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Episode 148 - GLOW S2E10 - Every Potato Has A Receipt · My Third Place Pod

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, and follow fatherless
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behavior cult members. I'm kidding.
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We're not a We're not a cult. But we could be a cult of.
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Personality. You see what I did there?
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Never mind. Welcome to episode 140 Something
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8 or another where we try to hide from our responsibilities
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as adults and record from under the apron.
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As you can all tell by the Swift intro, I don't have much to say
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from my intro monologue from the cold open that I usually do.
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Maybe next time. Maybe next time I will.
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Maybe next time I'll have something in my head and it'll
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just come out like poetry. I I, I, I can't take this thing
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so serious. You know that I don't.
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This isn't poetry. This is just random burst,
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outburst of word vomit. Is that what that girl from Mean
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Girl said? Word vomit.
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Word. Bomb it.
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OK, let's get serious for a moment.
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This is episode 148 and for those that are new, this is a
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recap and review episode of TV series GLOW on Netflix, a show
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about the courteous ladies of wrestling that was set in the
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80s. I will have bits of trivia here
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and there with additional interviews from the creators,
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directors that started the show throughout the years.
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All in all, makes for an awesome episode you haven't watched.
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If you haven't yet watched GLOW, excuse me, there's that word
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bombing I was talking about. If you haven't yet watched GLOW,
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I suggest you do GLOW and follow along as I recap and tell you
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what I saw the episode. If you haven't yet, check out
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Episode 123. That is episode 123.
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We're talking about the first season in pilot episode GLOW.
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If you won't want to go back and listen, this is Season 2,
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Episode 10 Season finale. Finally, we're here.
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Oh goodness. We We're done.
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I'm done. I'm done.
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I'm. I'm here.
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I'm at the end of the second season.
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This is season two of us with the hand of GLOW on Netflix
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titled Every Potato Has A Receipt.
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The title of the episode is a wrestling reference.
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A potato is hitting your opponent for real with a hard
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punch. A receipt is hitting your
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opponent back with a hard punch after he or she gave you a
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potato. So either or either or.
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What do you want? A potato or receipt?
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I'll take the potato. This episode was directed by
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Jesse Perez, who also directed the pilot episode and season
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one, episode one and season seven episode 7 live Studio
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audios. So now does he direct the first
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episode the first season of ever directed?
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The last episode of second season.
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Season 7 live studio Season one, episode 7 live studio audience
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which was pretty much trying to remember that one.
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No I don't. Written by Marquita Robinson.
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Season 2 episode one Viking Funeral.
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You know Vicki gets fired. That's why I was called the
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Viking Funeral, because she gets kicked out of the group.
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And season 2 Episode 6 worked the leg where Debbie.
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Accidentally would we call? That an accident where she like,
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destroyed ruthless knee, ankle, leg.
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Was that an accident? She she did some stuff.
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She smoked, She smoked. No, she didn't.
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She sniffed some cocaine and then we went to work on the leg
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and just broke it. You heard the crack.
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All right, let's get to the synopsis.
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Wedding bells are ringing as a wrestler step through the ropes
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for big finale, but last minute twist catch everyone off guard.
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The cold open is Ronda and the rest of the little girls are in
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a radio station. And she says.
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And after I gave him a tour of my laboratory, we each put a
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lock of our hair into the beaker to make sure we're compatible.
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You know, scientifically, which we are.
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And so I said, yes, I'll marry him.
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The radio DJ Dan, played by Jake Valdes, who's written for shows
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like the Marvel series, Runaways, The Ron Burgundy
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Podcast. Ron Burgundy has a podcast.
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You know what? I'm going to go listen to that
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podcast by the I'm, I'm, I'm, I I'm curious, like, why?
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Why not? Why not?
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Why not The Rod Burgundy Podcast and The Tonight Show with Jimmy
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Fallon? Fred, you, DJ Dan confirmed this
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to the audience that are listening.
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So marrying a fan of television, OK, come on, this has to be some
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kind of stunt, right? Russell comes in late telling
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the other girls sorry we forgot to start an alarm.
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Melrose looks over as Ruth, who is dressed as Zoya and asked
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Russell if you also forget to tell her to cover that Hickey.
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Russell doesn't think it's noticeable.
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Pan over the roof and her right side is covered in bite marks.
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Wow, Sheila says it looks like Lychee made a home on her neck.
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Rhonda talks to the DJ, saying it's not a stunt, it's a
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wedding. Did DJ ask?
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Is it just for television? Rhonda says it's very real.
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And she got the marriage license right here.
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Who shows up to the radio station with a real marriage
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license just to prove what? She shouts to the DJ Ruth.
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Swings the microphone and yells, Yes, Zoya hate American wedding
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is is buguas capitalist scam for make huge TV ratings, Danielle,
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the DJ, says. OK, it's Dan.
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It's Dan, not Danielle. And let's talk about rating for
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a second. You girls have become quite the
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sleeper hit in Los Angeles. Our phone lines are lighting up
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like crazy. You must have some very
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dedicated fans, Rhonda says They do.
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They would marry all their fans if they could.
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If they Never mind. The DJ says they got time for
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one more call. Hello, you're on with the
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gorgeous ladies, The rest of the caller yells.
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This is big Kurt Jackson of the Lumberjacksons and I'm chopping
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mad at Machu Picchu. Get it?
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Chopping, 'cause he does the chop at the very end.
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Yeah, it's fucking lumberjack, whatever.
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Carmen swings the microphone towards her and says hey Kurt,
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can we talk about this later? Privately, Kurt says it's too
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late for talking. You went on live TV and used my
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moves, you're a liar, a thief, DJ says.
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DJ Dance says. Wow, very dramatic stuff of
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macho. Any reaction?
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Liberty Bells times in and says Machu Picchu is one of the most
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honorable wrestlers that I've known behind every lady wrestler
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hoping to make it as a man trying to bring her down.
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So if you all want to see our moves and come to our big
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wedding finale this Thursday night and see if I can hold on
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to my crown, DJ Dan cuts her off and says, well, that's our show.
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If you can't make it down to the taping TuneIn to KDTV Saturday
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at 2:00 AM, this is Dan Lyon and we're lying low.
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That was a great pun. Here's a song for the bride.
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He plays Chapel of Love by the Dixie Cubs and everyone starts
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singing along. You know, going to the Chapel
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Bring your own popcorn. Rosalie and Sam are walking out
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of his house, and he tells her, all right, so we can agree to be
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people about this. You know, like people who talk
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every once in a while about their kid and how she's doing.
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Rosalie says yes, they can do that while with you.
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While we can talk about how you can help her with college
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tuition, Sam does a cringy face. He doesn't want to do that.
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He's why did I just say that? Rosalie tells Sam good luck with
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the show. Sam thanks her and says it was
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nice seeing her again. No, it wasn't.
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He walks over to Justine, who comes over there out of the
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house with her backpack ready to go home.
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She tells him she hates Sacramento.
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It's like going back to 1950s, Sam says.
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Alright, you know, I lived in the 1950s.
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I think you're going to be fine. No, really, you've never been to
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Sacramento. I've lived there.
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It's horrible. Like they have this place called
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Old Sacramento and it's weird. Old Sacramento.
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Old Sacramento is like downtown. Downtown is like not like
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downtown. Your regular downtown.
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Old Sacramento is like the old 1950s.
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There it goes, the Western type. It is not nice.
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She asked if people visit and he says probably not, but she has a
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room there with him and they will work on Rosalie.
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But she got to stop lying to her because it's not helping her
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case. Justine begins to cry.
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She doesn't want to leave. Sam hugs her daughter.
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Sam hugs his daughter and tells her to finish her screenplay.
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She tells him to finish his. Justine tells Sam she'll miss
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him and he says he will too. Jerosa Lee starts the car as she
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climbs right and headed back to Sacramento.
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Next scene, Sam arrives at the gym and he meets with Debbie,
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who was sitting on a chair where the executive will be sitting
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there, marked with VIP. Sam comes that they're laying on
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the little Dick there, pal. Debbie says the girls have a
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match they want to show us. Sam says This is why he's here.
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Let's let's get it over with. In the ring is Carmen Cherry and
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Ruth still in her leg cast. Cherry says.
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We know what you're thinking. How can she wrestle with the
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cast? But wait, watch.
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Ruth says. She's a novelty act, Carmen
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says. People love watching someone
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beat the odds. It's an underdog story.
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Sam calls Ruth peg a leg, and to take it away, Ruth pushes
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carried to the ropes. Carmen grabs roots in the arm,
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lock from behind, but throws her into the ropes.
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There's a lot of grunting and weird noses and grunting, more
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grunting, moaning. Sam and Debbie both feel bad
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because it's horrible. It's horrible.
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It's like watching A1 legged person try to Yeah.
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Debbie whispers to Sam that it's all so slow and boring.
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Sam whispers back that Ruth really wants to wrestle.
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All the girls really want her to wrestle.
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Carmen slowly body slams Ruth and Debbie whispers to Sam to
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make it be over. OK, let's pause right there.
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Devi broke her ankle. This is Devi's fault.
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Why can't Devi help her? You know why is like this?
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This is bad. Yeah, 'cause you made it bad.
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That's why. It's like, it's bad because of
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you. You snorted cocaine, you decided
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to get in the ring. You decided to freaking invite
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this girl and you decided to, like, crack her ankle.
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And this all thing stems on you. You need to fix this.
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Sam gets up and tells him that it's ladies sorry, let's stop
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it. It's really not working, Carmen
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says. No, it's about to pick up steam.
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Ruth suggests she rips her cast off and lands one last move and
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they can rag doll her around. Debbie interrupts and says if
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they didn't have executives sitting in the front row then
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it'd be good. Ruth is sad and says, yeah, I
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might never wrestle again. I don't want to go out like
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this, Debbie tells her. Well, if they have a good enough
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show, then she'll have plenty of opportunities to wrestle again
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in the near future. Not on this episode.
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Sam suggests that Ruth hangs out with him to Co direct.
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She's going to do it anyway, so let's just make it official.
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Ruth is happy and sure. Yeah, whatever the show needs.
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So it's like basically you can't do what you want.
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So here's what. What am I trying to say here?
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Here's your second prize. Those prize for the second
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person right there, right. Next scene, bashes outside his
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home, smoking the cigarette, looking onto the ocean.
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I'm looking onto the ocean. Being a bad at smoking a
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cigarette. Yeah.
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Somebody walks up behind him with a Rob's deep, clean
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uniform. Bash turns around and tells him
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he was supposed to bring a full crew.
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The cleaning guy says he got four more people coming.
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Bash says he want that to start with the upstairs guest bedroom.
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Just empty it out. Whatever clothes they find,
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anything in drawers or the sheets, just throw it all away.
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Scrub down the house, everything from the baseboard, every floor
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tile. Just beat the whole house and
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they should wear gloves. The cleaning guy says he dealt
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with this before. They know what they're doing.
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He his guys know what they're doing.
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Also, the cleaning guy and his other cleaning guys go inside
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the house and bash theirs out into the ocean.
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Again, he's a bad ass. Smoking a cigarette, looking out
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into the ocean. Yeah, that's him.
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Bad ass. All right, Optical optical flip.
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And it's night time. The cleaning guys already done
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their business. They've done it.
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Bashor sitting on a chair in the front of his pool smoking
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another cigarette and he sobs. On last week's episode, I had an
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interview with theadvocate.com. They were interviewing Alex
16:32
Rich, who plays Florian. Here's the rest of the interview
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by Daniel Reynolds. We learned Florian, like mini
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gay men in that time period, died alone in the hospital of an
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age-related illness. Why is it important to hear that
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story today? Alex says.
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In showing the isolation stigma through a lonely death from aid,
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the viewer understands emotional weight of that diagnosis.
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We also see how far the community has come and how
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rampant and tragic that time was.
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For the queer. Community Florian was such a
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vibrant, loving, hilariously excitable character.
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The justic position of that brightness and the concept of a
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dark solitary death with no friends around and no one to
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even take the body highlight not only the sadness that underwrote
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that time period, but also the importance of the stigmatizing
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HIV today and boosting up the positive observation so that no
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person suffers that horrible and end you were only in one scene
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this season, but Florence disappearance was a major plot
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point, as told in the last few episodes where she he
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disappeared and Bash was looking all over for him.
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Why do you think chlorine left Bash during your time?
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He clearly could have used a. Friend.
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In the 80s, the HIV epidemic was terrifying, isolating, shameful
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and traffic. I think that Florian left
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bastard sparing the details of his gruesome death sentence.
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While losing someone is tough, watching someone disintegrate
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and wither away is much tougher. Also, coming out as a gay man
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with HIV was an impossible amount to overcome.
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In a time that was unsure about the disease and still close
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minded in its acceptance of a queer lifestyle, Florian would
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have had to overcome all those obstacles by staying in leaving,
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he avoided the added heartbreak of burdening his closest friend
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as a viewer. Did you blame Bash for
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abandoning his friend's body? Bash is a growing and developing
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individual, struggling to make his own name outside of his
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mother's shadow and has lived through a truly coddled
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lifestyle, basically privileged. I think Florian's death was too
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much adulthood from him to process, especially in the
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roller coaster of potentially losing the one thing he has
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built for himself and glow. I think that his reaction feels
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real. It's much easier as a human to
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avoid that deep of a cut and sad reality that entertain it and
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let it in. I don't blame Bash, but I do
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think the timing, the time period, and the lifestyle that
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made him capable of processing that information is unfortunate.
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What would Florian have wanted his friend to do?
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I really don't think flooring would have wanted Bash to see
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his downfall. If he did, though, I imagine he
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would just pass for comfort. In the 80s.
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People knew so much less about HIV and AIDS than we do now, and
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I'm sure that flooring would have felt contagious and
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ashamed. He would have hated the
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conception of putting Bash at risk and hurting him physically
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or emotionally. Hey, it's Evo.
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podcasts. We see Sam is in the ring, pre
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directing, telling Ruth what he wants for the shots, pre
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directing the wedding. He's going to stand in the
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middle of the ring, feeling nervous, then zooming on the
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groom, then bridesmaids after bridesmaids after bridesmaids
21:21
come out, and then Rhonda and her father walk down the aisle.
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Ruth says Britannica doesn't have a father.
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Sam yells that someone's got to give her away.
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Lift the veil. This is wedding one O one.
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I thought you girls fantasize about this shit your whole life,
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Ruth says. That is a gross generalization,
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that she slides into the ring from underneath the ropes.
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She says they will need a platform and some stairs.
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Sam agrees. And that so everyone can get a
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good look at what true love looks like.
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Vows, declaration of love, how they can't live without one
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another. He know fiction.
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And then they kiss. He stares at Ruth and it's
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uncomfortable. He starts talking about the
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dance the other night, but Ruth interrupted him reveal she slept
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with Russell. Sam is just feeling bad and
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doesn't know what to say. But Rosalie took Justine home
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and now he's all alone again. Ruth feels bad.
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He says. He let somebody in, you know,
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and then you make room and they go and yeah, the room's still
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there. He looks around the ring and
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says he wants a flower garden around the whole ring.
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You know, the girls are pitching someone more, something more
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sparkly. But I like flowers, Ruth Giggles
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and Samuels. I'm not kidding.
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What? I want this to work.
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You know, we get, we got. To We got executive to impress.
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Rude that then. Oh well.
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If you want to impress people, I'd go with pyrotechnics.
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Russell walks into the gym greeting everyone.
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Sam asked what kind of loser comes to work on his day off.
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Russell says it's nice to see him, too.
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Sam tells them to have fun on her date.
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Russell takes Ruth to the side and tells her he has She has
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three different ideas. Russell takes root to the side,
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tells her he has three different ideas of how dinner is going to
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go, but she needs to make some choices.
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He asked that they should go east or West, she says.
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E he asked if he she wants Italian or Asian.
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She says Asian. He says, OK, you should know
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this dumpling house I'm about to take you to.
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It's the best, but it's definitely run by some shady
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characters that I at one time had to hide under a table
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because a guy pulled a gun. But I think it's totally worth
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it, she says. Oh boy, and giggles as he helps
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her get out of the ring. Next scene where a chickie is a
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strip joint that is ran by Ray, played by comedian Horatio
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Sands, wasn't expecting to see him back again until they forgot
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that he was the main focal point at the end of this episode,
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Horatio Sands, everybody. He comes out of his office and
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tells one of his sans who was taking a break in E Wings to
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wrap it up because another girl's getting Tired.
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Snakeskin Seduction by Ellis Naylor and Jeff Wells.
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Supposedly a hair metal band from the 80s.
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Never heard of them, although not much is known about them
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except their songs have been on Winona, Herb and promo clips for
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Cobra Kai. The camera pans over to the
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stage of the strip club, 2 poles on each side in the middle of a
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ring hanging from the ceiling with one of the girls naked and
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sitting on it. It's a circle or sing ring,
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circle, whatever you know for them to like do stuff.
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Ray walks over to where Sam is sitting, writing things down for
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the episode he's doing later, and tells him the girls are
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going to get offended. He's sitting here doing
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homework. Sam says it's better than
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jerking off on the table and sings him for the wings.
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Ray tells him he keeps his promises.
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They shake hands. He weird fucking saying.
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He just stands there, looks down at Sam, just continuing to
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write, and then like, what the hell am I supposed to do now?
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Like, why are you here, dude? Go, go, go stand somewhere else.
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Sam looks at the stage and London's dancing.
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He tells Ray she's one of his wrestlers.
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He can't see her take off her clothes now that he knows she's
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a person. She's a real human being.
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I I can't see you take off your clothes anymore.
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You're a real human being. What the fuck?
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Ray says he's going to check out that wrestling.
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Sam suggests Ray catches it before he dies.
25:08
This week is the last show, Ray tells Sam If any of Sam's girls
25:12
need work, he's opening up a new club in Fresno.
25:15
I got a few more opening up next year.
25:17
A lot of opportunities, Sam tells Ray.
25:19
No, no, don't recruit any of his girls.
25:22
They're actresses. They're not strippers.
25:24
Do not recruit my girls, except for that one.
25:27
He points at Yolanda, who is dancing for Artie, who is
25:30
smiling at her. Artie tells Yolanda she is
25:32
having so much fun, and Yolanda tells her that her shirt set
25:35
should be done. Soon Sam realizes why this
25:38
happening moves over there. Artie says she's never been to a
25:42
strip club before, but Sam tells her he's seen one.
25:45
He's seen them all. Artie is batuated with Yolanda
25:50
dancing that all she can do is googly eyes at her.
25:52
Sam asked if he would actually fall in love during the stupid
25:54
dream ballet. They did.
25:55
He laughed and said that's cute. Artie says she doesn't know
25:59
what's going on. She invited her to a strip club
26:01
and she didn't say no. You'll on the creeps, on them,
26:04
on her knees and ask Sam if he wants a lap dance for all time
26:06
sake. Sam says no, puts her money on
26:09
her, and tells him not to take that top off until he leaves.
26:13
Yolanda says she can't control the pole.
26:16
Sam gets up laughing and leaves, telling them to have a good
26:19
time. Yolanda says Buzz.
26:20
You know, fun. Sam says.
26:22
He knows and walks out. Next thing, Mark arrives to the
26:25
gym holding a baby. You know, baby Randy, Debbie's
26:29
son. In his hands, the surprise is
26:32
Debbie. He just thought the baby should
26:34
see her in the ring. Catch.
26:35
The buyers don't come through. Devi is confused again.
26:39
Marks has the peace offering. They signed the papers, so he
26:42
just wanted to turn the page. Devi thinks.
26:45
Mark and baby Randy slice into the ring to hang out with
26:47
Debbie. He tells Randy to wrestle with
26:49
Mommy so when he's older, he can talk about it with his
26:51
therapist. That's exciting.
26:55
Cherry jumps out of the ring, giving Debbie alone time, and
26:58
sits next to her husband, Keith. They're both smiling as Debbie's
27:01
playing with her son. He tells her that he called Jane
27:03
LaBelle and that they might be available next week.
27:06
They're stunt actors, so immediately they're looking for
27:08
other jobs. Keith also says that Peaches
27:10
says he's going to keep her ear to the ground work she's doing
27:14
That new movie with. What's his name?
27:16
Bruce Something Willis. Bruce Willis.
27:20
Cherry loves that he's motivated.
27:21
Keith says he likes work. Maybe she can drive doing some
27:24
stunt coordinating and stop jumping off shit.
27:27
Give this body a break. She sits on top of him and ask
27:29
why does he why does her probably need a break?
27:32
He answers back so that they can get back to trying to start a
27:35
family. He knows they've had bad luck,
27:37
but this might all end, and they both know that.
27:40
And if that happens, they got a window.
27:42
He doesn't want to give that up. He asks her if she wants to give
27:45
up. Cherry looks in the ring, Randy
27:47
on all fours playing with his mom and kisses him on his bald
27:49
head. Shout out to that one guy.
27:53
What's his name again? The actor?
27:54
Willis Willis or something? What?
27:56
Bruce Willis, who's making a movie and it's not the one you
28:00
think. His first starring role in the
28:02
movie won't be out until 1987. It's titled Blind Date, so they
28:06
are possibly working on it at this point, possibly into
28:10
January. Bruce Willis plays Walter Davis,
28:13
a workaholic. His attention is all to his work
28:16
and very little to his personal life or appearance.
28:19
Now he needs a date to take his company's business dinner with a
28:22
new important Japanese client. His brother sets him up with his
28:24
wife, cousin Nadia, who is new in town and wants to socialize.
28:28
But he has warned that if she gets.
28:30
Drunk, she loses control and becomes wild.
28:34
Wow. How will the date turn out,
28:36
especially when they encounter naughtiest ex-boyfriend David?
28:39
Played by John Laraquette. Directed by Blake Edwards.
28:43
Also starring Kim Basinger, Phil Hartman, Mr. Finney.
28:49
Sorry, force of habit, William Daniels.
28:53
Next scene in the women's locker room, fruit finally arrives when
28:57
she apologizes to everyone that she's late and blamed it on the
29:00
crutches for slowing her down. Debbie Smirksen says she's late
29:04
because she's boating. Russell, just own it.
29:08
It's 1:00 in the morning. I'm yelling out Mr. Feeney.
29:12
Fucking great. Let's go.
29:15
And listeners, yes, it's 1:00 in the morning and I'm yelling out
29:19
Mr. Feeney. The whole neighborhood's going
29:20
to hear me. Who cares?
29:22
Debbie Smirksen. She says she's late because
29:24
she's boating Russell. Just own it.
29:26
She grabs some makeup and hands the roof and asks her to please
29:28
cover the hickeys up and tell. The Hoover vacuum focuses
29:32
elsewhere next time. Melrose walks by and says, yeah,
29:37
like your clit, Ruth laughs. Debbie says she's grinning like
29:40
a lunatic and notices how happy she is.
29:42
Ruth says he's so fun and easy and he likes her.
29:44
It's not that tingly nervous. What the hell is going on here?
29:47
Feeling they have a bit of uncomfortable silence between
29:50
each other. A bit because they have been
29:54
working on it. You know, the whole thing where
29:58
Debbie's husband cheats on her with Ruth and Debbie.
30:06
Exact revenge by sniffing coke and breaking her ankle.
30:10
It's a weird show, everybody. Debbie says she can't believe
30:16
she's going to have to start dating again.
30:18
Cameras focus on Ruth's face. Guilty.
30:22
Does she cost us some rooted? Guilty for causing Debbie and
30:30
Mark's breakup. Debbie is guilty for causing
30:34
Ruth. Broken ankle.
30:36
It's a weird circle. Yeah, Debbie asked.
30:41
Root tiles her ankle. Now you want to know?
30:44
Ruth responds. Itchy. 4 more weeks with its on.
30:47
Four more weeks. Rhonda walks into her locker
30:50
room with a wedding dress on and everyone remarks how beautiful
30:52
she looks. Ruth asked Debbie if that's her
30:54
wedding dress. Debbie says yes.
30:56
Rhonda pushes everyone away from her and goes in the stall the
30:59
puke. Dawn says.
31:00
It's going to be a great show, everybody.
31:02
It's going to be a great show. Next scene, Sam's off.
31:06
His bash is trying to help Cupcake with his bow tie.
31:10
You'll remember Cupcake, right? Played by What's the name
31:19
Hambino from The Sandlot? Ham Whatever.
31:22
His name is played by Packaged Arena Patrick Arena.
31:25
You know that guy, the The Great Hambino Sam asked what his real
31:33
name is. He's not calling him cupcakes.
31:35
We're done with cupcake. Really.
31:36
I didn't want to call him Cupcake in the first.
31:38
Place I forgot all about this. Show, he answers Toby Matkins
31:42
and he's very excited to get to know Rhonda Britannica.
31:44
Sir Bash asked why He asked if he's declined to get her in her
31:51
pants. What's going on here?
31:52
Toby says. It's not like that's lonely
31:54
living by herself. Bash interrupts him and says he
31:57
can't do the bow tie and ask them to do it.
31:59
Toby asked for a table to show and the wedding bash says yes.
32:02
Whatever you want. I don't give a fuck Sam.
32:05
Ask Bash what's wrong with him. Bash says nothing is wrong with
32:07
him. Bullshit.
32:09
Sam says that he sound upset and Debbie said on the way back from
32:13
the conference. He didn't say anything at all,
32:15
Bash says. Debbie's a fucking drama queen,
32:16
and he's just worried about the same shit Sam is worried about.
32:19
He's worried about the show. He's worried about the buyers.
32:21
Sam has just Bash pepped it out, pepped it up.
32:24
It's a wedding. So Bash hasn't so told anybody
32:29
about Florian's death. That's the whole thing.
32:32
He's still living in denial that his best friend, his Butler, had
32:38
AIDS and he's still living now that he was gay.
32:45
The whole thing is so weird. He knew he was gay, but he
32:48
didn't want to, like, believe it.
32:50
Optical flip to Kurt and his friend walking into the women's
32:53
locker room looking for Carmen Kurt's friend, played by
32:56
legendary wrestler Chabo Guerra Junior, who's credited as Chico
32:59
Guapo. He was a fight and wrestling
33:02
coordinator of GLOW. He was also the wrestling
33:03
coordinator on the TV series Young Rock and recently played
33:06
The Sheik on the A 24 movie, The Iron Clock.
33:09
Great movie. You must watch it.
33:12
Grab yourself some Kleenex because it is sad the girls.
33:15
Scatter trying to cover. Themselves.
33:17
Carmen asked what Kurt is doing. Chico says Kurt is seeking
33:21
justice. Carmen asked if she can swing by
33:23
the house later tonight and they can disgust this.
33:25
Chico says no, no, no, it's too late for that.
33:27
He pushes Kurt in front of Carmen to tell her.
33:29
Kurt says it's messed up. She's on TV using his moves
33:32
while he's best busting his ass on the circuit night after
33:35
night, and he got to deal with these guys, giving him shit
33:38
about it around the room. Everyone's covered up except for
33:42
Cherry, who's ready for a fight just in case it comes down to
33:44
that. But Sheila's covering her
33:46
nipples. Morrow's intervening and says
33:48
she needs to go. They have a show to do.
33:50
Chico calls it a fucking clown show.
33:52
Tammy slams her locker door and gets up to fight, but Debbie
33:55
stops her. Ruth grabs her crutches and asks
33:59
Howard to get clown show. Chico says They're doing fast,
34:01
scripted comedy bullshit with goats.
34:05
That was the last whatever. Sheila immediately goes after
34:09
his legs to take a bite out of it, and then you realize it's
34:13
coming from the guy who had a toy horse on a stick and named
34:15
him Pepe back in the 90s. Debbie tells Sheila to calm
34:22
down, goes to Curtin, hugs him, telling him it's so good to see
34:24
him again. Reminds everyone she threw her
34:26
first clothes lying at him. She introduced herself to Chico
34:29
Guapo, claiming she knows who he is, but she's a producer on this
34:32
show and asked him to take the conversation.
34:34
Outside of women's locker room. And they can talk out their
34:36
grievances and find an appropriate solution.
34:39
Kurt tells Chico to hear her out.
34:40
She takes them out, but turns around to notify everyone she
34:43
got this obstacle flip inside Sam's office.
34:49
Ruth is in her Zoya gear, upset, holding onto her crutches,
34:53
looking out the window of the crowd that's coming in.
34:56
Sam walks into his office. As Ruth says it's a full house.
35:01
She thinks they made something people will really like, Sam
35:04
says. That's great.
35:04
It'll look good for us. To the four that came.
35:07
Ruth reminds Sam that four is better than none, but one of
35:10
better. Who buys them?
35:13
Sam says, not him. He doesn't gamble anymore.
35:15
They look at the modern point out that Glenn shut up.
35:18
Sam thinks that maybe he came to apologize for being a spyless
35:21
Dick head. He's probably here just to make
35:24
sure we don't. Run off with his equipment.
35:26
He grabs his headset and tells people to frame up on Bash so we
35:29
can see what the aisle looks like.
35:31
From up there. Debbie runs to the office.
35:34
As Long story short, there was a small fire, metaphorically
35:36
speaking, and she put it out and they might notice a small cameo
35:39
during the show. I mean, yeah, you'll barely feel
35:41
it. And she told Bash, so he's
35:43
prepared. She heads out the door but says
35:46
you're welcome and goes to get changed.
35:47
Sam and Ruth are both confused. Sam walks away to smoke a
35:50
cigarette, but Ruth sizing but is believed.
35:51
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In the ring, the ceremony is about to begin, Bash announces.
39:13
Everyone, ladies and gentlemen, tonight we have a very sacred
39:16
event. He was a regular fan.
39:18
She is a regular genius. And tonight they will come
39:21
together and holy matrimony before our very eyes.
39:25
But first, the GLOW wedding party.
39:28
The Wedding March Tongue song comes on and the brightspace
39:31
starts coming out. Here comes two classic dames,
39:33
Melrose and Fortune Cookie. Don and Stacy both do an Air
39:37
Guitar Rocker edition of The Wedding March.
39:38
As they head towards the ring back in Sam's office, Ruth is
39:42
laughing at the whole thing and Sam says look, everybody looks
39:44
so fucking weird and pretty weird and pretty.
39:48
It's a good combination, Ruth says.
39:50
They look great. Carmen is next wearing a bright
39:52
blue shirt with the front saying the lumberjackson's are my
39:54
favorite rustlers and Machu Picchu pees the bed till she was
39:59
10. On the back, Bash says, was an
40:02
interesting and strange thing. You learn it during the wedding.
40:05
Carmen asked Bash to read the shirt.
40:07
Sam asked if she lost a bet. Bash continues with the
40:10
announcement as well, for Queen and Sheila make their way to the
40:12
ring. Excuse me, Welfare queen.
40:14
Everyone knows you don't wear white to a wedding.
40:16
Welfare Queen takes off her white men coat and tosses in the
40:19
ground. Sheila tears to look at the
40:21
front row and the fan that was dressed as her in the past few
40:24
episodes back with his friends who are dressed as Sheila as
40:26
well Sheila house and so do her fans as they stand up so
40:29
everyone can see their cosplay. Sheila slides in the ring ready
40:32
to attack bash announced the maid of honor and Britannica
40:35
closest friend Liberty Belle. Because, you know, America's
40:40
closest friend is Britain. Weird concept.
40:46
Backstage, Keith is holding on to a horse Rhonda is on top of
40:50
of She got her wish. Also a little homage to the
40:54
Rachel wrestler that came out in a horse Godiva.
40:59
Yes, one more time. The wrestler that got me in
41:00
trouble and I wasn't allowed to watch Gorgeous Ladies of
41:03
Wrestling again. Ever.
41:05
I ended up watching it anyway. Rhonda leans down and tells
41:08
Keith she might have to throw up again.
41:09
He tells her to just breathe, do both, inhale and exhale.
41:13
He tells her he got this. She asked if divorce is easy in
41:17
California. Keith asked what does she want
41:19
to do? If she wants to cut and run,
41:20
he'll cover for her. She nods and wants to get on
41:23
with it. Badger introduces Britannica and
41:25
who was on top of a Unicorn? They somehow stuck a tube in his
41:29
horse face and called it a Unicorn.
41:33
Sam says. That horse better not shit in
41:35
here, Rose says. He's definitely going to.
41:37
Rhonda gets off of the horse and enters the ring, ready for her
41:40
wedding, as she stands next to Toby and in front of her
41:42
ordained minister. Judge Eric was played by
41:45
Jonathan Mangum, most notably known for the new series of
41:47
Whose Line Is In Any Way. Judge Eric starts the
41:50
proceedings. We are gathered here today, the
41:53
presence of friends and fans to join the man, this woman, and
41:56
the bonds of matrimony. The audience cheers.
41:59
Toby grabs Rhonda's hand. Judge Eric continues.
42:02
Britannica Toby, through your commitment to each other and
42:05
make you grow and nurture A partnership to help you become
42:07
the people that you want to be, a fan yells out to cut to the
42:10
good stuff. Already the audience laugh.
42:12
Judge Eric continues. Before we move on to a wedding
42:14
vows, is there anyone here to see any reason why this couple
42:18
should not be married? Speak now for our beholder Peace
42:21
A small pause and one bash. Howard looks suspicious about
42:24
whether or not to stop the wedding.
42:26
Judge Eric says without. Further ado Britannica, Do you
42:29
take this man Toby? Rhonda doesn't let him finish
42:31
the sentence. She just says yes, she does.
42:34
Judge Judge Eric turns to Toby. Do you take?
42:37
But interrupted by by Bash, who apologizes and says he needs to
42:41
talk to Rhonda real quick. The audience is shocked and
42:45
groan. Bash takes Rhonda aside and
42:47
tells him not to marry a stranger.
42:49
She says she needs the green card.
42:50
Bash suggests to marry him. Back at Sam's office, Ruth asked
42:53
Bill to tie it up on the scene. Rhonda asks.
42:56
Bash does this for the show. Bash says no.
42:58
She knows who he is. He can make her happy.
43:01
He apologies and repeats that he wants to make her happy.
43:04
Rhonda asked why he's doing this.
43:05
He says because he's been coming to her room for weeks and sleeps
43:08
on the floor. He's been trying to figure out
43:09
how to tell her that he's in love with her.
43:12
He has trouble processing his emotions sometimes, and yes,
43:15
ideally he would have told her this week weeks ago and we'd go
43:19
on a date and figure it out. But, you know, maybe, maybe,
43:22
maybe we do everything backwards?
43:25
Judge. Eric asked.
43:26
If he should continue with the ceremony.
43:28
Toby says yes, she's marrying him.
43:30
Rhonda says. No, she's not, the audience
43:33
gasp. Oh my God, the drama.
43:36
They can't believe it. They're the final show and
43:40
they're doing this. Rhonda tells Toby.
43:42
He's a beautiful man and a devoted fan, but she's going to
43:45
marry Bash. Toby is shocked and yells the
43:47
announcer. Britannica.
43:49
I love you, Rhonda tells Toby. She's always.
43:53
Going to be fond of him and his big goods.
43:55
Bachelors in to tell Toby that he will be compensated for his
43:58
time here. Toby curses at him and has
44:00
everyone in the ring. He says love is fake, just like
44:03
wrestling. The audience.
44:09
Not only the audience. The wrestlers in the ring.
44:12
Everyone. All gasp, how dare you.
44:17
Everyone immediately run at him. The crowd boos at him.
44:21
I love how Tammy, the real wrestler outside of the show, is
44:24
the first one to grab him by his hair and toss him out of the
44:27
ring. Nope.
44:28
Get the hell out of here. Keith kicks him out of the gym,
44:33
bash him around the stand in front of the judge, and he asks
44:35
if he really wants to keep going.
44:36
They say yes. Judge Eric asked Britannica.
44:38
Do you take Sebastian Howard to be lawful with the husband?
44:41
She says. I do, Judge, Eric asked Bash
44:44
Sebastian, do you take Britannica to be lawful wedded
44:47
wife? Bash says I do.
44:49
Judge Eric says by the power of busting him by the state of
44:51
California, he now pronounces them man and wife, he may kiss
44:54
the bride. Everyone cheers.
44:56
Even the globot. All except for Carmen who seems
45:00
crushed a little meta there it seems in the real glow.
45:06
Mount Fiji who is Carmen supposed to resemble, had a
45:11
small crush on the creator of the show, Matt Timber, who was
45:13
also the announcer. So they had a little bit of
45:18
Let's add that into the show. Back in the office, Sam asks.
45:22
What the fuck is he doing? Ruth says.
45:24
I don't know, but Rhonda just married a millionaire without a
45:26
prenup. Doom, boom, boom, boom.
45:31
Back in the ring, Rhonda gets in the middle of rope and throws
45:34
the bouquet behind her for all the girls.
45:36
Melrose catches it and is happy she caught it, but then realizes
45:38
she don't believe in marriage or tosses it to Jenny, who is happy
45:41
she caught it. Bash is sitting at the
45:43
announcement. Desk and says I almost forgot.
45:46
Tonight's rules. Whoever wins the bouquet wins
45:48
the crown. Sheila jumps at Jenny.
45:51
Everyone's fight. Everyone else fight each other,
45:54
Bash yells. It's a battle Royale.
45:56
Holy Toledo. We got fights in every corner,
46:00
including Britannica who goes after her own bouquet.
46:04
Sam is watching from his office still and says this is insane
46:07
but looks great. Back in the ring, Welfare Queen
46:09
tosses out Vicky Viking. Thanks for coming back, Vicky.
46:13
Ruth gets on the headset and tells Rosa to come around to get
46:15
Tammy from the front. Carmen kicks wolf or queen out.
46:18
Yolanda throws Carmen into the turnbuckle.
46:20
She'll act like she's pissing on Rhonda, who screams no.
46:25
Yes, that's silly. We know Sheila kicks out Rhonda.
46:28
Bash says. There goes the bride, my bride.
46:31
Black magic doesn't spell on Dawn, but Stacy pokes magic in
46:34
the eye. Bash says.
46:36
She's poked her eye out, and you can't give the evil eyes with no
46:39
eyes. I hope his puns are better by
46:46
next season, because I'm done. They kick her out of the ring.
46:52
Badge says that the spell just turned into a curse.
46:54
Ozone just exercise the nuclear option.
46:56
I can't man. Ozone throws Nuke out of the
47:02
ring. It's a betrayal.
47:03
Better yet, Nuke just dragged out Ozone out of the ozone
47:06
layer. Watching it is different than
47:13
reading it. OK, Liberty Bell is dangling
47:17
from the rope, just like the fate of our country in 1776
47:23
because America was dangling from the ropes.
47:25
Guys, I can't. Meryl gets on the other side of
47:31
the ring apron to try and take out Liberty Bell, but Sheila
47:33
takes. Her out by.
47:34
Biting her fingers, Beirut drags junk chinks The rope, looks at
47:37
her and plants a big kiss on her.
47:39
They look at each other and Beirut calls her an infidel
47:41
before throwing her out of the ring.
47:43
Carmen kicks out Beirut. Liberty Bell elbows Fortune
47:46
cooking the face and kicks her out.
47:48
Bash says fortune Cookie looks like she had a fortune red and
47:51
says no crown for you miss, and it looks like there's only three
47:54
ladies left. We get a wild animal, Sheila, a
47:56
Peruvian mountain, Machu Picchu. And you got a bell from Philly.
48:04
Did he talk in a Southern accent in Philly?
48:07
What the hell? They all stand in the middle of
48:11
the ring about the fight, but it's interrupted by Kurt and
48:14
Chico, who yells at the girls. You call this a battle Royale?
48:17
Looks like a pillow fight. The crowd Boo at them.
48:20
Machu yells. Hey look, it's big.
48:22
Kurt Jackson and Chico Guapo, big time wrestler Liberty Bell
48:27
says that they want to insult them, say to their faces, Bash
48:30
says This match has just gotten serious.
48:32
Will a man with a GLOW crown? That's unheard of.
48:35
Liberty Bell asked Machu Picchu, and she left.
48:37
They can have a temporary truce while they deal with these men.
48:40
She throws the bouquet of bat at Bash and asked him to hold it
48:43
for a while. Kurt reminds the girls only
48:46
wrestling moves, no punches. He doesn't want anyone to think
48:48
they're OK with hitting girls. Carmen says sure, and they
48:51
attack Kurt and Chico with punches.
48:55
The rules are thrown out the window.
48:56
Sheila and Liberty Bell team up on Chico while Carmen close like
48:59
Kurt Carmen body slams, Kurt Bash says.
49:01
Wham, bam, thank you, ma'am. Somebody just got a body slam.
49:07
Carmen is about to throw Kurt out, but she asked him if this
49:10
is enough screen time for them. Kurt says that she's still in
49:12
the doghouse, but this is good. He tells her.
49:14
He's proud of her. Liberty Bell and Sheila come out
49:17
to help Pacho Picchu push Kurt out of the ring.
49:20
All three girls around. Chico Guapo.
49:21
Liberty Bell says. This one's hers.
49:23
Bash that. Step aside, Billie Jean King and
49:26
Bobby Riggs. We have a new battle of sexes
49:27
here at the GLOW finale, which is obvious reference to the 1973
49:32
tennis match between both of them where 3K people came to see
49:35
them at the Houston Astrodome for the Battle of the Texas
49:38
Texas Battle of the Sexes tennis match.
49:43
Chico and Liberty Bell both circle the ring.
49:45
Chico calls the match duck and clothesline.
49:48
He tries to hit her but she ducks and then hits the
49:49
clothesline. She hits the clothesline.
49:52
She picks them up, he punches her in the stomach and then says
49:55
hip toss me. He goes to the ropes and comes
49:57
back for a hip toss from her. Liberty Bell steps on Chico and
50:01
raises her fists in the air, yelling that she's been baking
50:03
pies at home, pies of rage, another one who I think should
50:11
work on her stuff for next season, you know.
50:15
Chico trips her up, lifts her back up again, tells her on her
50:18
feet. He lifts her up for a suplex,
50:22
but she gets oscillated and lands on her feet.
50:24
He tells her it up. She goes to rope, goes back to
50:26
hit a spinning head. Scissors.
50:27
The crowd chance USA Liberty Bell talks to the crowd, saying
50:31
she hoped US and Mexican relations can only improve in
50:34
the future. She turns.
50:37
Around there's a cast the door on Chico, followed by a
50:39
crossbody. Everyone is amazed.
50:42
The audience cheers, Bass says. That's like doing algebra in
50:44
space. Debbie asked Chico if he's ready
50:47
to lose to a girl. He says just get my face on
50:49
camera. She asked if he can do a
50:51
backflip. He does the backflip slop and
50:53
she moves towards the middle of the ropes.
50:55
He runs at her, and she ducks to get him out of the ring.
50:59
Sheila and Carmen celebrate with Debbie, but Bass reminds them
51:01
that what they're still fighting for is he throws the bouquet
51:04
back in the ring. Carmen, Sheila, and Debbie
51:07
Dogpile fight for the bouquet. Ruden's on the headset.
51:11
Tell Phil she wants to close up a Carmen's face when she wants
51:15
to crown, Sam says. Oh, she's not getting it.
51:18
Ruth asked if Debbie's keeping it.
51:20
Sam tells Ruth to take her headphones off and take her to
51:23
the other side of the office where a zip line has been
51:25
installed. He tells us not to do anything.
51:27
Fan to just cat pulled in with your foot out.
51:29
That that's it. They all know she's coming and
51:32
the crown is yours. Ruth is beside herself and
51:35
begins to cry. Sam yells at her again.
51:38
Come on, let's go. We're waiting.
51:39
Everyone's waiting. Sheila, Carmen, and Debbie all
51:41
stand up and wait. The queue as Ruth slip lines
51:44
down to the ring with her foot as she was told to kick all
51:47
three girls out of the ring. Bash officially announced that
51:49
Zoya is this year's winner of the crown.
51:52
Ruth goes into full Zoya character and tells the audience
51:55
you love to hate Zoya. She smells to became oh it's
51:58
like butt to me. She rubbed in her butt into her
52:00
front as well. She stands in the middle of the
52:03
ring, happy as can be, and yells Zoya.
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Bash is looking at the ring reflecting.
54:33
Rhonda sneaks up behind him and tells me he can still back out
54:36
of this if he wants. Bash says he meant everything he
54:39
said up there. Rhonda doesn't think she feels
54:41
it that way yet. Bash says that it's OK, they can
54:45
take it one day at a time, right?
54:47
Beginning tomorrow, we'll wake up and we'll head on to the
54:49
downtown county clerk's office and we'll get the mayor's
54:52
license taken care of. And then after breakfast, we'll
54:54
go get you a real ring and not those cheeky fake ones.
54:58
They both smile at each other. She asked if he wants to get her
55:00
a ring. He said, of course, you know, I
55:02
want to do everything. But right now he has to go and
55:04
talk to those executives. He kisses her and walks away in
55:09
the ring. All the girls are looking up at
55:11
Sam's office when they're all having a meeting.
55:14
Ruth says The tall guy looks interested.
55:16
Look at him, Melrose says. The short tall guy is definitely
55:19
bidding. I've made lots of focused eye
55:21
contact with them. During the show, Sheila asked
55:23
Why is Glenn up there? Ruth explains that KDTV wants to
55:27
show back now that there's outside interest.
55:29
Everyone in the office leave. One of the executives has that.
55:32
Look at this appointment, which is there was more he could have
55:34
done. Glenn follows the other
55:36
executives out of the door, but Sam grabs him by his collar and
55:38
pushes him towards the ring. Sam tells Glenn he should tell
55:41
them. Glenn clears his throat and says
55:43
I hate to be the bearer of bad news ladies, but KDVKDTV owns
55:47
your characters, which means you can't sell them to another
55:50
network. You sign a contract.
55:52
Listen, by all means, you keep doing the live show.
55:55
You know, for your fans in the gym to feed the soul.
55:59
Bash calls out for Glenn. Everyone looks up because he's
56:01
still on the balcony of the office and says get the fuck out
56:04
of my gym. Glenn leaves.
56:07
Some of the girls are in the ring, depressed.
56:08
Jenny is sitting on top of Phil getting consoled.
56:11
Yolanda is sitting next to Ray, Debbie's right by the stairs.
56:15
Everyone is sad, Ray says. OK, well, that show was insane.
56:20
Good, insane. Hi, bro.
56:21
Love, bro. Comedy, drama, heartache,
56:23
violence, and a fucking wedding. I mean, the show is something
56:26
for everyone in the costumes. Holy shit.
56:28
I mean, you really got something here.
56:30
Bra fucking bow. He claps his hands, fan pass
56:34
rays back and says yeah, thanks. Yeah, thanks, Ray.
56:37
Thanks for the review. He turns to the girls in the
56:40
ring and tells him, look, this isn't what we hoped would
56:43
happen, but this is what happened.
56:44
We got screwed. All right.
56:45
I'm sorry. Sometimes stories end this way.
56:49
Again, everyone's down and depressed.
56:51
Ray looks at them and asks if they're interested in doing a
56:53
floor show. Sam asked like a what?
56:57
Where? Like a one of your bars.
56:59
Ray says No, man, Vegas. He has a steak in the club, and
57:03
they're and they're looking for a headliner.
57:04
Wayne Newton is at the Aladdin, The New Frontier has secret, and
57:07
Roy and his splash just opened up at the Riviera bash, runs
57:12
down the stairs. Ruth says.
57:13
Are you asking us to be showgirls?
57:15
Ray answers her with no. What I'm asking you to do is the
57:18
same exact show night after night, 3 miles, 100 miles east.
57:24
He turns to Sam and tells him Vegas, where the money is.
57:26
Headliners make at least 25 grand a week.
57:28
You think this is a big room? We have to fill 11,000 seats?
57:32
Debbie interrupts. Sorry, who?
57:34
Who is that? Who the fuck are you?
57:36
Sam tells Debbie that that's Ray.
57:38
His kid goes to school with Justine.
57:40
He owns the strip clubs. He's cool.
57:41
Don't worry about. It Yolanda vouchers, says yes,
57:44
she worked for him. Yeah, he's cool.
57:46
Debbie's cool with it and says OK, Ray continues.
57:48
I don't know Dick about TV, but I know that the screen is very
57:51
small. But you guys throw one hell of a
57:53
big live show and there's nothing bigger than the live
57:56
show in Vegas. Everyone stare at each other,
57:59
smiling, excited for this opportunity.
58:01
Some are up for it, others maybe not.
58:03
They will have to think about it.
58:06
Optical flip to four weeks later.
58:08
It's how long Roots that she can take off her cast and she's
58:11
walking around normal now without one.
58:14
A Greyhound bus is waiting. Outside the gym.
58:17
Jenny and Marvel are seen placing their luggage on the
58:19
side of the bus. Debbie's holding Randy and
58:22
talking to Mark. She doesn't think she can do it,
58:24
Mark says. It's a 40 minute plane ride.
58:26
You get a sudden impulse to give him a bath.
58:27
You can come home. She could have Randy.
58:29
And says he's just so little. It's basically joint custody.
58:32
It's just a little sooner than we planned.
58:33
If you don't want to, don't go, she says.
58:36
She's going, Mark says. Mark says maybe this is one of
58:39
the benefits of the divorce. She tells Randy she loves him
58:42
and she will see them Thursday and hands them off to Mark.
58:46
She tells him she's going to call a lot, even if he's just
58:48
going to chew in the phone car. She says goodbye and goes to the
58:51
bus. In the background, Russell shows
58:53
up with Ruth is ready to say goodbye to her.
58:56
He says he likes it better. When she was on crutches, she
58:58
couldn't run away to Vegas. Mark is seen driving away and
59:01
has one more moment with Ruth as they smile each other, stop
59:06
smiling at each other. The camera pants from Mark's
59:09
car. The camera pans from Mark's car
59:14
to Debbie sitting on the bus and watches Mark drive away, and
59:17
then stares back at Ruth, smiling at her.
59:19
She asked Russell to come with them.
59:21
He said there's something you don't need for a live floor show
59:24
in Vegas. A cameraman.
59:25
It'll be fine. KDB is going to be have me shoot
59:28
some good old some good AS gold episodes the TV show.
59:31
We'll write some mushy letters to each other.
59:33
You'll visit, I'll visit. We'll try not to fuck it up, to
59:35
kiss. Everyone on the bus starts
59:37
cheering and mocking them. Russell flips them off.
59:39
The last few minutes of the season finale needs an ending
59:42
massage with a good song though, nothing's going to stop us Now
59:47
by Starship, which wasn't released until January 30th,
59:50
1987 and was included on their 1987 album No Protection.
59:56
Russell kisses Ruth one more time.
59:58
She grabs her luggage and walks away towards the bus.
1:00:01
Ruth has to be so dramatic. She gets inside the bus and
1:00:04
looks at the gym one more time before she hops right in to take
1:00:07
her seat inside the bus. They're all doing that.
1:00:10
Stare out the window pose while listening to their Walkman, Bash
1:00:14
and Rhonda sitting side by side, Rhonda with a smile on her face
1:00:17
and Bash knowing what he's leaving behind and the pain in
1:00:19
his eyes. Arty and Yolanda sitting side by
1:00:22
side, staring into each other's eyes and smiling.
1:00:25
Debbie reaches her hand out behind time, behind her to Tammy
1:00:28
who grabbed it. Both moms leaving their children
1:00:30
behind. One who was in college and the
1:00:32
other who was just a toddler. There are mothers who will bond
1:00:35
on this trip. Keith and Cherry sitting next to
1:00:38
each other. Forget that Bruce Willis movie
1:00:39
guy. They're going to make a life in
1:00:41
Vegas. They're going to make movies.
1:00:43
Maybe she will quit and get pregnant.
1:00:45
Maybe more opportunities will rise for them.
1:00:47
Sheila sitting in the back of the bus, laying down, not
1:00:49
knowing what the future holds for a she wolf.
1:00:53
Sam staring out the window. He no longer has a record since
1:00:56
it's a floor show, but it's his creation.
1:00:59
Maybe he'll have top priority over this.
1:01:01
The only thing he leaves behind is Justine, but she's back with
1:01:04
Rosalie, so maybe Justine will visit.
1:01:06
And then there's Ruth, who sits silently, is only for a few
1:01:09
minutes and that she says she never been to Vegas.
1:01:13
Sam smirks and turns to Ruth and says, oh, you're going to hate
1:01:16
it. Ruth smiles as if to say bring
1:01:19
it on, let me hate this place my way.
1:01:21
Plus, a little meta, considering I don't remember a thing that
1:01:24
happened the third season except for the opening scene.
1:01:27
Ruth continues to smile, but that smile disappears and turns
1:01:30
into a frightened look. She's scared.
1:01:32
She's scared of what could happen.
1:01:34
The scene turns to black and the credits roll with the happy song
1:01:38
still playing, but just like a Marvel movie At the end of the
1:01:42
credits, back to the article with Alex Rich on
1:01:45
theadvocate.com. It wasn't done.
1:01:47
I don't know why it said the Marvel movie at the end of the
1:01:50
credits. I just.
1:01:51
I'm just still continuing it. There's more.
1:01:54
There's more. They asked Alex Rich.
1:01:59
Do you think for his dad may have factored into Bash and
1:02:02
Paul's decision to marry at the end of the season 2?
1:02:05
Absolutely. The depression loss of someone
1:02:07
he cared about so deeply must have left him reeling.
1:02:11
Bash has all the love in the world to give, and it's so
1:02:14
buoyant. When he saw Britannica
1:02:15
struggling against the concept of Marian Cupcake, I'm sure he
1:02:20
would have seen nothing but the opportunity to help.
1:02:22
He also needed to fight against the confrontation of his
1:02:24
identity and wanted to rebel against the life.
1:02:26
He has seen Florin Liv when he went to the gay bar with Machu
1:02:29
Picchu and Britannica. How much has HIV stigma changed
1:02:34
between then and now Immensely. With the advances made in
1:02:37
medicine, the general increase acceptance and tolerance of the
1:02:39
queer community, and the research done to develop a
1:02:42
better understanding of illness, HIV seems a lot less terrifying
1:02:46
today. And that was in the 80s.
1:02:48
I think we still have a long way to go to that's stigmatizing the
1:02:51
HIV positive community. We remove leaps and bounds above
1:02:54
where we were in the 80s when the disease was still largely a
1:02:56
mystery. There are still so few HIV
1:03:00
positive characters on TV. As an actor, how does the field
1:03:02
have been a part of that representation?
1:03:04
It's an incredible gift To be able to present under
1:03:06
represented an extremely difficult portion of society.
1:03:10
HIV is still a huge problem, both in its contraction and
1:03:13
stigmatization. The more we can bring the
1:03:16
reality of an HIV positive experience to like, the more
1:03:18
tolerant people will be of the struggles associated.
1:03:21
And I think that their movement is extremely powerful and
1:03:23
important. The way Florian and Bashor
1:03:25
struggle has been handled in this season?
1:03:26
Extremely relatable. And when people can identify
1:03:30
with an HIV positive character on TVI, really believe they'll
1:03:32
be more compassionate to struggles in real life.
1:03:35
What does Heaven for Florian look like?
1:03:37
Malibu Waves, Globots Party Snacks, Bash and Lucky Charms.
1:03:42
Marshmallow Clouds. And that was the end of that
1:03:52
interview. But hold on, let's hear it for
1:03:55
the hero of the show. This episode, Horatio Sands
1:03:59
saving the day last two episodes.
1:04:02
When he comes in, does it sing and save the day?
1:04:05
Hooray, save the day. And I need to work on my puns.
1:04:10
Also, I still say that Bash knew what was going on.
1:04:15
Even that look at the end of this episode was extremely
1:04:17
suspicious. Did he tell anyone that Florian
1:04:19
died? If he did, would they ask how
1:04:24
would they freak out if he told them it was HIV related?
1:04:29
Yes they would. I did go and search of what
1:04:31
others saw that the episode on Reddit.
1:04:33
You Sir Katya, says Bash. I suspect, as many others do,
1:04:37
that he and Florian has a romantic relationship.
1:04:39
I think he may be terrified of having AIDS, and Florian died
1:04:42
from it. His impulsive proposal in
1:04:44
marriage to Rhonda, I think, is purely opportunistic.
1:04:49
If he has intentions of keeping his love life personal, he needs
1:04:51
her to hide who he is and she needs him for a green card, a
1:04:54
symbiotic relationship of sorts, Chairman Farr says.
1:04:59
When Bash walks into the gay club, he seems very shocked and
1:05:01
seems like he needs a few moments to comprehend what is
1:05:03
even happening. He acts like he doesn't
1:05:05
understand he's in a gay bar at first, even though all those
1:05:08
juicy guys standing around him. It seems to me like he is in
1:05:12
denial that Florian might be gay.
1:05:14
Florian is one of the persons most close to Bash and it's
1:05:16
implied that they spend a lot of time together.
1:05:19
And still it seems like Bash had no idea about Florian being gay
1:05:24
as the season progresses. Seems like he kind of knew, but
1:05:26
he was heavily denying it. I think they did not have a
1:05:30
relationship, but there was hard some buried feelings inside Bash
1:05:34
and that he has been denying himself feeling for Florian and
1:05:36
finding out whether it's his own sexuality.
1:05:38
It's because of the stigma of being openly gay in the 80s.
1:05:41
I love that storyline and I can't wait for the next season.
1:05:43
Probably going to binge the show a few more times until then same
1:05:48
Riley Ruthie says Bash is dealing with his own sexuality
1:05:52
and the marriage is his response.
1:05:54
Look, I'm normal. I'm marrying a woman, I must
1:05:56
love women. And finally, Jelena says.
1:05:59
I interpret it this way. Bashed saw Flooring as his best
1:06:02
friend and companion, and only realized upon going to the gay
1:06:05
part that he's feeling for Florian or that of romantic
1:06:08
love. This scared him, especially
1:06:10
given Florian's death and the stigma around homosexuality and
1:06:12
HIV. So he married Britannica as a
1:06:14
way to avoid addressing his feelings and the highest
1:06:16
sexuality. Both him, Britannica, know it's
1:06:19
not real, but I imagine he'll put a lot of energy into the
1:06:21
marriage and try to convince himself that it is.
1:06:26
And that was it. That was the season finale.
1:06:28
There's a season three on Netflix.
1:06:30
I'm going to talk about it soon, but right now I'm going.
1:06:32
To take a break. And actually point at the
1:06:34
Wrestle Mania sign. Next week is a jam packed week
1:06:38
and I'm going to have the predictions plus the show and
1:06:40
what went on the entire week. So I'm going to be updating all
1:06:42
the socials with reblogs or retweets Repost.
1:06:47
I don't know what it's called anymore.
1:06:51
Also, favorite episode would have to be the one where nothing
1:06:57
was the good twin. It's when Zoya's good twins
1:07:03
Olga, it's the whole show where it's not.
1:07:06
It doesn't have to do with the storyline at all.
1:07:08
It's just the show inside the show.
1:07:10
That was my favorite episode. But then again all the episodes
1:07:13
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Before I forget, if you heard the show from its inception,
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three-year anniversary of when I was diagnosed with diabetes.
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Yes, I celebrated every year since I got in 2021.
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So to me this is going to be Diabetes Awareness Month.
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I guess I'll be posting on Twitter and the threads a little
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dancy dance on the tik toks. We're we're doing that.
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