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Happy Hour #91: Negroni Sbagliato · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to step
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  Speaker 1: welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. Before we start,
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  Speaker 1: As always, if you're drinking, be responsible, do what you
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  Speaker 1: need to, but be an adult about it. I guess
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  Speaker 1: I know adulting sucks, but making sure you stay well
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  Speaker 1: in your limits, whether it's too much caffeine, too much
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  Speaker 1: of anything, you know, just be aware, do you, but
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  Speaker 1: Well that's for me. Honestly, I was like, way, they
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  Speaker 1: need to pull it back. It's just just a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: as you know. So that's kind of my theme, I think.
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  Speaker 1: you listening in the future and if you are one
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  Speaker 1: of those people who rests these things, and it will
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  Speaker 1: be like, hey, this is like my connection call us.
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  Speaker 1: Hey I love I know I am that old. This
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  Speaker 1: is okay, let me do me. But you know what,
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  Speaker 1: before we start, I need to ask you if you
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  Speaker 1: were to go viral, what do you think you would
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  Speaker 1: go viral for? Or have you? I don't think I
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  Speaker 1: knew this if you did, Oh, I've never gone viral.
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  Speaker 1: I think for me, the closest thing I've gotten is
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  Speaker 1: like one time I got a hundred likes on a
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  Speaker 1: tweet and I was like, oh wow, that's amazing because
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  Speaker 1: when I get tin I was like, yes, I win,
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  Speaker 1: Yes exactly. I think we're about in the same boat
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  Speaker 1: in that manner. I think I possibly could go viral
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  Speaker 1: for some cause play hilarity. Um, I think that. I
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  Speaker 1: mean this is a different episode, but one time our boss,
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  Speaker 1: at one of our previous bosses, because we've been bought
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  Speaker 1: out by several different companies, he sat us down and
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  Speaker 1: showed us that what does the Fox Say video? He
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  Speaker 1: made us watch it, and then at the Andy said,
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  Speaker 1: why can't we go viral like this? You can't anticipate
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  Speaker 1: what goes viral? Right, Um? So I think it would
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  Speaker 1: be a random cause play like Phenomena where I was
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  Speaker 1: dressed as disco Luke and somebody was dressed as disco
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  Speaker 1: greaterer and somehow it just took off. Something like that.
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  Speaker 1: We need just to happen. Can we make this happen?
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  Speaker 1: I guess we need to TikTok for that, but we
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  Speaker 1: haven't gone that far in our in our brand. Uh. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that that takes a lot of time commitment, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure. On top of doing the actual content that
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  Speaker 1: we do. As you know if you follow our social media,
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  Speaker 1: we don't do a lot of content anymore, mainly because
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  Speaker 1: we got really caught up in doing all the actual
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  Speaker 1: podcasting content, as well as the fact we are petrified
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to do something wrong, as we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about before, or being embarrassed, which is kind of what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about today, not necessarily being embarrassed,
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  Speaker 1: but talking about viral memes or videos and why it
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  Speaker 1: can influence so many things. And yeah, we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: a drink uh that has swept the internet today October
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. So for those maybe listening in being like
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  Speaker 1: what believe me it was big okay um and talking
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  Speaker 1: about the people of the House of the Dragon from
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  Speaker 1: HBO Max. So, yes, there is some spoilers ahead. We're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna go too deep. We're just gonna kind of
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  Speaker 1: talk around it, but there may be things they're like,
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  Speaker 1: why did you say that? So if you've not caught
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  Speaker 1: up the finales this weekend, I'm sure this maybe dated
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  Speaker 1: by this point, but yeah, so things are happening and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's getting this big buzz, but
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  Speaker 1: you know whatever, I still like it. But before we start,
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  Speaker 1: we do want to talk about this video that became
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  Speaker 1: a meme, which is from the clip HBO Max where
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  Speaker 1: the actress Olivia Cook interviewed Emma Darcy and was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what's your drink of choice? And I know if you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in which they respond with a new groni
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  Speaker 1: spargliato with prosecco. And I know I did not do
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  Speaker 1: that well, So don't just don't con don't it because
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  Speaker 1: essentially the way they said it was people were talking
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  Speaker 1: about how that changed their sexuality or that was their
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  Speaker 1: defining sexuality. The way they said it, the way they
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  Speaker 1: presented it, everything and the interaction between the two of them,
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  Speaker 1: which was a delight to see. And because of this,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Annie, guess what we're gonna do. We're
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  Speaker 1: making negroni spargliato with prosecco, which is how it's made
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  Speaker 1: for this happy hour. Aren't you so excited? I am excited.
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  Speaker 1: I had. I'm not plugged in to the scene. I
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  Speaker 1: hadn't heard about this, but I recently did a very
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  Speaker 1: quick family trip. Uh and id I mentioned it? No
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  Speaker 1: one in my family watches The House of the Dragon,
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  Speaker 1: our game of rooms and they all knew what I
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  Speaker 1: was talking about. Is that my mom? But I was like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: it must be really big thing, right And of course,
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  Speaker 1: so because we love a good meme or we love
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  Speaker 1: a good drink, we had to jump on to this.
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  Speaker 1: And if you want to know what it is is uh,
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  Speaker 1: one and a half ounces of sweep remooth, one and
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  Speaker 1: a half ounces of compari, one and a half ounces
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  Speaker 1: of prosecco or any other sparkling wine, and bogliato. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: in Italians translated to being a mistake or bungling, So
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  Speaker 1: this was made out of a mistake because the negronis
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  Speaker 1: typically with gin with a twist of orange. Uh. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, how we're doing this? And I made
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  Speaker 1: mine and we had to drop off ingredients to dear
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  Speaker 1: Annie because of course she does not keep this stocked,
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  Speaker 1: including the orange. Did you use the orange? I did
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  Speaker 1: use the orange. Proud of you? What do you think
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  Speaker 1: I could? I like it? At first? I my first
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  Speaker 1: tip was too strong, and I think that the flavors
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  Speaker 1: needed to melt a bit more. Um. And I was
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  Speaker 1: telling Samantha, I just got two vaccines. Some my arms
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  Speaker 1: were very sore and I had a struggled opening to prosecco. UM,
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  Speaker 1: So I think I was in a rush and I
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  Speaker 1: just kind of like haphazardly stirred and came in here.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, now that it's kind of the flavors had mashed,
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  Speaker 1: I really like it. Um it's quite strong. It is,
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  Speaker 1: which isn't bad. But it's just because we're recording this
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  Speaker 1: early in a work day. It just happened to me
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  Speaker 1: that way. We're not doing this on purpose. So pro
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  Speaker 1: tip from my partner who is he likes doing the mixology,
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  Speaker 1: putting the champagne or the prosecco in first and then
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  Speaker 1: doing the mixture, because in this it says ad promotes
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  Speaker 1: Cabari to a mixed class build. I started to combine
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  Speaker 1: and chill straight into champagne flute top with prosecco and
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  Speaker 1: start again. Of course you could just stir, but he
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  Speaker 1: did at the opposite and it kind of melted a
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  Speaker 1: little better. I think serve on rocks, I did not
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  Speaker 1: mind that the champagne flute. How do you serve that
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  Speaker 1: on ice? I did not So. I looked at a
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  Speaker 1: few recipes before this, and they're all generally the same
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  Speaker 1: except for this mixing part. Yeah, mine said to put
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  Speaker 1: it to use ice. Put ice in first, the one
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  Speaker 1: that I ended up going with, So okay, I put
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  Speaker 1: it in a big ice cube because I'm a fancy adult.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you are, so how did you do it? I
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  Speaker 1: put in my big square ice cube, and then I
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  Speaker 1: mixed in the campari and the vermuse, and then I
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  Speaker 1: topped with prosecco, which I didn't measure. I just topped
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  Speaker 1: it um and then with a wedge of orange that
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  Speaker 1: kind of twisted, and then put inside nice. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I am not a super Negroni fan. I do
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  Speaker 1: not love kompari. It tastes like cough medicine to me. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not cool like that. We added a squeeze of
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  Speaker 1: the orange into the shaker with the two comparing vermouth,
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  Speaker 1: and then a large twist of orange bield and shook it.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna make an inappropriate chuck, I'm not going to,
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  Speaker 1: but it shook the hell out of it, essentially, like
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  Speaker 1: it was constantly to the point that we had to
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  Speaker 1: switch off and he had to shake it, and then
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  Speaker 1: like it got really cold because we didn't shaker. It
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  Speaker 1: was the whole thing so beat like it just like
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  Speaker 1: it is definitely shaking, not stirred for me. And so
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  Speaker 1: we added all that and I'm tasting it in a
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  Speaker 1: Champain fluid. I guess I'm missing the ice. I don't
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  Speaker 1: love ice anyway. I think that downs. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: a large ice cube. I'm not special apparently. I know
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  Speaker 1: we'll fix us soon, but yeah, this is the drink.
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  Speaker 1: And also what's so funny is when that meme came out,
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  Speaker 1: I'm planning to do, as you know, a little viewing
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  Speaker 1: party with some of the I Heart fam to come
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  Speaker 1: over because I love seeing our friends from the from
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  Speaker 1: our work. We are actually friends. Um and one of
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  Speaker 1: our friends, Lyle, who we've talked about before, send me
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  Speaker 1: a text after I told you what we're gonna do,
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  Speaker 1: that just literally had a link to the Growning Spogliato
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  Speaker 1: and that's all he said. I was like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that will be featured, and he was like yes. So
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  Speaker 1: we had a whole thing and I'm like, this is
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  Speaker 1: a huge thing and that's kind of the big deals,
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  Speaker 1: like the amount of pressure. So uh. The actor Emma Darcy,
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  Speaker 1: who is non binary, when they asked them how did
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  Speaker 1: you feel about this? They said they were really embarrassed.
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  Speaker 1: They were like, we were just trying to make Olivia
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  Speaker 1: Cook laugh because they've been at it all day. They've
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  Speaker 1: been doing this promotional thing all day and the intention
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  Speaker 1: was making each other laugh moving on. Did not think
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: it was a big deal, did not think it was
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  Speaker 1: going to be literally a queer icon moment, and so
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: having a moment to reflect on that, and they even
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  Speaker 1: talked about how they wanted to send that their mother,
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  Speaker 1: Like they're like, oh, we have to tell them, but
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  Speaker 1: they're like, they don't understand memes and that's a whole
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  Speaker 1: different thing. And that's like, I understand that. I understand that.
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  Speaker 1: And then let me think about all of the things.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, God, what would you want to
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  Speaker 1: go viral for? And I'm like, I think what I
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  Speaker 1: would go viral for is me either ranting or doing
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: something where I fall in our palmsy like those are
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  Speaker 1: the two, or or peaches my dog, So one of
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: those three things. But then I actually think we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: go viral. I hope it's not because of me ranting,
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  Speaker 1: because there's no telling as that would be good or bad. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, after I said what I said, I do
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of the things that go viral are,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like somehow your pants fall down and you
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  Speaker 1: get hit by a truck and then right, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: that's a whole different conversation. Just watched the horror movie
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  Speaker 1: about about this very thing. Oddly, pants still down? Yes, really, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you'll you'll have to ask me about it later, asked later,
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, you really can't tell what's going
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  Speaker 1: to take off. And it is something that I totally get,
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: you know, if you're embarrassed by, even if it's something
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  Speaker 1: that's not embarrassing necessarily, but it's like what you become
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  Speaker 1: known for. Right, that is a lot of pressure to
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: be like, oh, here's this queer eicon moment, which it's
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: not bad at all, but it was like, oh right,
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: that's a lot to live to. So they are a
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: non binary actor. That was not really a big deal,
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: which I love. I love to see that. It just was.
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  Speaker 1: Of course they are portraying the adult version, so they
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: are tying portraying the adult princess or near a Targerion
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  Speaker 1: and the adult queen Allison high Tower who Olivia Cook
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  Speaker 1: is um which they only come in like an episode
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  Speaker 1: four or five. I think I can't quite remember, and
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  Speaker 1: they've done a great job. But yeah, so it's really
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see these two as the lead of this
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  Speaker 1: show because Game of Thrones have never been mind has
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: never been kind to women as in fact, if I
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: remember correctly, and I have not read these books, so
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: please let me know if I'm wrong, it gets even
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  Speaker 1: more graphic in the books and what is actually shown
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  Speaker 1: in some of the shows, I believe. So yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I uh, I was thinking about this last night.
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  Speaker 1: The amount of episodes we do, we kind of get
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: back up sometimes of certain things. And I've been meaning
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  Speaker 1: to do am fictional women on a character from the
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Game of Thrones. But it is one of those things
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  Speaker 1: where watching House of the Dragon, I there are certain
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  Speaker 1: lines that they have in there that feel kind of
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: like out of place, where they're like, we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: do better to women, see and they I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: is an improvement, but it's it's sort of jarring, right
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  Speaker 1: when they sort of have these almost direct statements, right, Okay, Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's the thing is like we also know when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to fantasy that's placed in timelines that are not
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  Speaker 1: kind of women in general. That's a whole different conversation
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  Speaker 1: that we should have anyway, because how do you how
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: do you rectify loving fantasy, but when it is so
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: unkind people of color, especially like when I'm talking about it,
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  Speaker 1: I love seeing the representation. And we've talked about it before,
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  Speaker 1: how people were upset that there wore black elves or
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: black noblemen when during the time they were being oppressed,
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  Speaker 1: and we get it because there's this level of like
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  Speaker 1: it needs to be pure, like elves don't exist, or
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: now that does any of the characters game with thrones
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  Speaker 1: or dragons, So calm down. But there's this whole level
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  Speaker 1: of trying to be a part of it, be represented,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't kind. So they're holding a steadfast to
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  Speaker 1: the fact that women are not welcomed as leaders, you know,
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: to that um, to that genre, to what it would
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  Speaker 1: it look like if they did. So it's just it
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  Speaker 1: is it's a whole their complication. But I will say
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  Speaker 1: the House of the Dragon. Again, we're only in season one,
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  Speaker 1: so this could change drastically if it continues. Uh, but
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  Speaker 1: the first season was pretty grotesque of Game of Throne,
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  Speaker 1: like I do like, but like you immediately jump into
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  Speaker 1: a sixteen seventeen year old being raped uh and given
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  Speaker 1: away to marriage like it's and it's portrayed for no
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  Speaker 1: damn reason, for no reason. There's no reason for that
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  Speaker 1: scene in which uh Danny gets raped by her husband
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  Speaker 1: other than it just as I ten second clip of
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  Speaker 1: her being raped while she's looking at her eggs like
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  Speaker 1: it's just kind of one of those things of like
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: why was this necessary? Again, there's no real point to it,
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  Speaker 1: which the House of the Dragon has mentioned rape without
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  Speaker 1: showing it, so I'm like that works. That worked to me.
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  Speaker 1: In which against spoiler, one of the High Tower kids
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  Speaker 1: uh slash obviously they are Targarian because she's married to
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  Speaker 1: the king, but one of her kids, Alison's kids, who's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be Keen, apparently rapes a servant. And this
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  Speaker 1: conversation is really gross. But at the same time they
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  Speaker 1: don't show it, which thank you, let's we don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't it's there, The conversation is there. He's an
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  Speaker 1: awful dude. You see it right there without having to
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  Speaker 1: see it. M M. So it's kind of a conversation
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, I don't know what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: this on purpose or if they're building up and we're
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: gonna get slapped in the face. I mean, there's so
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: many things we could talk about, and you and I
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: have had conversations. I've been torn, I've been stressed. This
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  Speaker 1: is all different. I know you're going to do an episode.
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  Speaker 1: This is a whole different You've been stressed about. It
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  Speaker 1: is I but I remember forever ago when we did
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: we did our episode on what I call like what
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: is and what should be? And that was sort of
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: what Game of Phones is a very good example of
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  Speaker 1: what I was trying to articulate, which is like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't great to women, but it seems like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of very often male creators are putting in these
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  Speaker 1: scenes where we're witnessing this horrible thing happened to a
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  Speaker 1: woman that we don't need to And a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times I feel like with Game of Thrones, it was
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: so about the shock factor. It was so about like,
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  Speaker 1: look how horrible everybody is. And I'm like, I get
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  Speaker 1: it right, they're bad, right, I think what they're changing
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: and this is all new creators and we know that
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: George rr. Martin Is actually has a hand in this.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: He is a part of the producing he has a
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  Speaker 1: part of the writing, so we see a little more
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  Speaker 1: and and this is based on the book and that
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: he's already published, and obviously it's a little different. And
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  Speaker 1: to the point that I recently heard that he apparently
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: was like he loves this rendition so much that he
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  Speaker 1: wants to rewrite that book, which I'm sure many of
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the fans are like, please stop. That just finished the
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  Speaker 1: damn book, which is what I heard repeatedly by many
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: of the fans. And that's the thing. It's like, Okay, okay, okay,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I love fact, I love fantasy. I don't necessarily do
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: sci fi or uh, any of that. But when it
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: comes to fantasy like Game of Thrones, uh, Lord of
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the Rings, I'm there, Harry Potter, give me that. And
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: then we're not going to talk about that in itself.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: But I love that fantasy level. It continues to be
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: something that I will watch. But all of these things
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: are concerning, like is it watchable? Do we have to
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: see these horrid things? Isn't necessary to any of the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: actual plotline? Um, And I think about this and like
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Sansa her wedding Night, that was unnecessary, that wasn't written,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: that did not have to be. There's so many things
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: to this that you're like, Okay, let's hope for the best.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: And what I'm seeing in the House of the Dragon,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: it seems to respect that a little more. And I
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: say this with something across was still the tension of
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: canned women rule. Will a society let women rule in
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: this time and age? And I will say there's been
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: several directors that I've actually shocked me and I've been
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: very pleasantly surprised. One of the episodes had I believe
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: um an Indian creator who an Indian director who came
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: in and did these amazing things um within the plot line,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: within the direction, and I loved what she did, and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I was like, this is awesome. I'm so excited to
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: see the diversity in this conversation instead of the same
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: white men which most of the Game of Thrones directing,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, Yeah, and I think that that's
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: so important. When we were talking about that, and like
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Prevenge movies is like who is doing it and not
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: that this is necessarily the exact same thing, but you
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: know who who's behind, who was choosing the angles and
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: what's included and why I do think there is a
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: larger conversation that I'm sure we'll of one day about
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: like willful fan the way fandom interacts with things can
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: make it a story that wasn't meant to be read
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: that way, read in a certain way, um, which is
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: can be good or bad. There there pluses and minuses
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: to that, but um. And also I will also say
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the caveat of it is hard to watch this for
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: me knowing how Game of Thrones didn't. And that's not
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: the only one. Everyone has been so critical and unwilling
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to watch this. And actually that viral video of the
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Negroni conversation brought in viewers. They were so interested in
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: their in Darcy's character. They were excited. So though this
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: is what viral videos can give you essentially, But I
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: really think it's interesting. Oh and BT dubs, because we've
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: talked about intimacy coordinator before, they actually had them on
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: step for this show. I don't they had it originally,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, with Amelia talking about her scene
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: with Jason Momoa, there was no coordinator and it was
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: thank God, caring for her. But in this actual show
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: they had them, and they kind of dated them. The woman,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the young girl who played uh Ellison how Tower in
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the earlier series would had just had just turned eighteen
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: for one of the critical scenes, so which only happened once,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: it was still disturbing. I was very disturbed. Um. And
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I immediately looked up police tell me they had coordinators
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and they did. Um. And it is it to me
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: as a viewer, maybe to me as a social worker,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I needed to know she was taken
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: care of or that scene was going to disturb me
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: in such a way. Which again the same scene what
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I was talking about in Game of Thrones, uh, with
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Emelia and Jason Momoa's rapefusly that disturbed me to know
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: my there was no one there come on. Yeah, and
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: we talked about that in the Intimacy Coordinator episode that
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: just as a viewer, it adds value because you're you
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: feel better watching it knowing that somebody was there to
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: make sure everything was okay, everybody was getting what they
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: needed right, um, And kudos to that. Again, there's so
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: much The finale is coming, so I'm sure we'll do
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: a quick review and seeing how they hang, you know,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the how it ends, because I do love seeing two
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: women three women, honestly, Um, because there's another princess who
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: was kind of if you saw the last episode, you
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: know she made a powerhouse move which was confusing to
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: mania people, but like having that as actual for character,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: like Forefront characters, and they're neither good nor evil, that
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: they are all three in the middle, like you don't
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: know where they're wavering mm hmm, and you don't know
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the intentions. It's it's really interesting. Yeah, yeah, I and
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I find it fascinating. I don't know. I'm so confused.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: It makes me happy, but I'm like, well, how did
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: this take off? I feel like most people I know
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: aren't into fantasy, but here we are. We love drama.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I'm sure we will return and talk about it. Samantha
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and I will be watching it together. I'm nervous. I'm nervous,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: to be honest, But it'll be fine, aren't we all? Yes?
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