Destination Wedding

Keanu Reeves! J.D. Power and Associates! Priscilla and Jenn discuss one of Jenn's favorite rom-coms, Destination Wedding, and the horror of watching two socially awkward people have sex.

Episode Transcript

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We should probably get into the movie. Yes, sorry, if you can
hear Miss Karen, Miss Karen.She was she was scratching herself and like
her foot was like thumping up againstthe couch, and she turned and looked
at me and she was like,sorry, my bad. Welcome to Meet

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Cute, a podcast for friends Jennavarisand Priscilla Wilson get together to discuss all
things rom coms, from the classicsto the latest releases. We'll be diving
deep into the world of romantic comedies. So this episode we are diving deep
into Destination Wedding, the Wenona Riderand Keyana Reeves film rom Comum. I

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love Keyana Reeves. M he isanother one. Him and Pedro Pascal too
unproblematic grown men that you just wantto hug and marry and just build a
whole life with. Absolutely. There'san episode of smart Less on him,

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um from like a week or twoago something like that. Oh really,
yes, and I highly recommended becauseI don't. I guess I don't.
I haven't watched him a lot ininterviews, but he just seems so chill
in this podcast and funny enough,like I guess they don't really all know
each other. Um. I thinkthe reason he came on the podcast was

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more of a as part of pressingJohn Wick, but it just they still
had a really cool conversation. SoI liked him a lot. They are
sorry. He is very he isvery chill. He is a very calming
energy. I like him a lot. Yeah, he just seems like a

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good guy straight up. I don'tknow about how I feel about him being
a good guy in this movie.He's pretty problematic in the movie. He
okay. In this movie, there'sjust something so quirky and fun that he

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seems like one of those I don'tknow if I'm going to use the right
term, but like emotionally unavailable guys. I think he is kind of emotionally
unavailable in this movie. He givesme that vibe of like an emotionally unavailable
guy that I really that. I'maware he's emotionally unavailable, so I'm really
willing to dive in and try tofix his issues. But I will give

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him this. I feel like hischaracter knows that he's emotionally unavailable, Like
he seems pretty aware of his issues. Yes, I have to agree,
because he pretty much has built thefort and the walls around him. He's
aware of where he stands and hewould rather not let anyone in. Yeah,
well, I guess do we starttalking about the beginning of this movie

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starts gross? He starts doing thatsound like yeah, yeah, he has
a quirk where he's like constantly clearinghis throat but also like doing something with
his ear. Is very weird.Yeah, I And the TV's super loud.

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The TV's super loud. Yeah Iwhen I so, when I saw
it, I know, I madea face and I don't know everything about
him sitting there and then like packingand then doing the like clearing of the
throat, I was like, thisis a very depressed like he just gave

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the vibe of like being very likehe was just deep in depression. Yeah.
Yeah, I can see that.I can see that. I can
see like deeply hurt individual. Butthere's something so interesting about him. Still,
maybe maybe I'm the problematic one.Um that I was like, oh,

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but yeah, he's so he youknow, he's packing up, cleaning
his wear throat with um the TVas loud as my grandfather used to have
it. And then we have herand she is also packing up, but
she's also breathing into a plant orlike, I don't know, really weird.

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It was like her plant looked likeit was dying or dead already,
and she was breathing on it andshe said something. I think she said
like photosynthesis, do your thing orsomething like that. So I don't know,
maybe she thought like talking to itor her oxygen maybe would revive it.

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It was very weird. It wasvery interesting, which she also gave
the vibe of emotionally unavailable, whichwe later find out she also is.
But I also noticed one thing aboutthese two and I probably have it in
my notes for later, but I'llmention it here now, like they are
just really there are people that arereally good and I'll become really really good

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at being alone, and they doit really well. Yeah, they probably
have either well. In her case, she's had some stuff happened to her.
Him, I think the way hegrew up affected him, and they
kind of closed themselves off to people. They have their quirks. Maybe they
don't even know that it's weird becausethey are not around people on a regular

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basis, and they seem to bothhave kind of leaned into like a solitary
lifestyle. Yeah, and they don'tknow how to interact with other people,
Like they're both very socially awkward whenwhen they first meet. So they pack
the night before and then the nextmorning they are at the airport and they

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meet each other at the airport.They're waiting for their plane, which is
a very teeny tiny plane and it'sonly an eight cedar plane to go to
I don't remember the name of thelittle town that they're going to for a
wedding. She would say yes.So come to find out that Frank Keanu

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reeves his half brothers getting married andshe got invited to the wedding as well,
and she's actually his former fiancee wasinvited to the wedding. Yeah,
and they have this really wild interactionwhere they first at the airport and all

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I could think about I was like, this is an eight seater plane and
you're choosing to fight with somebody that'sa very small plane. Yes, they
have the weirdest interaction at the airport. She's pulling up the whole when the
I guess like the on time scaleof like this airline or something. I

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can't remember exactly, but she likehas the facts because she's already researched this
m They are so funny. He'sdoing that whole thing where like, which
I can't stand when I'm at theairport when people just like crawl the door.
So he's doing that thing where he'slike slowly making his way to the

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to the door. It's like andthen then he literally doesn't want to talk
to her anymore, and just likeonce he's standing right next to her,
it just takes a step forward andshe's like she calls him out on it
because he you can see him kindof like moving around in the background,
and then he comes up next toher and he attempts to make small talk,

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and then when she launches into theweird like the on time statistics for
the airline, he's like, allright, that's enough, and then takes
a step forward and she's like,what was that, Like you started to
talk to me just because you wantedto cut in line, and now like
she's calling him rude, which itis. It was rude, but it

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was a whole crazy interaction. Andall I could think was like, this
is not the size plane that youwant to get into a confrontation with somebody.
And then you know that really awkwardplane ride because the chances of you
sitting next to them are pretty great, and they do end up staying next

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to each other, which made iteven worse. It was I was super
uncomfortable. That was really funny.I actually just thought of either too,
like they were going to a smallplace, like you probably were going to
end up in the same wedding,like there was a chance. And for
her, how well researched she is, she couldn't logically put that together.

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I love I love the airport scene. I actually, I know I'm not
the first person thinking of this,but you notice spoiler alert through the movie,
they are the only ones at talk. There's no other dialogue. Nobody
else really says anything other than maybelike cheering or something. And I wonder

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if it's like a dig at,like they're so good at being alone that
they just don't hear anything else goingon around them. I don't know.
Maybe that's our reach. Well,even even when they talk to each other,
I feel like they're not even reallypaying attention to what each other is
saying. They're just kind of waitingfor their turn to speak. Ah.

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Yes, yes, because they haveeverything is right at the tip of their
tongue. Yeah. I mean,I know it's scripted, but like just
they're ready to say what they needto say. Yeah, and it's just
like a it's like a stream ofconsciousness thing where they don't stop talking.

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They don't have a filter. Bothof them don't have a filter. Yeah,
he complains about everything. I dolove his honesty so much though,
because he thinks about like there area couple of things he said that.
I was like, oh, yeah, I've never thought about that that way.
Yeah, just random. But he'she's it's it's an amusing it's amusing

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to see them interact. And likehe's very negative though, or maybe I
mean it depends. You can lookat him and be like, well he's
a realist and reality is kind ofdepressing. But he is very negative,
and like there there were moments whereI was like this is a lot for

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me because it like he wouldn't stopand I just felt like I was getting
pummeled with negative energy and it's justa movie, and I was like this
is too much. I'm too highfor this. I was just thinking that

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when you said that, I waslike, yeah, I can imagine watching
the movie, like if someone wasif someone was looking into my house at
that moment where it just it tooka turn for me where I was like
staring at the screen and I'm likekind of laughing at how awkward it is,

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and then like my laugh started todie down, and then I was
like my face totally changed to whereI was like, I looked to Karen,
I'm like, yeah, I gottabreathe through it. There were I
don't blame you because I wasn't high, and there were so many times I've

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already seen the movie ones. Therewere so many times where had to go
back, like wait, what didhe say? Especially him, I don't
know why it was him that Iwas having a hard time because he was
just like it's like okay, wellhe his voice remained very monotone. No
matter what he's saying. She hasa little bit more life behind what she

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says. She like her face ismaking all sorts of of reactions, which
on the plane, the faces shewas making, we're taking me out.
I was like, she is overactingright now. Her faces are insane.
Um. But he's very flat,and I think his character is supposed to

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be like that where it's just monotone. He just is saying things. He
has kind of the same neutral expressionon his face no matter what he's saying,
no matter what he's seeing. Yeah, fucking weird. I okay,
this is so funny. I foundhim so hot, like, so incredibly

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hot. Keanu Reeves is hot,like Frank, Frank like him, Frank.
It's so hot to me because again, it's it's that thing where like,
I know you're emotionally unavailable, Iam willing to accept this risk.
I'm just gonna have fun now.And I found him so incredibly adorable.
I don't know why you think youwould have fun with a man like that.

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He finds a fault in everything.Okay, but but I'm not gonna
lie. I do want my futurehusband to call me out of my bullshit
because bush rant, you don't wannayou don't wanna, yes, man,
yes, yes, And I feellike, Okay, he may be a
little extra, which again I'm notsaying I'm gonna marry him and like be

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with him for the rest of mylife, but like, he would be
a fun couple of years. Ithink you're gonna give him a couple of
years. Yes, this, Uh, it would be so fun. Plus
he runs marketing for Jdepower and associates. I don't know how you love a
business man? Thank you? Likeyes please? Yes, so yes.

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I think you should know this rightnow from the beginning, persona, because
as we go through the movies tothe the movie, probably a lot of
his odd behavior that you found odd, I found hot. Yeah, this
is interesting. Yeah. I almostgrabbed my phone to reach out to you

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a couple times during the movie becauseI wanted to be like, what was
the last time you saw this movie? Was it a lot for you too?
Well? The first time I watchedit, I was just kind of
like glued to the screen, likewhat is happening? Then then I like
after I watched it, I waslike, oh shit, that was a

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funny movie. But it didn't hitme while I was at it, And
then when I rewatched it for theepisode, I thought it was hilarious.
I was laughing the whole time,and I thought he was so cute.
Oh, you're not gonna like someof my notes. I know it A
lot of the movie I remember thinkingwhat is happening, but not on the

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same level of like Shotgun Wedding,where I was like, what the hell
is this? I it was awhat is happening? But I was actually
like really amused by everything, LikeI'm wondering. I'm guessing that that was
their intention for this to be soinsane that it's like this is funny,

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like funny, uncomfortable. Yes,yes, I felt I do feel like
a lot of scenes that do havethat Oh I'm laughing? Should I be
laughing at that? Like there wasa lot of that in this movie.
Also, it was a really shortmovie, and I think like they just
packed it all in so quickly,which I'm not mad at that, but

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I think that's why it feels likethere's no breather, there's no silence.
You're just like go, go go, yes, yes, um. When
when she thinks out loud, what'sher name again, Lindsay, Lindsay,
Like you said, they both astream of consciousness. They just keep going.
They're saying whatever they're thinking. Whenshe speaks out loud, and it's

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like she's she's thinking out loud,so everything every thought she has, she's
saying it. And I was like, I feel like I'm hearing my anxiety
speak through somebody else, Like thoseare my anxious thoughts. Like I felt
like I understood her a little bitmore because I'm like, this is what

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happens to me when my brain doesn'tshut off and it's just like a million
things that I'm thinking of talk throughit. Yeah, yeah, but that
like I keep that shit in myhead and she's letting it all spill out.
Yeah she does that. Who Sowhat do you think of her?
Because she used to be engaged toFrank's half brother who is getting married at

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this wedding that they're going to.She's been holding on to whatever went down
between them. I feel like shehasn't moved forward, and then she's she's
going to this wedding, Like,You're not going to get me to go
to an excess wedding, No,at least one that I'm not on good

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terms with or like not even friendswith. They haven't spoken in all those
years, right, No, Yeah, it didn't seem like it. Yeah.
So it's it's funny to me thatshe would even get an invite and
that she even wanted to go.I feel like so I like her a
lot in this movie. She feelsrelatable maybe in the sense, not in

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that sense, but just in herthought process. And I think what you
were saying, like her stream ofconsciousness type of conversation. But I feel
like, and I think she makesa point of this in the movie or
she or one of them says somethingaround this. It's like I think he,
you know, her ex invites heras a way of showing like,
look how grown up I am thatI can invite my ex fiance. And

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then she says I think I don'tthink she specifically says it, but I
think she's like she's not maybe likeshe's over him per se, but she's
still hurt about what happened. Butshe says, oh, yeah, you
want to be a grown up,I can be that too. So she
says, I'm gonna show up.That's the vibe I get. Yeah,
it's like it's it's like a standoffover who can continue to be the bigger

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person. Yes, that's it,hm, And she's committed. She said,
Okay, I'm gonna do it.Yeah. I think she even says
they want it, or that shewants to get closure, yeah, which
I don't know, if you know, if we were rewriting the script,
I don't know that I would includethat part because it feels like I don't
know closure from six years a girl. But maybe that's the point that she's

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supposed to be this person that holdsonto two things. But I will say
this is another thing I found sofunny. When they're in the airplane,
they get it like a bag ofnuts, and she is like fighting with
her little bag of nuts. Shecan't. That's me. I struggle with

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snacks on a plane all the time. It's embarrassing. Maximal point should come
already preopened, like in a littleBento box or something. Yeah. Actually,
I'm gonna say that my YouTube algorithmgave me like a Bento box um
for like travel days video and Iwas like, oh okay, Like they

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made like little roll up things andlike they had a fruit and this and
that. I was like, Ishould probably do that for travel days.
I do bring my own snacks ona plane. I don't always do that.
It's usually like pretzels were like afig bar or something something like that.
But my pretzels are in like azip block baggie. Yeah, which

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is that's easy to pop open?Yeah right, But if it's the if
it's the plane giving me snacks,I always struggle with it. Always.
I also in the past six months, I've had the EVENVISI line in so
I've been like, Okay, I'mnot snacking on the plane because I don't
want to take this off in frontof everybody. So I'm looking forward to

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not having them next month so thatI can, but I'm gonna bring my
own snacks anyway. But she's,you know, she's fighting with a little
bag of nuts and he's telling herlike, there's a notch for the for
this, like used the notch,and she's like, there's no notch.
So then he like takes her bagof nuts and he's trying to open it,

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but he's also struggling. And Iwas laughing so hard all three times
that I rewinded by the way hejust just again in his monotone thing,
he goes this one does not appearto have a working notch. It was
so good, so good, Andthe faces that she makes during that whole

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plane ride were like they were alot. She was, yeah, exaggerate
everything, like her her face.I need to go back and see her
faces because I was fixated on herface. I was like, damn,

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she doesn't have to say anything aboutanything ever, because she uses her face
to the max. I feel like, I don't know why I'm thinking of
another Winona Rider movie where like shealso makes like a lot of faces or
I don't know, she's given mesomeone's vibe where like they're like, you
know, I remember there's a memeof her. I think it's I think

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it's at an award show and Ifeel like Stranger Things one something, and
she was she was up there withthe cast and whoever speaking must be saying
something that she doesn't agree with,because we all were taking on a roller
coaster of emotions with her face.Yes, that's the one. I just
googled it. That's the one.Yeah, that's why I was like,

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I know I've seen her make thesefaces before. Well she made a lot
of them in this movie. Thenthen we get to they get to the
hotel or they get and their roomsare right next to each other with the
connecting door, yes, which sheuses thinking it was her closet. She

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walks right into his room and thankfullyhe's dressed, but she just walks right
into it. So they're just likenot, you know, they're still not
vibing. But then at the rehearsaldinner, they're also sitting next to each
other. I think it's a miseryloves company kind of situation, you think
so. Do you think, though, do you think his brother and his

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fiance did this on purpose like putthem The characters seem to think so,
But I feel like it would bevery weird for his brother, six years
of not speaking to his former fiancefor him to want to pare them up

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together like that seems very random forhim to if that was his motivation,
Like, yeah, it's weird.I wonder though, if his new fiance
this is just me being Betty.If she's like, oh, I guess
we're in biting her, then Ican't stand Frank, so I'm gonna stick

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her with Frank or something. Idon't know, I'm reaching what they were
they see next to each other becausethey chose to sit next to each other
or were they were they placed there? No, I think they made a
comment that they were like placed there, because then that's when I think she
made a comment of like same flight, same rooms, next to Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, okay, II forgot that. I thought that they
were just sitting next to each otherbecause they knew I mean, it's a
rehearsal dinner. I didn't think thatthere would be seating like there would be
at a wedding. Yeah again,I was. I was pretty gone watching

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this movie so well. I lovedI love this scene. There's a lot
of back and forward here, pluslike they're critiquing the people that come around
and then they go say hi tothe bride and groom. I don't know
how you're going to feel about thiscomment, but their chemistry at this rehearsal
dinner melts my heart. Like Ijust loved every bit of it. I

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did kind of find it cute that, like, even though they're basically roasting
each other's jobs, they are justcomplaining about everything. Well, she seems
like she's worried about everything and he'skind of shitting all over everything. But

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when she gets up to force herselfto go say hi and congratulations to her
ex fiance and his new wife.When she comes back, he asks her
if she's okay? Yes, AndI was like, that's interesting that,

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Like he's such a negative person,he finds flaws and everything, always shooting
things down, but he also tookthe time to check in on her.
I okay, thank you. Thisis why I'm like I liked him so
so much. Like, again,there's something about him where like, you

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know, he's emotionally unavailable, buthe's aware of it, and he's not
out here to hurt you. Hejust wants you to leave him alone.
Yes, but he liked her,even though she was quirky and she was
annoying him, and he was givingher like his walls and everything, he
cared about her. He liked herat least a little bit. Yeah.
I would think if he's still talkingto her, even if it's not even

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if it's not like a normal conversation, he wasn't doing that to anybody else.
Yeah, he wasn't talking to anybodyelse. Yeah. But they also
they seemed pretty made for each otherbecause they're both kind of negative, although
she has moments of optimism yeah,kind of sprinkled in the movie. So

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she kind of bounces him out,and I think he likes that secretly,
He clearly he does. He findssomething about her comforting, kind of drawn
to her. Yeah. Yeah,oh be still my heart. Yes.
Well, they finished their rehearsal dinner, and I love the scene where she

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is back at her room and she'stalking to herself out loud about him and
what she learned about him, andthat felts so relatable, like, yes,
I've done I've talked to myself outloud, decompressing from a night before.
Oh yeah, that's like I thoughtit was so adorable and relatable.
I feel like she was loud.Well maybe she wasn't as loud as his

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fucking TV. Yeah, his TVis crazy. Um. I think this
is the part or like towards theend of that night there where they're watching
the same TV show and they realize, like he realizes they're watching the same
TV show. He turns off theTV and still hears the movie playing in
her yeah, in her room,and he seems like intrigued, I don't

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know if that's the right word,yeah, or kind of just like,
oh, we have something in common. We were watching them. Yeah,
his face, like his face hasa reaction like surprise or something. I
wonder because this is the part thattriggered me to think, like, oh
wow, these people have been alonefor a really long time. They're just
so good at being alone. Iwonder if for him it's almost like I

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don't know, if it's like asocial experiment of some sort, but like
for him he's like, oh wow, there's someone else like literally mirroring me.
Like on the other side that likeis also alone and it's somehow okay
being alone too, Like I don'tknow that kind of but that's where that
thought came to me, because theywere just it just showed that they were
so good being alone. Hmmm.I don't recall exactly what happens after this

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after that night, So the nextday there's like activities, like wedding activities
that are set up throughout the winerythe winery, and they don't participate.
They have they have no intention ofparticipating anyway. They end up just kind

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of sticking together and continuing to justtrauma dump all over each other, and
she admits that she's still in lovewith the brother. Oh, I forgot
about that. Yeah, come on, lindsay you could do. Yeah,
she says she still loves the guysix years later. That's what I'm saying,

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Why are you going? Why areyou going to the wedding? I
forgot about this, Priscilla, Andnow I feel like you've changed the whole
movie for me though, because likesix years later, you're still in love.
Like maybe I couldn't understand you lovethis person right, Like I don't
know, Like I'm sure my momloves my dad, you know, and
it's been like twenty something years.But like there's a difference between having love

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for somebody and being in love.Yeah, so that's been sane, like
in love girl, No, damn, I forgot about that. Hmm.
And he like kind of just pointblank is like I don't understand, No,
why he's like why he's like numberone, what's so great about my

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brother? Number two? It's beensix years. Why haven't you moved on?
Like, he completely calls her out, and at a certain point he
kind of reveals to her that hedoesn't really believe in love and he thinks
it's pointless, and she's like,I don't believe that at all. So
they have very opposite views of loveand relationships and his whole thing. He

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goes into basically that his family fuckedhim up, the way he grew up,
his whole family history just ruined him. Yeah, and he's aware of
that and I and that another reasonwhy he is kind of like his own
island. He doesn't want what's wrongwith him to affect other people, see,

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and I find that so adorable.No, we love, we love
a self aware man. Yes,Yes, maybe that's why I just love
how self aware he is. Butagain we learn why too, like his
dad tried to kill him and thenjumped off a building Like that's rough.
It's the craziest story. Yeah I'veever heard. Yeah, try to shoot

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him twice now once twice, twicetwice and then jumped off Like yeah,
So I still like him? DoI have a problem? Isn't me?
Am I a problem? I still? Really? Really, I think it
just goes back to women either wantingto fix a guy, or thinking they

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can fix a guy, or wantingto be the person that they change for,
Like I want to I want youto see me as the reason why
you want to be a better man. That's valid, and I agree,
but I'm not saying that. I'mnot saying that that's what I want.
I'm saying I think in general,women go for these damaged guys because of

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that whole thing. A damaged guy, you say, I'm all pretty damaged
at this point. I'm at anage where I'm hard pressed to find someone
who is not damaged, including myself. Yeah, we all come from goodwill.
This is a thing, but thisis the thing, and this is

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no this is so this is soreal, especially like as I'm aware of
my dating pool now, like youbetter either have built a forest a fortress,
not forest a fortress around you.I like that, Like you're very
much aware that something's not right andand that's okay. And maybe you've built

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the wall because you don't want todeal with it. But here I come,
like if you let me and I'lllet you in. You know what
I mean. Here I come,you let me in, I'll let you
in. Fun. Don't never letApple TV network because I will lose.

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I'm just gonna kill someone I letlose it. But here's one thing though,
I'm sorry. I'll never forget Luke'sface. He looked at me and
he's like, what's going on?Is everything okay? Like she's fine,

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break everything, but if this AppleTV does not work in five seconds,
she's gonna rip the TV off thewall. But here's why. Here's the
only thing me and him would notdo well together. And he's cheap.

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You're right, he is a cheapdude. He is cheap. He didn't
want to get a foot massage orwhatever they were doing with their feet.
But he's trying to do anything withthe mini bar, the chocolate bar.
Yes, he said, it's athirty dollars value and he is not throwing

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it away, and I'm just like, okay, honey, rely acts it's
dirty. Act like we don't havethirty dollars in our bank account. Calm
down. It's I think he's butI think he's cute. It's cute.
I'm just like, I could justpicture your face with somebody who said that.

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I feel like you would be like, oh, like, well,
this was very nice. It lasted, it was nice to meet you,
that's it. But I did loveit in him. I thought it was
cute, which also another I thinkabout it, like, maybe that would
be a really good quality for myfuture husband to have to be too cheap

(36:40):
kind of because I can be alittle extra sometimes, so it might be
nice for someone to just remind methis is thirty dollars value. No,
I don't know. It could mean. I mean, I understand what you're
I understand what you're saying. Youwant someone who's gonna ground you when it

(37:04):
comes to that kind of stuff.Somebody not saying that you're not responsible because
you are very financially responsible. Buthuh, I'd say gratz gratzi. But
somebody I guess somebody like responsible whomaybe can bring you back down to earth

(37:25):
if it's something like crazy extravagant.But I don't think you would do well
with a cheap dude or like asuper frugal person. I agree, But
here's the difference between him and likewhere I would be like, No,
he works at Dady Power and Associates. He runs marketing at Dady Power and
Associate very well. Okay, hetravels well. He has a huge little

(37:51):
suitcase that looks like, you know, she hasn't been around that much.
So I think someone like him that'slike, yeah, I've got money,
but I'm also really cute and frugalthat like that. I don't mind.
But if you're like cheap and likecheap and like frugal and cheap, then
it's like we won't get along,because I mean, wasn't he taking everything

(38:15):
from the hotel? Did I rememberthat? Correctness? When they were checking
out? He took like he hadlike bottles upon bottles in this thing,
or like the baskets too. Andthen at the end too he like took
three guests bags from the brunch.His cheapness was really showing, honey,
And let me tell you, butthey do have a conversation at the foot

(38:40):
massages actually, and I don't rememberthe specifics of it, but the question
is, do you can love somebodylike she loves her ex but she doesn't
like him? Hm. So Ithink that's an interesting topic to cover because
I can I can understand where she'scoming from. Oh that, I've absolutely

(39:01):
experienced that before. Tell me.Look, I'm not gonna name names,
but um, yeah, I thinktowards the end of one relationship, I
did love him. Still, Ididn't like him. I didn't like him

(39:22):
as a person, you know.Yeah. Yeah, And that's hard,
That's really hard. It is.It is because because then you start wondering,
like the hell am I fighting forto be with a person that I
don't even like? Yeah? Exactly? Why Why if I don't like them,
why do I love them? Yeah? Yeah? I find that so

(39:45):
interesting And that part brought up alot of questions for me. I'm like,
that's so true, Like we couldnot like somebody but then we still
love them. And then it's likewe tried to argue that's like, well
I don't like them, but Istill love them, and like it's like
why do we love them? Hardhard M. Well, I don't know
if it's here in the foot massagesor later they have. He has this

(40:07):
little speech of like one out ofseven billion people is freeing your time,
you know, by by her hisbrother, her ex saying like I don't
want to be with you. Thenlike, now, out of the seven
billion people in the world at thetime, um, one of them is
saying I don't want to be withyou, like they're freeing up your time

(40:28):
to go talk to the other sixpoint people. And I thought that was
such a funny like thing to say. And I think she asked him something
along the lines of like like whatmakes you qualify to talk about this?
And he's like, I have optedout, which miss me qualified to comment
on the situation. M And again, just his wit is so fun to

(40:50):
me. Like, but he doesadmit right like he's out of it,
out of the game. He doesn'twant to do with that. He's he's
good alone. M Again. Hemelts my heart with those little comments like
his realism. And I think,okay, prisona, let me tell you
this. That's my friend. Andyou know me, I can be a
little bit of a dreamer in myhead. I can live in the clouds
sometimes. So I think his personalityis so attractive to me because I do

(41:15):
want to be like reminded of realityfrom time to time and reminded of like
not like brought back down, butlike, yeah, brought back down to
earth like m And I think that'swhy those little comment teammates like one out
of seven billion, I'm like,oh my gosh, that's funny. Thanks
for the reminder. Like I dokind of like what he said. It's

(41:37):
it's accurate, you know. Hesaid it in a way that was like
he did you a favor. Yeah, you're not like, you shouldn't be
hung up on this person because theystepped away as an option. So this
person is no longer an option,So focus on the person you're really supposed
to be with, someone who actuallywants you and wants to be all in

(42:00):
with you. And because he's sofar removed from his emotions, it comes
across as like really harsh, ButI think he is actually speaking pretty matter
of factly to her. Yeah,I will say, I understand what you're
saying about. You want the oppositeto kind of balance you out. Yeah,

(42:28):
a bit of a balance. Itotally understand that way of thinking.
Um, However, I know acouple of people who it seems like they
purposely go for the opposite of whothey are, thinking that that person's qualities
that are so opposite them are goingto bring out those qualities in them,

(42:54):
when really like it doesn't happen,and it also kind of solidifies that maybe
you guys don't have anything in common. So I do think that the opposite
person can work in a relationship.I feel like that's totally possible. But

(43:17):
I have a feeling that you ifyou were somebody who is too extremely opposite
of you that when you are inyour dream or state, and if their
response is always to be bringing youback down, I think you would get
so fed up, like let meyeah, like let me live, let

(43:39):
me stop being so negative. Youcould you could see that and be like,
you're so negative, and I don'twant to be around someone who's negative
and who isn't supportive of me.Yeah, I think it could very like
it's a very fine line. Yeah, I don't know if I want to
keep this part, but I'll justI'll say this now so that I know
it. But I give you anexample, like when I was just trying

(44:01):
to figure out moving right, Like, it would have been nice for someone
else to be there and say,okay, what's stopping us, and like
matter of factly, like so Icould be out of my head a little
bit about the move and they couldbe more realistic about it. So that's
kind of where I'm like, wherelike that would have been so nice to
have when I have moments like that. But Uncut, You're right, I

(44:24):
wouldn't want someone that is constantly bringingme down because then I'm going to kick
him to the curve and keep hismoney his JD powers and associates, so
any who. But then then nowthey're going to the wedding. This is
the main event now, and theyget dropped off from this little van and

(44:44):
they have to go up this hilland he she's wearing shoes that she can't
really go up there. I don'tremember the back and forth, but he
ends up having to carry her up, and the way he's struggling to carry
this teat woman, it was sogood. He's struggling. It's just it's

(45:05):
funny to me how he's this personwho like doesn't want human connection or interaction
and he's like, nope, Irefuse, I don't want like, I'm
not interested in anything that you're saying. But he gives in so quickly to
her no matter what. She likesthat, Like he was like, I'm

(45:27):
not carrying you, and then nextthing, you know, he's carrying her.
You know what I think too,he you know, he has those
walls built up, but she hasa way of getting in without pushing her
way in. She's just like slowly, like hi, peeking out the curtain,
you know, and he seems tobe okay with that. Maybe in
the past he's trying to date otherwomen that kind of want it all at

(45:51):
once, whereas like she's more oflike she kind of knows when to stop.
Maybe hmm, I don't know,or maybe this is my hopeless romantic
coming out. Maybe that's just theright person and his like body recognized it,

(46:12):
and so so for everybody else.He's put this wall and it's never
bothered him before because maybe he's nevercome across somebody who's ever made him want
to tear down those walls. Yeah, I think it's that that whole soul
recognition thing. It's her. It'sdefinitely her like, and it shows because

(46:37):
he's not It's not like he's strugglingso hard to let her in either exactly.
Yeah, he's more of like,okay, this is happening. Yeah,
So they go up, they goat the wedding. They're talking throughout
the whole ceremony too, which theyknow they don't so hard. Ever,
Yeah, it's so hard to referto what they even said without like if
I didn't really write it down becauseI cannot tell you the whole comment station

(47:00):
they had because they're just going backand forward. But I don't know if
it's here or when they decide togo for a walk that there is the
comment about crutches, and she's like, that's a crutch, like something about
his personality. And he's like,when did crutches get a bad rep?
You have a broken leg, youget a crutch. She's like, yeah,

(47:21):
broken legs, heel so that youno longer need the crutch. I'm
like, oh my god. They'reso good together, Like again, they're
not missing a beat. They're callingeach other out on their bs. It's
so good to me. Then theysee a mountain lion and then they get
into a whole argument about the mountainlion, about whether or not it's a
mountain lion or a cougar or apuma, which is so ridiculous. Yeah,

(47:46):
Like it's so ridiculous. And they'rearguing about it and Frank ends up
scaring it with his weird like phlegmnoise. Yeah, so they try to
run a way, they fall,They roll down the ground because they're such
a crazy fall they um. Theyhave a conversation and then they kiss.

(48:15):
It was a weird kiss, Iwrote down, I can't believe she's kissing
him back, Like I just allthe things that he has said to her.
I'm just surprised that she would kisshim back. Yeah, but they're
clearly drawn to one another, andshe likes him. She likes crazy.

(48:35):
Yeah, they like each other eventhough they don't want to like each other.
It seems like they kiss, thenthey talk some more. They have
a whole conversation, weird, weirdback and forward about like getting pregnant and
how do you get a boy?How do you get Oh my god,

(48:57):
it's so weird because she's like yeah, protection, protection, and then no,
and then he's like like he's reallyI don't know, it's just again
it's weird, but it's so good. I was so uncomfortable. I was
so uncomfortable. I thought this iswhere things were going to take a turn
in my high and I was goingto end up having a panic attack because

(49:22):
they were It was intense. Thatconversation before sex was intense, and then
they ended up the conversation before sexthe conversation during sex. I was like,
this is too much for me,very strongly about what was happening.
I hated everything I did, everythingabout scene, and I couldn't stop laughing.

(49:50):
I was laughing through the entire scene. I was so disturbed. I
wrote in capital letters, this isbad sex is I can't deal with this
insane sex scene. I it waslike a car accident. I couldn't look

(50:12):
away from it, even though Ifelt so yes, so uncomfortable. Yes,
one hundred and ten percent. Thefirst time I watched this movie and
that scene happened, I was like, what the hell did I just watch?
All I could think about was Iwould love to see the making of

(50:34):
or like behind the scenes of,Like how did they how did they get
through this scene? Oh my god, I would have been laughing the whole
time. Yeah, yeah, ohthat was I thought, Okay, I
know you found it so chaotic,but I thought it was so funny.
Again watching in a second time around, I knew it was coming. It
was so funny. I love sheclimaxes and then she doesn't stop talking so

(50:59):
that he can focused on climaxing,like I've got to focus, and she's
just like, I don't know howshe was going on about. I don't
know how either one of them didnot throw hands at the other. I'd
be like, shut the fuck up. I think I just saw him.

(51:20):
I I think I just saw thisis whatever referring to. I think there's
a point there part there where he'slike, like, you're doing a lot
of talking. He's like she's like, I'm just killing time. And I'm
like, oh my god, whatbefore they before they have sex? I
wrote I wrote this down because Iwas like, what the hell when they
decide to have sex. I thinkshe's the one who says how much worse

(51:45):
can things get? Or something likethat, and I was like, yeah,
that's what everybody wants to hear orsay before you know, yeah,
exactly. Oh my god. Somehowhe also comes to use my language,
and the way he did it wasso terrible. But I remember, like

(52:09):
they hadn't been with people in years, so like it wasn't. I mean,
he was. It was so intense. Keana should have warn't wore one
an oscar for that. It wasintense. Can I tell you that scene
was uncomfortably long? It was sucha long sex scene, Yes, And

(52:35):
I think I was surprised that itwas because, like you said, both
of their characters hadn't been with somebodyin so long. You would think that
it would be like a minute maybetops it went on for a long time,
and I'm not happy it was along scene. And then what puts

(52:58):
a fucking ball on it at theend and he finishes just slams into her
and she's like, I had apurse her crazy Boman. Did he ask
her do you feel pregnant? Later? Lay, I think we're like they're

(53:19):
when they're back in the room,because they show him going back to the
into the bus that's going to takethem back to the hotel, and then
it shows them in his room inhis hotel room, and they're being really
cute. They just you know,pet sex, and that's when he asked
her do you feel pregnant? Andthat's another place where we find out how

(53:44):
cheap he is because she's opening thechocolate and that's like the most expensive thing,
and the wine and when she opensthe one, he's like like he
has an actual reaction when the winemodel opens, like, God, you're
so cheap. Yeah. I dolike this scene a lot, though.
When they're like in bed, they'retalking and I couldn't tell you all the

(54:07):
conversation they had. I don't knowif you have any notes on it,
because I don't have any notes onwhat they were actually talking about. But
I feel like I feel like thisis where her character gets different after they
have sex. I feel like she'sshe likes him now she likes she likes

(54:29):
him, she sees him differently.Um, more of that optimistic side comes
out. She's like, she's veryum, she's very open with him.
He is struggling. It's like hewants it, he wants that closeness with

(54:52):
her, but he is struggling withbeing vulnerable and he kind of keeps putting
his foot in his mouth off.Yeah, he says some things that kind
of upset her mm, and she'slike getting ready to leave. Yes,
she ends up getting up and waslike okay, because she maybe she got

(55:14):
ahead of herself. I don't know. She did come on pretty strongly though.
Yeah, she basically was like Ishe kind of brings up a relationship
with him. Yeah, she wasin it. She was in it,
and he was like, m thisis a weekend thing, and he says

(55:34):
the relationship wouldn't work at all betweenthem, and it kind of upsets her,
and she doesn't see a point inthem doing this weekend thing because she
wants to be something more. Soshe starts to leave and he like begs
her to come back and she goesback into bed. Yeah, he's like,
he's like, at least finished themovie. He wants to be snuggle

(55:59):
up with her like all that,but it's it's just not in his nature.
So he looks very uncomfortable with everything. And when she gets back in
bed, like she he holds herhand like he really he is struggling.
She's all in already and he isstruggling because he is like, I want

(56:22):
he wants the closeness. You're right, because when he held her hand,
I was like, it's cute.Yeah, And the way they slept was
insane, chaos, insane. Myback hurt just looking at her. Yeah.
Yeah, she's hanging off the bed. He's making weird noises in his

(56:44):
sleep. Did she try to smotherhim? She does something? Yeah,
he's loud. He is so loud. You know what's funny. He talks
in this monotone, but like he'sso loud at every other aspect of his
life. Yeah. So they getup the next day and the wedding's over.

(57:07):
There's like a farewell brunch. Theyget their things together, they go
to the airport together, and she'sin a reflective mood and she's trying to
kind of convince him that they shouldreally give it a go and give a
relationship a shot, because she starts, she starts kind of thinking we were

(57:32):
meant to cross paths, Maybe we'remeant to be together. What are the
odds? Like, she's bringing upall this stuff, and he's like,
not really, he's not into itat all. He's not really putting stock
into what she's saying. And she'sreally like, what are the chances that

(57:54):
two people like us, who areso quirky, so different, that we
found each other, that we madea connection. Yeah, you know,
she's she's really in that reflective mood. Yeah, and he is unfazed he's
still like no, no, no, no no, because even when she's

(58:15):
saying something in the plane like whatif we're falling into love, like,
he's still messing around with the withthe wine thing, yeah, and he's
telling her, look, you shouldput this out of your mind because it's
not going to work. I'm happybeing alone. Let's just leave things the
way they are. This was aweekend thing that happened, and go our

(58:40):
separate ways. And they even don'texchange information, they don't have each other's
phone numbers. They really decide like, this is what it was. We're
cutting off any contact after this.There are two things though, that are
said in the plane before they land, and it's something along the lines of

(59:06):
I think she says, don't youwant a romantic life that confirms your hopes
instead of your cynicisms? And Ilove that line, h And then I
guess in regards to falling in love, she's like, what if this is
what it's like? Because you know, we have this picture of what it
would be like, and she's like, what if this is what it's like?
And I just thought that one,the first one, the first quote.

(59:30):
I was like, oh my gosh, I love this so much.
I can like put it up ona mirror or something, because yeah,
I do you know, I thinkwe all kind of want that at the
end of the day. But yeah, they don't exchange contact info. They
get a taxi or he you know, he helps her into a taxi and
she says her address out loud,and he's like, never give your exact

(59:52):
address, hm, And I thinkI know I felt that just now,
but I was like, oh mygosh, like, please remember her address,
Please remember her address. And Iwant to say, that's what I
was thinking when I first watched amovie, because I knew that he was
going to show up later, butI thought it was she said it.
She said it so loud and clear, and you can you can see that

(01:00:19):
he's processing it. He kind oflike steps back and looks and it and
it registered with him, and hekind of like looks at her taxi as
it goes off. You know thathe filed that shit away. That makes
me so happy. Hopefully s romanticheart loved it. Well. Then they're
at their respective homes that he kindof has like an alone moment where you

(01:00:44):
could tell he's kind of like,Okay, what just happened she's home alone,
and then her doorbell rings and shehears the terrible and she opens and
it's Frank and she looks happy.She looks happy, but she also looks

(01:01:05):
like I knew it. I knewit like she she looked validated, she
was hopeful. Okay, it ending. Well, let's talk about our rating
then. I am very intrigued tohear your final rating. So ready to
hear what you rated this movie oneout of five wine glass wine glass emojis?

(01:01:36):
Why do you give this movie,Priscilla. I don't know if you're
gonna be happy with this. Ihave a feeling i'm not, but I'm
gonna go through it. I amgonna give it three wine glasses? Okay,
tell me. I felt very inthe middle about the movie, like
it made me laugh, but alot of my laughter was out of being

(01:02:00):
uncomfortable. And um, I thinkthey both played very socially awkward, quirky
character as well. M and Imean there it was nothing spectacular about the

(01:02:22):
movie because it is just a movieabout two characters talking during the whole thing,
Like that's literally all it is.Don't cry. I'm trying to hold
it together. I don't I don'tthink it's I don't think it's like a
piece of shit movie. But Ialso don't see it as like this,
okay, big thing. I thinkit's pretty in the middle. I'm wondering

(01:02:46):
if I if I would have thoughtdifferently about it if I had been sober.
Okay, I think I think maybethat also helped, because in the
mod I think it helped because themoments that I was super uncomfortable, I

(01:03:07):
could I could see sober me beinglike this saint it, this saint it,
but Hi me was like, I'mso uncomfortable, I'm just gonna keep
laughing and laughing. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
It's better than It's better than ashotgun wedding or your place or mine.

(01:03:30):
You know, I thought this podcastwould bring us closer together. We
had our moments, we had wewere aligned on a on a couple of
movies there, right, You're right. I knew this movie was going to
be where we diverted again because you'vealways spoken very highly about this movie.

(01:03:52):
You're right, so I kind ofI saw it coming. What's your what's
your rating? Jed? I getthis movie four point five wine Glass emojis.
That's very high up there. Ithink this movie is so funny.
It's like and I think it's likesome of it it goes over my head

(01:04:15):
so like I have to rewind tolike get it. So it was like,
I don't know, I found thatintriguing. So I think this movie
is so funny. So I lovethis movie because of it. I love
the quirkiness of the movie too,of like nobody else is talking, it's
just them too, and they don'tcatch a breath, like it's just go,
go go. I think he isjust dreamy in this movie. And

(01:04:40):
I did talca half a point becauseI didn't get closure, and you know,
I'm closure is very important, yes, so I didn't get the closure
I was hoping. I thought itcould have been fun again, it's a
short movie, like maybe have likea five second scene of them at the
airport again for another trip they're takingtogether, Like that's kind a fun ending
and I would have given this afive. But I'm also seeing and I

(01:05:06):
don't know that much about movies,but I don't think this movie did very
well at the box office, soI can understand, like sure, I'll
just leave it at that, youknow, maybe whatever. I don't know,
but I would have liked some closure. But other than that, I
thought it was so funny. He'sdreamy, They're funny, that's quirky.
I really liked this movie. Iknow he's supposed to be this very cynical

(01:05:31):
person, but the negativity was alot for me. It was a lot
for me. It's eighty minutes ofme getting bombarded with his negative energy with
some nice moments sprinkled in, butit was a lot. I gotcha.
Yeah, I'm taking a note toself that I don't date someone like this

(01:05:51):
because I can't bring him around fordinners because he would just bring everybody down.
That would be so annoying. Ihave dated guys which is very I
know that sounds surprising to you,but oh, maybe that's why I have
such a strong reaction to guys likethat. You're like, been there,

(01:06:13):
done that now, Yeah, becauseyou know when you're when you're in it,
I don't think you notice it asmuch, or like you don't notice
how how much negativity it is.And then it's like, you know when
the relationship is over that I'm like, damn, that was draining. Hm.

(01:06:38):
I can see that. I cansee that. Yeah, but it
was. It was a nice littlemovie. I had fun watching it.
Yeah, Well and well end thisepisode with saying happy birthday to the sexiest
man, Pedro. Happy birthday,aries boy. Forty eight just never looks

(01:07:08):
so good at the right. Nottoo old for me, not too old
for me? Mmmmm, Pedro,if you are listening, give us a
call. I'll introude to Prisilla.We'll be in Tampa and May. If
you want to join us, here'sour schedule. Yeah, Tampa, Tampa,

(01:07:33):
Manna and Charleston, Samianna, Charlestonwill make it back to Tulsa.
If you want to come to Tulsaand then we're going on a road trip.
You're more than welcome to join theroad trip. Imagine through a week
with him, you're like, sosick of his bullshit. He seems very

(01:07:54):
fun to be around, but hekind of has chaotic energy. Yeah,
I think he has ADHD. Yeah, I think so untreated. Okay,
I'm gonna by the way, I'mgonna cut away before this because I took

(01:08:15):
this an a whole neither pathum.I think, I know we always talk
about dinner, but I'm like,I'm thinking about dinner I think I'm want
Indian for dinner tonight. Thank youfor joining us today. If you'd like
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(01:08:40):
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