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Episode 126 - GLOW S1E4 - The Dusty Spur · My Third Place Pod

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Welcome back to the podcast, fellow Friendsters.
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Was that still a thing? I don't know.
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We are back with another brand spanking new episode of
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Backdrops and Back Lots where we rewatch and recap the Netflix
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series of GLOW, the gorgeous ladies of wrestling sometimes
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and all the time. When I mean, I mean all the
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time. I will bring up something that
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happened to the actors and actresses on the show other
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times. I will bring up something that
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was said on the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling documentary that
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aired on Netflix in 2012. From Under the Apron welcomes
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you all back tonight. I'm recapping episode four of
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the first season of GLOW titled The Dusty Spur.
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I really enjoyed this episode. It focused on one of the
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characters, so I went back to check for interviews.
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I want the actress thought of the when filming Her scenes.
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Episode was written by Sasha Rothschild.
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Rothschild writes comedy, feature films, scripted
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television such as The Carey Diaries, The Bold Type, Huge in
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France, GLOW, and The Babysitter's Club.
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She was also a regular Blogger about relationships for
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Psychology Today magazine and Huffington Post.
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Her LA Weekly article on how to get divorced by 30.
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About Her failed starter marriage spawned A memoir
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published by Penguin. Rothschild was a Co executive
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producer and writer for seasons 1-2 and three on the hit Netflix
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series GLOW. She was nominated for an Emmy
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Golden Globe Writers Guild Award Producers Guild Award for her
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work on GLOW. Her debut novel, Blood Sugar,
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was published by Putnam in 2022. Directed by Melanie Mayron,
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she's an American actress and director of film and television.
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Mayron is best known for her role as photographer Moses
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Deadman on the ABC drama 30 Something, for which she won the
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supported Actress in
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the Drama Series in 1989 and was nominated for the same award in
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1990 and 1991. In 2018, the Santa Fe Film
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Festival honored Meirion for her outstanding contributions to
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film and television. She has directed The
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Babysitter's Club, a film based upon the book series of the same
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name. She also directed the television
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movie Toastless in 1997 starring Christianity and the movie Slap
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Her. She's French in 2002 starring
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Piper Perabo, which appeared on television as She Gets What She
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Wants. In 2006, she appeared as a judge
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in the reality show Looking for Stars on the Stars channel.
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Melanie also directed episodes of the show, as well as episodes
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of In Treatment, The Fosters, Providence, Dawson's Creek, Ed,
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State of Grace, Nash Bridges, Wasteland, Tell Me You Love Me,
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and The Naked Brothers Band. In 2015, she directed and
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released on YouTube The Living Room Sessions and.
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A collection of videos of up and coming musical artists
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performing acoustic sax in her living room.
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Mayron has directed an episode of the Netflix original series
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GLOW, an episode of Seal Team, an episode of The Enemy Within,
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and multiple episodes of the 2018 Charmed reboot, as well as
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Jane the Virgin synopsis of the show, with just five weeks left
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to crank out a show. Sam and Bash move all the ladies
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into a motel. Ruth struggles to nail down a
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memorable character. The show code opens on the Dream
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Academy's life in another town, playing while Sheila stares into
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the mirror and starts to apply makeup.
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Black eyeliners around her eyes, liquid foundation on her teeth.
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Getting the impression that she doesn't brush them, she puts on
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her wig and exhales while the GLOW logo comes up.
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So right away, we're getting a Sheila centric episode.
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I love it. She's one of my favorite
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characters on the show. In 2017, Shannon Carlin from
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bustle.com did an article on GAIL Rankin, the actress who
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plays Sheila the She Wolf. To prepare for her role in the
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Netflix series GLOW, GAIL spent some time at a wolf sanctuary a
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few hours outside Los Angeles. I was looking to find out why I
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would feel more comfortable being a wolf than I would being
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a human rank and bustle over the phone.
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Well, Sheila knows she's not actually a wolf.
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She prefers to encounter the world as one, which comes in
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handy as a wrestler. What Rankin discovered was that
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as a woman, there's also something powerful in Sheila's
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animal nature which didn't just change the way Rankin acted on
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screen, but off screen too. Sheila wants to be able to use
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how she moves and how she interacts with the world in the
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different form, the actor says. Wrestling is a pretty good
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outlet for an animal. After spending quality time with
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a few wolves, Ranking understood why that was.
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They're extremely soulful and majestic animals, she says.
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They have kind of a bad reputation, quote UN quote, but
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they're very strong, very insightful and very wise.
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Those are the same words Rankin used to describe Sheila, who
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wasn't afraid to be herself. Even if the rest of the world
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can deal with authenticity, finding Sheila the Sheila of
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Truth began with finding her look, which Rankin says was
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inspired not only by her animal namesake but also pulled from
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tough 80s idols like Joan Jett. From her feral looking wig to
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her raccoon eyes, every single thing Sheila wears means
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something to her. It had to feel really personal
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reconciles of her look, which she helped put together with
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costume designer Beth Morgan and the show's creators, Liv Flaheev
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and Karlie Mensch. Why does she wear, you know,
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ripped stockings? They're not ripped by accident.
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They're ripped on purpose. Nothing is by accident for me.
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It's a look that makes her feel the way she needs to feel to be
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Sheila. That distinction was important
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to Rankin because Sheila isn't playing some character.
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She's being her authentic self, or the version of herself that
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she's authentically created, is something that audience learns
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in the opening of Episode 4, the dusty spur where Sheila sits in
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front of a hotel mirror and goes to her beauty routine.
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She applies her long dark wig over her short platinum blonde
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Pixie, heats up her eyeliner to get those dark smudges, and
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yellows her teeth with liquid foundation.
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So back to the show. Dash and Sam meet with Debbie,
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who has her baby Randy with her. She sarcastically compliments
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them on their matching tans. Sam says that they want that
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they went to Palm Springs, and Bash comments that mentally they
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went on a magic carpet ride. Debbie asked if they're busting
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buddies now, and Bash tries to give her a hand with her
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stroller. This is the 80s, so he must have
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been on coke this entire time while he was on that magic
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carpet ride. He doesn't have much luck with
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the stroller as he struggles with or even opening it, and
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Debbie tells him that she's got it.
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Sam tells her that he's the reason why he didn't ask.
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He didn't want to offend her. I am, woman, hear me roar right?
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mamamurderedapodcast@gmail.com. The two meet with the girls of
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Glow who are sitting on the bleachers, Bash saying that it
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was exhilarating to be locked up with Sam for 48 hours.
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Sam says that they were in separate rooms.
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Bash says that they escaped to a private villa, Villa.
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Villa did it to the blow and figured everything out.
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They're moving them into a hotel because they feel that it'll
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help them in the same way, help them to focus.
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Sam says they learned a valuable lesson over the weekend.
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Cloistering yourself up like some centering 17th century monk
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makes you more fucking productive, and it helps you
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focus. Vicki asked if it's like an
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Olympic village. Sam agrees, but as probably more
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like rehab. Melrose points out that rehab is
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expensive. Bass tells him it'll all be
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free. Free housing, free cable, a free
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commute. Even a free pool.
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Carmen asks if they can live at home and commute.
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Cherry notes that some of them have wives and husbands.
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Sam says there's no exceptions. Debbie raises her hand, and he
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agrees that she's an exception because she's the star and has a
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baby. Cherry objects, and Sam says
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that it's time for reality. That they shoot in five weeks,
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that most of them don't know how to act and none of them can
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wrestle. This is their way of making it
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so that they can don't suck. There's also a curfew and a
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strict no drug policy. Melrose points out that they did
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both did blow all weekend and the girls have to live like a
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bunch of nuns, Bash, Lincoln said to them, living like
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sorority sisters. Sam tells them that if they want
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their paychecks for the week, they'll live at the hotel and
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follow the rules. Ruth asked.
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Just when this is all happening. And they say that it's at the
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end of the week. Sam asked them to make all the
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arrangements they have to do. Call your landlords, Hide your
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drugs, Flush your fish, the four fish.
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The idea of the girls moving into the same hotel together is
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based on the real life girl Glow Girls moving into a hotel a few
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miles away from the Riviera Hotel and Casino Las Vegas,
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which would be dubbed in the show The Glow House.
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It's not an 80s inspired show without an 80s montage of the
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girls cleaning their room to the Billy Joel moving Out song.
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I love that song. The group makes their
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preparations. Finally they all arrive at the
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Dusty Spur Hotel. Sheila's late to arrive and
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walks towards every door where the girls are paired up.
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Britannica and Machu Picchu, the best friends slash sisters at
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the Laredna, are seen cleansing outside their hotel room.
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She opens her door and she is paired up with Ruth.
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She tells her to go back outside and try to come back in again.
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As she puts on a pair of glasses pretending to call someone on
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the phone and be a businesswoman, she takes off the
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glasses, telling Sheila it's her new character idea.
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Kind of a female Jr. with a touch of Cruella Deville Jr.
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otherwise known throughout the 80s as John Ross Ewing from the
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TV show Dallas. He is depicted as a covetous,
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egocentric, manipulative and moral oil Baron with psychotic
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psychopathic tendencies who is currently plotting subterfergies
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to plunder the wealth of his foes.
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Jesus stress. Ain't that time fuzz?
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Sheila simply stares and Ruth asked her if it didn't work.
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She complaints of being the only one who doesn't have a
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character, noting how they label the door Sheila the she Wolf and
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Ruth. Sheila opens a window, telling
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her that they all need to be open at all times.
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She warns Ruth also that she's a very light sleeper and the
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smallest noise of variance and smell will disturb her.
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Ruth says she can't control what happens when she sleeps, but
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she'll try her best. She tells her that she respects
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how committed she is to her character.
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That's crystallized. She asked her to help her find
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something like that, that she's happy to do the whole method all
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the time thing. Sheila grabs her trunk heads to
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the bathroom and closes the door.
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Ruth. It feels bad that she might have
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offended Sheila. Come on, Ruth, it's not a phase,
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it's a lifestyle, GAIL Rankin continues on puzzle.com article
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It's a look Sheila's worn for five years, and it makes her
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feel comfortable in her own skin.
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But she struggles to find acceptance from others who, like
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Ruth, assume her look is a gimmick, a part of the persona
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she's created for CLO. It's why Sheila takes such
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pleasure in being called a wolf, even if it's light, because it's
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better than being called a freak.
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It's hurtful and insulting. Yet Sheila doesn't change.
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For those people. I could kind of only hope to be
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as brave as she is because it's really hard, Rankin says.
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It's really hard to look at yourself and be who you are and
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be different like so many other women, especially the kind who
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show up to an open call for mysterious new series about
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female wrestling. Sheila just wants to be seen and
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feel validated for who she is, not what other things she could
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be as an actor. Rankin can relate to Sheila,
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since so much of succeeding in Hollywood is figuring out how to
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fit in the while also trying to stand out.
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Next scene, Carmen rooms with Rhonda Richardson, who's excited
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to have the hotel room. She has her shirt off and asks
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Carmen if she's staring at her breast.
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Carmen admits that she is. Asking how it is that they stand
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up the way they do, Rhonda says they like the attention.
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Carmen says that the only other breast that she's ever seen are
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her brother Tommy's, that she's never lived with girls before.
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She says she's going to stare because Rhonda's like an alien
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from another planet. Rhonda begins to take over
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logins from her bag, one of which is a picture of Nick
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Rhodes. The keyboard is from the 80s pop
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band Duran Duran. Miranda tells Carmen that she
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rubs lotion all over herself before bed because it's
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scientifically proven to be the only thing that stops aging in
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his tracks. She asked if Carmen wants to put
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lotion on with her, and Carmen agrees.
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Later on that night, Ruth lies awake in her bed.
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She gets up and sneaks into the bathroom.
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While there, she looks inside Sheila's case, which includes
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her various makeup supplies as well as dried meat.
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She smells the meat. It is probably beef jerky.
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Yeah, was that invented in the 80s?
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She finishes up and tries to get back into bed quietly, but the
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pipes in the bathroom groan, waking Sheila.
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Sheila's bothered by her wig being messed up, and Ruth tells
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her that she can take it off when she sleeps.
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Sheila tells her to shut up, shut up, shut up and stop
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looking at her. That morning, Sam discovered
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several of the girls lounging by the pool.
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He sniped that he's glad to see everyone's working hard.
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Jenny agrees that she's working hard on her tan, or at least
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Fortune Cookie is seeing that That's the stereotype he wants
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to roll with, that Asians work really hard, but they also do
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karate and are really shy. He asked if she's mad about
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something. She says no.
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Artie runs up asking Sam to watch and does a 450 cannonball
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into the pool. She says she calls it a Lebanese
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cannonball and his Beirut signature Moob.
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He asked if she can do it in the ring, and she admits she can't.
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Yet Stacy and Don urged Sam to get in the pool, saying they'll
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show him theirs if he shows his. He takes off his shirt, agreeing
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that it's hot out. Sherry walks up asking where her
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invite was to the pool party. She asked if they all forgot
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that they have training in 10 minutes.
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Sam agrees that she's right, telling them to put their tits
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away. This isn't Club Med.
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Later on, Bass showed the girls a video of Gorgeous George,
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saying that he was a bit more old school than today's guys,
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but he was a great gimmick. You mean he's gay?
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Says Tammy Dawson. Bash says that it doesn't matter
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that he's Gorgeous George, a pretty boy, he'll stop in the
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middle of a match to fix his hair.
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Carmen points out that his valet would actually do that for him.
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And Bash agrees. Gorgeous George In the United
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States. During the first golden age of
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professional wrestling in the 1940s through 1950s, Gorgeous
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George was one of the biggest stars of the sport, gaining
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media attention for his outrageous character, which was
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described as flamboyant and charismatic.
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He was a major national celebrity at his peak and was a
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pioneer of early entertainment television.
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He was posthumously inducted into Professional Wrestling Hall
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of Fame in 2002 and the WWE Hall of Fame as part of the Class of
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2010. Muhammad Ali and James Brown
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acknowledged that their own approach to framboyant self
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promotion was influenced by George.
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This was referenced in the 2021 movie One Night in Miami.
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A 19 year old Ali made a 46 year old George at the Las Vegas
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radio station during George's radio interview.
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The restless promo caught the attention of the future
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Heavyweight champion. If George lost the cloudy
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Freddie Blassie George has claimed I'll crawl across the
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ring and cut my hair off. But that's not going to happen
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because I'm the greatest wrestler in the world, Ali, who
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later echoed that very promo when taunting opponent Sonny
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Liston recalled. I saw 15,000 people coming to
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see this man get beat and his talking did it.
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I said this is a good idea. In the locker room afterwards,
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the seasoned veteran wrestler gave the future legend some
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invaluable advice. A lot of people play to see
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someone shut your mouth. So keep on bragging, keep on
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assassin, and always be outrageous.
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Bob Dylan said meeting George changed his life.
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In Dylan's book, The Chronicles volume One, Dylan recounts a
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story of meeting Gorgeous George in person.
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He wrote. He winked and seemed to mouth
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the phrase. You're making it come alive.
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I never forgot it. It was all the recognition,
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encouragement I would need for years.
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He's held three World Heavyweight Championships in AWA
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on May 26th, 1950, in N.W.A Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling on
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November 12th in 1958 and the N.W.A Southern Heavyweight
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Championship in Mid South Sports on March 7th, 1953.
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In his career he's lost two Lucha Depth W US or Wager
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matches, one against Whippy Balor Whipper Billy Watson in a
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career versus Hair match at a live event in Toronto, Canada on
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March 12th, 1959. And the other was his final
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match against the Destroyer in a match versus Hair match, again
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at a live event in Los Angeles, CA on November 7th, 1962.
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Debbie says that she wants a valet, and Carmen says it
26:47
wouldn't make sense. Debbie says that she's Liberty
26:50
Belle and she needs a manservant to carry her enormous American
26:53
flag. Carmen says that she's self-made
26:57
and carries her own props, and Bash agrees.
26:59
There will be no ballet saying that The point is that they each
27:02
need to develop their own gimmick, Melrose points out like
27:06
a shtick. Tammy says she wants an accent.
27:11
Rhonda says she wants one also, but another one that she and the
27:14
one that she currently has. You know she doesn't want a
27:17
British one again, she wants something else.
27:20
Sam says they really need to start figuring out the whole
27:22
show. Everything from gimmicks to
27:24
props to matches and who is fighting who.
27:27
He can't film them doing the hugging move every minute.
27:30
Rhonda asked. What if your gimmick is hugging
27:32
people? Shout out to Bailey at the time
27:36
with a hugger gimmick on NXT and into WE in 2016.
27:42
Next scene Melrose is asking about Rhonda's character.
27:46
Rhonda holds up a copy of a book, Principal Genetics.
27:50
She's smart, does Encyclopedia Britannica, Melrose says.
27:56
Melrose says. Nerd versus party girl, classic
27:59
structure Day high 5? Rhonda asked.
28:03
Maybe she can hit with the book. Melrose says that she can try.
28:08
Rhonda slams the book on Melrose die, and she complained to stop
28:11
hitting her with knowledge. Ruth approaches Sam, saying that
28:16
she has a lot of ideas for characters.
28:19
They include Mint Gillette, a bitchy Southern debutante, and
28:23
the Antichrist, the worst aunt ever, the kind of evil person
28:27
who gives out raisins to kids on Halloween.
28:31
Sam asked who said that she gets to invent her own character.
28:35
Ruth points out that she didn't give him one, and she says he's
28:38
still marinating on it. She says she's anxious when she
28:41
feels like she's behind. She suggests she pair up with
28:45
someone the same size as her. Sam says she can pair up with
28:49
Sheila. Ruth begs him not to, saying
28:52
that there's friction between them.
28:54
Sam can't believe that she's now managed to alienate both Debbie
28:59
and Sheila, asking Ruth if she's radioactive.
29:03
Ruth says there's been some weirdness, and Sam says that's
29:05
great. That means there's conflict.
29:08
He calls Sheila over, declaring Ruth to be fresh meat.
29:12
Ruth says they should talk about the night before, and Sheila
29:15
says they should stick to wrestling.
29:18
Ruth agrees that they should work on her gimmick, saying
29:20
she's already mostly there, but could tap into the wolf thing
29:22
even more. She could have a cage and a
29:26
collar, and the announcer could say that it's a full moon.
29:30
Bash asked if they're doing a werewolf gimmick, saying that he
29:33
loves it. Sheila replies that it doesn't
29:36
make sense because she isn't a werewolf, that those are
29:39
mystical creatures. Bash says the same difference.
29:44
It walks off. She lost their whole interrupal.
29:50
Carmen and Tammy trained together in the middle of the
29:53
ring, Machu Picchu versus the welfare queen.
29:59
Carmen tells her to fight her, but she says she's going to sit,
30:03
watch television, eat some lobster and caviar, all paid for
30:08
by the American taxpayer. Carmen says she's too lazy to
30:13
fight. Damn right agrees Tammy.
30:16
Tammy points to Candy Bar her like a remote, making her go in
30:20
slow motion. Bash loves the gimmick.
30:26
Carmen pulls away the candy bar and they go at it.
30:29
A group of wrestlers walk in, including Carmen's father, the
30:32
legendary Goliath Jackson, who is played by Winston James
30:36
Francis. This 7 foot tall, 330 pound
30:43
giant made his acting debut in 2012, playing heavies, bouncers,
30:47
prison inmates and athletes. His work includes being on
30:51
episodes on TV shows like Sons of Anarchy, Training Day, You're
30:56
the Worst, Brooklyn 99, and Agents of SHIELD to name a few.
31:03
Bash greets him and Goliath asks if he's the promoter.
31:07
Bash says he's more like the brainchild he says they don't
31:11
have a promoter. Goliath asks who's in charge
31:14
while checking the ring ape and if it's stable enough.
31:18
Sam steps forward, saying he is that he's the director.
31:22
Tommy, who is played by N.W.A wrestler and Fox News panelist
31:25
and news personality Tyrus, gets in front of Goliath and asks Sam
31:29
if he directed Star Wars. Sam says no.
31:33
Tommy's disappointed and walks away while the other brother,
31:36
Kurt, played by an unrecognizable Time Carlito
31:40
Cologne, who is currently in the WE as a member of the LWO,
31:44
shakes his head in disappointment and says he loves
31:46
Star Wars. Goliath tells Carmen to go that
31:51
she wrestles over his dead body. She says that he lets Tommy and
31:55
Kurt do it. He says that's different.
31:59
They're big dumb boys that he wants to find a nice man and
32:04
have a family and a job where people treat her with respect.
32:08
She tells him people respect her there, and he says that nobody
32:11
respects the lady wrestler, that she's a size 2, just like
32:16
midgets. Sam tells him he can't talk to
32:19
her like that, but says it's fine.
32:22
That's how they talk. Sam says he can't just come in
32:26
and disrespect one of his actors.
32:28
He may be big and famous, but he's also an asshole who wears
32:31
oversized diapers for a living. Goliath smacks him.
32:39
Sam asked if he's a mouthy housewife for him to be
32:41
backhanded him. Goliath asked if he wants him to
32:45
hit him like a real man, and Sam agrees.
32:47
Whatever it takes to get him out of there, Carmen says she'll go
32:51
apologizing to Sam as they walk out.
32:55
Carmen asked Tommy and Curtis. They at least try to talk to
32:57
him. Bash runs out, begging Carmen to
33:00
wait. He kisses her passionately.
33:04
He says that he understands the shackle of family expectations,
33:07
that her father has nothing on his mother.
33:10
He asked her to introduce him to his family.
33:12
She introduced him as her boyfriend.
33:14
He says that he and Carmen are very much in love, and she
33:17
agrees to. They take their relationship
33:19
very seriously, Bash says. They're taking things slow, and
33:23
Carmen says not too slow because she's moving in with him.
33:27
Goliath says. They're both terrible, that if
33:29
they want to wrestle, they need to learn how to sell.
33:33
Carmen agrees that she lied, and he says she's been lying for
33:36
weeks about a new job at Macy's. She says that's because he
33:41
wouldn't let her audition and she's 25.
33:44
She doesn't need his permission. He can either be supportive or
33:48
she'll leave like Mom did. He stares at blankly at her.
33:56
So a few things here. Carmen smiled like she enjoyed
33:58
that kiss, her character who was inspired by our original GLOW
34:03
wrestler Mount Fiji. Mountain Fiji.
34:06
She's also she was also Samoan back in the 2012 Gorgeous Ladies
34:09
of Wrestling documentary while in the hospital and getting
34:12
ready to attend a reunion with the rest of the girls.
34:15
Fiji had admitted that she had a crush on the director, Matt
34:18
Limber, and even told him to his face at the reunion bash.
34:24
Is not the director here, I understand that, But the fact
34:27
that they included some kind of nod to the crush that Fiji had
34:30
into these two characters rather than Sam himself, which wouldn't
34:34
fit the storyline. It brought great joy to the
34:39
actors who portrayed Mount Fiji before she passed away on
34:41
January 2, 2018. Next scene Tammy brings Sam some
34:48
ice. He says that the guy had £100.00
34:51
on him and fights for a living. It wasn't fair what he did.
34:55
He asks what she wants and she says she asks concerns about her
34:58
character. He invites her to sit down and
35:01
she says her character is offensive.
35:05
Sam says that's the genius of it, Commentary on an existing
35:08
stereotype. It soiled off a fuck you to the
35:11
Republican Party, their welfare reform and race baiting.
35:15
Shit. She asked if other people
35:18
realized that, like her son who goes to Stanford, she doesn't
35:22
want him turning on the TV and getting upset.
35:25
She says she wants a job. He asks if she's never had a
35:29
role she was uncomfortable in before, and she tells him she's
35:32
never had any role. She's only ever done background
35:36
work. Some lines on Scarecrow and
35:38
Missus King and give me a break, he says.
35:41
That sort of work is middle of the road and safe.
35:44
He likes to push the envelope and jolt people into
35:47
consciousness. His first feature was called
35:51
Swamp Maidens of the Vietcong. He has her cassette tape and he
35:55
urges her to watch it, as well as Gina the Machina, which was
35:59
so offensive it was banned in for the United States, which he
36:04
pretty proud of. He gives her several other
36:06
tapes, Couch of Pain, Love, Disco, One and two, telling her
36:11
she needs to watch them and make notes because there's a lot of
36:13
inspiration there. Ruth comes home and finds her
36:19
husband, Mark, there. She asked him what he's doing
36:22
there, saying she's not ready to talk to him.
36:25
He says she's made that pretty clear given that she hangs up
36:28
every time he calls. She tells him to get where he
36:32
needs and get out. He says that he won't.
36:34
He pulls out a piece of paper. She asked if this is a sceptive
36:38
speech. He says he gets flustered, so he
36:41
begins to read. He's been reading a book about
36:44
marriage, and she replied sarcastically that a book is
36:47
really going to solve things. He reads from the notes saying
36:51
that he's moving back in. He's been sleeping on his
36:54
cousin's couch for two weeks and he's given her space.
36:57
She quips that sleeping a couch sounds awful, asking if there's
37:01
anything she can do to make him feel better.
37:05
He says she's still angry and that's fine, but he has the
37:07
rights. He pays the mortgage and the
37:10
utilities, so he's going to stay there in their guest room.
37:12
Slash office slash craft room. If she doesn't like it, she can
37:17
file for divorce. But this is his house.
37:22
He asked if he can put Randy to bed.
37:25
She tells him to be his guest if he wants to sleep there and
37:28
leaves with Randy. I have notes.
37:33
I don't know when I wrote this dude during the week, but I said
37:38
it all caps the audacity of this man.
37:49
There are still a lot of things in this world that we all need
37:52
to learn. Often times these things may
37:55
seem trivial, but lessons nonetheless.
38:00
It's been many years, and now it's time that I told you how it
38:03
all began. It started with a virus, And no,
38:08
not the one you're thinking of. This virus came so quick, there
38:14
was no way we could have prepared for it.
38:17
Everyone was still focused on COVID-19 when it struck.
38:21
Some believed it was a variant, but they were wrong.
38:26
Before we knew it, the world was thrown into chaos.
38:29
Riots broke out in almost every major city.
38:32
Looters began taking whatever they could in each other's
38:36
lives. People lost loved ones.
38:40
They lost homes, and some lost themselves.
38:45
After about two weeks, civilization had crumbled into a
38:49
land of lawlessness. Everything seemed lost until
38:55
they found people. That's when we gained the one
38:59
thing we all deserved. Hope.
39:07
On April 15th, 2022, my heart began to beat the purpose once
39:13
again. This is the story of Raising
39:18
Hope with you.
39:43
Ruth enters her shared room with Sheila, who was on her bed
39:46
reading The Clan of The Cave Bear, a 1980 novel and epic work
39:51
of prehistoric fiction by John M oh about prehistoric times.
39:56
It is the first book in the Earth's children's book series
39:59
which speculates on the possibilities of interactions
40:01
between a Neanderthal and modern CRO Magnon humans.
40:06
I'm guessing Sheila's going to go to premiere the following
40:08
year. When it hits theaters, Ruth lies
40:11
down the bed only to find a dead animal.
40:14
She shouts and gets up. She asks Sheila what it is, and
40:17
Sheila says that it's a squirrel.
40:21
Ruth asked what's wrong with her, that she would kill it.
40:24
She says that she didn't, that she found it and brought it
40:26
home. She suggests that maybe Ruth
40:29
should sleep somewhere else. Ruth grabs a towel and picks up
40:33
a squirrel, telling Sheila that she's not going anywhere.
40:36
She look and take the squirrel and sleep somewhere else
40:39
herself. You God damn werewolf.
40:44
Sheila says that she just called her a wolf.
40:45
She says that most people call her a freak and thanks her.
40:49
She takes the towel deposits outside.
40:52
She tells Ruth that she's worn her costume, or some version of
40:55
it, every day for the past five years.
40:57
She says it's not a costume, it's who she is, She says.
41:01
It's not for Ruth, it's for her. Ruth tells her that she gets it.
41:07
Sheila says that she knows she's human, but she says that she's a
41:10
wolf. Spiritually, Ruth tells her that
41:14
when she was 10, her grandfather died and she was depressed.
41:18
She connected with Anne of Green Gables and wore a straw hat and
41:21
fluff puffy sleeves to school every day for a whole year.
41:25
Sheila smiles, saying that she hasn't lived with anyone in a
41:27
very long time. Me neither agrees Ruth.
41:32
Sheila suggests that they could have a system for privacy.
41:36
Ruth suggests the old sock on the door trick.
41:39
Sheila puts a sock on the door and Ruth realizes she means
41:42
right now. Ruth leaves and Sheila put the
41:45
top security lock on. Back to the bustle.com article.
41:51
Shannon Carlin ends with with like so many other women
41:54
especially, the kind of show who show up an open call for a
41:57
mysterious new series about female wrestling.
42:00
Sheila just wants to be seen and feel validated for who she is,
42:04
not what others think she should be.
42:06
As an as an actor. Rankin can relate to Sheila
42:10
since so much of the sitting in Hollywood is figuring out how to
42:13
fit in while also trying to stand out.
42:19
Quote You know, I struggle like every woman does, with feeling
42:22
confident and good in my own skin.
42:25
Rank and admit, and Glow's definitely given me a new way of
42:29
living. Looking at what my body can do
42:31
and it's used, and the power of bravery and strength and how can
42:35
make you feel is liberating rank and chalks.
42:39
That liberated feeling up to working side by side with so
42:42
many strong women, from the actors to the creators of the
42:45
show's executive producer, Angie Kohan, who created Netflix
42:50
original Orange Is the New Black.
42:52
It created an environment where it felt like we were the people
42:55
in power, she says. We were made powerful people.
42:59
We were made powerful because there were powerful women
43:02
telling us we're powerful. Tammy hosted viewing at one of
43:08
Sam's videos. Let this go, she tells the other
43:11
girls to prepare themselves to be offended, disgusted and
43:15
horrified. Vicki reads the back of the box
43:18
of the movie Quote Every night a group of friends attend the
43:21
greatest dance party of their lives, knowing that there's a
43:25
Stroke of dawn. One of them Will you be randomly
43:29
murdered? Who is the monster in the mirror
43:32
mask From Shock Master Sam. Sylvia Blood Disco is a
43:38
disturbing morality tale for our generation.
43:41
End Quote Keith joins the group and asks Jenny who she is.
43:47
Keith joins the group and Jenny asks who he is.
43:50
He explains that he's Cherry's husband.
43:52
Jenny asks where Cherry is and he says that she's taking a
43:55
shower because there's no hot water in the morning because
43:57
there are 14 other women living in the Shitty Rundown Motel.
44:03
Next scene, Debbie makes moves. Next scene, Debbie moved into
44:08
the hotel where Bash has told the staff there to give her a
44:11
poolside view. She's brought Randy with her
44:14
instead. He gets a view of the parking
44:17
lot back downstairs as the film viewing continues, key points
44:23
saying that he's in the film as a guy on a motorcycle.
44:27
Tammy notes he's worked with Sam before and he agrees, saying
44:30
that he worked with him twice and partied with him for five
44:33
years. After that, she asked if he
44:35
could trust him or if he's just another white racist.
44:38
Director Keith says that in his experience, he's more sexist
44:42
than racist. The film suddenly cuts off in
44:46
the middle of a scene and Sam shows up talking instead.
44:49
He says that he's a filmmaker and that people say he has a
44:53
zany sense of humor. He's smoking and says that if he
44:57
can't stand smoker, you should just Fast forward to his next
45:01
schmuck. He says that he's at the age
45:05
where he's looking for a partner he can't.
45:07
He can stand with a great smile and a great figure, someone who
45:11
doesn't tear him apart like a banshee.
45:13
When he makes a mistake, someone who is fun and not a hypocrite.
45:18
Under 30, he says to choose him because his cock works great.
45:24
The film cuts back on. Stacey quips that she'd date
45:27
him, saying that he's cute and lonely and his cock works great.
45:32
Don tells her not to believe anything she sees on television.
45:36
Keith says he's out of there. He feels embarrassed.
45:41
He's uncomfortable. Tammy says she doesn't know
45:44
about them, but she learned a lot Tonight.
45:48
Debbie walks outside, humming while holding Randy walking
45:52
towards the pool. She sits down in the chair by
45:55
the pool. She sees Ruth sleeping in
45:58
another chair on the other side. Again, she feels broken inside.
46:04
Here was her best friend who slept with her husband and she
46:07
is outside with her watching her sleep on the chair.
46:11
She ignores it and lies down herself and the episode ends
46:14
there when over his shaws of pool and both of them at
46:17
opposite ends of the pool. Maybe it's me, but honestly
46:24
thought this shot was great. Opposite ends of the pool there
46:29
at opposite ends in the storyline.
46:31
What if Debbie wanted to put Randy down, run over, and kick
46:34
her some more? But it makes for an interesting
46:37
storyline later when two people who hate each other wrestle
46:40
against one another. More on that in later episodes.
46:46
The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Production
46:48
Design for a Narrative program Half hour or less.
46:53
Character development on this episode is top notch.
46:56
All the girls are finding ways to include their gimmicks.
46:58
Earlier there was a scene where Fortune Cookie was practicing
47:01
with a sword. Perhaps everyone has a place on
47:05
the show except for Ruth who is trying to find her place.
47:08
She soon will, but this point in time she's struggling and Sam
47:11
hasn't thought of a gimmick for her yet.
47:15
That's going to do it for tonight.
47:17
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