July 30, 2024 • 61 mins
Wishing benches! Mischievous saints! Join Jenn and Priscilla as they discuss Netflix's Irish Wish and Lindsay Lohan's exclusively-plaid wardrobe.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, my ceo, Hey coo.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to Meet Cute, a podcast for friends jend of Mars.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
And Priscilla Wilson get together.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
To discuss all things rom coms, from the classics to
the latest releases. We'll be diving deep into the world
of romantic comedies.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I have a question for you. Did you see Irish
Wish before today's episode?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Mm hmm, good you.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Did, Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I saw it just to watch it, uh huh, and
then rewatched it for that for the episode.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, okay, I noticed. I noticed it on Netflix when
it got added. It's recent, right, like it's it's new.
I saw that got added by I never watched it,
so this was my first time.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, I don't remember when it, oh March I came
out of mark So yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's very that makes sense, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I wasn't going to watch it. Actually, fun fact, so
today today's movie Irish Wish. I picked it. I was
not going to watch it when I first came out
because I did not like Linday Lohan's intro movie Back
Into This World. I forgot what it was, but it
was like a Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, it was a Christmas movie. Uh huh m hmm.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I spoiler alert. I didn't really care for that one,
and so I thought, oh, this is too cheesy, and
then this one. The reason obviously it got my attention
was because Irish mm hmmm. And I said, you know what,
I will sit through it and then you know, here
we are talking about it today.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Do you want to tell our audience what it's about?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Mm hm. When the love of her life gets engaged
to her friend, Mattie puts her feelings aside to be
a bridesmaid at their wedding in Ireland. Days before the wedding,
Maddie makes a spontaneous wish for true love, only to
wake up as the bride to be. How'd I do perfect?
(02:13):
I just reminded me of like in a world.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I will say the love of her life title seems yeah,
seems crazy to say.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, I think this girl's a libra. She definitely fell
in love with the I mean, let's yeah, let's have
right in. Let's talk about Maddie. Who's the main girl.
She's an editor, book editor, also a writer, and she
(02:54):
worked if I'm remembering correctly, d so she worked at
a I guess a publishing editing whatever house. Paul Kennedy
comes in to get his bush his bush and this
is no longer He's gonna work on a book. But no,
(03:18):
none of the other editors wanted to work with him
because there was just not a good, you know, connection,
And so she ends up working with him. But I
think the only reason they had a good connection or
quote unquote good make made a good team was because
she quickly fell in love with him and the idea
of him.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I agree with that, but also the entire movie, the
theme is that she doesn't really have a voice, like
she doesn't speak up for herself. She kinda just goes
along with whatever. So I think that's another reason why
they got along, because she just kind of went with it. It
(03:58):
kind of sounded like, yeah, it sounds like she kind
of wrote the book, right.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yes, I don't know about his first book, meaning the
one we saw the premiere for that she was or
the launch, but the book that comes up later we
find out she's the one that wrote it actually or
wrote most of it at least.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, I don't know. I feel like in the beginning
at this book premiere or whatever, her friends even tell
her like congratulations, like alluding to the fact that she
basically wrote it, and she tried to be like, no, no,
you know, I edited, you know, maybe changed a thing
(04:47):
here or there. But I really do think that she
probably put a lot more into it because from what
it sounds like, even though he had published books before,
this seems like it took off and it was like
a totally different vibe than the other ones. So he's
essentially he's got the career that she wanted exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I agree with that that analysis, because that could be
why nobody wanted to work with him. He was such
a poor writer. Yes that editors were like, I can't
unless I rewrite this, I can't edit this.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And it makes sense that she would not have a
voice to say that and just rewrite it instead of
you having feedback.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah. I mean he's Irish, right, he's got the accent,
he's got those beautiful eyes. He's a good looking guy.
So I could see why she was caught up in
the whole thing. But it's clear that I think she
(05:59):
fell in love with her idea of him and not
him because he I don't know, if you feel this way,
he kind of sucks.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yes, no, no, this is actually excellent we're on the
same page because he's super flirty. I don't know, if
you remember at the premiere, he's like winking at her,
smiling looking at her, so you could tell. The man
just exudes you know, charisma, right or risk as the
(06:28):
kids will say nowadays. And he knew what he was doing.
I feel like so that kind of makes him a
little bit douchey in my eyes, because I feel like
he knew what he was doing. Yeah, but not to
skip too too far ahead. I can totally see why
him and her childhood friend would be together. They're both
(06:52):
sort of like quirky. I don't know if that's the
right word. But they're both different.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yes, there, they are different. They have a lot in common.
They I don't know. I don't know what I would.
I was gonna say they have strong personalities, but I don't.
I don't think that's correct. They're just very particular and
(07:18):
they seem to be very particular about the same things.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yes, I think there was that scene where he's putting
ice on his eye and they have that comment where
she's like he's like, oh you know this is this
looks bad or whatever, and she's like, I have this
great concealer that I can let you borrow and he
was like, yes, thank you. Like that. That to me,
(07:41):
it's like encapsules their relationship, where like that's why they
fit so well together. They're thinking about those things.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, I can't help but wonder though about the friend.
Oh god, I forget her name, But even when so
before like the wishes made and everything, when they meet
at the book party, she kind of molds herself to
(08:11):
be things that he likes. Like that's why Lindsay Lohan Maddie.
She kept looking at her friend whenever she would like
agree with something that he said, or she was like,
oh I like that too, and she's like what, Like
she like made faces, So she was being agreeable. And
(08:33):
I think that's probably why they work out, because she
just she could very well be into a lot of
the same things or have some of the same traits
as him. But I think because she is moldable. I
think that's why they work why his family loves her too,
(08:55):
m because they get like whatever they say goes basically yes.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Okay, So I think what you just said also gave
me this idea. So I'm gonna almost add on to
what you just said. I think they both lie about
the same things, so when they both find out they
were both lying, they're sort of like, ha ha, that's funny, right,
flying about that because you could argue he's technically not
a writer, right, Like he wants to be a writer
(09:24):
because that's what makes him look good, but he's not
a good writer. So you could argue they're both the
real persona is that concealer persona or the you know,
like kind of I think I had another comment like
that too, about like something else, So you could argue
they're both gonna be okay with each other.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Why yeah, yeah, yeah, i'd say about Maddie, I know,
this is such a shallow thing.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I hated this girl's wardrobe. Who say, every outfit she
came out with, I was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
What is this? I okay? Whoever helped her pack for
Ireland lied to her. They said to her this is
what Irish people wear, and then sent her off with
a bunch of plood.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
So much plaid, so much.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I mean, one day she was straight out of the
Kmart catalog. The next day she was straight out of Birdberry.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Like.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I just didn't understand that at all.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, yeah, hated hated her fashion choices.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, I almost. I wish she would have been a
little bit more rugged because and not so much because
of James, but I feel like, I don't know, her
hair looked pretty that it could have been. She could
have just been a little bit more rugged instead of
this like preppy wanna be doesn't know how to do
preppy girl.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah she. Maybe it makes sense that her fashion was
like just a mess because I don't think she had
a very strong sense of.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Who she is Pricella, that's so good.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So so okay, I'll give her a pass on the
awful freaking outfits because she didn't even know who she was.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
No, she did it? Wow, hmm, that's it. Yeah, and
it shows even in her wardrobe.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah who she was? Yeah, because she's kind of all
over the place. She's not really making a statement. Not
that you're not that your fashion has to always be
saying something, but I feel like there should be kind
of like a consistency, right, yes, So yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Well, we live in a in a world, in a
society or this time and age where what you wear
says a lot about your personality. So that didn't She
just seemed always which just seems so yeah mm hmm. Wow, Okay,
that is deep.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, So a question for you, would you would you
have said something to Paul even though you see that
he hit it off with your friend? Would you have
been like, let me get this off my chest right now?
Or do you think that's a dick move? Do you
(12:28):
think she did the right thing? By just.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Okay, I literally had a same question for you, and
a definitely worded way of like, you know, God, you
have feelings for or false for your best friend, what
do you do in that moment? Because I was going
to ask the same question. I did have some time
to think about it, and I think if I'm being
like just as level headed as possible, Okay, not to
(12:56):
be dramatic, but like, this has happened in life, so
it's like when I think about it, when it has happen,
it's like it pisses me off when it's someone that
ultimately I find out they're not a good friend or
a good person and their intentions were hidden. But I
when I think about if it's a good friend that
I love, then I'll give you a perfect example, my friend,
(13:19):
if it happened with me and you like, I'm like,
oh my god, she's amazing, so that's wasn't meant to be.
But also because I have this knowledge of like what
fate is too, I feel like and I believe it.
So Yeah, to answer your question, I feel like it
ultimately depends on the intentions of my friend. And I
feel like in this movie, Emma didn't have bad intentions.
(13:42):
She just fell in love with him the moment she
saw him.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, what about you, I I would have to agree,
I was gonna say I probably would have just kept
my mouth shut. Yeah, I don't know, because I like,
I feel like it's icky to be like it almost
feels like you're doing something wrong even though they haven't.
(14:07):
They're not together yet type of thing, but you can
like kind of see the writing on the wall. I
might I might keep my mouth shut, but I kind
of like what you said. Or maybe it depends on
the person. You know. If I know them and I
know that they have good intentions, this would be a
(14:28):
good match, Like then I wish you all the best.
If it was somebody else, then maybe I might be like, look,
I'm just gonna out and say it. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know because like you said,
with the whole idea of fate, maybe them meeting and
(14:48):
stuff like that's supposed to happen. I don't you know,
I don't want to like interfere with anything if we
if we were supposed to be together, it would have
happened type thing. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I agree with what you just said because this is
like kind of the premise of this movie. She interferes
with what's supposed to happen, and it turns out she's
not very happy with it. So yeah, I think it'll
just depend.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
She's not happy with it. But also it's a testament
to fate, Like fate plays a bit very big role
in the plot that you know, it doesn't matter if
she had spoken up back then or whatever. These two
people were gonna find their way to each other, like
(15:43):
when she made the wish and she ended up becoming
the person that was going to marry Paul him. He
was definitely hitting it off with her friend and they
were like meeting secretly. They they didn't do anything, but
like they had feelings for each other. So it doesn't
(16:05):
matter the timeline, like they that's supposed to happen, you know, yes,
whether she's with him or not. It was going to happen,
and you weren't going to be able to stop it
no matter what you did.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, Which, when I think about it, even though it's
not me, and like, oh my gosh, that's so beautiful,
such a force of nature that like, no matter what,
these people just keep running into each other like that.
To me, it's like, Okay, your God's chosen people, like
I bow down to you. That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Actually, on that, on this note, I wanted to ask you,
Paul and Emma were flirting pretty fucking.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Hard, like flirting when when Maddie was the bride.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
You mean, when Maddy was the bride, Emma and Paul
flirted heavily. I'm I mean it was almost like they
couldn't control each other and they couldn't control what was happening.
Which when you look at it from the Fate universe
type of vibe, it's like, yep, I get it. But
let's be real girl, Like, if I catch your flirting
(17:13):
like that with my future husband, I'll be like, yo,
what's going on? Fay or no, Fate, Like, what's up?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, so all of that was a little heavy. I
don't know what you thought of it.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I agree. I mean, and I think Maddie knew it too,
because when he wants to go for the bike ride
and she's like, I don't do well with bikes and
she crashes and then immediately Emma's like I'll go, and
like they're like I'll race you type of thing. Maddie
(17:46):
already knows. She's like no, no, no, no, Like she wants
to keep them apart because I think she knows deep
down that like they have a connection and she just
kind of wants to be the wedge in that.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, Like like she knew, leave them alone and they're
gonna find each other how they need to.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
And then she.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Caught them outside. She was like looking out the window
and they were having like this really heated discussion or whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Emma was wearing his jacket.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, and then they they danced together. They were like
always gravitating towards each other.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm gonna tell you,
I know you feel the same way. Spidy senses are
gonna be like from the gecko, like, Yo, we'll have
what's happening here? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And when she cried, she cried in that scene the
outside scene. Yeah, Emma cried.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah. Yeah, So, like Mattie was selfish by making that wish. Now,
did she think that the wish was actually gonna come true? Now?
But she's also making a wish without even like really
knowing this guy. Mm hmm, Like, yeah, they worked together
on his book, but she didn't really know who he was,
(19:07):
and he was kind of a dick. His family, His
family kind of sucks. She she wasn't happy right from
the gate, Like she got her wish, and she kept
claiming that she that she was happy with her wish,
but she wasn't.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
No, and it goes back to her just not having
a voice.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So yeah, yeah, I I don't know what else to
say with that, because right right from the beginning, like
I just didn't see him and her together. He was
very selfish. Oh my god, the revealed that she got
down on one knee and proposed. I was moretified mortified.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Okay, I'm so glad we're talking about it right now. Okay,
when that part of the story comes up about how
the proposal went, I'm thinking, oh, okay, we're about to
find out it's some sort of proposal that she didn't
it wasn't her right? And I think of that like,
for example, like a woman that wants a simple proposal
and then there's like fireworks and it's like, all right,
calm down, I wanted something simple. It's not who I am, okay,
(20:14):
And then we find out the conversation was just so off.
And then she says, when are you going to take
me to Ireland? He says, like marriage or something, and
then she takes that as a sign, gets on one
knee proposes. I don't have a problem with women proposing,
all power to you. I think women should be allowed
(20:36):
to have whatever relationship they want to have. Where I
have a problem with women proposing is if you are
proposing in like a situation like this where you know
this man or you maybe don't know, but like you are,
the signs are there that this man doesn't want to
be with.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
You right right, that you'd like the self respect is
not there. Yes, it was so an act of desperation.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yes, you know what. You could argue that it was
almost her trying to lock it in because Emma. She
saw that Emma and him were hitting it off, and.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
He agreed to this because she's helpful to his career.
He doesn't actually love her. I didn't see any kind
of loving energy from him or anything like.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Not even a friendship. I feel like it was more.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Of ye yeah, no, they were just they were not
a match and she was she had the blinders on.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Sorry I've rant it, but like, how do you feel
about that about specifically about woman proposing.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I don't know. I don't know, maybe the patriarchy all
that stuff. Like I'm so used to a man being
the one to propose, so when I hear of a
woman proposing, I'm always like yikes, But I don't know,
like think of sex and the city, right, Miranda proposed
(22:13):
to Steve.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, we know how that ended.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I know, let's let's pretend that that didn't happen. When
when everything was right in the world Miranda, Yes, pre
pandemic days Miranda and Steve. Miranda Steve. They're happy. They
(22:41):
find they were way back to each other. Everything's good.
They're sitting outside at some bar having beers, and they're
talking about their future and she just looks over at him,
very simply, and she says, will you marry me? It's
not this big to do. They're very comfortable with each other.
They know each other so well, there's obvious love between them.
(23:05):
I found that cute. I was very supportive of that. Now,
we didn't see the proposal for Maddie and Paul, but yeah,
we didn't physically see it, but in my mind I
could see how that played out. And I'm not supportive
(23:27):
of a woman doing that. Be like, girl, get up,
get up off the floor.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, stop it right now. I think you picked the
perfect example because Miranda and Steve, right, when I think
of that relationship, I think, not that she's the man,
but I think she almost takes on that role of
head of household and he is okay with that. But
they balance each other. I mean, it took a while
(23:54):
to get there, but they balanced each other fairly well
to dive into their relationship. But I feel like when
they didn't want those roles anymore, that's kind of I
think when shit hit the fan. But in that moment
when she's proposing to him, those were the roles. And
all power to women that want to have that role
and want to be with a woman not a man,
(24:16):
I mean, and roles like that totally. That was cute,
but this it's like she wants the role of a
woman but she wants it so desperately that she's willing
to take.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
The role of a man in that moment. Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
God, I sound so patriot article patriotical.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
No, I don't think it's a I don't think it's
cut and dry like you. You think that that's just
something a man should do. It's the lack of self
respect part of it that makes it so icky. And
I cannot abide by that proposal, by those kind of proposals,
(24:59):
if you doing that to keep a man, you know
what I mean, Like no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I can't suppet that you cannot have a left here
and then expect him to have you left later, like
this is a pivot moment of heavy lifting.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yes, mm hmmm. Because then look what happened. As they
were getting closer to the wedding. Paul goes up to
her and he goes, hey, listen, I know your plans
were to write a book, but I need you to
put that on hold because I'm writing a book type
of thing and I need you to do that. And
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then by that point, she's already like gone through some
stuff and reflected on things, and she finds her voice
a bit because she's like, well, let's discuss the terms.
Am I getting a co writing credit? And he's like,
that's not how this works type of thing. I Yeah,
(26:01):
he was so dry. Yeah, he was so dry.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It wasn't like a friendly like oh, come on, Maddy,
like let's talk about it later or something. No, he
like it was business for him in that moment.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, and that was just a reflection of how that
relationship was going to be.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know if this is a
flaw of mind, but I always try to study people,
and I'm like, Okay, that makes so much sense about
his personality. His parents are loaded, he grew up in
a loaded environment. He has to make a name for himself. Somehow.
It sounds like a writer can be like a respectable
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thing to make a name for yourself, and he just
like that needs to be his thing. Like he's not
looking at anything else other than that because he needs
to stand out from his family. And unfortunately he's not
being genuine. So I hope he and Emma have a
great life.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah. I mean that clearly was the girl for him,
although she gets pissed at him at the end.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And hits him, which yeah, yeah, she's fiery.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, because he called her irrelevant.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
But I think that's why they match so well together,
going to your original point, because they're both like, she's
gonna also like call him out on his bs. She's
not just gonna be like okay mm hmm. So he says, no,
that's irrelevant, and she's like, no, it's.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Not like m yeah. Yeah. So then on the flip side,
we have James Oh my god, who's adorable. You know
who he reminded me of. I don't know. Do you
know the actor tarn Egerton?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
No, well let me look him up.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
He ta r o.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
N Oh, okay, I don't know him, but he does
look like him.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Right, he looks like him.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
So he just kept reminding me of him. But he's
I like him. I do. I was kind of thrown off, though,
because he made such a big deal about Paul Kennedy books, right,
and how he like, he just kept rolling his eyes.
(28:24):
He didn't like him as an author. I really was
expecting this big reveal that they like knew each other
from way back when because of just because of his
whole attitude towards him, I assumed that, like, you know,
maybe once upon a time they were in the same
circle or you know, something like that where he he
(28:47):
knew for real who the kind of person Paul was,
but he didn't know him. He just I don't know,
I guess made an assumption about.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Him, kind of like that mister Darcy and Daniel thing.
You know, one thing. Maybe you know he spends a
lot of time on that side of Ireland because people
know him very well. He has a lot of good
friends there. Perhaps Paul Kennedy is such a topic there
of like like our you know, someone from our side
(29:19):
of the woods is an author or a very well
known author. So perhaps he hears a lot about him,
gave the books a try and was like, oh my god,
this is crap.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
That's true. He couldn't hear a lot of stories about him.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, and like just a lot of his family too,
because they just seem to be so uptight. Yeah, so oh,
I'm so glad to hear you like James.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, you know, he was he didn't take any shit,
he was supportive. He I don't know, I just I
liked him a lot, like I thought he like had
a good sense of character compared to Paul.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, I am giggling over here. I'm just so happy
that you liked him. I this is the only reason
we watched this movie, FYI, because when I started watching
this movie, I was like, Okay, it's Ireland. Yes, let's
just watch it because of this. And then he pops
up and I was like, I'm in love. I'm in love.
(30:25):
This is what love feels like. I knew right away.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, he's very charming, but not in a slimy way.
I don't know, it's just like he's reserved and he
knows what he wants type of thing. By the way,
this movie, it just made me want to go to
Ireland even more, Like just Priscilla when that freaking beautiful girl.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
When the customs agent was like, welcome to Ireland. I
could hear that on a loop right now. With that
on a loop, Welcome to Ireland, Welcome to Ireland, Welcome
to Iireland, Like I could fall asleep to that. Yeah
we need to be there.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah we do. We need to get this trip planned
for sure.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I actually made a comment on note here I was like,
I need to be on that side of the world.
I know it, Like I just okay, That's one of
the reasons I loved James so much. And I know
he's technically English, but like the banter on up there, Like,
I feel like that's my kind of people.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Everybody is so charming over there, and I don't I
don't know if it's I'm just enchanted by everyone's accents,
but I think it's just their energy that you like,
no wonder everybody falls in love with them. M hmm. Yeah,
we need to go.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah, we're going. That's it. Where it's happening. It's happening.
We've talked about some of our plans in the state
of the world, and it's happening. I also, I've been
thinking about this a lot lately because we've talked about
moving and stuff like that. I feel like it's now
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we're never where. Like before I go settle and move
all my things somewhere else, I have to and get
a new address. I have to be there for a
few months. I have to. I have to. I owe
that to myself because if that doesn't happen, I'm gonna Oh,
it's gonna be that thing in my deathbed that I'm like, Oh,
I wish i'd done that.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, yeah, I think you should do it.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I have to mm hmm. I don't know that I
have the balls, but I have to, so we'll see
what happens.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Well, look, the fact that we had the balls to
move halfway around the country. I know that that's it's
different because it's a totally different country that you're talking about.
But I mean that that was the first step, you
know what I mean? Like, yeah, you know, yesterday it
was Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tomorrow it's Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
So yeah, yeah, I mean we did. When you really
think about it, you came from New Jersey. I came
from Florida to Oklahoma. That's like another country.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
It really really felt like another world, like culture shock.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Totally totally.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
But having done that, that has put me at ease
because I know I'm not going to be in New
Jersey forever. But now I have the confidence to be
like I could, I could go anywhere. I already did it,
you know what I mean. Yes, so there is that
we have that experience under our belt.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I completely totally agree. So stay tuned because I really
really hope this works out for me. On this note,
I wrote this down because this is another thing I
can have on a loop. When James says mutualities, the
way he says mutualities.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I don't remember that part. Oh.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
They're in the car and he's talking about what similarities
they have with each other.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Oh okay, and she.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Like Paula and Maddie and she flips out like we
have a lot in common. He's like, no, I'm sure
you have a lot of mutralities.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Oh, on loop, on the loop. He really challenged her
right off the bat, like no shame, no shame. Got
very personal very quickly. I mean, I you know, he
was their photographer, I guess, but even still like he
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was getting very personal. It's funny how when they were
all at the rehearsal dinner and they were asking questions
to the couple, right, like that's where we find out
about the proposal story and all that. James knows the
answers to a couple of the questions and like the
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favorite author. She said her favorite author was James Joyce.
And then she just kind of went with paul when
he said Charles Dickens, like, and she kept looking at
him like that's embarrassing because this dude knows the truth.
I don't know. On the one hand, it's like, wow, dude,
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take a step back and like, don't get all up
in my business like this, but also like he was
kind of that catalyst for her to find her voice.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Totally, totally, and I just want to say, I find
it funny that when she's at the the oh god,
what's it called the wishing, the wish, wishing something and
see something.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, whatever, it.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Is not the wishing chair, child.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Irish people are oh my god, I'm so sorry forgive me.
So when she's at the place where she's making the
wish and then the the saint, the spirit that comes
out tells her, you need to be seated for this
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to properly work. So she she grants her the wish,
but she keeps interfering. She keeps throwing this dude in
her path, do you know what I mean? Like I
kept thinking that during the movie. I'm like, she's not
just letting her get her wish. She keeps like throwing
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wrenches in it.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
So I don't know, it's almost like she's like, I'm
gonna let you get your wish, but your wish isn't
what I want for you, so I'm gonna make sure
that you have a miserable time with your wish. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, it's definitely be careful what you wish for type
of thing, because she got what she wished for.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
You know, I just had a thought Priscilla with when
you said be careful what you wish for, Like, I
don't think we realized you can wish something, but somebody
has to be on the other end of that wish,
and that person then or that being now takes control
of your wish.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Oh yeah, that's that's why. Like, So if you ever
see these people talking about setting intentions and manifesting and everything,
whether you're speak trying to speak them into existence or
literally writing them out, they say to be as specific
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as possible, because you can sit here and pray that
you get into a relationship by the end of the year,
that you fall in love by the end of the year.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
If you're not specific enough.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I can fall out of love at the beginning of
the year.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
That and also, like, maybe you fall in love with
a real piece of shit, you know what I mean?
Maybe maybe Yeah, we'll give you that, We'll give you
that relationship, but it's gonna be a really shitty relation.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Yeah, and you might not be able to go back
to the wish and chair. So gotta think, God, gotta think.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
I believe the the bartender. Was it that? Oh no, no, no,
I think it might have been the priest that she
was talking to about the whole like wish situation. Yes,
And he even said like be careful though, because she's
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got a bit of a sense of humor. So she
was like fucking with mad Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Oh man to be saying Bridget and just watch people
sit at the chair and be like, oh, I'm about
the mess. But that would be kind of a fun life.
I would like to do that in my next life.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Just messing with people, just mess around.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
You know, just like like oops, oh you tripped. Now
you're at the hospital. Yeah, oh when you set the
bar u bartender, I'm sorry, but like that dart scene,
I was hot. I was like, does somebody turn on
the heater like this is steamy?
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Yeah. He took the opportunity to teach her something real,
up close and personal.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm not okay.
After that scene, I'm not okay. I'm not okay. The banter,
the back and forward was so so hot and so
there's no thought behind it. It was just like you're
a good coach. Oh you're a good student. Oh I
can't move, I can't.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Isn't it funny that James and Maddie had that moment
in the garden where they're having a conversation. James is
kind of like, why are you doing this kind of thing?
Are you really happy? Yeah? Because he I guess he
just I don't know. He needed to, He needed some
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answers about why she was putting herself through this and
all that. And then Paul passes them. Now they're not
doing anything. They're in a heated discussion. I think James
might have at that point put his hands on her shoulders,
but that was really it. And he had the audacity
(40:56):
to want to beat the shit out of James and
like make a big deal out of it. And then when
Maddie brought up Emma, like you guys had a moment,
you guys had this hole back and forth, he brushed
it off and just focused on them, What the hell
she's giving you an out? And he was like pissed
(41:17):
about it.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Can't lose, he can't lose, he needs to go to therapy.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Yeah. Yeah, I think he just saw her as a
moneymaker for him.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
M M yeah, and he knew getting married would look
so good and then we'll get him books for the
rest of his life.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Yeah, if they had, if she had gone down that path,
she would have never had a writing career, not under
her own name. She would have been writing, but she
would have been writing for his career.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah, yep, No, he wasn't. He was not good for
her period. But I have to say, beautiful fucking wedding.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Yeah, that was very nice where they were going to
get married.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Mm hmm, all those colors. I was like, I'm in love.
I want to get married like that.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Now do you think so? Even though it's obvious that
Saint Brigid like she's supposed to be like symbolic of fate, right,
and how whether you take the long way the short way,
there are certain things that are going to happen, and
the GPS is basically going to reroute you right to
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that particular destination. She got a glimpse of what her
life would have been like with the wish. James is
going to come into her life either way. But do
you feel like she cheated a little bit because she
knows all this stuff about him, So when the wish
is broken, she knows all this stuff about James and
(42:53):
he doesn't know anything about her, and she's like saying
things to him, and he's like enchanted by her. But
I was like, you cheat her? You know all this
from me?
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Okay, I can totally understand, but I'll tell you if
I'm her in that moment, I don't care about cheating.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
No, I know, I get it, I get it, I
have hand I get it. I totally get it. But
I also was laughing about it. I'm like, this poor guy.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
You don't want to be but admit it. So you
don't want to.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Be James us No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
I don't want to be James in that situation.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
I feel like if you meet someone now that like
has all these information about you, or like happens to
just know this knowledge, you'll be like, who told you that?
How do you know this?
Speaker 1 (43:46):
I'd be so suspicious. I would be so suspicious.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
And if they're like, oh, well you told me, No,
I didn't. I didn't tell you that. I remember everything
I said tell you.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
That's the That's the thing. I don't I think you
could get away with saying to a guy I told
you that you never remember what I say, But you
can't do the same thing to a woman because we
remember everything.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
I absolutely agree, Yeah you can. We can totally gasp
by a man to believe.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Totally Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Yeah, I also thought that know about that. One of
the things that maybe I thought was maybe a little
weird is the fact that, if you think about it,
she did have a chance to have this wish and
then technically meet James or get to know James in
a better way, but that never happened technically, right, Like
that was just like almost like a dream or a blip.
(44:48):
So part of me is like, do you have this
knowledge about him or do you maybe have this knowledge
of some of the things about him, but like don't
really know him? Like what if he doesn't end up
being this cute guy? Right, Like I don't know, I
don't know if that makes any sense.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Like the version of James that she knew in the
wish wouldn't be the same version of him.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Yeah, I don't know if you're saying, yeah, but that
came that thought came to me with that, So I
don't know, But I guess that's the magic of the movie, right,
He's technically the same cute banchary guy.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
HM and he inexplicably turned down that one job that
he was supposed to have and decided to stay in
Ireland for a little bit longer.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
Because a lady told him and oh.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
Right, yes, yes, someone told him.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Hmmm so same bridges, just messing with everyone's lives. Yeah,
I don't know I feel about that. Her and I
would have words like that's enough, stop messing with my life,
stop it. Thank you for bringing James in. That's it. Yeah. Yeah,
(46:10):
quick note, I didn't care for the sidekicks in this
movie at all.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
No, no, I the one friend of hers Ayisha Curry
plays her Heather, Yes, Heather, No, I could have done
without her.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Same. They didn't feel like friends and chemistry there.
Speaker 3 (46:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
And who's the other one? The brother? I forgot his name,
but yeah it is too, but that's because it don't
matter to me.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
Mm hmmm. He was irrelevant.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
Yeah, It's like when I think about it, like Maddie
was alone and all this, and I get it. I
guess that's that's fine, But like, I don't know, when
you think of a rom com, the right recipe has
a sidekick that's like through it with you you.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Know, yes, Yeah, I feel like Heather was just kind
of focused on getting laid.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
Yes, which, hello to that man that came at the
to the.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Bar, Yeah, okay, yeah, I was on board for him.
How do you go from the brother to that dude?
She I think she just wanted anybody, honestly, because there's
no comparison, no comparison between the two men.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
Mm hmm o. God she was hot. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
I almost feel like Maddie's mom didn't have to be
in the movie. No, Like, what was her What was
the point of her you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (47:50):
I mean, you could argue because the rumor she kept saying,
my mom will know what to do, my mom will
know what to do. You could argue they say Bridget
was keeping the person that would know what to do
in this situation out of her life so she could
figure it out on her own. But that's I feel
like that's a reach.
Speaker 1 (48:08):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, aside from her mom
being the one to be like, you need to speak
up for yourself and like reiterating that at different points,
you didn't really need to spend so much time on
the mom's storyline. She didn't really have one. You know.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
I also would have liked an explanation as to why
her mom has an accent, and so where's her mom from?
And does she have anything to do with Ireland? Anything
to do with the wish and chair? Like, is there
anything in there right that would have been I guess
fun maybe to explore.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
But yeah, I mean, I know the actress is British.
Maybe she's just not good at American accents.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
American accents maybe, yeah, she definitely was not from Des Moines.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Exactly. Think how are you gonna pick the whitest part
of America? Mm hmmm for this very British woman.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
To be a principle there too?
Speaker 1 (49:18):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
All right, my friends, are you ready to rate this movie?
Speaker 1 (49:25):
Yes? I am.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
I don't know why I just held this like if
this was my microe. Okay, great? From one through five
sheep emojis, what do you give Irish wish?
Speaker 1 (49:39):
And you're gonna be mad at me?
Speaker 2 (49:41):
I have a feeling, and now it's been confirmed.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
Gone, I give it to and a half sheeps. I
can't see your face because you're frozen. Okay, I see
it now. You're disappointed. I know you are. But I
took the movie in stride, beautiful, beautiful scenery. It was
(50:09):
just corny girl. It was corny. Lindsay Lohan, what happened
to you? I thought she was insufferable. Everyone else, like
you know, the storyline was cute, you know, take it
(50:31):
with a grain of salt. But Lindsay Lohan, I don't
know what happened. I didn't enjoy her, and she's the
main person I liked. I liked James. I thought the
guy who played Paul Kennedy did well for you know,
the role that he had. Like you said, the sidekicks
weren't really there was really not much else, so you know,
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it is what it is. I took it for what
it was. Yeah, on a scale of one to five sheep,
what do you rate? Irish wish?
Speaker 2 (51:12):
Oh call me Kashmir?
Speaker 3 (51:15):
I oh, okay, I'm composing myself after that writing.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
I give this movie four sheeps. But here's why, here's why,
hear me out. I one hundred and ten million percent
agree with you, Lindsey Lohan. This the last movie. Again.
I don't know how many new movies she's hat recently,
but like the only ones I remember are this one
and the Christmas one where she like has a concaution
(51:46):
and forgets who she is. She is she is. It
was so corny and so cheesy and her acting is
so oh my gosh, I'm just a girl just to
you know, and I just can't, you know. Like I said,
the thing that drew me to this movie was Ireland,
(52:07):
and then I met James and I was like, whoa,
I'm here. So for those reasons, because I have such
a huge crush on James, I give this movie four sheeps.
And then the other reason, so that reason one. Reason
two is because the ultimate theme of the movie I
liked of the whole, like, sometimes we get caught up
(52:30):
on how we want our life to be that we
forget life happens when you just like are living it.
So because technically, if she would have just left things
as is, she could have been in a better mood
when she met James at the bus, they could have
laughed about their suitcase mishap, and then life could have
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continued on with them. You could also argue that this
is what was meant to happen. But I think the
core thing of the movie is if you just let
life happen, it will happened for you, just like it
happened for Emma and and Paul. So yes, I don't
give it for because of the rom com aspect of
it or the Lindsay Lohan aspect of it. It's like
(53:12):
huge crush on James and just ultimately what this movie
teaches I like.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
So yeah, yeah, I like that theme too, actually I do.
But overall, like I was cringing for a lot of it, Yeah,
I was cringing for a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
I have to agree, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:37):
I just I just realized, like there was no kiss
at all between her and James. I don't know what.
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
Yeah, they kissed, they kiss win when she runs after
him leaving the wedding, so it's still like wedding chaos.
Speaker 1 (53:54):
Oh okay, okay. Wow.
Speaker 2 (53:58):
It's a weird kiss though, because his goes to like
almost cup her face, but it just stays here and
like an awkward position.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (54:07):
So maybe that's why I wasn't memorable because it was
weird to me.
Speaker 1 (54:11):
Oh wow, how did I totally forget that?
Speaker 2 (54:15):
At that point the movie had took a big weird
turn though, So I don't blame you.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
But Ray was like, you're not gonna remember anymore.
Speaker 2 (54:25):
Again, I totally would believe that reaction. And I don't
blame you because right before that, we had Heather and
the priest next to each other and Heather's like, oh
my god, and he's like, what's not bring him into this?
I'm like, oh, come on, you could have written something better,
like leave that out. That costs too much money to
put in there.
Speaker 3 (54:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
Yeah, I don't blame you, but yeah they did gets
one time. But I'm good with that. Because the dart.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
Scene, I think I don't again. I don't know how
my mind locked it out, but that I was about
to say, you know, we didn't get a kiss, and
I guess just because we're so used to people that
have a connection, like you see a kiss at some point.
(55:13):
And then that made me think of watching Twisters the
other day and how everybody's up in arms about the
fact that there's no kiss between Glen Powell and Daisy
Edgar Jones because there's like chemistry there and they they
had opportunities their eye contact like all that stuff. And
(55:38):
even my sister was like, what, there's it's She's like,
I wanted to see a payoff, and I was like,
it's not really that kind of movie though, Like if
you really think about it, like it's not about her
finding glove, it's about her I guess, getting her confidence
back and like chasing the storms or whatever. But yeah,
(56:01):
cheasing what she loved, right, But everybody was pissed about
I have.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
To tell you personally, I didn't even notice there was
no kiss in the movie. So spoiler alert for anybody
that hasn't seen it. I didn't think. I didn't forgot
about it. I just realized it when you said it.
Because to me, the best moment that gave me, like
the rom call me moment, was when she's looking like
when they're both out in the field and she's looking
(56:29):
measuring the wind or whatever, and she's like that and
he just looks at her with this view of like, Wow,
I found the girl that's like into something so niche
just like me. That to me was like a marriage
proposal at that point. I had everything I needed after
the way he looked at like Glenn Powell Chef's kiss,
(56:50):
the way he looked at her, that was a better
rum prom than anyone but you, because the way he
looked at her when that girl is just calling out
things to the wind.
Speaker 1 (57:00):
I mean, yeah, the way he was looking at her
was pretty intense throughout the whole movie. So like at
the end when he goes, sorry, this isn't gonna be
a Twister's episode. Sorry, at the end when he goes
to chase after her in the airport, you expect this
(57:26):
thing to happen and then it doesn't. I I was
fine with it, you know what I mean. But I
know it's like a big deal online, like everybody's pissed
that they don't them kiss. But they did just release
like the cut scene because they did film a kiss
(57:47):
scene in the airport. Oh, and you do see them.
So I sent it to Adrian and I'm like, here's
your kiss, here's your kids.
Speaker 2 (57:58):
I don't want to see it. Don't send it to me.
I don't want to see I am good with the look. No,
I yeah, I totally didn't catch that, So thank you. Can.
I just also say one more thing about Twister does
not anything to do with aspect of it, But the
(58:20):
way I was teasing watching this movie and Donald Mark
songs starts playing and Anthony Ramos is singing in the car,
the way I wanted to jump out of my chair
in the theater and just be like san I wanted
(58:42):
to wear Puerto Rican flag from head to toe.
Speaker 1 (58:46):
So proud Adriana. She asked me after the movie. She
was like, did you feel proud? I was like, proud
of what She's like, I love. She's like, proud of
like you lived in Oklahoma, like you know where all
this stuff is. And I was like, kinda, I guess.
(59:07):
Like they went to still Water, We went to Stillwater, Pulpa,
like all the places. And she was like, She's like,
your car is going to be the biggest attraction in
the parking lot because you have the Oklahoma plates. She's like,
you're gonna find people being like.
Speaker 2 (59:29):
She's watching twisters.
Speaker 4 (59:31):
Yeah, but like not a kissing booth, but like some
sort of booth, like come take a picture with that
Glaoma license plate.
Speaker 1 (59:44):
I tried to get my car used in the film.
They weren't going to destroy it or anything, but like
they were at the time when they were filming out there,
they were looking for like extras that were in the area,
and then they were also looking for people who had
like trucks or SUVs that had the Oklahoma plates just
(01:00:08):
to be parked like on like a main street or something.
So I tried. I didn't get chosen, but I tried.
Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Oh oh well, okay, that would have okay, I would
have flipped out. I mean, I know you would have
told us ahead of time if your car was in
the car, but that I would have definitely jumped up
and like, that's my friend's car.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to Meet Cute, a podcast for friends jend of Mars.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
And Priscilla Wilson get together.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
To discuss all things rom coms, from the classics to
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of romantic comedies.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I have a question for you. Did you see Irish
Wish before today's episode?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Mm hmm, good you.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Did, Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I saw it just to watch it, uh huh, and
then rewatched it for that for the episode.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, okay, I noticed. I noticed it on Netflix when
it got added. It's recent, right, like it's it's new.
I saw that got added by I never watched it,
so this was my first time.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, I don't remember when it, oh March I came
out of mark So yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's very that makes sense, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I wasn't going to watch it. Actually, fun fact, so
today today's movie Irish Wish. I picked it. I was
not going to watch it when I first came out
because I did not like Linday Lohan's intro movie Back
Into This World. I forgot what it was, but it
was like a Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, it was a Christmas movie. Uh huh m hmm.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I spoiler alert. I didn't really care for that one,
and so I thought, oh, this is too cheesy, and
then this one. The reason obviously it got my attention
was because Irish mm hmmm. And I said, you know what,
I will sit through it and then you know, here
we are talking about it today.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Do you want to tell our audience what it's about?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Mm hm. When the love of her life gets engaged
to her friend, Mattie puts her feelings aside to be
a bridesmaid at their wedding in Ireland. Days before the wedding,
Maddie makes a spontaneous wish for true love, only to
wake up as the bride to be. How'd I do perfect?
(02:13):
I just reminded me of like in a world.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I will say the love of her life title seems yeah,
seems crazy to say.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, I think this girl's a libra. She definitely fell
in love with the I mean, let's yeah, let's have
right in. Let's talk about Maddie. Who's the main girl.
She's an editor, book editor, also a writer, and she
(02:54):
worked if I'm remembering correctly, d so she worked at
a I guess a publishing editing whatever house. Paul Kennedy
comes in to get his bush his bush and this
is no longer He's gonna work on a book. But no,
(03:18):
none of the other editors wanted to work with him
because there was just not a good, you know, connection,
And so she ends up working with him. But I
think the only reason they had a good connection or
quote unquote good make made a good team was because
she quickly fell in love with him and the idea
of him.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I agree with that, but also the entire movie, the
theme is that she doesn't really have a voice, like
she doesn't speak up for herself. She kinda just goes
along with whatever. So I think that's another reason why
they got along, because she just kind of went with it. It
(03:58):
kind of sounded like, yeah, it sounds like she kind
of wrote the book, right.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yes, I don't know about his first book, meaning the
one we saw the premiere for that she was or
the launch, but the book that comes up later we
find out she's the one that wrote it actually or
wrote most of it at least.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, I don't know. I feel like in the beginning
at this book premiere or whatever, her friends even tell
her like congratulations, like alluding to the fact that she
basically wrote it, and she tried to be like, no, no,
you know, I edited, you know, maybe changed a thing
(04:47):
here or there. But I really do think that she
probably put a lot more into it because from what
it sounds like, even though he had published books before,
this seems like it took off and it was like
a totally different vibe than the other ones. So he's
essentially he's got the career that she wanted exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I agree with that that analysis, because that could be
why nobody wanted to work with him. He was such
a poor writer. Yes that editors were like, I can't
unless I rewrite this, I can't edit this.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And it makes sense that she would not have a
voice to say that and just rewrite it instead of
you having feedback.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah. I mean he's Irish, right, he's got the accent,
he's got those beautiful eyes. He's a good looking guy.
So I could see why she was caught up in
the whole thing. But it's clear that I think she
(05:59):
fell in love with her idea of him and not
him because he I don't know, if you feel this way,
he kind of sucks.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yes, no, no, this is actually excellent we're on the
same page because he's super flirty. I don't know, if
you remember at the premiere, he's like winking at her,
smiling looking at her, so you could tell. The man
just exudes you know, charisma, right or risk as the
(06:28):
kids will say nowadays. And he knew what he was doing.
I feel like so that kind of makes him a
little bit douchey in my eyes, because I feel like
he knew what he was doing. Yeah, but not to
skip too too far ahead. I can totally see why
him and her childhood friend would be together. They're both
(06:52):
sort of like quirky. I don't know if that's the
right word. But they're both different.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yes, there, they are different. They have a lot in common.
They I don't know. I don't know what I would.
I was gonna say they have strong personalities, but I don't.
I don't think that's correct. They're just very particular and
(07:18):
they seem to be very particular about the same things.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yes, I think there was that scene where he's putting
ice on his eye and they have that comment where
she's like he's like, oh you know this is this
looks bad or whatever, and she's like, I have this
great concealer that I can let you borrow and he
was like, yes, thank you. Like that. That to me,
(07:41):
it's like encapsules their relationship, where like that's why they
fit so well together. They're thinking about those things.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, I can't help but wonder though about the friend.
Oh god, I forget her name, But even when so
before like the wishes made and everything, when they meet
at the book party, she kind of molds herself to
(08:11):
be things that he likes. Like that's why Lindsay Lohan Maddie.
She kept looking at her friend whenever she would like
agree with something that he said, or she was like,
oh I like that too, and she's like what, Like
she like made faces, So she was being agreeable. And
(08:33):
I think that's probably why they work out, because she
just she could very well be into a lot of
the same things or have some of the same traits
as him. But I think because she is moldable. I
think that's why they work why his family loves her too,
(08:55):
m because they get like whatever they say goes basically yes.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Okay, So I think what you just said also gave
me this idea. So I'm gonna almost add on to
what you just said. I think they both lie about
the same things, so when they both find out they
were both lying, they're sort of like, ha ha, that's funny, right,
flying about that because you could argue he's technically not
a writer, right, Like he wants to be a writer
(09:24):
because that's what makes him look good, but he's not
a good writer. So you could argue they're both the
real persona is that concealer persona or the you know,
like kind of I think I had another comment like
that too, about like something else, So you could argue
they're both gonna be okay with each other.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Why yeah, yeah, yeah, i'd say about Maddie, I know,
this is such a shallow thing.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I hated this girl's wardrobe. Who say, every outfit she
came out with, I was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
What is this? I okay? Whoever helped her pack for
Ireland lied to her. They said to her this is
what Irish people wear, and then sent her off with
a bunch of plood.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
So much plaid, so much.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I mean, one day she was straight out of the
Kmart catalog. The next day she was straight out of Birdberry.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Like.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I just didn't understand that at all.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, yeah, hated hated her fashion choices.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, I almost. I wish she would have been a
little bit more rugged because and not so much because
of James, but I feel like, I don't know, her
hair looked pretty that it could have been. She could
have just been a little bit more rugged instead of
this like preppy wanna be doesn't know how to do
preppy girl.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah she. Maybe it makes sense that her fashion was
like just a mess because I don't think she had
a very strong sense of.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Who she is Pricella, that's so good.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So so okay, I'll give her a pass on the
awful freaking outfits because she didn't even know who she was.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
No, she did it? Wow, hmm, that's it. Yeah, and
it shows even in her wardrobe.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah who she was? Yeah, because she's kind of all
over the place. She's not really making a statement. Not
that you're not that your fashion has to always be
saying something, but I feel like there should be kind
of like a consistency, right, yes, So yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Well, we live in a in a world, in a
society or this time and age where what you wear
says a lot about your personality. So that didn't She
just seemed always which just seems so yeah mm hmm. Wow, Okay,
that is deep.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, So a question for you, would you would you
have said something to Paul even though you see that
he hit it off with your friend? Would you have
been like, let me get this off my chest right now?
Or do you think that's a dick move? Do you
(12:28):
think she did the right thing? By just.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Okay, I literally had a same question for you, and
a definitely worded way of like, you know, God, you
have feelings for or false for your best friend, what
do you do in that moment? Because I was going
to ask the same question. I did have some time
to think about it, and I think if I'm being
like just as level headed as possible, Okay, not to
(12:56):
be dramatic, but like, this has happened in life, so
it's like when I think about it, when it has happen,
it's like it pisses me off when it's someone that
ultimately I find out they're not a good friend or
a good person and their intentions were hidden. But I
when I think about if it's a good friend that
I love, then I'll give you a perfect example, my friend,
(13:19):
if it happened with me and you like, I'm like,
oh my god, she's amazing, so that's wasn't meant to be.
But also because I have this knowledge of like what
fate is too, I feel like and I believe it.
So Yeah, to answer your question, I feel like it
ultimately depends on the intentions of my friend. And I
feel like in this movie, Emma didn't have bad intentions.
(13:42):
She just fell in love with him the moment she
saw him.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, what about you, I I would have to agree,
I was gonna say I probably would have just kept
my mouth shut. Yeah, I don't know, because I like,
I feel like it's icky to be like it almost
feels like you're doing something wrong even though they haven't.
(14:07):
They're not together yet type of thing, but you can
like kind of see the writing on the wall. I
might I might keep my mouth shut, but I kind
of like what you said. Or maybe it depends on
the person. You know. If I know them and I
know that they have good intentions, this would be a
(14:28):
good match, Like then I wish you all the best.
If it was somebody else, then maybe I might be like, look,
I'm just gonna out and say it. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know because like you said,
with the whole idea of fate, maybe them meeting and
(14:48):
stuff like that's supposed to happen. I don't you know,
I don't want to like interfere with anything if we
if we were supposed to be together, it would have
happened type thing. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I agree with what you just said because this is
like kind of the premise of this movie. She interferes
with what's supposed to happen, and it turns out she's
not very happy with it. So yeah, I think it'll
just depend.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
She's not happy with it. But also it's a testament
to fate, Like fate plays a bit very big role
in the plot that you know, it doesn't matter if
she had spoken up back then or whatever. These two
people were gonna find their way to each other, like
(15:43):
when she made the wish and she ended up becoming
the person that was going to marry Paul him. He
was definitely hitting it off with her friend and they
were like meeting secretly. They they didn't do anything, but
like they had feelings for each other. So it doesn't
(16:05):
matter the timeline, like they that's supposed to happen, you know, yes,
whether she's with him or not. It was going to happen,
and you weren't going to be able to stop it
no matter what you did.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, Which, when I think about it, even though it's
not me, and like, oh my gosh, that's so beautiful,
such a force of nature that like, no matter what,
these people just keep running into each other like that.
To me, it's like, Okay, your God's chosen people, like
I bow down to you. That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Actually, on that, on this note, I wanted to ask you,
Paul and Emma were flirting pretty fucking.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Hard, like flirting when when Maddie was the bride.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
You mean, when Maddy was the bride, Emma and Paul
flirted heavily. I'm I mean it was almost like they
couldn't control each other and they couldn't control what was happening.
Which when you look at it from the Fate universe
type of vibe, it's like, yep, I get it. But
let's be real girl, Like, if I catch your flirting
(17:13):
like that with my future husband, I'll be like, yo,
what's going on? Fay or no, Fate, Like, what's up?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, so all of that was a little heavy. I
don't know what you thought of it.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I agree. I mean, and I think Maddie knew it too,
because when he wants to go for the bike ride
and she's like, I don't do well with bikes and
she crashes and then immediately Emma's like I'll go, and
like they're like I'll race you type of thing. Maddie
(17:46):
already knows. She's like no, no, no, no, Like she wants
to keep them apart because I think she knows deep
down that like they have a connection and she just
kind of wants to be the wedge in that.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, Like like she knew, leave them alone and they're
gonna find each other how they need to.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
And then she.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Caught them outside. She was like looking out the window
and they were having like this really heated discussion or whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Emma was wearing his jacket.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, and then they they danced together. They were like
always gravitating towards each other.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm gonna tell you,
I know you feel the same way. Spidy senses are
gonna be like from the gecko, like, Yo, we'll have
what's happening here? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And when she cried, she cried in that scene the
outside scene. Yeah, Emma cried.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah. Yeah, So, like Mattie was selfish by making that wish. Now,
did she think that the wish was actually gonna come true? Now?
But she's also making a wish without even like really
knowing this guy. Mm hmm, Like, yeah, they worked together
on his book, but she didn't really know who he was,
(19:07):
and he was kind of a dick. His family, His
family kind of sucks. She she wasn't happy right from
the gate, Like she got her wish, and she kept
claiming that she that she was happy with her wish,
but she wasn't.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
No, and it goes back to her just not having
a voice.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So yeah, yeah, I I don't know what else to
say with that, because right right from the beginning, like
I just didn't see him and her together. He was
very selfish. Oh my god, the revealed that she got
down on one knee and proposed. I was moretified mortified.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Okay, I'm so glad we're talking about it right now. Okay,
when that part of the story comes up about how
the proposal went, I'm thinking, oh, okay, we're about to
find out it's some sort of proposal that she didn't
it wasn't her right? And I think of that like,
for example, like a woman that wants a simple proposal
and then there's like fireworks and it's like, all right,
calm down, I wanted something simple. It's not who I am, okay,
(20:14):
And then we find out the conversation was just so off.
And then she says, when are you going to take
me to Ireland? He says, like marriage or something, and
then she takes that as a sign, gets on one
knee proposes. I don't have a problem with women proposing,
all power to you. I think women should be allowed
(20:36):
to have whatever relationship they want to have. Where I
have a problem with women proposing is if you are
proposing in like a situation like this where you know
this man or you maybe don't know, but like you are,
the signs are there that this man doesn't want to
be with.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
You right right, that you'd like the self respect is
not there. Yes, it was so an act of desperation.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yes, you know what. You could argue that it was
almost her trying to lock it in because Emma. She
saw that Emma and him were hitting it off, and.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
He agreed to this because she's helpful to his career.
He doesn't actually love her. I didn't see any kind
of loving energy from him or anything like.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Not even a friendship. I feel like it was more.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Of ye yeah, no, they were just they were not
a match and she was she had the blinders on.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Sorry I've rant it, but like, how do you feel
about that about specifically about woman proposing.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I don't know. I don't know, maybe the patriarchy all
that stuff. Like I'm so used to a man being
the one to propose, so when I hear of a
woman proposing, I'm always like yikes, But I don't know,
like think of sex and the city, right, Miranda proposed
(22:13):
to Steve.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, we know how that ended.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I know, let's let's pretend that that didn't happen. When
when everything was right in the world Miranda, Yes, pre
pandemic days Miranda and Steve. Miranda Steve. They're happy. They
(22:41):
find they were way back to each other. Everything's good.
They're sitting outside at some bar having beers, and they're
talking about their future and she just looks over at him,
very simply, and she says, will you marry me? It's
not this big to do. They're very comfortable with each other.
They know each other so well, there's obvious love between them.
(23:05):
I found that cute. I was very supportive of that. Now,
we didn't see the proposal for Maddie and Paul, but yeah,
we didn't physically see it, but in my mind I
could see how that played out. And I'm not supportive
(23:27):
of a woman doing that. Be like, girl, get up,
get up off the floor.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, stop it right now. I think you picked the
perfect example because Miranda and Steve, right, when I think
of that relationship, I think, not that she's the man,
but I think she almost takes on that role of
head of household and he is okay with that. But
they balance each other. I mean, it took a while
(23:54):
to get there, but they balanced each other fairly well
to dive into their relationship. But I feel like when
they didn't want those roles anymore, that's kind of I
think when shit hit the fan. But in that moment
when she's proposing to him, those were the roles. And
all power to women that want to have that role
and want to be with a woman not a man,
(24:16):
I mean, and roles like that totally. That was cute,
but this it's like she wants the role of a
woman but she wants it so desperately that she's willing
to take.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
The role of a man in that moment. Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
God, I sound so patriot article patriotical.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
No, I don't think it's a I don't think it's
cut and dry like you. You think that that's just
something a man should do. It's the lack of self
respect part of it that makes it so icky. And
I cannot abide by that proposal, by those kind of proposals,
(24:59):
if you doing that to keep a man, you know
what I mean, Like no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I can't suppet that you cannot have a left here
and then expect him to have you left later, like
this is a pivot moment of heavy lifting.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yes, mm hmmm. Because then look what happened. As they
were getting closer to the wedding. Paul goes up to
her and he goes, hey, listen, I know your plans
were to write a book, but I need you to
put that on hold because I'm writing a book type
of thing and I need you to do that. And
(25:38):
then by that point, she's already like gone through some
stuff and reflected on things, and she finds her voice
a bit because she's like, well, let's discuss the terms.
Am I getting a co writing credit? And he's like,
that's not how this works type of thing. I Yeah,
(26:01):
he was so dry. Yeah, he was so dry.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It wasn't like a friendly like oh, come on, Maddy,
like let's talk about it later or something. No, he
like it was business for him in that moment.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, and that was just a reflection of how that
relationship was going to be.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know if this is a
flaw of mind, but I always try to study people,
and I'm like, Okay, that makes so much sense about
his personality. His parents are loaded, he grew up in
a loaded environment. He has to make a name for himself. Somehow.
It sounds like a writer can be like a respectable
(26:43):
thing to make a name for yourself, and he just
like that needs to be his thing. Like he's not
looking at anything else other than that because he needs
to stand out from his family. And unfortunately he's not
being genuine. So I hope he and Emma have a
great life.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah. I mean that clearly was the girl for him,
although she gets pissed at him at the end.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And hits him, which yeah, yeah, she's fiery.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, because he called her irrelevant.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
But I think that's why they match so well together,
going to your original point, because they're both like, she's
gonna also like call him out on his bs. She's
not just gonna be like okay mm hmm. So he says, no,
that's irrelevant, and she's like, no, it's.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Not like m yeah. Yeah. So then on the flip side,
we have James Oh my god, who's adorable. You know
who he reminded me of. I don't know. Do you
know the actor tarn Egerton?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
No, well let me look him up.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
He ta r o.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
N Oh, okay, I don't know him, but he does
look like him.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Right, he looks like him.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
So he just kept reminding me of him. But he's
I like him. I do. I was kind of thrown off, though,
because he made such a big deal about Paul Kennedy books, right,
and how he like, he just kept rolling his eyes.
(28:24):
He didn't like him as an author. I really was
expecting this big reveal that they like knew each other
from way back when because of just because of his
whole attitude towards him, I assumed that, like, you know,
maybe once upon a time they were in the same
circle or you know, something like that where he he
(28:47):
knew for real who the kind of person Paul was,
but he didn't know him. He just I don't know,
I guess made an assumption about.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Him, kind of like that mister Darcy and Daniel thing.
You know, one thing. Maybe you know he spends a
lot of time on that side of Ireland because people
know him very well. He has a lot of good
friends there. Perhaps Paul Kennedy is such a topic there
of like like our you know, someone from our side
(29:19):
of the woods is an author or a very well
known author. So perhaps he hears a lot about him,
gave the books a try and was like, oh my god,
this is crap.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
That's true. He couldn't hear a lot of stories about him.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, and like just a lot of his family too,
because they just seem to be so uptight. Yeah, so oh,
I'm so glad to hear you like James.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, you know, he was he didn't take any shit,
he was supportive. He I don't know, I just I
liked him a lot, like I thought he like had
a good sense of character compared to Paul.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, I am giggling over here. I'm just so happy
that you liked him. I this is the only reason
we watched this movie, FYI, because when I started watching
this movie, I was like, Okay, it's Ireland. Yes, let's
just watch it because of this. And then he pops
up and I was like, I'm in love. I'm in love.
(30:25):
This is what love feels like. I knew right away.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, he's very charming, but not in a slimy way.
I don't know, it's just like he's reserved and he
knows what he wants type of thing. By the way,
this movie, it just made me want to go to
Ireland even more, Like just Priscilla when that freaking beautiful girl.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
When the customs agent was like, welcome to Ireland. I
could hear that on a loop right now. With that
on a loop, Welcome to Ireland, Welcome to Ireland, Welcome
to Iireland, Like I could fall asleep to that. Yeah
we need to be there.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah we do. We need to get this trip planned
for sure.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I actually made a comment on note here I was like,
I need to be on that side of the world.
I know it, Like I just okay, That's one of
the reasons I loved James so much. And I know
he's technically English, but like the banter on up there, Like,
I feel like that's my kind of people.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Everybody is so charming over there, and I don't I
don't know if it's I'm just enchanted by everyone's accents,
but I think it's just their energy that you like,
no wonder everybody falls in love with them. M hmm. Yeah,
we need to go.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah, we're going. That's it. Where it's happening. It's happening.
We've talked about some of our plans in the state
of the world, and it's happening. I also, I've been
thinking about this a lot lately because we've talked about
moving and stuff like that. I feel like it's now
(32:14):
we're never where. Like before I go settle and move
all my things somewhere else, I have to and get
a new address. I have to be there for a
few months. I have to. I have to. I owe
that to myself because if that doesn't happen, I'm gonna Oh,
it's gonna be that thing in my deathbed that I'm like, Oh,
I wish i'd done that.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, yeah, I think you should do it.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I have to mm hmm. I don't know that I
have the balls, but I have to, so we'll see
what happens.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Well, look, the fact that we had the balls to
move halfway around the country. I know that that's it's
different because it's a totally different country that you're talking about.
But I mean that that was the first step, you
know what I mean? Like, yeah, you know, yesterday it
was Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tomorrow it's Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
So yeah, yeah, I mean we did. When you really
think about it, you came from New Jersey. I came
from Florida to Oklahoma. That's like another country.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
It really really felt like another world, like culture shock.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Totally totally.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
But having done that, that has put me at ease
because I know I'm not going to be in New
Jersey forever. But now I have the confidence to be
like I could, I could go anywhere. I already did it,
you know what I mean. Yes, so there is that
we have that experience under our belt.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I completely totally agree. So stay tuned because I really
really hope this works out for me. On this note,
I wrote this down because this is another thing I
can have on a loop. When James says mutualities, the
way he says mutualities.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I don't remember that part. Oh.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
They're in the car and he's talking about what similarities
they have with each other.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Oh okay, and she.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Like Paula and Maddie and she flips out like we
have a lot in common. He's like, no, I'm sure
you have a lot of mutralities.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Oh, on loop, on the loop. He really challenged her
right off the bat, like no shame, no shame. Got
very personal very quickly. I mean, I you know, he
was their photographer, I guess, but even still like he
(34:44):
was getting very personal. It's funny how when they were
all at the rehearsal dinner and they were asking questions
to the couple, right, like that's where we find out
about the proposal story and all that. James knows the
answers to a couple of the questions and like the
(35:04):
favorite author. She said her favorite author was James Joyce.
And then she just kind of went with paul when
he said Charles Dickens, like, and she kept looking at
him like that's embarrassing because this dude knows the truth.
I don't know. On the one hand, it's like, wow, dude,
(35:27):
take a step back and like, don't get all up
in my business like this, but also like he was
kind of that catalyst for her to find her voice.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Totally, totally, and I just want to say, I find
it funny that when she's at the the oh god,
what's it called the wishing, the wish, wishing something and
see something.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, whatever, it.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Is not the wishing chair, child.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Irish people are oh my god, I'm so sorry forgive me.
So when she's at the place where she's making the
wish and then the the saint, the spirit that comes
out tells her, you need to be seated for this
(36:26):
to properly work. So she she grants her the wish,
but she keeps interfering. She keeps throwing this dude in
her path, do you know what I mean? Like I
kept thinking that during the movie. I'm like, she's not
just letting her get her wish. She keeps like throwing
(36:46):
wrenches in it.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
So I don't know, it's almost like she's like, I'm
gonna let you get your wish, but your wish isn't
what I want for you, so I'm gonna make sure
that you have a miserable time with your wish. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, it's definitely be careful what you wish for type
of thing, because she got what she wished for.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
You know, I just had a thought Priscilla with when
you said be careful what you wish for, Like, I
don't think we realized you can wish something, but somebody
has to be on the other end of that wish,
and that person then or that being now takes control
of your wish.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Oh yeah, that's that's why. Like, So if you ever
see these people talking about setting intentions and manifesting and everything,
whether you're speak trying to speak them into existence or
literally writing them out, they say to be as specific
(37:49):
as possible, because you can sit here and pray that
you get into a relationship by the end of the year,
that you fall in love by the end of the year.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
If you're not specific enough.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I can fall out of love at the beginning of
the year.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
That and also, like, maybe you fall in love with
a real piece of shit, you know what I mean?
Maybe maybe Yeah, we'll give you that, We'll give you
that relationship, but it's gonna be a really shitty relation.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Yeah, and you might not be able to go back
to the wish and chair. So gotta think, God, gotta think.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
I believe the the bartender. Was it that? Oh no, no, no,
I think it might have been the priest that she
was talking to about the whole like wish situation. Yes,
And he even said like be careful though, because she's
(38:59):
got a bit of a sense of humor. So she
was like fucking with mad Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Oh man to be saying Bridget and just watch people
sit at the chair and be like, oh, I'm about
the mess. But that would be kind of a fun life.
I would like to do that in my next life.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Just messing with people, just mess around.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
You know, just like like oops, oh you tripped. Now
you're at the hospital. Yeah, oh when you set the
bar u bartender, I'm sorry, but like that dart scene,
I was hot. I was like, does somebody turn on
the heater like this is steamy?
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Yeah. He took the opportunity to teach her something real,
up close and personal.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm not okay.
After that scene, I'm not okay. I'm not okay. The banter,
the back and forward was so so hot and so
there's no thought behind it. It was just like you're
a good coach. Oh you're a good student. Oh I
can't move, I can't.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Isn't it funny that James and Maddie had that moment
in the garden where they're having a conversation. James is
kind of like, why are you doing this kind of thing?
Are you really happy? Yeah? Because he I guess he
just I don't know. He needed to, He needed some
(40:35):
answers about why she was putting herself through this and
all that. And then Paul passes them. Now they're not
doing anything. They're in a heated discussion. I think James
might have at that point put his hands on her shoulders,
but that was really it. And he had the audacity
(40:56):
to want to beat the shit out of James and
like make a big deal out of it. And then when
Maddie brought up Emma, like you guys had a moment,
you guys had this hole back and forth, he brushed
it off and just focused on them, What the hell
she's giving you an out? And he was like pissed
(41:17):
about it.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Can't lose, he can't lose, he needs to go to therapy.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Yeah. Yeah, I think he just saw her as a
moneymaker for him.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
M M yeah, and he knew getting married would look
so good and then we'll get him books for the
rest of his life.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Yeah, if they had, if she had gone down that path,
she would have never had a writing career, not under
her own name. She would have been writing, but she
would have been writing for his career.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah, yep, No, he wasn't. He was not good for
her period. But I have to say, beautiful fucking wedding.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Yeah, that was very nice where they were going to
get married.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Mm hmm, all those colors. I was like, I'm in love.
I want to get married like that.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Now do you think so? Even though it's obvious that
Saint Brigid like she's supposed to be like symbolic of fate, right,
and how whether you take the long way the short way,
there are certain things that are going to happen, and
the GPS is basically going to reroute you right to
(42:32):
that particular destination. She got a glimpse of what her
life would have been like with the wish. James is
going to come into her life either way. But do
you feel like she cheated a little bit because she
knows all this stuff about him, So when the wish
is broken, she knows all this stuff about James and
(42:53):
he doesn't know anything about her, and she's like saying
things to him, and he's like enchanted by her. But
I was like, you cheat her? You know all this
from me?
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Okay, I can totally understand, but I'll tell you if
I'm her in that moment, I don't care about cheating.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
No, I know, I get it, I get it, I
have hand I get it. I totally get it. But
I also was laughing about it. I'm like, this poor guy.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
You don't want to be but admit it. So you
don't want to.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Be James us No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
I don't want to be James in that situation.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
I feel like if you meet someone now that like
has all these information about you, or like happens to
just know this knowledge, you'll be like, who told you that?
How do you know this?
Speaker 1 (43:46):
I'd be so suspicious. I would be so suspicious.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
And if they're like, oh, well you told me, No,
I didn't. I didn't tell you that. I remember everything
I said tell you.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
That's the That's the thing. I don't I think you
could get away with saying to a guy I told
you that you never remember what I say, But you
can't do the same thing to a woman because we
remember everything.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
I absolutely agree, Yeah you can. We can totally gasp
by a man to believe.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Totally Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Yeah, I also thought that know about that. One of
the things that maybe I thought was maybe a little
weird is the fact that, if you think about it,
she did have a chance to have this wish and
then technically meet James or get to know James in
a better way, but that never happened technically, right, Like
that was just like almost like a dream or a blip.
(44:48):
So part of me is like, do you have this
knowledge about him or do you maybe have this knowledge
of some of the things about him, but like don't
really know him? Like what if he doesn't end up
being this cute guy? Right, Like I don't know, I
don't know if that makes any sense.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Like the version of James that she knew in the
wish wouldn't be the same version of him.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Yeah, I don't know if you're saying, yeah, but that
came that thought came to me with that, So I
don't know, But I guess that's the magic of the movie, right,
He's technically the same cute banchary guy.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
HM and he inexplicably turned down that one job that
he was supposed to have and decided to stay in
Ireland for a little bit longer.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
Because a lady told him and oh.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
Right, yes, yes, someone told him.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Hmmm so same bridges, just messing with everyone's lives. Yeah,
I don't know I feel about that. Her and I
would have words like that's enough, stop messing with my life,
stop it. Thank you for bringing James in. That's it. Yeah. Yeah,
(46:10):
quick note, I didn't care for the sidekicks in this
movie at all.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
No, no, I the one friend of hers Ayisha Curry
plays her Heather, Yes, Heather, No, I could have done
without her.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Same. They didn't feel like friends and chemistry there.
Speaker 3 (46:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
And who's the other one? The brother? I forgot his name,
but yeah it is too, but that's because it don't
matter to me.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
Mm hmmm. He was irrelevant.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
Yeah, It's like when I think about it, like Maddie
was alone and all this, and I get it. I
guess that's that's fine, But like, I don't know, when
you think of a rom com, the right recipe has
a sidekick that's like through it with you you.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Know, yes, Yeah, I feel like Heather was just kind
of focused on getting laid.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
Yes, which, hello to that man that came at the
to the.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Bar, Yeah, okay, yeah, I was on board for him.
How do you go from the brother to that dude?
She I think she just wanted anybody, honestly, because there's
no comparison, no comparison between the two men.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
Mm hmm o. God she was hot. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
I almost feel like Maddie's mom didn't have to be
in the movie. No, Like, what was her What was
the point of her you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (47:50):
I mean, you could argue because the rumor she kept saying,
my mom will know what to do, my mom will
know what to do. You could argue they say Bridget
was keeping the person that would know what to do
in this situation out of her life so she could
figure it out on her own. But that's I feel
like that's a reach.
Speaker 1 (48:08):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, aside from her mom
being the one to be like, you need to speak
up for yourself and like reiterating that at different points,
you didn't really need to spend so much time on
the mom's storyline. She didn't really have one. You know.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
I also would have liked an explanation as to why
her mom has an accent, and so where's her mom from?
And does she have anything to do with Ireland? Anything
to do with the wish and chair? Like, is there
anything in there right that would have been I guess
fun maybe to explore.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
But yeah, I mean, I know the actress is British.
Maybe she's just not good at American accents.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
American accents maybe, yeah, she definitely was not from Des Moines.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Exactly. Think how are you gonna pick the whitest part
of America? Mm hmmm for this very British woman.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
To be a principle there too?
Speaker 1 (49:18):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
All right, my friends, are you ready to rate this movie?
Speaker 1 (49:25):
Yes? I am.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
I don't know why I just held this like if
this was my microe. Okay, great? From one through five
sheep emojis, what do you give Irish wish?
Speaker 1 (49:39):
And you're gonna be mad at me?
Speaker 2 (49:41):
I have a feeling, and now it's been confirmed.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
Gone, I give it to and a half sheeps. I
can't see your face because you're frozen. Okay, I see
it now. You're disappointed. I know you are. But I
took the movie in stride, beautiful, beautiful scenery. It was
(50:09):
just corny girl. It was corny. Lindsay Lohan, what happened
to you? I thought she was insufferable. Everyone else, like
you know, the storyline was cute, you know, take it
(50:31):
with a grain of salt. But Lindsay Lohan, I don't
know what happened. I didn't enjoy her, and she's the
main person I liked. I liked James. I thought the
guy who played Paul Kennedy did well for you know,
the role that he had. Like you said, the sidekicks
weren't really there was really not much else, so you know,
(50:58):
it is what it is. I took it for what
it was. Yeah, on a scale of one to five sheep,
what do you rate? Irish wish?
Speaker 2 (51:12):
Oh call me Kashmir?
Speaker 3 (51:15):
I oh, okay, I'm composing myself after that writing.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
I give this movie four sheeps. But here's why, here's why,
hear me out. I one hundred and ten million percent
agree with you, Lindsey Lohan. This the last movie. Again.
I don't know how many new movies she's hat recently,
but like the only ones I remember are this one
and the Christmas one where she like has a concaution
(51:46):
and forgets who she is. She is she is. It
was so corny and so cheesy and her acting is
so oh my gosh, I'm just a girl just to
you know, and I just can't, you know. Like I said,
the thing that drew me to this movie was Ireland,
(52:07):
and then I met James and I was like, whoa,
I'm here. So for those reasons, because I have such
a huge crush on James, I give this movie four sheeps.
And then the other reason, so that reason one. Reason
two is because the ultimate theme of the movie I
liked of the whole, like, sometimes we get caught up
(52:30):
on how we want our life to be that we
forget life happens when you just like are living it.
So because technically, if she would have just left things
as is, she could have been in a better mood
when she met James at the bus, they could have
laughed about their suitcase mishap, and then life could have
(52:51):
continued on with them. You could also argue that this
is what was meant to happen. But I think the
core thing of the movie is if you just let
life happen, it will happened for you, just like it
happened for Emma and and Paul. So yes, I don't
give it for because of the rom com aspect of
it or the Lindsay Lohan aspect of it. It's like
(53:12):
huge crush on James and just ultimately what this movie
teaches I like.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
So yeah, yeah, I like that theme too, actually I do.
But overall, like I was cringing for a lot of it, Yeah,
I was cringing for a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
I have to agree, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:37):
I just I just realized, like there was no kiss
at all between her and James. I don't know what.
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
Yeah, they kissed, they kiss win when she runs after
him leaving the wedding, so it's still like wedding chaos.
Speaker 1 (53:54):
Oh okay, okay. Wow.
Speaker 2 (53:58):
It's a weird kiss though, because his goes to like
almost cup her face, but it just stays here and
like an awkward position.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (54:07):
So maybe that's why I wasn't memorable because it was
weird to me.
Speaker 1 (54:11):
Oh wow, how did I totally forget that?
Speaker 2 (54:15):
At that point the movie had took a big weird
turn though, So I don't blame you.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
But Ray was like, you're not gonna remember anymore.
Speaker 2 (54:25):
Again, I totally would believe that reaction. And I don't
blame you because right before that, we had Heather and
the priest next to each other and Heather's like, oh
my god, and he's like, what's not bring him into this?
I'm like, oh, come on, you could have written something better,
like leave that out. That costs too much money to
put in there.
Speaker 3 (54:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
Yeah, I don't blame you, but yeah they did gets
one time. But I'm good with that. Because the dart.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
Scene, I think I don't again. I don't know how
my mind locked it out, but that I was about
to say, you know, we didn't get a kiss, and
I guess just because we're so used to people that
have a connection, like you see a kiss at some point.
(55:13):
And then that made me think of watching Twisters the
other day and how everybody's up in arms about the
fact that there's no kiss between Glen Powell and Daisy
Edgar Jones because there's like chemistry there and they they
had opportunities their eye contact like all that stuff. And
(55:38):
even my sister was like, what, there's it's She's like,
I wanted to see a payoff, and I was like,
it's not really that kind of movie though, Like if
you really think about it, like it's not about her
finding glove, it's about her I guess, getting her confidence
back and like chasing the storms or whatever. But yeah,
(56:01):
cheasing what she loved, right, But everybody was pissed about
I have.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
To tell you personally, I didn't even notice there was
no kiss in the movie. So spoiler alert for anybody
that hasn't seen it. I didn't think. I didn't forgot
about it. I just realized it when you said it.
Because to me, the best moment that gave me, like
the rom call me moment, was when she's looking like
when they're both out in the field and she's looking
(56:29):
measuring the wind or whatever, and she's like that and
he just looks at her with this view of like, Wow,
I found the girl that's like into something so niche
just like me. That to me was like a marriage
proposal at that point. I had everything I needed after
the way he looked at like Glenn Powell Chef's kiss,
(56:50):
the way he looked at her, that was a better
rum prom than anyone but you, because the way he
looked at her when that girl is just calling out
things to the wind.
Speaker 1 (57:00):
I mean, yeah, the way he was looking at her
was pretty intense throughout the whole movie. So like at
the end when he goes, sorry, this isn't gonna be
a Twister's episode. Sorry, at the end when he goes
to chase after her in the airport, you expect this
(57:26):
thing to happen and then it doesn't. I I was
fine with it, you know what I mean. But I
know it's like a big deal online, like everybody's pissed
that they don't them kiss. But they did just release
like the cut scene because they did film a kiss
(57:47):
scene in the airport. Oh, and you do see them.
So I sent it to Adrian and I'm like, here's
your kiss, here's your kids.
Speaker 2 (57:58):
I don't want to see it. Don't send it to me.
I don't want to see I am good with the look. No,
I yeah, I totally didn't catch that, So thank you. Can.
I just also say one more thing about Twister does
not anything to do with aspect of it, But the
(58:20):
way I was teasing watching this movie and Donald Mark
songs starts playing and Anthony Ramos is singing in the car,
the way I wanted to jump out of my chair
in the theater and just be like san I wanted
(58:42):
to wear Puerto Rican flag from head to toe.
Speaker 1 (58:46):
So proud Adriana. She asked me after the movie. She
was like, did you feel proud? I was like, proud
of what She's like, I love. She's like, proud of
like you lived in Oklahoma, like you know where all
this stuff is. And I was like, kinda, I guess.
(59:07):
Like they went to still Water, We went to Stillwater, Pulpa,
like all the places. And she was like, She's like,
your car is going to be the biggest attraction in
the parking lot because you have the Oklahoma plates. She's like,
you're gonna find people being like.
Speaker 2 (59:29):
She's watching twisters.
Speaker 4 (59:31):
Yeah, but like not a kissing booth, but like some
sort of booth, like come take a picture with that
Glaoma license plate.
Speaker 1 (59:44):
I tried to get my car used in the film.
They weren't going to destroy it or anything, but like
they were at the time when they were filming out there,
they were looking for like extras that were in the area,
and then they were also looking for people who had
like trucks or SUVs that had the Oklahoma plates just
(01:00:08):
to be parked like on like a main street or something.
So I tried. I didn't get chosen, but I tried.
Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Oh oh well, okay, that would have okay, I would
have flipped out. I mean, I know you would have
told us ahead of time if your car was in
the car, but that I would have definitely jumped up
and like, that's my friend's car.
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