Reaction to Season 12 Episode 11

I cried the whole episode! 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
This episode was exactly what I thought it would be,
and I'm just trying to recover a little bit. I'dy
Saint Patrick's day. My mother was married to an irishman,
mister McCullough, who passed away two years ago. I don't

(00:27):
have an Irish with me. I have Welsh Scottish. Everybody
didn't get Irish, so I'm not Irish. But we are
still celebrating a little bit. This is just cram pomegranate juese.
I didn't want to start drinking yet this episode. I

(00:49):
cried the whole time, seriously, and I think a little
sensitive to it these days because that couple of years
when as so you know, been really rough with me.
I lost my stepdad, almost lost my mom, my aunt,
and then my daughter a few months ago had a
cancer scare. And I don't care how she's almost forty.

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So I don't care how old your children are, how
young your children are. To see them in pain, to
see them upset, to have a diagnosis possibly happened or
happened for me. It was possibly because it turned out
it was not cancer, thank you Jesus, but it was
scary for us and I it's it's you're a no

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matter hold you're a parent, it does a matter. This
episode will get home to you. You have to be
a parent, have to have this episode of affect you either.
But I'm saying those of us who are parents, and
back then diabetes was it was a death sentence for
many people. So just have that you would enter your brain.

(01:56):
Tell I don't who you've lost children, and my heart
is with you completely. I don't even know how you continue.
I'm lucky to have my two daughters and my five grandchildren.
I can't even imagine losing my brother was hard enough. Siblings,
I can't even imagine anything as close as that. This

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episode what this episode was an example and I was like,
it's just so funny. It was an example of good writing,
amazing acting. We'll get into that to you. Amazing acting,
the town, the kids, a solid storyline, and also a

(02:39):
little side we got a little side thing with Lucas
real quick go an update to all lead into probably
the last episode and the animals. Animals, This episode was
a ten out of ten. I mean, that's want to
start off with that. It's completely a ten out of ten. Diabetes.

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I'd look at it to look it up because I
wasn't really sure I don't have diabetes. I'm not even
pre diabetic, thinking I have my test on I'm not.
There's summers of family. Doesn't run in my family, but I
do who have it in my family? If you here
and there some friends of mine who have it, type two,
type one, to do ones. And I don't know much
about it. So I looked it up and yes, it

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was in the nineteen twenties. It was a death sentence.
You live a couple of years. That's it. They had
no real choopers. They started they started looking into insulin
in nineteen twenty two, twenty three, so they have to
know Abel Prize in medicine too from that. And it

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was Leonard Thompson, a fourteen year old boy in January
nineteen twenty two who was dime diabetes in the Toronto hospitals.
Is all the writers did their research. You get the
first person to receive an objectionable incident, which is twenty
four hours he's dangerously high blood pressure, excuse me, high
blood glucose levels dropped to near normal levels. And on

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twenty three you started spreading these tree trials trials, and
it couldn't go everywhere, yet it wasn't enough to supply,
and it took a while, it's like to nineteen thirty
six to start getting a mass. So so we're in
the late twenties. This makes sense. It all makes sense.

(04:30):
It all makes sense. And yeah, so that's that's so. Yes,
it gives a little Jack. Yes, that's that's what you know.
Tough side note to you for me some I'm light
in here. I looked I look super dark too. I
guess you don't you see me? I was crying. Jack Wagner,
who plays Bill Avery, was part of a storyline for

(04:53):
US long time soap fans on General Hospital was considered
one of the greatest soap opera stories all time, one
of the top one hundred TV moments. And that is
BJ's Heart. There's a storyline back in nine seventy four
where Maxie was a kid and they needed she needed
a heart and it was her cousin BJ they killed,

(05:15):
which they never killed kids are ever killed her and
she saved Maxie. And he played Frisco Jones, the father
of Maxie, but it was his brother in law who
lost his daughter BJ. And it was like, it's just
it's one of those storylines. I mean, you see it
on YouTube, you'll sell you'll solve for that one too.

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And it was very well where everything was so well
done and a little too realistic. That's how it felt, too.
And it's seeing him try to be there for Nathan,
especially those scenes. We trying to be there, you know,
because dudes don't talk very often, we don't. We try
to hold it in. I admit it. I try to
hold it in. I got things to do. I'm trying

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to work it out, you know, be there for everybody else.
And he was like, Nathan, you know, here's what it
got him, the time off when he didn't ask. And
also it's like when he came, he was like, how
are you? And Nathan got to express how many of
us men feel like we can't their mouthties. We get
to do all kinds of stuff and protect them and
he can't do anything. It's a helpless feeling. You know.

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She's really helped us as a mom, he's really helping
us as a man. It's so realistic, right, But I
love their scenes to go, but just reminded me of
how good he was even thirty years ago in a
storyline all the child, I think I started to cry
when in the beginning, towards the beginning, when Rosemary and

(06:43):
Minnie were packing all this stuff up, food and everything
and get stuff together, and Ali comes in and is
I get something to yos, missus yos blah blah blah,
and and she just kind of grabs and the hunts
Ali really quick and then let's go. And Minnie tried
to touch us. She's like, don't and my girl passed out.
Just you know, it's a see anyway. And Natasha, of course,
in the in those scenes, it's it's that she she

(07:13):
was Pascal played her trying to hold it together, and
anybody knows she's in charge of stuff and your best
friends go you something, you're a family going where you're
trying to hold it together. Where she conveyed it so
well that it was on the surface she wanted to
fall apart for her friend, and she loves the little
jack too, but she can't. I gotta stay busy. I

(07:36):
got to get you know, it was like, but she
played Pascal was so good that when you could see
it was right there. It's like if just one thing
would have went wrong or something, she would have lost it.
But she was trying to be strong and see and
and me was like she could see it. I was like,
you're allowed to have your feelings too, and Rose like
no Ice can't. That's why I started crying already. I

(07:59):
started crying, and now I start cry. I start crying.
You when she goes to goes to Elizabeth, which is
straw and you know these trials and Toronto blah blah,
and I try a literacy if we can get on
because's no kids involved. And I love that the writers
came with this great idea about tell me to tell
you ten things you think about low Jack ten things.

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It was just beautiful as she tried to go through it,
and Aaron talk about Emmy worthy performance, tries to talk
as she's remembering these things that's making her cry more.
It was like, how do you do that as an
actress or as an actor? How do you do that?

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It's like she's trying to say these things, and then
again Pascal pound for pound is sitting there writing them down,
listening to her, comforting her at the same time and
trying to break up herself though shees are just I
just it was amazing. It was amazing. It was amazing.
The party gets missing thought was kind of interesting. The

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kids would get involved. I love Cooper, so tall, so funny.
The kid who plays Cooper, he talks to his mom
and he was like, hey, I just gotta I gotta,
you know, I want to we want to help. That's
what the kids would do. And they just kind of
call play baseball. He loves baseball and they don't get
that he can't really do that right now because of
the fatigue, and they call it the Baseball on the Radio.

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And that whole sequence was so cute. You know, Oliver
looking out tellingyone what's going on, and then Ali there
and Oliver and Allie are turning out to be like
the young couple. I know they're not officially a couple,
but like there, they are turning out to be the
next generation of when calls the Hearts, they are I

(09:53):
who knew? Right? Who knew? These actors have such chemistry
and the writers have written such great material for them,
materials more wonderful. They did Baseball on the Radio and
that's the cute sequence. I was crying in that part.
Those parts they get kind of you know, and what

(10:14):
comes a heart style. We have to get some badd
we have to get some badder news. Don't use my
bad English. They get some badder news or to get
some gooder news. Now it's that, it's it's they're too rural.
They're very rural, and they're not going to send just one,
you know for a kid, and that's pretty kid. They
need ten people totals, they need nine more people. The

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town gets on it. That's what you know, that's what
that's what they do, you know. And I also love
the town coming together before may Sue and he can
become you know, the heroes. They're another great couple. When
Joseph has them pray first before they leave, that's what
we would do in my We did that lot. We
did a lot of prayer and ask companies, my family trustingly.

(10:59):
Uh And it was just it was just wonderful to
see that and and Mayson and think it became became,
you know, became have stars. They helped him, help will
Jack recover. Side note of course with Lucas, they're about

(11:22):
you gonna recall he don't even care anymore. He's like,
I don't care they if I can't get things that
we get done. And between Henry and lean All, they're like,
there's more you can do. You're still you're still governor,
right those executive orders for a timey today there's things
you can do. And so I'm great, curiously what he
don't try it to do because he has the Goldie

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ash Park is there, that's taking care, that's a good legacy.
But like he has all these other things he want
to do. Maybe get to know before he gets kicked out.
I like that. And of course at the end, they're
all together and they're blessed together, they're blessing the animals
and the ponies back and all that. I didn't I

(12:03):
don't think I needed to go into a super detail
of that. We all know what happened on the show.
And it was, you know, all about gaining his insulince
medication to little Jack and coming together and and I
was I just want all I would do is want
to praise the actors. The actors. Kevin did a great
job as Nathan being torn and being there for Elizabeth

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and being there for a little Jack, managing his own feelings.
But again some other stand ups. Of course, you know
our Pascal, you know, as Rosemary the whole time, just
really trying to be there for her best friend and
you know, and and it's just it's the writing which
is so good and faith trying to work it out

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as a doctor. That there was that one moment she
had to go tell the like more kind of bad news.
She had to get some little breath and then she
I can only imagine he has you don't have good news,
or you don't have the best news. You gotta tell me.
You got to add to somebody's pain. You're like, oh,
I gotta tell him this, like oh my goodness. And

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so I felt her moment. It goes good, I mean everyone,
and it starts to get um made for Emmy's. I
don't know why. I don't know why it doesn't, but
I would say this episode for anybody's Emmy real. All
the lead actors could put it in, put it in there.
It was such good stuff. There's also a scene that

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I wanted to mention this between It was between Rosemary
and Minnie. Later she's like, you know she's going through
when you went through it Gaus with Angela, and she's
I just can't imagine going just with Goldie. I just
can't imagine. And that's one of those things. It's like
there's there's certain clubs you don't want be a part
of right as parents, and I remember my mom told

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me about they're having to operate my younger brother. He
had a hernia as a baby, and to operate on
my brother's a baby. It's just that's just that's scary.
I'm like, I am a former nurse and I'm just
like alone an the operation has kind of can have
complications or whatever, but before a poor baby, oh my,
just too much. Yeah, but this this episode is eight

(14:18):
plus ten tens across the board. We have one episode left,
and so I'm gonna do I would do a separate
episode for that, of course, and then next Monday it
will be me and Brian Berg doing our traditional chat
year end season in chat we always do. I wish.

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We're just trying to show up. The time either be
five pm Pacific or six pm Pacific, which means eight
Eastern or nine eastern. That's so using when we do,
it'll be up till we're gonna try to work that out,
but it'll be on Monday. I'll do you. There'll be
more details later this week. Of course, I'm working with
the PR people, but we will be sitting down and
we will be talking as always, don't discussion. It'll be live.

(15:02):
I think maybe be live. We did like we did live?
Do we do we do it live last time? I
think we did. I remember, we will come on and
we will talk about the season that was. I can.
I can believe Almo's over. And for those of you
guys who are when Hope calls fans, I did do
season one with Mrs Seraphini, so you can listen to
that or watch that here in my channel. But I

(15:24):
will be back to season two. I'm gonna do season two.
I enjoyed that series, so I'm gonna do season two.
But at the same times not probably Mondays like like
like the other one is gonna take it over. Uh
so stay tuned for that and it comes in April,
so it'll a little break for me for whatever. And
I ask the interviews coming out. We are working on interviews,
so and I don't mind, you know, I don't. I
told them I don't mind doing postseason interviews. That's fine.

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That's why we get about the whole season. And see
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show have a season thirteen. Okay here, season thirteen, kids,
Season thirteen. I'm saying it out loud. We're manifesting it.
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