Reaction to Season 12 Episode 4

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Wehn Calls
our aptishode here on jail J Media. I'm James Lot
Junior High Heart Ease. We're talking season twelve and so
for dancing teams, how are you guys today? So I'm
going I said I was ning a little late this week.
I did episode three and think you guys were watching
that one and commenting now episode four, so I get

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out to you guys. I like both episodes again, another
kid centric episode with messages and and storre you for
the adults a little bit, but it was everybody really fast.
It was very lighthearted. Next week looks to be fun
and Fiona's back, but this was It's kind of cool
to see the next generation. It's kind of I'm kind

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of I'm glad they decided to do. I didn't expect
these episodes because there are some of There are several
seasons where we didn't get the kids that much. In
the beginning, as you guys remember, we had a lot
of it was a lot of kids story just mixed
in with the adult stories. Then for a while I
felt it was mostly adult stories with a kid's story
here and there, And this season I felt like we've
seen the kids much more than some of the adults,

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where it's faith give her a story. It's just me.
But I was kind of like, yeah, it's kind of
but but I don't mind. I'm like I said, like
it said nice. You know, we have twelve episodes. That's fine.
Let's let's see some growth of the kids, because they
are the future and if they will answered for the show,
if they wanted to spin offs or anything, and kind
of like whatever, and the show goes on for twenty seasons.
They're the next generation, right coming up. I used to

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seeing that on soaps and stuffod I used to see
that on like shows like this, So it's kind of cool.
And it touched some really touching subjects while or whilst
and some say there are they are talking about, uh
move the latest things. And we got an interesting reveal

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at an interesting time of the episode where it was
like and was like, oh did I just hear that?
And I so Lee and Lucas are still not talking,
they're still fighting. There's a funny sequences in the beginning.
You're good all, I Frank good all. Bill a read
in in love and he's just like high on to

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I'm actually really surprised that they are really carrying this
Lee and Lucas thing as long as they are, because
we're really we're really seeing a different side of Lee now.
Some of some I've seen some complaints about this online,
but for me, I'm always about seeing the story takes
us and then there's a really big payoff later with them.

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That's just like, you know, super amazing. But also we're
seeing different side to some of these characters. I think,
and myself included. Sometimes we get attached because now we're
talking twelve seasons, we're attached to the characters like we
were attached we are in that's watching. Whoever, sometimes we
get used to them the way they they are, and

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they put them a little on a pedestal a little
bit not but I said, they are supposed to play
well rounded human beings. So I plod Allmark for showing this.
I'm just starting to shade that Lean has been giving.
I I kind of love it, like why not. It's
like these are real men, real people out there who

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have all kinds of stuff. It's it's interesting see them
not getting along hm hmm. So hopefully I'll pay off
the way big later because what contract does that usually,
But yes, can be hard to see for some people,
and try to get that. We actually saw flow together
for like one what they weren't get off or not,

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but it was one scene they were actually staying next
to each other. It's like there's flow, will stay next
to each other. Just gotta try to mention that. But
the big story, well, I guess made the A is
called the A story. It's like a story B story story.
The A story is a dance party for Ali for birthday. First,
I can't tell my dad. Of course he's gonna find out.
He finds out from Lee by accident. But the whole

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idea of her growing up, this was very much between
Nathan and her and Anna, Allie and Joseph and Angela.
It's very much a dad girl episode. I'm a father
of two daughters. I'm a dad girl myself a girl
to ask me girl dad myself and I and I

(04:30):
get it. It's it's you know, it's so you know
they have to grow up. You know they do? You
know they do. I guess because we know how boys
and men think, because we're boys and men ourselves, we're like, no,
can't do this. Both my daughter is Tammy and Montica Lisia.

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I love you guys. They don't on the show, but
I love them. They are strong, independent women, each have
each are married with the kids and they're doing their things.
But I've raised to be strong a mother, and I
raised to be strong. But you still when they were
getting older, it's like, oh my god, it's happening. It

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really does feel like sometimes there are babies they're like
six or seven, then they're like nine or ten, then
they're like seventeen, in my case, almost forty. I understand.
I don't know I have kids almost forty. That to me,
I'm like, I'm just so young. How what's going on?

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So it was really interesting. So I like this episode
was very positive towards fathers. We were towards the end,
Minnie says, you know, you get good fathers here. I
was like, yes, Minnie, that's right. There's some good fathers there,
and there's some good fathers out there. So I want
to go shout out to them dads, my fellow dad

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out there who are involved in their childs, their child's lives.
But also if you have daughters, you get all of
my praise and respect. And I'm also very sorry, raising
girl was hard. Hev me wrapped around their fingers. I'll
just say that. So, so she's at a party, Elizabeth's

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all for it. The girls are all giddy excited. You
can tell Angrel's likely saying anything. I was like, what's
bong with her? I had noticed that. Now, I thought
Lizabeth knew the dances, but she knows ballroom, which I
guess they would. They're talking about this is like nineteen twenty,
so they're talking to Charleston the shit. I was like, oh,
that's right. So it says you's gonna teach don know anything.

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Luckily for Rosemary, she comes in, they get may Sue,
who said about worldly I guess, and they and they
it's a fun whole sequence of them dancing. Now. I
just want to tell you a little side about me too.
I am a ballroom dancer. I learned how to. I've
been dancing so I was a kid. I've always learned
all the latest dances. I was always I think I

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was a disco dance old I am. I was a
disco dancer. Hold, I do all the latest dances. But
I took ballroom over like what was that? It was
like ten eleven years ago. My cousin Bobby, who's a
big dance She's a big classical train dancer and everything
told me once for my birthday. She was like, well,

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you know you shoe for my birthday, I am giving
you to get into a dancing I was always gonna
learn ballroom. They used to watch Dancing the Stars, and
there's places, they say, usually most dance studios, you could
come in for free the first class. They want to
see if you like it, and then they charge you
after that. We went to a place called by Lamos,

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which means dancing in Spanish. But it was in West Hollywood,
and Shirley Ballace was one of the owners. That's Mark
Ballas's mother. They're all ballroom dancing legends. Mary Bounce, of course,
was on the early seasons of Dancing the Stars, so
I used to go there. I went and got hooked
and to classes. I swear it like okay, I spent
so much, but I learned how to bottom dance, and

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so I could do some of I can do. I
can do the waltz and the and I danced saw
some because I'm more Puerto Rican by but I'm like,
I know, I know the whole dance stuff, So that's
kind of fun. I love dance. Dancing's fun. I love it.
But it's the whole thing where planned this told there's
a whole secret on a plan. How how teach girls

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how to dance? Now they say it's a teen party.
It was just kind of funny. Aside. When they had
Cooper and told me wanted to go at first because
they're thirteen, I was like, yeah, I guess, I mean, yeah,
their teens. When he realized it was partner dancing, they're
like you, we're good, like like boys, like nevermind, no,
thank you. And we find out to this episode that

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Angela feels very different and we kind of noticed from
the last couple of episodes they mentioned she wants to
go to a school in Hamilton for the blind and
teach the blind. And I love that this show was
was very much. They didn't treat her very differently. They
showed that she could be like everybody else on some level.

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They always got her books and stuff. They're you know,
braille books and everything, but she writes songs. She's talented.
But look out there addressing this and it's very sweet.
There's this there's this this scene with with Joseph and her,
and then it was seeming Elizabeth and her. Elizabeth was
perfect the way she because I see she's a great teacher,

(09:38):
was that she handled the perfect way. She was like, Okay,
you feel different. It must it must feel you know.
She just kind of just she endorsed her feeling. It
was kind of with both compassion. It was just like,
is there anything I can do? Like, just like, what
can I do to help you? She didn't tell her,
don't think, don't feel that way. Don't She could tell

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you she's blind. There's something they're saying. She's she's not
so different, but she is different. There's no one else
blind there. And I thought that's actually very cool because
Joseph and her talk and you tell Joseph believes his daughter,
which is one of the greatest things you can do.

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It's like you believe in your daughter, you believe in
what's good like you just you literally are just you're
there for her. You teach your strength, but you have
to technology. Like she said, you don't understand I am different.
And it wasn't until Henry said it, of all people, oh,
you know, they have their you know, they have their Joseph,
Henry have their their chest games. I love that. Well,

(10:42):
he's like she is different, but like a bad weap
like she is different, And I love that. Lisabeth's answer
was giving her the story of Helen Helen having Helen
Keller's story in the book Enbraille to her, and you
saw angel light up and change, and it's like you
don't have to say, oh my, yeah, you're different, you're somebody,

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but like you know, okay, I understand what you're saying
and on some level, yes you are. What can I
do to support you? Not the way they had it
was beautiful. The way they have I think it's it
should be taught in schools. How they handled this, that's fine. Also,
this whole dance brought up feelings for Nathan, which I

(11:24):
totally understand about his daughter growing up. So I understand
that it also brought feelings for Elizabeth, which is telling
Rosemary they just I love it just a friends, because
she's leading on me. It feels different. When she was
doing her hair, Alli was just like, it's some nice
to have someone to talk to you like this other

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than her dad. And I will say this and I
might get flag for it. I don't care. I think
every child, no matter what their family situation is, should
have access to both male and female role models in
their lives. I think I think I think every child

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where there's a boy or guard, I think every child
should have access to that. I know some of you
are single parents and you're working hard. You may not
have a may have a man, but if you have
some male, a strong male friend or cousin or uncle,
hopefully that you can try something won't be a part.
I just think it's important. It's a gon village to

(12:31):
raise my kids and to raise me, and think to
villas raise my grandkids. And I just think that having
a strong role models on both sides of that spectrum.
I think. I think girls need females and males. You
need both for different reasons. I need them, and so
do answer to boys. So I know I may and

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maybe some people get mary, but I totally believe that.
I've always believed that, and I think there's something wrong
with believing that just to think it should just be
it's well rounded then, and it's just that there's some
things that certain people. You know that a female and
female understand, that a male and male understand. Then sometimes
there's a perspective you can get from someone of the
opposite sex. So I think it's just just one of

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those things. I just I just believe it. But I said, again,
whatever situation is of however you became family, hopefully have
people in your life period that will that can be
there for you and for your kids. And that's what
I think listeners saying, she's like coming to me, and
it's more than just the teacher thing. It's like it's

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kind of because she has no mother. Ali has no mother,
so that's kind of those kind of coaches are very
important to Lizabeth to support Ali in this. So that
was kind of cool. So I think that's that's so.
Oh then they have a dance. Well, the thing was
first first Molly was like, there's there's no we should

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have a dance. It's to scandalssla blah blah. And then
several sets of parents decided to chaperon the camfields they
did it the other side just think and said, well
we'll chaperon off to the side. That's a compromise. And
the dance was finally cute. I love how it's just
like when I was a kid, people would not dance first,

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No one dance like no one goes to dance from first,
and cute Oliver who likes Ali. They he starts off first.
They danced for a while, everybody's dancing, and then at
one point it was was watching them. It was, it was,
it was. It was such a sad scene. It was
a heartbreaking. He has a present for her for Ali,

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but Ali is waiting for Wyatt to come, the new boy,
and he walks up to give her the present, and
then Why walks in and it sees the whole thing.
It was like, oh, I know, it's so sad, but
it was. It was. The dance went off out of hitch,
nothing crazy happened. It was all good. So that was good.
The side a couple of little b c storre The

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Rocky Mountain, the Great Rocky Mountain Train robbery at Night
Show seven. I'm so excited for this. Nathan said it
in the episode. I agree with him. It's nice to
see Bill and Rosemary back together and that coin. But
here's what's and that whole sequence they're trying to do
reconnaissance and think it was hilarious talking to the Yost
and all that, but here's the crazy. So towards the

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end of the episode. Meanwhile, outside of the dance, you
have Molly fitting bad and she's just sticking the mud.
Then there's Jed, who we know he kind of likes her,
well basically we like each other. They start to they
start to talk, and she actually asked him to dance
because he was like a little nervous he wanted to.

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But in the middle of it, and I didn't watch it,
try and go back twice and did I just hear that?
He was like, I'm the one who bought you had
the coin and I had the bottles. Hates on that skin.
Know he was first, he was hating on the other stand,
he bought has us for a dollar. She was him,
so I'm courteous. See what happens next week, because she

(16:05):
was like, you can tell Bill now he said, oh,
who wall wait a second, will keep dancing. But it
was kind of like that was like I'm like, oh,
I expect that revelation, like just like that, I mean,
I recently more dramatic. It was kind of like, oh,
he did it. But then obviously he's not a thief.
Raining obvious she must he must have. Like, I guess
I'll find out more, but I was like, oh, if
you guys, I was like, oh, that's oh okay, got

(16:27):
it that Oh and basically we have And then the
last thing because I said this was like, this was
not a heavy episode. Oh was Lucas and not. Lucas
and Egg rang to each other on the on the
on the far on the ranch and they go through

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the ranch. See he looks through it and he kind
of understands where she's coming from a little bitter, so
a little bit of understanding. And that was that. Kid's basically,
I mean, it's just it's it was a nice like
an episode with a couple of great messages and gay fathers.
That's so that's what. That's what I think. I'm back
again this time on time. I know I bought back

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on back on those three of things for this this
Sunday's episode of When called the Heart. Uh parties. Wherever
you are, please be careful. The weather is crazy everywhere,
so be careful where you are. We're doing better in
Los Angeles. We had rain, good rains coming again apparently.
But we also uh people are able to get back

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to their homes. Now. We're starting to process of assessing stuff.
It's it's devastationarywhere and it's it's it's completely sad, but
we are, We're we're walking through it, running through it,
running through it, parties. I love you, guys, I will
talk to you soon. Right cancel what But now am

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I doing that? Oh my god,