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The Chicken Sisters Season 2 Episode 4 (feat: Erin Shea) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Homemark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. As a quick reminder,
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  Speaker 2: we're doing things a little bit differently for our reviews
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  Speaker 2: of The Chicken Sisters, I'm joined by a rotating cast
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  Speaker 2: of co hosts and joining us today for season two,
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  Speaker 2: episode four, Let your Hair Down, y'all, is Aaron Shay.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron's a familiar face in the bramble Jam family. We
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  Speaker 2: had the pleasure of getting to meet her in Greenville
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  Speaker 2: this summer. Aaron, thanks for being here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be here and to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the Chicken Sisters. Big fan.
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  Speaker 2: So tell me your history with the Chicken Sisters, because
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  Speaker 2: our co hosts are all coming at it from a
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  Speaker 2: different place. So did you watch season one? Have you
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  Speaker 2: watched all of season two? What are your thoughts so far.
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  Speaker 1: With any like film or tiny project. If I find
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  Speaker 1: out that there is a book version, I try to
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  Speaker 1: read the book first. And so when season one came
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  Speaker 1: out and everyone kept saying, oh, it's a book. I
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  Speaker 1: really like the book, I said, great, I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: get this book. And then I was still reading it.
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  Speaker 1: When the first couple episodes aired for season one, and
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  Speaker 1: I noticed there were a lot of differences, and I
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  Speaker 1: was so wrapped up in the book world where I
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  Speaker 1: was just like, I don't think I'm gonna watch this,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, I need to. I need to like
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  Speaker 1: live in the book world for a while. And then
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  Speaker 1: when you asked me if I wanted to be on
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  Speaker 1: this season, I said, well, now is the time to
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  Speaker 1: watch all of season one?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: And so I like binged all of season one, that
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  Speaker 1: loved it. And then I've been watching season two every week.
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  Speaker 2: So I read the book too. I read the Boo
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  Speaker 2: before season one came out, and our entire first season
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  Speaker 2: of reviews is like, well in the book, Well in
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  Speaker 2: the book, because there's so many differences, and it's that
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  Speaker 2: I'm a book first person too, and I like to
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  Speaker 2: have that, but I get so frustrated when my brain's
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  Speaker 2: like trying to reconcile the book with the movie or
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  Speaker 2: the show. So were there big changes that you liked
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  Speaker 2: or didn't like? How'd you feel about book versus series?
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  Speaker 2: I'm great removed.
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  Speaker 1: It's far enough removed where I can see that they
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  Speaker 1: are separate entities because listening to Deck to Hallmark and
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  Speaker 1: they I was that person when they were recording those
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  Speaker 1: episodes in the back of the studio, being like who
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  Speaker 1: this question doesn't exist in that book, Gus, Yeah, And
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  Speaker 1: then they can't talk you about like Frank Junior and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, isn't he did? Know? What do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: And like May has two kids, Amanda has two kids,
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  Speaker 1: Like there's all these nuances and I was like, we're
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  Speaker 1: just leaving. I don't even know. So I love that
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  Speaker 1: they've changed enough of the book for the show because
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  Speaker 1: I was in reading the book, I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't really know where a season two would come in,
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  Speaker 1: like they ended pretty great, And then watching the show,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, this is one of those
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  Speaker 1: rare moments on a book to screen adaptation where I
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  Speaker 1: feel like they knew what they were doing because it's
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  Speaker 1: set up season two so well, will we get a
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  Speaker 1: season three? I don't know, but at least the bridge
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  Speaker 1: from season one to season two, I thought they changed
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  Speaker 1: just enough where I was hooked and looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I think the changes made sense. A
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  Speaker 2: friend of mine read the book and didn't watch the show,
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  Speaker 2: but was listening to our recaps and she was Gus
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  Speaker 2: in the book I think is Barbara, And the whole
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  Speaker 2: time she was like, who's Gus, Like it took her
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  Speaker 2: a full episode to figure out, like who we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about. Just little changes like that. But I think
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  Speaker 2: you're right. It does set it up so much better
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  Speaker 2: for a season two because at the end of the season,
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  Speaker 2: you're like, where they go from here? But they've made
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  Speaker 2: it work. I mean, it doesn't feel like they flow
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  Speaker 2: nicely like season one to season two flows really well
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  Speaker 2: for me. So this episode, the synopsis is it's May's
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  Speaker 2: bachelorette party and Amanda commits to giving her notoriously over
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  Speaker 2: planning sister a night full of carefree fun and making memories.
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  Speaker 2: What was your first impression of this episode.
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  Speaker 1: My first impression of this episode was I'm still really
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  Speaker 1: excited about Merridich.
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  Speaker 2: That's so exciting because.
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  Speaker 1: I just love their stories and like seeing just them
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  Speaker 1: be together.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so glad to hear that, because I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: as we're doing those reviews, it feels like nobody's watching
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  Speaker 2: this show, Like nobody seems to be talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: There doesn't seem to be a lot of feedback about it.
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  Speaker 2: I really like this series. Wendy's not doing these reviews
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  Speaker 2: because she was not a fan and was like, I
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  Speaker 2: really don't want to do whole season of this, which
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  Speaker 2: I don't get.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm also happy because then I get to be
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  Speaker 1: here to talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: It's been so fun. And initially we were like, we're
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  Speaker 2: not gonna do it, and I was like, I have
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  Speaker 2: an idea, what if? Because I wanted to watch and
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  Speaker 2: talk about it. So this has been really fun for
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  Speaker 2: me to get to talk to people that we might
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  Speaker 2: not normally have gotten to have on the show. It's
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  Speaker 2: interesting that you say, like you're still all in on Marrinach.
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  Speaker 2: This episode for me felt like a huge like record
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  Speaker 2: scratch in terms of the tone and the pacing. There
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of things that I liked about it,
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  Speaker 2: but I was like a little bit jarred by what
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  Speaker 2: was happening, and I think that's maybe to be expected.
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  Speaker 2: It's episode four of an eight episode season, so at
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  Speaker 2: some point, like we kind of got to just develop
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  Speaker 2: things and not there's not a lot of forward motion
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion, but there are a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: that I liked, So why don't we start with what
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  Speaker 2: you liked about this episode.
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  Speaker 1: So what I liked, First of all, you're gonna throw
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  Speaker 1: Rhiann and Fish into Maranath and she gets to play
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  Speaker 1: like she's usually the lead. She's usually the one, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the girl next door that everyone's falling in love with,
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  Speaker 1: and not that she's quite a villain, but for her
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  Speaker 1: to come in and be like the bad guy yes
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  Speaker 1: the time answer one yeah, or he's like you're in
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  Speaker 1: my bone is do not answer and she's just like, well,
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  Speaker 1: what I'm hearing is I'm stealing your phone like red Flat,
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  Speaker 1: You're right, the arian And so I loved that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not loving like I don't want there to be a
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  Speaker 1: huge like love triangle, like I'm glad she came in,
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  Speaker 1: we got to meet her. I'm cool if she just leaps.
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  Speaker 2: Then I love.
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  Speaker 1: I am really loving this Clayton and may storyline, like
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  Speaker 1: them getting to meet later in life and have this
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  Speaker 1: moment you know where you know, and I feel like
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  Speaker 1: he's doing a nice job at least where like he's
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  Speaker 1: coming in and very actively being like you are my daughter,
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  Speaker 1: I want to know you. I'm here as long as
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  Speaker 1: you want, and like trying to be at her life
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  Speaker 1: without also taking over. So there are these like sweet
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  Speaker 1: moments with them, him and Gus, like I'm excited to
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  Speaker 1: see where this goes with Clayton. And then the things
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  Speaker 1: that I think really start out to me in this
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  Speaker 1: episode and why I really liked it and really was
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  Speaker 1: drawn to this episode was with the Bachelorette, like having
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  Speaker 1: someone else take that play. I'm the planner. I like
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  Speaker 1: to plan things, and you know, I have to win
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  Speaker 1: and I have to be in control, and seeing may
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  Speaker 1: let somebody else take that over for her, and then
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  Speaker 1: Shift gets to enjoy a night out with her friends
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  Speaker 1: being free. I recently had a night with a friend
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  Speaker 1: where we had a few glasses of wine and it
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  Speaker 1: came up of like, I don't remember the last time
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  Speaker 1: I did a cartwheel, and so then we're just out
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  Speaker 1: on the front lawn doing cartwheels. And so when they're
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  Speaker 1: bringing to talk to you out that I had this
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  Speaker 1: moment where I was like I literally just did this
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  Speaker 1: where it's like I had this night where I was
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  Speaker 1: like can I still do a cartwheel? So I loved that,
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  Speaker 1: like I just felt like, hey, I did this, like can.
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  Speaker 2: You because I definitely cannot still do one.
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  Speaker 1: I can do like one.
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  Speaker 2: Even after a couple of gasses of wine. That's impressive.
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  Speaker 1: I yeah. And then and then it's and then you
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  Speaker 1: should just stop. You should do the one be like
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  Speaker 1: that was amazing, and then you should stop. If anyone
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  Speaker 1: listening is attempting it, maybe don't a And then it's
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  Speaker 1: celebrate and it'd be like, great, I did that. We
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  Speaker 1: don't even repeat this because it just gets worse. And
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  Speaker 1: then the last thing was so I am oldest daughter
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  Speaker 1: in my family. I have one younger brother, and so
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  Speaker 1: I feel like my whole life, I was always the
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  Speaker 1: one where I was in charge and planning and looking
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  Speaker 1: out to an extent, looking out for my parents, looking
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  Speaker 1: out for me, looking up for my brother. And we
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  Speaker 1: have recently had this dynamic shift where he has kind
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  Speaker 1: of stepped up and he he had a conversation like
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  Speaker 1: we were dealing with a family issue. And I was
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  Speaker 1: usually the one that everyone like leaned on and talked to,
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  Speaker 1: and I was really struggling being that person. And he
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  Speaker 1: kind of was like I've got this, like you go
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  Speaker 1: take care of you like I'm handled this. And Solena
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  Speaker 1: also seeing Amanda be like, hey, I love that you've
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  Speaker 1: taken care of me. My whole life, but like, let
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  Speaker 1: me take care of you. So because it's just like
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  Speaker 1: an episode that brought me personal life feels.
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  Speaker 2: I really loved that too. I'm also an eldest daughter,
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  Speaker 2: and that moment of gratitude where she finally like we've
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  Speaker 2: seen so many moments of her in this season and
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  Speaker 2: a half of May stepping up and being the one
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  Speaker 2: to protect Amanda and kind of being this second parent.
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  Speaker 2: I've been asking all this season, like we have this
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  Speaker 2: question about who's May's dad and she meets him and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a minute, what about Amanda's dad? I
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  Speaker 2: where was that going? And I love that she says
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  Speaker 2: like I've never cared. I didn't feel like I was
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  Speaker 2: missing anything because I had you and Mom. That was
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  Speaker 2: a great moment and a great revelation for the audience too.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think this episode is so May heavy.
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  Speaker 2: The way Gus tells the story of May's life through
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  Speaker 2: her time cards and the memories that are related to
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  Speaker 2: those I loved so much. Like when she first brings
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  Speaker 2: them out, I was like, come on, guys, and then
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  Speaker 2: she's like this is you know, she missed the prom
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  Speaker 2: because she had to step up and be the one
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  Speaker 2: to keep the restaurant open or she insisted we stay
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  Speaker 2: open on Christmas Day and that it was full of
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  Speaker 2: people who had nowhere else to go. Uh. It was
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  Speaker 2: very grounding in terms of may storyline and how Gus
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  Speaker 2: feels about her, because I don't know that we've gotten
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  Speaker 2: a chance to see Gus like she's had these little
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  Speaker 2: moments of coming out and showing like she wasn't fully
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  Speaker 2: wrapped up in herself, like she remembers those moments with
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  Speaker 2: her girls. We see in the beginning when she's making
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  Speaker 2: the jam, she almost has this like level of perfection.
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  Speaker 2: Everything has to be perfect, everything has to fall in line.
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  Speaker 2: And it's really funny that I have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: thoughts about the bachelorette, but to see like her level
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  Speaker 2: of control that she needed to have over everything and
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  Speaker 2: finally for her to feel comfortable that someone can handle it,
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  Speaker 2: like someone can take over and it's going to be okay.
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  Speaker 2: As a fellow control freak, I appreciated that as well.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have more likes?
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  Speaker 1: I think those are my big ones. Just seeing the
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  Speaker 1: sister is kind of be moving kind of into opposite roles,
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  Speaker 1: letting you maybe get her hair down, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: as she's making the jam, or like you see in
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  Speaker 1: season one, there's that episode where she's in the Inner
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  Speaker 1: New York kitchen and everything has to be like exactly
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  Speaker 1: perfect in a kitchen, and then you see her making
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  Speaker 1: the jam and she's you know, everyone's enjoying the jam
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  Speaker 1: and eating the jam. They're like, come at you with us,
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  Speaker 1: and she's like scrubbing down pots and it is nice
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  Speaker 1: because I know what that's like, where it's like I
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  Speaker 1: have to have everything the way I want it because
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  Speaker 1: I you know who else is going to take care
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  Speaker 1: of it. And then having that interplay with the sisters
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  Speaker 1: where it's like you can take a deep breath like
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  Speaker 1: someone else will be there.
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  Speaker 2: It's such a nice moment where you see her like
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  Speaker 2: even straightening the spices, it like is a very impactful
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  Speaker 2: moment where you see how important those details are to her.
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  Speaker 2: I have just a couple of little few lines that
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to call out that I loved, I like
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  Speaker 2: my wine in boxes. It's easier to stack love that.
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  Speaker 2: Shauna calling Sergio's X arriving, the Haley's comment of gossip,
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  Speaker 2: and May's I don't stream cheat line when Jay Cuses
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  Speaker 2: are watching ahead on their show loved it, loved it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk what we wished for in this episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my biggest thought is I guess we'll start with
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  Speaker 1: my throw I thought, which was just every time I
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  Speaker 1: watch an episode of this show, I just get this quick,
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  Speaker 1: little brief moment where I'm like, remember how Frank Junior
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  Speaker 1: is dead in the book? I missed that and it's
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  Speaker 1: just this moment where he's just being the worst, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I missed the version of Merrinach where we
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  Speaker 1: don't have to deal with you, and I know you're
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  Speaker 1: here for plot purposes, but like you could leave.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my notes in all caps say I do not
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  Speaker 2: want a Frank Junior redemption. Whatever we're trying to go here,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want it. And I get that, like I
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  Speaker 2: feel like they want this happy ending, but can he
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  Speaker 2: just leave? Like there's no version of this town that
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  Speaker 2: needs him in it.
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  Speaker 1: No, the only version is he realizes that he's a jerk.
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  Speaker 1: He signs the divorce papers and then somehow he gets
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  Speaker 1: a job and mister Chicken like corporate and he's.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he's out because Frankie's leaving too. So it makes it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's that little part of you is like, well,
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  Speaker 2: you don't want her to fully leave town and leave
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  Speaker 2: his daughter behind, but she's moving on too, so she leaves.
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  Speaker 2: It makes it a little more acceptable for him to
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  Speaker 2: just be gone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she'll go off to New York. Maybe mister Chicken
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  Speaker 1: Corporate is in you know, the New England.
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  Speaker 2: Area, Yeah, New Jersey probably, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So that's like every time I watch an episode,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, we don't need this, just no. And
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  Speaker 1: then my other thought while watching it is I have
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: not listened to your recaps of the Way Home, but
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  Speaker 1: from what I've heard is you guys are big fans
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  Speaker 1: of The Way Home.
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  Speaker 2: We are.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, me too. I love on the Way Home. Where
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  Speaker 1: when when they have the actors playing like the young
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: Elliott and the young Cat, like they look so alike
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  Speaker 1: and so they walk on screen and you're immediately like,
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  Speaker 1: this is teenage Elliott or like you know, and you
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  Speaker 1: can see who these people are, and I feel like
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  Speaker 1: the Chicken sisters did not put that much thought into
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  Speaker 1: like I don't know, like I just have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of redheads in my life, and the redheads like, do
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  Speaker 1: you like you can't just throw a red head in
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  Speaker 1: the scene. And I'm going to see it's May, like,
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  Speaker 1: that's just sloppy. It wasn't until it got to like
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  Speaker 1: teenage May where I was like, oh this is me. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: when the kids are on the screen every time, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just like, it takes me a minute where I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: who are these random children?
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  Speaker 2: And then I'm young us. That is a miss for me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see, I like, just don't. So it does
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  Speaker 1: like when we do the flashbacks. I love the storyline
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  Speaker 1: of the flashbacks, and I love what they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: tell us and show us about these family dynamics, but
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  Speaker 1: it does take me out of the story a little
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  Speaker 1: bit because it takes me a minute to be like,
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  Speaker 1: this is Gus, this is May, like so homework. We
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  Speaker 1: know that you can do incredible casting, and I just
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  Speaker 1: feel like we didn't quite put as much thought into
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  Speaker 1: into this one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I got to talk about May's sophisticate
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  Speaker 2: look in general. I think it's a funny idea that
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  Speaker 2: she wanted to tightly control this party and she didn't
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  Speaker 2: want this over the top. While it was over the top,
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  Speaker 2: but she didn't want to be out of control. She
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to be in a situation that she couldn't
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  Speaker 2: control every aspect of it. I think we pushed it
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  Speaker 2: a little too far. Like to me, it's like a
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  Speaker 2: parody of what somebody who wants to be in control
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  Speaker 2: would plan, like seven ye wine pairings. This is especially
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  Speaker 2: if you want me to believe that this is a
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  Speaker 2: woman who couldn't even get it together enough to plan
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  Speaker 2: her own wedding, but then she can plan this ridiculously
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  Speaker 2: elaborate dinner party. It was a little too much for me.
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  Speaker 2: Also too much for me was Nancy's petition moment. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad that she's finding her voice. Like when she
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  Speaker 2: stands up and she's like, y'all gotta sign the petition,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what uh? Like, it's a little too easy.
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  Speaker 2: The way Patrick's like thanks and takes the petition and
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  Speaker 2: starts passing it. It didn't land for me. I have
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  Speaker 2: a couple of things that I'm worried about. Well, one,
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  Speaker 2: we're a little bit too much limbo about this trip
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  Speaker 2: situation with the pastor. I know she's not gonna go.
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  Speaker 2: We saw her be worried about Gus and her ability
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: to function on her own. She's not gonna go, but
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: can we just get there, Like let's just don't I
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: don't need this. I'm also very worried about Clayton. I
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: like that May is getting when he steps up and
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: he's like, I paid for the wine. That's such a
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: nice way for her to feel supported, for her to
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: feel like someone has her back because no one has
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: had her back. I just feel like he came into town.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Their initial meeting went so well. Things are going well
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: with him and Gus. I just feel like the other
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: shoe is going to drop at any moment, and that's
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: my concern.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna believe that the other shoe and Marynathiw's
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: always go to be Frank Junior and they will just
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: let me have Clayton be just this guy who comes in.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Of these women have been on their own for so
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: long and they're they're I'm just they're gonna let Clayton
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: come in and just be this like not missing peace.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: But I'm just don't do it. Don't do it all over.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Maybe we can have some good guys, because the pastor
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: has turned out to be kind of a disappointment. Like
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: at the end of season when you're like, that's so nice.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Nancy has someone who's gonna care about her, and he's
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: just kind of like Frank Senior light like maybe not
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: as problematic, but certainly not the man that she needs.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I'm just worried about it. So I would love to.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Know if I would love to know if she and
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: the pastor had conversations off camera about how long is
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: this trip?
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Where are we going?
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: What are we doing there? Because the conversation we've seen
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: it's for being like wait months and likes it, you know.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: And then and then when she's talking about like how
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: she's kind of agreed to go but doesn't even know
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: what they're doing, and he's just like, you're just going
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: to be there to support me, And it's like, sir,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: why would you invite her to come on this month's
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: long trip with you and just have her family? Like
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: why can't she get her hands dirty and help? Are
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: they building houses? Like I don't even know what they're doing?
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. Is that a plot point that
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: we don't know what they're doing? Or is it simply
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: they're not wasting time on it, because I we could
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: waste a little bit of time and give us a
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: tiny bit of information unless there's some big, crazy reveal
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: that we don't know what is not?
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, have like one more conversation on camera by this trip,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: like that you've agreed to go on out of Like do.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I need a passport?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: What are we doing?
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Well, she's already bought her plane tickets. I assume she
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: don't you have to have a passport before you buy
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: out of country plane tickets. No, yes, I feel like
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the last time, I mean I would buy number in Yeah. Like,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: we went on a family trip to Ireland a couple
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: of years ago, so one family member booked all the flights,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure I had to email them my
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: passport number.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I think you're right.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know this woman who hasn't ever really left Marinach.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: She just has a passport in the wings, waiting.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Just waiting for her chance. She didn't get on the
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: bus to DC, but she's gonna.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Just going to South America. Yeah, I don't so, I
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: just have a lot of questions. I just feel like, ma'am,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: you're realizing how bad your first marriage was. You're seeing
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: actively a marriage fall apart between your son and your
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: daughter in law. Maybe have one more conversation before you
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: fly to South America with.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Have we have we learned nothing, Nancy. I guess my
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: other hope is that we brought in such a big
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: name for Clayton, going back to the Clayton of it all,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: that my hope there would be that that wasn't just
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: a one season wonder. Although we did bring Ran and
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Fish in for what I'm going to assume is a
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: single episode. I mean, he deletes her from his phone
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: at the end, which is great, Like, I love that's
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: so fun. Bring her in for one stunt cast that,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: get her to promote it, Bring in these familiar homework faces,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: get people to watch this freaking show. All right, let's talk.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Did you see that, Tiviny? Did you see that? Moments?
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: So mine was the sophisticut just when everyone starts parading
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: in in their outfits, Like Amanda walks in and just
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: like a cute little sun dress and I was like great.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: And then Shauna walks in and I was like, Okay,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: different vibe, and everyone just has these like wild ensembles
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: on and.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I was like a seven different parties.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just like, what's happening here?
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Uh huh?
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: And I'm fully like, I think like my dream bachelorette
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: would be to like write an airbb on the ocean
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and basically not leave that house for kiddy. Same but
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I would like want to have a nice dinner with
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: my friends, but I don't. I don't have the control
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: to do like a seven course wine pairy. It would
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: just be like we're gonna have to sit down meal
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and there will be wine. Like So that's like when
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you said earlier hot that was hard for me, like
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: that where I was like, I know that she had
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: control feet, but like this hasn't been an area of
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: her expertise that we've seen, sure, and so it's weird
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: that it's coming out now in such a way of
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: like we have to eat these you know, these meals
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: in this order with this wine. No one's taking it seriously.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just feel like you could have
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: done I don't know, the sisters could have talked prior
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to the bachelorette and just been like, Hey, we're gonna
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: do the sit down meal. We're gonna you know, eat
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: diner together, drink some wine, and then we're hitting the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: town for Snannians. Like you could have easily done Bold
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: without having this big blow up moment in the middle
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: where she thinks everyone's making fun of her. But yeah,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: that it was just like a why it was when
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: they all started walking in, I was just like, what
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: are we doing? What are we?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I totally agree. My only real digit see that
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: moment is when may is in bed, like going to
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: sleep at the end of the night, like she's still
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: full face of makeup. Amanda could have at very least
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: gotten a makeup why but even the bold lip it's
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: still going strong.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I just like, take your makeup brings to your sister,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: but you can be in control and just get.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: A get a make up erase or wash clove. My goodness,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: she's getting married. She cannot go to bed with her
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: makeup on. So we do a segment in these episodes
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: called fresh Eyes. Maybe not apply to you because you've
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: seen all of it, but are there any questions after
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: watching this episode or moments you feel like you missed
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: or need more clarity on in this series.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, I've watched the show yea within the last
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: like two three weeks, so I'm semi new to it.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you probably know more than I do, honestly, have
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: you seen it more recently?
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: One of the things I'm wondering about is like, is
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: frank Junior getting a redemption arc because we don't need it.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: The show doesn't need a homework. We don't need to
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: wrap every storyline up with about like sometimes people can
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: just be not good people.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Life is messy. Let's shooe.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he can just once we get that train arm fixed,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: he can hop a trade and just get out of Barnet.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: And then I guess, like I never really listened to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and because I haven't watched the show until recently, I
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: haven't listened to your recaps or the Deck the Hallmark
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: recaps closely. But Frankie and I can't fit Lindsay, Yes,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: when is like getting Dudley out of here?
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you so much. You talked about that so
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: much in season one, and I bring it up in
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: every episode because it's been really a mix, like some
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: of our co hosts have only watched like their episode
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: that they're doing, and I'm like, what do you think
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: about Frankie and Lindsay And they're like, what are you
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: talking about? They're great, Yeah, I'm team Brincky and Lindsay.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: I think it was in season one we were like,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: are they trying to tell us something? And then I
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: felt like season finale. Season one was very clear what
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: they were doing and the whole Dudley of it all.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: His name's Dudley and they call him dud That's not
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: an accident, my honestly. One of my biggest concerns about
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: this season is we're building towards the wedding that's got
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: to be the season finale, and there are so many
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: storylines that need wrapping up, Like are we going to
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: see Lindsey and Frankie finally realizing their feelings for each other?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Are we going to see Amanda Sergio finally getting together?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Is Jake Foy finally going to return? Like all of
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: these moments? What's gonna happen with Clayton. I'm a little
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: worried about episode eight.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Yeah, we only only have four
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: episodes left, and I feel like I need some clothes. Yeahye,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I need at least in the bite of finale, for
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Frankie and Lindsay to realize there's something here, yes goode,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: because their chemistry is off the charts and I need
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: them to realize, like, hey, yet, just recognize what's happening
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: here because we all see it and I need it that.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Was my big wish last week was that Hallmark didn't
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: make me believe that Frankie actually enjoyed that kiss with Dudley.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I was like, I would have played that so differently
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: because she walks away from it and she was like, oh,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: that was nice. I wanted her to be like disappointed
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: and be like, oh, and that's not how they played.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: That could have been a great moment of realization for her,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: but nobody asked me, no, why not? I mean, seriously,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: who's your feathered friend of the week, the MVP of
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: this episode?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: For you? For me? This week, it is Leah Thompson Nancy.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And every episode I feel like we get a little
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: bit more of her realizing just how closeted she's been
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: and just how much she wasn't noticing about the men
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: in her life. And so I just feel like she's
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: hopefully on like a precipice of understanding how valuable and
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: strong and important she is on her own. You know
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: that she has, like she plays a vital role in
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Amanda's life and Gus's life, and I'm hoping she gets
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: those three hundred signatures and it's this moment for her
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: where she was like, I did this like I can
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: do something, you know, I'm It wasn't like a full
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: MVP moment, but there was like a spark in her
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: in this episode. I was like, we're gonna get We're
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: gonna get this moment where she's like, I am enough
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: on my own, I could do it me. Yes, Like
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I've been hoping that that's along with everything else I'm
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: looking forward to. I need this moment from Nancy where
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: she's like, oh, like, women can do these hard things too.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: One of my favorite scenes from this whole season has
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: been when she goes to Frank and she's like, I'm
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: sorry for the role I played, but you owe me
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: an apology too. Is standing up for herself. I loved
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: that because that is her weakest link right there, is
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: her relationship yes per Son. So that being said, don't
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: get mad. My feathered friend of the week is not
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: somebody that I like, but someone that I think is
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: playing an important role in this episode, and it's Frank Junior.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: So I think this episode is a little bit stuck
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: in time for me. It lacks forward motion. There's important elements,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: but I do think that Frank Junior is driving the
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: conflict forward in a really important way. When he pushes
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: for a revamped chicken recipe, he finds a way to
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: make it financial viable, the narrator reminding us he's still
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: using the proprietary seasoning recipe used by the Chicken sisters.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: You know, this is all happening in the background, but
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: it seems very clear that this is going to come
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: into the forefront. There's going to be some sort of
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: conflict there, and hopefully it's the conflict that leads to
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: the demise and exile of Frank Junior. Yes, one can
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: only dream. All apologies to that actor. I'm sure you're lovely,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: but Frank Junior is the worst.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Like in every time I feel like we have these
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: like there'll be like a glimpse. I'm like, oh, is
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: he going to be a human about this? And then
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: he just like pivots and you're like, Nope, no, he's not.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: He's he's just gonna double down on being awful.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Even in the littlest things like call me Frank, Like
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: he's distancing himself from his family, doesn't.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Want that to be sure. Also like him being his
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: dad now, like I'm no longer in the shadow, like
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I am in charge.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's who. All right, Well, those are our thoughts
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: on season two, episode four of The Chicken Sisters. Any
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: final thoughts, Aaron Hallmark.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: There's still time to listen to these episodes. And if
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: you don't have the next four episodes laid out in
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the way we need them to, there is still time.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I know your type friend around schedule, there's still time
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: for you to wrap up some of these storylines for us.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: My final thoughts, some final edits. Yeah, there's like four
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: weeks until the finale, so you've got time to rewrite
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: that if you need to.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Totally well, I don't think I need to ask. You
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: are going to continue watching this series? Yeah, AINI issues, Yeah,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I'm going to continue watching. Well, thank you so much
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: for being here, Thank you for having me after this episode.
• 28:48
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