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Butlers in Love · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: of Long Story Short with the podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: and today on the podcast, we are discussing Butler's in Love,
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  Speaker 1: Yes, also, we have.
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  Speaker 2: Been getting a couple of emails from Hallmark Channel watchers,
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  Speaker 2: which thank you so very much.
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  Speaker 1: We just have one small request.
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  Speaker 2: Please put the movie you're referring to in the body
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  Speaker 2: of the email somewhere, because sometimes these lovely writers will
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  Speaker 2: write in and be like, I love that song in
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  Speaker 2: that movie, but we don't know what movie or what
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  Speaker 2: song you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, you're ready for a synopsis of this movie. I
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  Speaker 1: Am Butler's in Love in a prestigious Butler Academy, Passionate
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  Speaker 1: Emma and rebellious Henry trained to become royal Butlers, where
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  Speaker 1: the competition is fierce and sparks fly, starring Stacey Farber,
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  Speaker 1: Corey Coott, and Maxwell Coffield. News and notes about Butler's
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  Speaker 1: in Love.
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  Speaker 2: Have a little bit plus I have a little deep
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  Speaker 2: dive info on like real life Butler academies.
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  Speaker 1: Buttling buttling, which is actually a real word. It is. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: this movie was filmed in Burnaby, British Columbia, November twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: There was a scene where they were outside and you
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  Speaker 2: could see their breath and my husband, who watched this
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  Speaker 2: one with me, was like, WHOA looks cold there. I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was probably filmed in February in Canada, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Was right November. But yeah, what did I say February? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you guys know what I meant. I didn't mean November.
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  Speaker 1: It's so cold in my house that Wenny and I
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  Speaker 1: are both holding with both of our hands mugs of
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  Speaker 1: hot drinks as close to our faces as he possibly can.
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  Speaker 1: It's like sixty five degrees in here. That's cold to me,
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  Speaker 1: and ply the home that's gold inside.
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  Speaker 2: Maxwell Cawfield, who played mister Willoughby in this movie, was
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  Speaker 2: also the hot guy who was in Greece too.
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  Speaker 1: I have never seen Greece two. It's super cringey, Like
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  Speaker 1: I mean Greece one was too, like, we is problematic,
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  Speaker 1: we know, but Grease Too was like, yeah, they had
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  Speaker 1: a song called reproduction and it was just what you
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  Speaker 1: think it means, Like science class. They're all dancing around
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  Speaker 1: in science class talking about reproduction. Yeah. Yeah, but the
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  Speaker 1: hot British guy who drove the motorcycle. Does it get
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  Speaker 1: to be British in that movie? He is?
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  Speaker 2: And in fact I read an article an interview from
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  Speaker 2: him that said, like this, this is the first time
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  Speaker 2: that he got to play a British actor since Grease Too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's been a long time. I loved his British
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  Speaker 1: accent in this movie. Well. I thought it lent gravitas
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  Speaker 1: to his butler instructor character. I did. Wow. Henry, who
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  Speaker 1: is portrayed by Corey Cott, is best known for playing
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  Speaker 1: Jack Kelly on Broadway in Newsy's Have you seen Newsy's
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  Speaker 1: on Broadway? Never? I'd love to.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with the show. I know it's they
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  Speaker 2: wear those cute little hats and j yeah and dance around.
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  Speaker 2: But I gotta tell you, I really liked Corey Kott.
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  Speaker 1: I loved Corycott. I'm like, who are you? I like you? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I did not know that he was on Broadway, but
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  Speaker 1: his IMDb he's oddly left off of the Butler's in
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  Speaker 1: Love IMDb page, but his own IMDb page does list
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  Speaker 1: his role in Butler's in Love, which I thought was interesting.
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  Speaker 1: But this is clearly his first starring role on screen.
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  Speaker 1: So interesting to hear that he has more of a
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  Speaker 1: stage resume than screen. But Corey Cott, look, some of
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  Speaker 1: our dudes of Hallmark are aging, which is good. Fine, great,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's what you want to happen, better than the alternative. Huh.
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  Speaker 1: But I like this younger, Corey Cott. Bring him in, okay,
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  Speaker 1: make him a regular. Well, you know what's funny is
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  Speaker 1: that he, I read, took over the role from Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: railer Jeremy Jordan, who we last saw and mix up
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  Speaker 1: in the Mediterranean. Jeremy Jordan's all right, yeah, it's not
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  Speaker 1: the same Jeremy Jordan. It's not. But I can't I
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  Speaker 1: can't hear that name. It's all yep without saying it
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  Speaker 1: in my mind. Well, I love how you threw a
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  Speaker 1: little Beverly Hills nine O two and oh into this
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  Speaker 1: because I have a note about Beverly Hills nine and
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  Speaker 1: two and oh later and Okay, yeah, Stacy Farber plays
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  Speaker 1: Emma Conroy. She had a pretty large role in Virgin
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  Speaker 1: River season three, and I was thinking, gosh, I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember her. That's because I have not finished.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's a Netflix show, right, Yeah, I will watched
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  Speaker 2: the first two seasons. Yeah, that's not for me, that show. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: it's a little too hallmarky for you, probably it is.
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  Speaker 2: She's also in de Grassi the Next Generation, which I
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  Speaker 2: never watched that show either, but I have a twenty
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  Speaker 2: five year old sister who I think it was right
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  Speaker 2: in that line.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, yeah, yeah, I see that.
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  Speaker 2: She also has been in an episode of Unreal, which
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  Speaker 2: Unreal is now the new what's that one show?
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  Speaker 1: That upon a Time and Once upon a Time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like everybody's been in Every Hallmark actor has
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  Speaker 2: been in that movie. Do you have any more news
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  Speaker 2: and notes?
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  Speaker 1: Well? Anna White, the writer of this movie, says that
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  Speaker 1: she based this Butler Academy on the Butler Academy in
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  Speaker 1: the Netherlands, which you can find at butlerschool dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Very interesting so because my deep dive has revealed that
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  Speaker 2: the International Butler Academy is considered the only professional butler
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  Speaker 2: school in the world. Which is where, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: somewhere had Euros'll let me look. It is in the Netherlands.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe this is the one. Is it Butler school dot com?
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  Speaker 1: Is that their website? It is? Okay? Okay? So well good,
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 2: At least she was going to like the source of
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  Speaker 2: you know, the place people think is the top place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she had clearly done her research. It felt like
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  Speaker 1: to me, it felt like she knew what was up with,
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  Speaker 1: like place settings and wine parry okay, and cufflink lengths,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. Okay, okay, more about Butler.
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  Speaker 2: So, it's a ten week training program. It's eight hundred
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  Speaker 2: curriculum hours. Okay in ten weeks is a lot, right?
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  Speaker 1: Is that? That just seems like full time to me? Okay? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Eighty hours a week. Yeah, ye, forty hours a week
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  Speaker 1: times two months. My math is bad, guys. Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: It costs approximately sixteen thousand US dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that seems like a lot of money for two
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  Speaker 1: months go to school there. But it's all inclusive, which
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  Speaker 1: includes housing and utiful form and field trips and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The curriculum includes are you ready for it? I am
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  Speaker 2: the life of a butler. The modern butler staff management,
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  Speaker 2: house management, table management, laundry management, communication, pet management, etiquette
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  Speaker 2: and protocol, cooking, and miscellaneous, which includes flower arranging, character building, chauffeuring,
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  Speaker 2: etiquette and security.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you weren't a lot of hats indeed, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe you just are managing people who wear those hats.
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  Speaker 1: But you still need to know the ins and outs
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  Speaker 1: of their job. Yeah, manage them.
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  Speaker 2: Right, But here is the bummer of it all. The
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  Speaker 2: average butler salary, according to salary dot com is.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to guess it's updated twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 1: as well. What do you think forty five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: a year?
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  Speaker 2: Average is sixty three thousand dollars a year. The range
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  Speaker 2: typically falls between fifty five and seventy three.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder did that? Do they get room and board?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a good question. Are they living
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  Speaker 1: in the homes where they are butlers? Would you do
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff for sixty three thousand dollars a year?
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  Speaker 1: I would be a terrible person to work at that
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  Speaker 1: level of service. I wouldn't I'd killed the game? Would you?
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  Speaker 1: You don't think so? You like being told to do
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  Speaker 1: that much? Yeah? I like all that. Sure, yuh. I
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  Speaker 1: mean if I was like single with no kids, maybe
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  Speaker 1: it feels exhausting to me. It does now let me
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  Speaker 1: I watch a show on Bravo called Below Deck. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's basically like they're buttling well, and one about the
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  Speaker 1: women in this show was wanting to be a yacht butler.
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  Speaker 1: Who was oh on the movie that we want I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to put it that her room roommate. Yeah yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that felt like it brought it into the twenty first
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  Speaker 1: century to me, her talking about being a yacht butler
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to just like in some old castle. Does
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  Speaker 1: this thing actually exist? Yes? Yeah? I mean where do
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  Speaker 1: butlers exist? The White House? Do you think I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: that you know for sure? Jeff Bezos home, I don't know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Are they more prevalent in European home? Yeah? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know either. But for sixty three thousand dollars a year,
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  Speaker 1: it's not well to think about it. If you're getting
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  Speaker 1: room and board, so you're not paying rent, you're not
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  Speaker 1: paying for food, you're not paying for utilities. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: have the use of a car that could really round
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  Speaker 1: that value above three figures. Pretty quickly you get the
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  Speaker 1: weekends off. Do you get a holiday? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know either those I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: If anybody knows the ins and outs of being a butler,
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  Speaker 2: please email us so curious.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because if you're making sixty three thousand dollars a
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  Speaker 1: year and you can just bank all of that because
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to pay for anything, not a bad limon. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're just paying for like a dinner
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  Speaker 1: out every once in while, while just kitchen kitchen on,
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  Speaker 1: you're two days off a year that you apparently get. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's why being a boat butler, a yacht butler is
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  Speaker 2: a better deal, I think, because you do get days
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  Speaker 2: off between charter according to below deck. Yeah so, and
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  Speaker 2: there's a season a yachting seas of course, yes, so
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  Speaker 2: see sure see, I don't know. If I didn't get
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  Speaker 2: seasick on a boat, I would do that maybe, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And if I was, I would No, I would not,
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  Speaker 2: I would not. Let's have first impressions, my dear, I
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  Speaker 2: forgot to write one down.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna do. I'm going to do mine.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'm ready show me a child who aspires to
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  Speaker 2: be in a butler. When I grow up, man, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 1: Do not understand the pull of the Downton Abbey which
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  Speaker 1: we need to discuss in a minute. We need to
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  Speaker 1: discuss in a minute. Don't say anything.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to say anything like from me, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to say anything. But like, I think, you
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  Speaker 2: grow up and you want to be royalty. You don't
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  Speaker 2: want to work for royalty. I mean, this is a
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  Speaker 2: real type a personality here. She's like, I want to
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  Speaker 2: be in charge. I want to be the person running
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  Speaker 2: that household. No, I grew up watching Beverly Hills nine
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  Speaker 2: or two, and oh here's my example. I didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to work at the Beverly Hills Beach Club like Brandon did.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to be a member at the Beverly Hills
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  Speaker 2: Beach Club like Kelly.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, me too.
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  Speaker 2: So it just is so weird to me that there
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  Speaker 2: would be like this little girl watching this Downton Abbey
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  Speaker 2: type show where she wants to be the hbic.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but she's not royalty head butler and guys, that
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  Speaker 1: was a by accident, but she's not. So what's the
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  Speaker 1: next best thing? What's how else can she have this life?
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  Speaker 1: This is the only way she's not Royalty's, she's not
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  Speaker 1: a lady.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, fine, but I just I don't know that feels
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  Speaker 2: like a job of servitude that like.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but to your nine O two one oh beach
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  Speaker 1: Club point, did you watch Save by the Bell when
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  Speaker 1: they worked at the beach club. No, And like Zach
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  Speaker 1: and Kelly, they all had their beach club uniforms. That
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  Speaker 1: didn't appeal to me because it was all of them
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  Speaker 1: working together that looked like a fun job. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: hear that. I hear that. I guess there are people
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  Speaker 1: out there I'm not seeing.
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  Speaker 2: The person doesn't exist. It's just not for me, even
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  Speaker 2: though I think I would do an awesome job at it.
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  Speaker 1: She's Carson, y'all. She thinks she's Carson. Here's what I
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  Speaker 1: like it is, Carson, give me a minute, okay, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I loved so much the deep nod to Downton Abbey
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  Speaker 1: in the opening. The music is like two notes off
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  Speaker 1: of the Downton Abbey opening sequence. The scenes of them
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  Speaker 1: setting the table and lighting the fires and setting up
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  Speaker 1: the house is the Downton Abbey opening. It's so close
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  Speaker 1: to infringing on copyright violation, but it was so great.
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  Speaker 1: And then of course they pull back and she's watching
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  Speaker 1: a television show. I have seen down to Nabby all
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  Speaker 1: the way through at least twice. I love that show.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I understood why she loved that show,
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  Speaker 1: and I understood why watching that show because Carson, who
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  Speaker 1: is the head butler in this home, he's part of
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  Speaker 1: their family, and they later on, Emma shows a scene
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  Speaker 1: to Henry where the head butler and one of the
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  Speaker 1: ladies of the house. He's like, that's a very inappropriate relationship.
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  Speaker 1: But that is the Carson Lady Mary relationship, like he
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  Speaker 1: loves her above all else. So I could understand wanting
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  Speaker 1: to be that important to someone. You want to be
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  Speaker 1: the person, not the person that's important to them. If
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  Speaker 1: I had my way, I guess you want to be
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  Speaker 1: the person who someone's like lighting your fire and combing
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  Speaker 1: your hair at night. Of course I do, of course
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  Speaker 1: I do. But I'm also not that person. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be that person. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to comb somebody's hair.
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  Speaker 2: Like when I say, like I could kill the butler game.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to comb somebody's hair.
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  Speaker 1: I want to like manage the person who's going to
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  Speaker 1: comb my hair, arrange the flowers, and to set the table.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I want to do. And it's not far
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  Speaker 1: from like my mom being mommy right, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean? Unpaid. Yeah, it's way less than six that's
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  Speaker 1: why we're not ironing table loves. Oh my god, I
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  Speaker 1: just I love that down to an Abbey moment. I
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  Speaker 1: loved it so much.
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  Speaker 2: This is a show I've not seen, Guys, I don't
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  Speaker 2: I just I don't know if I could do it well.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said earlier, I really liked Corey Cott. I
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  Speaker 2: thought he was nice calming balance to Emma's over the top,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a buffoon demeanor, like she thought she could do
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  Speaker 2: a job, but she like she really couldn't. And I
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  Speaker 2: thought it played nicely because there's a scene between them
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  Speaker 2: where he I think they were talking about like wine
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  Speaker 2: pairings or something, and he's like, it's all about balance,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, yes, he is the balance, Like
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  Speaker 2: he balances Emma, like he's real like this way and
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  Speaker 2: she's real like this way. And I'm making like an
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  Speaker 2: up and high a scale a scale yes, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought like he balanced her out, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what I liked about him. I just found him so
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  Speaker 2: like dreamy in a way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I loved their kiss at the end. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she just like walks forward and puts that arm. I
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  Speaker 1: just loved it.
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  Speaker 2: Loved it well when she they were gonna kiss, like
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: in the park on a walk at one point, and
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  Speaker 2: then she stops and I'm like, what a tease because
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  Speaker 2: she was giving them those doe eyes, like make a.
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  Speaker 1: Move, dude, and then she's like, we can't. I just
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: was like, I hate this stuff. When he's gonna get canceled?
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  Speaker 1: Am I by who?
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  Speaker 2: The Hallmark listeners, women and men of the world.
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  Speaker 1: You have the right to say no at any point.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, but you're right, Okay, you can change your
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  Speaker 1: mind at anyway. I don't. Well at that point, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, what difference does it make make out with him?
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  Speaker 1: You can still go back and work hard and study,
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  Speaker 1: but make out on the walk a little fun, live
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  Speaker 1: a little agree.
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  Speaker 2: I like Stacey Farbert.
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  Speaker 1: This is her first homewark moyvie, Is that right? She
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  Speaker 1: was like, okay, Like she's not a bad actress. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't like her character so like it. But I
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  Speaker 1: liked her like she was like young and vibrant, and funny.
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't like Emma. Sorry, well are you ready
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  Speaker 1: for what we wish for? No?
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: I have one more liked, but it comes with a butt.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: I liked the tension that Henry's parents brought to it, Yeah,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: and the like pressure that they put on him. But
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: how much do I believe that there's this like lineage
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: of butlers, especially in like a family. You're looking at
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: me like I'm crazy? Does downt Nabbey have like a
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: lineage of butler's I.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Don't know, but no I don't. I'm not looking at
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: you like you're crazy. I did think at some point
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: it was like how many times does he need to
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: say to you he doesn't want to do this? And
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: his father, having been this incredible butler, I think should
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: know that someone whose full heart isn't in it is
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: not going to be a great butler given the amount
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: of devotion of your time and energy it takes. At
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: some point it feels like his dad would been like, well,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: this isn't what I want for you, but you're gonna
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: suck at this and give our family a bad name. Okay, Yeah,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: like you're not, You're gonna burn out, you hate it,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: You're not going to like it. Well, and the thing
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: is just like I don't know how old Henry was
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: supposed to be, but like he's in a grown ass
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: adult he can't be like look, yeah, it took me
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: not doing it. Yeah, yes, took him way too long
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: to be like listen, mom and dad, I'm not going
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: to seventeen Butler schools for you to finally realize he's
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: like the rebel that gets kicked out of Butler School
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: for jerking around with his place settings. Yeah, so let's
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: talk about what we wished for. I wish that Emma
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: wasn't such a bumbling idiot. She's clearly capable. She's been
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: prepping for this moment her entire life. I do not
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: buy that she cannot get her play setting act together.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's a real shame because that's the writer
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: who is who has to.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Like put this like.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Lean idiot in this role. She can't put like a capable,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: strong woman in this.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Like it just is like it's this like stereotype of
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: like I'm an idiot and this guy's gonna come and
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: he's gonna help me.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I needed the conflict to come from elsewhere because she's
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: been preparing for this, she's been studying for this. She works,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: you know, in a restaurant, practicing these things. Certainly she's
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: there's a place to look up play settings, and she's
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: been practicing this at home. I just don't buy that
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: someone as dedicated as she is cannot get her act together.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I agree, and they blow it off as stage right
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: m but no, yeah, I agree too. I wish for
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: a better a better script. Sorry.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Like I said, I watched it with my husband and
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: he's like, this movie could have been about anything.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: It could have been. They could have been accountants, like
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: it was. And the joke is that he's my husband's
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: an account but like he's right, they're like doing like
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: a job, so you could slight No, you could put
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: any job in like whatever they were doing, accounting, crocheting,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I don't podcasting, you know what I mean. Yeah, it
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: just was like it was too cookie cutter for me. Really. Yeah,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: you know it's funny because I felt like this was
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: a little bit different. It felt a little bit different.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: One thing I liked that I didn't mention is I
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: liked that it felt like our writer Anna White had
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: done her research so that when they're in those scenes
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: about play settings and about how butler dresses and all
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: of these things that it felt like reality, like we
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: were in a classroom with them. I like that part.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: And I appreciate that the writer made the effort to
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: understand the topic that she is writing a movie about. Yeah,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: because we've complained about that before in the past, where
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: there would be like an influencer storyline. And I'm not
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: calling us influencers, we just have an understanding of it. Sure,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and you know it's like completely wrong or whatever. It's like,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: come on, do the research.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: So she obviously either has experience with somebody who is
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: a butler or did the research right. And I can
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: appreciate that. Liked Emma and Henry as friends that pears.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: I did not find them.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: To be a romantic that much.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I loved their chemistry really okay, and immediately, like I
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: fell asleep at the very very end.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: So here's my question. Here's my question.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Did she take the job that ye parents got her
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: and then quit and went to wherever he was chefing
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: at chefing whatever.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: She's like driving away and he's like walking down the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: lane to her, and she gets out of her cab
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and that's where they have their kiss. That's why you
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: don't know the kiss because you didn't see it happened
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: in the woods.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I saw a kiss that happened. Like they're in front
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: of like they're in a kitchen.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: They're in like as the pivotal moment of the movie.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know. She takes the job, she likes it,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: but they're basically they're like, yeah, you're not gonna have
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: a light. This was what didn't really what bothered me.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: They're like, you're not really gonna have a life out
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: of here, which she kind of knew, but I guess
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: she was like, oh, well, now that I want to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: bang Henry, I maybe do want a life out of here.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: You don't see her quit. You just see her throw
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: her bag in a cab. They're driving away and Henry's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: walking down the lane to her, so she says, stops
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: us up and she gets out, and he tells her
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: that he's told his parents and he's gonna go get
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: a job, and she's like, oh, I quit, let's go
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: off together. And then the next scene they're in that
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: hotel that they were in together before because he knew
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: that chef and he apparently oh, he had gone They
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: don't say this, but evidently he had gone back and
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: asked for a job, and she evidently had gotten a
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: job there, so they can have some sort of work
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: life bounce. So that is their second kiss. You missed
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the good kiss? Well, I fell asleep. It was a
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: good kiss. It was it was well shot.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, maybe I'll go back and just watch that part.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: But okay, okay, let's move on to Did you see.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: That her mom does not age?
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: No?
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I know that was so funny, right, like put a
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: wig on her, put some fank wrinkles on or something.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: The actress's name is Rebecca Davis. She is forty one
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: years old. Stacy Farber is thirty four, So there is
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: a seven year age differends And that just goes to
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: show you what the movies think about women. Because a
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: forty one year old was old enough to play the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: mother of this thirty year old actress. Well, I wonder
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: if Stacy Farber's the Emma character is supposed to be
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: younger than that in the twenties, in her twenties, she's
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: forty one years old, even though she was twenty one.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I know, I know she'd be only twenty No, I know,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I get it. No, because she had gone to college
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and then she had gotten all these jobs, and she'd
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: been applying for years, I mean maybe in her twenties still,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: and it's only a few years older. The castine is
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: always wrong in these movies. They're either, I mean.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Case in point, Joe Bradley from Oh, she's not been
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: playing a man who's looking at retirement. He come on,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: And when we have like moms, they're either super old
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: grandma's or they're forty one year old women.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: To thirty year old children. Yes, so do better, castine
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: call us. Okay. When Henry crashes into Emma at the beginning, yeah,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: she's like holding on those plates like she's even a
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: freaking circus trick, right, and he crashes into her and
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: all the plates shatter into a million pieces on like carpet.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I was like, really, so stupid, Like I just was like,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: that's not really they would have just fallen maybe broken,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: but not into like shards. Sure, that's not dramatic though,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I'm just annoyed by stupid shit like that. They had
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: to make her look like mumbling idiot. Well, it wasn't
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: her fault, it was his fault, Oh BUDDA butler should
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: always be aware of their surroundings.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna tell you a quick story one time,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: and I'm sure I told you this before. I threw
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: my husband a birthday party at Angel Stadium, which is
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: a baseball stadium here in southern California, and I rented out.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: A big, huge suite.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: It was for his thirtieth birthday. The doors to the
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: suite opened out, so if you're inside the suite, the
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: doors opened out. And when you rent a suite, they
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: have like the service that comes with, like the food
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: and then whatever, and the drink cart.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: In this it was very cool. They bring the dessert cart.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Somebody, one of the people who brought it put it
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: in front of the door. I opened the door to
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: go to the bathroom and knock over the cart in
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: the hallway, and the lady was mad at me, and
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: I was like, you're the dummy who put it there.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know how this is at all relevant of
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Butler's in Love.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: You felt Emma's pain, You did not feel like she
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: should have been blamed dropping the plane. Exactly, Yes, exactly.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: There's a butler in training in this movie who has
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: no lines. She doesn't appear on the IMDb page. She's
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: a woman, but she's fighting for her life on screen.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: She there's a moment where they parade into the dining
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: room for their synchronized service, and she's got a pageant
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: smile on. She's in the front of that line and
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: she walks in, head held high. She's like, this is
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: my moment. There's another scene where Emma and Henry are
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: saying goodbye to each other in the lobby of this
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: butler school, and she walks by and they kind of
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: say like, oh, bye bye to a couple of people.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: This one walks by, turns to face them, big smile
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: on her face, waves at them, and then walks away.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: They don't even acknowledge her. But she's like, I am
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: getting my moment.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I wonder if that's like the writer's friend spouse, you
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: know something?
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: You know, look at her nothing that's so funny. I
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: didn't notice that. Let's talk about her sad grilled cheese
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: sandwich though, Yeah, what was happening there? Why was she
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: making a.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Grilled cheese sandwich? I get like, butlers need to like
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: know something about food preparation. But she made a grilled
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: cheese sandwich. Yeah that any child can probably make and
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: burns the hell out of it. And I'm not saying
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: that I haven't burned a grilled cheese sandwich in my
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: forty six years online.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: But here he.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Goes, Oh, put some greare and apples in it and
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: it will balance the burnt whatever.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, but okay, the sandwich is done. At that point
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: is he telling her to put I understand, like the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: apple slice maybe on top, like whatever. But she's just
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: put on the slice and she is on top of
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: this already grilled cheese sandwich. No, it goes inside a
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: great and she takes a bite and she's like, oh yeah,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: like it made a difference. Well, when did you Your
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: sandwich was already made. Yeah, there's no weird slice of
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: cheese on top and the slice of apple bad. Yeah, come
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: over while she's cooking it. Yes, good, I'm glad you sought. Yeah,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: glad you sought the chalkboard ringings. Yeah.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: First of all, how devastating. When we were like in
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: college they would like or even high school would put
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: like your what your grades up?
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah? In college it wasn't our name though. I think
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: it was like the last four of our social like
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: there was some sort of like animanimity, Yeah, is that
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: the right one? But I was like, she's like looking,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: you don't think she didn't. She knew she had to
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: be like last. There's also like twelve on the board.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: It's not that hard to find your Emma. I know
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: she's It was like a big scene. She's looking like
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: finding her name on a cast list. Yes, exactly, Are
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I gonna be Mary Poppins. It's like she burnt this sandwich,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: she dropped the plate, drop the plance at a table
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: for shit. Yeah, I'm like, what of course you're last dumb.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: But the funny thing is she goes to mister Willoughby
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: and she's like, would you write me a letter of recommation?
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: And he goes, you suck no, and she's like I know, yeah.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: At no point does she even really defend hers. She's like,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I don't really know what's wrong with me. He's like
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know either.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Well, and at one point too, like uh, Henry says like, oh,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: we're going out or whatever. He's like a bunch of
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: us are going out and she's like, well, I'm studying
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: my place settings. I was like, really, like how hard
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: is it. It can't be that hard. I know you'd
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: like you fork. I learned place settings from Pretty Woman,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? There's a salad fork and
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: a dinner fork on your left.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: What more, DNA? She had a fish for what that
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: goes at the top? Does it not? I don't know. See,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: it's just so I could study it and learn it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: But then he says, a bunch of us are going out,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and then just the two of them, and she's just
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the two of them. My husband said the same thing.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Where's everybody else? You know?
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: It's so funny, okay. And there was one other scene
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: like where they were doing like their almost like choreographed
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: place setting. Not it was like they were being graded
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: on it.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you know what I'm talking about? No, it
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: was like like the two of them was the two
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: bumbling idiots? Or was it Emma and Henry?
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: No, it was Emma and Henry and there It wasn't
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: like that cute scene when he's like draw a, draw
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: a settings when they're being graded. I know they're being raided,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: which like when did why are the butlers doing a choreograph?
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Like why are they doing it together?
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Okay, the next immediate scene, he's like,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: I made you dinner.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: When when did you do that? Dude? Like they're both
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: in there, like in their butler out of it stuff.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I was like, that doesn't make any sense. No, I
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: think it's made. When he made the beef welling tenth
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and then she picked the right wine, he's like, oh,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: good job. Yeah, and he's got like all his lights
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: set up outside. Oh yeah. When he says good job
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: about the wine, I wanted to crawl through the TV
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and punch him in the face. Don't good job me.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Would you rate this movie two stars? I gave it three.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I liked it. I did not like it. I just
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: thought it was so boring. Yeah, I'm sorry. When he goes,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: what did you say? Set the expectations and I was like, oh,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: it's decent. I hate it. I was really excited for it. Yeah,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I was excited after you said it was decent, and
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, cool, cool, cool, cool cool,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Because a three star movie for me is that's a
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: good score. I know it was. I just know. I
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: think January, their New Year New Movies, was kind of
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: a fail. Yeah, it was great overall. Next week there
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: is no new movie it is a reshowing of the
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Wedding Veil. We have already reviewed that movie. You can
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: go back and give that a listen if you have
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: not had the chance. We will be back the week
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: of February twelfth, which is when the Wedding Veil Unveiled
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: will be on air. Looking forward to it. I am
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: looking forward to it too. So we Italy in Italy
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: with an actual Italian Actoor like many of his acting
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: credits or movies in Italian, so he's not like doing
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: a fake bonjour, no preche bassa, although I don't think
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: that was a fake accent, Hyler, but he's yeah, no
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: fake Boston accents in this one. So we'll be back
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: with that. We will be back next Tuesday with our
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: regular Tuesday episode and until then, have a great weekend, everybody.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Goodbye bye,