Can You Call A Baby An Asshole? - Sex and the City S5 E6

HI! We are back from our unexpected hiatus! We are covering one of Victoria's favorite episodes! We talk about Harry being sexy, Carrie being annoying, and we go on an extended rant about our love for Adam Sandler. We also talk a little bit about what we've been up to the past month!

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Hello, hello.

(00:02):
So what, no fucking ziti now?
Don't make me laugh.
Hi, welcome to you know that episode. I'm Trev.
And I'm Victoria. We're two friends who watch too much TV.
We break down iconic episodes of good shows.
And bad.
And explain why we feel the way we do.
Today we're talking about season 5, episode 6 of Sex and the City titled Critical Condition, which aired on August 25th, 2002.

(00:27):
Now this is one of your fates. And we were just talking a little bit before we hit record about how this is an actual underrated episode.
This is literally an underrated episode. No one talks about this. It's just one of those episodes that like, if you haven't rewatched it a million times, it's not going to stand out to you.
But when you're like kind of crazy like us and you've watched it like 500 times, certain episodes kind of get like a special place in your heart.

(00:57):
And this one definitely is like that for me. And the reason why is because it features a lot on like a very underrated friendship that's on the show, which is between Miranda and Samantha.
I feel like in a lot of ways they're like polar opposites, not as polar opposite as like Samantha and Charlotte.
I would say more so polar opposites in like how they carry themselves.

(01:20):
Yeah, I would agree with that 100%.
I think Miranda is a sexual person and she's like a liberated woman and similarly to Samantha, I think they share that point of view.
But I would say that Miranda is very self-deprecating and has low self-esteem.
Yeah, well maybe Samantha has too much self-esteem.
Yeah, and like at times we see Miranda be like, no, I deserve better or like, no, he's a loser. But most of the time when it's just like Miranda talking to her friends, she's just like...

(01:52):
She's very self-deprecating.
Especially with her friends, they're like, they are all very confident women.
Yeah.
So I can understand why she does kind of feel, I don't know, sometimes like the odd man out. I will say though, we do see Carrie's insane insecurities in this episode.
Carrie is so insecure in this episode. It's kind of cray-cray.

(02:17):
Yeah, my favorite thing about this episode is really just the Miranda and Samantha of it all. I get kind of frustrated with Carrie in this episode.
To be honest, like she's not being a very good friend.
She's being very self-conscious and like worrying way too much what other people think of her.
I find her really frustrating in this episode.

(02:38):
Yeah.
Most of my notes during the Carrie scenes are just like, you're being so annoying, why are you acting like this?
But I love the Samantha Miranda. That was my takeaway too from it.
Carrie's scenes are very unhealed Libra.
It's really, really, really unhealed Libra. She has a lot of soul searching to do.
She's got some shit to work through.

(02:59):
She needs to understand herself a little bit better and not be so preoccupied with other people's opinions of her.
Although I will say, towards the end of the episode, she finally gets it.
Her last closing statement is other people's reviews of, or no, she's like, the most important reviews are the ones we give ourselves or some shit like that.

(03:20):
And I was like, okay, so she finally realized like she shouldn't spend all this time freaking out about what Nina thinks of her.
Because it doesn't fucking matter.
It doesn't fucking matter. At the end of the day, you have to live with yourself. Nina doesn't.
So what do you believe and what do you feel in your heart about yourself and just stop freaking out about other people?
But before we jump into the...
Which is a hard lesson to learn.
Yes. It is a hard lesson for her to learn. And I think Carrie goes back and forth on it a lot.

(03:44):
Like Carrie sometimes is very self-confident and like doesn't really care what other people think of her.
But then other times she starts to like go really down a rabbit hole and freak out unnecessarily.
And it's because it's like she's so hot and funny. Like I don't get why. I mean, I get why. It happens to the best of us.

(04:05):
Yeah. Especially I think when you're like post-relationship.
Yes. It's very much that. It's very much that.
And you're just... We'll talk about it. Before we do though, we have a... Obviously we haven't been here in a while.
Right.
And we did just want to do a little catch-up chit-chat talk at the beginning because we've both had a lot going on.

(04:27):
Yeah. We kind of want to catch people up what we've been doing with our little haters that we kind of took. It was kind of impromptu.
But we've just kind of been like...
Enjoying summer?
It's a bit summer. Yeah.
Like it's been honestly really nice to just have plans and go out and do stuff.
I mean, look, I love the podcast. So do you. We're enjoying the hell out of it. Yes. 100%.

(04:51):
Not going anywhere. But at the same time, it's like summer is going to go away before you know it and you got to take advantage of it.
Yeah.
Still here. We both recognize that and we were like, look, when the time is right, we'll reconvene and now we're reconvening.
Yes.
And yeah, we've just been bouncing around. I was, I went to New York for a week and just like, hung out.

(05:16):
We went to the Museum of the Moving Image and like kind of the best thing we did was we saw Shucked on Broadway.
So how was it?
Oh my God.
Who's in that again?
It blew Alex Newell from the Glee Project.
Right, right, right, right, right, right.
It blew me away so severely.
You're speechless.

(05:37):
Speechless? Like, so they have, and this is the role they wanted Tony for, it was incredible to watch.
So their big number is in the middle of the first act.
Okay.
Like randomly in the middle of the first act. And like, I don't want to give too much away about what the show's about.

(05:59):
Because I feel like it kind of benefits you to go in blind if anyone is going to go see it.
Who may be listening or if like you end up going to see whatever the situation may be.
Going in blind is kind of the ideal.
Because it's just so funny, like jokes on jokes on jokes the whole time.
Interesting.

(06:21):
And then in the middle of the first act is this barn burner face melting number that Alex Newell delivers.
And it's just, I'm sure, like if you're going to do anything, go watch the clip of I think, I think they did it on like the view and the voice and all that stuff.
Standing ovation in the middle of the first act.
Wow.

(06:42):
Insane talent. Like, I've never been in the room with a talent like that, it felt like.
Oh my God.
Amazing to experience.
Just an adulterated.
Raw talent. It was so cool.
And then my Tony sister, we were talking about the show afterwards a little bit and everything.

(07:06):
And I guess during preview, so she saw it originally during previews and it was a little different, obviously.
And now like they went back and tweaked some things and basically rewrote a bit of the part for Alex Newell specifically.
And you could tell. And I just left and I was like, I don't know how anyone else is going to fill that role if they ever leave.

(07:28):
Wow.
Because it's just, and I guess when it was, it was originally written in a lower key and then they upped it and there's a part in the middle or like not in the middle, like a third through the song.
Where the character Lulu, she looks, she like breaks the fourth wall, looks at the orchestra and she goes, because the whole song is like, I'm independently owned, operated, all this stuff.

(07:50):
Like, I don't need anyone to help me.
And she looks at the orchestra and she says modulated and everything kicks up again into another key.
Oh, I kind of love that.
And it's just, that's when the song takes off.
It was like, my jaw was on the floor and then honestly, the whole rest of the show was just so funny.
Nonstop laughs, like genuinely belly laughing the whole time.

(08:13):
Wow.
It was so amazing to experience that kind of just insane talent.
And I mean, you, you saw some insane talent too while we've been away.
Yes. So I went and saw Kelly Clarkson, which we went to Vegas.
I don't like Vegas. I'm not a Vegas girl.

(08:35):
I don't, I, like, I'm just not a Vegas girl. It's not my city.
Totally.
But we have made a couple of ventures out there.
The first time we went was supposed to be to see Adele's residency, which she canceled it like two days before we flew out.
I remember when that was supposed to be for Bernie's 30th birthday, which fucking sucked.
We ended up seeing Chris St. James instead, which is fine.

(08:57):
I'm more of a David Blaine girl myself, but.
Yeah. This time, this time around, we went and saw Kelly Clarkson.
We literally went Friday to Saturday, like came home Saturday.
We just literally only went for Kelly.
So worth it though.
So worth it.
From how it's seen.
She has been on my fucking bucket list of concerts to see since it's been years.

(09:20):
It's been like 10, 15 years that I've wanted to see her.
And she somehow alluded me every time either we had other plans or it was an other kind of situation.
I just couldn't make it wherever she was or just like just it never worked out.
She also does tour really inconveniently.
It's always a weird place.
Right. So like, I just haven't seen her until now, but it was so good.

(09:43):
I also saw Ara's tour, but we didn't travel for that.
We saw that in Seattle, but it was during our little hiatus, which it was very good.
Yeah. Did you have so much fun?
So much fun.
No regrets.
I tried to get tickets to see her again in Miami, but did not succeed, but maybe we'll get off the waitlist.
Who knows?

(10:04):
Yeah, you never know.
You never know.
I am. I'm so glad you got to see Kelly.
I was obviously very jealous, but like if anyone deserves it, it's you.
I have been rooting for her my entire fucking life.
I've loved her.
I've defended her and loved her against any hater I've ever come across verbally on the Internet.

(10:25):
Just like, I love Kelly Clarkson.
I would protect her with my life.
I would take a bullet for her problem.
This is a Kelly Clarkson stan account.
This is. This literally is.
I fucking love her.
We both live for her so severely.
And I'm so, yeah, I'm so glad you, this video you sent me, like rocked me.
We were so close.
We were two rows back from the stage.

(10:46):
Crazy.
That's crazy to me.
I don't even know how that happened.
I couldn't even imagine.
There was one point where she like smiled at us.
Oh, I would have not like, we were screaming every time she approached our side of the stage.
I was literally screaming my head off.
That's so cute.

(11:07):
Yeah. I loved it.
It was a really great concert.
I would definitely see her again.
Yeah.
What, um, what covers did she end up doing?
She only did one cover actually, and it was a really random one, but she said it was her favorite song.
And she was like, tonight's performance.
So she changed the set list.
It was only a 10 show run and ours was somewhere in the middle of that.

(11:31):
And she was like, I haven't done this song before.
I've been wanting to do this.
I even wanted to do this on Kelly Oki, but I still haven't managed to.
And, um, it's my favorite song in the world.
And she was like, tonight's show is probably going to be my favorite show just because we're singing this song.
But I don't fucking remember what the fucking song was.
Oh my God. Wait, what day did you go?

(11:53):
We went on Friday, last Friday.
Okay. What was the date?
Um, let me pull up a calendar, I guess. I don't.
Because I'm looking up the set list.
Okay. Wait.
Um, last Friday was the 11th.

(12:15):
Okay. The 11th.
The man I'll never find.
Yes. That was it.
She was like, this is my favorite song in the entire world.
Um, it's an odd, it's this set list is so good.
She was like, it's literally an honor for me to play this song right now and sing this song.
Like, I can't even believe this is happening.

(12:36):
And she was like, she was on the verge of tears multiple times during the show.
She was like, I'm like trying to stop myself from crying.
And then she was like, the other night I cried when I sang this.
So I have to like try really hard not to tonight.
And then she was like, at one point she was like, I cried during rehearsals.
So let's see if I cry now.

(12:59):
I love her so much.
She's going through a time, poor baby. I love her so much.
I am. Yeah, it just looks amazing. She sounds so good.
I love that album, the new album.
Yeah, chemistry. She rocked it.
It's so good. It's very good.
Um, oh my God, I also, I just saw the, the chicks on Sunday.
How was that?

(13:20):
One of my biggest bucket list concerts, like a dream come true.
I've been wanting to see them my whole life.
They played so many of my favorite songs. Good.
And it just, they blew me away. Again, it was so amazing to be like hearing the songs live.
Everything you wanted and more.
Truly. Like they played literally four out of my like top five favorite songs by far.

(13:44):
Oh my gosh.
I was like, I got so lucky with the set list.
The set list was really good for Kelly too.
Yeah, I was just looking it up. That's, it's looks fucking awesome.
She had some deep cuts on there. Only a true Kelly fan would appreciate.
Yeah. Which is perfect for like such a short residency.
Yeah.
I feel like you really have to.
The only song I've really, really, really, really, really, really, really wanted to hear.

(14:07):
Like I was like depressed after the show because you didn't perform it.
Guess what it was. Let's see if you can guess it.
Knowing me.
Uh, cry.
No.
Cause that's what I would have wanted to hear.
Nope.
Hear me.
Nope.
Um.
Look at the set list again and see and notice the glaring omission.

(14:31):
When the fact that she didn't perform it, I literally said to Bernie,
I think I annoyed Bernie cause I literally said it like six times.
I was like, I can't believe she didn't perform this song.
I don't hook up.
Nope. Never again.
Oh my God.
I was like devastated cause we, and right before the show.
That's kind of surprising.

(14:52):
Right before the fucking show.
She didn't do that.
We were in the hotel room and I, there's an iHome speaker in the fucking hotel room.
I connected my Bluetooth to that so fast and was blaring it.
Like the people across the hall were like, what's going on with this girl?
I blared the fuck out of it and I put on a fucking concert in my hotel room before the show.
I was like running around the show screaming into the air, like belting that song for my life.

(15:17):
And I just couldn't believe she didn't perform it.
I was devastated.
I'm surprised she didn't do that.
That feels like a classic.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
I was kind of mad at her for that honestly.
But other than that, it was a perfect show.
I really enjoyed it.
Yeah.
It seems so cool.
I'm so glad that, like, I hope she does a little bit more tour.
I hope she does like a little bit of a tour.
Yeah.

(15:38):
I hope so too.
On top of this.
I don't know if she will cause at one point in the show she was like, yeah I have my talk show now.
So like it's kind of hard for me to do a full tour but I had to do at least a residency because I like really want to play some of these songs.
Which makes total sense.
Like I can't blame her at all.
It's just I'm being selfish.
I love her talk show.
I wish she would go on tour.
Yeah.
Also, and her talk show is so good.

(15:59):
I love her.
I love Kelly.
But I'm so glad you got to go.
I'm so glad we got to like enjoy some summer.
Agreed.
And really do some like really kooky fun stuff.
Now I don't have anything else going on until September so.
Me too.
Finally we get to like settle back in.
Yeah.
I haven't even gone swimming yet this summer.

(16:20):
Oh my god.
You have to squeeze in some swimming before it gets too cold.
I know.
I think I'm going Saturday.
Good.
So hopefully this this will happen this week and I will have at least my my good swim of
the summer.
Okay.
Good.
Well enjoy.
But now we should talk about Sex and the Sea.
Okay.
A summer show.

(16:41):
Yeah.
Let's jump in.
So right off the bat I want to ask you a question.
Do you like Carrie's season five hair?
Yes or no?
No.
The first note that I have is I hate Carrie's hair.
Season five hair is the most divisive.
I feel.
I just.
It's too poofy.
My issue.
It's cute but it's too poofy.
It would be cuter for just a short bob but not poofed out.

(17:03):
I don't like it poofed out.
It's cute.
I think it's a little too short.
I think it's a little too poofy.
Yeah.
The curls is what's making the poof.
It just doesn't frame her face well.
It's because she has curly hair.
You can't have it too short.
It kind of shims bows out of the clown.
Yeah.
You can't have too short of hair when you have curly hair because it poofs it out.
Yeah.
It just doesn't work for me.

(17:24):
I don't enjoy it.
I love Carrie with long hair.
Me too.
I love Carrie with long big curly hair.
You know what her perfect hair is when she cheats on Aiden with big.
I'm like you fucking stupid idiot that you wasted her hair on this.
You look so perfect.
That is 100% her best hair.
That is her perfect hair length.
To the point I literally was considering bringing a picture of her to my hairstylist

(17:48):
and being like can you please do this to my hair.
Which I think would be smart of you.
I'm scared to go blonde.
I feel like once you start doing that you can't really go back.
Yeah.
So I get that.
I'm like I just not for it.
I mean.
It depends on the type of blonde you go though.
Yeah.
But.
If you go like a honey blonde or like something a little bit more on the brown side of blonde.

(18:13):
Yeah.
It's a little easier to like maintain I think.
Yeah.
I just don't know if I have it in me.
I don't know.
Maybe one day.
It's not easy to be.
I just said before once I start to really go gray if that ever happens right now I just
have a gray streak and I don't have grays anywhere else in my head.
Some people never.
Which is she.
Some people never go fully gray.
Some people just have a gray streak.
If I stay like that I'm probably not going to dye my hair.

(18:35):
But if I go fully gray I'm going to start doing crazy shit to my hair.
I'm going to be.
Hell yeah.
I'm going to like cut it really short like Jamie Lee Curtis one year.
I'm going to like grow it all the way out.
That would look good on you.
And have like really long Joni Mitchell hair and braid it.
And then like I might go I might dye it a crazy color like hot pink hair for one year.
I think you should.
I think once it fuck it at that point.

(18:57):
Yeah exactly fuck it at that point.
It's like okay my hair is already basically dead.
So like why would I even bother if I'm going to be gray.
I'm going to do all kinds of crazy shit to it.
Yeah.
Yeah I don't love Carrie's hair.
It's my first note in this episode.
Okay next note.
She was Carrie was very right with the list of shit that New Yorkers experience.
Especially the random urination.

(19:20):
Everyone who's ever fully lived in NYC has witnessed another person peeing somewhere.
100% alleyway street subway subway platform behind a restaurant.
I'd rather that than going to someone's Broadway review.
I mean yeah it just depends who it is I guess.

(19:41):
Yeah that's because like they go to Nathan Lane's Broadway review and his was amazing.
Well yeah yeah I guess if it's like some random boyfriend of a friend.
Yeah if it's a random boyfriend of a friend it's like okay no.
But I mean Nathan Lane's obviously I would be happy to.
Right.
Okay so Carrie is at the review and bumps it and she goes to the bathroom and she bumps into Aiden's ex Nina.

(20:06):
And when Nina recognizes Carrie she's like Carrie Bradshaw.
Oh I dated Aiden right after you.
And she like makes this crazy face and this would simply kill me.
There's no way I would.
I totally understand Carrie's reaction to this because that like reaction that she did in person.
Like Carrie witnessed it.

(20:27):
It's not like she did it behind her back.
It's like she literally did it to Carrie's face.
She's like so what does this girl think of me.
Like she literally did that to Carrie's face.
Like I understand her initial reaction.
Yeah I would freak out in the initial reaction.
And I thought that Carrie's.
And I would definitely tell my friends.
I thought that Carrie's reaction of immediately informing her friends at brunch and describing it as a hit and run was perfect.

(20:51):
Is very funny.
It's like a perfect description of what happened.
Because she goes off the fucking rails though.
Yeah she like gets excessive.
When you see her sitting on the stoop with Steve is when you're like this bitch has problems.
She's lost your mind about this.
She's not normal.
It's not that serious.
It's not that normal.
Although she did bump into the girl three different times.

(21:12):
That's a little excessive too.
No she bumped into her twice and then stalked her the third time.
The third time she looked she sought her out.
I just feel like.
No don't even.
Because the second time at the restaurant when she's with Samantha I'm like that's an accident.

(21:34):
That's crazy that happens.
You know a small world New York.
That third time when they run into her with Heather Graham.
Carrie's like I'm here to see her.
I need to talk to her.
And then the girls just like okay.
Yeah it was because she's not thinking twice about it.
I mean the other girl is just like over it at that point.
She's like oh you need to talk to me.

(21:55):
I also like okay let's get into this the crux of the episode.
What is her problem?
Why does she refuse to understand that she's the bad guy in the Aiden situation?
Let me put it this way.
The way she's looking at it is why should Aiden's ex even be expressing her opinion of me to me?

(22:20):
I think that's what she's bothered by because I would be bothered by that too.
I don't think it's the expressing of the opinion that bothers her.
I think it's the fact that someone has a negative opinion about her.
She doesn't like it when people don't like her.
Because like obviously Aiden after fucking you dumped him again.
Obviously he was upset about it and told the people in his life and especially the woman he dated right after you.

(22:46):
It's like her business to know.
I think she's so unreasonable.
I think it's so she's so annoying in this episode.
Just refusing to accept the fact that maybe she's the villain in the story with Aiden.
I agree.
Yeah she doesn't.
I'm like babe you cheated on him the first time and then dumped him while he was renovating an apartment for you.

(23:09):
Because you were too scared to get married.
She could not understand and the way she confronted Nina after the fact and was like let me put it to you this way Nina.
You don't know what happened behind closed doors. I really did love Aiden and we had an amazing relationship that was very real which you will never comprehend because you weren't part of it basically.

(23:32):
And Nina was like okay.
Like why are you telling me this.
It's so weird for her.
She's just I mean obviously at the end we realize she's projecting.
Right.
The whole time she's just been dealing with her own self image about the relationship she had with Aiden.
Right.
So I get that.
But it is just every scene with her is so unlikable.

(24:00):
She's so unlikable in this episode.
It's excessive.
It's excessive and in a way that she does usually she's a little self aware at least that she's being fucking.
She doesn't get that way until the very end when she's walking with Stanford.
And he finally kind of snaps at her over like he's she's so rude and so self-centered.
Yeah she's being so it's nice.

(24:21):
I literally have a night that's like she's being self-centered.
I have that same.
It's so nice that he finally is like it's not fair that you're making this whole thing about you and all you can give my new relationship is oh he's nice.
Like it's rude.
It's so she's so self-centered.
She's so disrespectful.
Especially when her problem isn't even real.
Yeah it's like it's her own doing.

(24:44):
Yeah she did it to herself.
It's so frustrating.
It's like okay there's this one quote that's like if people don't want you to talk about their bad behavior then they should have behaved better or some shit like that.
100% exactly.
And Carrie is so guilty of like feeling self-conscious of the fact that she did something wrong but when it's perceived by other people she freaks out and is like I have to fix my image.

(25:05):
Oh my god people hate me.
People hate me and she like gets obsessive over it.
And it's the same thing it's the same idea as when what happens with her and Natasha after she gets caught.
Exactly.
Where it's like she can't live with the fact that someone might be mad at her.
Right.
She needs to be everyone's favorite everyone's center of attention.
She can't live.
She's a deeply flawed human being but that's why we love her.

(25:26):
Oh 100%.
She's just it the insecurity is off the rails in this episode.
But then she gets confident at the end.
It's so weird.
Also she has a Birkin.
It's so weird.
I found out that that Birkin is fake by the way.
Is it fake?
Yeah so she said in an interview with Vogue I think she pointed at it and was like that's not a real Birkin.

(25:47):
She was like the fashion producer whatever was like do you want a Birkin.
I know a guy who can get us one for cheap on the show.
And she was like yes so like that's a fake Birkin.
Okay.
Because I was like how to what the fuck.
No they don't have the budget for that.
They had the budget for that back in the 90s I would be shocked.

(26:10):
A real Birkin for a TV show for one scene in a TV show.
Yeah because there's a whole episode with Samantha where she's trying to get a Birkin.
A fake Birkin.
Or no.
Yeah.
Remember they go to LA and she gets a fake one.
Well yeah but she uses when she starts to do PR for Lucy Liu.
She uses her name to get the Birkin.
Right I remember that.
I remember that.
And then Lucy finds out and fires her or whatever and she has to get to return the purse.

(26:34):
It's so insane.
But yeah Carrie's so infuriating in this episode like that's gonna be that's my take but I do I do like it's a good one.
Alright let's move on though a little bit.
So Charlotte is being annoying as usual trying to defend Nina and it's like maybe she had a facial spasm.
And it's like no you stupid idiot.
Like she's being a bitch in the bathroom.

(26:55):
Charlotte is so inserious.
Like just.
Carrie's refusing to take accountability and then Miranda is on a tear.
Miranda spills she's like fuck that fucking face girl and Carrie's like yeah okay.
Miranda is so over the nonsense.
Miranda has a colicky baby and she can't handle it.
She's starting to get.
Well it's not even colicky because she says he's fine he's not hungry he's not sick.

(27:18):
That's what a colicky baby is.
A colicky baby is when a baby cries for literally no apparent reason.
Like the baby's.
I thought it was like specifically like an ailment type thing.
I mean it's considered the ailment of just like a baby crying for no reason.
It is an ailment.
Oh I didn't know that.
Yeah so weird.
Yeah it's bizarre.
It happens to some kids.
It doesn't happen to others.
It's just kind.

(27:39):
I don't really know if it's genetic.
Environment could be a mixture of both but it's like when a baby randomly starts crying for no reason it doesn't stop.
So she's.
I learned something there.
So she's starting to get really burnt out and like cannot handle it.
She looks like shit.
She looks like shit.
She's like I haven't had a haircut.
I need a haircut.
And then Miranda's and then Samantha's like.
Oh that reminds me.

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That reminds me.
I need to like make my appointment and confirm my appointment at this like really fancy hairdresser that I have that took months to get an appointment at and is just like not even remotely self aware.
And Miranda kind of shoots her dirty look.
Okay can I give my other hot take about the episode.

(28:23):
Yeah.
Now you having a baby is not my fault.
Yeah.
Or responsibility.
I'm with you.
The whole episode like when Carrie and Samantha go to get lunch and Samantha's like go help our friend with her baby.
Insane to me.

(28:44):
That's crazy.
That's not sure.
That's not Samantha's responsibility.
It sucks that Miranda's like having a really hard time with the baby and dealing with all this.
The baby has a father.
It's called Steve.
You have a nanny.
I think what it is and I have a note that's like this as well.

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But it's later in the episode.
And it's basically like it's just so awkward when one friend has a baby and no one else does it's like what do we do.
Yeah and especially with the other woman Kendall is her name I think.
The other mother in her building.
Yeah.
Kendall and Alika.

(29:30):
Hello.
Wait you're breaking up.
Hello.
You broke up a little bit I think.
Yeah so did you.
I couldn't hear you for like two minutes.
Oh what the fuck.
My wifi seems fine.
Well let's see what happens.

(29:52):
I'm scared to like disconnect from it because it's going to make a start all over.
Oh I've been saving my audio so I learned my lesson.
I've been downloading my audio regular intervals.
You should download yours now just to make sure so we don't have to start all over.
I have mine.
Okay.
So you were talking about Kendall and Alika.
Yeah so the woman the other mother Kendall she mentions like none of your girlfriends

(30:15):
have babies that's why you don't know some stuff which I think is totally fair but I'm
also like it's not the girlfriends without the baby's responsibility to be like picking
up that slack.
I agree and I think what's challenging is the fact that none of them have ever experienced
it before like none of them seem to have siblings or talk about having siblings none

(30:36):
of them have dealt with kids none of them have had to babysit before like this is the
first friend that's having a baby and none of them really know how to handle it.
The only person I would say would probably be excited about it would be Charlotte and
like it's weird that Miranda would go to anybody before Charlotte.
I 100% agree like especially and Charlotte does offer to help and like after brunch I

(31:03):
think goes over with her or something or at least says she will.
Yeah.
But it's just like yeah the whole Samantha thing I'm like why is Samantha being why is
this being put on Samantha?
Carrie's not going over there.
Yeah she's offering but it's like why should Samantha give up this hair appointment she's
tried five months to get.
But I will say one thing like you know when you're going through a problem and like you

(31:24):
have like people around you are like oh man that really sucks like let me know if I can
do anything or like oh fuck this fucking sucks and there's no real solution but somebody
is at least like man that's really tough like I'm sorry you're going through that and then
you have that one friend who's just like anyway I'm going to get ice cream so like I'll see
you guys later and it's just like totally ignorant and not caring at all about your situation.

(31:45):
Totally.
If this is supposed to be one of her best friends you would think Samantha would at least have
the decency to like not call her hair place right in front of Miranda as she's literally
complaining about the fact that she hasn't had a hair appointment in months like it's
a little ignorant you know what I mean and it's a little.
I mean it's definitely rude.
I know but Miranda's complaining her friends in that situation at the diner she hasn't

(32:07):
yet exploded to carry about Samantha and she never says anything to Samantha's face it's
Carrie who bridges the gap.
Miranda's just like oh why don't you just call your friend Samantha blah blah blah but
she says that to Carrie it's very passive aggressive.
You know what this is actually called in therapy speak.
This is in relationship dynamic called triangulating and what this is is instead of talking to each

(32:32):
other directly information is passed between one person and another to get that person
to comply with what they want.
So like in this instance we'll say the triangle is Miranda, Samantha and Carrie.
Instead of directly approaching Samantha and being like look Samantha I feel like you're
being a little insensitive like I had a kid everyone's trying to at least like sympathize

(32:54):
with me and understand that like it's tough to be in my position and you know my kid won't
stop crying I'm exhausted and I shouldn't have snapped at you but at the end of the
day like I'm just having a hard time and I was looking for my friends to like at least
sympathize or like just understand that and maybe not do something that insensitive right
in front of me.

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She instead takes a passive aggressive route of going to Carrie and saying oh Samantha blah
blah blah blah and then Carrie's like okay I guess it's my responsibility so she approaches
Miranda I mean she approaches Samantha and is like hey like Miranda told me this like
I really think we need to help out more with the kids so what does Samantha do?
She goes and helps out with the kid but not because Miranda actually told her to it's

(33:38):
because Carrie told her to through Miranda.
Because I do think at the end of the day it is nice for her to do.
Like she's helping out her friends she should do that and I mean we get the really funny
moment of the vibrator in the chair.
Samantha's a great friend and this is one of the things I love about this episode not

(34:00):
necessarily the way in which it happens like ideally maybe Samantha would have been like
you know what she's going through a hard time she needs the hair appointment more than me
without Carrie having to tell her that was the right thing to do.
Yeah.
But like yeah so I don't know I see both sides I get where you're coming from I get where
Samantha's coming from where it's like I never told her to have a kid like why is this my

(34:23):
responsibility but I also feel like they're very very very best friends they're each other
support system they have been since the beginning like at this point we're in season five they've
been friends for even longer than we've been watching them so like it's just like it would
be like if you needed help and a family member basically was like kind of luck.

(34:43):
Good luck.
You know.
No yeah I know.
I'm just like I get annoyed especially with people who have babies where it's like it
becomes everything and it's like great I didn't have a baby.
Yeah it's kind of annoying.
But I do think Samantha does the right thing at the end and it is nice that they all offer

(35:04):
help and everything like that like they all do the right thing at the end of the day and
Carrie does mediate well.
Great.
Okay so then Charlotte starts talking about her divorce and she's like I'm going to talk
to my divorce lawyer Miranda asks her who it is and she mentioned this guy at the law

(35:26):
firm so then we see her at this appointment and she's like talking to the lawyer but.
And she's like being a little flirty.
She's being flirty because she has a crush on dude.
Yeah because he is very handsome.
And the dude is like well the lawyer on the other side kind of made me seem like this

(35:48):
is going to be like kind of a battle.
Yeah.
And then fucking Harry Bargeson.
Harry Bargeson and it's like who the hell ordered blueberry bagels.
Which he's right.
Really I like a blueberry once in a while.
I don't like it.
With some cream cheese.
No I don't like it.
Toasted.

(36:08):
No I don't like it.
Right.
I don't know why because it's like I think it's just not for me.
If I'm eating a bagel I want like an everything.
I want a salt.
I want a sesame.
I want a more savory bagel.
I love everything bagel with cream cheese or everything bagel with avocado and everything

(36:34):
seasoning on top of the avocado.
Oh my god.
And then perhaps we went to the bagel place down the block from Kelly when we were visiting
and I got a sesame seed bagel with tuna salad.
And it was so good.
It was like maybe the best thing I ate.
My mouth is like salivating right now.
I know.

(36:54):
I keep thinking about that bagel.
I fucking love bagels.
I love bagels and I love tuna.
Can I say something?
Yeah.
And I better not get demonized for this.
Oh god.
Do you not like tuna?
No.
It has nothing to do with the bagels.
I'm changing subject.
Okay.
Okay.
Proceed.
There's something attractive about Harry.

(37:15):
Yeah.
He's sexy.
I can't really describe it.
But to be honest like there's something attractive about that.
He's very I don't give a damn and I find that appealing.
His personality is very appealing.
It's very sexy.
He's just like he exists in the world.
He takes up the space he wants and he doesn't give a fuck.
He has like a swag.
That's exactly the word.

(37:36):
That's exactly the word.
He's swaggy.
You know what it is?
It's a Jewish guy who grew up in New York City.
Yeah.
He's swaggy.
He's swaggy.
He just has that kind of like he's pushing someone out of the way to get off the train.
Yeah.
He is.
He's like what the fuck's wrong with you?
He's very sexy.
I totally agree.
I find him so sexy and funny and like charming even when he's being kind of a buffoon.

(37:58):
Yeah.
He's kind of a buffoon.
But like again that's some of his appeal.
It's sort of like.
I think it's the same way.
I feel the same way about Steve.
Let's find it.
Let's think of a woman who we feel this way about really quick.
Like hang on.
Let me think of it for a moment.
I know there's someone out there who I feel this way about.
Who's kind of like not really the most attractive.

(38:18):
Traditionally attractive person in the world.
But I totally would because of their personality.
Hang on.
Okay.
I'm thinking too.
You know who it is?
This might shock some people.
Actually, I want to hear your answer first and then I'll tell you mine.
Okay.
I will say the first person that came to my mind is Rachel Tratt.

(38:40):
That's so funny.
I took it in a different direction.
I went Jane Lynch.
Yes.
I totally agree with that too.
Like not traditionally attractive in a way that you would expect.
But just has that kind of.
She's has like a flair.
I can't explain it.
Yeah.
It's the way these people carry themselves.
It's like it's so sexy.

(39:01):
And like they are attractive.
They are kind of.
I think Harry's very cute and very handsome.
It is funny though when it's in this scene when Charlotte, it does switch.
She does switch end up switching lawyers obviously.
And she's like finally she can focus.
I'm like, Harry's not ugly.
He's just Jewish and bald.
Right.
It's literally it.

(39:21):
Yeah.
I stopped trying to make it out and that's I that is one thing that annoys me a lot
about the Charlotte Harry storyline.
How much of a big deal she makes about his hair.
Not even his hair, but like how the narration and kind of tone of the show is like, isn't
it crazy that this beautiful normal woman would be with this kind of ugly guy?

(39:41):
Yeah, they're kind of like they kind of make him seem like they kind of make him seem
uglier than he really is.
Like he's just bald and has like a hairy back.
It's not that big of a deal.
Yeah.
I mean it's kind of a normal guy.
But like he's kind of like a.
I don't know what you would describe as like.
He's he's just a guy.
He's a guy.
He's not exceptional and he does like annoying things that like.

(40:06):
Yeah.
Stereotypical man things like he leaves the two bags on the counter and that pisses her
off.
He has hair on his back and it kind of grosses her out.
It's all non offensive.
Not offensive, but it just kind of like an not inappropriate, but like what lacks refinement.
Yes, he's not a refined.
It's a fine and you see that in the scene where he's kind of just like barging in.

(40:26):
Yeah.
He's mouthful, all this and I will say I think Steve definitely gets painted in a similar
way, but I think instead of being because he's kind of not traditionally attractive,
it's because he's poor.
Right.
Like for Steve is sexy, but he's because he's the bartender guy charming and rich but ugly.

(40:47):
Quote unquote.
But he has a good person.
They both have great personalities, to be honest.
So it's one of those things where it's like, well, we put up with I put up with his short
comings of being a fat, ugly and bald and him being poor because he's just such a sweetheart.
It's such a weird and mean.
Meanwhile, it's the perfect man tall, perfect man, tall, handsome, incredible, great, skilled

(41:10):
tradesmen like incredibly successful.
So emotionally aware, kind, sweetheart, so willing to give himself.
Tender like and she gets treated like perfect man ever on the show, ever in the history
of TV, perfect boyfriend ever.
The only man I've ever liked.
And he gets bulldozed.
It's just bullshit.

(41:31):
Like I was when I start talking about this, I literally I see red and if I like could
punch flames on the side of my face, I saw Carrie in person.
It would be like over.
We would be squaring up right now.
Mind you, I haven't caught up on it just either.
And I've been seeing so many posts.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
I've been seeing.
I'm not caught up.

(41:51):
We need to catch up.
I know.
We need to catch up.
I promise we'll catch up.
Maybe we'll talk about it.
Okay, okay.
No problem.
No problem.
I promise we'll catch up, but I'm not promising.
We'll talk about it.
No promises being made.
No promises being made.
But let's move on.
But let's move on a little bit.
So I love Harry.
Yeah, we love Harry.
We're just saying he's attractive.
He might be kind of a putz, but we still like him.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, that's the perfect way to put it.

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He's a putz.
You know how I would he's he has like kind of like Adam Sandler syndrome where it's like
you kind of love him, but he's kind of genius.
He's like, I just can't describe it.
Whenever somebody starts that is a perfect.
No, I agree.
I agree with you.
I'm 100%.
I know like whenever someone starts describing Adam Sandler to me or like talking shit about
Adam Sandler, like I'm going to punch you in the head.
He is such a good person.

(42:34):
Like I love him.
Don't make me cry.
Don't stand out.
I'm the biggest Adam Sandler fan.
I just like genuinely I lived in Manchester too long.
I can't turn my back on.
I will never.
I mean, I grew up watching like big daddy wedding singer all of it.
Like, oh, I love the wedding singer.
Oh my God, stop, stop, stop.
He is perfect chemistry with you.

(42:56):
Barrymore like it's crazy.
It blows my mind.
It blows my mind.
They're such a sexy.
It blows my fucking mind.
Another example of like a very stereotypically beautiful woman and it got kind of shlubby
quote.
But you know, Adam makes just Jewish.
It's just because he's Jewish.
He's a joke way too often.
He's been making that joke since the 90s.
I think it's because he knows literally what happened with his with his actual wife, like

(43:18):
his actual wife is like fucking stunning and when Adam Sandler was first on SNL, he was
so sexy like young Adam Sandler.
I can't find me one person who disagrees.
Oh, oh my God.
Him in fucking.
What is it?
Airheads?

(43:39):
Yeah, airheads.
He's so hot in airheads.
We stan Adam Sandler.
Yeah, we love Adam Sandler.
Okay.
I don't want to hear any bullshit.
We won't.
We won't hear any bullshit because I'm going to block them on site.
But the next scene.
Miranda is like Adam, listen to our podcast.

(44:05):
Please Adam Sandler, we love you so much.
I know you love the Puritan.
Oh, don't bring that up right now.
Don't bring that up.
Can I tell a story?
He almost ran Tony over.
What?
So when Tony was working at the Puritan during COVID, Adam Sandler would always be there

(44:27):
and would get takeout, attendees and stuff like that and almost hit Tony and was very
like just like whatever.
It was the beginning of pandemic.
So like didn't come up or apologize or anything like that.
A year later is back in Manchester that summer, Tony runs out the food, Adam Sandler recognizes

(44:48):
them and is like, oh my God, I'm so sorry.
Last time I saw you, I almost ran you over.
And like remember Tony remembered that of the situation and like profusely apologized.
My king.
Isn't that just like that's I've never heard a bad thing about the guy.
And no, and I'll tell you another thing, the Boys and Girls Club of Manchester, New

(45:10):
Hampshire, where I was born and raised, my sisters and I all went there like boys and
girls.
We all went there.
I lived two blocks away.
My younger two sisters went there a little bit more than I did.
I only went there for like a year and a half.
And then I stopped going there.
I ended up starting to like go to the library after school, but my sisters were a lot younger
than me.
So they started going there like every day until they were like in high school.

(45:33):
Totally.
So there was one point where there was conversations that it was like going to get shut down and
an anonymous donor like gave a crazy amount of money to like renovate the entire fucking
thing and save it from closing down.
And everyone was like, that was Adam Sandler.
Then it has to be then because like, what are the rich person gives a shit?

(45:57):
What the fuck happens in Manchester?
No other rich person except for like Sarah Silverman.
Exactly.
And she's from bed for like that doesn't even count.
So then in my high schools, I went to central high school in Manchester and it's like typical
inner city school kids of like all backgrounds and like financial backgrounds.
Cause there like hundreds of different languages have been spoken there.

(46:17):
It's the oldest high school in New Hampshire.
And it's just like a historical monument at this point.
Like if you went to central, you're cool.
If you went anywhere else, you're not as cool as just the way it is.
Just the way it is.
So Adam Sandler went there of course, voted class clown in his year.
There's one building at central that is like the oldest stand in building from that high

(46:39):
school since it opened.
It's called the classical building.
And it's where like a lot of math classes are and shit like that.
And it's just like the oldest building.
Like it was there when the school first opened.
Mind you, okay, this building hasn't been renovated since like probably like the 18 fucking
hundreds.
Like the heat kicks on and it's like causing an earthquake.
Like the walls are peeling.

(46:59):
It's a typical inner city school.
Like if you watch Abba Elementary, it's twice as bad as that.
So there was one point, I think it was like last year or the year before where they're
like this building is like costing us more money than it would take to like close it
down and just like stop having it be open because it's like dangerous.
Like we can't keep letting students in here.

(47:21):
So they were going to close down.
And then this huge petition forum and was like, save the classical building.
Like we all grew up there.
Like it deserves to get renovated.
It's important part of like the central campus and it's part of Manchester history, blah,
blah, blah.
And again, anonymous donor swoops in, chalks up all the money they would need to do the
renovation and the building got saved.

(47:44):
That's amazing.
And we just know that the only guardian angel of Manchester, New Hampshire, and it's Adam
Sandler.
No one else.
Also our, our best friend, Mickey works at the Manchester Public Library and told me
the only central yearbook that's missing is the one with Adam Sandler.
That's hilarious.
Probably cause people would probably try to find it and like vandalize it or steal it.

(48:07):
Someone probably just took it eventually.
But yeah, that's the only one out of the collection as far as I know from what Mickey
told me.
Oh my God, that sucks.
Which is so funny.
I would want to go to it and look at it and be like, oh my God.
Yeah, same.
But it's like, of course that happens.
Yeah, of course.
He's a local celebrity.
I mean, when the guys in town people post on Facebook and are like, I just saw Adam Sandler
at 7-Eleven, he was buying a pack of gum.
Like it's an event.

(48:28):
I've just always heard he's the nicest guy.
He is so nice.
He is so nice.
When I was in high school.
I know it's about Adam Sandler.
We need to move on.
Fine.
Okay, I was going to tell one more story.
We need to move on.
Okay, fuck me.
Fuck me, I was going to tell one more story.
I'm sorry.
This is my fucking podcast.
I'm getting shushed.
We're 15 minutes in and we barely talked about the episode.
This is my fucking podcast.
I'm being shushed.
Fuck me.

(48:49):
Let me.
I'm silencing women.
We need to move on.
We're going to get a gin tonic and we'll move on now.
That's why you won't stop about Adam Sandler.
Listen, I get a sip of alcohol in me.
I start telling stories.
Oh my God.
Okay, let's move on.
So Samantha's vibrator dies.

(49:10):
Like this show can't be serious right now.
She's like.
I get it though.
She's so pissed.
She's pissed.
She's puffing on a joint.
She's like, I'm going to get her vibrator and the thing just dies.
She can't get your break.
When she says vibrator CPR, I died laughing.
Also this is that, you know what?

(49:30):
Your vibrator dying is way worse than your kid being annoyed.
I agree.
She's going through a harder time than Miranda right now.
My prayers are with her through this episode.
And Miranda's, and then it cuts to Miranda and Miranda just needs to literally get out
her computer and Google the word colic.
She's acting like there's no resources available to her.
Just sitting there like holding the crying child and like looking at him and then like

(49:52):
some lady comes, knocks on the door and she's like, what the fuck?
And she's like, it's.
Can you shut the fuck up actually?
Yeah, she's like, it's 2 30 AM.
Have you heard of like, like doing something about it?
And Miranda's like.
Miranda's like.
She's, I will admit, she's rude as fuck.
She's very rude.
But then we find out that Miranda's being an anti-social bitch to Kendall and Alika.
So it's like, she kind of got hurt.

(50:13):
And every other mother in the building it seems.
Right.
And she's been the one judging them because they can't shut their kids up.
Now she's in their position and she has no resources available.
It is.
It's awkward.
It's very awkward.
Miranda looks like she's going to have a nervous breakdown.
Yeah.
She's probably having one internally at that point.
And then we cut back to Carrie.

(50:35):
So Carrie is just being such a typical Libra, like focusing on the negative part of her
book review.
So her rave.
Review.
She has an amazing.
In the times.
She's a gorgeous, beautifully written rave review in the fucking New York Times book
review.
And it's like.
You can't buy that kind of rest.
It's literally an honor to have your book mentioned in that review.

(50:56):
Yeah.
Like thousands of books are published a year and only a few of them make it into the review.
Not every book that gets released in the world actually.
And.
Like it's an honor.
Not all of them get a rave review.
Right.
Not even all of them get a good one.
Right.
Amazing.
Nice review.
So there's one negative.
It's not even negative.
It's a fact.
It's not even negative.
It's just a fact.

(51:17):
She goes.
Oh.
I treat men like I'm disposable.
And she like crumbles.
The review is like Carrie Bradshaw is an amazing writer.
I thoroughly enjoyed this experience of reading this book.
She treats men like they are disposable.
But you know what?
The book was the best thing I've read all year.
She's like I love this.
This walk through Carrie's cutting funny amazing world and the world of disposable men and cocktails

(51:42):
and your friends like a glowing review.
Like if that was written about me I would be like crying hysterically because it's so
sweet.
Over the moon you frame it.
And Carrie goes wow.
So she thinks.
Disposable.
She goes so you think that I think that men are disposable.
It's so liberating.
I just want to strangle her when I was watching.
And it's also like yeah Diva I've watched this show for five seasons.

(52:04):
I think that's what you think.
But that is what you think.
Like you have an entire column called Sex in the City.
Like there was one season where all you did was just fuck random guys so you could experience
what it was like to quote unquote be like a man.
You fucking crazy bitch.
If the book is anything like your column or this show.
Yeah.
She's pretty spot on about the men being disposable.
She was 100% right.

(52:24):
Aiden the man who you're so hell bent on changing the scope of your relationship with.
You treated him as if he was disposable.
You cheated on him.
What else.
It blew it's just another like I talked about before but it's just like oh my god.
No self-awareness.
No accountability.

(52:45):
No self-awareness at all.
And just very excessively focused on the negative.
And Miranda is a saint for this.
Miranda is a great friend is my note here.
Like Carrie is obsessing and spiraling out of control.
And then finally Miranda's had enough.
She's like you know what Carrie.
Call Samantha with this bullshit.

(53:07):
I have a crying kid and she's like shut the fuck up.
You don't have a problem.
This is a really nice review and you're being a cranky bitch for one tiny part of the review
that actually quite honestly if I'm being frank with you is true what they wrote.
So it's true.
So Carrie just can't take it.
But also my note in the moment was kind of like okay Miranda again with the passive

(53:29):
aggressivity like if you can't talk to Carrie like you have too much on your plate then just
tell her you can't talk and hang up.
Why are you snapping at Carrie for Samantha's bullshit from earlier in the day to mind you
like she'd been holding on to that since earlier that morning like girl just be an adult and
just like talk to the people who are bothering you in your life.
Talk to the it's oh it's not guys there she's not like just talk right.

(53:53):
It's just annoying.
Miranda and Samantha's dynamic is very underrated though like yeah I agree.
I love it's like similar.
I like when they have scenes together.
I like when they talk to each other.
I like when Samantha interacts with any of the girls individually.
Yeah.
It's kind of some of my favorite scenes.
Yeah they all have so much they can learn from her.

(54:13):
There's always a bit of insight.
Agreed.
That you don't get in the bit in the fore.
I agreed.
Miranda's thing to learn from Samantha's how to be a confident person and ask for what
you need.
Yeah.
Carrie's thing to learn from Samantha is.
Don't who gives a fuck with some random woman.
Yeah who gives a fuck right stop being so self-conscious.
And Samantha even says in the next scene I think it is and it's like if I cared about

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what every woman in New York City felt about me I would never.
Exactly I wrote that in capital letters she spelled.
She spelled it's true and you know what Charlotte's thing to learn about about life from Samantha
would probably be let loose a little bit stop being so uptight.
Honest to fucking.
Like they each have something to learn from your life a little.

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I think Samantha's the perfect character on the show.
I agree she's the best one.
I used to think my favorite was Carrie I'm starting to think it might be Samantha honestly.
I've always been team Samantha baby.
Man but I just love Carrie because I relate to her so much that's a stupid reason for
liking someone honestly.
No I don't think that's a stupid reason at all I think it's like the maybe the best reason
because you're like I see myself so much in them especially when you're able to still

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be critical of them.
I'm very critical of Carrie.
Which you are.
Honestly sometimes I think wow I haven't done any work on myself like I'm still the same
person I was years ago but then I watch like this and I'm like oh my god like if I was
acting like that's the mistake I would have made.
Yeah that's the mistake I would have made five years ago now I recognize how fucked up
she is for saying that.
Like okay.

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Also I love a scene when they're getting food.
Me too.
And that brownie looks fucking good.
I put an all caps best brownies in New York I would kill to eat that right now.
Also that lunch is 14 20.
What was going on.
What the fuck.
Where the hell were they.
Were they like in Midtown.
Where in New York.
Like were they like in like.

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I mean they rarely leave Manhattan that has to be like downtown or something like that.
Like where there's no way.
Where in New York are you getting that whole lunch with a brownie for 14 20.
I mean it was the 90s.
Now with inflation what would that be today like 30 bucks.
Hang on 14.90 today.
In 2002.

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Wait 2002.
To today inflation.
It'd be like 23 bucks.
Okay that's not that bad.
Okay yeah I guess that's reasonable I guess that makes sense.
But it just really got it took me.
You got shocked you.
You thought it was more than it should have been.

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No I thought it was I was like wow they I'm shocked they're getting such a good deal.
Yeah.
For a full lunch in Manhattan.
I didn't really notice the price.
Now that you mention it 14 bucks.
I heard it immediately.
Well honestly you know what I think it is.
They're probably at a bougie place where you would look at that and be like I can get that
exact lunch at a deli for nine bucks.
But they're probably at a bougie place.
I'm looking at it from 2023.

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Right.
To yeah.
I would I would be ecstatic to pay under $15 for that lunch.
But yeah I like the scene I like that they're getting food together and Carrie is being honest
with Samantha being like give help Miranda out a little bit even if you don't want to.
And then Samantha calls Brady an asshole.
And then Carrie's like you can't call a baby an asshole.

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And then Samantha's like but she called him a meatloaf earlier today.
Which is so funny.
It's just hilarious.
And then who do they run into Nina Katz yet again Nina Katz Booker for SNL which sounds
like a fun job.
Sounds like a stressful job.
Yeah for sure and I love the scene honestly.

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Because I did too.
Samantha's like how do you know Nina Katz.
And Carrie's like what do you mean she's the face girl.
And Samantha's like shocked.
She's like yeah she's so taken aback by that.
It's really funny.
She's doing good face a lot of good face acting.
Yeah really good biking patrol.
She's always amazing in every scene but this one was a good one.
And then we cut over again to another scene with Samantha and this scene she's that sharper

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image to return her vibrator slash neck massager.
So she goes right up to the sales attendant and it's like I need to return this vibrator.
And he's like we don't sell vibrators and she's like yeah you do I bought it here six
months ago.
And he's like no sharper image doesn't sell vibrators.
That's a neck massager.
And she's like okay well then I need to return this neck massager.

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And he's like well what's wrong with it.
It failed to get me off.
And then he says well did you wear it out.
And she's like well honey it wouldn't be the first time.
She's so good.
And this is my favorite scene in the whole episode.
Me too.
Me too.
This is my favorite scene.
And then she.
I was laughing out loud.
Me too.

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And then she goes over the table and he's like okay just go over there and pick out another
one and take it to the cash register.
She starts going over there and she's looking at them and then one lady picks something
up and she's like no not that one.
Mine has too many bells and whistles.
And then another lady picks up this huge massive one that's like literally a back massager.
And she's like I think that one actually is a back massager.
And she's like not if you mount it.

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You mount it.
I can't.
And then the woman that picks up another one that's really small.
And she's like that will burn your cli-
And she's like it'll burn your cli-
Oh my.
And she says even through the underwear and she says maybe even through ski pads.
Even with ski pants.
I can't.
Oh my god.
I die.
I die.
This scene was like boom boom boom boom.
It was so funny.
It was so snappy.
She's perfect in this one.

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Oh it was just like it was so fucking funny.
It really was.
And I really like it because it's like you do find solidarity shopping for sex toys.
You do.
Other people in the store are like yeah the other people in the store.
Everyone's embarrassed but you gotta kinda the first person to rip the bandaid off and
give everyone permission to be like kind of excited about what they're doing is a hero.

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Samantha's so good in this scene.
Yeah.
I love going to the sex store.
Me too.
We have a Beyblend near us that we frequent and.
I love that.
Yeah.
There's a there is only one here in town.
There used to be another one but it got it closed.
Damn.
Which is a bummer.
But yeah it's fun.
It is fun and the tendons are always so nice.

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So nice and so helpful.
They're like you have any questions about how this works and we're like yeah we do.
We were kind of worried that we would not be able to ask you that though.
Yeah.
Everyone's so helpful.
Yeah they're very helpful.
Like also very destigmatized.
They don't make it awkward at all.
And it's always queer people working with it.
Right.
It's always like and you know what this can work in multiple ways blah blah blah and giving

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me the whole rundown I'm like damn.
I never would have.
They're really genuinely helpful.
Some of the best customers I've ever had is at the sex shop.
Me too.
Okay.
Moving on.
But yeah.
The sharper image.
The sharper image.
So we cut back to Miranda and like girl is still struggling.
Going through it.
And the crying baby must be very hard to handle.

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Like I can handle like baby crying for a little while.
Baby crying for a week straight to the point you can't even get a haircut.
Must be like there are some parents.
I mean I was reading an article weeks ago.
It's random that this is coming up right now.
Because I was reading about it recently that some parents when they have a colicky baby

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literally become like suicidal and have like mental breakdowns because they feel like they
are doing something wrong as parents.
Torture.
Yeah.
And some people even drop their colicky babies off at colicky baby centers.
Like there's centers of people who are like like literal professionals that their job
is to take care of a colicky baby so that parents can have a break because otherwise

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they're going to like have a mental breakdown.
There's centers like that.
That's a godsend.
Imagine.
That's amazing to me.
It's amazing to me.
It was also like frightening.
Like the fact that a baby can cry so much.
The article also was like if you are a parent experiencing a colicky baby do not panic.
The crying will not hurt the baby in any way.

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Like it won't.
You just got to let it ride.
The baby is not in pain but it might be driving you crazy if that happens seek help and support
from like your network or like go to like a colicky baby center and drop your kid off.
That's so crazy to me.
Well some parents even.
That's cool though.
It is cool but like also not to go on a rampage about this.
Some parents also accidentally give their baby shaken baby syndrome.

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So you have to be really careful not to overextend yourself mentally because they like start
shaking the baby to like get it to be quiet and then accidentally dead baby.
So got to be careful with that.
It's not a joke.
It is.
It is not a joke.
Don't shake your baby to death.
That's our stance.
But then Kendall comes over with a vibrating chair and she's like this is I had one of

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these.
It's controversial.
I'm like thinking in my head why the hell is this controversial.
Come to realize maybe this is controversial because of the whole like shaken baby thing
like maybe or if it's like maybe some parents feel bad about it because they're like putting
it putting off the parenting to like the object.
If only she knew about iPad kids.
Oh my God.
She would have never been able to know that though.

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Yeah.
I'm going to look up our vibrating chairs bad for babies.
Let's see.
Let's see pictures of me in one of those chairs.
I don't know if I had one of those.
I loved that chair.
My mom tells me about it all the time.
Were you a call like you baby.
Not that I know of.
It's never been brought up to me and knowing my mom I'm sure it would have been brought

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up to me if I was because she would be like I took care of you when you were crying to
death.
Yeah.
She would have been like you were fucking annoying.
She's been like you were an asshole.
That's funny.
My mom would have called me an asshole.
That's funny.
Your mom was like so I yeah.
No.
Totally.
I was fucking awful.
So I don't think so.
I also didn't cry a lot as a baby.
I didn't cry a lot as a baby.

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My biggest problems came when I was a little bit older and I had like actual cognitive
reasoning.
Once I got an attitude.
Once I got a little attitude I was really bad at sharing.
I hated sharing as a kid.
I still hate sharing.
I still hate sharing to this day.
But I was even worse.
I'm an only child.
At least I have an excuse.
I don't have an excuse.
I mean I have five sisters.
Once I got a lot of sisters I kind of got used to it but it still bothered me.

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But not being able to share has saved me a couple of times.
I feel the same.
Not being able to share has prevented me from getting articles of mine stolen.
Literally stolen.
The craziest story is one time in high school there was this girl on the track team that
would always sit next to people on the bus and be like oh is that your iPod can I listen

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to it with you?
And people would always be like yeah yeah and they would like give her one of the headphones
and let her sit with them and listen to the iPod.
iPod together.
Right?
So but one day she asked me and I was like no.
And then like weeks later people started saying like oh my god my iPod disappeared out of my
locker like I can't find my iPod blah blah blah.
I always had mine locked up and mine never got stolen.

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I don't know if it was because I had a lock in my locker or but then you found out later
on guess what happened.
The girl that was yeah she robbed them.
The only reason she was robbing people is because she knew what music they had on their
iPods.
Some people got targeted, some people didn't.
I didn't get targeted.
She never knew what music I had on my iPod because I never shared with her.
That is so wild.
After that I was really like okay I'm never sharing with anybody.

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I was right.
I was right this whole time sharing is bad.
Oh my god.
Yeah okay.
So Kendall comes over the neighbor.
She comes over to Miranda with the vibrating chair and she's like this is what you need
to like quiet your baby down.
Leica loved it and now it's time for you to have it.

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And she's like but don't your girlfriends like have any babies and Miranda was like nope
I'm the only one.
And this just comes back to what I was saying before that like being the only parent that
has a baby in your entire friend group must be challenging.
Yeah I can't imagine that it's how difficult it is.
It's like I'm just so yeah I don't envy her at all.

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But I also think she's not properly utilizing the support system she does have.
I mean she's trying to but they're like not helping at all.
Remember earlier when you were like why is it Samantha's problem?
You're part of the problem.
No no no I'm talking about like literally her nanny and baby daddy.
But like is Steve the most responsible guy in the world to have had a baby with?

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No but I also think if she called him and was like hey can you come take him for an
afternoon so I can like take care of myself.
I'm sure Steve would like fall over himself to help as best he can.
You know what's weird at the end of the episode he literally says like why did you call me
is it because of Miranda like she's saying that I called too much.
So that's like that kind of was a hint that like Steve is trying to get involved and Miranda's

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being that self-sufficient bitch and not letting him.
Exactly.
So like she's being stupid.
But either way she does get help in Samantha.
Yeah so Samantha finally shows up and she gives Miranda her hair appointment and.
She's very funny about it.
I love the scene and this moment.
When she starts to count down.
It's so funny.

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And right before Miranda leaves she's like and don't call any boys.
And then as soon as Miranda locks that door.
The baby starts crying because the chair dies.
The chair breaks and but Samantha.
Samantha's face changes instantly.
She's like you don't look so bad and then the chair dies and she's like oh.

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And that but Samantha's smart and she uses her she uses what's available.
Yeah which we find that out in the next scene.
So Carrie is watching SNL and being so self-centered.
Also in what world is SNL playing in the middle of the day.
Right.
It must be a rerun.
So Carrie calls Samantha to whine about it and Samantha gives her the Miranda response

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of like maybe Charlotte has time to talk about this.
I have a crying baby on my hands and Carrie's like who the fuck did I just call like.
Yeah her face is so funny.
Her face is hilarious.
And she's like did I just call like she's just like shocked by the entire interaction.
She's like that sounded like something Miranda said earlier and it's just weird that Samantha
is saying it now.
She's so gagged.

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She's gagged and then everyone's just fed up with Carrie honestly in this episode even
Stanford snaps at her.
I would too.
Rightfully so.
Fucking annoying.
So then in the next scene we cut back to Samantha and Miranda walks in and has like a nice haircut
and she's like the chair broke but I figured it out.
And then Miranda's like what happened.
The chair broke and she's like yeah but look and the baby is just like sitting next to

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her vibrator.
It's so funny.
But it's working.
And you know what she did her best.
And it's really it's so pretty good.
She did what Samantha would do.
Exactly.
Also I think Miranda's hair looks worse.
Yeah I think she just should have left it.

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It looked fine.
That was the least of her worries.
What's going on girl.
But in our next scene we see the menace that is Bunny McDougal.
So Bunny is confusing to me.
Like why would she make such a fuss to just give Charlotte one thing.
It's not like Charlotte was asking for billions of dollars from their fortune.

(01:09:35):
Just the apartment that was promised to her.
So like.
I Bunny is such a fucking dead.
Yeah.
And she's so mean to Charlotte.
She's so mean.
I'm so glad that Trey came through with this letter with his telegram.
Me too.
And.
And Charlotte tries to do the right thing at the end and like be like this isn't what

(01:09:56):
I wanted.
Obviously after Bunny like berated for being like you said vows and you didn't try.
When it's like obviously we know as the audience that Charlotte tried so hard to do the right
thing and do right by Trey.
It just didn't work out and then she tries to do the right thing by Bunny and she just
walks like snaps at her lawyer and leaves.

(01:10:16):
So Bunny just doesn't care and that's fine.
Let her just let her go.
Yeah.
Fuck her.
And then.
You know.
Harry says ding dong to which is.
I love that.
Pat's Charlotte and leaves and it's just like it's a nice little moment.
Harry did.
And also it's crazy to know like what's to come.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
We don't know at this point that they're going to be together.
This is very early in their interactions.

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Yeah.
And then it's like it's like what's up.
Carrie meets with Steve and it's like girl you are so dumb and immature.
Insane for this.
That's absolutely insane.
She looks gorgeous in the scene.
She does.
She looks good here.
And basically.
And Steve looks great.
Steve looks good.
Basically Steve tells her like okay he could not get out of bed for a month and she's like

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what.
Why is she so supposed to be like.
Yeah.
It's like girl you guys dated for like years.
I wonder how she acted when Big broke up with her after a year.
Imagine being a proposing to a woman and then she dumps you while you're renovating an apartment
for her.
Oh my god.
I think he has every right to be a little upset for a while.

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Okay.
She was acting like he was wrong for feeling that way and it just blew my mind that she
would think that.
So weird.
And then she goes and hangs out with Stanford.
Specifically to go stalk this woman at the farmers market.
So they bump into Nina.

(01:11:41):
After Stanford blows up at her.
And she's like okay I'm gonna pull you aside Nina I need to talk to you.
Mind you Heather Graham is there.
Heather Graham is there and he's like oh my god Heather Graham can I like buy you a pretzel
and she's like okay.
It's very cute.
And she's like Nina look I don't appreciate you talking shit about me all around town

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and speculating on my relationship with Aiden and what went down and we had a love that
you will never comprehend and understand and blah blah blah.
And then finally at the end of it Nina's just like okay.
She's like okay.
She's so unbothered it was kind of funny.
She's so confused.
Now guess what.
Now she thinks you're crazy for a different reason Carrie.

(01:12:24):
She's so stupid for even going up to her and saying that.
Just let bygones be bygones stop.
It's so drawing.
It's so unnecessary and that woman is so confused.
And you just know she's gonna go be like she's so not over Aiden.
She came up to me and said all this shit about how they had a great relationship.
She's just crazy.

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And also it's just the tradition of Carrie continuing to embarrass herself.
And then Carrie at the end her confidence is kind of admirable though because at the
end of the episode she's like that's when I realized the only reviews that matter are
the ones we give ourselves.
She's nuts if she thought she won that.
She's never taken that advice.
She did not win.
Ever.
Like that was not a win babe but any who.

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So that's the episode.
That's the episode.
It's such a weird one.
It's so funny.
I love it.
It's so infuriating at times but I did just have the I had so much fun watching it.
I just enjoy watching it so much.
I had to have it on my list of favorites.
Absolutely.
I'm so glad you did because this is not one that I would have thought of.
I know.
It's just totally random but it makes me laugh out loud hysterically and that's why I chose

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it.
Yeah.
Truly underrated.
Finally you have.
Okay.
Okay.
Anyway.
You have used underrated correct.
Anyways.
So what are we watching next?
Next week is oh gosh I forget the name.
I think it's the mud wrestling one right?
It is the mud wrestling episode.

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Season 4 episode 10 big versus Aiden in the month.
Okay.
I can't wait to talk about it.
Very excited about it.
Watch it before because it is just so fucking stupid and so funny.
You guys better be watching this.
Yeah.
Watch them.
They're fun.
Okay.
They're silly.
Okay.

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Follow us on social media and all that.
And but yeah but full disclosure we haven't been on it that much lately.
Ever since Twitter transitioned to X it's kind of like.
It's not a fun.
It's not the place to be anymore.
Maybe we'll be on Blue Sky eventually.
Who knows.
Oh interesting.
Okay.
I don't really know if that's gonna last but we're on Instagram even if we're not posting
as much.
We're there I promise.
We definitely are still in the places that we have accounts.

(01:14:32):
We just might not be as like active.
Active.
Right.
It's still summer.
We're fun.
Listen hit me up in the winter.
That's when I start going crazy.
That's when we'll be stir crazy because we both live in some cold ass fucking places.
Exactly.
Okay.
Yeah.
So we'll be we'll be posting like mad people in the winter.
We'll be posting a lot in the winter and fall.
But other than that we will talk to y'all soon.

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Thank you for listening.
Thank you so much.
Bye.
Bye bye.
Oh my god he's online.
Can you see me?
What the hell is she talking about?
Who's this?
Starts to do Angelina please.
No she died.
She died.
No she died.
No she died.
She died.
She died.
She died.
She died.
She died.
She died.
She died.
She died.

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She died.
She died.
She died.