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#186 – Did Daddy Day Care age well? (w/ Jackie Pecquex) · Did That Age Well?

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Oh my gosh, today listener, you are in for a treat.
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You're in for a treat with our three peat returning guest, my
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good pal Jackie Peck. You welcome back.
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Hi. Everyone, I'm so glad to be
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here. So glad that you are here.
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How are you doing? I am doing.
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Good. Great.
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Solid like 7 out of 10. Oh, that's really good, yeah.
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Unemployed. Fun, employed.
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Thriving, doing a lot of yoga, being really annoying about.
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It Oh my God, it is so endearing.
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To me it is so annoying. Oh my God, it is so annoying.
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No, it is so endearing. I think it's gonna be a while
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before I get annoyed. Oh wow, thank you for that
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runway. Yeah, of course, but don't test
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me, OK? If you all wanna take a yoga
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class with Jackie, you're gonna have to.
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Haunt me, you're gonna have to haunt this bitch.
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Down you know what you can you can reach out to me at did that
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age well on Instagram, sign into the DMS and I will get you
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connected to Jackie for a donation based yoga class.
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Yes, donation based yoga. I'm trying to fund my training
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and trauma informed yoga so that I can teach yoga in prisons.
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Yes, and she's already got her 200 hour.
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Yes, cert. Big, big for huge, huge.
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And Jackie is she can't be exposed to the sun for that
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long. And she was exposed to the sun a
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lot outdoors in Mexico when she got her yoga teacher training.
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So I just like to say thank you. Yeah, you can't tell that I was
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exposed. To and you cannot tell because
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she is diligent. Yeah, that's the way I want it,
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people. Absolutely, but they also said
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that they thought you were what, like 24?
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Yeah, and I said that's the sunscreen.
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That's the sunscreen and that's on sunscreen.
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Today we're talking about Daddy daycare and listener, let me
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give you a little context. So we were first going to talk
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about a Christmas movie and then we were like, you know what we
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want to talk about Cheaper by the Dozen.
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That was the movie that came up in conversation at our friend's
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party. And someone was like, oh, has
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anyone seen Cheaper by the Dozen recently?
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Like, did that age well? And Jackie said, Oh my God,
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let's talk about that. And then upon further
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reflection, realized that she thought Cheaper by the Dozen was
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daddy daycare. And I said, you know what, let's
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do daddy daycare. OK, the covers look extremely
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similar. And the vibe is also very
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similar where it's kids running around going and the dad going,
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Oh my God. And they came out the same year,
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did you know that? No, I did not know that.
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So big year for dads and chaotic children, It's big year.
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Big year for like physical comedy and dads getting kicked
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in the nuts probably. Huge, huge for that.
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So tell me about your history with Daddy Daycare.
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I I don't know why, I was kind of Googling or Googling on
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Reddit. That's the worst statement.
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No, it's not, because we all know that when you're searching
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for something and you don't really want the AI results, you
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say blah blah blah Reddit. Yeah, and they have the forums
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tab now, which is really quite helpful.
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Like, they know. Anyway, I was on Reddit like
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looking at what people said about this movie and I was
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personally shocked to find that most people were like, yeah, you
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can skip it. I was shocked to see that, too.
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My expectations were so low for this movie because it had been,
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I mean, it's been years. I've seen it, and I was like,
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oh, it's gonna be not that good. You know what I was Spoiler,
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spoiler, sound the alarm. You might say it was.
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It was awesome. It was awesome.
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I loved it. I was obsessed with this movie
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in, I think high school. Really.
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Like, I don't know, I might have talked about this on a previous
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pod, but my friend and I would go to Walmart 'cause there was
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not that much to do in Sheboygan, WI.
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And you would go to Walmart and they had a $5 DVD bin.
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Oh, and you would be like a dollar DVD bin.
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Let's spend. Let me spend the money that I
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made working at the library on a new DVD.
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He said $20. That's four DVD's, yeah.
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Yeah yeah, amazing. So I think daddy daycare was
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probably one of those DVD's love that and it re watching it was
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such a joy to me. I was laughing out loud so much,
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remembering all the silly quotes and yeah, yeah.
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What is your experience with Daddy Daycare?
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So I remember seeing it when I was younger and thinking that it
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was cute and also thinking that it was stressful.
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I remember being like, Oh my gosh, these kids are everywhere.
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What are they going to do next? How old were you when you felt
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that it was stressful to have kids everywhere?
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You know what I can't remember? What year did this movie come
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out? I don't remember.
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OK, hold, hold please. I got to look it up because
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mommy didn't do her homework. My guess is like, I think it was
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1999. No, really, no, maybe like 2003.
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I don't know. Wait, but do you wanna?
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Do you wanna place your place? Your bed. 2002.
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OK daddy daycare was 2003. I had it so close anyway.
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So you were. Well, you don't need to reveal
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your age. I know you're your.
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Lady and lady never reveals her age.
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No, I was in 3rd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade in 2003.
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Ouchy, ouchy mommy. So you as a third grader thought
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that kids being chaotic was stressful?
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Of course. OK, this gives me a lot of just
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another layer to the Molly Smith onion.
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Absolutely. And we're peeling, always.
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Yeah, I think I only thought it was stressful now as an adult.
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Oh yeah, well, I also found it. I found it kind of stressful as
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an adult, but they balanced it so often with the kids sitting
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quietly and doing stuff. Like they were so easily
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distracted by things like, you know, a puppet show.
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And whenever Steve's on, the guy who smells the mail, love him.
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Love him. The casting in this film is what
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made it if. OK, here's the thing.
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If Eddie Murphy was not the star of this movie, this would be not
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a very good movie, may I say a bad movie?
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Yeah. But because of Eddie Murphy,
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this movie to me, soared. Yeah, yeah.
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And people on Reddit were saying he really phoned it in.
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They were like a couple times. You could see he was, you know,
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being the Eddie Murphy we all know and love, of course.
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But. I don't know, I said.
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I thought he did a great job. Even if he phoned it in, he did
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a great job. Yeah, his baseline of phoning it
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in is way better than any of you.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Suck it, Reddit Redditors.
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Yeah, suck it, Reddit Redditors. This movie was directed by Steve
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Carr of Paul Blart Mall cop fame.
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That makes so much sense, right? I'd love that movie too.
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He. Also did the he said he did next
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Friday, which is the Friday sequel.
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Doctor Dolittle 2 I don't even know what Friday.
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Is it's a, it's a movie, the ice cube.
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It's kind of it's where the line by Felicia comes from.
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OK. Doctor Dolittle 2 rebound Are we
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done yet? Which I I assume is the sequel
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to Are We there Yet? Couple other you know, straight
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to straight to streaming or straight to DVD movies.
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Oh, there was a Freaky Friday TV movie in 2818 and he did that
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anyway, so that. Is big sequel guy.
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Big sequel guy and he wrote and directed this film.
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Of course we have Jeff Garlin as Phil, the other Veggio, the
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other daddy of Daddy Daycare I. Do want to acknowledge with Jeff
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Garlin, like I think this movie was firmly in the hot wife
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schlubby dad era of media. Absolutely.
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And I saw that and I was like, Oh yeah.
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Like I kind of forgot about. Yeah, forgot about these
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schlubby dads. It was a little.
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You know, one thing that I was bummed about on rewatch was
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like, the fat guy falls. Yeah, You know, when he, for
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instance, in the last scene, we're all excited.
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Daddy daycare is a real place and all of the parents are with
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the kids and they're having fun. And then and then he falls off
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of the playset and crushes his enemy with his body.
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So things like that. And like, he's always like, he's
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always eating kind of sloppy, right?
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Just like, you know, the big guy tropes.
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It's not his fault, certainly. But kind of similar to our
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feedback on School of Rock. Like, yeah.
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The fat jokes. Sorry, yeah, they don't age
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well. Sorry.
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Then people are like, oh, but it's physical comedy.
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It's like, well. Yeah, but there was other
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physical comedy, like him getting kicked in the nuts, him
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getting kicked by the kid on the swing set that like was not
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related to his weight. Yeah, totally.
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They kicked multiple men in the in the nuts.
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No, I think it was all him. It was all.
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Phil really? I thought they kicked.
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I thought that they kicked Charlie in the nuts, too.
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Charlie. Eddie Murphy's character.
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But you know what? It's all kind of a blur.
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It's all a blur. Regina King as Kim, Charlie's
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wife. She was good.
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She seems like AI believed her as like a capable person,
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capable parent, capable worker. She was a lawyer.
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She was going back to work and I thought that I believe that.
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Yeah, I, I don't know, maybe this is a me problem, but it
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probably is. I felt like it was a little
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unbelievable that she just like, let Charlie do all this stuff.
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She was just like, Are you sure? OK, I believe you.
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Like you can do it. Her, I mean, look, their house
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was a disaster. I thought that she was going to
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get more frustrated that they were breaking stuff.
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They were. It was always a.
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Mess the night that she came home after the first day and she
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sees her house is destroyed and she's like, she's just wrong.
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Day at the office, she rolls her eyes.
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She goes upstairs. Her husband and kid are like
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snuggling in bed with a single spotlight shining down from the
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heavens. And she's like, oh, all is
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forgiven. And I was like, I don't know,
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maybe I just hold more grudges than that.
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I think that also like we care about respecting our space,
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perhaps more. I think perhaps, perhaps if we
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had children we would love our houses less.
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We know what real love is. That's why I got my fucking
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tubes. Tied, absolutely.
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Because you know what? I'm not going to have a house
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with pee and poo all over. Oh thank God, when that kid was
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like, I missed and they go into the bathroom.
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Thank you. Thank you to Steve Carr for not
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showing us what that bathroom looked like.
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It was really a great creative choice too, because then the
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viewer gets to imagine what the shit covering the ceiling.
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And that's the scariest thing when you don't see the monster.
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It's just scariest, you know? And Eddie, it gave Eddie
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Murphy's reaction a chance to really shine.
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Oh my God. Because we got to read it
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through his perspective and I thought that was.
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Genius. Yeah, it was genius, Yeah.
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So thank you for not making us look at pee pee and poo poo.
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Something funny that I read online.
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The tagline for this movie was D-Day is Coming Like Daddy.
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Day. Yeah, but it's like a play on.
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Yeah, of course. I just it doesn't really feel
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like it fits. No, I don't think so.
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I think that that sometimes, you know, when a studio, the
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marketing department, they they see a short brief like what is
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this movie about? And so Dad, some and some
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copywriter said D-Day is coming and that's on bad copywriting.
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Yeah. Oh my God, You want to know
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something so exciting? OK, you know the the Instagram
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person who's like scram. No and no, sorry.
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You did OK. Well anyway, that person now
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follows the pod. Thank you so much.
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Thank you SCRAM person. And everyone else can go scram.
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OK, so yeah, generally unfavorable reviews of Daddy
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Daycare, but it was a box office success.
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How does that work? Well, it means that critically,
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like movie critics were like this was a flop.
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Oh, OK. Like this is not a good capital
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G movie where but people still went and saw it when it came out
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a lot of people bought tickets to see it.
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Right. Regardless of the reviews.
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So maybe they had really good marketing too.
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I imagine that they did. Yeah.
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I mean, with a line with a tagline like D-Day is coming,
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how could you? Not can't miss.
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Daddy Day Camp, the sequel which was released in 2007, had a 1%
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on Rotten Tomatoes. An.
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Absolute disaster. I can't believe.
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Well, I I haven't seen it. Have you?
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Well, no, I did hear that they didn't have any of the original
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actors. That's.
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True, they did not. Have any kind of lose the magic,
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you know? Yeah, exactly.
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Like we're saying, if Eddie Murphy wasn't in this, what?
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What is it? Yeah, some kids gel fanning
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which love that. That was kind of weird.
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I was like, is that her? It is her.
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But yeah, it's just there's some guy that isn't Jeff Garland
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getting kicked in the nuts, probably.
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Yeah. And who who wants to see that?
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No. OK.
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So as we said, we get introduced to Steve Zahn smelling the mail.
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We get introduced to Charlie and Phil.
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They're working. They work for this company that
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manufacturers and markets food. They're they're working for big.
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Food big. Big Food, big.
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Cereal. Yeah, maybe big cereal
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specifically, but they they're trying to sell Veggio's and it
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turns out that having a life-size broccoli and a
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life-size carrot is not what's going to sell it to these kids.
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And that's tough because they lose their jobs.
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Yeah. And that, I mean, that focus
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group scene was really upsetting.
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I just was like, I have never, I mean, I worked at a summer camp.
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I've never known kids to act like that.
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No, no kids that I know being so upset over cereal, right?
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Throwing the bowl at the two one way, two way mirror, whatever
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you call it, the two way mirror two way.
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Yeah, Speaking of two way, what? What is a two way I?
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Eddie Murphy's character says. I've got my beeper, I've got my
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cell, I've got my two way I. What is that?
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No idea. Gen.
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X did reach out to me. Are you just?
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Asking me that 'cause I'm older than you.
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No, I'm asking you because I thought maybe you would just
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have more knowledge than me. No, it did kind of look like a a
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texting machine. Yeah, would be my guess of what
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it is. But now I feel like the
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internet's gonna come after me with pitchforks like everyone
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aged 40 plus. Everyone is so mad at you.
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Thank God I'm not on there. Thank God.
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Thank God she's you can't find her.
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Yeah, and don't, don't contact Molly about my yoga classes,
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please. Please.
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OK and also I was confused is 6 weeks supposed to be a long time
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to find a job? Because remember, it's like he
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loses his job and then it's like 6 weeks later and he's like on
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the verge of bankruptcy and yeah, that he's like, Oh my God,
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it's been so long since I've had a job.
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I was like, is that supposed to be a long time?
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How so you're supposed to have like a three month reserve for
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your emergency fund, right? Allegedly, Yeah.
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Yeah. So unfortunately, I mean, I do
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think they might have had too much house.
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I agree. They had way too much house for
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just three people. Yeah.
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And they were a single income household before that because.
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Because she was just going back to work.
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Was just going back to work. Yeah.
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She had finished law school. That's right.
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So. Wow.
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Yeah. And where did they live?
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Do we know? Some suburb of some place, Yeah,
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I don't think they ever specified.
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This I mean also the idea that it wasn't just like a regular
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daycare making families go bankrupt like it was this
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massive prep school Academy preschool is also feels very
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dated. Yeah, the idea that, like,
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childcare is only expensive if you go to the expensive place,
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right. And while this expensive place
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did have a monopoly on the town, that's true.
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Yeah, it was a little 2000. What?
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What did this, what did we say 2003 little 2003?
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Well, actually I have no idea what childcare costs in 2003.
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Me neither, but I feel like people weren't talking about it
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but maybe because I was a child? They weren't talking to you
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about, they weren't saying Jackie, you're really draining
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the account with your childcare. I went to public school so.
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Yeah, sorry, I don't know about that.
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Yeah, yeah. Wait, you didn't?
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You went to private school? No, I went to public.
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School. OK, Yeah, God.
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My God, turned out normal, right?
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So, but I did go to, I went to like a Montessori school for
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preschool. Did you go to preschool?
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I don't remember. I was very young.
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She was very young. OK, I don't think so.
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Actually, I don't think I did. Really.
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Yeah. Oh OK, I think my brother just
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did and I don't know why that is but maybe I should inquire with
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my parents. Inquire, let us know.
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Yeah. OK, so then we get introduced to
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Angelica Houston, the headmistress of the Academy, and
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she is always holding that pointer.
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She's like got a pointer, a very cunty little pointer.
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And her little outfits she was. So cool yeah, I this is the
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theme with like movies when we were kids is the people we were
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supposed to hate as kids we actually love as adults.
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Oh my God. Like Meredith from You know What
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I'm Talking About. No, the gecko on her face.
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Oh, from the Parent Trap. Thank you.
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Parent Trap. Yes, love her.
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Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
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When she's like these kids, you know, 'cause I'm sort of like,
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yeah, you got it. Right, I can relate now.
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I can't, I get it. I understand why you would want
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kids to learn 5 different languages and shut the fuck up.
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It's very much giving. Kids should be neither seen nor
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heard. Yes, exactly.
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It was very spooky, but they did look so cute in those little
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uniforms. I know they were so.
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Tiny, I know. Let's talk about the kids and
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how cute they are. Ben.
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Oh my God. Literally the entire opening
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scene I was just like, I can't get over how adorable this
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child. Is was so cute and I love, I
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love when they treat in movies children like little adults.
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He's getting up, he's brushing his teeth, he's going to work,
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he's got a busy day. He's putting his SpongeBob
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slippers on. Oh my.
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God, it was adorable. I loved it.
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Yeah, I absolutely loved that kid.
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So. So there's like, basically it
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comes time that Regina King, she's got to go back to work.
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And they're like, well, we got to find, we got to find a
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daycare because this place is way too expensive.
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Not. In the budget.
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Not in the budget. So they go and they look at a
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couple of different places. This part kind of bummed me out.
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And they were like, Oh my God, it's a trailer park.
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As if people at trailer park don't know how to take care of
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kids. Right, another not so great
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trope with it. Cigarette in the mouth, like
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holding the baby, Yeah. Didn't love that.
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And then what were the other ones?
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The kind of trapdoor. The Trapdoor daycare, they said
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this is where the kids go and they opened up a.
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Trapdoor a cellar. Yeah.
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So obviously we don't want the kids to go there.
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No. So they're kind of at a loss.
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Like that was also very weapons. Oh my gosh, I wish that we were
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up and running around right now so we can go like that.
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Oh, man, that is my favorite way.
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My favorite method of transportation is weapons, arms.
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People say bike walk or run or or bus or car, and I say
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weapons, arms, jog. Weapons, arms, jog.
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Yeah. So anyways, so yeah, that was
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giving weapons. We certainly don't want that,
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No. And then somebody says, if
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someone opened a daycare around here, they'd make a killing.
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A light bulb goes off Ding. And so they're like, OK, well,
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we're dads. And so this is daddy daycare.
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And they're they're, you know, kind of doing some field
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marketing. They're they're setting up
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guerrilla marketing. Absolutely guerrilla marketing
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like crazy. They've got lemonade stand,
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basically marketing what they've got, and there are these women
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that come up and they say there were guys, these are men.
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And she made. Children, yeah, they said it's
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kind of creepy and that was crazy.
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But I will say there was there was a dad who didn't know if his
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kid was potty trained. Was that Phil or was that, which
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one was that? I don't remember.
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Somebody, some dad, some parent didn't know if their kid was
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potty trained and I said. Oh, I think he was just like a
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walk on, kind of like. Oh yeah.
23:18
They were like, is he potty trained?
23:19
And he was like, I don't know. It's not my job.
23:21
And then later we find out Phil does not change diapers and that
23:25
jail, jail, maximum security, federal prison, no opportunity
23:30
for parole. Absolutely not.
23:32
I it is they based a whole movie on the idea that like men could
23:39
care for children, right? Like.
23:41
Isn't that crazy? It's.
23:44
Just of the times I guess. I guess I mean still like if you
23:48
look at like child care employees.
23:53
Oh yeah. Overwhelmingly underpaid women.
23:57
Criminally underpaid women. We meet Al Fanning.
24:02
We meet all the kids, they burp bubbles.
24:04
We find out Phil can't change a diaper.
24:08
There's a kid who, oh, I think it's Phil's kid that's like I
24:12
missed. I missed.
24:14
And again, I'm glad that they didn't show us the poop.
24:17
They are approached by CPS, called upon by Angelica
24:23
Houston's character to kind of just check out, make sure that
24:27
they're compliant. They make those changes
24:29
overnight. And they they really got up off
24:33
their asses and worked. And they accepted.
24:36
Mr. Cubits accepted the string of.
24:40
What is that called where you like cut it out and oh the
24:43
string of children? Holding it, the holding hands,
24:46
children cutouts. Yeah, yeah.
24:49
He was like. No problem.
24:50
I said sign. Sign on her head here.
24:52
In the back of her elbow here. Totally.
24:54
Yeah. He really was trying to work
24:56
with them. I thought he was an ally.
24:57
Yeah. And he's like, look, you got
25:00
more kids now you got to hire a third person.
25:02
So they hire Steve Zahn, who smells.
25:04
The male loved him, loved him. I loved Steve Zahn doing
25:09
anything. What else is he in?
25:12
He is. Most recently he was in White
25:14
Lotus. That's right.
25:16
My favorite performance of his is in That Thing You Do where he
25:20
plays band member in a 1960s kind of pop band directed by Tom
25:26
Hanks. But yeah, he's in a lot of
25:29
stuff. Everything he's in is great,
25:31
great. And he's kind of a weirdo, but
25:35
he's a really sweet weirdo and he's really good with kids.
25:40
And he knows that because he watches Star Trek and read a
25:43
book. I.
25:45
Love that the Parenting the Doctor Spock parenting guide,
25:49
which he says surprisingly not about Star Trek.
25:55
Yeah. And, and he, he knows how to do
25:57
it all. You have those kids like.
25:58
Read. Hypnotized.
26:01
That's the word I'm looking for. Hypnotized.
26:02
They really hypnotized. Be a chicken.
26:04
Yeah, that is so true. Really impressive.
26:07
Have you ever seen a person get hypnotized before?
26:10
Or have you? Done it.
26:11
No. OK, when I was in college at
26:13
orientation weekend and I guess they they did this like every
26:16
year, they would bring in this hypnotist who would get people
26:21
on stage and like make them do embarrassing shit.
26:24
What? Yeah, the first week went to
26:26
college, like, I don't know, like, Oh my God.
26:28
That's like career defining. I know.
26:31
And I was like, I don't think I believe it.
26:34
I think people are just. Like they were plants I.
26:36
Think they were plants? Did you ever see those students
26:38
again? Never seen them in the same room
26:40
as No I did see them again I think.
26:43
I think can't remember. Yeah, that sucks.
26:47
I don't really like that. I know, tough.
26:49
Yeah. Being a freshman in college is
26:51
tough enough already, you know. OK, so so they start getting
26:59
kids from the prep school Academy, bringing them over to
27:04
daddy daycare where they have fun.
27:07
They start getting their act together and they and they have
27:11
fun with the kids. I would say thanks to Steve
27:14
Zahn. If he wasn't there, they'd be.
27:17
It would just be as chaotic as it was on day one.
27:20
Well, day one, they they fed the kids their meal was like Ding
27:25
Dongs and yeah, freaking, I don't know, every Hostess under
27:28
the sun. Yeah, and there was that girl
27:32
that is allergic to every type of sugar.
27:34
Yeah, that was, I was like, hope she has an EpiPen.
27:38
I now that I'm an EpiPen girl, I never wanted to be, but I'm
27:42
like, that girl would be not doing well.
27:45
Yeah. So thank God.
27:48
Steve zon zon Zod zon Steve Zod. So thank God for him because
27:56
he's the only one who could probably keep track of students,
27:58
allergies students, You know, I guess they were learning.
28:05
There's a scene where they provoke the bees.
28:10
Remember that? I didn't think that was
28:12
necessary. There were some gags that I was
28:15
like, we're spending more time away from Eddie Murphy and his
28:20
silly faces and his funny lines. Right.
28:23
Well, that I think the bees were during the cheap trick supercut,
28:26
right? That's right, and Cheap Trick
28:29
was the band playing at Yeah, the fundraiser as themselves.
28:34
Do you think when they approached Cheap Trick and we're
28:37
like, we want to use your song in this movie, they were like,
28:39
only if we're in it too. I think that they were like only
28:42
if there are bees, only if. There are bees.
28:46
And you know what? Bees so endangered we should not
28:49
be. It's true.
28:50
Killing the bees. That's a really good point.
28:52
They're. Not our enemies.
28:54
So that's what I it's very. Robin Wall, camera of you.
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OK, Cargo shorts, No. Let's talk about it.
29:36
Let's talk about cargo shorts. They do not look good on
29:39
anybody. Eddie Murphy is a very handsome
29:41
man and he's got, you know, nice legs.
29:45
Probably you couldn't tell in his stupid cargo shorts A go all
29:51
the way back like the knee. Like yeah, I think cargo shorts
29:54
should only be, I think really all men's shorts should only be
29:58
what, like 5 inch inseam? Is that the reasonable?
30:01
I would say that's. Pretty inseam, Yeah, I would say
30:03
that's reasonable. I need to see if you have like
30:06
the weird thigh quad muscle. Oh, yeah.
30:09
You know, I want to see. I want to see it.
30:12
Whether you have it or not, I'd like to see.
30:14
Prove to me that you have thighs is kind of how I feel.
30:17
Totally. It's like, I don't really care
30:18
what those sides look like. I just want to know that they're
30:21
there. And look, if you don't have legs
30:24
at all, I'm so sorry. This this doesn't apply.
30:26
Yeah, sorry. But for those of us who do have
30:30
legs, especially, especially guys, yeah, shorten them up a
30:36
little bit. Short shorts.
30:37
Short shorts. No cargo shorts anymore?
30:40
Please no. Like what could you possibly be
30:42
carrying? Truly like I don't why would?
30:45
Your mistresses. Probably.
30:49
Probably dirty tissues. Yeah, They're reusing the same
30:57
tissues. You know what I mean?
30:59
Like when they're just like they're, they use a tissue, it's
31:03
dirty, they put it in their pocket and later they take it
31:06
out crusty. Well I think it depends if it
31:08
was like 1 fold. Oh, well, you know, of course,
31:11
of course. It's already like this and I.
31:13
Understand, you know, handkerchief kind of a different
31:15
situation, but. Yeah, I want to get behind
31:19
handkerchiefs, but I just. It's hard.
31:21
I know it is hard, right? Anyway, anyway.
31:24
That's not what we're here to talk about.
31:27
It's not what the listeners demanded to hear from us the way
31:30
that they demanded to hear our thoughts on daddy daycare.
31:33
So true. OK.
31:36
Do you Did you recognize the the little minion?
31:40
Oh, yeah. Headmistress Gretchen Wieners.
31:43
Wieners. Yum.
31:44
Very. Odd hair that she.
31:46
Had there. Very odd.
31:48
This was the hair straight. Well, so was Mean Girls was hair
31:51
straightening era. It was, yeah.
31:53
But she didn't. But she had curly hair in that
31:55
one. Well, I think it's because they
31:57
needed her hair to be big, because it's full of secrets,
32:00
you know what I mean? That's why her hair's so big.
32:03
It's. Full of secrets.
32:04
That's. That was Gretchen Weiner's hair
32:05
was full of secrets. Yeah.
32:06
Oh, OK. I couldn't remember who's
32:08
contained the secrets. Yeah.
32:10
But yeah, you're probably right. Yeah, that's probably, probably
32:13
they did it for just that line. Couldn't believe she was in
32:16
this. I like to believe that this is
32:18
the same cinematic universe and that that character's dad
32:21
invented Toaster Strudel and that's how she got that job.
32:24
She's a Nebo baby in the bougie preschool world because of her
32:28
toaster strudel dad. Totally.
32:30
Oh you know what? I bet her Toaster Strudel dad
32:32
worked at that same company. Oh my God, what if her dad was
32:37
that guy? Molly, you were blowing this
32:40
thing wide open. Oh my God I think this is
32:43
plausible. I I I didn't see any of this on
32:45
Reddit so. Wow, OK, well we need to sign on
32:49
to Reddit. Yeah, we're going to need to
32:50
make some. Posts Please upvote our post on
32:55
Daddy Daycare subreddit. Which subreddit did you see the
32:59
commentary about Daddy Daycare? Do you remember?
33:01
I don't remember. That's OK.
33:02
Like rewatching movies I think was 1.
33:05
Oh. If or something like that OK,
33:07
which I was like, hey, you can't steal Molly's podcast, but
33:11
below. Did that age well if anyone says
33:15
those words in succession and they're not talking about
33:19
podcast? We're very litigious around the
33:23
the did that age well pod. Absolutely.
33:27
OK, Yeah. Gretchen Wieners, Toaster
33:29
Strudel. I thought it was funny that the
33:33
bees kind of came back at the end of the movie.
33:36
You know, there were the bees in the backyard and then there were
33:39
the bees again with the headmistress.
33:41
They sort of found her when she had a flower.
33:45
In her pocket. That's right.
33:47
But again I say, what do the bees do?
33:50
It didn't feel like it added much.
33:51
Like I I was watching that scene just being like, OK, it's kind
33:54
of a weird way to end the movie. They could have ended it with
33:56
him giving her the flower. Yeah, 'cause it was like, these
33:59
kids are sweet. Yeah, and she is now directing
34:03
traffic in her. Yeah, Louboutins.
34:05
And like, that's bad enough, you know what I mean?
34:07
Like that's punishment enough that she would have to direct
34:10
traffic in her Louboutins. Yeah, I think it could be a kind
34:13
of a cool job, actually. Really.
34:15
Yeah. Do you remember?
34:16
OK, Did you ever watch Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt?
34:19
Yeah. I love when she takes the career
34:21
test and they say that she should be a crossing guard.
34:26
Iconic. Iconic.
34:28
She does have the temperament for it though.
34:31
Big time, Big time. I love God.
34:34
I loved everything about her. I mean, she was so evil yet.
34:40
Wait, Kimmy Schmidt. No, no.
34:42
I meant Kimmy at the temperament for crossing guard.
34:44
Oh, I thought that you meant Angelica.
34:46
I thought you meant Angelica Houston because she's kind of a
34:49
tough broad. Oh no.
34:51
But you think it's more important to be friendly as a
34:53
crossing guard? Kind of more cheery.
34:56
Yeah, firm but fair. Oh, OK.
34:57
Yeah, yeah, OK. I like that she's a manager.
35:00
Or she was. Like me, you.
35:02
Oh yeah. Yeah, it was.
35:04
It was. Do you think that maybe you'll
35:07
start a daddy daycare? I watching this movie, I was
35:12
like, oh, I do kind of miss working at a summer camp.
35:15
Yeah, like, that was that was quite fun.
35:17
Yeah. And I would be lying if I said I
35:20
hadn't looked into opportunities to be a summer camp counselor
35:25
again. Totally.
35:26
I think it's not because I enjoy working with kids so much, but
35:30
that I get to kind of be a kid. I think that it's just so fun to
35:33
be at camp. Yeah, it is so tragic that
35:35
summer camp isn't until the summer because that is a long
35:39
time from now. There's not winter camp, I don't
35:41
know, like winter break camp. Yeah.
35:42
Do kids go on winter break camp? I went to like when I was
35:45
younger. I went on like youth group
35:48
retreats in the winter. Yeah.
35:52
Maybe you should become religious.
35:57
We found God on this couch at dude.
35:58
IDK. Oh my God.
36:05
But love and light to all of you.
36:10
OK, what else? What else, What else?
36:12
What else? I think that like the main, the
36:17
main thing, I just want to circle back to the premise of
36:21
this movie as you know, Oh my God, it's so unbelievable that
36:27
dads would parent children. But I think the fact that they
36:34
they really framed it from my perspective as like, oh, these
36:38
people are flopping in the beginning or they're floundering
36:41
rather, because these men have never run a daycare before.
36:46
They're capable parents. They they sort of like criticize
36:50
each other being like, well, you're not even a good dad and
36:54
he's like, well, you don't even know how to change your kids
36:55
diaper like we're supposed to. I think that we are meant to
36:58
believe like these are good parents.
37:01
It's just hard to run a daycare. And it wasn't because they were
37:05
men. It was because it's just a hard
37:09
thing to do. And I didn't feel as though
37:13
they, I didn't feel as though like the punchline was, Oh my
37:17
God, it's so funny because they're grown men taking care of
37:21
kids. I don't know.
37:22
It's like the premise of of the story.
37:25
It kind of sets it up for, you know, a surprise.
37:29
But the fact that they succeeded too made me feel like, OK,
37:34
they're this movie isn't saying, Oh my God, they need a woman
37:39
with maternal instincts to come in here and whip them into
37:42
shape. They needed Steve Zahn.
37:44
Right. Because, I mean, I don't think
37:46
Angelica Houston really had maternal instincts.
37:48
No offense to her, no offense, amazing character, but quite
37:52
cold, quite cold. So yeah, I totally agree.
37:56
And I think it is like, it's not that you're a bad parent, but I
37:58
think a lot of parents say when you go from like the man to man
38:02
to zone defense, you just have more kids.
38:04
It's like, yeah, it's going to be harder to keep tabs on them.
38:07
Like, one kids probably going to be shitting on the ceiling and
38:10
one kids probably going to be eating a lot of maltodextrose
38:12
when she's not supposed to. Totally.
38:14
So yeah, yeah, I, yeah. Yeah, like it didn't.
38:19
It didn't bother me in the way that I thought it would bother
38:23
me. Like when I thought back to
38:25
daddy daycare, I was like, oh, God, this is just going to be
38:28
trope after trope of like, dads don't know how to do anything
38:32
and they shouldn't because they're just baby.
38:35
Like when someone, when a dad says I'm going to babysit my
38:38
kids and it's like, actually, no, that's not what this is.
38:41
It's parenting. Yeah.
38:43
Have you ever heard that before? Like someone who's a dad be
38:45
like. I haven't, but now that is like,
38:49
oh, I got a shiver when you said that.
38:50
Totally. I don't know that many parents.
38:56
Yeah, I guess, do I? You know yours.
39:00
Yeah, I do. Yeah, you know mine.
39:06
I do. I've never heard your dad say
39:08
he's going to babysit you. No, and I've never heard my dad
39:15
say that either. And you never 'cause he's a real
39:17
parent. 'Cause you're not a baby.
39:19
And also because I'm not a baby. Right.
39:22
How did we get here? Dads, they, I thought that this
39:26
was going to be a movie about how funny it is that dads don't
39:30
know how to parent. But it wasn't.
39:32
It wasn't a movie about how dads don't know how to parent or how
39:35
dads shouldn't parent because women are so much like, you
39:38
know, so much better. And they have weaponized
39:41
incompetence or whatever that is.
39:43
Instead, it was about them, you know, define expectations that
39:50
came from more close minded people who said that's creepy
39:55
that you're men running a daycare, etcetera.
39:58
They so they proved them wrong. They they proved that child care
40:03
is more than just letting kids run around and play.
40:07
I mean, play is important but like in the beginning they're
40:10
like how hard could it be? Well, it's more than letting
40:12
them run around and play, but it's also more than making them
40:15
learn 5 languages, right? Exactly.
40:17
And they, and they really show that, like when you pay
40:20
attention to what kids want and need and you bring Steve Zahn
40:26
around to do some stuff to deliver that they're going to
40:33
create an environment where these kids can thrive.
40:36
And it's like, ultimately it's about the kids being happy.
40:39
When you focus group your kids, yeah, you probably end up with a
40:43
pretty good business. I hope so do more focus groups.
40:46
Yeah, I think it was also, I mean, there's also elements of
40:50
like the class stuff, right, with the preppy school and just
40:58
like Dad's be Dad's. I think that was also kind of a
41:03
core message, like, totally when he realized, no, I don't
41:06
actually want to be at this crappy corporate job where we're
41:11
discussing how to sell cotton candy to children.
41:15
Yeah, as their first meal of the day.
41:17
And you know what? I am so grateful that they never
41:20
villainized Regina King's character for going back to
41:24
work. Yeah, that's true.
41:25
Like it would have been so easy for them to make the tension
41:30
between mom and dad about like, well, you went back to work and
41:34
left me with my kid or whatever, you know, like, I think it would
41:40
have been easy for them to like, put it on her to be like, well,
41:42
why doesn't she stay home? Yeah, but.
41:45
Instead, they didn't. That was that was very modern of
41:49
them. Very modern of them.
41:50
The absence of of bad behavior sometimes equals good when we're
41:57
talking about a movie from 2003. Can we talk about Mr. Kubitz?
42:02
Absolutely. OK, I'm dying to.
42:03
Talk about him. Let's talk about.
42:05
Him. Mr. Kubitz, the CPS guy or what?
42:08
Where was he with? Yeah, he says to that he's from.
42:11
CPS OK. Do you also think he was
42:15
Kirkland's signature? Stanley Tucci.
42:19
Oh wow. Kind of, right?
42:22
I think that he was perhaps, and this is no, this is this is no
42:28
knock on him, but really more of a reflection of how I feel about
42:31
Stanley Tucci. I feel like he was more of like
42:34
the maybe Kroger brand Stanley Tucci.
42:40
Wow. You know, not quite Kirkland,
42:42
but sort of more Kroger. I could see that.
42:44
And he's like, for the people, yeah, yeah.
42:47
But not of the people. Yeah, Yeah, I could see that.
42:52
I just love his puppet show. I mean, Oh my gosh.
42:56
That puppet show was so funny. Playing out his therapy for the
42:59
incredible 4 year olds. They're in puppet theatre and
43:03
then they they're enraptured. I think probably confused.
43:07
Fair. Sure, we're all confused in
43:10
those situations, Mr. Cupids. But when they kiss?
43:14
When the puppets kiss. Yeah, Oh my God, when the
43:17
puppets kiss. So cute.
43:19
I loved it. Yeah.
43:21
What else? What else do we need to talk
43:22
about with him? I just, I mean, I loved him.
43:25
He was probably one of my. Favorite characters?
43:26
He was so funny. He was so earnest.
43:28
Very earnest, very genuine, very like.
43:30
He's a good dude. You know it.
43:32
They didn't even villainize CPSI.
43:34
Know I thought that was great they could have made him another
43:37
villain they could have made him the take your kids away guy yeah
43:41
and instead he was like look, I'm just here with compliance
43:44
like I'm just trying I'm just trying to make sure that you
43:48
guys sign the right paperwork like I'm so sorry and he seemed
43:53
genuinely like he wanted to help them out you.
43:55
Good for the kids, I think. I think he really cared about
43:57
the kids too, when he spent a little bit of time with them,
44:00
when he was able to get their attention.
44:02
I think that's part of it is that there's like, you feel this
44:05
kind of like magic when you're able to keep these little brains
44:12
occupied, you know, like, because they can't pay attention
44:15
for more than like 3 seconds. And when you get them to pay
44:18
attention for 30 seconds or more, it's like, I'm
44:22
unstoppable, right? What can't I do, right?
44:24
And I think maybe he was kind of high on that.
44:26
I think you're probably right about that, which reminds me
44:29
that the comment Jeff Garland's character made about we need
44:34
Ritalin and leashes. Yeah, I just wrote that down
44:38
because I would like to incorporate that into my
44:40
day-to-day life. We need Ritalin unleashes.
44:45
For this so true. And let me tell you, there's a
44:50
lot of things right now in my life that I say we need some
44:52
Ritalin unleashes big time. We're gonna have to talk about
44:56
that later. First of all, your portraits and
45:01
artwork that you need to put up on your wall.
45:03
Let's talk about that, bring that up on the pod.
45:07
Making this everybody else's business now.
45:09
But by the time that this episode comes out, you'll have
45:12
your artwork up on your wall. Because you know what?
45:15
That's why she put me on the pod today.
45:17
It is. She's holding me hostage.
45:19
Ritalin and leashes, babe, that's what we need.
45:22
I moved into my condo just about one year ago.
45:25
You didn't have to tell them that.
45:26
You could have said I just moved in.
45:28
I could have lied. Feel like you're going to air my
45:32
dirty laundry. What else is there to TikTok
45:34
without me? I don't have any other dirty
45:36
laundry of yours to air because everything that you do is
45:39
squeaky clean. Thank you.
45:40
Well, I just haven't hung up my artwork, people.
45:43
She's got a lot of really. Good artwork, a lot of good art,
45:45
but they are laying against the wall on the floor.
45:49
She does have a really, really tall wall.
45:52
Like it's going to require a ladder.
45:54
Tall Wall? Powell Wall?
45:55
Isn't that Pall wall? Pow wow.
45:57
Pow wow. Anyway, yeah, it's gonna require
46:02
a ladder. It's gonna require, I mean, any,
46:06
what are they called when you put a lot of pictures on the
46:08
wall? Gallery wall.
46:09
Any gallery wall wall requires a lot of planning I think.
46:13
It does, and girl, you've been busy working a demanding.
46:17
Job. Wow.
46:18
Thank you. It's true and.
46:21
You're not just saying that 'cause I'm unemployed and.
46:25
Now I say I'm here to help. Thank you.
46:29
With Ritalin and leashes, right? It's going down.
46:34
It's. Going down.
46:37
But guess what? You're not on social media, so
46:39
no one's gonna come after you and bother you about this.
46:42
I am the only one who's going to bother you about this, and I
46:45
know that it's possible. I feel like a month from now or
46:48
when, I don't know, when this comes out tomorrow, tomorrow,
46:54
whatever. In the not so distant future,
46:57
you are going to hold up your phone to me and show me comments
47:02
after we've gone viral, of course.
47:03
Obviously. Yeah, comments of everyone
47:05
saying Jackie, hang up your damn art.
47:07
Yeah, and if you're listening to this, I'd love the engagement.
47:11
Just go ahead and comment on this episode, Jackie.
47:14
Hang up your damn art, and I will pass it along to her.
47:16
Yeah. Shane's a really powerful
47:17
motivator for me for. Sure, but by the time this comes
47:20
out it'll be irrelevant because you will have already hung up
47:23
your artwork. You're saying?
47:26
Yeah. How much money do you think that
47:29
Eddie Murphy's character made at his job?
47:31
Because again, they he said that they were going to double his
47:35
salary to come back girl. Yeah, right.
47:40
No. Yeah, In what world?
47:42
Because he said cotton candy cereal, which was a joke.
47:46
Offhanded. Can you imagine having an idea
47:49
that someone thought was so good that they doubled your salary?
47:54
I feel like we've had ideas that good and no one's touched our
47:57
salaries. Yeah, absolutely.
47:59
Frankly, most of the ideas we have.
48:02
Genius. I I presented an idea today.
48:05
Someone asked if we had ideas for something, and I presented
48:07
an idea that I swear to God, if I don't get credit for it, I'm
48:14
gonna. I want to hear about it off pod.
48:19
Obviously, but if if no one gives me credit for it, I'm
48:24
going to scream. You just want like, verbal
48:27
credit, like like night. Nice idea, Molly.
48:29
I want people when this idea takes off, I want them to say,
48:34
remember Molly Smith? This was her idea.
48:36
I want someone to post about it on LinkedIn and tag me say Molly
48:41
Smith. Thanks for the idea.
48:42
And not remember Molly Smith because she's dead, but remember
48:44
her because she now is the CEO of Apple.
48:48
Exactly. Oh, this is so relevant to what
48:52
I my idea was, and I can't say it.
48:55
Oh, my God. OK, this is so tough.
48:59
But anyway, yeah, that was crazy that they were going to double
49:02
his salary. And he said, you know what, no,
49:05
I don't want to spend time at this corporate.
49:08
Well, no, he said yes at first. He.
49:09
Said yes, he was like, I kind of have.
49:12
To yeah, honestly fair. And would I do the same?
49:15
Yeah, probably, yeah. Money talks.
49:17
And he talks and it seems like just a lot of work, that
49:22
daycare. I was kind of like, oh, if it
49:25
were me, I'd be so relieved to have an out.
49:28
Yeah. But then he gets into a meeting
49:32
corporate, he's in the boardroom, and he says, you know
49:34
what? No, I care more about my kid.
49:40
And that's odd. Yeah, he said.
49:44
I quit. I quit, my son is important.
49:47
Yeah, my adorable son. Now that kid is so insanely
49:54
cute. How did they find the cutest
49:57
kids, These little kids? How do you like?
50:00
How do you create? Was really cute too.
50:02
So cute. Every single kid, there was not
50:04
one kid that I was like, that kid's not that cute.
50:06
Yeah, they were all cute. And I just don't understand,
50:09
like, as a director, how you create an environment for kids
50:13
to make them deliver in that way.
50:16
Like, that is such AI will say, Steve Carr, if you're listening.
50:21
I don't know if it was you or if there was somebody else in
50:24
leadership on set that really, like, coach those kids up.
50:28
Yeah, because God Dang, they were so good.
50:33
So good and what I loved about this movie and what I miss about
50:38
movies, I think in general, is the blooper reels.
50:42
I was just about to say. I know, OK, because the kids are
50:45
not going to get it right every time.
50:46
No one gets it right every time. It was so cute, the blooper
50:49
where the kid was like, yeah, I want a peanut butter and Jelly
50:52
sandwich. And he was like, after we're
50:54
done with this scene. It was cute.
50:59
I God bring back they should. Have kept it in the movie
51:02
honestly. Honestly, so cute.
51:05
And you could tell like Eddie Murphy was, I don't think he was
51:08
phoning it in because even in the Bluebirds, you could tell
51:10
that he was in his scenes with this child.
51:13
He was showing up as a professional.
51:15
He was like, like the kid messed up a line and he was like,
51:18
what's my line again? And he was like, oh, no, no, it
51:21
was my fault. Like I said the wrong thing.
51:23
Like, you know, let me let me deliver the correct line.
51:25
And I was like, that's that's a professional right there.
51:29
Yeah. He's like, this is my scene
51:31
partner. This is not just a tiny little
51:33
human. This is my, this is a fellow
51:35
actor. This is.
51:36
And I have respect. For you, we're actually in SAG
51:39
together. Yeah, totally.
51:41
We'll be. We'll be this.
51:42
Is my colleague. Yeah, we're colleagues.
51:44
Yeah. Yeah.
51:47
I hope that those kids are all doing well.
51:49
Elle Fanning sure is. Did you look any?
51:50
Yeah, that's. True, I did look there are like
51:53
some of the the main kids like Flash and the poo poo pee pee
51:57
kid and the the, you know, main kid.
52:03
They went on to have careers and they like are still working and.
52:07
Like acting careers or oh OK. Yeah, one of them, though.
52:12
Really sad. Are you ready?
52:16
OK, so one of them was essayed by an older woman who's an actor
52:24
who she came and they like settled for like $350,000 or
52:30
something. And he was like really messed up
52:35
because of that. Obviously, who wouldn't be?
52:38
But she it's really fascinating because she was also a victim of
52:42
Harvey Weinstein. And so it's sort of like this
52:45
cycle of abuse, you know? But but some of the other women
52:51
who would come forward about Weinstein, like openly
52:56
criticized this woman because they were like, girl, you got to
53:03
do the right thing, right? Right.
53:04
You got to do the recycle, break the cycle, like make it right.
53:07
Don't, don't, don't deny that this happened anyway.
53:11
So like he did get his, he did get his check, but it's really
53:14
messed up. So kids in Hollywood, we got to
53:18
protect them. There's like, no, there's no
53:20
protection in a real meaningful way still for kids in Hollywood,
53:25
in my opinion. I know that people are going to
53:27
come at me and say, like, well, there's this law and this law.
53:29
But like, it's just, it's just like such a grueling, exploitive
53:36
environment. And we put so much blame on kids
53:40
themselves being like, well, you know, they were child actors and
53:43
now they're fucked up. And I just think that we should
53:48
all be like Eddie Murphy and treat them as colleagues.
53:50
Yeah, I agree. I agree.
53:52
If we're actors, which I'm not, but.
53:55
Yes, not one of the Reddit threads.
53:56
They were like, oh, I can't believe Elle Fanning.
53:59
You know, she was clearly acting since she was very young.
54:03
Yeah, totally seems to have had. I don't know.
54:06
Yeah, I mean she and her sister. Yeah, yeah.
54:09
Good for the fannings. Really good for them.
54:11
Proud of proud of those girls. Yeah, but what was I going to
54:16
say about the about the kid actors?
54:19
And what we, you know, what movies they were in maybe.
54:21
Oh yeah, yeah, nothing, nothing incredibly notable, but.
54:27
But one of them now is kind of like a he's got like a in
54:30
Instagram comedy series. He's like doing like sketch
54:34
comedy. Is it good?
54:36
Haven't watched it. Oh, I read about it on
54:38
wikipedia.com. OK, yeah, I kind of want to see
54:41
it. Yeah.
54:42
Which kid? I think it was the kid who I
54:47
think it was the poo poo pee pee kid.
54:48
Oh, good for poo poo pee pee kid.
54:51
Yeah, I think so too. Kid actors, yeah, the way that
55:01
we treat kid actors doesn't age well, but I think it was cool to
55:06
see that. I don't know, I just like, I
55:09
truly, I cannot wrap my mind around how they how you direct
55:13
children. No.
55:14
Who are like four and five years old.
55:16
Right. It'd be like trying to direct
55:19
those cockroaches that they put on the.
55:22
Exactly. Salad.
55:23
What do you call that? The salad.
55:25
The potato salad Potato. Salad.
55:26
Thank you. I almost said cabbage salad.
55:28
Don't know why. And that's perfectly fine
55:30
because it's like you weren't there now.
55:33
No, the cockroaches really kind of stole your attention away
55:36
from the food that they were on. Which call Back to yoga training
55:42
in Mexico. Did I tell you this?
55:45
I did. Yeah.
55:46
I did have a cockroach in my bed one night.
55:49
It was small, thank. God, thank God, but.
55:53
You know, it's like pulling my sheet over and I see.
55:58
Creepy, creepy, creepy, horrible and.
56:00
Then we had a gecko on the wall. Which was just.
56:02
Kind of cute. Like I think he was living in
56:04
the in the sconce. Cool.
56:05
Yeah. Oh my gosh.
56:06
Neighbor. Neighbor.
56:08
Roomy, roomy love that. Oh my gosh, I loved, loved,
56:13
loved, loved the Headmistress and Gretchen Wieners in their
56:16
country little outfits going to the fundraiser.
56:20
So they go to this fundraiser to try and create chaos, sabotage,
56:25
make make sure that those people don't make any money.
56:28
So they let all the animals out of the petting zoo.
56:32
They put cockroaches in the potato salad.
56:34
They turn on the sprinkler. They what else do they do?
56:38
They deflated the bouncy house. So dangerous.
56:42
Really dangerous, like they could have suffocated children.
56:45
Yeah. Hello.
56:48
You know, obviously she doesn't really care about kids.
56:50
Right. But you know what?
56:51
OK, You know, what's really frustrating is that like
56:55
anytime, anytime that you talk about like protecting kids,
56:59
especially when you're like, talking about like protecting
57:02
kids from like predators and stuff like that, it feels so Q
57:06
Anon to say, and I'm like, why did Q Anon get to have a
57:10
monopoly on like protecting kids from predators?
57:13
You know what I'm saying? It's like, can't we all just be
57:16
like, concerned? Right.
57:16
I thought that was just kind of something we were all into.
57:19
Like, I thought that that was something we all agreed on.
57:21
And now it's like, you sound like AQ an honor when you
57:24
express like, oh, well, what about the children?
57:27
You know? And it's like, OK, but you know,
57:31
but I mean it in the good way, not in the crazy way.
57:34
Right, right, right. And listener, viewer, I hope
57:37
that you know that. And I hope that you're not Q
57:39
Anon. And I hope that if you are Q
57:43
Anon that you rethink that. Yeah, reconsider.
57:47
Except for the kids. Yeah, totally.
57:49
Like we do want to still protect kids, but not against like the
57:52
Illuminati, right. Yeah, just protect well, but
57:56
still, I mean, if the Illuminati.
57:58
Right. Do we want to?
57:59
I mean, we might want to protect them against the Illuminati.
58:02
I don't know. I don't.
58:02
Want the illuminati does Q Anon? Is this AQ Anon pod?
58:08
Is. This A and.
58:09
Scene and that's that. Thank you so much for joining
58:13
us, like and subscribe. No, it could really I mean it.
58:16
I think that it depends on whether or not like the Q Anon
58:21
listeners will like continue to engage because like we need
58:24
repeat engagement. You know, we don't want a one
58:26
and done. Like I just listened to this one
58:28
podcast where they were sympathetic to Q Anon, which is
58:31
not what happened. Not weird, not what's happening.
58:35
It's still not happening, yeah. It's more of just like a shout
58:40
out to Q Anon right to. Say we.
58:44
We know you're. Out there, we know you're out
58:46
there. We know you're watching.
58:47
And we certainly know you're watching.
58:49
And like, stop making the protecting kids thing your
58:53
thing. Yeah, but also like and
58:55
subscribe. Yes.
58:57
Absolutely not in a weird way. Not in a weird way.
59:00
Let's try to comment a really nice comment.
59:03
Nice comment. Thank you, Jackie.
59:06
What else do we need to discuss? I feel as though I have done a
59:09
horrible job of keeping us on track.
59:12
And now I've done a pretty good job of keeping us on track.
59:14
I keep derailing. No, I think the train, the train
59:18
was never quite on the tracks fully.
59:24
I I only wrote. The only other things I had
59:27
written down were two quotes from this film.
59:29
Yeah. One was when they found Flash's
59:34
suit and what's his name? I'm Steve.
59:41
He says he vaporized. Oh my God, they vaporized him.
59:45
That was. I was cracking up, OK, And then
59:48
the other one, which I believe was something I would regularly
59:51
say in however old I was when I watched this film and was
59:56
obsessed with this film. Which is you?
59:57
Were in 7th or 8th grade. Right, you're not supposed to
1:00:00
let Q Anon know that. You're killing me.
1:00:06
You're really killing me. I'm so sorry.
1:00:08
That was the quote. Oh, that was the you didn't
1:00:11
even. Remember it when Ben, they're
1:00:13
putting together the the playset outside and he goes, you're
1:00:16
killing me. You're really killing me.
1:00:19
Oh, I forgot that. It's so cute to hear a four year
1:00:22
old say that. I know again when they make 4
1:00:24
year olds sound like little adults.
1:00:25
I know, I know, it's so cute and funny.
1:00:28
But not no. OK, obviously I'm not advocating
1:00:31
for kids to be treated like adults in the way that the
1:00:36
headmistress of the Academy was trying to get them to be like
1:00:41
little adults. Yeah, but it's cute when they do
1:00:43
stuff like put on their slippers and brush their teeth like
1:00:46
they're getting ready for a big day at work.
1:00:48
Of their own accord. But you know it's not cute.
1:00:51
The reverse. So true.
1:00:54
Adults being babies. That's so true.
1:00:58
So if you decide to be a camp counselor again and you feel
1:01:00
like a kid again, I want you to remember that cancelled.
1:01:03
You're an adult. Yeah, OK, OK.
1:01:06
You can feel like a kid, but don't act like one.
1:01:09
OK, OK, I'll try. Remember that you are grown.
1:01:13
I am, lady. What else?
1:01:15
What else? Nothing else.
1:01:16
I have no. I have no other notes.
1:01:18
OK, let me let me review my notes just one last time.
1:01:21
Make sure that we got everything.
1:01:25
Burp bubbles cheap trick. Oh I love when Steve Zahn said
1:01:31
this stuff is not for sale. She's having an estate sale
1:01:35
after, you know, daddy daycare is no longer.
1:01:39
Should we get the carrot and broccoli costumes?
1:01:42
Should we do that for Halloween? Oh my God, yes.
1:01:44
Who would you be? Broccoli.
1:01:46
I wanted to be broccoli, but I thought that you wanted to be
1:01:49
carrot because you like orange more.
1:01:51
I'll be I'll. I'll be either.
1:01:52
I'm flexible. She's flexible, yeah.
1:01:58
BROCCOLI. I really don't think it's gonna
1:02:04
be that hard for us to find those costumes either.
1:02:06
Really. No.
1:02:08
Just like it was surprisingly easy for us to find the S Club 7
1:02:11
Barbie dolls for like 20 bucks. On I know we're all like, Oh my
1:02:15
God, they're gonna be so expensive.
1:02:17
They weren't. They're very accessible.
1:02:19
Yeah, accessibly priced. So if anyone wants to buy us the
1:02:22
S Club 7 dolls. We want a full set though.
1:02:25
Yeah, we wanna put them right here.
1:02:27
Yeah, right next to each other. Yep.
1:02:29
And you'll see them if you watch this on YouTube.
1:02:32
YouTube. That would be a great gift for
1:02:34
the that you doll. Oh my God, all I want for
1:02:38
Christmas is S Club 7 the dolls. Yeah, the dolls.
1:02:45
What else is on the list? Mom?
1:02:46
Oh. My God, we literally covered.
1:02:48
Everything. We covered everything that I
1:02:51
said that we needed to cover. My job here is done.
1:02:56
And I guess mine is too. Listener, viewer, your job here
1:02:59
is done too. No, it's not.
1:03:01
You need to like, subscribe, follow us on social media and
1:03:07
then your job will be done. Write a review on Apple
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Podcasts. That would be great or.
1:03:12
Spotify podcasts if you have an Android phone, that's so don't
1:03:15
forget the Androids. Or Google Podcasts or YouTube.
1:03:20
Is Google podcast a thing? Actually, maybe it's not
1:03:23
anymore. It used to be.
1:03:24
A thing. It used to be a thing and now
1:03:26
it's not OK. Spotify any.
1:03:28
Wherever you get your podcasts, just.
1:03:30
Review it. There's a way to review it
1:03:31
positively, Yes. Five stars and a little comment
1:03:36
that says, Jackie, hang up your portraits.
1:03:38
Or whatever. But seriously Jackie, thank you
1:03:42
so much for coming back. Thank you for suggesting this
1:03:44
movie. I had so much fun rewatching it.
1:03:46
I would recommend it to the listener.
1:03:48
I would 100% recommend this movie.
1:03:51
Currently at the time of this recording, streaming on Netflix.
1:03:56
OK, love you all. Bye.