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The 'Good for Her!' Cinematic Universe · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  My name is Jeff Markin and I'm the creator and co-producer of the Pop Culture Junkie podcast.
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  In the recording of this episode, we found ourselves working with new equipment for the first time
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  without having had the opportunity to test it, and the result was that the sound quality of this
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  episode isn't up to the standards that we set for ourselves on Pop Culture Junkie. My first
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  inclination was to scrap it and start over, but the fact is there was some really good conversation
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  in this episode, so we decided it should be released anyway. I hope the inferior sound doesn't
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  detract too much from your enjoyment of this episode, and we will strive to do better in the future.
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  [Music]
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  Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of Pop Culture Junkie podcast. My name is Shauna
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  and I am joined, as always, by my fellow junkies. Nicole and Olivia, it is so nice to see you guys,
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  especially now that we're in person. I'm really enjoying looking deeply into your eyes while we speak
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  intubitly. I know, I've been meaning to talk to you about that, it's getting a little inappropriate.
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  Just accept it. Thank you. Just accept a shhh. No words. No words just feelings. Just feeling.
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  And that's Patreon X with Pop. Let it happen. Open your body to the experience.
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  That's why I'm sitting in the middle of the chat.
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  Just make this the pop-up respectful attention. She's been barred on either side, she likes it.
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  All right, so that just about wraps up. No. Okay, so I've been consuming a lot of media this week,
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  been watching a lot of shows. I want to know what you guys have been reading, watching, listening to
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  this week who wants to start us off with their pop culture consumptions. That was terrible and I'm
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  so sorry. I'll never say that again. Consumptions. I look good. What do you think, too? Oh, okay, I'll go.
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  Mon order SVU and Organized Crime has come back. Yeah. I'm super excited because as we know,
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  I am a junkie for those shows. Shout out to Haley the Braves. Yes. I'm a certain I'm
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  mistalking to her about those. But that's what I've been consuming lately. And The Real Housewives
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  of Everybody Hills where Union has started. So I have been consuming that as well. It is going to be
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  super duper juicy. I'm very excited to continue watching that. It's a three part and part one has
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  just come out. But on our SVU, the season, the first episode of the new season started with this
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  girl being kidnapped. And it kind of is a continuation throughout the season with other cases being
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  presented to SVU. That's like the old row. Serial rape. Yes. No. So it's just like the one girl,
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  her name I believe her name is Maddie. She's just like the main case of the season. But within that
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  other cases are being presented randomly throughout the city of New York. But crimes most heinous. Yes.
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  Yes. Yeah. Interesting. Maddie has been the main person throughout the season, which they really
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  haven't ever done. I don't think. Correct me if I'm wrong. But viewers. With like one case is kind of
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  goes through. Yeah. That was going to be my question. I was like, do they do that? No, I thought it was always
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  like a criminal mind style. Like enemy of the week or whatever. Yeah. That one episode is like one case.
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  So I kind of like that whole farks. It's kind of one of those shows that's been on forever. So it's
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  kind of like what something new that you can do this week. I like that. That reminds me of like
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  Lucifer where there is like a crime of the week because he's helping the police force, right?
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  So every week there is a new bad guy that Lucifer has to help the police force catch. But there's one
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  overarching big bad throughout the whole season, which is kind of like Buffy too, right? Like every
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  episode is like a minor demon. But then there's the main. Yeah. I like that. I like that. That's all great.
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  That's all great. But, Savler and Benson. Yeah. Are they are they going to they have it?
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  They haven't. They haven't really seen each other yet. What? So not yet. She's been really focused on
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  this one case because the Maddie girl she's seen her in a van and she saw her and she thought that
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  she looked a little distraught but she didn't really do anything about it. And then later that day she
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  realized that Maddie was a girl gone missing and Olivia's really beating herself up over it. But
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  good for her. She's focusing on the job. She's taking care of the innocent. But I want my girl to get
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  some my girl. I've never seen an episode of this show. But I just love the support of Olivia. We
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  all love Olivia Benson and Stable or Michael Staley. I just wrote the first day. I want them to at
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  least smooch. They will eventually. They haven't they already know they've like touched hands. They've
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  like graced you. I definitely heard that. Really earlier in a season. Yeah. I'd have. Yeah. But not
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  recently. Okay. Not anything that like stunts. She's come back. Okay. Maybe I'm like Mandela
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  if I think but I thought they already had. I think very early on in this series when he was on
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  on the line. Okay. So like 15 years ago or something. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah.
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  Okay. I need them to do it. On camera. It's it's it's with like an NBC show. So it'll just be
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  like a fade to box. Which is like the sheet over it. We're like she wakes up and she's stealing her
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  bra for some reason. I'm like, oh fucks in the bra. He's got a collared shirt on. They're like,
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  well that shirt was delightful. The lead button to the top. That he's like one and one. He's
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  all. Yeah. That's right. He's well. Sure. Hair is perfect. Well that shirt was delightful.
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  Stay plowing. Oh, that was great. Because everyone's gonna hate me.
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  Here. When we were on Chana's birthday trip. She talked like that the entire time.
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  Well, you know, I think we should get out of Chana's a la. Can't come on. Come on.
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  Chana's blackout. Yes. The entire weekend. You loved it. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay.
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  So okay, we'll keep us updated in when they blink or kiss or touch pinkies. Yeah. That's all
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  Chana cares about. Yes. We'll have to figure out the old episode so it can hold you over.
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  Where you watch like YouTube clips of Jess and like kissing. Oh, I've watched YouTube clips. I
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  don't watch any. I don't watch euphoria. But I've seen YouTube compilations of the...
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  Oh, Jess the sexiest. The hottest scenes of euphoria. 2021. Oh yeah.
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  I'm actually my search history. My search history. Fault. Yeah. Like if the FBI comes like if I ever
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  randomly get a fuse of a crime, I'm like, do you ever think about that whenever you google search
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  something? You're like, that's going in the like, she's a killer. You know, and it's mainly like,
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  if someone loses a hand, will they live without like getting medical help? How many bullets you're
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  lying torso to? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just out of curiosity. But like it does, it like stacked up
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  over time. I think it might be confusing. Oh my god. Win Jessica, my friend that I talk about all
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  the time on the podcast, and I were in college and we were roommates. We would get bored and feel
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  bad about ourselves. And I'm so sorry listeners. God, this is so fucked. We would google parasitic twins
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  and just like look at pictures and research parasitic twins together and read it out loud and just
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  be like, it would make us feel so thankful that we didn't have a parasitic twin. That's so dark.
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  That's so dark. Yeah. It's like the late, my big fat Greek wedding. She's like, they opened up
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  the tumor on my head and it was my twin. It's not the moment that spurred it. Kind of. Or you're like,
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  oh my god. Is that a thing? Is that a thing? And then we got really into it. Like, oh my god,
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  that's it. Okay. Okay. Blame my big fat Greek. Oh god. There was this horror movie that came out
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  last year or two years ago or something. Oh my god. The whole, oh my god. The backwards run in that movie.
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  It's like the funniest thing I've ever seen. And I swear to god because we google parasitic twins so much,
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  I knew it was coming. Yeah. And so we're watching this movie and my husband's like, I don't know what's
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  going on. I said, I bet you will million fucking dollars. She's got a parasitic twin. And he's like,
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  what even is that? Well, sir. Well, watch the power of the presentation. I was made a call.
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  Well, actually, I got my minor in parasitic twin. And by the end of us, I was like, I told you,
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  I told you was a parasitic. Um, no. So, Felipe, my friend Felipe and I used to watch that together.
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  And for like a solid six months, I would just run it in the backwards guy and my post on Instagram
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  on pop culture junkies. Um, so you can see it. It's one of the funniest scenes of cinema ever. So
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  unintentionally, it's supposed to be like the scariest part of the movie, but the way that the thing
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  is running because it's like the parasitic twit is in the back of the house. Spoiler, yeah.
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  Spoiler. I mean, it's, you don't want to watch it. So I loved that movie. Uh, because of the maze.
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  You like a parasitic twin. I mean, like your mother put in the comments of your parasitic twit. I'm not even
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  getting like, please. Um, no, but um, yeah, yeah, we'll move on from that one. So we don't get cancelled.
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  Um, so I don't know if either of you have watched this, but if you seen the reset teaser, who the F did I
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  marry series on TikTok? Okay, I've heard of it, but I have not watched it. Okay. Okay. So it is
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  a 55 part series on TikTok. Um, this woman is an incredible storyteller, though, and like you feel
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  like you're like hearing the craziest story you've ever heard from like your best friend. So it is like
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  even though it is like, it's collectively like eight hours. I would recommend if you watch it,
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  you watch it on two X-speed. So it's more like four hours. Like, um, but uh, I'll basically give you
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  an option of what happened. So this woman, um, she's, it's called who the F did I marry and she starts
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  it and she's basically like, I want to tell this story for anyone, um, who has been through similar
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  situation is with someone who's similar to this person and like just warn you and advise you.
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  And she starts it off with this kind of warning and you're like, okay, what do you mean? And she's like,
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  this is the story of how I may I ended up marrying like an absolute pathological liar. So, yeah,
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  it's like a liar, but like one of the craziest lying stories I've ever heard in my entire life.
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  And so this woman meets this man. It's like March, March 1st, 2020, and they meet on a dating app.
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  And then yeah, so right before shutdown. So like take yourself back to March 20th.
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  Like right before I like we're like, oh, okay, this thing called COVID exists. Like what's going to happen.
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  And so they set up a date at the cheesecake factory and they're going to the cheesecake factory.
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  And she's on the way there. They live in Atlanta and her tire blows. And so her tire blows and she's
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  like, hey, like I'm not going to make it to this date or whatever. And he's like, where are you? I'll come
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  and help you. Like helps her change the tire. Um, takes her to like get the donut replaced and buys her
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  tire. Okay. And so they're like on this first date, he's basically like, yeah, I want I'm looking for
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  marriage. I'm like a district manager. I just moved here. So far. So I'm good. Yeah. But really nice
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  guy. Really shiver all a shiver breath. And so like she's like, okay, this guy's like successful. He
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  just moved here. All this stuff. He says that he has a ex wife and two step children. Okay. But like,
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  he's still in their life because like he really cares about them. So far, he's giving green flag.
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  Yeah, he's giving like, I'm the best person ever. I'm really successful. I have a lot of money. And
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  so basically what happens is this crazy freaking story about COVID happening. And they're like,
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  oh, how do we start quarantining together? And they're like, oh, well, that's going to be like two
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  weeks. So we'll just like stay at my place. And he comes into my house. Do you remember that? I was
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  going to be two weeks. Yeah. Exactly. And so it's like, oh, well, quarantine at my place is going to be
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  two weeks. And then like two weeks turns into a month because of COVID. And so all this stuff starts
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  happening. And he's like, yeah, I want to buy house. And in there, like he's like kind of look at
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  houses, starts trying to buy one. And so in this process, she ends up getting pregnant. And this crazy
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  freaking succession of this guy, like taking her to buy a house, he's trying to like buy her a car.
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  And she thinks she's being like swept off of her feet. Okay. They're buying a house. So they're buying
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  appliances. Like, you're putting like all these deposits on furniture. All the all of this stuff.
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  And so basically she ends up they're trying to buy this house. And he is like telling her, oh,
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  I put in an all cash offer on like a $700,000 home. We're like going under everything. And like,
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  I'm about to close on this house. And she looks at the zillow listing. And it ends up being that
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  the house sold. And she's like, well, I don't think that the house sold. So she like calls this
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  realtor pretending to be someone else. Yeah. And she's like, no, we sold her to like this elderly
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  couple blah blah. And like it starts this absolute rapid succession of her like finding out this man
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  lied about every single thing. Like to the point where he tell me that he cut her tire for her.
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  No, that would be absolutely. I don't pound out.
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  But really? So that's like, oh, God, salt burns shit. Yeah. Yeah. Literally like salt. No. So it like
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  they're like she's like telling the story. And again, it's like a really long story. And it's
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  and it's very like, oh, you could see how someone could fall for all these lines. I'm
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  so smizing it very greatly. But so she ends up like finding out like he would be on the phone with
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  his family for like hours in the morning and having these like back and forth conversations.
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  She would find out that he was not on the phone with anyone and every single morning he would be
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  talking to no one and having these back and forth conversations. He ended up saying that the
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  step children died from COVID. And like had her give him all this money to like help pay for the funeral.
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  And all of this stuff. And it's like an absolute crazy story. But that was my big one. And although
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  like a eight hour TikTok series sounds like a lot, it really if you watch like at the sped up version,
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  it's like four hours. But it is some of the craziest story telling. And it was so good. And I watched it.
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  She got out. She's good now. Yeah. They're divorced now. And like there's a lot of parts in the story.
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  But like he was going to take her to Europe. And like she ended up being able to pay for this
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  Europe trip that she was supposed to go on because they're all 10 minute videos. And each video
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  has like two million. Oh my god. I definitely saw that. I was running on like waski or something. And I just
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  yeah, it's absolutely crazy. And then so some random girl took it upon herself to he just she
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  doesn't say the name of this person at all. She calls them Legion. And and some random girl decided to
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  expose to the internet. Out of them. Out of this man. No. And they're like literally like this is
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  dangerous for me. Yeah. This guy is crazy. Yeah. I guess that's just like a history of like he's been
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  to jail and like all the shit comes out or whatever. And so she shouldn't expose him. But if somebody
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  else does, well, no, not even that like now she's unsafe. So it's like, okay, like she didn't give
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  names for a reason. Like don't go expose someone for that. But now he has come into the picture.
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  And what's funny is so like at the time it was like nine days after this video came out, the person
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  exposed him. And he was like, I've been recording with Netflix for the last like 16 days to tell my
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  story. Because she's lying. And we're like, the internet did not know. Like 10 days ago, you couldn't
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  have been with Netflix 16 days ago. So yeah, I would highly recommend it's worth it. KJUSE. Yeah. Very,
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  very worth it. But good for her. Good for her. Oh, man. The stuff I've been watching is very not like that.
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  I mentioned last week, I believe that I we started the live action Avatar The Last Airbender show.
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  My husband, I it's really good. I mean, it's not the animated series is an incredible anime. It is
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  so beloved by fans and people hold it so close to them that it's like an any anime live action
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  adaptation is going to be full of controversy. I really like some of them have done a really good
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  job. I really loved the one piece live action adaptation. I felt they did a really good job. And then
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  there's other ones like the original Avatar The Last Airbender movie by Imnight Shyamalan, which was
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  crazy pand and just awful and like the Dragon Ball Z live action movie, which is just
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  it's embarrassing for anime fans, right? So this one, I think they're doing a really good job. They've
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  stayed very close to the source material. They've also cast in all Asian cast, which is amazing.
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  I hate it when you watch an anime adaptation and it's a bunch of fucking white people like
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  Scarlett Johansson and Ghost of the Shell. No, that's not it. Sorry. The original characters Japanese.
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  So we've really been enjoying that. I would say it's you know perfect, but it's the I think the best
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  adaptation that we've gotten so far of the live action or of the original anime. And then Bleach
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  Thousand Year Blood War, this is the one that I told you guys about last week where it's been like
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  a 10-year gap between the last episode. So we've been watching a lot more of that and this is
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  fucking nuts. This anime is going so hard. The animation is so violent and over the top in detail.
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  And I just kill Bill Esk. Oh my god, they're like melting people's skin off of their bones and just
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  over the top every episode will finish it. And we realize it's because we've spent so long
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  with these characters and we've already watched hundreds of episodes of Bleach that you get to know
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  these characters. And now we're in this new season and I guess spoilers for anime fans listening.
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  They kill off like main characters that we've liked for 400-500 episodes. And all of a sudden we're
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  at the end of it and we're like, did he just fucking die? Did they just kill him? Like,
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  is that like a story where like it's going to be like the walking dead where like
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  Glendstad but like he comes back and then they kill him again. No, no, I know what you mean. A lot of
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  anime shows do that where it's like a lot of shows. Oh my god, you skate, die, just kidding. He's back.
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  Especially if it's the main character. Like in Dragon Ball Z, Goku dies a million times but he's
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  always wished back with the Dragon Balls. This one it seems like this is kind of the swan song for
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  the anime. So when they kill off like certain characters, it does seem like that. It holds more kind of
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  gravitas to it. Yeah, I always feel like if it's the death not worthy of a main character, like it's
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  not like super dramatic, they're gonna come back. Exactly. Yeah. And I mean, you can tell like is the
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  series, especially if it's an anime and it's the same with like comic books a lot too or in
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  different iterations in different universes. Certain characters die but oh and the parallel universe,
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  they're still alive. Kind of like Gamora coming back from Guardians of the Galaxy to be in the
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  third movie. It's oh it's past Gamora and she's still alive and we yanked her. But yeah, it's like
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  multiverse. Yeah. This one it seems like we're actually dead. So we've been really enjoying that.
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  And then totally different for me to her of those. We've been watching next level chef.
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  Yeah, those are jump. I know. I am a nuanced woman. Yeah, I have a layer like an ogre in an onion.
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  I'm an onion. I'm an onion. I have a lion. I'm making waffles. And the more that I'm making waffles.
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  So next level chef is amazing. Gordon Ramsay. I don't know if you guys have ever watched that.
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  I've never heard of him. Do it. It's so good. It's so good. Score Ramsay. And there's like three levels.
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  If they suck, both stop me. Funnabee right next to me. You didn't hear what she said. No. I said I've never
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  heard of him. Who Gordon Ramsay. Yeah. Oh shut the fuck up. Yeah.
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  So he says real angry British guy. Is that his angry as he used to be? Yeah, he's kind of
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  he's getting old. I guess like he doesn't say fuck as much. He isn't calling you an idiot sandwich.
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  That is iconic. Literally. He's very patient. Okay. Describe the levels. I said like there's the
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  basement level where they get like shit cooking supplies. Okay. And then the mid level which is like a
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  basic kitchen and then the top level is like a five star Michelin kitchen. And each week the teams move
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  between the different levels of the heat. Do you have to like win a challenge? Yes. Okay. You win the
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  challenge. Yes. Yes. Yes. You go up on the elevator. Yes. You do good. She go up on the elevator.
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  You can go down. Isn't the elevator that does it for you? No. You have to earn the elevator right now.
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  I don't. I don't. You earn the elevator ride during the your challenges. If you do good,
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  you get to move up to the next level. You do bad. You have to cook in the basement. Sometimes the
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  power goes out. Sometimes you don't have a spatula because it's been melted in a serious fire.
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  Oh. They give you it looks like the producers went to like goodwill and bought like cooking supplies
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  back to the basement. Okay. They have to make your way out of the basement. Next show sounds like
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  a good show. They might be being held against their will. So I'm watching this show about a group of
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  people trapped in a basement by Gordon Ramsay. So maybe he has like a different type of bad.
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  You're in Ramsay tight. Wait. Wait. Just passive aggressively. Being mean to people. He's really polite to them.
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  Maybe this is a fan effect that I'm watching. Yeah. So what in the watt pad? Oh my god. I bet you
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  anything there's Gordon Ramsay fanfic out there though. We should read one. Okay. Okay. New
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  episode idea. We're going to read Gordon Ramsay fanfic. Oh yes. Okay. But we have to do it every
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  hour. Stay tuned. Okay.
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  So there's this trope in movies that I've been enjoying a lot lately called Good for Her. I saw a
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  meme from arrested development and it's Lucille Bluth and I kind of just send it to my friends and
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  stuff when it's like woman goes crazy and stabs ex-boyfriend and then we'll jokingly send each other
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  memes that are like good for her. Or woman gets revenge on cheating husband who stole dog.
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  Good for her. Sometimes a little morally ambiguous. So this week we're going into a deep dive of what
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  good for her kind of means in films. So it's not really recognized as a movie genre in a traditional
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  sense is more of a colloquial phrase that actually originated from the movie Showgirls where one girl
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  hurts herself and is being carted away from the strip club and one of her co-workers goes good for her
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  because she made it out of the strip club job I guess. Over time it's been used in various contexts
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  to kind of celebrate female characters who take control of their own destinies. They exact revenge
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  against those who have wronged them. Sometimes through bloodshed, sometimes through just mind tricks.
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  They often defy societal norms, expectations leading to their own
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  empower making liberation of some form. They might not constitute a specific genre but a lot of them
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  are kind of thrillers or movies. They are comedies like we're going to talk about a little bit.
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  Examples that the audience might kind of know of when we say things like good for her films are
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  film in Louise or Gone Girl, Promising Young Woman. So I want to talk about good for her films that
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  we've all been watching and why we are happy before said her. So who wants to start us off?
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  Yeah, I'll start with whenever I think of the good for her genre and I would probably say like
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  especially when I think of good for her I think of like hard thriller kind of like revenge.
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  So I don't know what that says about me. I mean same. Like there are doing things that are kind of
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  morally questionable. Yeah, I love a morally gray man or woman. Yeah, we do not judge here.
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  But I do think about the movie Hard Candy and so Hard Candy is a movie directed by David Slade
• 27:14
  and it has Elliot Page in it and I can not remember the other guy's name. He's also in Sidious.
• 27:22
  He's the guy from Insidious. Yeah, whatever is the name of him. But basically so the plot of the
• 27:28
  movie kind of a little synopsis on it is it's a psychological thriller that follows a 14 year old girl
• 27:35
  named Haley Stark who made said 32 year old photographer and she actually suspects him to be a
• 27:43
  pedophile and so she goes into this story kind of like thinking that he is a creep and is trying to
• 27:53
  essentially catch him and like trying to hook up with a 14 year old girl. And also Patrick Wilson is
• 28:00
  the Hottie Kott. Patrick Wilson. Yes, yes. So he is I don't know if he'd say Hottie met Kott hot
• 28:06
  32 year old. Okay, well not in his tale. After himself. Yes, he's actually a Hottie met Kott. His
• 28:11
  character is a creepy make creep. Yeah, creepy make creep. And yes, so I'm not this movie is one of the
• 28:22
  most just like disturbing thriller movies I probably ever seen super fucking. It's stuck with me.
• 28:30
  It's amazing. So long. But basically so I'm you know I just gave you the synopsis we're gonna you
• 28:37
  can obviously infer the details there but there is a scene in this movie where she thinks he's a
• 28:43
  pedophile and so what she does is she like ties this man up and puts them to a table and she convinces
• 28:53
  him that she is going to castrate him and it's like basically it pulls up a YouTube video of like
• 29:00
  what she's about to do to him and she like numbs his balls. Yeah, and so he can't feel anything. But she
• 29:07
  makes it look him think that he's a spoiler for hard candy. Yeah, five days. It's came out in 2000.
• 29:14
  So you know she projects like the YouTube video to him. So it's like it makes it look like this is a
• 29:20
  live view of what's happening to him. She numbs his balls. So he thinks he's watching his. Yeah, he thinks
• 29:26
  he's watching it and she numbs his balls. So she doesn't actually cut them off. No. But she made some
• 29:33
  things that she castrated on. And it is like you think in the moment like she is about to do that.
• 29:40
  And it's just like one of the like craziest parts of cinema I've ever seen. It's incredible. And she
• 29:47
  does amazing in it. He is the 14 year old girl in the movie and you know what just says like
• 29:54
  it I think it really encapsulates like a lot of good for her comes with this insane trauma of like
• 30:02
  this moment like happen to them. So they're reacting and moving into like this is a good for her
• 30:10
  reaction. Yeah, well a lot of crazy stuff happened to this woman and so she's kind of reacting in this
• 30:17
  way. A lot of them are kind of based around revenge. Like something has happened to them physically. I
• 30:23
  mean sure to warning for this episode like sexual assault is involved in a lot of these good for her
• 30:27
  scenarios or emotionally she's been cheated on. She's been wronged in some way and she's getting her
• 30:34
  fucking revenge against people who are wronged during. Yeah, sometimes it's a little morally gray. Yeah,
• 30:40
  yeah, absolutely. Love that. I love her candy. That was one of the first things I watched with my
• 30:45
  husband. We first started dating and I'm not sure what that says about. I know a lot of teeth. A lot of
• 30:51
  teeth. Yeah, for LA page to go from my genome to hard case. Yeah, such a like hard left turn.
• 30:58
  It's just a great act. Yeah, like that whole filmography has been A plus. Yeah. Yeah.
• 31:05
  Nicole yours are totally different than that. And I love it. I love it. We're covering the entire
• 31:12
  arc of good. Yes. My first one is John Tucker must die. I love that movie. I do too. Britney Snow.
• 31:20
  A shanty. A shanty. Oh my god. It's like that dream I had with Nicole and a shanty. Oh yeah.
• 31:27
  Yeah, were you guys hosted Peloton together? It was four and a half. I love that. Oh my god. I had a
• 31:32
  dream that Nicole was a Peloton instructor and a shanty and they're both ripped out of their minds.
• 31:37
  Six packs. It was so good. It wasn't a dream. It wasn't a dream. It's a wet dream.
• 31:46
  It was leading up to this note. Yes, it was. Anyways, my one movie is John Tucker must die.
• 31:52
  Has Jesse Metcalfe who plays John Tucker himself. So a lot. Britney Snow who plays Kate.
• 31:58
  A shanty who plays Heather. Ariel Kebble. Yeah, that was her name. I was wondering who plays Kerry
• 32:06
  and Sophia Bush who plays Beth. That's right. And then Jenna. Jenny McCarthy is the mom. Jenny McCarthy
• 32:12
  plays Mary. Kate's mom. Yeah. And basically the backstory of John Tucker must die is three girls.
• 32:19
  Everyone but Kate. It's just easier to say that way. All are dating John Tucker, but none of them know
• 32:25
  that they're dating John Tucker because he's in his basketball season and the story that he tells
• 32:29
  these girls is that it's basketball season. My dad tells me that I can't have a girlfriend, but
• 32:34
  you make it an exception that I can have a girlfriend. You're a bad girl. And Kate is keeping
• 32:40
  a secret. Exactly. And Kate's a server at a restaurant and John brings every single girl that
• 32:45
  he's dating to the same restaurant and Kate's a server to every single date. And I'm like,
• 32:50
  John, you don't realize that this girl is the same server and she's not going to snitch on you.
• 32:54
  When I worked at my last bar job, there was a guy there who's a regular.
• 32:58
  Who would bring her to three girls? Yes. And I was always like, they would leave and I'd see him
• 33:03
  the next day and I'd be like, so how is that? He's like, you know, you know, you know, you slide dog.
• 33:13
  Yeah. Then the girls, they all get detention together and they all realize that Kate kind of
• 33:21
  makes it known that John is dating all three of these girls at the same time. They all get mad.
• 33:27
  They all make a pact to kind of basically say that John Tucker must die and they do all these things
• 33:34
  to make him embarrassed, get him to kind of... The give him an estrogen.
• 33:39
  Oh, himself, yes. And they say that he has an STD. This movie made me to be a server problem guy.
• 33:46
  Yes. In hindsight. They make him wear a thong. Yes, but then all the backfires and then because all the
• 33:52
  girls are like, "John, that was so humble of you to do that." So in a way, it kind of backfired on them,
• 34:00
  but honestly, good for all of them. They wanted to outacheeing man with, yes, queen.
• 34:07
  Yeah. That made me the only situation where we will actually say in real life good for her.
• 34:14
  Yeah. That is true. In a lot of these, like, it's my reset Tisa. Yeah. In a lot of these, if one of us
• 34:22
  was doing this, we would go, "Oh my God, girl, you need to maybe don't murder anyone else."
• 34:27
  Yes. Maybe that body that you're hanging on a meat hook.
• 34:30
  Take it down. We got to call the police.
• 34:33
  Got to call the police. This one, I think we could all be on board for this.
• 34:38
  This is okay. This is okay. Yeah. Oh, I'll accept it.
• 34:41
  Oh, accept it.
• 34:42
  You know. No, I love that movie. I remember liking it a lot of the teenager in Jesse Metcalfe.
• 34:47
  So, bye, yeah. Yeah. Jesse still do it for you or did he just do it for you?
• 34:53
  No. I don't know what he looks like now. I mean, he still kind of looks like him, but like, Puffier.
• 34:57
  I mean, isn't that all of us?
• 34:59
  Isn't that being a new 30s and 40s? Yeah. He's still pretty cute.
• 35:05
  But you're a little puppy. I mean, he's still kind of cute.
• 35:08
  Yeah. Oh, wait, still. Are you kidding me?
• 35:11
  Can we see him? He's in like, that's a, yeah.
• 35:13
  I think that's a, that's a face-tuned image. Yeah, that looks a little, um, I think I am DB picks.
• 35:19
  Yeah. So face-tune. I mean, my IMDB picks are pretty face-tune.
• 35:23
  No, I would still probably do him.
• 35:28
  Yeah. I mean, we'll follow up after the podcast.
• 35:30
  Catch on in your next home mark movie. He's like, oh my god.
• 35:33
  He's a puppy, but of course he is.
• 35:34
  I was, if I could pick any Jesse Metcalfe, I think I would pick Jesuit Housewives Jesse Metcalfe.
• 35:41
  And he's like the little boy or something.
• 35:44
  Yeah, he's the long guy and he is 16.
• 35:46
  So I realized I probably don't know how that is, but now, but
• 35:49
  here the science coming along. He was like 24 and maybe a couple of minutes.
• 35:53
  Oh, his character is like 16 in it.
• 35:56
  So my god, yeah, this is probably like that.
• 35:58
  We're going to have whatever my husband or, well, what good for him?
• 36:01
  My husband, I'll watch things and then we'll like both pause it and be like,
• 36:05
  we need to Google how all these people are.
• 36:09
  Thank God. Okay. We're not the other you guys.
• 36:12
  You watch you for it and you're like, okay, we're all 25.
• 36:16
  I know, but it still makes me go.
• 36:18
  And you're just, yeah, when you're watching your sex app.
• 36:20
  And you're just, yeah, maybe that makes it harder.
• 36:24
  Oh my god, I need to make sure that this is, I'm not going to, I'm already going to hell.
• 36:28
  I don't need to be in one of the lower levels.
• 36:30
  Or have some memory.
• 36:32
  It's like a next chef hell.
• 36:35
  Like some chef out.
• 36:37
  Are you going to be at which level?
• 36:39
  Where are you?
• 36:40
  You got to just the elevator.
• 36:41
  Were you just calling to the fucking slide?
• 36:45
  Were you looking at underage girls?
• 36:48
  Gordon, please, I was just your next level low key alcoholic.
• 36:55
  Put me in limbo.
• 36:58
  That's the middle kitchen.
• 37:01
  Oh, the middle kitchen limbo.
• 37:03
  Yeah, you're just bored.
• 37:05
  You're just bored.
• 37:05
  You're going to do anything that bad.
• 37:07
  Yeah, try that one drug once.
• 37:10
  Yeah.
• 37:11
  Anyway, sorry mom.
• 37:13
  Sorry mom.
• 37:13
  She's not listening.
• 37:17
  It's fine.
• 37:18
  Anyway, speaking of dead people, my next movie is called American Mary.
• 37:28
  So American Mary is a movie that's directed by Jin and Sylvia Soska,
• 37:36
  known as the Soska sisters.
• 37:38
  Ooh.
• 37:38
  It stars Catherine Isabel as Mary Mason.
• 37:41
  So it's a horror movie about a medical student named Mary who is,
• 37:48
  she's in medical school.
• 37:50
  She's broke as hell as we all are in college.
• 37:52
  And she is a very talented student.
• 37:55
  So she gets kind of drawn into the world of body modification surgery.
• 37:59
  Things like,
• 38:00
  not your usual,
• 38:03
  I want horns placed in my head or I want my tongue split.
• 38:06
  Things like me and my identical twin sister both want to switch one arm with each other.
• 38:11
  So we're always with each other.
• 38:12
  What?
• 38:14
  Yeah, that's one of the very great stuff she does.
• 38:16
  Like totally next level shit.
• 38:18
  Oh, I thought you were saying that was a normal laugh.
• 38:21
  You know, normal everyday things like belly button piercings,
• 38:28
  getting your ears gaged, switching your arm with your identical twin sisters.
• 38:33
  You never apart from each other.
• 38:35
  You never apart from each other.
• 38:36
  Those are the kind of things that she moves into.
• 38:41
  Okay.
• 38:42
  Because they're underground and they kind of elicit one money.
• 38:44
  One woman wants to be turned into like-
• 38:46
  That's the third level of hell.
• 38:47
  That is the third level.
• 38:48
  That's the third level.
• 38:48
  Hey, man.
• 38:49
  I think that we're making a fourth.
• 38:50
  They ask for it.
• 38:52
  So she is, like I said, a medical student.
• 38:57
  She's going to college for her doctorate program.
• 39:00
  Trigger warning here, she has a professor that pretends like he sees a lot of talent in her.
• 39:06
  They end up going to some kind of function together.
• 39:10
  He sexually assaults her.
• 39:11
  She goes on to kidnap him and cut off his arms and his legs and his cock and hangs him from a meek hood.
• 39:24
  And we're like garage.
• 39:26
  It just slowly tortures this man.
• 39:29
  Is he still alive?
• 39:30
  Yes, he is a little garage.
• 39:32
  Yes, he is baby girl.
• 39:34
  He is still alive.
• 39:36
  Yeah.
• 39:36
  So she's collecting money from these underground surgeries that she's doing.
• 39:41
  For people come to her, she's not doing that it's, you know, it's like to torture other people.
• 39:47
  There's not like a sign on the side of the road.
• 39:49
  She took her arm or she's taking arms from other people.
• 39:54
  I'm putting them on other people.
• 39:55
  Oh my god.
• 39:56
  No.
• 39:56
  This is one truck on the arm.
• 40:00
  Can we put a pin in that on the band in the meek hood, circle back to the arms?
• 40:04
  Thank you.
• 40:04
  If you circle back to that, it's a piggyback off of what I've said.
• 40:08
  Okay, so one of the examples of something she does.
• 40:12
  It is actually the Sasuke sisters and they're identical twin sisters.
• 40:16
  So they attached?
• 40:18
  No.
• 40:18
  They, one of they play two characters.
• 40:21
  What was the twin?
• 40:22
  What were parasitic twins?
• 40:23
  They're not parasitic twins.
• 40:25
  They are separated.
• 40:26
  And one of the things that they request is to take my arm off.
• 40:30
  It's like, if I want to take out my right arm and Olivia's right arm,
• 40:35
  and then I put my arm where her arm used to be and where her arm was used to be.
• 40:38
  Okay.
• 40:39
  And then now we both still have two arms.
• 40:40
  So the main character has that happen to her?
• 40:44
  No, she did that.
• 40:45
  She did that.
• 40:46
  Okay, that was the question.
• 40:47
  She's the surgeon.
• 40:48
  She's the surgeon.
• 40:49
  That was the question.
• 40:50
  She does surgery on important things.
• 40:52
  For money.
• 40:53
  She does surgery on people from money.
• 40:55
  Thank you.
• 40:56
  I, we can, we can take the pin out of it.
• 40:59
  Pin out.
• 40:59
  She does weird surgery on people.
• 41:02
  Things that normal body modification artists would not do.
• 41:05
  That's why it's a black market kind of underground weird shit.
• 41:09
  She does it.
• 41:10
  And in the meantime, she has her sexual assault rapist professor hanging on a meat hook with his arms
• 41:20
  and he's just a stump.
• 41:21
  He's just a dorsal with no cough.
• 41:23
  Are they in separate rooms?
• 41:26
  Who?
• 41:26
  Like the surgery.
• 41:27
  The surgery is in the men.
• 41:29
  He's in the garage.
• 41:29
  Oh, okay.
• 41:30
  She's a little garage.
• 41:31
  Right.
• 41:32
  I guess I should have spent a little bit.
• 41:33
  Where have you been?
• 41:34
  She's got the torso hanging in like a meat warehouse or a garage or a tree.
• 41:39
  I'm getting a car in the car.
• 41:41
  No one's taking off your arms today.
• 41:44
  Okay, thank you.
• 41:45
  Anyway, using me as an example.
• 41:47
  I think she used her all the way over.
• 41:49
  So anyway, Mary is a whore.
• 41:53
  Anyway, good for her.
• 41:56
  It doesn't turn out too hot for our girl, American Mary.
• 42:00
  At the end, she is, she dies in the end.
• 42:03
  She's police catch up with her.
• 42:05
  She's deceased.
• 42:07
  But she gets revenge on this disgusting rapist man.
• 42:11
  And he dies a much more brutal and torturous death than she does.
• 42:17
  Yeah, he's literally dismembered and like.
• 42:21
  He's a stump.
• 42:22
  He's a stump with no cock and she.
• 42:25
  I think she cuts out his tongue or so.
• 42:27
  A stump with no stumps.
• 42:28
  She just, she tortures this man in the way that you go.
• 42:32
  Good for her.
• 42:34
  Oh, we ended saying good for her.
• 42:38
  Even though she dies.
• 42:41
  I think so.
• 42:42
  Okay.
• 42:42
  Because much like I think one of the movies that you are going to mention
• 42:46
  where the character dies in the end,
• 42:48
  she still enacts her revenge during her life for what happened to her.
• 42:52
  Okay.
• 42:53
  So I ended the movie being disappointed that she died
• 42:56
  because I really liked the character.
• 42:57
  I've cosplayed her as her as Kai Comic-Con before.
• 43:00
  But did you make Andrew go as a stump?
• 43:03
  I cut off my husband's arms and legs and cock.
• 43:06
  Don't worry.
• 43:08
  I soaked him back on with my medical degree.
• 43:10
  What about the arms?
• 43:12
  What about the goddamn arms?
• 43:14
  I watch this movie with me and I think at the end
• 43:18
  a lot of these good for her movies
• 43:20
  that I've watched with Andrew like teeth,
• 43:21
  American Mary, others that we've mentioned.
• 43:23
  I always ended and I'm like, "Hell yeah."
• 43:26
  And he ends it like this.
• 43:28
  So I gotta go click all of duty.
• 43:31
  I just want you to know that I love you so much.
• 43:35
  I do love watching the movie teeth around random man.
• 43:41
  Yes, particularly a group of men.
• 43:43
  If you can like,
• 43:44
  casually suggest that movie.
• 43:46
  That's another important point.
• 43:47
  For her.
• 43:48
  Yeah, for her.
• 43:49
  That is a great good for her.
• 43:50
  That is a great good for her.
• 43:51
  I feel like a lot of kind of like,
• 43:52
  unfortunately,
• 43:53
  and I'm not like a huge fan of the genre
• 43:56
  because I feel like it can be explotated for a share
• 43:58
  but like,
• 43:59
  rake revenge films.
• 44:00
  I feel like that's most of good for her.
• 44:03
  But,
• 44:03
  traditional good for her.
• 44:06
  Yeah, I mean, I don't like it when rape is used as a plot device
• 44:10
  in film and in media in order to advance the story of like a male character
• 44:15
  like in Game of Thrones when Sansa is raped, right?
• 44:18
  She never really, I mean, she does get her good for her moment
• 44:21
  with Ramsey, like the dogs attack him.
• 44:24
  But it's just it felt like such a slow burn to get there
• 44:30
  and it was also kind of done to advance the plot of a man like beyond.
• 44:36
  With these movies, I feel like there's no man who's plot these are advancing.
• 44:42
  It's only for her and her fucking revenge, right?
• 44:45
  Yeah.
• 44:45
  Good for her.
• 44:46
  Yeah.
• 44:46
  Yeah, I think promising young woman is such an interesting one
• 44:50
  because like a lot of people go,
• 44:52
  is promising young woman like a good for her movie?
• 44:55
  Because like it doesn't end well.
• 44:57
  Yes, she does.
• 44:58
  In the end too.
• 44:59
  Yeah, yeah.
• 45:00
  And you're like,
• 45:00
  oh,
• 45:01
  and if you've never seen promising your woman,
• 45:03
  it's by the same director as Sal Burn.
• 45:06
  It's a really good movie.
• 45:07
  But yeah, it is all around that.
• 45:10
  Like it doesn't happen to her, like the, you know, like rape and sexual assault part.
• 45:16
  But it really kind of drives her.
• 45:18
  It's a story of it happens to her friend.
• 45:20
  And no one believes her friend.
• 45:21
  And then she ends up like taking her own life.
• 45:23
  And it's kind of the story of like her seeking revenge and retribution.
• 45:28
  And like, yeah, I think promising young woman is an interesting one
• 45:31
  because it is so like typical to that plot.
• 45:34
  But it just really doesn't end well.
• 45:36
  So you feel like, oh crap.
• 45:38
  It like subverts those, like she's doing it on behalf of her friend.
• 45:42
  Yeah.
• 45:42
  Right?
• 45:43
  So I feel like these films are feminist in that sense,
• 45:45
  where even if they are morally gray,
• 45:48
  it just kind of shows like a female main character with power.
• 45:51
  It doesn't always have to be a perfect little pretty princess.
• 45:54
  Women can make mistakes.
• 45:55
  Women can make morally gray choices.
• 45:57
  Right?
• 45:58
  And they're always like doing it on behalf of other women too.
• 46:02
  So like she's supporting, she goes through that
• 46:04
  because her friend was the one who was assaulted.
• 46:07
  And she's still willing to like really sacrifice her life at the end of this movie.
• 46:11
  Yeah.
• 46:11
  So like get revenge on these men who did this to her friend.
• 46:14
  Yeah.
• 46:15
  Well, what's interesting, I'm kind of like as we just said,
• 46:18
  Saltburn, like Emerald Fennel is so good at like the twist.
• 46:21
  Like, some of this twist,
• 46:23
  where you think the entire movie,
• 46:25
  she's like murdering all of these men.
• 46:27
  Yeah.
• 46:28
  That she's like tricking and taking home and doing all this.
• 46:31
  And it ends up not being the case.
• 46:33
  But yeah, it's really interesting.
• 46:35
  And that a great good for her.
• 46:36
  Yeah.
• 46:37
  Good for her.
• 46:38
  Yeah.
• 46:39
  Not dying, but good for her.
• 46:40
  Yeah.
• 46:41
  Don't die, but
• 46:42
  and she doesn't end up murdering people.
• 46:44
  So she doesn't get her.
• 46:45
  There's no meat on stumps.
• 46:47
  Yeah.
• 46:47
  No arms.
• 46:47
  No stumps.
• 46:48
  No arms are meat on stumps.
• 46:50
  No, he still be mixed with.
• 46:51
  I don't watch this.
• 46:52
  Clearly, just figure out the art of gunnobot.
• 46:54
  She's gonna watch this movie, say you can go.
• 46:56
  Uh.
• 46:57
  Yeah, arms are trained.
• 46:58
  Stay tuned for the notes.
• 47:02
  Hey Nicole.
• 47:05
  My next one is
• 47:06
  very unlike both of those.
• 47:09
  Oh yes.
• 47:10
  Are there any meat stumps?
• 47:11
  No.
• 47:12
  Just uh, what's his name?
• 47:15
  He is a meat stump.
• 47:18
  The boyfriend.
• 47:18
  Oh, he's just a meat stump personified.
• 47:21
  Name, Warner.
• 47:22
  Warner.
• 47:22
  Yeah.
• 47:23
  Warner is a stump.
• 47:24
  And if you could identify now,
• 47:27
  when a movie is legally blocked.
• 47:29
  That is a good for that.
• 47:31
  It is supporting society's relationships or events.
• 47:34
  Yes.
• 47:35
  If you don't know what legally blonde is.
• 47:36
  Welcome to the future.
• 47:38
  I don't know what you've been living.
• 47:39
  She goes to a law school.
• 47:40
  There you go.
• 47:40
  She's your typical sorority girl who
• 47:43
  has at the perfect boyfriend's literally barbeying Ken.
• 47:47
  If you could picture barbeying Ken, this is those two.
• 47:50
  And
• 47:51
  Warner goes off to Harvard to go to law school
• 47:55
  because that's just his family's dynamic.
• 47:58
  That's what his whole family does.
• 47:59
  He's coast money.
• 48:00
  Yes.
• 48:00
  So that's what he does.
• 48:02
  And they go on a date before he goes off.
• 48:05
  And
• 48:05
  Elle thinks that Elle who played
• 48:08
  who's played by Reese Witherspoon
• 48:10
  thinks that this is where he's going to propose
• 48:12
  and he ends up breaking it off.
• 48:14
  And she doesn't know why but then
• 48:16
  she's getting her
• 48:17
  nailed her done at a salon.
• 48:20
  And she realizes it's because he wants someone
• 48:24
  that is going to be smart and successful in life.
• 48:26
  And the smart triggers something in her.
• 48:29
  Not triggers.
• 48:30
  This flips a switch in her
• 48:32
  that she needs to go to law school because she wants to end up with Warner.
• 48:34
  And then when she gets to law school
• 48:37
  so she gets into Harvard.
• 48:38
  Yes.
• 48:39
  She gets into Harvard.
• 48:39
  Like it's hard.
• 48:40
  And
• 48:42
  her submission video is hilarious.
• 48:46
  She's in her bikini.
• 48:48
  Yeah.
• 48:48
  And
• 48:49
  the panel is all white men.
• 48:51
  Oh, poor.
• 48:52
  They're like well we've never had someone like this before.
• 48:55
  I'm like you know what?
• 48:56
  Where's your water in?
• 48:57
  Exactly.
• 48:57
  Good for her.
• 48:58
  Exactly.
• 48:59
  I bet you use those.
• 48:59
  So no, there were some really hot women at Harvard who watched this movie
• 49:03
  and are like cool thanks.
• 49:05
  Yeah, exactly.
• 49:05
  Thanks cool.
• 49:07
  Cool.
• 49:07
  That.
• 49:08
  So then they're on campus and she runs into Warner
• 49:12
  and he is shocked.
• 49:13
  He's like what are you doing here?
• 49:14
  She goes I go here.
• 49:16
  He goes you aware.
• 49:17
  Harvard.
• 49:18
  Herman Law.
• 49:19
  Like it's hard.
• 49:20
  And then like hard.
• 49:22
  He's engaged to someone else.
• 49:25
  Salma Blair.
• 49:26
  We love.
• 49:27
  I love.
• 49:28
  We love Salma.
• 49:29
  Not in that character.
• 49:30
  But I do love someone.
• 49:31
  She's a little weird lately.
• 49:33
  But it's like someone who loves to have a life like her.
• 49:34
  One of ways.
• 49:36
  Vivian is who Warner is engaged to and this makes Elvery mad.
• 49:44
  She ends up becoming super duper smart and getting
• 49:46
  becoming a lawyer and the valedictorian of the class.
• 49:51
  blah blah blah.
• 49:52
  As you can see she's very smart and is very successful.
• 49:55
  And Vivian and Warner end up not being together
• 49:59
  because Warner is a jerk who is not actually very smart.
• 50:01
  He's a meatstum.
• 50:02
  So honestly.
• 50:03
  And he tries to get back without.
• 50:04
  Yes.
• 50:04
  And just shows us true colors.
• 50:06
  So you're like,
• 50:06
  El has been smart the whole time.
• 50:08
  Yeah.
• 50:09
  And she starts by thinking I have to go to Harvard
• 50:12
  to win this man back.
• 50:14
  And that's her initial reason for going to Harvard.
• 50:17
  And then she realizes,
• 50:18
  oh fuck, I'm actually really smart.
• 50:21
  And my whole life people have kind of talked down to me.
• 50:24
  Yeah, I know.
• 50:24
  Because I'm pretty and because of the way I look.
• 50:27
  And they don't expect a lot out of me.
• 50:30
  But and she realizes she really loves it.
• 50:32
  So I think that's a good good for her maybe.
• 50:34
  Because it's like she goes into it trying to get revenge
• 50:37
  or win him back.
• 50:38
  Yeah.
• 50:38
  And then she ends up getting like the revenge.
• 50:40
  Yeah, I think it's like the girl boss of vacation
• 50:44
  like before we got there.
• 50:45
  Yeah.
• 50:46
  Where I can do anything, you know.
• 50:48
  That point can do.
• 50:49
  But that movie like spurred a lot of millennials to be like,
• 50:53
  yeah, like I'm going to have my glow up.
• 50:55
  I'm going to, I don't need a man.
• 50:56
  I shut girl.
• 50:57
  Yeah.
• 50:58
  Yeah.
• 50:59
  I have like one of my best friends.
• 51:01
  She is a very blonde wears all pink is a lawyer
• 51:05
  and like L Woods love it.
• 51:08
  Shaped her and I think she did that for a lot of millennial women.
• 51:11
  Absolutely.
• 51:12
  Just to realizing, imagine that you can be pretty--
• 51:15
  I'm in my fashion.
• 51:16
  And my fashion.
• 51:17
  And my fashion.
• 51:18
  You can be multi-dimensional and multi-faceted.
• 51:21
  Yeah, what a crazy time.
• 51:23
  Yeah.
• 51:23
  I love that.
• 51:24
  It's good, baby.
• 51:25
  It's classic.
• 51:26
  It is.
• 51:27
  Switching back to bodies.
• 51:29
  This is one of the most popular, I think, kind of good for her films
• 51:35
  of the past maybe 10 years.
• 51:37
  And it's mid-summer.
• 51:39
  So mid-summer is directed by Ari Astor.
• 51:42
  It follows a young woman named Danny, who is played by Florence Pugh.
• 51:46
  Always amazing.
• 51:47
  Always does with that iconic frowny face.
• 51:50
  God, I love her so much.
• 51:52
  She travels with her boyfriend and his friends
• 51:54
  to a Swedish village to attend a mid-summer festival.
• 51:58
  It kind of starts out being this idyllic kind of,
• 52:01
  oh, everyone's wearing light and frolicing in the grass.
• 52:04
  And the movie takes place in a village
• 52:07
  where it's always daytime, which really
• 52:09
  subverts kind of those horteroves that the danger comes at night
• 52:12
  because it's the middle of the day and the sun's out.
• 52:14
  And old people are leaping to their deaths in this movie.
• 52:17
  Yeah, it's kind of like the opposite of her editor.
• 52:20
  Exactly.
• 52:21
  Yes.
• 52:22
  Same director.
• 52:23
  So I really resonated a lot with this movie.
• 52:26
  And I think I've mentioned it before on the show.
• 52:28
  But Danny is going through a life tragedy,
• 52:32
  where her mother dies or father dies.
• 52:34
  I think her sibling or sister kills them.
• 52:37
  Yeah, it's like murder suicide.
• 52:39
  Yeah, it's a homicide.
• 52:41
  Yeah, it's a homicide.
• 52:42
  So her sister completes suicide also kills the parents with carbon dioxide.
• 52:48
  Runs of pipe.
• 52:49
  It's crazy.
• 52:50
  It's very disturbing.
• 52:51
  It's like, so Danny is dating this man and is in college.
• 52:55
  And all of his friends are kind of like, uh,
• 52:57
  that--
• 52:57
  He's a part of that.
• 52:58
  Yeah.
• 52:59
  And this reminds me so much of myself in college,
• 53:02
  in my college boyfriend, because my mother had just died.
• 53:06
  And my boyfriend was just like this guy with his friends
• 53:09
  being like, uh, shut it sucks.
• 53:12
  She's boyfriend.
• 53:12
  She's so sad.
• 53:13
  She's so sad all the time.
• 53:15
  It's so weird.
• 53:16
  I don't know why she'd be so sad.
• 53:19
  I'm like, not like I went through the greatest tragedy of my life, right?
• 53:22
  And I get to find it's fine.
• 53:23
  Maybe we should do keg sense.
• 53:25
  Yeah.
• 53:26
  Which is exactly what this vibe is in this maybe, right?
• 53:28
  His friends are like, uh, Danny sucks.
• 53:31
  She ends up getting invited along on this trip.
• 53:35
  And really, it kind of finds her place and her family in this village.
• 53:39
  Like, she ends up being the spring queen.
• 53:43
  May queen.
• 53:43
  The May queen, yeah.
• 53:45
  And they put, you know, the flower crown on her
• 53:47
  and that iconic flower dress.
• 53:50
  And this spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen midsummer.
• 53:53
  Please see it.
• 53:54
  It's iconic.
• 53:54
  It's amazing.
• 53:56
  But your boyfriend ends up cheating on her
• 54:01
  during some kind of psychedelic trance.
• 54:03
  And they sacrifice him.
• 54:06
  All of his friends have been killed.
• 54:07
  They sacrifice him by putting him inside of a bear.
• 54:10
  Hashtag, you justice for the bear.
• 54:11
  Hashtag, good for bear.
• 54:12
  And put him inside of the bear corpse.
• 54:16
  And then light this like building on fire with him still alive.
• 54:20
  Mm-hmm.
• 54:21
  But unable to move inside of the bear.
• 54:23
  I think I probably wouldn't have done it.
• 54:26
  Oh, for sure.
• 54:27
  That's right. They tell her.
• 54:28
  They give her the option.
• 54:29
  Like, you can choose a random person in this village.
• 54:31
  Or you can choose him.
• 54:33
  Mm-hmm.
• 54:34
  And it doesn't show her like pointing.
• 54:37
  It just kind of cuts to like him burning.
• 54:39
  Him in a bear scene.
• 54:40
  It is good.
• 54:41
  And the last scene of the movie is her watching this.
• 54:44
  And she's got her whole flower and sumbling on
• 54:47
  in this smile slowly creeps up her face.
• 54:51
  And all you can say is,
• 54:53
  God, good for her.
• 54:55
  Yeah.
• 54:55
  Good for her.
• 54:56
  Yeah.
• 54:57
  God, this guy was such a piece of shit.
• 54:58
  And again, it's morally ambiguous.
• 55:02
  Like, if one of your boyfriend's was treating you like this,
• 55:05
  I might not be like, or you should put him in a bear scene.
• 55:09
  Or a bear.
• 55:09
  I'm like, God, if you thought I'm like,
• 55:11
  I'm gonna like, or virtual this thing.
• 55:13
  Or a fire.
• 55:14
  I'd be like, we thought I'm not joining a call in Sweden.
• 55:18
  She wanted to speak about Sweden.
• 55:19
  I loved that journey for you.
• 55:21
  I actually would love that journey for us.
• 55:23
  We would be, we all would be when,
• 55:25
  had sex kill.
• 55:27
  Yes.
• 55:27
  Has sex slay.
• 55:28
  Has sex slay?
• 55:29
  A girl born.
• 55:30
  Sweet as slay.
• 55:32
  We would be amazing at that.
• 55:36
  Yeah.
• 55:36
  Yeah.
• 55:36
  I don't know about the,
• 55:38
  the chopping of the arms off,
• 55:41
  but I would like someone on fire.
• 55:44
  So that's right.
• 55:45
  Good for her.
• 55:45
  Well, she chopped off the arms net other movie,
• 55:48
  and it was consensual.
• 55:49
  She wanted the arms chopped off.
• 55:50
  And she wanted the arms chopped off.
• 55:52
  The guy who she put on the meat stump,
• 55:54
  that wasn't consensual.
• 55:55
  That was revenge.
• 55:57
  Yes.
• 55:57
  Like, she's been,
• 55:59
  he gas lights her so hard through this whole movie.
• 56:02
  The whole movie is so just anxiety riddled
• 56:05
  because you just screaming at the screen like,
• 56:07
  "He's full of shit.
• 56:09
  He's full of shit."
• 56:10
  What's the eyebrow guy from "We're the Millers?"
• 56:13
  Oh my god.
• 56:14
  Will Polter.
• 56:15
  Yeah, we'll polter so hot now.
• 56:17
  Yeah.
• 56:17
  The eyebrow guy.
• 56:18
  Yeah.
• 56:19
  That's really paper.
• 56:20
  He literally is eyebrow guy.
• 56:22
  He's so fine now.
• 56:24
  No, no.
• 56:25
  But he still does the eyebrows,
• 56:26
  and I can't,
• 56:27
  he's, no, I can't go for it.
• 56:28
  He's much better looking now,
• 56:31
  because he's, yeah,
• 56:32
  he's got like a beard and a body.
• 56:34
  He still needs my brow shaping
• 56:36
  and just putting it out there.
• 56:38
  Will the altar call me?
• 56:39
  I like the bow.
• 56:40
  If you're listening,
• 56:41
  I will poke your eyebrows,
• 56:43
  and then we can do it.
• 56:44
  And then we can do it.
• 56:46
  I'll do it as you are.
• 56:48
  Yeah.
• 56:49
  Good for her.
• 56:50
  Good for her.
• 56:50
  Good for Shauna.
• 56:51
  Thank you.
• 56:52
  Yeah.
• 56:52
  I love that part.
• 56:53
  But no, I really, I love this baby trope.
• 56:56
  If anybody listening has other good examples,
• 56:59
  another one of my favorites is the Witch with Aniteler Joy.
• 57:02
  Mm-hmm.
• 57:03
  Like we said, Thalman Louise Kill Bill Gone Girl.
• 57:06
  Yeah, Gone Girl is like the iconic one.
• 57:08
  And like Amy really kind of like led to that.
• 57:11
  And like the, oh, I can like see myself.
• 57:14
  Like I wouldn't like fake my own death
• 57:18
  and frame my husband.
• 57:19
  But like her cool girl monologue.
• 57:22
  Yeah.
• 57:23
  Everybody like when I'm even to that.
• 57:24
  And was like, she's driving away.
• 57:25
  She's like, you know, I wouldn't do it,
• 57:27
  but good for her.
• 57:28
  That's it.
• 57:29
  Yeah, I think that's an important distinction
• 57:30
  with a lot of these two.
• 57:31
  I wouldn't do it, but good for her.
• 57:33
  That's the journey she's on.
• 57:35
  They are a cautionary tale.
• 57:38
  Good for two scare men.
• 57:39
  And maybe we'll threaten the next man
• 57:42
  and say, don't make me make you Mr. Stumpy.
• 57:46
  Don't make me meet Stumpy.
• 57:48
  Don't make me.
• 57:49
  I'm so sorry.
• 57:50
  I'm sorry.
• 57:50
  I'm sorry.
• 57:51
  You're so annoying.
• 57:52
  That's keep it a watch out.
• 57:53
  I'm swapping.
• 57:54
  They asked for it.
• 57:55
  All right.
• 57:58
  Well, I gotta go watch this video.
• 58:00
  Oh my god.
• 58:01
  A full breakdown.
• 58:02
  Please.
• 58:02
  The arm please.
• 58:03
  All right.
• 58:04
  Well, I think that just about wraps up another Pop Culture Junkie episode.
• 58:09
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• 58:10
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• 58:11
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• 58:12
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• 58:13
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• 58:14
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• 58:15
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• 58:22
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