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The Chicken Sisters Episode 7 · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Hi friends, Meghan and Wendy. Here and in honor of
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Speaker 1: Hallmark airing The Chicken Sisters on Hallmark Channel, we are
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Speaker 1: re airing our original reviews and recaps of these episodes
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Speaker 1: that were originally recorded back in September and October of
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. So enjoy the Chicken Sisters and enjoy
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Speaker 1: these recaps and reviews.
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Speaker 2: This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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Speaker 1: Well, welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Homewark review podcast.
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Speaker 1: I'm Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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Speaker 3: I'm Windy.
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Speaker 1: I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today we're discussing Chicken Sisters
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Speaker 1: Episode seven.
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Speaker 2: It's just junk y'all.
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Speaker 1: Alternate title I fall to pieces if you're keeping up
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Speaker 1: with the two title phenomenon happening, and I'm going to
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Speaker 1: tell you I kind of like the song title series
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Speaker 1: that happens on the IMDb titles of these episodes. I
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Speaker 1: can't help but wonder did they just decide that's the
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: dot com. And we'd like to discuss a little more
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Speaker 1: feedback we've received since our last episode before we hop
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Speaker 1: into our thoughts on this one. I had posed the
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Speaker 1: question on the last episode, do we think Frank Junior
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Speaker 1: is abusive? And we both had said maybe not. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's there's no it does a being I said maybe not.
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Speaker 1: I said, you said emotionally abusive.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, verbally abusive.
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Speaker 1: There's obviously no evidence of being him being physically abusive.
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Speaker 1: I was on the fence, but we got some feedback
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Speaker 1: that suggests otherwise, and wanted to share that perspective.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: The first one comes from a listener who wants to
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Speaker 4: remain anonymous, and they write, Yes, Frank Junior is verbally
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Speaker 4: and emotionally abusive, Amanda is stuck in an abusive relationship,
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Speaker 4: and you can't always leave those kinds of relationships. And
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Speaker 4: the scenes with Frank Junior listening to the radio in
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Speaker 4: his car are signs of underlying anger issues that could
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Speaker 4: quickly lead to physical abuse. And then goes on to say, sorry,
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Speaker 4: struck a nerve and had to get that out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate that perspective. I agree the scenes with
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Speaker 1: him in the car are very troubling. Yeah, the way
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Speaker 1: he reacts to this particular podcast, he is like seeking
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Speaker 1: what it seems to me is like he's seeking power
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Speaker 1: from where he doesn't feel like he has it in
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Speaker 1: his home, and so he's sourcing his power from this
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Speaker 1: hard podcast. It's so gross to me. So I do
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Speaker 1: appreciate that perspective. Frank Junior does not get any better
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Speaker 1: in this episode. But before we talk details, let's here
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Speaker 1: are synopsis.
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Speaker 4: Sure, despite their differences, the town rallies around Gus, Amanda
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Speaker 4: and May in a time of need. Meanwhile, Sabrina starts
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Speaker 4: to doubt her tactics on kitchen clash.
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Speaker 1: A few news and notes about this episode. Episode seven
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Speaker 1: was written by Aaron Gibson. Aaron is a comedian, writer, podcaster,
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Speaker 1: and director known for her works on projects like Gay
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Speaker 1: of Thrones, for Funnier Die, and Tiny Toons University. She
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Speaker 1: also co hosts a political comedy podcast called Attitudes that
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Speaker 1: covers pop culture, women's rights, and LGBTQ plus issues.
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Speaker 4: Monica Mitchell directed this episode. She has thirty previous directing credits,
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Speaker 4: including Virgin River, Firefly Lane, a couple of Hallmark movies,
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Speaker 4: and two episodes of Date My Dad, Heyo.
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Speaker 1: Angela Cistio is the credited music supervisor for this episode.
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Speaker 1: Shout out for using the song March of the Swivelheads,
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Speaker 1: which was famously used in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and
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Speaker 1: so perfectly used in this episode.
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Speaker 2: Didn't you think so? I loved it in that movie
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Speaker 2: a lot, of course.
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Speaker 1: Yes. As soon as I heard it, I was like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, and oh my god, she's running the
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Speaker 1: same way like Ferris Dealers.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I loved it.
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Speaker 1: The gen X audience was like, Brain's exploding, totally, totally.
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Speaker 4: Drew Henderson plays Sheriff Lawrence. He has eighteen acting credits,
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Speaker 4: but is no stranger to Hallmark, having appeared in an
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Speaker 4: Easter Bloom Wedding season and The Wedding Cottage. Before you
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Speaker 4: run down the key events of this episode, we're going
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Speaker 4: to take a quick break for an ad and we'll
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Speaker 4: be right back. This episode, unlike many past episodes, largely
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Speaker 4: has one key plot point with a few little satellites
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Speaker 4: orbiting around it, and that is dealing with Gus's home.
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Speaker 4: We're dealing obviously with the aftermath here of Frank Junior
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Speaker 4: calling the health department.
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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And I liked the parallel opening here where Frank
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Speaker 1: Junior is I use liked loosely in terms of the
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Speaker 1: directing of it. I like Frank Junior being passed out
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Speaker 1: in the phone booth. We check in on where everyone
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Speaker 1: is sleeping. It's kind of like the parade of the
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Speaker 1: flowered pillowcases. Like we see Nancy and we see guys
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Speaker 1: who has a quite serene sleeping situation inspite the chaos
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Speaker 1: of the rest.
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Speaker 2: Of her home.
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Speaker 1: May and Jay sleeping in different beds. I like this
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Speaker 1: way of checking in on them. But then my notes
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Speaker 1: say in all caps, WTF, Amanda, I have no words.
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Speaker 2: I can't.
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Speaker 1: I'm like beating a dead horse like I And I
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Speaker 1: know that there's listeners out there who disagree with me,
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Speaker 1: but her choices are all wrong. Here are we to
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Speaker 1: believe that they slept together or just like, oh, they
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Speaker 1: fell asleep in the bed of the truck.
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Speaker 2: Make it out.
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Speaker 4: I don't know. Did it lean one way or the
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Speaker 4: other for you?
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Speaker 1: I I mean, she's fully clothed. So I didn't feel
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Speaker 1: like we were to infer that they had slept together,
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Speaker 1: more that they just like had a moment and fell asleep.
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Speaker 1: But they did move from the cab of the truck
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Speaker 1: to the bed of the truck. Maybe they were gonna
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Speaker 1: look at the stars, snuggle up under the blanket.
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Speaker 4: Look, I'm too old. The thought of laying in the
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Speaker 4: back of a truck bed never.
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Speaker 1: Never, you would be able to walk the next morning,
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Speaker 1: the next week, come on, come on. Yeah. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was like a good opening. We're showing where everybody
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Speaker 1: was at. And then of course, like Amanda's like freak out, like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, oh my god, what happened? I slept
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Speaker 1: here all night long like a teenager and her running home.
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Speaker 1: The greatest thing though, is like when Shawna pulls up
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Speaker 1: and she's.
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Speaker 3: Like, oh no, no, no no.
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Speaker 1: Because she knows, she knows Shanna is gonna like Shawna
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Speaker 1: knows all the dirt obviously, and I think I think
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Speaker 1: she thought like shot was coming with gossip about her
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Speaker 1: and Sergio already.
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Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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Speaker 4: You know, it turns out Shauna has information about the
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Speaker 4: call to the health department.
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Speaker 2: So I want to tell you.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stop here and tell you that I thought
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Speaker 1: this episode was so much better than the last several episodes.
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Speaker 2: Mmmmm.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the.
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Speaker 2: Writers, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: Can I just say, like, when you have and I
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Speaker 1: don't know how common this is because I've never really
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Speaker 1: looked at it that closely, but when you have a
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Speaker 1: series and then you have different writers for each episode that, like,
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Speaker 1: I imagine it's probably hard to be cohesive in the storytelling.
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Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if this is true. I think that
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Speaker 1: some episodes are better than others, and I think I
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Speaker 1: might hope to do with the writers. Yeah, I don't
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Speaker 1: have any idea how that works, and I think it's
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Speaker 1: probably show dependent right. I think there's a very clear
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Speaker 1: writing style that we see if we were to go
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Speaker 1: back and look at each of these episodes, I like
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Speaker 1: that we kind of dig in here on this one
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Speaker 1: main plot point. You know, we dig in on Gus's house. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: this isn't something we could have done earlier in the
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Speaker 1: season of this show. But some of these episodes, I
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Speaker 1: like how fast paced they are. You know, we're jumping
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Speaker 1: back and forth from storyline to storyline, but it can
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Speaker 1: sometimes feel a little bit frantic, and so it was
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Speaker 1: nice to slow down, zero in focus on this one
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Speaker 1: location and this one idea and how it's affecting everybody
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Speaker 1: else for this one episode before we get to the
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Speaker 1: episode eight resolution.
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Speaker 2: Will there be resolution in episode eight?
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Speaker 1: You know? I cannot figure out what is going to happen.
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Speaker 1: My friend Karen listened to the audiobook of The Chicken Sisters,
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Speaker 1: and so she was I was talking to her about
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Speaker 1: the show, and she doesn't subscribe to Hallmark Plus, and
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Speaker 1: she's like, well, I listened to the first coup full
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Speaker 1: of episodes of your podcast. She goes, I found the
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Speaker 1: book frustrating to read, so I'm not sure that I
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Speaker 1: want to watch the show. And she doesn't have Hollmark
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Speaker 1: plus anyway. But you know, I've explained to the changes
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Speaker 1: to her and she's like, yeah, I don't know how
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Speaker 1: you reconcile that with the way the book ends. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I have no idea. I can't envision the ending, and
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Speaker 1: I can't envision an ending because the book ends kind
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Speaker 1: of in a harmonious place, and I don't see a
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Speaker 1: harmonious ending.
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Speaker 2: For all of our players here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think they're definitely hoping for a season two for sure. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because I mean, you've told me what happens in the book,
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Speaker 1: and I just can't see how that definitely not It's
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Speaker 1: not it's not going to happen one more episode left.
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Speaker 1: We of course spend a lot of time clearing out
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Speaker 1: Gus's house, and I have to tell you it stressed
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Speaker 1: me out watching the very little bit of proper it
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Speaker 1: seemed to be happening, Oh for sure. And also I
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Speaker 1: was like, do y'all not have like a rubbish service
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Speaker 1: in town? You can call and be like, bring the
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Speaker 1: biggest dumpster you have so we can load all of
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Speaker 1: this up.
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Speaker 2: You seem to know.
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Speaker 1: Every the Sheriff's here, every single person in town is
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Speaker 1: here and you're just loading this all out onto the
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Speaker 1: front lawn.
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Speaker 2: I was like, get rid of it.
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Speaker 3: Have a system.
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Speaker 1: You guys are just moving shit around.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was frustrating. And I've watched a lot of
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Speaker 4: like horder type shows before, and I think the process
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Speaker 4: is probably slow moving because of the person who's you know,
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Speaker 4: not dealing well with getting rid of this stuff. You know,
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Speaker 4: it's like a push and pull scenario.
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Speaker 3: Huh.
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Speaker 1: Yes, But in this episode, I was like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: pull a dumpster up and just start throwing shit into
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Speaker 1: it because you have something bigger on a line here.
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Speaker 1: You know, she potentially could lose her business. Yet, yes,
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Speaker 1: you look at the bigger picture, and particularly given that
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Speaker 1: May had taken over and things were happening and moving,
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Speaker 1: and yes, Gus was trying to slow the process down.
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Speaker 1: It just it felt inefficient and it was frustrating to me,
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Speaker 1: and I just imagined being in that situation feeling overwhelmed.
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Speaker 1: And spoiler alert if you haven't read the book and
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Speaker 1: you'd like to top forward thirty seconds, Gus does not
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Speaker 1: burn her house down in the book.
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Speaker 2: That is really that's a yo.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, that's a big shocking moment. Interesting that's
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Speaker 1: very interesting. Can I tell you something I really loved
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Speaker 1: about this episode? Sure, I love the growth we're seeing
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Speaker 1: from Sabrina as a producer. One thing I was worried
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Speaker 1: about coming into this show is Sabrina in the book
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Speaker 1: is kind of nasty. Sabrina in the book never has
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Speaker 1: like a oh, maybe we're making gotcha television and I
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Speaker 1: should rethink that.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Sabrina just wants to produce the kind of show that's
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Speaker 1: gonna get people talking and gonna catch people at their worst.
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Speaker 1: There's scenes where they're almost like hijinxy, like hiding from
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Speaker 1: Sabrina and like hiding behind the car so she doesn't
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Speaker 1: see them get there, so she won't you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. And in this we we'd see that in
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Speaker 1: her in the beginning, but when the casting was announced
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Speaker 1: and I was like, you know, I love Rukia Bernard
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Speaker 1: and I don't want to root against her for an
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Speaker 1: entire season. And so one of the best surprises has
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Speaker 1: been that Sabrina's character is so fun. But in this episode,
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Speaker 1: where we see that she makes the decision to not
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Speaker 1: use personally damaging footage.
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Speaker 2: I like that growth. I did too.
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Speaker 1: I thought that was a really good scene when May
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Speaker 1: comes to her and like basically begs her and please
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Speaker 1: don't do it. She's like, I didn't. It's fine, you know, Like, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I love Sabrina, I think though, I think I love
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Speaker 1: Rukia Bernard Bernard for sure. Yeah, I think I love
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Speaker 1: her more like I don't know what it is. She
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Speaker 1: brings a really nice warmth to that character who I
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Speaker 1: can see being like very nasty.
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah. They could have they could have gone
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Speaker 2: several different ways.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I thought it was a really
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Speaker 1: funny one when she was she has like an issue
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Speaker 1: in her hotel room and she got all like gussied
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Speaker 1: up for Gruster and it wasn't him.
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Speaker 2: Who Where's Groster?
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Speaker 1: I think it's funny and I hope to see more
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Speaker 1: from that if there is a season two. Yeah, more
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Speaker 1: Grestor please. A couple other little moments we don't get
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Speaker 1: a lot of resolution on this. This is one of
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Speaker 1: like before Sabrina kind of has her light bulb moment,
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Speaker 1: Lindsay is the one who's like, mom, this is not cool,
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Speaker 1: and Sabrina's like, what are you talking about? Like you're
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Speaker 1: just hanging out with her because I made you, and
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Speaker 1: of course Frankie runs away hurt. I don't think there's
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Speaker 1: any resolution on the Frankie and Lindsay friendship, because I
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Speaker 1: do think they began as like a here, I'll pay
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Speaker 1: you if you you can have your phone back or
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Speaker 1: whatever it was, if you go hang out with this girl.
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Speaker 1: But it seemed like they had developed a genuine friendship.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That kind of broke my heart a little bit. And
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Speaker 1: then Sabrina was like, oh, if my kid is saying
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Speaker 1: like this isn't cool, I maybe need to rethink the
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Speaker 1: way I'm doing my job. Yeah, totally.
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Speaker 2: And then the May and Jay of it all. How
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Speaker 2: awesome is Jay? I know, I just love him.
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Speaker 4: I've been saying for weeks like I really like May,
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Speaker 4: and I think May has grown the most. Jay is
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Speaker 4: just so understanding and she had nothing to be afraid
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Speaker 4: to tell him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah he really.
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Speaker 1: He's like none of these things matter to him, you know, yes,
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Speaker 1: And he takes a doll in and she's like, you know,
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Speaker 1: you're not mad that I lied to you for the
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Speaker 1: entire He's like, well, I don't love that, but you know,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't the content of the lie that he was
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Speaker 1: bothered by Yeah, Yeah.
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Speaker 4: What'd you think about the scenes. There were a couple
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Speaker 4: of really great scenes. I thought when Gus and Sergio
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Speaker 4: talk and they're sitting outside of her house while people
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Speaker 4: are giving it up, and she shares how like she
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Speaker 4: grew up in that house and how it was wonderful
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Speaker 4: and like how you know, after her mom died all
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Speaker 4: the stuff like made her feel safe, and how she
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Speaker 4: was feeling regretful and wished for a do over, and
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Speaker 4: Sergio tells her it's never too late. I just thought
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Speaker 4: it was so nice, Like I think you need people
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Speaker 4: in your life to reassure you that, like, hey, you're
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Speaker 4: not a terrible human and whatever change you want to make,
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Speaker 4: it's never too late. I just thought it was a
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Speaker 4: really really good scene.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I like that she acknowledged, like, you know, I
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Speaker 1: was her and in return I hurt my girls too. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I think that is such an important lesson, like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: it's been bad and it came from this, these were
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Speaker 1: your reasons, this is how you reacted to it. But
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Speaker 1: you still have whatever the rest of your life looks like,
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Speaker 1: and why not change it to be the life that
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Speaker 1: you want and then burning it all to the ground.
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Speaker 1: Is such like a beautiful visible metaphor for Ude. Starting
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Speaker 1: over that scene when she burns her house down, I
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Speaker 1: was like, whoa, I thought it was so good.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was so good too.
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Speaker 1: I'm spoiling one of my cluckworthy moments because it's it
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Speaker 1: was shocking to me as a person who's read the book,
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Speaker 1: and I think, like we said, like things have to change,
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Speaker 1: Like you need a big shocking shake up moment, and
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Speaker 1: we cannot just clean up this mess and start over,
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Speaker 1: like you do need to burn it to the ground
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Speaker 1: and start fresh with your relationships, with the way you
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Speaker 1: live your life, with all of the secrets. We do
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Speaker 1: see Frankie find that letter addressed to Mimi, Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: we never we don't see the resolution of that either
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Speaker 1: where she's gonna take that yeah question. So she's going
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Speaker 1: through all that stuff and she sees that letter to
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Speaker 1: Mimi from nineteen twelve.
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Speaker 2: I paused the TV.
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Speaker 4: I read the letter. It says something like whoever wrote
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Speaker 4: it was like I'm not in a place to be
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Speaker 4: a father. And then like Frankie looks like she has
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Speaker 4: some sort of realization and like takes off. But I
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Speaker 4: was like, what's happened what's the realization here? What does
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Speaker 4: the letter mean? Do you have any insight we You know,
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Speaker 4: at the.
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Speaker 1: Very beginning of the series, we're told that, like, the
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Speaker 1: feud stems from the fact that, like, Franny's husband had
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Speaker 1: an affair with Maybe, but nobody ever knew if that
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Speaker 1: was true, And then we learn like, okay, so who
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Speaker 1: is related to whom now in the Franny's and Miami's world,
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Speaker 1: right right, I'm curious to see the resolution of that letter.
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Speaker 1: I'm curious to see if Nancy pulls her head out
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Speaker 1: of her ass and stops defending and supporting her son.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's talk about that for a second. When
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Speaker 1: she when she confronts Amanda, have you been disloyal to
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Speaker 1: Frank Junior? And a man basically like doesn't doesn't confirm,
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Speaker 1: but it says like he's been disloyal to all of us.
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, huh, it's just I I need that
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Speaker 1: that to end. Nancy's such a disappointment to me. M m, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but I just need that storyline to I don't envy
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Speaker 1: Nancy's position. I don't envy being in a place where
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Speaker 1: you like your kids sucks, and now all you want
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Speaker 1: is for them to be the kind of man that
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Speaker 1: you believed your husband to be, although obviously it's pretty
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Speaker 1: clear that that's not who he was was, but you
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Speaker 1: believed him to be like a good man who was
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Speaker 1: worthy of respect. He took Frank Junior to work and
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Speaker 1: was trying to take him under his wing, and Frank
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Speaker 1: Junior disappointed him.
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Speaker 2: He's like, well you're out.
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Speaker 3: That's it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so the more we learned about Frank Senior, the
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Speaker 1: less there is to like about him. But come on, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: just as you said before, someone needs to shake her. Yeah, totally.
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Speaker 1: I just wouldn't that gonna happen, Or if it's gonna happen,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no idea.
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Speaker 2: Of course.
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Speaker 4: The episode ends the house burning and Gus collapses, and
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Speaker 4: we are finally getting to her health issues.
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Speaker 2: Finally.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was a good ending, though me too.
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Speaker 1: What I was going to say is, in spite of
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Speaker 1: the fact that we've been hinting at her health issues
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Speaker 1: all season long, I was mostly able to forget about
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Speaker 1: that and that this episode because it wasn't addressed, our
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Speaker 1: attention wasn't dry to it. So it is a shocking
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Speaker 1: moment when she passes out in.
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Speaker 2: Front of the girls. That was good.
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Speaker 1: All right, are you ready for cluckworthy moments? I am
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Speaker 1: go ahead. Well, we've discussed it already. But the ending
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Speaker 1: scene with the fire in the collapse was great. But
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Speaker 1: another scene that I really liked is the scene where
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Speaker 1: Shauna arrives to tell Amanda about the health department call.
21:26
Speaker 1: Her character displays such emotional range in that scene. She
21:30
Speaker 1: starts with a very Shawna style story, and then she
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Speaker 1: softens when she breaks the news that the health department
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Speaker 1: has been called, and then jump to them in the
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Speaker 1: car where a man is like, you can't tell anybody
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Speaker 1: about this, and she's very sincere when she says like,
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Speaker 1: of course she won't, but then of course immediately into
21:48
Speaker 1: a joke about the next dropping a year way. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: I think it's great. I really love the character of Shauna.
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Speaker 1: I love Shauna too. I was thinking about is Amanda
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Speaker 1: and Shawna I supposed to be best friends.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that Amanda has a best friend.
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Speaker 1: Well my thought was like, oh, here Shauna is running
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Speaker 1: to tell Amanda about the health violation, but Shawna didn't
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Speaker 1: tell Amanda about Frank Junior and his Bessectwe.
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Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: I don't get the impression they're supposed to best friends.
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Speaker 1: They're co workers, and I think in this moment she
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Speaker 1: was like, Amanda needs to know this information.
22:30
Speaker 2: Got it.
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Speaker 1: One of my clickworthy moments.
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Speaker 4: Was and it has to go back to the writing,
22:36
Speaker 4: but Amanda goes to Gus and tells her about the
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Speaker 4: health violation and Gus says, Mimi's is cleaner than a
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Speaker 4: stripper poll on a Monday.
22:50
Speaker 2: Why want a collection?
22:54
Speaker 1: Yeah? I want a collection of these Southern one liners
22:57
Speaker 1: that I get in this series. So funny, very funny.
23:01
Speaker 1: My final clockworthy moment is the scene where there's a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a role reversal where Amanda comes to May.
23:06
Speaker 1: May is having a bit of a panic attack in
23:08
Speaker 1: the mess and Amanda comes to her rescue for once
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Speaker 1: and talks her through it. And I appreciated that May.
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Speaker 1: You know, May's been the one helping everyone along since
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Speaker 1: she was a child, and she had someone do that
23:22
Speaker 1: for her.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
23:23
Speaker 1: I enjoyed that too. Did you like when May would
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Speaker 1: like to deal with what she was dealing with, like
23:29
Speaker 1: go into her like Sparkle host one hundred percent? I
23:33
Speaker 1: thought it was a really funny and b have you
23:38
Speaker 1: ever like like, I'm just gonna pretend that someone can
23:41
Speaker 1: see me, and I'm going to do this at like
23:43
Speaker 1: romanticizing your own life, and you're like, I'm going to
23:45
Speaker 1: wash the dishes as if someone's recording it.
23:48
Speaker 2: I totally get it.
23:51
Speaker 1: I one time when I had this job, and when
23:53
Speaker 1: used to it just so stupid.
23:54
Speaker 3: I can't even believe.
23:55
Speaker 1: I'm like, but we had like key cards to get
23:59
Speaker 1: into like the behind the doors, and I would pretend
24:04
Speaker 1: like I was like on Alias, that show Alias. She's
24:10
Speaker 1: trying to get.
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Speaker 4: Through the workday, whatever it takes.
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Speaker 1: So stupid, Okay, so funny. I can't believe I admitted
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Speaker 1: that who's your fathered friend of the week?
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Speaker 2: It is Gus.
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Speaker 4: Actually, I thought it was quite moving that she finally
24:29
Speaker 4: realized what was most important to her and that where
24:32
Speaker 4: that was her girls, and that she just needed to
24:37
Speaker 4: do something different about it. So I thought that was
24:39
Speaker 4: really good. Yeah, I think that's a great choice. Mine
24:43
Speaker 4: is Jay, simply for the introduction of a new character
24:46
Speaker 4: who's a real soft side of this show that we've
24:51
Speaker 4: been needing. It just made me feel Mormon, fuzzy and
24:55
Speaker 4: comfy and happy for me that she has someone like that.
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