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The Way Home Season 1 Episode 3 Recap ‘I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing’ · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a cool move by mom. Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have any chill, Like, Hey, everybody, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy, and today
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  Speaker 1: we are recapping The Way Home, episode three. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to miss a thing. If you'd like to connect
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  Speaker 1: or any of the Hallmark movies or anything adjacent. Really,
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  Speaker 1: a couple quick things to say about The Way Home
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  Speaker 1: before we jump into our recap. Yeah, I'll starts three
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  Speaker 1: this week. The episode where we're reviewing it pulled in
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  Speaker 1: one point four million live viewers, so they're staying pretty
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  Speaker 1: steady with their views there hasn't really dropped off, which
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  Speaker 1: is great. Yes, I'm very happy to see that. I've
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  Speaker 1: seen a lot of good hype from the community. I
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  Speaker 1: would say around the show. I think it's being well received.
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  Speaker 1: I really like it, so I hope others are enjoying
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  Speaker 1: it too, because I want to see it keep going
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  Speaker 1: me too. I hear we have some behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: news for episode three. We have a new director in
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  Speaker 1: episode three and it is Namisha mu Kerjee. So far,
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  Speaker 1: she is credited with two episodes, so I think we're
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  Speaker 1: going to get episode three and four director, right, And
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  Speaker 1: she's an award winning director, writer, and producer, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just excited to have like a female behind the camera.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I don't even know show like this. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but side note, I don't know who directed the first
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  Speaker 1: two Grant Harvey. Oh okay, so it was a dude. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And Grant Harvey is more of a TV series director
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  Speaker 1: than a movie director for what it's worth. So looking
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  Speaker 1: at his directing credit, it's a lot of TV series,
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  Speaker 1: which of course is what we're talking about. But he's
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  Speaker 1: I would say, he's not deep in the Hallmark universe.
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  Speaker 1: Was my point there, right, And while Nimisha isn't either.
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  Speaker 1: She is known for her documentaries. However she's done. She's
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  Speaker 1: done shows like Big Shot on Disney, plus a show
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  Speaker 1: that I love of Virgin River, a couple episodes of that,
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  Speaker 1: an episode of a show called The Imperfects. She is
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  Speaker 1: from Canada, so I believe a lot of these the
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  Speaker 1: stuffs she the work she does is Canadian. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's drop into our recap of the Way Home episode three.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to miss a thing. Are you ready
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  Speaker 1: for a synopsis? I am Alice falls in love with
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  Speaker 1: the past and has her first kiss. Kat starts a
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  Speaker 1: job with the local newspaper, and Dell deals with bittersweet
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  Speaker 1: memories attached to Colton's boat. Alice falls in love with
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  Speaker 1: the past. I love that line, do you I do?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great with what we know happens in
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  Speaker 1: this episode, yes, double meaning, mm hmm. All right. This
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  Speaker 1: episode opens, we have Dell cooking breakfast and Kat comes
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  Speaker 1: in and Dell's gonna Dell. She tells Kat to look
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  Speaker 1: for a job. Kat wants to keep writing. Dell tells
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  Speaker 1: her she needs to prove that she can make money
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  Speaker 1: as a writer. Like that little bit of softening we
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  Speaker 1: got at the end of episode two, it's gone. She's
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  Speaker 1: back to being hard ass Dell. Get your butt to work, Kat. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think by the third episode here, I'm a little
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  Speaker 1: bit tired of this conversation. Like, Kat, it's time to
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  Speaker 1: do something now, or Dell, you need to leave it alone.
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  Speaker 1: But honestly, Kat really needs to do something. You feel
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  Speaker 1: like Dell is right. I do, and I know that's
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  Speaker 1: different from how you feel. Well, I don't feel like
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  Speaker 1: she's wrong. But again, we're three at the timeline. Is
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  Speaker 1: there maybe three days in yeah, before it takes a
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  Speaker 1: minute to find a new job. I think you're You're
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  Speaker 1: soft and sweet. You're gonna be that mom that lets
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  Speaker 1: your adult children live at at your house forever. I think, perhaps, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I am a little I'm a little bit of a softie.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't lived at home since I was seventeen years old.
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  Speaker 1: Alice centers and she's full of sunshine, and she puts
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  Speaker 1: mint in cat's tea. She's been up early working on
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  Speaker 1: the farm apparently, and she says she's going to quote
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  Speaker 1: head out to hang out with Spencer and Zoe dun Dung.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, but I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: she's got friends. I'm so naive you are. I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: teenager's gonna lie it was. This was kind of funny
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  Speaker 1: because as a mom to a fifteen year old, I
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  Speaker 1: would my little radar would be up if she came
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  Speaker 1: in and was chipper as Alice was. Something is going
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  Speaker 1: on totally well, you know, Alice says, oh, in time,
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  Speaker 1: I found my place again once again. It's been three days.
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  Speaker 1: So while even though we could make an argument for
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  Speaker 1: Cat getting to I do think it is still early
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  Speaker 1: days for Alice to have found her place among a
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  Speaker 1: new group of peers. So I thought that was funny.
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  Speaker 1: But like you, Cat's radar is peaked and she asks
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  Speaker 1: Belle are there drugs here now? Which I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was so funny, and Belle tells her to chill. Yeah, see,
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  Speaker 1: And this makes me wonder, like Delle being so kind
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  Speaker 1: of chill, you know, considering that she lost a child
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  Speaker 1: or a child who went missing, and she's just so
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  Speaker 1: very like, oh, it's fine, Alice is gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Is very sus to me agree, So I'm curious to
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  Speaker 1: see how this is gonna play out. This mother daughter
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  Speaker 1: moment is interrupted by someone arriving at the farm. We
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  Speaker 1: hear voices outside, and Dell and Kat go outside to investigate.
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  Speaker 1: So we have two strangers essentially, and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we heard about this boat might be for sale, and
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  Speaker 1: we're interested, And then of course we get a flashback scene.
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  Speaker 1: Dell is remembering when Colton brings the boat home and
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  Speaker 1: he's like, look at Delli look at this great boat.
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  Speaker 1: He's like so hyped for it, and she's pretty stunned
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  Speaker 1: that somebody wants to take the boat from her. I
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  Speaker 1: first want to say high five to the editing team
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  Speaker 1: in this episode. There are so many great flashbacks interwoven
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  Speaker 1: with these scenes, I think, on a greater volume than
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  Speaker 1: we've seen in the past episodes, and it just lends
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  Speaker 1: so much more information. The pacing in this episode is great.
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  Speaker 1: But Dell's reaction surprised me. Not that she was upset,
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  Speaker 1: but she agreed. I think it's time to let her go. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little surprised too, but then again, not
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  Speaker 1: because why did she be holding onto this boat for
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  Speaker 1: so long when she has gotten rid of mostly everything else,
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  Speaker 1: and less because it's because it's Colton, But I mean
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  Speaker 1: she did get rid of his stuff too, so or
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  Speaker 1: that it's easier to throw away a box full of
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  Speaker 1: items and much harder to ditch a giant boat in
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  Speaker 1: a dumpster. Yes, and to your note about the editing
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  Speaker 1: and how great they like weave in these like memories
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  Speaker 1: to give us like context and everything. Very hard to
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  Speaker 1: do when you're writing notes for a great on a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I know nineteen eighty nine, present day, nineteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 1: Percent day. Well, this is a flashback, but we're not
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  Speaker 1: actually in ninety nine. Okay, okay, okay, yeah, oh my goodness, gracious,
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  Speaker 1: but it's it's done very well. It is. It's an
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  Speaker 1: enjoyable watch. Yes, Then we get our opening title. No,
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  Speaker 1: no opening music, nothing, just the Way Home. Nope. And
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  Speaker 1: Alice the next thing. Alice is in the pond. We
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  Speaker 1: are in nineteen ninety nine, and she comes across the
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  Speaker 1: backpack that Elliott has hidden for her that has dry clothes,
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  Speaker 1: which then solves the problem of her always being wet
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  Speaker 1: when she arrives to Kat's house. Right. Yeah, I wondered
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  Speaker 1: had they had a discussion about that, because you went
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  Speaker 1: right to it, And I originally thought, oh, good job,
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  Speaker 1: you stashed clothes. And then we find out via a
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  Speaker 1: note that it's Elliott's doing right exactly, and he picked
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  Speaker 1: out some terrible clothes for her. Actually, I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: it was that bad. It looked like like a moomoo,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, a prairie dress, but something was wearing
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. I mean, she had like cute Doc Martin's
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  Speaker 1: on with it, and like it worked to me, but
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  Speaker 1: Cat was horrified when she saw it. Kat was like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you wearing? Kat was horrified. So as Alice
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  Speaker 1: walks away from the woods, we hear there she goes
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  Speaker 1: by sixpence and then the Rich are playing, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna call this our first notice in the nineties moment.
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  Speaker 1: It is background music, but yes, let me I did
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  Speaker 1: a little deep dive on this song. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: it originally came out in nineteen eighty nine by a
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  Speaker 1: band called The Laws. They're like an English band. It
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  Speaker 1: never really charged here in the States. And then Sixpence
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  Speaker 1: None the Richer re released it in nineteen ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: for a movie called snow Day. But for me, this
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  Speaker 1: song how many times have I watched Gilmore Girls. It
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  Speaker 1: is in the first episode of Gilmore Girls, which also
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  Speaker 1: came out in to that two thousand, Okay, so it
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  Speaker 1: was a hit prior to that. Anyway, This is where
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  Speaker 1: I see like a parallel of like two shows. For me,
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  Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls always had excellent music in it, and now
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing this show, which I feel so far has
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  Speaker 1: also had really good music in it. So there are
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  Speaker 1: these like little similarities that I really am enjoying. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. They're like almost like you know, Gilmore Girls
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  Speaker 1: is kind of the classic mother daughter drama show. It's
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  Speaker 1: almost like a nod to that show that laid the
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  Speaker 1: groundwork for future shows like this. M agree. And and
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  Speaker 1: if you've ever watched and I know this is not
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  Speaker 1: a Gilmore Girls podcast, but if you've ever watched Gilmore
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  Speaker 1: Girls as a parent, it's a totally different story than
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  Speaker 1: watching it as a young adult. We see the boat
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety nine first, and then Alice is greeted
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  Speaker 1: by Colton in Indel and Kat calls to her through
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  Speaker 1: a window, and when she walks in her room, we
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  Speaker 1: get that same Winny reference where she says, what are
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  Speaker 1: you wearing? Yes? Yes, And the best part here in
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  Speaker 1: this whole scene is something I did as a teenager
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  Speaker 1: and what we see Kat doing and she is waiting
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  Speaker 1: for the song to come on the radio so she
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  Speaker 1: can press a record on her tape recorder. Loved it
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  Speaker 1: to make a mixtape. Alice says, mixtapes are so vintage
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  Speaker 1: and cat and maybe my favorite line in the show says,
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  Speaker 1: this is a CD player and a tape player. Yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: you were balling with a CD player and a tape player,
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  Speaker 1: just like the TV that had the VCR built into
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  Speaker 1: it too, right, Oh yeah, I had one of those,
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  Speaker 1: So of course she's playing Britney Spears Baby Hit Me
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  Speaker 1: One More Time. This was the best selling single of
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, still hit in twenty twenty three. I
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  Speaker 1: think I think we need some sort of like notice
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  Speaker 1: in the nineties like music when we have these moments,
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  Speaker 1: because that's definitely a notice in the nineties moment for me,
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  Speaker 1: a one hundred percent. And then we have a moment
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  Speaker 1: where Alice picks up Cat's copy of Alice in Wonderland.
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  Speaker 1: This is the second time we've seen this book in
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  Speaker 1: this show. You know, part of me wonders, is it
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  Speaker 1: just an allusion to the fact that Alice is kind
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  Speaker 1: of like through the looking glass, like she's gone back
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  Speaker 1: in time? Or is this book canna have some greater
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  Speaker 1: meaning that we're not fully aware of yet. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know well. And also we never have an explanation
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  Speaker 1: of like how Alice was named to Alice. Did Kat
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  Speaker 1: name Alice after the book or did Kat name Alice
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  Speaker 1: after the friend that she had in nineteen ninety nine?
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  Speaker 1: Cat Alice is named after herself because in the first episode.
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  Speaker 1: I remember she says she named me after me she
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  Speaker 1: had she had been told she was named after her
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  Speaker 1: childhood friend Alice. I know, but why is there no
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  Speaker 1: connection to the Alice in Wonderland book. Yeah, and that's
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  Speaker 1: a good question. I guess we don't know yet that
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  Speaker 1: there isn't. Yeah. Right, And then Elliott comes running in guys,
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  Speaker 1: I got it. And the next scene. Notice in the nineties,
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  Speaker 1: peo pew, we hear the dial up internet sounds of
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  Speaker 1: our youth. Do you remember getting the AOL CD and
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  Speaker 1: the mail? Yes? I do. For me, it was a
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  Speaker 1: hard sell to get my parents to let me to
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  Speaker 1: sign up for it, Like they didn't know what it was.
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  Speaker 1: What are we paying because you had to pay for
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  Speaker 1: a subscription to have AOL? Right, what are we paying for?
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  Speaker 1: So when I was finally allowed to get AOL and
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  Speaker 1: set it up, and by the way, it took forever, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it was a big day for me too, so I
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  Speaker 1: could feel that moment. I remember. I would take the
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  Speaker 1: like the phone line because at that time it was
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  Speaker 1: a dial up modem. You were using regular like landline
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  Speaker 1: at home, and I would be on the Internet and
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  Speaker 1: somebody would pick up the phone to use the phone,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd be like and it would disconnect me, and
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  Speaker 1: I'd like, damn it, I'm on the internet, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I am high emming. Oh my goodness. It took me
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  Speaker 1: back to hear that modem sound, and it makes me
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  Speaker 1: so sad, Like our children will never understand that. I'll
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  Speaker 1: never understand the struggle. They walk around with a computer
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  Speaker 1: in their hands all day, right. You know. Look, when
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  Speaker 1: I went to college, we had to have a special card,
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  Speaker 1: like a piece of hardware installed in our computers in
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  Speaker 1: order to be able to access the really cool high
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  Speaker 1: speed internet on campus. Like it was no WiFi was
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  Speaker 1: plugged into a wall, and I had to have like
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  Speaker 1: someone from the IT department come to my dorm room
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  Speaker 1: and install my computer. And that person's name was Nick.
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  Speaker 1: Alton is a friend of mine to this day. Oh funny,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean the things we went through to get
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  Speaker 1: the Internet. Yeah, it's funny. It's really funny to be
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  Speaker 1: like to hear Cat say something like why can't you
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  Speaker 1: just call her? Yeah, it was kind of a new frontier.
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  Speaker 1: It was very cool to talk to people like all
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  Speaker 1: over the world, you know. Yeah, Alice says, Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: Internet is a really big deal where I come from.
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  Speaker 1: Next scene, we are back in present day and Elliott,
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  Speaker 1: what's funny? Just one of Kat's lines? Okay, we are
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  Speaker 1: back in present day and Elliott is at the diner
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  Speaker 1: and Kat is reaching her new book as a Laura
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  Speaker 1: Ingalls Wilder but with cars, and she is immediately hung
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  Speaker 1: up on, which I don't hate it. She's just trying
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  Speaker 1: to get that book deal, but doesn't want to write
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  Speaker 1: the story about Jacob. Obviously. Monica comes refills Kat's coffee.
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  Speaker 1: She basically shades her on drinking more coffee and about
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  Speaker 1: drinking alcohol because Kat says something in how she wants
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  Speaker 1: something harder. But you know they're at a diner. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's clearly the morning, I mean exactly. Monica says, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I used to need alcohol on hard days too, which
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, a little too holier than
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  Speaker 1: that in that moment, I agree. Agree. We cut back
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  Speaker 1: to nineteen ninety nine and everyone's standing around the boat,
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  Speaker 1: and this is where we meet young Danny Sawyer and
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  Speaker 1: we learned that my prediction last week was correct. This
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  Speaker 1: is a buddy of Jacob's, all right, bff. Then Kat
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  Speaker 1: is on team boat. She wants this boat to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Dell's not totally sold. She feels like it's I think,
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  Speaker 1: going to be a lot of work. But Colton has
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  Speaker 1: that gleam in his eye. He's got a dream and
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  Speaker 1: he's going to make it happen. Yeah, that's too much
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  Speaker 1: work for me. Like they're like, let's get this boat
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  Speaker 1: in ship shape. I'm like, what, Yeah, I'm not in
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  Speaker 1: a situation. Who's like, I wouldn't even know where to begin. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you want that to float on water. Next thing we
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  Speaker 1: have Kat. She's at the newspaper on the suggestion from
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  Speaker 1: Elliott that she should pitch to work at the newspaper,
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  Speaker 1: the local newspaper. So she's with Byron and they're talking.
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  Speaker 1: She's telling him what a great, like award winning journalist
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  Speaker 1: she is and blah blah blah. And he's like, you're
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  Speaker 1: Dell's daughter, right, Okay, you're hired. Yeah, it's such a
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  Speaker 1: quick turnaround. Well this is kind of a one man operation,
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  Speaker 1: but you're a Dell's kid, Okay. Yes. And it makes
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  Speaker 1: me wonder, a newspaper or is this a daily newspaper?
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  Speaker 1: Is a one man operation? I refuse to believe this
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  Speaker 1: is a daily newspaper. It has to be like the
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  Speaker 1: community paper that comes out once a week, right, that
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  Speaker 1: that's my guest too. Jump back to nineteen ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: and everyone's on the porch of the farmhouse and Jacob's like, Alice,
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  Speaker 1: why do you only come around sometimes? I don't I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's happening here, and they tell him to
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  Speaker 1: lay off. But this is a very sweet scene of
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  Speaker 1: Colton playing the guitar. Alice joins in, I really like
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  Speaker 1: these musical scenes. I don't always love a musical scene
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  Speaker 1: in the show, but I really enjoy when Alice is playing,
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  Speaker 1: when Colton is playing and singing. Yes, the way Colton
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  Speaker 1: looks at Dell in this scene when he's singing to her,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, these two were so in love, like they yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's yeah. It brought up a lot of feelings. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, the is very sweet the way he looks
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  Speaker 1: at her. Yeah. Jump back to the present day and
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  Speaker 1: Dell is delling and is annoyed that Byron has hired
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  Speaker 1: Cat Dell. You wanted her to get a job, Like,
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  Speaker 1: at a point, did you really want her to work
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  Speaker 1: at the point? Is that really what you wanted for?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think so. I think she was like,
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  Speaker 1: you need to give up this writing gig and do
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  Speaker 1: some hard work. I don't know. I th that writing
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  Speaker 1: is not hard work. It is hard work, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand Dell's She's like a dog with a bone here,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, And I think we
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  Speaker 1: can agree that writing a book is different than working
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  Speaker 1: on staff in a newspaper where you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: a steady paycheck, as opposed to writing something that someone
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: may or may not buy in the future. Exactly. Well,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Alice returns and Kat notices that she's damp, and I
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: was like, Alice, girl, you need to leave a towel
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: behind you. Jump in that one. So when she comes
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: back she could at least dry off, which she changes
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: her clothes. But the biggest issue here is her Hey,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: her hair is always Yes, that too, Yeah, what a drag.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Alice sees the polaroid on the counter and kind of
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: like freaks out a little bit. But then here's Dell
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: say that, you know, Delle's gonna sell the boat, and
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Alice is clearly upset about it, having seen coming magic. Yes, exactly,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: And of course, like Kat and Dell don't understand Alice's
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: like reaction because they obviously don't know what she just
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: has experienced back in nineteen ninety nine, like the loving
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: family and they're very together, and Alice says, like doesn't understand,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: like why they don't remember that they used to care
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: about each other, right, and like what has happened? Yeah,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: so con should be happy because she's got her moody
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: teenager back in this moment exactly, I'm still in the
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: present day. We cut to the high school. Elliott is
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: talking to teachers and Alice's never ending pitch to get
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: him arrested and or fired. She runs up and says,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I found the polaroid, and he says, could you please stop?
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I'm doing this. Yeah, it's going to raise too many
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: questions about their relationship, you know what I mean? Yes,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I mean I see. It comes at comic relief. I
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: don't think there's going to be anything to come of it,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: but it is pretty funny. I like it. It's a nice
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: running bit. Alice is worried that Kat has figured out
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: time travel, and Elliott's not worried, but again, great line.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: He says, keep an eye on the polaroid. If you
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: pull a Marty McFly and start to disappear. We have
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: a problem, and Alice has no idea what he's talking about.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: She says, you're so old, quite funny. Has your daughter
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: seen Back to the Future? She has. Yes, Yes, it's
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: one of my husband's favorite movies. So my kids have
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: seen it multiple times. But you can't be like the
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: flux capacitor. Oh, they would know that. My kids would
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: know that. I don't know if kids in general, if
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: it's part of their lexicon. Thank you. Yes, Well, it's
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: funny because I looked back to see when Back to
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the Future came out. It came out theaters in nineteen
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: eighty five. Yeah, and Elliott, I'm guessing is fifteen and
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, so the movie had come out fourteen
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: years prime. So I think that he would be familiar
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: with a back to the Future joke, right, Yeah, I
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: think it's a classic. Yeah, I agree. Still in the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: present day, Kat shows up to the Herald and Byron
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: show her to her desk and it's covered in a
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: giant stack of books, and he says, yeah, it gives
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you a little bit of privacy. And she's pitching all
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: these columns that she wants to write one about mothers
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and John or Z and Byron's like, well, I got
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: an assignment for you. You're too new. You don't get
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to decide what you're writing about. Here, Kat, step back
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: a minute, and we got to her interviewing a farmer
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: about the town's biggest cucumber, which is weird. However, we
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: will get a voice over later on of her article,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: which then I feel ties and ties up the episode nicely. Okay,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: we're back in high school now and Spencer saciously invites
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Alice to his sixteenth birthday party. Now, I'm like, where
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: is Spencer's girlfriend that we have seen the last two episodes?
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Is Zoe his girlfriend? Or are they just buddies? Oh?
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Maybe they're just friends. I kind of assumed that they
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: were boyfriend and girlfriend, but I don't remember exactly. Okay,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know that we've gotten any specific evidence one
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: way or the other. Okay, So anyway, I think it's
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: real nice that he invites her to come to the party,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and she, you know, she obviously wants to jump back
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: in the pond and head back to nineteen ninety nine,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: because that's truly like she doesn't even care about present day.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: She's really into finding out stuff of the past. You know,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: when she says she's found her place, she doesn't mean
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three Porthaven, Right, she's just on assignment. Right.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: We jump back to the Harold and Byron does not
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: love Cat's first article. He says there's no passion. And
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I one hundred percent agree with Byron. Here he says,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: you know, it feels like you are you're writing like
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: you're too good for this town, like you are above it.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: And Kat says she feels like it's a step back.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: And I think that's a real shit move. Kat. This
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: guy gave you a job, right, don't act like these
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: people are beneath you. You came back home because you
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: needed a place to go. Yeah, well, I think that's
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the umbrella here is that I think she does. Think
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: she it was a humbling experience for her to return home. Yes, right,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: So the whole scenario of her coming back home, it
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: feels like a real step back, considering that she's now
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: divorced and doesn't have a home and you know whatever.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: So I mean I think Byron handled it well. I
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: mean I think he gave her a piece of humble
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: pie and was like, look, here's where we are. Yes,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: show me that you care, is what he says to her.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Now we're back in nineteen ninety nine. Ali, I call
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: her Ali because that's what I my shorthand in my notes.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: That's a cat calls her. Okay. So Alice, you know,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: emerges from the pie and she climbs on out and
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: she goes to grab her backpack that stash, but she
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: notices that it's dirty and then looks up and sees
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: that the leaves have changed. She has definitely been gone
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: a while and is confused because it had only been
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: just a day that she had been there. We find
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: out she's been gone for two months, and she runs
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: to Elliott and realize the pond has the ability to
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: send you forward in massive leaves of time. And this
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: is when Elliott journals something that he will say as
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: adult Elliott, but he writes it as a question does
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the pond decide where Alice goes? And we know that
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: to be the case that the Pond decides when and
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: when she's allowed to go and when she will go
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: to right. So I wonder are we going to be
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: playing with this timeline like will Allie? Is it always
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: going to be back. Is it always going to be
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: now where we're at, like or is that going to
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: be like a sliding scale, you know what I mean? Yeah,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: And I can't remember exactly the first time, and Alice
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: is in Cat's room. She does look at the calendar
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: and we do say that it's nineteen ninety nine, but
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I don't remember if we saw what month it was.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: That's a great point. I don't know. I don't know
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: if it matters. Alice is super worried that Cat's going
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: to be mad that she's been gone for so long.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: She kind of like ghosted her basically, So she runs
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: to Kat's bedroom and she's logizing and she's like, I'm
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: so sorry I should have texted you. Cat's like texted,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: what are you talking about? But it's so funny, like
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: it's just completely brushed over, like what did you be?
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Like what does that mean? Texted? I would be like,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Else I'm not able to
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: let things go easily. Yeah, I mean either, And you
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: know that doesn't the fact that Alice is making mistakes
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: and saying things like texted or that's so retro I mean,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: she's having natural reactions, like that's what she would say
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: to a friend, she's not used to editing herself for
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: twenty four years in the past, right. I was wondering
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: in this part of the show too. I was like,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: does she purpose leave her phone behind, because that would
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: be a real tell tell she had a you know,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: an Apple iPhone in her pocket when she yes, I
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: think whether it was on purpose or not, I think
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: she does so her mom can't track her because she
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: doesn't want to leave it on the bank of the pond.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: She doesn't want to jump into the pond with it, right, right,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: And you know, Kat accepts her apology, and then she
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: takes her to a bonfire at the point and we
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: meet baby Monica for the first time. She takes her
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: to a party at the cove you're as a restaurant.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: It's all right, Yeah, she takes her to this bonfire
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: and we meet Nick. My brain time travel has scrambled it,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, that's baby Colton. But no,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: that doesn't make any sense. So that's Grandpa. That would
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: be just a real mix of time travel happening there, Yes,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: and would be particularly problematic because it's instantly clear that
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Alice is crushing on Nick exactly next scene, we have
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the return of ritada best friend Rita. She visits Dan
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: and Dale's working on her boat, and Rita's excited to
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: have dinner and drink some wine and hang out like
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: friends do. But Byron crashes in, Actually he doesn't crash in.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: He's coming over to give a set of keys to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Kat for the office. Rita is not happy with his arrival.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Rita's gonna Riada, man, dude, what is her deal? She
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: rolls her eyes. She is just so over Byron. You know,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: when Rita arrived, I kind of had that like, Dale's
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: just not that into Rita moment. She's like, all right,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll take the glass of wine. But Rita
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: definitely does not want their moment interrupted by new crush Byron. Right,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: what's the story there? I don't get it. We're still
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: in present day and Kat is still working on her
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: or reworking her article on the cucumber at the point,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: and Monica softens here she pours her a drink. They
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: chit chat. Now I'm a little leery of mine. I
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: hope her intentions are good. So we watched this episode
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: together and immediately when he's like, m I don't trust it.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: And my immediate reaction naive that I am, although I
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: do think it ends up being accurate. I'm immediately happy
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: that she's softening and that we these two are starting
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: to connect a little bit. Right. I'm happy about it too,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I'm just like and moreover, she Kat does need more friends. Yeah,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: And Monica even says that, like, you can't just talk
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to Elliott. So now we're establishing Okay, So Kat is
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: getting comfortable and she is making friendships and creating her
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: own community. I wonder if Monica knows how Elliott feels
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: about Kat, and feel like Kat relying on him too
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: much isn't fair to Elliott knowing that he has stronger
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: feelings for her than she has for him. Yeah, but
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: then that's like a real shit move if she's trying
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: to of like hook a cat up with that other dude.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Excellent point, you know. We cut back to Dell and Rita,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: and Rita confesses that she's the one who told the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: tourists about the bow. And I believe this is the
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: moment at which Wendy yield stop meddling Rita. She is
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: too invested, and and Dell agrees with me. She does.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: She says stop using me as a charity case. She's pissed. Yeah,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: And this scene is real uncomfortable, right, these two women,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: mature women yelling at each other. Enviyron's like ladies like
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Rita says, shut up, new guy. Oh so funny. Obviously,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: that's like a throwback line to a couple episodes before
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: when when she called him new guy and he's like,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I've been here six years. Yeah, you know whatever. We
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: cut back to Monica and Cat and they're bonding over
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: having teenagers, and at this point they both apologize to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: each other. Cat apologizes for acting like the town is
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: beneath her and Monica apologizes pretending like she has it
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: all together. And I like that these two are bonding
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: in this moment. In Walks, Andy Wowie Zowie Alert played
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: by Alex mllary Junior, who is on the IMDb for
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the show, which leads me to believe he's more than
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: just a casual introduction. He's also on Jenny and Georgia.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: He plays the PI on Jenny and Georgia. I can't
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: remember his name. It's nice to see him on another series.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Agree and Monica here is couraging Cat to pursue like
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: you know you're single. Now, single lady, let's let's get
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: with it. But Cat's like what okay. Cut back to
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine. They're still at the bonfire and Alice
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: and Nick are talking, and Nick is talking about the
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication album Notice in the nineties
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and how he thinks that album's really gonna really gonna
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: have some meaning in the long run. Yeah, so it's
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: funny here. I received a message from listener Paula about
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: this particular scene. She says, I love the Red Hot
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Chili Peppers reference, although it was the wrong song, and
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I was like, what do you mean the reference and
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the wrong song. She says that Nick is referencing Californication,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: which we know, but episode two was titled Scar Tissue,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: which came from Californication. So I think there's just like
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: some disconnect on that episode was named after the Red
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Hot Chili Pepper song. But now it's only this episode
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: that we're getting, like the reference. I hear me and
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Alice tells a beautiful story about why she plays music,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and then we get Nick playing the guitar badly. He's
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: real bad. I have another notice in the nineties moment,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: which is Kat is wearing a string of butterfly clips
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: in her hair. So you know, it's so bad. I
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: won those in college. I was in college. Oh I
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: have photos, my goodness, not the greatest look. So Kat
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: encourages Alice to play the guitar, and she picks it
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: up and sings an acoustic version of Britney Spears Baby
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Hit Me One More Time. Everybody's excited, totally. I was excited.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: That was a great version of that song. I know
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: it's so good, And I was wondering, does Sadie snow?
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Is she an actual singer? Is she singing these songs? Right?
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: She's she's gotta be Yeah, she's real good. And the
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: cops arrive and everybody runs. Yeah, but here's a did
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: you see that moment? I know, we don't do that
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: in this, in this I love it. Bring it on. Well,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the cops get there and the kids scatter, but you see,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: there's a full cooler of soda of soda. It's not
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: even like they have like red cups or like anything,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, They're just hanging out. I'm like,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: why are they Why would they be in trouble? Yeah,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: it's still the sun's still up. Yeah, they're just gathering.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: And we cut to the present day where Dell's having
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: flashbacks of the boat and that's all I have about
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: that moment, me too. Dell remembers Coltman in the boat.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: It's kind of weird, like there's nothing really going on there.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Still in present day, we cut back to Alice and
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Nick and they're hiding from the cops. The sun has
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: gone down. The cops are not looking for you. You're
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: not on the lamb. You do not need to hide
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: for that long. They're done with you.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: They just wanted to break up the party, yes, and
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: this is a perfect excuse for Nick and Alice to
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: get cozy and share a smooch.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: In this one. I'm like, oh no, Alice, you're missing
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Spencer's party because right before it was about to be
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: broken up, she was about to leave and jump in
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: the pond and head back to Spencer's party, right, And
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: so Kat invites Ali to spend the night and Elliot's like,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: what do you do? Eat Like, you need to go home.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: You gotta go home, and she's like, no, I'm choosing
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: to stay. Regardless of the trouble. She's going to get
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: into in present day, and here you have a real
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: problem because she has to explain her absences in nineteen
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: ninety nine as well as present day. Yes, although I
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: do think it's easier to say I have to go
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: home to Cat than it is to explain to her
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: mother why she was out all night. Inexactly, you know
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: where to be found, yes, exactly. Alice and Cat are
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: in their jammies god thinking about the kiss being fifteen
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: year old girls, and Alice very humorously wonders if he's
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: her boyfriend now, and Kat's like, well, I have a boyfriend.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: And here's our first nineteenninety nine mention of Braiden slash Brady.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: A couple of things, sir. Why do you think they
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: have nicknames for all of these characters? Oh, it's to
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: know it's it's it's a little bit confusing for me
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: to be honest, okay, because we have his name's Braiden,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: but I call him Brady. We have Dell, who is
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: obviously Delilah and Deli. We have Alice who's Ali, and
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Cat and Catherine. It's just like a lot of it's
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: it would be confusing for a person to come in
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: who didn't know who these characters were. Yeah, that's interesting
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: to me. It just kind of warms the characters up
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: that they all because that's real life, that everyone has
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: these nicknames for people. True, I think, but because there's
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: so much going on, it can be a little bit confusing. Yes.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I also want to mention that this scene with Kat
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: and Alice as teenagers being in I think they're up
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: in the Elliott's treehouse or loft or whatever they're in,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: but this scene with the two of them laying there
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: in bed and just talking really took me back to
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: being a teenager and those moments like being with your
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: best friend and you're talking in bed before you go
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: to sleep, and the giggles and the ah, such a
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: good time. I was like, this is definitely what best
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: friends do. Right at this point, and they share secrets.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Kat shares the secret of meeting this boy and how
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: you know he's a secret from the family because she's
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: worried that Dell won't like him or his family because
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: they come from money. And she asked Alice, like, do
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: you have secrets? And here Alice takes a beat and
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: tells her that she can time travel, and of course
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Kat thinks she's joking, which is the correct response, right,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: because what are you going to be like? Okay, cool, cool,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: coo cool. Yeah. So now we're back in present day
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: and Alice is running through the farm early am, trying
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: to get home. So nobody you know, had missed her.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Come on, this doesn't make any sense to me, and
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: go ahead, and then I'm gonna I'm gonna point out
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: this is where Megan's gonna Meghan and I would too,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: trust me. So Dell sees Alice running through and she's like, hmm,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: that's weird. And Alice climbs into her room, gets back
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: in bed with wet hair, with wet hair, and she
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: texts Spencer and says like, you know, sorry for flaking
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: on the party, blah blah blah whatever. Kat comes in
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and compliments her, or she basically is like, oh you're
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: you're still in bed and this is where Meghan went
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: yesterday when we were watching together. What did she go like,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Cat's not waiting up for this kid, right, yeah, especially
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: so she went missing like just days before. Also, yeah,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: when I was a teenager, I had to my dad
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: would wait up for me and if for some reason
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: they didn't wait up. I had to go in and
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: wake my parents up when I came home. There was
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: no like sneaking in going to my room, and they
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: didn't know if I was home or not. Right, Come on,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: I know you say, like I'm being Megan here, but
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: are you letting your fifteen You're going to bed and
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: you don't know where your fifteen year old is and
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: you're just like, eh, she'll show up. No, maybe we
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: could say like, oh, she believed her to be at Spencer,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: so she figured she was fine and she just went
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: to bed. But I don't buy it. Yeah, I understand. Well,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: And on top of that, she had Monica telling her like, hey,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: she's safe at my house. Yes, don't worry about it.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: It's all good. So I mean there's some built in
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: backstory there of like maybe she wasn't tracking her on
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Life three sixty to see like where she was at.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: But yes, as a mom to a fifteen year old
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: that I am likely making sure she's snuggled into her
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: bed at night. Yes. Anyway, it's just someone to point
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: out here. I really really love the bedspread. Oh yeah,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Alice's bed here, it's real cute. But anyway, here we go.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Kat's like complimenting her and telling her how how great
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: she's doing import haven. Remember it's only been like three
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: or four or five days at this point, and that
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Alice is really building her trust back and her mom.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: And then Kat leaves and you see Alice feels real guilty.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: She does. And prior to this, when she came in,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: we saw a bunch of texts from Spencer are are
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: you are you? Are you coming? Are you running late?
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: And she lies and says that she was sick. Right now,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I kind of like saw this like foreshadowing moment when
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: we see Monica talking to Kat in the diner about
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: how Spencer's hosting this party and Alice is there. I
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: suspect that this was going to blow up in her face. Well, sure,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: like you can't ever count on teenagers not running into
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: your parents somewhere. You got to cover your bases, right,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: especially at small town exactly, And Spencer and Alice don't
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: have that kind of relationship to be like, oh, I
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: got to go do something else. But if you see
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: my mom tell her that I was at your party.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, we're in the kitchen. We're still talking
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: about the damn boat. Yeah, Alice still wants Dell to
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: keep the boat, and we get a flash forward to
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Colton on the boat. We find out where the scratches
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: on the boat came from us. He kind of crashes
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: into the dock as it were, and he says, I
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: can't find him. He's gone. We have to be talking
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: about Jacob, right, we have to assume. However, there's a
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: line in a minute. Mmmm, that's confusing to me. Okay,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: But we finally get another softening of Dell and she says, Kat,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: you're a good mom. You're doing a good job. Yeah, finally, Yeah, God,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: what do I have to do? No? Kat definitely needed
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: some reassurance here, I think, and Dell did need to
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: realize that Alice is her granddaughter. She has a parent here,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: so she has to relinquish some of those you know,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: parenting moments to her actual mother. Yes, Alice runs into
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: mister Augustine school and says, when are you going to
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: tell me that the pond can send me ahead in time?
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: And he doesn't really want to meddle with what she
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: knows and what she doesn't know. Yeah. Then we get
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Monica and Kat back at the point and inlocks Andy again,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: who introduces himself again they just met last night? Yeah,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: like really, but Monica's like given the big obvious mime like,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I'm your number, right, They all clock that, and Kat
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: has andy your number exactly, she writes it down on
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: a nac can, but give me your phone. Weird. Spencer
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: arrives at the point, and this is when Alice is
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Lie all falls apart because Kat says, hey, thanks so
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: much for including Alice and your party, and He's like,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, too bad she couldn't come. Well yet, did
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: he seem annoyed to you? Yes, that's why I'm like,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's his girlfriend. Yeah, That's what I'm
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: wondering if, like, is he crushing on her a little bit?
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Like truly, why would he text her so many times
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: like are you coming? Are you coming? Are you? Why?
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Are you here? Is everything okay? Blah blah blah blah.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: You know, yeah, agree where they were holding hands though
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: in the first episode okay, but I can't I can't recall. Well.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: It also could just be like he's trying to reach
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: out and feels like, hey, I was being a good
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: dude and you're not being a good dude in return,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: especially because Alice is not terribly well liked at the school.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: So Spencer's kind of going out on a limb by
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: extending this alive branch right. And now this is the
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: moment I hate because Monica knows that Kat has been
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: led to They had this bonding moment and she knows that,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: oh Cat trusted her daughter and boom, that did not
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: go well. So you don't like this scene because you
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: don't want Monica to know. I don't dislike this scene.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I just felt secondhand embarrassment for Cat because another parent
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: found out that my kid were lying to me that
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: I was the last to know. I'd feel not great. Yeah,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: I hear you, I hear you. Cut back to the kitchen,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Alice is singing Brittany at the table. Dell announces she's
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: going to keep the boat, and Alice says I'm gonna
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: go meet up with Spencer and Zoe and Cat does
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: not bust her. This is a cool move by mom. Yeah,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I don't have any chill, like like, no, you're not
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: where were you? Lest totally I busted that door down
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: and be like, young lady, represent no chill. Well she's
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: definitely well. At this point, I was like, oh she's
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: trying to set Alice up to you know, expose her
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: cards or whatever. Anyway. But during this scene too, Cat
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: shows Dell the article, the new article that she had
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: written about the cucumber, and we have this voice over
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Cat's Cat's basically it's her voice reading the article and
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: they're talking about trust is what it comes down to.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: He didn't set out to grow the biggest cue number.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: He just trusted the sillial. I don't know whatever the
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: main theme there is about trust, and now we have
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Kat who doesn't trust Alice anymore, so she is following
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Alice out to the pond. You know, I also see
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: in that moment, in addition to that article being about trust,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: a little bit about you know, Kat wasn't necessarily expecting
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: to find happiness or a place at home. She was
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: coming home as a last resort. And I think with
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: the connection to Monica, with giving her number to Andy,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: she's with having a job, She's starting to feel like
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: even what she planned to do is turning into something different.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Right now, before moving on, what is your line that
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: you didn't like something about the boat? I think it
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: happens when Dell tells Kat that she's a good mom
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: and they're on the boat and they're talking about Alice
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: and Alice kind of pressuring Dell to keep the boat
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: and Kat says, she doesn't know. We never took the
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: boat out. Okay, yes, but we see Colton on the boat. Now,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: it could be that the only time the boat was
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: taken out was to look for the hymn in that
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: moment that we see, which we assume is Jacob, but
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: we don't know and Kat doesn't know about it? Or
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: is there something else going on? Right, that's what I
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: don't know. That's could be nothing. Got it totally understand.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: So now we see Kat sees Alice jump into the pond,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: and Alice does not come back up, So Kat's like,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: what the help? Well, she doesn't say what the hell,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: but she like runs down to the pond yealing her name,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: yelling her name, and then jumps into the pond after her.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: And the question is is it clever editing or does
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Cat really not come back up? Well? I saw the
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: preview for next week. Oh, Kat is back in nineteen
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: ninety nine. When we were watching this, I was like,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: this is really going to mess up the space time continuum.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: But she runs into her younger self totally. Everything we
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: know about time travel says, do not meet your younger self.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: So we shall see. But what I like about it
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: is now we don't just have Alice's line or storyline
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: of her returning to the past. Now we have Cat
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: returning to the past, and so it's going to open
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: this whole new chapter. I feel like, yes, that's a
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: great point, and I think I like that we're going
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: to get Cat in on this secret because it's not
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: sustainable for Alice to continue to time. She can't keep disappearing, right,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: And so they both have motivation to want to return
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: to the past for different reasons, and so hopefully they
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: can work as a team. Well, I think Kat's biggest
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: motivation would be to obviously not lose her brother, yes,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: or find out what happened exactly. Now, speaking of what
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: happened last week, I did put a pole on our
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Girl's gone Homer. Yes, Instagram. Now, are you interested in
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: hearing where people what people think happened to Jake very
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Here are some responses, and I'm going to tell you
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: they're all very similar. He is in another time. He's
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: a traveler too. He jumped into the lake. Obviously he
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: ended up. Oh, he ended up with Jamie and Clair
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: from Outlander. I don't watch that show. It's a joke
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: that I don't give. He's trapped in time travel and
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: can't figure out how to get back. He fell into
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: the pond, and he's in the future somewhere. They're basically
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: all the same, and then there's two very dark ones. Uh.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Oh he was kidnapped. Uh huh. Child abduction. Oh no,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: I'm like this would take a real turn. Yeah, which,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: to be fair, it could be any of these things. Right,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: was there one second and he wasn't the next, So
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: where I may go? Is it more likely he was
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: abducted traveling back to nineteen nine right when he can't
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: get out exactly. I'm gonna side up with abduction. It's
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: not a bad not a bad choice.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: There.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about our homie of the week. Yes, ma'am,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: we are a warning this week's Homie of the week
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: to one Miss Monica for making the first move, breaking
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: the ice with Kat reconnecting these two old friends. What
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: I'm curious to see, though, is when we meet young
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Monica in the past. She is the first Monica that
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: we meet. She's kind of shady, so When are we
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: going to see them become friends in the past. I
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: don't know, because they clearly don't like each other in
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, No, they did not seem to. But
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: right so did they always have this sort of antagonistic
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: relationship or do they become real friends? That's what I'd
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: like to see about. Monica. You are our homie of
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: the week, played by Samora Smallwood. Thank you for listening
• 47:05
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• 47:25
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