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The Chicken Sisters Season 2, Episode 2 (feat. Dara Alston) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Homework, a Homework of you podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Megan and I'm a longtime a Hallmark fan. Today
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  Speaker 2: we are discussing The Chicken Sisters Season two, episode two,
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  Speaker 2: Mama Tried, y'all, and I'm so lucky to be joined
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  Speaker 2: by Dara Auston, host of the Dear Hallmark podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me, Thank.
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  Speaker 3: You for having me. I'm so excited to be here.
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  Speaker 3: It looks good, the food is good, the vibes are
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  Speaker 3: good here. Thank you for inviting me. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: This has been such a fun project. I mean, we're
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  Speaker 2: only two episodes in, but it's been fun to get
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  Speaker 2: to collaborate with other podcasters for this season of The
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  Speaker 2: Chicken Sisters. You certainly celebrated five years of Dear Hallmark.
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 2: We're actually coming up on five years of Girls con
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark congratulation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you too.
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  Speaker 2: I know you haven't asked me anything episode coming up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to steal from that, but I want
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  Speaker 2: to ask a real quick question, like what in the
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  Speaker 2: five years have become your favorite types of movies to review?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a really good question. Sometimes, so I have
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  Speaker 3: two answers to that. I would say sometimes I enjoy
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  Speaker 3: reviewing the bad ones because then I can have fun.
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  Speaker 1: With it, you know, sometimes it is.
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  Speaker 3: But also I really enjoy like, if I'm really really
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  Speaker 3: passionate about a movie, You're going to get a one quick,
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  Speaker 3: like ten minute YouTube take and I'm just gonna pour
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  Speaker 3: my heart out. Like I like those where I can
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  Speaker 3: just pour my heart out because of how much I
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  Speaker 3: love a movie. And normally those movies are like cooking movies,
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  Speaker 3: and our destination movies and our literary movies, anything to
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  Speaker 3: do with the book writing or publishing. Those are kind
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  Speaker 3: of my jam and my jelly. M hm.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you're such a fun interviewer. Do you like interviews
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  Speaker 2: as much as reviews? Do you like the more?
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  Speaker 3: So that's an interesting question as well, because last year
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  Speaker 3: I felt like I was more interview heavy, and so
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  Speaker 3: this year I kind of pulled back and I find
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  Speaker 3: that I genuinely enjoy I think I enjoy reviewing more,
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  Speaker 3: but I do like adding the conversations with different people,
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  Speaker 3: whether actor, director, producer, or what have you. But I
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  Speaker 3: think because this is how Dear Hallmark started in the
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  Speaker 3: first place, my first love is reviewing the movies and
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  Speaker 3: talking with people about the movies.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into the details of this episode, I
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  Speaker 2: want to hear where you are with the Chicken Sisters insel.
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  Speaker 2: Our hosts are coming at it from all different angles,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm curious.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of know the answer to this.
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  Speaker 2: But our listeners, did you watch season one? Any thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on that seat and if you did, how are you
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  Speaker 2: feeling about a second season?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so, y'all where my heart was. I watched the
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  Speaker 3: first three episodes of the first season as it was
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  Speaker 3: airing last year, and I tapped out after episode three.
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  Speaker 3: I was just like, this might not be for me,
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  Speaker 3: but it could be for somebody. And so with that,
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  Speaker 3: I was shocked that it had a second season because I,
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  Speaker 3: at least from the like the comments I've been able
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  Speaker 3: to grab from the Facebook streets and the Instagram streets,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think anyone was really watching it or liked
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  Speaker 3: it either. So I was shocked and they announced that
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  Speaker 3: there would be a second season and it would still
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  Speaker 3: come out this year. I was shocked about that, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to spoil my thoughts on the episode,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, this episode was different for me. I'll just
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  Speaker 3: leave it there.
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  Speaker 1: Did you watch episode one.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't, so I came in completely blind. I just
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  Speaker 3: saw the recap at the beginning of the episode, I was.
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  Speaker 2: Like, Okay, well, this is gonna be so fun. So
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  Speaker 2: a quick synopsis of this episode, Amanda, Nancy, and guest
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  Speaker 2: tried to mend fences following their ultimate Kitchen Clashed episodes
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  Speaker 2: airing and may enlist Sabrina's help with her wedding planning.
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  Speaker 2: And we always run down news and notes of these
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  Speaker 2: episodes at the top. We're not going to run down everybody.
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  Speaker 2: But for this episode, Carrie Karney was the head writer.
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  Speaker 2: She was an actress and only has Chicken Sisters is
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  Speaker 2: her only writing credit other than a short. She was
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  Speaker 2: a staff writer on all eight episodes of the first season,
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  Speaker 2: but is credited with as head writer of this episode.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're leaning into I think we're leading into
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  Speaker 2: comedy writers.
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  Speaker 1: Here is my feeling.
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  Speaker 3: I can feel that. I can feel that. I definitely
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  Speaker 3: felt that with this episode.
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  Speaker 2: One thing I noticed I was listening to a podcast
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  Speaker 2: last week and one of the guests that were like,
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  Speaker 2: he's a writer on The Chicken Sisters. And then of course,
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  Speaker 2: as I'm watching this, I see his name in the credits.
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  Speaker 2: It's mono agopian. He has a podcast of his own.
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  Speaker 2: Hehosts a RuPaul's Drag Race Recap podcast, which I have
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  Speaker 2: not listened to, but he was so funny on this
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  Speaker 2: other podcast that now I'm like, I've never seen an
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  Speaker 2: episode of RuPauls Draggrays and want to listen to his podcast.
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  Speaker 2: So just a hint of where we're coming from with
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  Speaker 2: these writers. Yeah, and Leah Thompson is back as director.
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  Speaker 2: She directed episode one, she directed episode two. We don't
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  Speaker 2: get a lot of information ahead of time, so I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how many of f Yourdure episodes she's gonna direct.
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  Speaker 3: But whoa, Yeah, that's really cool. Is this our first
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  Speaker 3: time directing within the series.
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  Speaker 1: Within this series yet?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: She has quite a few other television directing credits. It's
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  Speaker 2: definitely not her first thing. Yeah, she did not direct
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  Speaker 2: last season.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Wow, that's cool. Lea Thompson is getting it between
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  Speaker 3: this and Spencer Sisters like she's owning it. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Could we get a second season of Spencer Sisters?
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  Speaker 3: That's all I want for Christmas? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Then?
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  Speaker 2: We have one new cast member, David James Elliott. He
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  Speaker 2: plays Clayton Briggs, the third former high school quarterback and
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  Speaker 2: of course May's daddy.
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  Speaker 1: He has a deep resume.
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  Speaker 2: He's obviously most well known for his appearance on two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty seven episodes of Jag over ten seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Stara, is that a show you ever watched?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I actually grew up watching Jack. My dad would
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  Speaker 3: always have it on. So yes, interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, I've never seen an episode, but that's he
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  Speaker 2: has a ton of credits, but that's what everybody references.
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  Speaker 2: In the last episode, one of my wishes was for
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  Speaker 2: our girl Gus to get a little love interest and
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  Speaker 2: see him walking at the end. We'll talk about it
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more happy to have him joining the
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  Speaker 2: cat me too. We're gonna take a quick break and
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna come right back with our first impressions. All right,
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  Speaker 2: dar let's hear your first impression of Mama tried, y'all?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? So, uh, my first impression I wrote, give me
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  Speaker 3: a caesar salad and some fries because I might be
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  Speaker 3: here longer than I thought.
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  Speaker 2: So first of all, a caesar salad and prize is
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  Speaker 2: the perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Meal, quintessential meal, if I do say so myself. Chicken
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  Speaker 3: seas it, shrimp sees it. If I'm feeling fancy, oh
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  Speaker 3: look at you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I feel like maybe you're coming around.
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  Speaker 1: On the chicken sisters.
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  Speaker 3: Listen. That's what this episode did to me. I was
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  Speaker 3: shocked and my petty behind was forcing myself to not
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  Speaker 3: like it. And it was just like, no, girl, lean in,
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  Speaker 3: lean in, that's right, melt that heart, melt it. Let
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  Speaker 3: it melt your heart, and it showed it definitely did.
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  Speaker 3: I adored this episode. I was cracking up so much
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  Speaker 3: with our guy from the Cluckery. I didn't catch his name.
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  Speaker 2: Christian Christio gives real strong like uh like alpha mantic podcaster, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: red pill like that whole thing, which was just hilarious
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  Speaker 2: to me and for me, Like I just I enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: this whole episode and I felt like I felt like
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  Speaker 2: I was on vacation in a way, which was weird.
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  Speaker 3: Like I can't quite put it into words, but this
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  Speaker 3: it was something about the pacing of this episode that
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  Speaker 3: that really made me happy, Like I really enjoyed watching
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  Speaker 3: this episode.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's one of my few questions to come up.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm glad you said that.
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  Speaker 2: You know the reason why I'm doing this this season
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  Speaker 2: with co host is because our listeners know Wendy was
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  Speaker 2: not a fan of the first season, and when the
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  Speaker 2: second season came around, she was like, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if I can do it, and I said, I have
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  Speaker 2: an idea and let's see how it goes. So interestingly enough,
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  Speaker 2: she has watched the first two episodes and after the
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  Speaker 2: first one she was like, it's better. It's better, so
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  Speaker 2: you're not alone and feeling like the vibes are better.
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  Speaker 2: We have a brand new showrunner this season, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how much influence there is there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: My first impression is feels a little bit like Shawna
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  Speaker 2: is quickly becoming the third Chicken System.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I don't want to jump ahead of you,
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  Speaker 3: but yes, yes, yes, now, yes she.
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  Speaker 2: Was in season one and of course, but she the
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  Speaker 2: first two episodes of this season. I mean, it has
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  Speaker 2: been Shawna heavy and I'm here for I'm the biggest
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  Speaker 2: fan of cam Howden, the actress too replace her, Like yeah,
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  Speaker 2: to the point that she's she saw some posts and
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  Speaker 2: she shared them, but I'm like, okay, Megan, pull.
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  Speaker 1: It back, like, but she's so good. She's such a
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  Speaker 1: great as to the show.
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  Speaker 3: Yes she is, Yes she is.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk what you liked about this episode.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I have I have a lot of Billet points.
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  Speaker 3: I had to and it didn't take me long to
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  Speaker 3: put this in. But like again, the pacing of the
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  Speaker 3: show was it was like a slow drink of lemonade
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  Speaker 3: for me. It was refreshing, it was sweet, it was
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  Speaker 3: kind to me, and I appreciated it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: And then you mentioned Shawna. She's one of my favorite
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  Speaker 3: aspects of this episode. And also seeing Sabrina and May
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  Speaker 3: interact with each other the way they were, with Sabrina
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  Speaker 3: helping May plan her wedding and May just kind of
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  Speaker 3: like glitching and she's like, I could do everything else,
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  Speaker 3: but planning a wedding, I just like I go blank.
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  Speaker 3: And so just watching Sabrina help her in that way.
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  Speaker 3: And it's odd because I, like, I still had a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of residual distrust of Sabrina from what I
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  Speaker 3: saw from season one, but this episode swept that right away.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, well, look at Sabrina just being just
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  Speaker 3: a beautiful friend to May. And then again, the guy
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  Speaker 3: from the Cluckery, like he he brought it and the
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  Speaker 3: whole masculinity coach thing, and like that whole scene between
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  Speaker 3: him and Frank Junior about like I was, I was howling,
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  Speaker 3: like I was hollering. It was that was my problem.
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  Speaker 3: My favorite part of the episode.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no emotions, Clauset, yes, Oh my gosh, and him
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  Speaker 2: just like on his shoulder or whatever, He's like take
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  Speaker 2: the day.
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  Speaker 3: It was so funny, so so so funny.
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  Speaker 2: A few things I liked. Look, we're seeing Amanda coming
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  Speaker 2: into her own. This is a takes you know. I
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  Speaker 2: did watch all the first season, and it's just hard
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  Speaker 2: to watch. She's really bogged down by Frank Junior and
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  Speaker 2: she's living the life that other people wanted for her.
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  Speaker 2: We see in the flashbacks that she had her light
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  Speaker 2: dimmed and it's very literal the way it's shot by
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  Speaker 2: Frank Junior, with the lighting and the literal dimming and
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  Speaker 2: darkening of the scenes. He squashed her creativity. And then
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  Speaker 2: we see her come back to life when Frankie is born,
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  Speaker 2: and I like how they bring it back around. Frankie's
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  Speaker 2: about to move on to the next step, and she's
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  Speaker 2: the one who's encouraging her to find herself again, find
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  Speaker 2: her creativity, and the things that she loves. My girl,
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  Speaker 2: Nancy is a little frustrating, but I loved that when
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  Speaker 2: she finally apologizes to Frank Junior, She's like, you have
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  Speaker 2: some ownership to take here too. Of course he takes none,
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  Speaker 2: because Frank Junior is the worst, literal worst, But I
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  Speaker 2: appreciated Nancy in that moment. Yeah, a couple funny moments.
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  Speaker 2: I liked May telling a man that she can't move
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  Speaker 2: because she's been barring a lot of her clothes and
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  Speaker 2: long jean skirts have really grown on me. I also
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  Speaker 2: loved Seanna's funeral flowers and her continued love for Bodice rippers.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Those two things told me all I needed to know
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  Speaker 3: a watch Seana literally as someone who doesn't have much
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  Speaker 3: experience with her her bringing in the Flower, the Flower Arrangement,
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  Speaker 3: and then the novel. I was like, Oh, I'm here
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  Speaker 3: to say, I'm here to say, like, that's my girl,
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  Speaker 3: that's it.
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: Were you a Gilmore Girls fan bine each year?
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: Okay, fun fact, I just started watching Gilmore Girls last
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: fall and then brought it into this winter and season six,
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  Speaker 3: episode two I had to tap out because Rory was
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: getting on my nerves.
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Rory has a rough time in there is
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  Speaker 2: this yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Dropping out of Yale Roryler.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, like when right when they got arrested for the
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  Speaker 3: boat thing and then she ends up living with her grandparents.
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: I screamed at the TV, and so I've boycotted it
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  Speaker 3: since the winter, but I'm going to pick it back
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  Speaker 3: up in the fall finishing.
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  Speaker 2: I will say that is that is infuriating. It's so frustrating,
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  Speaker 2: but it does have payoffs. The reason I ask is,
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  Speaker 2: to me, Shauna is Kirk. She's and she runs all
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  Speaker 2: these different businesses. She's in everybody's business. She's kind of
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  Speaker 2: she's here, she's there, she's everywhere. So she's kind of the.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting Okay, I didn't know her to have, but that
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  Speaker 3: I guess in season one do we see that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of her that she okay, Okay, that's good to
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  Speaker 3: know because honestly, if we're talking Gilmore girls without that
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  Speaker 3: prior knowledge of Shauna from season one, she was giving
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  Speaker 3: me back, not bad back. Who's our is it? Miss
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  Speaker 3: Patty teacher dance teacher? Yes, that's the vibe she was given.
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  Speaker 3: She was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's accurate too. But you know, for
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  Speaker 2: anybody who didn't see season one. Yeah, frank Junior sabotages,
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  Speaker 2: he takes off with the winnings. Shauna comes in and
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  Speaker 2: she's like, y'all, I'm rich, I have sixteen jobs. And
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  Speaker 2: she then franchises the Chicken Sisters because Gus's business is
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  Speaker 2: in severe debt and so she comes and saves them,
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  Speaker 2: which is why she's kind of stepped up in importance
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  Speaker 2: because she basically owns these restaurants and she's a partner
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  Speaker 2: with them.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so it all comes together. Let's look what you
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  Speaker 1: wished for in this episode.
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  Speaker 3: So I only have one wish. My only wish was
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  Speaker 3: and this is kind of across the board with different
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  Speaker 3: shows and movies, but the way the daughter Frankie talked
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  Speaker 3: to Amanda, I just that just hurt me, and I
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  Speaker 3: know she was hurt and embarrassed too. But I just
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  Speaker 3: wish that we were able to talk to our mom
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  Speaker 3: in a more delicate way than what we did. That
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  Speaker 3: was my only wish.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, Yeah, interesting, Okay. One of my wishes is a
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  Speaker 2: question to you, because with such an ensemble cast in
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  Speaker 2: this show, how are you feeling about the little snippets
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  Speaker 2: for getting? Because in this episode, we've got a big
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: focus on Amanda, little shots of Nancy with the past,
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  Speaker 2: or a little bit of Lindsey and Frankie. Does it
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  Speaker 2: feel cohesive enough? Or are we we're getting too little
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  Speaker 2: of those other storylines in this episode.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I'm okay with what we're getting because I see
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  Speaker 3: it as that's something that they'll probably expound on in
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  Speaker 3: later episodes. So it didn't bother me, like it didn't
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  Speaker 3: feel it didn't. I didn't sense a lack of cohesiveness
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  Speaker 3: for me with this episode. But is that is that
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  Speaker 3: kind of how you felt?
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  Speaker 2: No, it wasn't because so the first episode was very
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  Speaker 2: fast paced and the way they were catching catching us
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  Speaker 2: up and bringing all the characters up to date with everybody,
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  Speaker 2: and I love that. Going back to Gilmore Girls, I
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  Speaker 2: love that fast pace, like give me the dialogue.
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  Speaker 1: Move it along. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: And I was worried because last year I felt like
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  Speaker 2: the pilot episode was like that and then it slowed
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  Speaker 2: way down and we dug into these storylines. I felt
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  Speaker 2: like this episode kept up that pace.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I was just wondering, as someone who's maybe not as
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  Speaker 2: entrenched in the world of Marynac, is it not enough?
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  Speaker 2: But Yeah, we are going to get more of Lindsay
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  Speaker 2: and Frankie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Question, are you feeling any romantic vibes there?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so I was getting that in the first season.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that they were setting that up in the
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  Speaker 3: first season. So, but who's Who's is his name Dudley? Who?
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  Speaker 3: So who's he? Like? Who's he supposed to be?
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  Speaker 2: He's Frankie's dud of a boyfriend. He shows up in
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  Speaker 2: the first episode and Lindsay's like, who are you. He's like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm Frankie's boyfriend, and just to look on her face.
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  Speaker 2: And then in this episode when he shows up at
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  Speaker 2: the movies and Frankie leaves with him, and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay goes home, She's like, I want to go home.
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  Speaker 3: That makes sense now because I'm like, what I'm like
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  Speaker 3: is she's just sick of the town. But as you're talking,
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: that's why I'm like, Okay, that's why she was. She
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: just like kind of crashed out a little bit because
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: she has this kind of longing for Frankie. Yeah, I've
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: thought about that.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm hoping we see that come to fruition this season.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: I am curious your take on gus So last episode,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: I felt like we started to see a little.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Bit of a softer side of Gus. Yes, my co host.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Brian Harold said he didn't love that. He felt like
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: that wasn't true to who she was and it was
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: setting us up for some not really for her character
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: to not make sense later in the season.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I stand by it.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: We see a lot of peaks of her softer side
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: in this episode. Yeah, you know, she even gets teary
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: eyed when people are making fun of her, supportive of
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Amanda in a way you never would have seen in seasons.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: She goes along with Shawna's plan. How what do you
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: think about Gus as we see her now?
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: I enjoyed Gus in this episode because it felt like
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: she was doing at least going along. I'm thinking specifically
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: about doing that bit at the end with Shauna with
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: the season salad thing. I felt like she was doing it,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: but begrudgingly, Like even when she said hi, I'm Gus
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: and no, I'm a Chuck consists it like, I felt
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: like she was doing it begrudgingly, but because she she
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: is listening to Shawna and respecting Shawna's you know, opinion,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: she obliges. But I enjoyed Gus, I really do. And
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: I think Wendy Malax she's I love her, and I
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: think she does such a good job of kind of
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: that balance of like having that heard exterior but still
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: being able to show a softer side of Sharman. And
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: so I'm I'm enjoying the push pool. I think I
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: wrote in my notes, I was like, it's springing Narnia
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: again because because of just how yeah, how warm. For
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: lack of a better word, I felt like Gus was
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: in this episode and I liked it.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Do you watch the show Shrinking?
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: No, but I've heard of it.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I recommend it. Wendy Malick is in it. She's frea
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: fantastic also created by the creator of The Chicken Sisters,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Annie m Vain.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Oh wow.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: But it is.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: The best thing on television right now. I mean, season
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: three is coming up, so we're not actively in a season,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: but it is one of the best shows.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I've ever seen.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Which streamer is it on.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: It's on Apple TV Plus, which is frustrating because I
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: feel like it's not one that a.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Lot of people have.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: That's true, I am one of those people.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, but it's worth like a one month because it's
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: only ten episodes in a season, so you can kind
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: of get through.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's great.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I think it's great. I have one more and it that.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: While I think it's a great storyline for Sabrina to
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: help May plan the wedding, it's how we give Sabrina
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: something to do while she's back in town.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I don't fully buy.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: That May is this checked out of the process, even
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: with the explanation that she is used to not seeing
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: marriages last I just feel like May, who she was
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: as a person, is not lining up with this. Like
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I can't plan my own wedding. It's three weeks away
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: and I don't have a dress.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's fair, No, that's fair.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: At least it got us Sabrina back, which was one
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: of our biggest wishes at the end of last season
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: because Brute to love her. Rookie Bernard is one of
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: my favorites, one of her best roles.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: She's so good. Yeah, and so I'm glad it brought
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: her back.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: But we'll see, we'll see.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Okay that I mean, because she has been, at least
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: from what I saw previously, like she has been made
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: to be this very kind of like type a tie
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: type of person. So to think that when it comes
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: to something as so so big as your wedding for
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: her to not have done anything, yeah, or does that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Of an organizing television show?
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Now question? Because I know her and her fiance had
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: at least to mine from what I gathered, was she
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: having an issue committing to him? Like, do you think
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: that that's like something deeper? Is her not planning it?
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Is her not kind of wanting to commit to him.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I think the issue was that he didn't know the
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: truth about her past, about she was from. She hadn't
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: told him that and he doesn't find out until the
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: eighth episode of season one.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: But I think she was a little nervous.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: About planning a wedding, and in season one when they
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: were engaged in trying to figure out how am I
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: going to do this and keep up this facade of
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: who he thinks I am? And of course he finds
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: out and he's like, I love you for you, not
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: the idea that you presented as some you know, New
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: York City girl. So I think she's all in on
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: the relationship, especially now Okay, it's all out there and.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I just found out he's magnets from Providence Falls. Yes,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: did not make the connection. I said, play the role, brother,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: play the role. He did such a good.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Job, so good. Oh, I could talk about Providence today.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: You and me both girl.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: People are talking or dogging on that show. I'm like,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: excuse me, we need to have a conversation.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, step into our office. We have office hours whenever
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: you need.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk. Any did you see that moments that
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: you've came across in this episode.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I only have one, and it's it's more so than
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: I just want to highlight this, this part when Gus
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: is filming the actual Caesar salad video, her blazer is
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: just I sent my compliments to the chef that blazer
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: was just as delicious as that Caesar salad looked. And
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I just need y'all to just give just give a
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: hearty her heart to the costumer for that choice.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that whole look, right, we get that look where
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: she looks ridiculous and whatever. Nancy has her usure in,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: and so you kind of assume she's just gonna be gussed,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: she's just gonna wear her normal gut and when she
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: comes in, she's still dust.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: She's dust. Two point oh, it's so good.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: The straight jeans and the blazer.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I loved it, and I love her shorter haircut.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Yes, it was perfect, perfect.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: So good.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I again have kind of just moments that I want
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: to highlight. One is really about me. It's Amanda saying
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: to Frankie, I don't know who I'm going to be
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: when you leave talking about Frankie in college. I can't
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: stop talking about the fact that I dropped my kid
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: off at college last week. And so I'm like, bury
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: in that.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: First of all, congratulations because that is a big feet
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: in and of itself. I know.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Wendy was like, hey, he's launched.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I was like, it's a transition period.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: She said that I thought, I see you a man.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: That. Yeah.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I want to throw it back to a question we
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: had last week in the episode, because.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: To me, the logistics of the two Chicken restaurants are
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: a little bit confusing because they're both the Chicken Sisters,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: but we maintain these two locations because it's a franchise.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: But we were like, Brian especially, was like, which recipe
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: are they using? How are they doing this well? It
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: seems to me, based on a common August mate, that
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: they're continuing to use their own recipes, which is weird
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: for a franchise, Like you think there needed to be
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: some continuity, but you know, nothing makes sense in this town.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: And I mentioned it a little earlier, but I just
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: really love the use of lighting in this shows. It's
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: really well in flashbacks when we talk about Amanda's trajectory
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: and the Cluckery is lit in dim, cold blue lighting. Yeah,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I mean that place is devoid of life. It's really good.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: You know what. It reminded me of good Burger when
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: the like how the contrast. It's the old nineties Nickelodeon
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: movie with Kel Mitchell. It was like a Kennan and
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Kel movie, Uh huh, And they had a competing burger
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: restaurant called Mando Burger or something like that, and just
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: the contrast between like the warmth of that restaurant and
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: then the darkness of that, and I think theirs was
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: like overexposed so much that it felt unreal. This reminded
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: me of that, like what you were saying, in terms
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: of how they purposefully shot it, it feels abandoned, neglected,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: like like so, yeah, I thought the way they lit that,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: you could you could feel that it felt like you
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: were inside of a refrigerator and not a restaurant.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, for sure.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: So we have a segment we're including in these episodes
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: because most of our hosts are not Chicken Sister loyalists.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I think that pertains to you.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: So this segment is called fresh Eyes, and this is
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: just for those who are new. What questions thoughts do
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: you have? What's not making sense?
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: What was the how did it? Because it seem like
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Gus and Nancy are on good terms now, Oh what
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: brought them back to good terms?
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Well, that's actually a great question because I think it's
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: we're seeing it again. So in season one, we know
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: that there was some rift between Franny's and Mimi's back
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: in the day that led to the split of these
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: two restaurants. Originally was the Chicken Sisters they split into
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: two restaurants. Well, come to find out, nothing ever happened,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: except that the men in their lives perpetuated these rumors
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: to make them hate each other, to exert power over
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: each other.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: So like at one.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Point it was believed that Gus had had an affair
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: with Frank Senior, and that never happened, but Frank Senior
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: allowed Nancy to believe it because it gave him power
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: over her. I think it comes back because in the
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: first episode I was like, what's Frank Junior's play here?
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Why isn't he signing the divorce papers? And it's because
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: that's the only card he holds, yea only power he has.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: So the men in the series are all trash exerting yes, yes,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: and all about exerting power over the women in their lives.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Except for Sergio. I'm very very curious, like what his
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: how they're going to play with his character throughout this
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: season this he has the biggest he's the biggest wildcard
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: to me in all of this.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Uh huh, yeah, that's real interesting. He was very funny.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: He only had a couple scenes in this episode, but
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: was very funny and thrown off.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: The entire time.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: And that text he gets from that do not that's
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: his ex that do not answer number. We learn about
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: her in season one. We don't know what's going on
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: with her, but that's who's colin.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Have we seen Harley?
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Do we know what she looks like?
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: We have not.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Oh it's like Mary's from Frasier, like because she's just
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: it's like pritty. Okay, that's interesting, Okay.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Well it's time to name our feathered friend of the week.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Who was the MVP of the episode for you?
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, Shana hands down, hands to feet like it's Shanna.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: She again, the Bodice Rippers, the flower arrangement. She goes
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: in and commits corporate espionage, which I love, like her whole.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I like she. She is it for me and she
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: she will always forever be my queen for this.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: You know, Shauna was my feathered friend and I even
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: put in my notes I'm tempted to go with Shauna
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: because she is here, there, and everywhere, but I did
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: choose a different person. I went with Frankie, and I
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: think you're gonna disagree because I actually was, for lack
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: of a better word, proud of her when she expressed
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: to her mom why she was so hurt, when she
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: was able to explain, you know, what was going on.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: I do think those were hurtful words and hard to hear,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: but yeah, you know, she's a teenager and going through
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: big feelings. Yeah, I wondered, like, are they teenagers entitled
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: to know what's going on as a marriage is splitting out?
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Like how does where's the line there? Because yeah, because
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, you bring you'd loop them in until
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: a decision.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Is right and made right.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: But I did appreciate her expressing herself and then showing
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: her mom a little grace.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I do think even though maybe the delivery was
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: a bit much for me, I do think like the
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: nature of her words that that was a big step
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: in and of itself of being that vulnerable and that
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: honest and then for her mom to kind of meet
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: her where she was. And I thought Amanda's response too,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: she was like, well, what you know, what can I do?
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Like I I causes But I love that she even
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: came into the room and was just like, I'm just
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: going to sit here. I'm just going to sit here
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: because I just want to be with you Like that
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: was that was a heartwarming moment for me.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I really liked that too. You don't have to
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: say anything, but I just want to be in your presence.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, thank you so much for joining us.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: This was so fun.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I'm loving having all these different perspectives on the Chicken Sisters.
• 30:03
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• 30:06
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• 30:07
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• 30:26
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