I doremember he hit on Sam in that
one episode, but I don't thinkit was really romantic.
I think he was just like, oh,somebody else that can talk to
ghosts.

SPEAKER_01 (51:00):
And they had the the the they don't go very dark on
it in this show very often, buthe kind of represents how being
able to see ghosts could be areally terrible, terrible power.

SPEAKER_00 (51:12):
I'm disappointed there were no airport ghosts.

SPEAKER_01 (51:14):
Yeah, they didn't have any.
They must be losing budget orsomething.
I don't know.
So listen, we're we're long intothis episode, and there's still
a very major rant to come, solet's just go ahead and give it
out of the way.
Dancing with the starssemifinals has been in the
books.
Tonight is the finals.
What are the five and expensive?

(51:35):
Who are the five couples thatare gonna be in the finals here
tonight?

SPEAKER_00 (51:38):
We've got Well, we have Robert Irwin, who is the
he's probably gonna win, and itwill be deserved to win.
Um, is he the best dancer?
Now I would call him the fourthbest of this left, but usually
the best dancer doesn't win.
We have Alex Earl, who is a gooddancer, but her fans have really
showed up to be kind of crazy.

SPEAKER_01 (51:56):
Rattle them off here, Hope.
Come on.

SPEAKER_00 (51:58):
Um, we have um Elaine Hendricks.
Yay, Elaine! Very excited.
Love Elaine, Justice forMeredith Blake.
We have Jordan Chiles, who hasbeen chronically underscored all
season, so I'm very happy she isin the finals.
I think she and Ezra could havereally potential.
They're getting to do a passo.
I'm really excited to see theirpasso.
And then I think that theirfreestyle could be really good.

(52:19):
And this is Ezra's first finals.
He's the only pro that has neverdone um the finals before, so
that's pretty cool.
And then Mr.
Danny dances around him.
That's all you look at the wholetime.
But he pulled out Zach Efronfinally showed up, y'all.
We have Dylan Efron.
Dylan Efron, um, who does notseem to move very much on stage,

(52:41):
but he made it in.
And I think Dylan Efron, I standby what I said.
I think he's still gonna get atleast third place.
Um but all I see is Danny whenthey dance, and it's just it is
hard to be a woman on the show.
The women, and you as a man, doyou agree with me that the women
have to do so much more?
Because when you're a male pro,your female dancers, they can

(53:02):
dance around you, they can makeyou look good, but like your
eyes are typically on the woman.

SPEAKER_01 (53:06):
I agree.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (53:07):
Every year on the show, it seems like the women
are chronically underscored,they have to work ten times
harder.
And the I always call it theFacebook wine wine moms always
seem to hate the women.
And this season, it that'salways been a thing.
But this season has been, Ithink I've touched on this
before, it's been particularlyannoying with some of the new
fans and the toxicity in the fanbase.

(53:28):
I've seen some contestantspeople complain about stuff
before that happens every year.
But I've never seen it just likesuch level of vile hatred and
bullying that has occurred.
I really think Hilaria Bodwinmight have had a point now.
Like, I did I like that she wason?
No.
I think it's a little, I thinkwhat it's there's always gonna
be people with dance experience,unless you want a bunch watch a

(53:49):
bunch of Andes that have zeroexperience moving around.
And if you want to, this youknow, fine.
But they're always, I mean, theentertainment industry, people
are gonna have dance experience.
Whitney is not the only one thisseason that has dance
experience.
Alex does, Elaine does, uh let'ssee, Charlie D'Amelio before,
one of the best inches I've everseen, dance experience.
So that's nothing new as much aspeople want to make it a thing.

(54:10):
So people are always gonna gripeand complain about that.
But this year, it's just like,and with Hilaria, like one of
the reasons why again, why Iwill say like I disagreed with
her casting was because she wasactually ballroom trained.
She competed against Emma Slaterand beat her in a competition.
That's very different thanWhitney as a child dancing at a

(54:31):
rival studio to the pro WhitneyCarson.
That's when they were like kids.
Like, you're in Utah, a bunch ofpeople are gonna dance out
there, full stop.
But I'm starting to think thatAlaria had a point about like
some of the online bullying anddiscourse.
I know Andy felt it a littlebit, but Whitney from The Secret
Lives of Mormon Lives MormonWives, I feel like got it worse
than anybody else I've ever seenon this show.

(54:52):
Ever.
Like it was so bad.
And every week I would see likeon the Dancing with the Stars
Instagram or the Facebook post,and then especially TikTok, just
like so many negative commentsabout her.
People would come up with andthey started like dragging Mark
too.
I never thought I would see theday where Mark Ballast would be
dragged as a pro.
They're like, oh, he getsfavoritism.
Let me tell you this.
If anyone is favorited on thisshow, it's Robert Irwin.

(55:15):
Um do I think that Robertdoesn't?
Of course not.
I think Robert deserves to win.
But like I do not, I think thatwas just again, people reaching.
And it kind of like was a verydistracting vibe to the show for
me.
You only watch it with me, youdon't engage on the online
stuff, so you're not seeing itthe same way I do.
And people it could be like, oh,well, just don't get online

(55:36):
then.
But that's one of my favoritethings to do after the show is
to get on there and see whatpeople are saying and kind of
interact with that community ofwatchers.
Well, this year it's just it wasbad.
Like, I really think I honestlythink the show should address
it.
Like the bullying, like evenlike the like Carrie Ann, one of
the judges, uh, we complainabout Carrie Ann.
She's we know she's always beeninconsistent since the beginning

(55:56):
of time, but she doesn't deserveto be made fun of for her
appearance and receive deaththreats over a dancing show,
like, go touch grass, it's notthat deep.
But the secret lives of MormonWives aired, and um, a lot of
people think that that's some ofwhat Whitney said contributed to
her lack of votes.
I disagree.
I think some people probably sawthat and was like, mm-hmm.

(56:19):
But I think it was she's beengetting hate every week, and I
think some of the people thatwere hating on her used that as
oh, this is what she said onthis show, like for that whole
it really talks about likegroupthink mob mentality.
But yeah, I I'm gonna say itright now.
I think maybe some people wereimpacted by what she said, but
not enough people watched that,even though it's a huge reality

(56:40):
show.
I don't think not enough peoplewatch that to be that impacted.
And really, she came out lookingpretty good at the end of the
season.
So I think that people use thatas just their orchestrated
campaign to get her off.
It's one particular fan basethat seems that seemed to be
doing it the most, and that isAlex Earl's fans.
Alex is a great dancer.
I voted for Alex quite a fewtimes this season, but I'm gonna
call out some, like, and I'msaying all the fan bases, even

(57:01):
the Whitney fans, probably evenmaybe the Elaine and Georgia
fans, there's always bad applesin every bunch, but the majority
of that smear campaign that wastargeted to get Whitney off the
show came from that fan base anddo better people.
And a lot of them have neverwatched the show before.
They viewed Whitney as a threatand just with they like, oh, we
have to get the mean girl offthe show.

(57:23):
And I'm like, so you basicallyknow you you were the mean
girls.
When I don't love Dylan Efron,but I don't make TikToks making
fun of him.
I don't comment hateful things,I don't have him, you know,
actually romantic, livingrent-free in my head.
I mean, shoot, I was extremelyexcited that Zach Efron finally
showed up.
Did it take Prince William, thefuture King of England, to make

(57:43):
an appearance on Dancing withthe Stars previously to get Zach
to come?
Maybe.
Do I think that it was true?
Do I think Dylan's a lot smarterthan all of us think?
And that he was like, you knowwhat, I'm gonna pull out my
brother.
You can come for the semi- Imean, I and I have to applaud
that because that got more eyes.
Zach Efron tweet like was like,hey, vote for my brother.
Well played.
You gotta do what you gotta dobecause it's never been about

(58:03):
the best dancer winning.
So I've seen people say thatthat are so basically, if you
haven't figured it out, Whitneygot sent home.
And I pre- I said I could seethis happening based on what I'm
seeing on TikTok.
It doesn't mean that I wasn'tfurious about it.
And guys, all she said on SecretLives of Mormon Wives was she
had left the mom talk thingbecause it it is toxic.
Like may a friendship like thatnever find me.

(58:25):
And she was basically like,Yeah, I'll come back and film
and do the show for Dancing withthe Stars because they offered
it to her.
Uh, same girl, same.
And why is it that when a womanis ambitious and goes after what
she wants, everybody thinksthat's a bad thing?
Ask yourself that.
Really ridiculous.
Also, for every woman who's everbeen told like they're too much.

(58:46):
Some people are like, Oh, she'sjust too much.
I just don't like her.
I take that personally because Ihave been told I'm too much, and
you know what?
So what?
Like, so like I I feel like forso many years that I would try
to tone down my personality andwhy.
I am who I am, you either likeme or don't, whatever.
And I just Whitney was a greatdancer, she was the best dancer

(59:07):
on the show.
Do you this season?
Do you agree?

SPEAKER_01 (59:10):
Uh yes, I think she's up there.
She was up there for sure, butyeah, she was in the one or two,
three people who could be thebest dancer.

SPEAKER_00 (59:17):
I think she was the best dancer for sure.
And it's just it's and the thingis, we even those of us that
like to watch good dancing, Iknow I predicted her as my early
winner, but I still ultimatelythought Robert was gonna win.
I was just trying to change itup from the obvious choice,
which turned out to be moreobvious.
I thought maybe I was like,maybe we'll have a Charlie
situation on our hands wherepeople, because everybody that

(59:40):
year like got really into likeCharlie and Mark were putting
out these great dances, and noone seemed to care about the
experience, and people werelike, Oh, we really want to see
Charlie D'Amelia win.
Now I don't think that cast wasquite as stacked, but I thought,
well, maybe, you know, maybeWhitney could pull it off.
She could, you know, becauseit's gonna be so good.
I didn't realize that everybodywould be like seeing her as a
threat.

(01:00:00):
Right.
Um, so basically what people didwas they did and people have
done this before, it's nothingnew, but where you vote for
everybody but that person,that's part of the reason why
Andy did there are people thattruly voted for Andy because
they liked him, but that is oneof the reasons why Andy stayed
so long.
You realize that, right?
Because people were doing thattactic to try to get Whitney off
the show.
So it's not as voting for yourfavor.
It's it's it was like a literaltargeted campaign.

(01:00:23):
And then after everybody'smaking TikTok's like, yay, we
got her off the show.
And the thing is, Whitney wasnever gonna win.
She wasn't.
It's I would be I would bereally surprised if ro like I
would be shocked.
I think that he's got the judgeswould have to give him bad
scores for Robert Knox.

SPEAKER_01 (01:00:36):
Let's wrap around to tonight's episode tonight's
episode.
Robert's winning, right?

SPEAKER_00 (01:00:41):
Absolutely.
Like, do I think that maybeAlex, who is the best dancer
left, Alex Earl is the bestdancer left on the show.
Do I think she's winning?
No.
Do I think maybe a little bitmore of a chance than I thought,
based off some of her army offans, but they're mostly on
TikTok and Instagram.
Reddit still seems to be thesame place.
It's funny because I used toargue with people on Reddit, but

(01:01:02):
then like we've all been like,what is up with all these new
fans that are just so toxic?
We we would argue with, like,oh, I like this stance better.
Oh, I disagree with that score.
We weren't like arguing abouthow someone's just a terrible
person and they deserve to nothave any happiness and joy life.

SPEAKER_01 (01:01:17):
And I think you already mentioned it earlier.
And I think that's why I'm soupset about it.
The new people, the new, thepeople that are new to the
showgrass.
Those people, there's an unthere's a very large silent
majority of voters out there.
That aren't chronically online.
Yeah.
The the Facebook wine moms.

SPEAKER_02 (01:01:34):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (01:01:35):
They're voting for Robert.
Oh, absolutely.
Overwhelmingly.
They're gonna be maybe Dylanwill get some of their attention
too, but mostly they're gonna bevoting for Robert.
I think Robert has this handle.
I still do.
Unless he just bombs his dancesand the gets bad scores.

SPEAKER_00 (01:01:49):
And like I'm talking like bad scores.
Like Joey last year got CarrieAnn, remember she gave him a
nine, she didn't get a perfectscore on his freestyle.
Um, and he still won.

SPEAKER_02 (01:01:58):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (01:01:58):
I think that, but I just because we're saying too,
because I've seen some Robertfans are getting a little
sensitive about this, justbecause we say it's Roberts to
lose doesn't mean we don't thinkhe deserves it.
I think he is an entertainingdancer.
I really would am excited to seeWhitney Carson get her second
mirror ball.
So that's not taking away fromand they were like, he's worked
hard.
Well, everybody, Dylan Efron,everybody has worked hard up to

(01:02:20):
this point.
Everybody that's on that showworks hard.
Um, so nothing saying that isnot negative on Robert.
I want that to be understood.
I will be if it if it was like adifferent anybody with a
different personality, maybethat was like the win was
locked, and you know, I mighthave been more salty about it,
be like, uh, like it's lockedin, like how boring is this?

(01:02:41):
But because he's such a goodguy, I think it'll be fun.
I think for me, just seeingWhitney get voted off and after
all the crap that it it feltlike the bullies won.
That's what it felt like to me.
It felt like the mean girlmentality, and I'm not saying
again that Alex is mean, I thinkshe's fine, uh, but just and
it's it probably wasn't all herfans, but a lot of them was her

(01:03:02):
fan base.
It just it felt like thebullying mentality won.
And I feel like for me assomebody who's really liked to
see Alex dance, like herMaleficent dance has been one of
my favorites.
I'm having a real hard timeseparating it right now because
it made me that that upset.
Because now some of that samefandom, they've been coming

(01:03:23):
after Robert, saying that heuses now this is a crit saying
that he uses the sympathy votefor his dad or whatever.
And I feel like the show'salways asking him about his dad.
So, like, what is he supposed todo?
Steve Irwin was, especially ifyou're like a millennial and
like and like he was huge.
Like we all grew up watchinghim.

SPEAKER_01 (01:03:40):
Like, so that fan base is about to get a healthy
dose of reality when they trybecause they now they think, oh,
we got rid of Whitney, now wecan turn our sights on Robert,
because they've you've told methey've been very irritated when
people say, Well, Robert's gonnawin.
Oh, they get really bad.
What do you mean?
No, Robert's gonna win, period.
They're like, When?
There's nothing they can do tochange it.

SPEAKER_00 (01:04:01):
The person I have voted for every single week, and
I've made you vote for asElaine, so I am team Elaine
ultimately, but I liked seeing Ilike I like to watch the show
for good dancing.
And I think that Whitneydeserved to be in there over
Dylan, but Dylan got the votes,pulled out Zach Efron.
That's the way the cookiecrumbles.
My beef isn't that oh, theperson I liked a lot got voted

(01:04:22):
off.
It was just, it's just the wayit all went down is just icky to
me, and it's really made me lessexcited to watch tonight.
But I'm still gonna watch asusual, and they're doing like
three, they have to do threedifferent dances tonight because
it is a three-hour finale.
Is that really necessary?

SPEAKER_01 (01:04:39):
That's that sucks.

SPEAKER_00 (01:04:41):
I think I think this is the way I think the order's
gonna be.
I think Robert, Alex, and then Ithink Dylan's gonna get third,
and then Jordan Elaine, I think,are is a toss-up.
I know a lot of Whitney peopleare going are giving their votes
to Jordan and Elaine based onoff of what I've seen on social
media.
But it's just do better, guys.
And I hope if these new fansstick around, they can and maybe
I need to touch grass too,because I let it affect my mood

(01:05:03):
for like three days.

SPEAKER_01 (01:05:04):
I think you should, yes.

SPEAKER_00 (01:05:05):
It really, really bothered me.
It's just because Dancing withthe Stars is like my escape.
It's my fun show.
And to see that toxicness in myfun show, it was upsetting to
me.
And they've robbed me of a MarkBallast freestyle.
And if Mark Ballast doesn't comeback as a pro, shame on you
guys.
Do better and stop knocking anambitious woman.

(01:05:26):
It's stop it.
Stop it.

SPEAKER_01 (01:05:28):
All right, everybody.
Well, that just about wraps itup for this week.
Um, a couple notes here.
If you're wondering about thespecial forces finale, uh, we
haven't watched that yet.
We're gonna get to it here soon.
Um, so we will be talking aboutthat next week.
Uh, you also started a new showon Netflix.
Uh not on Netflix.
Oh, it's oh, it's on Hulu,sorry.

SPEAKER_00 (01:05:49):
Hulu.
A viewer actually recommendedthis to us probably over a year
ago.
A couple viewers, and I finallygot around to it.
Tell me Lies.
Um, I think the season three isdropping in January.
Lord knows I've had enoughTikTok recommendations for this.
I'm shocked too, you guys, thatit's taken me this long to start
because I did not want to stopwatching it last night.

(01:06:11):
Some diabolical characters, butI will talk all about Tell Me
Lies when I finish the first twoseasons before we go into season
three.
Don't you worry.

SPEAKER_01 (01:06:20):
Yep.
Um, of course, as all of youknow, the big 800-pound gorilla
of television, Stranger Thingsseason five, drops this week.
Or at least the first parts ofit.
Drops tomorrow at 8 p.m.
Uh so we will be watching uhthat and trying to get through
everything they put out, andnext week's episode we will talk
probably mostly about that.

(01:06:41):
And then for the rest of that,the the because they I drop an
episode then what on Christmasand New Year's?

SPEAKER_00 (01:06:47):
Then they have the rest of the half on Christmas,
and then the finale episode willbe on New Year's.

SPEAKER_01 (01:06:54):
Okay, so we'll hit that in January, and a lot of
the other shows that arestarting gonna start dropping
here in December.
Emily and Paris, Fallout, a lotof that stuff.

SPEAKER_00 (01:07:02):
Percy Jackson.

SPEAKER_01 (01:07:03):
Yeah, we we can't make any guarantees we're gonna
get to that stuff, so probablythose are all gonna be January
conversations because we are,you know, click quickly
approaching December and the endof the year, and it's here
before we know it.
So um, with that said, it isThanksgiving, and you had one
item on the schedule here totalk about.
Two, actually, but we'll do thefriends thing first.

(01:07:24):
So what's what what what are wedoing with friends?

SPEAKER_00 (01:07:28):
Like as in the TV show.

SPEAKER_01 (01:07:30):
The TV show, yes, not our personal friends.

SPEAKER_00 (01:07:32):
Well, friends, we um are known for their iconic
Thanksgiving episodes.
Would you be able to rank themlike your favorite?

SPEAKER_01 (01:07:41):
I couldn't.

SPEAKER_00 (01:07:42):
Pick, give me your best three, at least then, of
the Friends Thanksgivingepisodes.

SPEAKER_01 (01:07:47):
Okay, I so I know this first one is controversial.
Uh the one that when they're alllate, I really enjoy for some
reason.
Season 10.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (01:07:54):
The floating fist.

SPEAKER_01 (01:07:55):
Not one that people like or point to, but I really
are in there.

SPEAKER_00 (01:07:58):
Throw something on Alicia May.

SPEAKER_01 (01:08:00):
I just think that one's funny for some reason.

SPEAKER_00 (01:08:02):
You won an adult Thanksgiving Day spelling bee.
Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 (01:08:06):
Um these are in no particular order, by the way.
Oh, they're not in particularorder.
Um also, so the Brad Pitt one.

SPEAKER_00 (01:08:13):
Oh, iconic.
It is great.
Season eights.
The one with the rumor.

SPEAKER_01 (01:08:16):
Yeah, the one with the rumor.
And then I think um, what wasthe one where Twitter got?

SPEAKER_00 (01:08:22):
That is my favorite one.
That is season six.

SPEAKER_01 (01:08:24):
That is that is also that's my top three for sure.

SPEAKER_00 (01:08:28):
Season six is my favorite because you get the
trifle, you get um the one withRoth's heal.
I was all high and stuff.
And well, Hurricane Gloriadidn't it break the porch swing
monik again.
And there's just so many linersfrom that.
You know, walks in while you'rechanging and they want to
introduce Thanksgiving to thehot girls.

(01:08:50):
Um, so many different funny bitsfrom that one.

SPEAKER_01 (01:08:55):
I mean, the one with the football is very good as
well.

SPEAKER_00 (01:08:58):
But I love the one with the football from season
three.
I think season five, the onewith all the Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_01 (01:09:03):
Joey, where did French people come from?

SPEAKER_00 (01:09:05):
Nice try.
The one um season five, the onewith all the Thanksgivings, is
one of the best ones.
That's right.
In my opinion.
It's the boy who hatesThanksgiving.
Um I agree with you.
The season I I think the season10 one's good.
I still I like this, I like themall.
It's so hard because season ninewith Rachel's other sister with

(01:09:26):
Amy.
Yeah, that's a good one.
It's like wouldn't it be greatif you guys died?
And Ross is like, thank you,Amy.
And then the that's also a crazyplate lady.
And then Chandler breaks all theplates at the end.
Season eight, the one I agreewith you with Brad Pitt.
I'm thinking about joining, andI hate Turkey Club, but with
Rachel and the rumor and Rosswith the having set most of her

(01:09:51):
life for oil paintings.
It's like the eyes did stillsparkle.
There's so many good ones.
Um yeah, I it's so hard to pick,but I I'm thinking for me,
season six, the new girl hassome really good Thanksgiving
episodes that we always like towatch.
I like the one where they gocamping.

SPEAKER_01 (01:10:10):
Yeah, and they eat the fish.

SPEAKER_00 (01:10:13):
And then whatever one where Schmidt and his
cousin, I think it's one of thelater ones, they have like the
Schmidt off and they like theyto see who's the best Schmidt.

SPEAKER_01 (01:10:21):
Oh, that wasn't Banksgiving, right?

SPEAKER_00 (01:10:23):
That's not Banksgiving.
That's another one.
And then, of course, Fraser hasone pretty good Thanksgiving
episode with Marboy Academy isour first choice.
I always like a good one.
Fraser Lilith mess around.
What is the best one?
Well, guess High Holidays is thebest.
High holidays is Christmas.
That's right.
Fridge pants.

SPEAKER_02 (01:10:41):
Okay.
All right.

SPEAKER_00 (01:10:42):
And the middle has some really good Thanksgiving
episodes, too.
So many good ones from themiddle.
But I think my favorite is wherethey end up like broken down on
the side of the road, so theyall just start eating.
That one's good.
And then also where the Donahuesare like storing their food at
Frankie's house.
I don't know why they why dothese people keep trusting the
hex?

(01:11:02):
And then because I've done thatbefore, where you do like the
corner method, you eat a littlebit, then you tuck it back down
to make it, and but they end uplike eating all their food.

SPEAKER_01 (01:11:09):
So well, my new favorite Thanksgiving tradition,
if anybody's knows, my birthdayusually falls somewhere around
Thanksgiving, either before orafter a few days, sometimes on.

SPEAKER_00 (01:11:22):
This year it's on Black Friday.

SPEAKER_01 (01:11:24):
My newest Thanksgiving Thanksgiving
tradition is watching a goodold-fashioned Star Trek on
Thanksgiving.
And so everybody just lookforward, in addition to Stranger
Things next week.
Hope will be able to give youher full thoughts on Star Trek
4, The Voyage Home.

SPEAKER_00 (01:11:40):
And it's got the lady from Seventh Heaven, right?
Yes.
That plays the mom.

SPEAKER_01 (01:11:44):
Yes.
And it's it's it's And there'swhales, apparently.
It is considered so most in thefandom consider Rathicon.
It's a conversation betweenRathicon, Voyage Home, and then
there's a few weirdos like methat throw the undiscovered
country in there as well.
So I'll be interested.

SPEAKER_00 (01:11:59):
What one was Spock dead half the movie in?

SPEAKER_01 (01:12:02):
The Search for Spock, the third one.
That's the last one we watched.

unknown (01:12:06):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (01:12:06):
I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 (01:12:07):
I'll give you, listen, I'm gonna give you the
whole before we start the movieon Friday, I'll give you the
whole previously on so you cancatch up.

SPEAKER_00 (01:12:14):
I don't think which one did I like better of the two
of them?

SPEAKER_01 (01:12:16):
You liked Rathicon better than Search for Spock so
far.

SPEAKER_00 (01:12:19):
Yeah, there's a thirst trap on Rath of the
United States.

SPEAKER_01 (01:12:22):
That's that's not what I didn't see that one
coming, but uh so.
Anyways, look forward to all ofthat and more next week.
So thank you all for tuning in.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving.

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