He's Just Not That Into You

Exception vs. the rule! Love triangles! Jenn and Priscilla dissect the ensemble rom-com, He's Just Not That Into You, and play "Hear Me Out."

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I feel like you've been wanting to cover this movie
for a while, like you've mentioned it a few times.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yes, Yes, I'm so oh my god, I love you. Yes,
thank you for even remembering that I spoiler alert. I
love this movie. And we'll get into why I love
this movie, and then I'll get ready to hear you
shatter my heart when you give your rating. Welcome to

(00:34):
Meet Cute, a podcast for friends Jendavrs and Priscilla Wilson
get together to discuss all things rom coms, from the
classics to the latest releases. We'll be diving deep into
the world of romantic comedies. When I rewatched it for
the podcast, I was like, oh, yeah, nope, she's gonna

(00:54):
break my heart.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
But this wasn't my first time watching it. I felt
more positively about it this recent time watching it compared
to when I first saw it. Okay, so if that
makes you feel better.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
It does.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
But I can't wait to hear it's almost I think
we did this in the last movie too, where you
talked about how you watched the movie, like you watch
the movie and then you watched it again.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
You had like a feeling as you got older. So
I can't wait to hear that about this one. Enlighten me, please, Well,
we're doing He's just not in he's just not that
into you. And can I just say I have a
slight pet peeve with the name because the title, Like,
I just feel like it's such a long title yet

(01:48):
short at the same time because of the words m h.
I don't know why I'm picking a fight over that
could be my whole neighbors situation. But anyway, I am.
I'm annoyed by the head.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, it is a long title. It is.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
It is. It's a long movie, took five hours.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
I didn't feel like it was long, maybe because there's
so many different storylines, you know, you're not just focused
on one character or one storyline the entire time. You're
flipping through all these different all these different people, you know,
so it didn't really feel like it was that long.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
I felt that it was long this time watching it
for the podcast. I had never really thought about it before,
but I think it's it's almost now because like we've
talked about it. When I watched the movie thinking of
the podcast, you're like you almost get a little bit
more nippicky, and I was like, oh, this is going
around okay, but allow me to talk to you a

(02:58):
little bit about he's just not that into you. I'm
gonna read you this part because I thought it was
perfectly encapsule this hodgepodge of a story. Baltimore based friends
and lovers, all in their twenties and thirties, try to
navigate their way through the complexities of modern relationships. Beth

(03:20):
wants commitment from Neil, who sees nothing wrong with the
status quo. Gigi is tired of waiting by the phone,
while Mary has a slew of supportive male friends, none
of whom are straight. Meanwhile, Janine has trust issues with
her husband who can't trust himself around Anna.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, there's a lot of different characters and they're all
connected to each other in some way, shape or form.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Mm hmm. It's like I just spilled the tea. But
who's in their twenties? Now that I think about it,
is it Anna?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Probably?

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (03:57):
And you know what, I feel like Gigi could go
either way?

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh yes, like twenty nine nine yep.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
And I'm trying to think if there's if if Anna is,
where's Anna?

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh it's a n N A, so it might be
Anna Sanna.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
So if Anna is in her twenties, then her friend
Connor is Connor Connor, Yeah he might. But then if okay,
we're getting way too the weeds.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Of like if Mary couldn't be twenty nine too, Yeah,
which means which could make sense that Connor is twenty nine.
I think you're onto something.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Here, and then uh, Alex might also actually he might
be like thirty. This is neither here there north here.
We're like speculating over who who's in their twenties and
that I don't know.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
I think Alex is older. Alex seems older to.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Me, but not much older. True, he still kind of
lives his life like a twenty year old.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
I feel like they're all like between twenty eight to
thirty two.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
I'd even venture thirty five.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Thirty five? Who's thirty five? Neil?

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Maybe maybe the Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck and Janine and
Ben marriage like maybe they're I don't know that they're
that old, but I feel like they're the older of
the whole collection of people.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, well, in reality, that is what
the story wants us to believe. But this is two
thousand and nine, and if my calculations are correct, Jennifer
Edison was definitely not in her thirties. Well she sure

(05:59):
looked it absolutely.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
So I need to just start off right away, okay
with the doozy, with Janine and Ben's marriage. Oh Anna,
the fucking triangle. This storyline is so gross.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Oh you came in.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
I need to just I need to get it over
and done with.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Let's do it. So.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
I remember seeing this the first time right after it
came out, not in theaters, so like maybe twenty ten
I saw this and I hated it then I still
hate the story like watching it this time around, I
really Ben is gross. Ben Zy so sleazy, like the

(06:56):
gas lading, like you really think when Janine sees the
cigarettes and she confronts him, he's like he definitely plays
it off, like yeah, those aren't mine. This whole renovation
is like making you crazy. You're on edge all these things,

(07:19):
and you know, you find out at the end that
he was actually smoking, and you think back to like
how he was talking to her, and I'm like you
he's he's just and the rationalization that he was making
with Anna, like at first he was trying to be

(07:41):
good because even though he was chatting with her at
the supermarket or wherever they were were when they met
and he let her cut in line. It was flirty,
but he was like, oh, okay, this is about to
cross the line, so I need to tell her that
I'm married. So he you know, he did what he

(08:04):
was supposed to. I guess, but you could just tell
like he didn't want to tell her that he was married.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Mm hm.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
And yes she reached out to him, which Anna sucks too.
I don't like her.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh yes, she's my least out of that.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Between between Ben and Anna, they are the worst, the worst.
They honestly deserved each other. But Anna her her going
after him, pursuing him, and not for nothing. Mary's a
fucking bitch too, because she advised her basically like go

(08:47):
do this girl, this might be the love of your life.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Mm hmmm h. There are some stupid stories, yes, yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Like Jen, if I ever advised you to do something
like god, I'd be like, you know what, go with it,
just know like that's a bad friend in my eyes,
Like it's a bad friend.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
M h. I one agree, and I don't care. There
are stories where the has worked whatever whatever, whatever I mean, whatever, No, No,
I you know what I think too. I think we

(09:31):
because we clearly know Anna had you know, she was
working through her own internal issues, identity, self esteem, everything,
you know, figuring out life. Right, she ends up like
going to like Ballely, I think, or to a friend
or something. I don't know if India they weren't. She
went somewhere at the end of the movie. So she's
like self discovery or whatever, trying to find herself. So

(09:54):
one could assume the girl may have daddy issues, you know,
and I hate the term daddy issues, but whatever, let's
call it what it is. So I don't know how
to explain it. It's like if I, like, just straight up,
if that was you, you were my friend, like, yeah,
I would be like I wouldn't advice you to that
number one because it's wrong with number two because I
know that this is literally feeding right into your pattern

(10:18):
and your issues. So I have a hundred percent agree.
I don't like the storyline. I think, just going to
Ben real quick, we did we did see that he
you know, we found out that he was the one smoking,
But the storyline sort of plays out to where because
he was honest about having an affair with Annah, you
almost think, like, no, it could you know, those might

(10:39):
not be his. That might be like he comes clean
when he hasn't, you know, when he has an issue
or whatever. I had hope for him because he seemed
like again he struggled. I'm not going to give him
kudos for even saying it, but I thought, okay, he
could come through. But I have a bigger problem with
Anna because she kept pushing it, she kept wanting to

(11:02):
be there. It's not I'm not trying to be this dramatic,
but it's like to like, the man is clearly showing
showing you he may have an alcoholic problem. Don't take
him to the bar, right Like, the man is literally
struggling attracted to you.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
He and he's being honest with her about like, yeah,
I don't think this is a good idea. When she
invites him to go swimming, she goes in naked and
she was like come in. He's like, I don't trust
myself like I. And I'm definitely not saying that he's
a victim either, because clearly he's had doubts about his marriage. Yeah,

(11:47):
and he's okay, we're talking about this before we started recording,
where you said you you kind of felt bad for
Ben in a way.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, the second time I watched did this time, I
was like, like when I watched Ben's storyline, I was like, oh,
I feel bad for him, Like I pity him.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
I I don't completely disagree, because you know, when Anna
is like, tell me about your wife, which is wild,
really fucking wild, but she's like, tell me about this
woman that you can't live without, and he goes through

(12:29):
their story. But it's not romantic, it's it is definitely
a story of many couples that just kind of fall
into the trap of it's the next step. So in
his in Janine's case, she gave him an ultimatum, which

(12:51):
not a good fucking sign. The college sweethearts, they're together,
Janine says, you know, listen, been together for this long.
Either proposed or we have to break up. And he
decided to propose because who knows, he didn't want to
start over, he didn't want to be lonely. Whatever is

(13:15):
he got married for the wrong They definitely got married
for the wrong reason. So it's not like their marriage
was super solid to begin with, Like it kind of
took nothing for him to slip, but it's but it's
still gross behavior, right, Like he was struggling, and then
he was rationalizing, like I can be I can be

(13:39):
friends with a woman. I can do this, I can
We're just two friends at yoga class, and then before
you know it, they're in bed together. You know, And
you're right, Anna probably does have daddy issues and she
probably thinks this is a bigger deal than it is.

(14:02):
Like the entire time, the things he's saying to her,
like I've never felt this. I'm so into you, like
that's hormone speaking. He wants to sleep with you, he
thinks you're cool now because he's getting to have so
much fun with you. It's just it's just a mess.

(14:26):
And I hate that storyline. I've always hated that storyline
because it's so icky, but I mean it is. It
is an interesting perspective to put into this movie that
has different scenarios, the person that's dating, the person that

(14:47):
is with somebody for a long time and they're not married,
the married perspective, Like, you know, I understand why they
included that, but it still makes me feel like gross
mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, yeah, I agree with you on that, because yeah,
it makes sense that it's in there under he's just
not that into you. Right, that's another case. He's just
not that into you. He just his cab line is on.
But I I don't know, I don't know. It's like

(15:22):
a it's a it's a It's a good storyline in
the sense that it was told well in my opinion,
because it shows that struggle within him because he's not
fully committed. It shows that self of like lack of
self respect from Anna, and then it shows that, you know,
whatever it is in Janine, that she calmly was willing

(15:44):
to go through it. I love the scene where Janine
finds out that he is smoking at the end and
throws the mirror, and I love I always replay that
scene because she's just like she throws the mirror at
a rage, it cracks, creates a mess, and she's just
so patiently going to get a room to pick it up.
So it just shows how like composed she is in

(16:07):
the midst of finding out this information, if that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, it's funny because you know that she knows things
about her husband, she knows the truth about the smoking.
She goes with his whole You know, you're crazy. I
would never you know, you asked me not to. And
I'm and I'm not. We have all these workers renovating

(16:34):
the house. It must be one of them. But even
when she confronts Javier, the the foreman, I guess of
the renovation, she's taking a lot of stuff out on him,
like the part where she's she's like, we made promises
to each other, and then she catches herself like these, yes,

(16:56):
these are things that she wanted to say to her
husband because she just knew she had an intuition. And yeah,
it's it's an icky storyline. It's so sad, but it
makes me feel hopeful for her anyway. Yes, And as

(17:19):
much as I don't like Anna, I feel hopeful for
her to where she like, you know, she got with
this married man and that blew up in her face.
Then she tried to like dive into a relationship with
Connor because he's there and he treats her well and

(17:42):
stuff like that, So her heart's not really in it.
It's just like a he's a placeholder. Seemed like a
good idea at the time. Whatever, and him wanting to
move fast with her and like want to have a
future with her really made her be like I need
to evalue wait my life. So I felt a little
bit hopeful for Anna too, that she's like, you know what,

(18:04):
I'm not gonna be with anybody, and I'm gonna like
work on me because there's something wrong. But that's it.
Like the the end of the movie is as that's
the only time I liked Anna other than that she
she was gross too.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, don't care for Anna's character at all, at all.
I don't know. Part of my pessimistide says she's still
not good.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh yeah, a girl like that, those patterns don't just
it's a lot of therapy she's gotta do.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
She's she's out here probably doing hard things. Thillugh. Yeah, No,
I I didn't. Yeah, I didn't care for this. For
this couple, my favorite couple. Do you mind if we
talk about them next?

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Go ahead.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Beth and Neil me too, you're my favorite.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, they are my favorite.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yes, Okay, oh my god, yes, yes, yes, yes. I
love Beth and Neil so.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Much and the healthiest relationship they do.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
And Beth, I get it, she had all the pressure
from the wedding of her sister, and obviously you know
she wanted to get married, and sure, I get it,
and I think she went about it in the most
graceful way possible, and then she went about it in
the most mature way possible to come back to him
and say, look, listen, I'm willing to compromise, but can

(19:43):
you meet me here too? Oh? I just love them.
I'm sorry, I'm just Oh, I got chills. I love them.
I love them.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
And you know what's funny is they set up Neil
to potentially be like kind of a fuck boy, you
know what I mean, because because you know the whole
as soon as you hear somebody, especially a man, say
like I don't believe in marriage and you know her

(20:12):
life is great, like you feel like he's somebody like
that is going to pull the rug out from under
her commitment issues, right commitment issues. But it turns out
he's the best guy out of all of them and.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
The most committed to Ptah.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Like he's he's not lying when he says I'm committed
to you, I love you, like we have a life together.
He just there's something about marriage that he just wasn't
totally on board with. And you know what the scene

(20:51):
where there he and he and Ben are on the
boat and they're talking about marriage and.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
You saw Ben's face, like when Ben was like, oh,
come on, like, no guy actually wants to be married.
You get married and you think about all this stuff
that you're missing out on, and Neil's like, no, there
is nobody else I want. I just want to be
with Beth. And you just see his face like he
looks stunned, stunned and then lies because he's like, oh,

(21:29):
I love being married to Janine. She makes me happy,
like he probably talking to his friend and he was like, uh,
I don't feel this Yes, I don't feel this way
about her. That's a problem.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, which reminds me just to touch on Ben really quickly.
But it is one of those things where he had
so many chances to sort of like come clean in
the sense of like speak up about what he wants
versus looking like an asshole. But oh my gosh, no,
I love Neil and I love it at the end too,
like he does propose, but it's he says it, look,

(22:05):
it's it's it's because if it makes you happy, it
makes me happy ultimately, And I don't know how to
explain it. Like I know that sounds very rom call
me cheesy, but it's just such a fact about relationships
that like, no, I'm not always going to be one
hundred percent or I'm not always going to a hundred
percent get what I want, but I can one hundred
percent live a life where like we both feel happy

(22:29):
and fulfilled. So the compromise whatever, Oh it just I
love Neil.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
I love Neil so much and not for nothing. Ben
Affleck was looking hot right in this movie.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
I made a note about that, my friend, make sure
that you were aware. But you were aware.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
I was very aware. One of his best looking roles
hot hot hot.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
I mean immediately my brain could have stopped thinking about
a Northeastern boy like that, like, wow, so cute, so cute.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
So I'm curious to know, do you do you find
it weird that, like maybe this is my cynic coming out?

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Do you find it out?

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Do you find it weird that, like, you know, this
whole time that they're together, he's like, look, I don't
believe in marriage. I don't believe in marriage, but like
I'm I'm here like this is me. And then they
get back together and then he immediately proposes, do you
find it weird? Do you find it weird?

Speaker 2 (23:36):
I Priscilla, I officially need a title that when it
comes to romantic and comedies and rom comms whatever, romantic anything.
I know, I have the playbook. I know exactly what's
going to like light up a red flag for you,

(23:57):
because I knew that. I knew that, and I wasn't
sure they were gonna be your favorite couple or if
you ere gonna were gonna have a favorite couple, if
that makes sense, because I thought at the end of
that his reaction to actually instead of just like sticking
up to it, you know, and just like this is
I've laid out my car til you've laid out your cards.
We found a compromise. Yeah, okay, sorry.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
I don't know, Like I'm not entirely sure that I
would call it a red flag, so to speak, because
he has shown the kind of man that he is,
Like he's not a piece of shit. He's not trying
to pull one over on her. I do love them together,

(24:44):
but but it's like, I don't know, like we've been
here this long and you've been fighting me on it,
and now you're gonna just I don't know, like what
are you thinking? What's in your head? I can't you
know what I it might take a while for me

(25:07):
to find a man because I'm questioning everything, like what's
your motive? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, Like wait, why did you change your mind? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:19):
I mean like, walk me through your thought process. Why
what made you change your mind about this? The fact
that I gave up gosh.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
I love that we actually get to record these conversations
so that the world can't see.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
The world is going to be like Briscilla is going
to be alone forever because she she's too cynical, she
doesn't trust anybody.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Nope, Nope, I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. Okay, Nope,
you know what. You're very valid. You're very valid, my friend.
If I may offer you something to take home and
in chew on, you will not have all the answers.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
It's a problem for me, you know it.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
I need to know. Oh my gosh. But I will
say if I was rewriting this story, I would not
have him proposed because I think their conversation was good
enough and real enough. If that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, I am His proposal almost like ruins things in
my eyes.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yes, it took more time. The movie could have been shorter,
for sure.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
But aside from aside from that little you're like I
was fine with the time.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
I just thought, girl, is that that's not even the
point right now?

Speaker 1 (27:00):
It ruined their whole thing, Like the point of their
relationship was that they were committed to each other and
didn't need the ring, the ceremony, whatever. And then he
just gives you.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Know what, you have a real problem with this, and
I love it.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
I just want to know, Yeah, I want to know
it's behind it with why why now? After I've conceded
and said, listen, I don't care at this point, like,
I love you, I love our life. I'm okay with it.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Mm hmm, okay, call her number one. What's your take
on that?

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Priscilla's just to pay the ass.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
She needs answers, people answers. Oh my gosh, that's.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
My only question about them. Yeah, other than that, I
love them so much and I love him.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
He is really great. I'm so good lucking.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
When when he shows up at the house after her
dad has the heart attack and she starts crying, I
was like, oh my god, that would be me. I
would be balling my eyes out.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, oh my gosh. Even if a friend did that, right,
and it's like whoa, Like my person did that? Whoa? Okay,
forget it.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
You know, and we weren't even together at the time, like, and.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
He ran to the store when these other bummies didn't,
and he got the stuff his dad liked while in
some health, like I just her dad, Like I just
love him. I love him so much. I love him
so much. You know what my love language, my biggest
love language for receiving is acts of service. Oh really,

(29:00):
I am a sucker for them. So he had it
all over him. M that was not okay.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
And then when they like when she goes to visit
him to like get back together mm hmm, and he's like,
I'm still me, Like I would do anything for you.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
I was like, it is so cute.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Can I say, really quick, what is wrong with Beth's cousins?
They're all in love with her and her sisters.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Horrible, It's weird.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, yikes.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yeah, that's also I feel like with with how great
of a dad? Okay, okay, I have a hot take here, Okay,
I'm a hot take. She had a great dad, right,
he seemed to be a great dad. Again, we don't know,
but like all these women or all the men in
the family, right, all the women married and also the

(30:03):
man in the family are so Doucci and so like Douci,
not Doucci and so like rude and like and like
serve me woman. You know, yeah, like how I want
the psychological study. I'm that those are answers I want, Priscilla,
I mean, explain what happened? Is a biology? Is it psychologically?

(30:26):
And I need to know what caused that type of effect.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, maybe it's these men are too comfortable.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Oh preach, they were comfortable.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
They were very comfortable, too comfortable.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
See, I should add, although I receive love in acts
of service matter, I do not give love in acts
of service matter. I don't want to do things for you.
I will sit there and tell you're pretty and how
great you are, words of afformation. But that would be

(31:11):
such a big turn off for me. Men like that.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, well, I mean that was also not that she
didn't know what she had with Neil, but like she
told him on the boat, she was like, look, you're
more of a husband to me than these guys are,
and they're actual husbands to my sisters, and they're fucking useless.

(31:36):
They didn't help out, they made everything harder. And here
you are. You are not my husband, you're not bound
to me legally or anything. And we weren't even together
and you came and you helped, and you know what
I mean.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yep, M I would have done the same thing as
her for sure, which again goes back to your point
valid enough that like, like we see her compromising and
giving that up. Maybe I don't know, it's complicated, but yes,
like it would have been fine to just leave them,
let them be as they were. Yeah. Sorry, I didn't

(32:14):
want to rehash the whole thing, but like it's like onion,
it has a lot of layers. I'm like, yeah, but
like let a woman compromise. And I'm like, well, we
compromise all the.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Time, all the time.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
But then I'm like, but that was a good man. Yeah.
But then I'm like, but what if. Yeah, I'm gonna
probably do therapy after this, I'm.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Saying, I know, and I had therapy today.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Shall we talk about one of my least favorite couples,
tell me Connor and Mary.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah, I mean they don't get a lot of screen
time because they get together at the end, so there's
really I just I don't know, if you're Mary and
your friend to Anna and you know, the whole shit
between Connor and Anna.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
It's weird, right, mm hmmm.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
I feel like they were placed together because it was
kind of like, oh, wow, we have two people left,
let's do something about this. I don't get it. I
don't get them. I also at the end, I'm just
gonna plane come out and say it now. At the end,
you know, when they do the little like interviews with
the Humbles, he Connor is like, I love her. I

(33:30):
love her, and I'm just like like pointing at Mary
and saying that, and I'm like, dude, he just loves
anything that moves.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
At this point, yeah, I think he just wants to
be settled.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yes, he supts to get married whoever that is.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
M h mm hmmm.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
And I one could say I got the ick when
he's like.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
I don't like Connor. I think he's a little bitch.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Tell me more about that. I don't care for Connor,
but tell me about the little bitch thing.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
You know, he's he's basically at Anna's Beckham call. He
like he's a little bit too.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
He has no respect for himself.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Oh, yes, good point.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
The whole the whole part in the beginning where you
know he was a phone Yeah, he was on the
on the phone with her, and then she had to
pay or whatever, and she's like, I'll call you back.
And then he gets back to his apartment and Alex
is there and he's like, what do you think I
should do? Should I call? And Alex is like, what, Like,

(34:35):
I don't know, he's just too obsessive over her, and yeah, no,
he's just he's just a little bitch about everything.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, that's a good point because I forgot about that
phone call at the beginning, and and how lame he
was about the whole I'll call her just to not
tell her I'm going to sleep and she shouldn't call me.
So weird.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
And you know, she knows that anytime she needs attention
or she's feeling lonely, she can rely on him.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
That's probably why she doesn't like.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Him, I exactly. I also can't remember Priscilla if when
he is showing her the house and she's sort of
like breaking up with him or whatever, you know, in
that little where the ironing board was, I cannot remember.
But what didn't he like beg her almost to like

(35:34):
reconsider or something.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
No, he didn't beg her to reconsider like being with him.
He was just like, can we go back to when
we just slept with each other.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
And we're friends, but even then you still have feelings
for her, saying that you go back to spending time together.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
He wanted her in any way that he could get her. Basically,
mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
I don't like Connor, no no.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
I he made me feel uncomfortable because of how pushy
he was and how into the girls, you know, Anna
he was. But then at the end he was then
really into Mary and like Greight if bright, like that's
where he ends up and everything's great, but obviously the
context we have in the movie, it's like ill.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, on the one hand, it's it's true, like, okay,
maybe someone that someone knows, like maybe that's your person
and he had no idea, but the I don't know
the history he met Mary, like right after he basically

(36:58):
proposed a future like proposal, you know what I mean,
like and then he meets Mary and okay, if sparks fly,
that's great, but I don't know that's that's a lot
to ignore and it happened way too soon.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
I fully agree. I fully agree. And then I struggle.
I didn't make a lot of notes, but I struggled
to remember Mary. And I feel like I mean with
us many times I watch this movie, like Mary just
never clicks as an important person. But I struggled to
remember her story with men, Like what was her deal
with men?

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Her whole thing was she was like she was the
person going through all the different modes of technology to
try to connect with a man.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
That's right, okay.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
And she had like her gaggle of gay friends at
work that were like always asking her questions about She
seemed to like never meet men, She's just talking to
them through email or a phone or whatever. The oh
my god, her checking her voicemail and the guy, first

(38:12):
of all, the guy singing to her, we're done. Yes,
you left a fucking weird message on my phone.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
It's not even my style of music.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Oh, and then and then the second message where he
basically is going to do it to another girl because
calls her again. That's embarrassing. I would you never see
me again? Like I can't go to work, I work
remotely now.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
And change your name.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Yep, that's fucking embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
There was I forgot about that yet her struggles that
voicemail I yeh, I just didn't care for her.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
I feel like, yes, she's cute, except I was gonna say,
I'm going to chalk up her really bad judgment and
bad advice to her struggles. She wasn't thinking clearly.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
But Priscilla, that is a beautiful observation because hence why
she ended up with Connor. Zero lack of judgment to
the fact that the man just wants to have a wife, right,
doesn't matter who fits in that mold, just wants to
have one. Yeah, I god, I feel so smart right now.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Yeah, Like I'm just I'm I was just shocked that
when Anna is telling her like he's married, but I
don't know, like I felt like there was something else.
I felt like it was different, Like this girl went
straight to feeding into her de Lulu Like she's like,

(40:14):
let me tell you a story about like and it's
all stories, like Alex says, it's all stories of how
like this happening to friends of friends.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Yeah, it's never someone you direct it's.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Never someone you directly know. Like she had a story
for whatever Anna was bringing up, and I'm like, stop,
this is why you are not with somebody because the stories,
the excuses, the weird rationalization. The beginning of the movie

(40:47):
is interesting when you see, like we're programmed from when
we're kids. When a man treats you like shit, that
means he actually likes you. And then you see the
evolution of women as they you know, get older and
their friend groups and they're telling each other like, I

(41:09):
don't know, like he hasn't called blah blah, and the
lies that we tell each other to make yes, to
make each other feel better. It's a go to I
I would like to think that if a friend is
talking to me and is asking me what I think

(41:31):
about a situation, I really do try to be honest,
you know. But but totally we've all been guilty of
the whole. Like, you know, he just got out of
a relationship, you know, he actually I don't know if
I've ever said, he's probably scared of his feelings for you.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
I know.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Oh god, No, that's the biggest lie. Yeah that women
tell each other. Yeah, he too much, he likes yeah
too much?

Speaker 2 (42:05):
Girl. No at this age, no, you cannot tell me that. No,
ill yeah no. If I may give you a review,
my friend, No, you are very good at this because
you're very honest, right, like well that you know whatever,
Like if something pops up, it's like, oh that's interesting,
but like you don't feed into the dilution or like

(42:27):
go on and on or like make up like, oh,
he's scared for your he's scared he likes you too much.
Like no, that's bullshit, bullshit, And I mean if that
was the case, like we've all been bullied by men,
that mean they all right, they wanted you.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
Right, I mean I don't know that that rationalization. He
treats you like shit because he loves you. That's with
domestic violence. That's their excuse. Yeah, you know, and it's
just yeah, it was. It was just very eye opening,

(43:09):
like these are things that we know, but when somebody's
laying it out for you and you're seeing all these scenarios,
you're like, oh my god, what do we do to ourselves?

Speaker 2 (43:20):
I have a question for you. I don't know if
your algorithm kind of shows you this, but I'm sort
of feeling hopeful for gen Z because I feel like,
like this movie, it's like millennials, right, so you're sort
of we all kind of grew up with that mentality
of you know that, but I feel kind of hopeful
for gen Z because they're sort of falling into this

(43:42):
mentality of you know, there's that soft girl sort of thing.
There's the if a man wants you like, he'll let
you know for sure, there won't be any question. So
I'm feeling hopeful for the next generation that they're sort
of laying the foundation that we so lovingly Millennials kind

(44:02):
of carried on as a cute little story he likes
you too much. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Yeah, I see that, I see that. I think with
gen Z the whole what is what is the phrase
if he wanted to he would.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Yes, yes, and that you said it perfectly, And.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
That's something that Millennials we didn't start saying that until
we're older.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Yes, yes, I feel I can putting.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Ourselves to a ringer for some for some boys that
didn't deserve it, you.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Know, if I made for some basic ass dick.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
Mmm mm hmmm mm hmm. Like no, I think about
past relationships and situationships and do you ever like feel
yourself blush by yourself. I feel embarrassed about some things,
like like I feel my face get hot if I

(45:13):
remember certain things.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
One hundred specially teenage early twenties. Yeah, it's a whole
mentality of that we had, which I agree with you, Like,
it's like as we got older, we were like, wait
a minute, the narrative change is because you're like, that
does That's not how it works. But it was all
these patterns of behaviors of making an excuse. That's the

(45:39):
term I wanted to it. We always made an excuse
for the behavior always.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Yeah. Now I'm you know, not sitting here saying that
gen Z has it all figured.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Out that they get their own thing.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Yeah, they've got Like that's not something that's just going
to get wiped out, Like that's mm hmm human nature,
you know.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Yeah, hopeless romantics exist.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
And the whole trying to make a bad thing work.
I think everybody is guilty of that at some point
in their life, and there are some of us that
make a habit of doing it a lot. So I
don't think that that's gonna that that behavior is just

(46:30):
gonna get wiped out. But I think they're on the
right track. Millennials have been through so much shit, like
now we're choosing to be alone.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Yeah, and now we're like, you.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Know what, I've been through too much.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Yeah, yeah, I feel hopeful. I feel hopeful for them,
their story, whatever that's going to look like in their future.
They seem to be in an interesting spot AnyWho. But
for those reasons, I don't care for Mary and Connor
at all.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Yeah, Mary and Connor were like, you know whatever, and
who's the other the only other couples Alex and Gigi,
right mm hmm, which they were fine.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
I guess I.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Wasn't crazy about them either.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
I hated every time I watched this movie. I feel
the same way. It never changes. I hate that they
end up together.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Yeah, she should have stuck to her guns and yes
been like you could have had.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
Yeah, she should have stuck to her guns. And he
also should have never changed how he felt. I feel
like he should have just been stronger. I mean whatever,
But I don't know. I'm not a fan, not a
fan of them and got together. I like the idea
that she finally did go out with Bill, which was
the guy that he set her up with that quote

(48:04):
unquote may have not existed because he ended up not
showing up and he gave the guy the wrong day.
Blah blah blah. I like that. I like I like
how the movie goes to that and she finally does
see him because it's almost you know, you could see
it in her face when she's like, oh, he's real,
because even though she had already had that conversation with

(48:24):
Alex I Forgaiz. Yeah, she'd already had a conversation with
Alex where Alex was like, you can't not go through,
like you can't, like you made it, you made us
into something we weren't. You can see it in her
face when she realizes Bill is real, because then it's like, oh, okay,
all right, it's like she's learning this lesson finally, and
then she gets to give it a candy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Even even at the end of her date with Bill,
like she's it looks like she's not gonna get too
caught up in whether or not he's gonna call. She's
the one to say it was nice to meet you.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
You know what I mean. Yep, she was in control.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Yeah she yeah, I I can't say that I hated
like his whole big speech, but yeah, it was annoying
because like, Okay, she finally learned and she was about
to turn things around and then here he comes.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
But yeah, but legit, though she was annoying. I mean,
my goodness, yeah, the wind blew and she was like,
oh my god, he's in love with me.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
She was a lot. She was a lot. I I
think I wrote a note that I was like, Gigi
is adorable, but this bitch is completely crazy.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Yeah. Yes, the party cringe the Priscilla the party. The
way she like, I can't remember who she was talking to,
led them to believe that she was co hosting the
party with him.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
She was talking to the gay guys.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Just what the so weird?

Speaker 1 (50:10):
I yeah, she's she's not all there. She embarrasses herself
on a regular basis. Yes, Like I understand her point
that she was making, Like when she throws herself on
Alex at the end of the party and he gets

(50:33):
mad at her because he's like, you fabricated this whole
thing that's not there, and she gets upset and she
goes into this hole like, well, at least I'm not you.
You are negative and you're not with anybody, and at
least I try. And yes, I might, you know, get

(50:53):
my hopes up too much and I might embarrass myself
or whatever. I understand that, but like, aren't you tired
of embarrassing yourself. Yes, aren't you tired of that? You're
hurting your own feelings. Yeah, you're hurting your own feelings.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Yeah. Yeah. Like at some point girl, and that with
that self awareness that you've just received, you've got to
start putting yourself first.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
It seemed like she was going to, and then Alex
came in and gave her this rom com speech.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
You are my exception. Yeah, get the fuck out of here.
I'll tell you this. Something happened to our podcast because
I was the hopeless romantic and I don't gimos. No, honestly,
it didn't. It never funny enough. This movie never does

(51:53):
it for me because of the romance of it all.
It does it for me because of all the storylines
and how they intertwined with each other. But romance wise, no,
this movie it ends the wrong way. The resolutions of
each relationship are wrong except for Janine and Ben. Yeah,

(52:18):
every other one is wrong. Because I agree about the
the ring again, I don't think he should have proposed
Harry and Connor were weirdo and this I don't. I
don't like that ending. I would have rewritten this whole
movie and made it shorter.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
I will say this. Alex was kind of doing God's
work in this entire movie, just being completely real with everybody.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Thank you. See I was vibing with Alex. I liked Alex. Also,
he had the the bar scene right where the girls
flirting with the Google luking guy Jesus. Yeah, like he was.
He was real and he was he was real, Like
that was real life. Like every comment he had to

(53:03):
be inside was real life. Yeah he was.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
He was being one hundred percent honest. Also, I think
it's hilarious that Gigi had his cell had his work number. Like, girl,
you're blowing him up for every little thing.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
You need to, like you, how'd you make it this
far in life? You need to ask this guy for
every every opinion, what does your intuition say? What's your
intuition doing?

Speaker 2 (53:33):
But but that's the thing. Poor Gigi grew up in
you know, whatever era she grew up in and with
our era, I guess, and she couldn't think for herself.
When I came to love, she couldn't think for herself
because she's been taught from a little age. I love
this complicated and people don't just tell you how they feel,

(53:54):
so you have to decipher it. So Gigi is a
result of the establishment.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Dissecting every little thing, like every little thing, like he's
he literally said hi to you, and it's a whirlwind
romance in her mind.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
See, I hate that I'm about to admit this. I've
been guilty of being a g before. I have too.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
We all, we all have had those crushes and like
you just live for the little like especially in high school,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
Sure, yeah, in high school. Yeah, it's wherever a go,
you know, yeah, like what years ago high school.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Like high school was probably the worst high school middle school.
You know, you're younger, and you get so excited when
your crushes nearby and they strike up a conversation and
it's like the biggest deal in the world, and you know,
and there is some of that still as you get older.

(55:15):
But I feel like I'm beaten down a little bit
too much.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
I feel like it was two either two episodes ago
and I had to go back and listen again where
we sort of hit a wall. We're like, not a wall,
but it's like we're both in a cynical love era.
So it's like like meet cu my ass, you know
what I mean? Because every movie, we're like, yeah, that's

(55:46):
cute whatever. But but again, I like both of the characters.
I don't think necessarily in real life they needed to
end up together, so it would have been nice in
them movie to not end up together. But I get it.
The movie's supposed to make you feel good and blah
blah blah. Yeah, I think that's all the couples. Shall

(56:11):
I ask you? I have a question for you. So
we've discussed all the couples. I've obviously talked about my favorites.
I think you've agreed to with your favorite and least favorite, right,
But characters wise, who were your least your top two
least favorite characters?

Speaker 4 (56:31):
Anna?

Speaker 1 (56:33):
Uh, you know what, I can't even like. I hate
what Ben did and his behavior, but I wouldn't say
he's top two worst character. I really did fucking hate Connor.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
I have to tell you, like Connor and Anna, that's
that's literally my top two. I literally had the exact
same thought process you just not out loud Anna immediately,
and then I was like, I mean Ben, yeah, but
like nah, I don't really hate him. Connor Like yeah,

(57:13):
no joke.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Yeah, Connor is a big joke. Like Ben, there are
a lot of things that he did, Like, I think
he's grimy. I think mm hmm. But Connor for some
reason is just worse. Like I really disliked that guy.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
You know why, I'm gonna let's dissect it just a
tiny bit more. Here's why I think Connor gives me
the ick. Connor, whereas Ben is gonna be the type
of guy that, like he was in a relationship with Jannine,
decided like we've been together for so long, let's do this,
this is our next step, right, he was just sort

(57:55):
of following the rule book. Connor is following the rule
book but doesn't care who the players and his team
are at all. He's just picking people up from the
off the street and saying, yo, join me. Now. I
want a house, I want a wife, and I want kids.

(58:16):
That to me again, I'm not giving I want to
be very click souse. I'm not giving Ben a pass.
But Ben was in a relationship with Janine. He ultimately
cared about her in quote unquote and her feelings when
he said, you know, let's do the next step. Whereas
like Connor doesn't matter, doesn't see the person right, doesn't

(58:37):
care who the person is, and that is such a
turn off for me. Where someone just said dehumanizes a person.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
Yeah, I mean, okay. Ben just seemed definitely not making excuses.
But Ben seemed like a lost soul. You know, he
didn't know who he was. He did all these things
without really thinking them through, like in terms of like

(59:06):
getting married and yeah, all that. Did not handle himself well,
like the lying and everything like that about the cigarette,
like if you're gonna come clean about an affair. Although
I have to say the coming clean about the affair,
I think it was a selfish move because remember he

(59:28):
was like, I'll leave, I can go on Neil's boat.
And Janine's like, wait, what you don't want to work
on things? And he's like, oh, I just thought you
were like you didn't want me to be there. I
think he saw it as his way out.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
But anyway, I agree, oh my god, you have this
great by the way, Yes.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
But Ben was more of a lost soul. Where's Connor?
You remember when he and Anna are hanging out, He's
massaging her feet on the couch. She goes over after
like something fails with Ben, so she goes and gets

(01:00:09):
her fix from her validation from Connor and they're doing
that game where it's like smart, sexy, cute, and I
forget what the other thing is funny funny, and he
says that she's sexy and cute and she's like, no,

(01:00:31):
you have it has to be one and one. She's like,
you don't want just to just be in one column,
which is the looks, which told me everything I know
needs to know about Connor, Like he was into her
because of her looks, not because she was this amazing person,
you know, So I think you're totally right about he

(01:00:56):
had certain goals and was like, she's great arm candy.
He wasn't in love with her because of who she is.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
Prisceilla. What a great observation because I forgot about how
he categorized her, which I agree tells you everything about
what he thought about her. It was all superficial. Yeah,
oh my god, I'm gosh. We are so aligned. Okay,
we are very aligned.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
I have a question for you. Okay, if you were Anna,
or if you were in her position.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
Okay, okay, traveling there now.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Would you have made yourself known in the closet when
she was in Ben's office and they were like about
to do it and then his wife comes and he
shoves her in the closet. He's like, I'll be like
two minutes. And obviously he didn't know that she was
going to go and like seduce him and whatever. Would

(01:01:56):
you have stayed quiet in that closet or would you
have made yourself known?

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
So here's the thing. I'm trying to be rational in
the sense of what would my adrenaline potentially could be
like in that moment. But part of me feels that
I would have come out because number one, safeish environment.
It's in his office. I could run out right because
I don't want to get my ass beat. I I'm

(01:02:20):
the one in the wrong, you know what I mean? Yeah,
I part of me says, yeah, that's probably what I
lay more toys. I would have, Yeah, because why not?
I got nothing to lose. That's that's usually my mentality
and social situations like I've kind of yeah, what about you?

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
Actually, you made a really good point about it being
a safe space, So I think I would make myself
that Like watching it, I was like, bitch, why didn't
you say anything, Like why didn't you reveal yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
You know, putt your address on too.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
She was in the closet for a while. She could
have put the close back on, but anyway, Yeah, yeah,
I think being in the office setting, I could I
could leave and maybe not catch any hands.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
Yeah, we know we in the wrong. I know we
the one that fucked up. So yeah, yeah, I'm not
trying to get beat nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
You know, I would like to think I would make
myself known because not only like, Okay, yes she's in
the wrong, but also like now he's straight up disrespect
he's disrespecting both of them. I'd be like, girl, he's
fucking us both up, you know, like I'm out of here.

(01:03:49):
But maybe my adrenaline might keep me in the closet.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
Well, part of me thinks, because the beginning of the conversation,
I still think Anna, a part of Anna was still
trying to piece it together and understand because rumored to Anna,
right and her mom and her thoughts, he's going to
leave his wife.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
Right, Yeah she did say that, didn't she.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Yeah, So I wonder if the beginning of the conversation,
she's trying to eavestroup, put it together and almost like
again disrespecting herself, keeping herself in the closet because she's
quote unquote saving the relationship that she could have in
the future with him. But then I think at the
end that I love you. I think that's what did

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it for her maybe, and that's why she like came
out and left right after. But that's probably why she
didn't come out before. That's just my random theory.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
Yeah, because she like she stayed for the whole thing
and then was pissed at him, Which you can't really
be that pissed at him.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
You can't be mad at him. No, you can't be
mad at him at all. Even if he told you
that he was signing down the worst papers tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
Right, he's still married and.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
He just told his wife I love you, like you
could just hear that. They were not in a horrible space.

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
Well, she Janine said, don't you want to save our marriage?
And he's like, I do.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
That's it that I forgot about that. Yep. I think
that again, Anna was holding out hope and being the
controlled a little part of this experiment and then probably
heard that and that's when she got pissed. But by
then it was too late to storm out in front
of her. I think, yeah, no, what a bitch.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
Yeah, that seems crazy. Yeah, yep, all right, Well I'm
I'm curious to see if we are aligned with our rating. Oh,
by the way, I just want to say, this movie
really really made me miss Baltimore, and I hope to
go back very soon.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
Oh you know, I've never been to Baltimore.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Actually, I know you've been throughout it many times. Yeah,
it's a cool city.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
Perhaps we can meet up there next. We'll figure this out,
we will. Yeah, but let's rate this.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
Movie on a scale of one to five.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
Couple emoji, couple, coupled with a heart. You get that couple?

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
Wow, gosh, what do you give? He's just not that
into you.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
So I think we've aligned so well throughout this whole movie.
But I think in the rating is what we're gonna misalign.
I give this movie for coupled couple emoji, coupled heart emoji.
Because I like movies like this. I love Valentine's Day,
I love New Year's Eve. I like movies where like

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random people pop up into others' lives and you don't
realize all the connections, because I do, you know the
I do believe the world is small at the end
of the day. I Neil does it for me very
much in this movie. I don't care for the main
characters of Alex and Gigi, but Neil and Beth they

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do it for me, and I wish we had more
Neil and Beth time basically. But other than that, it's funny.
It's full of silly, wrong, calm things in the sense
of all the truth that Alex spews out. So I
like this movie. I enjoy I didn't realize how long
it was, so I struggle between a three point five

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and a four here because of how long it was.
But overall, I really really liked this movie. And like
I've said many times, I wish the endings were different,
but we'll talk about that in another day. What about you?
How many coupled heart emojis do you get? This movie?

Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
So I'm straight down the middle with this movie. I
give it three. Okay, I give it three.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
I I thought it was going to be lower FYI, Okay, if.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
You had asked me back in twenty ten, it would
have been lower. Got it, But no, I appreciated it
this time around. I also like movies that show how
everybody is connected. So yeah, I don't think I don't
think it was bad I don't think it was this

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amazing film. I thought it was enjoyable. Everybody played their
part well. And you know, it's a rom com, so
some characters like Gigi are very exaggerated and can get
on your nerves. But no, I thought it was I

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thought it was good. You know, it was fine.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Yeah that's higher than I thought. So I'm happy.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
Good.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
Yeah, good. We were there, We were there, We're closed.
We were very close. If i'd have gone on a
three point five, yeah, we've been very very close. But
even then, No, Yeah, I enjoy it. I will say
this movie made me think. And it was probably the
second time I watched it for the podcast. I was like, oh,
I would really like a rom com with like all

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the rom com or like all these guys that I
think are dreamy, like Krasinski, Reflex, macconaughey, Bateman. I mean,
for get it. What a movie. Oh and then you
sprinkle a little Seinfeld just for the cynicism of it all.

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
Oh, you have quite a collection of men there, my friend.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
I do, I do, I do. I saw a reel
the other day which was like, hear me out? Who
is You're hear me out?

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
Crises? Yes, I love those I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Like, I have not seen Jerry Seinfeld and just hear
me out yet, and I need to make sure that
people are aware hear me out Jerry Seinfilda.

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
I crack up at the hear me out that are
all like cartoon characters. But some of them I'm like, no, no, no,
I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
Wait okay, wait, you know what. You open the door,
and I need to ask you this question. I've never
had a question on cartoon character. I don't understand the
cartoon character thing. I you're a fake, you're fit.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
I guess, I guess. I just I think I'm a
little shocked because I'm thinking, like even as a kid,
like Disney Prince type of stuff, like no, no.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
They never did it for me. Damn no as a kid.
If I'm remembering correctly, the first time I was like, ooh,
was a wrestler from Puerto Rico. It was like a
Puerto Rico wrestling thing. And Chicano. Also this neighbor that
I had, I was very young. I had no business

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looking at this neighbor, but he always played music like
like I done really loud and had one of those
like low riding cars and yeah, I don't know why.
My ten year old self was like, oh my gosh,
like what if he fell in love with me?

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
Well, I mean definitely, Like the first real like crushes
that I had on like grown men were were Patrick
swayze and Dirty Dancing. I was like, okay, five or

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six when I first saw that movie.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
And.

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
I was young.

Speaker 1 (01:12:02):
I was young, like I feel like people give me
a look when I'm like Patrick Swayzey and I was
in grade school. Patrick Swayzey and Diry Dancing and Kevin
Costner in Field of Dreams. He was just I mean,
he he was so good looking, but it was also

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more than that. I think. I just like in the
in the Kevin Costner one, like I don't know. I
liked how he was like he was a family man.
I liked that whole thing. As a child, I was
a child with these crushes on these grown men. In

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terms of a cartoon character, Oh here we go, this
is more like recent Adriana and I were talking about. Okay,
so subtly similar. So the the Disney movie Tangled.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
Oh okay, I forgot his name.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
N Ryder, Yeah get it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
No, he cannot get it because he cannot get it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
He could if he was real, he could.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
No see Okay, wow, okay, we're going through something here. Wait.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
Also, sorry, I need to just say this. There was
one hear me out that I started laughing so hard,
and it was hear me out and it was a
cartoon character and it was it was the the main
character from Zootopia, the Fox, and I started laughing. But

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listen to me. It's only because Jason Bateman is the
of the Fox.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Okay, okay, okay, okay, I can't understand the voice thing.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
I just started laughing because I knew exactly what that
person meant. They were focused on Jason Bateman's voice.

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
Okay, So then I have a question. Is it really
the cartoons or is it the voice playing those cartoons?
Because Flynn Wrider, I forget who he's played by. But
he's a cute guy.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
Yes, he is a cute guy.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
And he sounds good. Yeah, I mean, yeah, he sounds
really good.

Speaker 1 (01:14:25):
I don't know Flynn Rider. I think is a combination
of both. But the Fox, it's the voice.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
I mean, if that's the case, put me in the
B mood.

Speaker 1 (01:14:42):
Oh my god, girl, I'm about to.

Speaker 4 (01:14:44):
Be oh my.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
Oh rory, Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (01:15:08):
No I mean, wow, wow, pass out.

Speaker 5 (01:15:38):
Oh apologies, I feel like that would be good stopping.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
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