Speaker 1: Toss Popcorn is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas. I'm Leanna Holsten and I'm Sienna Jacob and hey,
Speaker 2: welcome to Toss Popcorn, the podcast where two idiots watched
Speaker 2: every film on the AFI's one hundred Greatest American Movies
Speaker 2: of All Time, the very slightly less Racist tenth Anniversary edition,
Speaker 2: and are now watching films directed by women, and particularly
Speaker 2: this time for the Christmas season.
Speaker 1: Woo. This podcast is a safe wait is that right?
Speaker 2: You're gonna put your headphones on?
Speaker 1: That's what's different. It's like something is off. Hello. Hello.
Speaker 1: Even as I started, could you see that? I felt
Speaker 1: so uneasy?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: This podcast is where am I?
Speaker 2: Why can I hear it?
Speaker 1: This podcast is a safe house swap for people who
Speaker 1: don't know anything about movies. Today we're watching The Holiday Daddy. Yes,
Speaker 1: Oh I am Daddy, a Christmas rom com written and
Speaker 1: directed by women.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Warning there will be spoilers about this flirty yeah,
Speaker 1: this flirty uh oldish film.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. Oh, Sanna, you had seen this before.
Speaker 1: I had seen it before, and I can come very
Speaker 1: pessimistically listen to my prediction. Shall we?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Hi, Leanna, this is Sienna I'm about to watch The Holiday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've seen this movie, I guess a handful of times.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Wow, I never really remember my feeling on it. There
Speaker 1: are parts of it I think that might be kind
Speaker 1: of annoying. But I shouldn't be making grand calls like
Speaker 1: that one. I just can't remember that I predict. I
Speaker 1: know these two ladies will switch houses. Yea, and what's
Speaker 1: her name? Princess Fiona? Sorry. Cameron Diaz is like she's heartless,
Speaker 1: she just can't be warm with her husband, her her boyfriend,
Speaker 1: but then she's warm with Jude Law. Is that what happens?
Speaker 1: And then Kate Winslet is sort of just in a
Speaker 1: film bro world and she's like, oh and she's an editor.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, camer Diaz is the editor. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: then they switch and yeah yeah, yeah okay, and she's like, wow,
Speaker 1: it's so cool to be in this la world where
Speaker 1: I meet this old writer guy and also I meet
Speaker 1: somebody awesome, like a film bro like Jack Black.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see how we like it, all right, I
Speaker 1: love you goodbye? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's pretty fair. Well, Leanna,
Speaker 1: let's listen to your prediction of the Holiday you had
Speaker 1: not seen this, No, let's jure it.
Speaker 2: Hello, Sienna, it's Leanna. I'm not you could get hungover,
Speaker 2: and I'm about to watch the Holiday. I've never seen
Speaker 2: this before. I know Cameron Diaz and Jude la in it.
Speaker 2: I predict maybe it's she's in England and he is
Speaker 2: in a sweater and it's Christmas. And then I saw
Speaker 2: a photo on the Internet that looks like there's also
Speaker 2: a child in it, so I also maybe it'll span
Speaker 2: many years. Maybe it's about No, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just feel like it's like that I get we
Speaker 1: jump in there and I don't know why, love you Bye?
Speaker 1: What was happening in the background.
Speaker 2: Uh that was my laundry machine. Oh, in a slashy
Speaker 2: slashy face of the cycle.
Speaker 1: Sloshy laundry. That's kind of the feeling that the English
Speaker 1: part had of this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if you heard what I said
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the recording.
Speaker 1: You're not hungover?
Speaker 2: No, no way, no way Am I hungover?
Speaker 1: Were you?
Speaker 2: I'm certainly not hungover at all.
Speaker 1: No, are you hungover?
Speaker 2: It couldn't possibly be. No, I'm neither hungover nor am
Speaker 2: I coming down with something. No, I'm one Christmas lunch. Fine, yes, you.
Speaker 1: Went hard at Christmas lunch, hey girl.
Speaker 2: Not even hey girl. It was our office Christmas lunch yesterday,
Speaker 2: which once again this social went from twelve thirty to
Speaker 2: eight thirty pm. But it was not nearly at all.
Speaker 2: It wasn't at all like the summer social, which almost
Speaker 2: killed me. I just don't I remember the socials go
Speaker 2: for eight hours. No, but our summer social we did
Speaker 2: sip and paint and then we went somewhere else, and
Speaker 2: then we went to a third location. And again yesterday
Speaker 2: I went to a love departation. They just can drink,
Speaker 2: they can they they do endurance drinking. Wow, And I
Speaker 2: can't hang, I cannot keep up. I didn't even have
Speaker 2: that much. Well, I had a lot of prosecco and
Speaker 2: then I had two spicy margaritas at this the third place,
Speaker 2: and that was it. It really like I wasn't like slashed,
Speaker 2: like my laundry was in the background without recording. But
Speaker 2: I think it was just so many hours of being social.
Speaker 2: This week has been everything happens so much. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: I woke up today Hello, not all over it all
Speaker 2: and definitely not coming down with an ailment that certainly
Speaker 2: two of my colleagues had Atristmas.
Speaker 1: No, no, it can't be, it can't be.
Speaker 2: No, it's not happening.
Speaker 1: Hey, girl, you're supposed to tell me about the time
Speaker 1: you got a tarot reading.
Speaker 2: Also, oh my god, we were.
Speaker 1: Talking off Mike.
Speaker 2: About yes, yes, thank god you remembered.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: Wow, I can't believe it. I so you got a
Speaker 2: taro reading this week that was very christ which makes
Speaker 2: me laugh so much. So I got a tarot reading
Speaker 2: on Halloween also at a work at a work event,
Speaker 2: because it was free, and it was a kind gay
Speaker 2: person with a tarot deck. And the question that I
Speaker 2: went up to them with was should I just like
Speaker 2: romantically speaking, should I just give up? And they unfolded
Speaker 2: the cards, and every other card they gasped, they went
Speaker 2: and then when when the whole deck was laid out,
Speaker 2: they looked at me and they said, have you suffered greatly?
Speaker 2: Because it's giving suffering.
Speaker 1: How often in life does somebody look at you in
Speaker 1: the eyes and say have you suffered greatly?
Speaker 2: And then they gen zify it and they say it's
Speaker 2: giving suffering.
Speaker 1: It's giving suffering.
Speaker 2: And you said, well, okay, so and then they're like, yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Should give up. Did they say that?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, just romantically speaking, that's insane. I know
Speaker 2: the cards were not in my favor apparently, Well.
Speaker 1: Those are just supposed to, you know, give you a
Speaker 1: feeling about what your response to that kind of thing
Speaker 1: is and go forward with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god, they also drew every card that
Speaker 2: signifies death.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this person was in touch with
Speaker 1: the spirit world.
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest, I think they were in touch
Speaker 2: with all of my crushes at once.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, it's such a bad track record. I think
Speaker 2: you need to do a couple more before you. I
Speaker 2: think you need to get I need to get a
Speaker 2: second opinion. I definitely need to get a second opinion.
Speaker 1: I haven't been talking into the mic.
Speaker 2: No. I wondered why you sounded so far away. What happened?
Speaker 2: You put everything on like mirror images?
Speaker 1: Put it on wrong? Oh wow, hey girls, so funny.
Speaker 1: Sorry that happened. Well. On the flip side, I had
Speaker 1: basically the opposite thing happened at a terror reading just yesterday.
Speaker 1: As you know, I've already told me on to this
Speaker 1: because we called immediately. I was so shook. I went
Speaker 1: to were those situations where you go when you're like, huh,
Speaker 1: that was kind of funny, and then an hour later
Speaker 1: you're like that was arable.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I went to a tarot reading and halfway through I
Speaker 1: realized the person was generically hitting on me. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: Christmas time, it's I'm here at this event alone, like
Speaker 1: it'll be silly even though it's a man doing it.
Speaker 1: And that was my first mistake, I think, because I
Speaker 1: was staring at this man in the eyes, he thought
Speaker 1: that I had it's a thing for him. Where really
Speaker 1: I just paid.
Speaker 2: For the service, yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh halfway through he said something disgusting trigger
Speaker 1: morning for a guy being gross, which is I was talking.
Speaker 1: He was like, you need to get a morning routine.
Speaker 1: I also, oh, I didn't tell you. I texted you later.
Speaker 1: I forgot to tell you that. When he was talking
Speaker 1: about his morning routine, he was like, yeah, I figured
Speaker 1: out my morning routine because I was got really into
Speaker 1: shat GPT for a while and I would text it.
Speaker 1: I would I would type in a lot of things
Speaker 1: like what psychological cycles am I going through? That keep
Speaker 1: I keep going down the same cycles? What should I
Speaker 1: be working on? And it told me what to work
Speaker 1: on and then I typed in, what's a good morning routine?
Speaker 1: And so that I can kind of get in touch
Speaker 1: with the things that I keep these cycles. I was
Speaker 1: so unimpressed and un interested in this, but I'm like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: it's like it's so cool. I love I love that
Speaker 1: thing already. This man is not connected to the spirit
Speaker 1: world and I'm not connected to him in any way.
Speaker 1: But again, I'm sitting here for this service. And by
Speaker 1: the way, the tarot deck it was his own cards
Speaker 1: that he made and was trying to sell me the
Speaker 1: whole time.
Speaker 2: And then second morning routine peddler from the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 1: That is exactly what it felt like. Men are so embarrassing,
Speaker 1: like so embarrassing. I'm sorry. I He goes, what's your
Speaker 1: morning routine? And I'm like, or you need to you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you should work on having a good morning routine.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, yeah, I could really work on that.
Speaker 1: My routine right now is not great. And he goes, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, wake up, stay in bed, watch some porn,
Speaker 1: drink some coffee.
Speaker 2: Like what.
Speaker 1: No. No, Leanna and I were joking that we think
Speaker 1: that maybe he has a really he was trying to
Speaker 1: feel better about himself. So he asked everybody who comes
Speaker 1: and sto in front of him. It's like, so I
Speaker 1: can see from this that you're a porn addict. Right,
Speaker 1: we all are.
Speaker 2: Your morning routine is you're watching porn.
Speaker 1: Right, we're all watching a lot of porn.
Speaker 2: You watch porn. Uh, It's like, that's not your porn.
Speaker 1: That's nothing close to what my issue is at all. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it was immediately afterward also he did the thing where
Speaker 1: he's like, I'm on.
Speaker 4: To you e. It was a horrible it's horrible. And
Speaker 4: then he charged me thirty dollars. I gave him thirty
Speaker 4: of my US dollars.
Speaker 1: Oh god, have you done done?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: Anyway, it was cursed. It was an incredibly cursed experience.
Speaker 2: Oh and he was also not connected to this peers
Speaker 2: connected to this world. It was connected to his WiFi.
Speaker 2: It was pornography.
Speaker 1: But speaking of men just being garbage and that being
Speaker 1: the whole point. Yeah, shall we move on talking about
Speaker 1: the girl? Yes, that's away. Let's a way to talk
Speaker 1: about the holiday. I have a bit of a synopsis,
Speaker 1: if we shall please, Okay, the holiday Kate Winslet and
Speaker 1: Cameron Diaz do a holiday house swap to escape heartbreak
Speaker 1: and stuckness in their own respective lives in England and
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Both of them learn about themselves to this
Speaker 1: experience and even find a bit of love in ways
Speaker 1: they never could have expected. And it's Christmas. The end.
Speaker 1: Kate Winsley is in Hollywood. She meets the Hollywood old
Speaker 1: writer and Jack Black and she loves it. And do
Speaker 1: they all end up in England in the end. I
Speaker 1: don't really know where they are. They do.
Speaker 2: They're all at Jude Law's house on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1: Which is crazy because karviin Diaz very much makes her
Speaker 1: money in Hollywood.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's gonna This is long.
Speaker 2: This is two decades before remote working is really a
Speaker 2: viable option.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so anyway, should we just get into our phoneus?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Girl?
Speaker 2: What did you think about it this time around?
Speaker 1: I will say I actually enjoyed a lot more than
Speaker 1: I thought I was going to this time around, particularly
Speaker 1: when it began. I think I usually am tuning it
Speaker 1: out at the beginning, okay, And I think the reason
Speaker 1: I liked it so much when it began is that
Speaker 1: they hated men so much.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: She's like, are there any men in your town? And
Speaker 2: Kate Winslet is like no, and she's like, great, when
Speaker 2: can I come?
Speaker 1: It's so awesome. I enjoyed all of that.
Speaker 2: Still.
Speaker 1: The things that I remember being annoyed by, I was
Speaker 1: still annoyed by. But I think because I find them
Speaker 1: so annoying already as a default, Like when my family
Speaker 1: wants to watch this movie, I usually feel like, ugh,
Speaker 1: I don't really want to watch that. Wow, so they
Speaker 1: watch it together often. It's just one of the Christmas
Speaker 1: movies we have in our rotation. It kind of feels
Speaker 1: a different it fills a different role than it's like
Speaker 1: the rom com Christmas movie. Yeah, yeah, and I did
Speaker 1: actually get what was fun about it this time around.
Speaker 1: I find Cameron di Has to be a very awkward actor.
Speaker 3: I do too.
Speaker 1: I find it's quite cringey to me. But I think
Speaker 1: because I was expecting the worst, I ended up enjoying
Speaker 1: things because I hadn't taken in how much I love
Speaker 1: Kate Winslet until watching this. But I do love her.
Speaker 2: I love her so much.
Speaker 1: But I'm excited to talk about it, and if we
Speaker 1: find any problems, I'm completely on the same page.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yaha. What was your take? How did
Speaker 1: you feel?
Speaker 2: I think I hated it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, this is completely fair because that is how
Speaker 1: I feel about this movie as well, Like whenever somebody
Speaker 1: wants to watch it, I don't feel good about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think I came in more open minded because
Speaker 1: I've been such a hater.
Speaker 2: But I hire I had. I think I had really
Speaker 2: high expectations for it. I thought it was going to
Speaker 2: be very jam packed with comedy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I forgot that men in two thousand and three could
Speaker 2: just say whatever in the film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is. There is so much you're not
Speaker 1: like the other girl's energy. Yeah, there is so much,
Speaker 1: which I know that these women writers at the time,
Speaker 1: that's what they had to do.
Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah, this is a special woman.
Speaker 1: I write her because she is actually she kind of
Speaker 1: like a normal woman. Yeah, we have to pitch it
Speaker 1: to the men who have the money, like she's unlike
Speaker 1: every woman who's ever existed. And then Jack Black is
Speaker 1: there playing like a normal guy, which is just very
Speaker 1: disturbing to watch.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: And he has like a skinny, low rise gen girlfriend
Speaker 1: and that's the default because it's from when it's rise Gen.
Speaker 2: Sorry everyone. A man is banging on the front door
Speaker 2: of the place that I'm staying by myself, so I
Speaker 2: actually have to hide. I'll be back in a few minutes.
Speaker 2: Welcome everybody to phone notes.
Speaker 1: This is the.
Speaker 2: Festive section of the podcast where we look at the
Speaker 2: Christmasy notes that the other person took on their holiday
Speaker 2: phone while watching The Yule Tide.
Speaker 1: F Leanna, you immediately say, oh, we're kissing? Which part
Speaker 1: was that?
Speaker 2: That's the first shot where it turns out the cheat
Speaker 2: black is like scoring somebody in a period piece.
Speaker 1: And I.
Speaker 2: Keep saying like, I think I just wasn't in the
Speaker 2: place to be watching the movie. But it seems like
Speaker 2: I'm not really in a place. Maybe I'll never be
Speaker 2: in a place yeah to watch a movie, because I
Speaker 2: keep being like, oh, and this week was no exception. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe it's because I'm certainly not hungover and definitely not
Speaker 2: becoming ill, but I did not need to see that.
Speaker 2: I'm so really to see two people smooching.
Speaker 1: I'm so relieved you didn't like this movie.
Speaker 2: Yes, I really didn't. And I was speaking. I talked
Speaker 2: to them before. I was like, yeah, I'm watching the
Speaker 2: Holiday and They're like, oh, okay, like I'll be interested
Speaker 2: to hear your thoughts. And then after I was like,
Speaker 2: I don't think that was good, and they were like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I hate that movie. Yeah, it's really get the hype
Speaker 2: around it. And I was like, oh, there are.
Speaker 1: Lines like I know this is early, but this is
Speaker 1: the perfect The perfect line to sum it up is
Speaker 1: when Kate Winslet, who's an amazing actress, just in the
Speaker 1: middle of this movie. She's just in the middle of
Speaker 1: this movie.
Speaker 2: Oscar winning question Mark.
Speaker 1: She goes, she goes. It turns out this writer who
Speaker 1: I'm friends with now, it turns out he's the one
Speaker 1: who wrote look he added the kid to he is
Speaker 1: looking at you kid, And Jack Black goes and it
Speaker 1: totally makes the line and she goes.
Speaker 2: It was so inside Baseball Los Angeles. It was a
Speaker 2: writer writing about writers in LA and I'm so sick
Speaker 2: of that genre. It's so uninterested. It has no appeal
Speaker 2: to anybody who doesn't work in the industry. It's so indulgent,
Speaker 2: it's so self referential and self praise. It like it's
Speaker 2: so masturbatory.
Speaker 1: No it is.
Speaker 2: Oh, I hate it, I really hate it. I hate
Speaker 2: it so much.
Speaker 1: Leona, I actually just want to read some of your notes.
Speaker 1: You've said, he misses his dead wife. We're doing the
Speaker 1: unrequitded love thing. No thanks later. You also said stop
Speaker 1: saying Haggard and Sienna. Is this movie terrible? And the
Speaker 1: answer is yes, it is. I was realizing slowly. I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, it's is this really terrible? It's not
Speaker 1: very good.
Speaker 2: No, it is so surprised because also the other Nancy
Speaker 2: Meyers film I've seen was It's Complicated with Marril, and
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed that one. I think there's many more
Speaker 2: like laugh per every ten minutes than there were in
Speaker 2: The Holiday. I don't think the Holiday was very funny.
Speaker 1: It's really really, you know how wicked. One of the
Speaker 1: reasons it's so great is that you just go, wow,
Speaker 1: this is so well cast. They really decided to make
Speaker 1: this good instead of just going with weird Hollywood choices,
Speaker 1: you know, like even Ariana Grande they were like, I
Speaker 1: do not know if we want to cast her because
Speaker 1: she's a pop star whatever, we have to see her.
Speaker 1: And it's just because she was so good that they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: of course we're gonna put her. You know, they weren't like,
Speaker 1: we gotta put a star in here. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: exactly the opposite of this. This, this had all the
Speaker 1: symptoms of I think it's completely It feels like something
Speaker 1: a woman started working on that she had to get
Speaker 1: it through a bunch of men, and she's like, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: so these fun women, how about they're like not like
Speaker 1: any of the other women, And we put in a
Speaker 1: girl in there who we hate so we can see
Speaker 1: what a good woman looks like. And then also we'll
Speaker 1: put in a bunch of movie references and pay homage
Speaker 1: to all of your heroes, all the men who love movies.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Oh Siena, Yeah, okay, your first note you wrote,
Speaker 2: office Christmas parties are so significant in our culture. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure if I'll ever experience one.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll ever go to an office
Speaker 1: Christmas party, just like the way.
Speaker 2: That I think they really exist. I think in the
Speaker 2: movies they're huge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is, so many sexy things happen at office
Speaker 1: Christmas parties, even though that seems entirely inappropriate. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I get the impression from an outside perspective, as somebody
Speaker 1: who's only done freelance and production. I get the impression
Speaker 1: that office Christmas parties are where your corporation, where your
Speaker 1: company makes you feel they stress you out all year
Speaker 1: long and make you feel like you have no rights,
Speaker 1: and then they throw a really big party. Ah, so
Speaker 1: that you get to like, I'm going I'm going to
Speaker 1: my partner's Christmas party. It's fun. Oh my gosh, you're
Speaker 1: about to experience I know, actually, sorry, Honka party works
Speaker 1: at a Jewish cultural center. Never mind, it's a holiday party.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to experience a holiday part yeah, and
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting. But he's like, yeah, it's gonna be here.
Speaker 1: There's so much food, there's karaoke, they rent out the
Speaker 1: biggest whatever. And I'm like, why are they doing all that?
Speaker 1: And I think so they don't have to pay people more.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my gosh, Sienna, I had a
Speaker 2: similar question for you, but yours is better. You said
Speaker 2: where would you want to house swap? And I was
Speaker 2: gonna ask you which would which of these two places
Speaker 2: would you rather spend Christmass or England?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Alone, I'd rather be in England as well, probabably. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's tough because la is where all my
Speaker 1: friends are right now, but yeah, uh, but uh, definitely
Speaker 1: it sounds when she got to I felt so bad
Speaker 1: for Kate Winsley when she arrived and she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: here I am Angelie's Merry Christmas. I'm like, yeah, you have.
Speaker 2: A breath in deeply on the highway. I'm like, girl,
Speaker 2: don't break to it just shortened your life.
Speaker 1: People out they're not in La by the way. The
Speaker 1: air here is terrible. It's really it's palpable. There's no
Speaker 1: way she arrived. I really was thinking about that. I
Speaker 1: was thinking, if she's used to this her whole life,
Speaker 1: like this snowy Christmas when she got there, now, would
Speaker 1: it feel exciting and feel good to have sort of
Speaker 1: a Hollywood Christmas? Because it's just super depressing to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 2: She's huge, amazing, Okay, what we what we also must
Speaker 2: consider is she's coming from England where the sun is
Speaker 2: setting at three thirty people right December, and it's so
Speaker 2: cold yep, and she's able to like swim outdoors and
Speaker 2: is in a gorgeous mansion.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: And it's definitely so many DVDs. This was the pinnacle
Speaker 2: of d I wish distance.
Speaker 1: I wish we could just admit what this movie really
Speaker 1: wanted to be, which is a love affair with a home.
Speaker 1: This is a woman that is So that's exactly what
Speaker 1: Nancy Meyers does. That's her movies because she knows, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's not about men. You know,
Speaker 1: you can get married to one, yeah, he'll become annoying
Speaker 1: or die, But at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 1: about a woman in her home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's architectural digest for the girlies.
Speaker 1: They talk. There's all these there's all these books and
Speaker 1: stories about a man and his and his car, or
Speaker 1: a man and his and his dog, dog, his horse
Speaker 1: or whatever. But a woman and her home. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing. Yeah, that's what she gets to have
Speaker 1: her comfy bed, that's what she was here for. And
Speaker 1: then she ends up and then Jack Black just kind
Speaker 1: of it. She ends up going out with him.
Speaker 2: I don't even want to question Mark. Where would you
Speaker 2: want a house swap oireland?
Speaker 1: Really? Yeah? I thought of that just now, but it
Speaker 1: sounds amazing. But I mean, it would be nice if
Speaker 1: I was house swapping for like a week. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: would be I would I would go out more if
Speaker 1: I was somewhere where I spoke the language, and unfortunately
Speaker 1: I mostly speak English. So if I was doing, if
Speaker 1: I already was having that much upset, I would probably
Speaker 1: go to an English speaking place. But mm hmmm, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that sounds amazing to me. Oh, cows, cows, Leanna.
Speaker 1: What about you. Have you been to the countryside over there?
Speaker 1: I feel like you need to make a friend who.
Speaker 2: All the time. I'm in the countryside constantly. I was
Speaker 2: in the countryside like four times.
Speaker 1: I guess that's yeah, and I do know that, and
Speaker 1: I'm aware of that, of course I know that. But
Speaker 1: if you've been to a little cottage.
Speaker 2: I've been to some bed and breakfasts that used to
Speaker 2: be cottages or one was three cottages smashed together for
Speaker 2: these like in a medieval village.
Speaker 1: Building, and they're like, oops, we've we've voted to another one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh another one we put them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So in that way, yes, And it's been very the
Speaker 2: countryside because it's been near national parks. It's like nature
Speaker 2: nature forward Gorgina. I would want a house swap.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a genius idea. I have a few
Speaker 1: friends whose parents really do the house swapping thing.
Speaker 2: Oh really, Yeah, I love, but I would not ever
Speaker 2: trust anyone unfortunately, Like I wouldn't invite them into my home.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 2: I do think like the image on the website for
Speaker 2: I think Bora Bora that comes up when she.
Speaker 1: Googles vacation.
Speaker 2: Because it's one of those like bungalows that's right on
Speaker 2: the water and you like dive out your door into
Speaker 2: the ocean. I don't really want that. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you would do.
Speaker 1: A kayak for one.
Speaker 2: You want to hear something so sad. It's like the
Speaker 2: same one, the boat that's one made for one person.
Speaker 2: When my family was in Maine with my brother and
Speaker 2: one of his girlfriends. He has one girlfriend at the time.
Speaker 2: Let me be clear, but this was a girlfriend he's
Speaker 2: not currently said.
Speaker 1: It's the form of reveal that your brother is an
Speaker 1: incredible sleeves ball.
Speaker 2: My brother's Polly. Oh yeah, he's a policy except he's not.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 2: There were three kayaks and my parents were in one double,
Speaker 2: my brother and his girlfriend were in one double, and
Speaker 2: I was in a single. So when she was like
Speaker 2: kayak for one, I would rather die, I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: all right. And then when Kate Winslet was doing her
Speaker 2: whole unrequited left thing.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, okay, oh my god, sorry Leoni,
Speaker 1: you said this poor dog being accosted by a drunk American.
Speaker 1: That scene was very difficult to watch.
Speaker 2: She's scream singing to mister Brightside, and Kate Winslet leaves
Speaker 2: her dog in the cottage and is like, I guess also,
Speaker 2: my dog's gonna be there for the two weeks that
Speaker 2: you're there banging my brother in my bed. But imagine
Speaker 2: being a dog. You live in the English countryside with
Speaker 2: your sad owner who's heartbroken but a quiet journalist. And
Speaker 2: then she leaves and for some reason American enters who's
Speaker 2: so so drunk on mister Brightside, she mocks you. She
Speaker 2: goes to the store and picks up a bottle of
Speaker 2: red wine that she drinks mostly at the store, and
Speaker 2: then she comes back and puts mister Brightside on the stereo.
Speaker 1: Does she even feed that dog?
Speaker 2: We never see that the dog is not in the
Speaker 2: second half of the film.
Speaker 1: To accept Cameron Diaz's performance in this is to accept
Speaker 1: a world that is not my own. I disagree with
Speaker 1: everything she does going on. She's looking at that dog
Speaker 1: and she's like, I know that. They say, Cameron Diaz
Speaker 1: act really cute, but unfortunately she's a very odd, awkward person,
Speaker 1: and it just feels incredibly forced and strange.
Speaker 2: Couldn't company like not have chemistry with a dog on screen?
Speaker 1: That's how it felt. It was very weird. It was
Speaker 1: very weird. Yeap Lea, you've said Lelana has said, if
Speaker 1: someone's drunk brother banged on my door in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night, I would shoot him with a rifle.
Speaker 2: This, honestly was the craziest part of the film to
Speaker 2: me is when Jack Black buzzes the gate at Kate
Speaker 2: Winslet's homestay and she lets him in in his car.
Speaker 2: I was like, you're living there alone. Do not let
Speaker 2: anyone in. You're alone. And then Jude Law breaks almost
Speaker 2: down the door of a little cottage in the middle
Speaker 2: of the night and is drunk off his pants. How
Speaker 2: are you not killing that man with a gun? Why
Speaker 2: on earth would you answer the door?
Speaker 1: I mean, so scary, it just it.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm this is not for the girlies
Speaker 2: who've traveled alone before, because none of this is behavior
Speaker 2: that human women would do.
Speaker 1: What's it? What is it? Again? In Best of Show,
Speaker 1: where he's like, I'll stab you with a fork or something.
Speaker 2: Else, to you with forks and telling you bleed exactly.
Speaker 2: And I get that it's Jude law, but any man
Speaker 2: who's incredibly drunk is scary.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And then to be like, come in, come in.
Speaker 1: Do you want to have sex? I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't have to have sex right now. You are
Speaker 1: the most interesting woman I've ever known. You win the
Speaker 1: award for the most interesting woman.
Speaker 2: I was constantly reminded throughout this of do you remember
Speaker 2: that TikTok I sent you of? It's like some comedian
Speaker 2: guy here doing like what rom coms have taught people
Speaker 2: to think British men are, Like, this is what British
Speaker 2: men are actually like. And one of the lines is like, oh,
Speaker 2: sugar tits, so what's your muff?
Speaker 1: Versus like, you are just the most interesting woman I
Speaker 1: never met.
Speaker 2: I've never seen anyone so beautiful in the show Us Off.
Speaker 1: Get that out of my head.
Speaker 2: The movie show Us Off such a funny So I hate.
Speaker 1: His character coming in first, this character he comes in
Speaker 1: and he's like, I normally don't respond to women. I
Speaker 1: hate them all, and I mistreat them, and she's like, well,
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about that because I don't
Speaker 1: know how.
Speaker 2: To cry any feelings. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What Then he's like, you actually were really good at sex,
Speaker 1: by the way, She's like, well, you better get out
Speaker 1: of here. Things might get complicated. He's like, no one's
Speaker 1: ever said that to me before. They all just want me.
Speaker 1: How about you meet my daughters and I actually be
Speaker 1: really nice to you, okay.
Speaker 2: Also, they try to convince us that he's seeing a
Speaker 2: bunch of women, because like, somebody called Sophia calls him,
Speaker 2: and then somebody calls somebody called Olivia calls him and
Speaker 2: he answers. The vote of the is like oh hey,
Speaker 2: hello ha. But with Sophia, he's like, oh, I'll get
Speaker 2: that later. And it's his nine year old daughter calling
Speaker 2: him on the phone. What Also, wait, are they both
Speaker 2: his daughters? The Olivia and Sophia?
Speaker 1: Are those the names daughters? Sorry?
Speaker 2: Do they both have their own cell phones? I don't
Speaker 2: know they're calling me individually. He's the wealthiest book editor
Speaker 2: in the world in his range rover and mansion. I
Speaker 2: don't think the.
Speaker 1: Cell phones at the time like that exactly.
Speaker 2: It's all so stupid. I just can't imagine being nine
Speaker 2: years old and calling my dad and he's like, i'll
Speaker 2: get that later.
Speaker 1: In a world where two women are legally required to
Speaker 1: put multiple ad breaks in their show, We'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Oh, Ciana, you wrote, I hate watching Jack Black behave
Speaker 2: like a regular guy.
Speaker 1: It disturbs you.
Speaker 2: What's your Jack Black vibe?
Speaker 1: I like him when he comes in and he's like, yeah, yes.
Speaker 2: Exactly same. I love when he's singing and being silly.
Speaker 1: He's so funny. He manages to walk the line. When
Speaker 1: he's being that version of himself. Anyone else would be
Speaker 1: cringey and he's not. He's not crazy. But when he
Speaker 1: comes in and he's like subshody, he is the cringiest.
Speaker 1: You didn't say that, but that was his vibe. Or
Speaker 1: he's like, I'm the luckiest man alive because I have
Speaker 1: this skinny girlfriend and he's like, she was mean to me,
Speaker 1: and now the skinny girl that's being nice to me.
Speaker 1: I actually like her, and that's how I know I'm
Speaker 1: in love with her.
Speaker 2: Oh have you seen Jumanji the live act? The new
Speaker 2: jum Have you? He's amazing in it?
Speaker 1: That makes sense. I think he is so talented I
Speaker 1: love him very.
Speaker 2: Much performance of a damn lifetime in Jumanji.
Speaker 1: I think he is such a talented performer. I love
Speaker 1: him so much. But it's complete. For there was a
Speaker 1: while in the two thousands like this, they were like,
Speaker 1: he's an everyman, you know, you know, he doesn't he
Speaker 1: doesn't look like Jude Law, so he's a little bit
Speaker 1: more normal, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's like he I mean, he's funny, like how every
Speaker 2: male Hollywood writer sees himself right the super incredibly talking
Speaker 2: to funny guy women and like so sensitive and cool
Speaker 2: and kind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't give him instead, he's being different cool.
Speaker 1: They decide that all these things are good traits, even
Speaker 1: though he just seems like a guy I would hate
Speaker 1: hanging out with. He's so obsessed with himself and so annoying.
Speaker 1: Like everything that they're supposed to be charming, it's so annoying.
Speaker 1: He's explaining fast her the whole time, he's teaching her stuff,
Speaker 1: and she's like that's cool. Then he's like, oops, accidental,
Speaker 1: Bob Grays, sorry about that. The kind of guy that
Speaker 1: we know now you want to get away from. But
Speaker 1: at the time, the guys writing this, we're like I'm
Speaker 1: the good guy, get out. Yeah, and then the guys
Speaker 1: who are writing this all got me too, like twenty
Speaker 1: years later, and we're all like, yeah, we hated you,
Speaker 1: and they're like the good guy you're not anyway. I
Speaker 1: love Jack Black, get me wrong, I love him very much,
Speaker 1: but I want to see him be nacho leebra. I
Speaker 1: don't want to see him be yeah you know the
Speaker 1: they just weren't using him right in this or I
Speaker 1: want to see him be like this is just a tribute.
Speaker 2: Right, and you wrote Most Interesting Girl Award. Men are
Speaker 2: so embarrassing. They're so embarrassing. I'm sorry say that. I
Speaker 2: know that a woman. Ta wait, somebody said that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he goes most Interesting Girl, lord goes to oh god,
Speaker 1: he thinks she's interesting because she's like, I think we
Speaker 1: should have have sex and then get out here. I
Speaker 1: can't cry for some reason. I haven't cried since well,
Speaker 1: my parents got divorced and the next day my dad left.
Speaker 1: I haven't cried since then. I really thought about the
Speaker 1: woman on TikTok who's always doing that, you know, like
Speaker 1: the like I'm just a girl, who oh my laundry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, scary, scary, so scary. Yeah, absolutely, uh Leoni,
Speaker 1: you've also said Barry kiss miss hee. Okay he he he.
Speaker 2: This is how I know this film was not written
Speaker 2: by comedy experts because when she is visiting his house
Speaker 2: and meets his daughters, one of the daughters is like,
Speaker 2: I like your lipstick, and it's like thank you.
Speaker 1: And the daughter is like, what color is it cold?
Speaker 2: And she's like, it's called Barry kiss. And I was like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: somebody's inches away from saying Barry kiss, miss, because this
Speaker 2: is a Christmas film. And then no one said Barry kiss.
Speaker 1: Miss, so you had to be the one.
Speaker 2: And I was like, what the hell? And instead he
Speaker 2: was like, my wife is dead. I was like, no,
Speaker 2: instead of a dead wife, just say Barry kiss kiss miss.
Speaker 2: It's not hard. It's not hard at all. That's what
Speaker 2: That's what everyone wants. Hey, if you're out there today
Speaker 2: and you're thinking about writing a misogynist script, try instead
Speaker 2: writing Barry Christmas.
Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 2: That's that's what women want. Women want to hear Barry Chistmas. Okay,
Speaker 2: not my wife is dead and I miss her so much.
Speaker 2: I miss my dead wife.
Speaker 1: Taking notes out there on, come on, that's a perfect
Speaker 1: impression of the children. By the way, that's exactly what
Speaker 1: they were like.
Speaker 5: Nice to meet you.
Speaker 1: We never had we had.
Speaker 5: She got.
Speaker 1: I miss my dead mummy. Oh my gosh, Leanna, you said,
Speaker 1: a hang where a man tells you a bunch of
Speaker 1: movies to watch, a barfy face. That is what happens.
Speaker 1: That's what they're like. That is what by the way,
Speaker 1: you people, that is what you're like. You people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's terrible, it's heinous, terrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's terrible.
Speaker 2: I do thank God that we have become women in
Speaker 2: an era where it's acceptable to not tolerate that behavior,
Speaker 2: because I remember when I was in high school touring
Speaker 2: a college. I was like chatting with a cute boy
Speaker 2: who went there, and he started listing books that I
Speaker 2: should read, like philosophy books, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: let me write this down. And I'm so grateful that
Speaker 2: that girl is dead and that I am. Now, yeah,
Speaker 2: the sad woman that I am. Yep, yep, yep, who
Speaker 2: hates men?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I of course don't. Don't say that. I work mostly
Speaker 2: with them.
Speaker 1: Leonna, you said your final two notes are essential, which
Speaker 1: is OMG. Me. Watching Little Women twenty nineteen, I don't understand.
Speaker 2: When she finally cries in the car and tears are
Speaker 2: coming out of her ables and she's like I was like, yeah, honestly,
Speaker 2: same me a week ago, finally crying for the first
Speaker 2: time in months because it was of little women.
Speaker 1: I saw Wicked again last night, but I took a
Speaker 1: pill like halfway through the day and I didn't cry
Speaker 1: nearly as much as I meant to. Oh, which is
Speaker 1: too bad.
Speaker 2: Fuck.
Speaker 1: I was really like to see Wicked again. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited to see Oh my gosh, it was so good.
Speaker 1: And Leona, your final note is girl, close the gate.
Speaker 1: The sheep are going to escape. So they own sheep?
Speaker 2: I don't think they do. I think maybe a farmer
Speaker 2: nearby owns those sheep. But the scene of Catherine Catherine
Speaker 2: Cameron Diaz running through the snow in her kitten heels
Speaker 2: and laughing maniacally to get back to the cottage that
Speaker 2: Jude Law is crying in. She runs through the field
Speaker 2: of sheep, and as a woman who has solo traveled
Speaker 2: through the English countryside, I know that all those gates
Speaker 2: that you have to open have signs on them that
Speaker 2: say please close behind you, because there is livestock grazing
Speaker 2: in this field, and it's right next to a road.
Speaker 2: But she leaves the gate open and her personal gate open.
Speaker 2: Why do we think the dog isn't In the second
Speaker 2: half of the film, bitch keeps leaving doors open over where.
Speaker 1: She goes talk about it. They cut out a scene
Speaker 1: where Kate Winslet is in.
Speaker 2: Distress and she's like, where's my fucking dog?
Speaker 1: Where's my dog?
Speaker 2: I like to think that the dog moved out because
Speaker 2: he was like the dog woman out blasting mister Brightside
Speaker 2: and having sex in my owner's bed. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this isn't this isn't appropriate. Well, how should we
Speaker 1: move on to badges and trages.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Let's go. Welcome everyone to badges and tradges where we
Speaker 2: award badges, badges for beautiful homes, yes.
Speaker 1: And tradges for trading beds and then banging in them.
Speaker 2: I have a badge for Kate Winslet is in this okay, badge?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll just do I'll do this now. I have
Speaker 1: a badge for Kate Winslet, specifically. She really is the
Speaker 1: reason the movie is watchable at all.
Speaker 2: But a talented, talented day.
Speaker 1: I love her. I love her.
Speaker 2: I have a badge for narration. When Kate Winslet is
Speaker 2: reading her column at the beginning before she goes to
Speaker 2: her office Christmas party, love, I just love it felt
Speaker 2: a little bit love. Actually, it felt very love actually
Speaker 2: that scene.
Speaker 1: But an office Christmas party is like a romantic nineties
Speaker 1: liminal space that can never be recreated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean? Uh, A badge for a woman
Speaker 1: being excited about her surroundings. For some reason, I loved that.
Speaker 1: I would watch a lot more movies. That's just a
Speaker 1: girl going Oh, I love this, I love that. I
Speaker 1: can't wait. Just wim in the pool. Oh my god, my,
Speaker 1: that is so comfy. I love that so much. Why
Speaker 1: not more of that?
Speaker 2: Have you ever watched the show The World's Most Extraordinary Homes? No?
Speaker 2: Have I talked to you about this?
Speaker 1: No? I don't think. I think.
Speaker 2: I hope it's still on Netflix. It was on Netflix
Speaker 2: during the pandemic. And it's two British co hosts visiting
Speaker 2: extra ordinary homes and just loving it. And one is
Speaker 2: a man, but one is a woman named Caroline, who's
Speaker 2: so funny and she's just always like, ooh, I love it.
Speaker 2: She gets to swim in a pool at one point
Speaker 2: and she's like, that's one of the best things.
Speaker 1: I've ever done in my life. Okay, I have to watch.
Speaker 1: She's having such a great time.
Speaker 2: It's perfect.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. A badge for Catherine Hahn. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: she's briefly in this.
Speaker 2: She's this for one minute and incredibly pregnant. Also John Krasinski, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't really not the same not the same badge
Speaker 2: for English Nature, very beautiful. I just I'm like, why
Speaker 2: would you rather be in La than here at Christmas time?
Speaker 2: M badge for women supporting women when they're messaging each
Speaker 2: other and they're like, hey, does tomorrow work?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, great. Great part of the movie is one
Speaker 1: of these women are chatting Why didn't they chat to
Speaker 1: her the whole thing, like, how's it going over there?
Speaker 1: Having a run time.
Speaker 2: Honestly, the phone call scene was like the closest to
Speaker 2: got to being fun, but then it was kind of slutshavy.
Speaker 1: Badge for mister Napkinhead. Sorry, oh that was fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of I could see your puppet group
Speaker 2: doing something like that.
Speaker 1: I thought it was fun.
Speaker 2: It is fun. A badge for this dog is so cute.
Speaker 2: I loved that dog. A little scrap, so cute, little scrap,
Speaker 2: well scrap.
Speaker 1: Badge for I'm sorry. I actually did find the child
Speaker 1: actors in this fun. I like them.
Speaker 5: Daddy, do you want to come into the tent.
Speaker 1: We put?
Speaker 5: We cut out stars and hung them up at the
Speaker 5: top of the tent.
Speaker 1: Do we never have grown ups here?
Speaker 5: We all go?
Speaker 1: I really like it.
Speaker 5: Daddy hates women. We cut out the stars with our
Speaker 5: dead mum. She called the Three Musketeers. I like your eyeshadow.
Speaker 2: A badge for dissociating during a hookup is so real.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: At one point, Cameron Diaz is making up with Jude
Speaker 2: Laan and then she kind of just associates, and I
Speaker 2: was like, hello, there we go. She's not insane, She's
Speaker 2: just this woman is on lexipro and they're not talking
Speaker 2: about it. I know.
Speaker 1: That's why I was kind of into her character. If
Speaker 1: they'd done it in a way that was more honest.
Speaker 1: But yeah, she's kind of real. A lot of the time.
Speaker 1: She's like, I just get you know, I.
Speaker 2: Just don't feel deeply.
Speaker 1: My final badge is for the ending's cute. In a
Speaker 1: rom com way where they're all dancing, like if this
Speaker 1: is what you want, if you really want a quote
Speaker 1: unquote feel good movie with a feel good ending, that's
Speaker 1: and you don't want to think at all. They all
Speaker 1: end dancing.
Speaker 2: So and like zooming slowly away from the building out
Speaker 2: of the window. A badge for when jud Law says,
Speaker 2: I am daddy. That's fun.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 2: That's a gift, thank you. Badge for Jack Black can
Speaker 2: sing in any film. It is fun. I enjoy it
Speaker 2: very much, he does. Yeah, And my final badge is
Speaker 2: a badge for this appalled British driver taking Cameron Diaz
Speaker 2: to the airport. Yeah, when she starts crying, and just
Speaker 2: the look his facial expression in the rear view mirror
Speaker 2: is so funny and true. Trages trag is.
Speaker 1: I have a trage for the general sentiment of males
Speaker 1: be like females, be like vibes, because they do that
Speaker 1: a number of times. They're like, you're not like other
Speaker 1: girls for this reason, and then yeah, and then he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm a male, classic male, so of course I want
Speaker 1: to stay around and hook up with you, and as
Speaker 1: any classic male, I often don't call back. You know
Speaker 1: that's such harmful messaging. We're not doing that anymore.
Speaker 2: H trage for and sorry to Jack Black for this,
Speaker 2: but I wrote trag for every gorgeous woman is with
Speaker 2: a Jack Black. Now I have to apologize again to
Speaker 2: Jack Black, because I think Jack Black himself is an
Speaker 2: extremely talented person, but his character character is a fucking
Speaker 2: annoying dude who's not that hot, not hot at all.
Speaker 1: I would love if he was real cute Jack Black, like,
Speaker 1: for example, in Not Joe Leebra Where and yes he's
Speaker 1: half Mexican in that, but but but only half and
Speaker 1: uh but he is like, you know, pining, but like
Speaker 1: his cute weird self. If he was like a cute
Speaker 1: weirdo who's like, man, I really have a crush on you,
Speaker 1: and I did all this nice stuff. But in Staid
Speaker 1: he's like, man, he totally makes the line here, come here,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you listen to the music from every
Speaker 1: movie I've ever liked, and she's like, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, I touched your booble doing that.
Speaker 1: His character in this is incredibly annoying.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Trag for the cringe movie talk. All the talk about
Speaker 1: Hollywood becomes too damn much. It's too much. And it
Speaker 1: completely is just men talking and women going wow, which
Speaker 1: is what made men of today think that we enjoy that.
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you it's still actively happening out there.
Speaker 2: Save us trage for it. Wow, she is down bad.
Speaker 2: Kate Winslet has it so bad, and as someone who
Speaker 2: is that almost all of the time, I did not
Speaker 2: enjoy watching it.
Speaker 1: Jasper.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: My final trage is for the not like other Girls thing,
Speaker 1: which they hit very hard. Yeah, and the acting was
Speaker 1: very uncomfortable at times. It's just weirds.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Trage for this man's movie metaphor helped me more
Speaker 2: than therapy ever did.
Speaker 1: Wrote something down like that too, like British therapists could
Speaker 1: never do what a Hollywood guy could do. O. My god,
Speaker 1: that's not right.
Speaker 2: That's so not right.
Speaker 1: Do they apply the therapist was a woman or did
Speaker 1: I just think that?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: I think I just imagine that. That's so funny.
Speaker 2: Trage for people talking about old movies is so annoying.
Speaker 2: And every movie she watches, she's like, it was amazing.
Speaker 2: I loved it so much, it was so good. I'm
Speaker 2: like the girl. We watched a hundred of these and
Speaker 2: not all of them are bangers, not okay at all.
Speaker 2: A prox ninety percent were terrible. Have a damn opinion
Speaker 2: about one. For God's sake, she's a dream girl. Trage
Speaker 2: for his daughter really just said dad doesn't have any
Speaker 2: friends who are women, like nobody here comes so for myself,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Trage for I really was thinking that Kate and Jack
Speaker 2: were just gonna be friends, like platonic pals who like
Speaker 2: have a good time while she's there on vacation and
Speaker 2: like help each other through getting over people. And then
Speaker 2: they got together and I was like, no, and in
Speaker 2: my final trage is okay, so we're just not going
Speaker 2: to talk about logistics. This doesn't make sense for anybody.
Speaker 1: No. I would love to even if they'd just been like,
Speaker 1: oh I found a job here, or I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: it over. I'm gonna give the remole.
Speaker 2: Crux of their conflict Cameron Diaz and Jude Laws is like,
Speaker 2: it's so complicated, it's really I don't know how to
Speaker 2: make this work. And then instead she's like, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: run through the sheep field and put them at risk
Speaker 2: by leaving the gate open. And it's New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1: I even would have preferred if it was like, actually,
Speaker 1: a long distance relationship is exactly what we both need,
Speaker 1: or like this, any situation works perfectly for what I
Speaker 1: need in life right now, which is like I want
Speaker 1: more family time and I can break up my you know,
Speaker 1: I have trusted I can make the pregnant lady my
Speaker 1: protegee and sure, good, you know totally, so they're just
Speaker 1: like I'm giving it all up. Whatever.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's call a cab into our next segment. How
Speaker 2: to pretend you've seen this film This is for you
Speaker 2: are on holiday?
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: You are staying in a cool and gorgeous architectural home,
Speaker 2: exploring the different rooms, running around and going, oh, I
Speaker 2: love this.
Speaker 1: When the owner's brother, the owner's brother, Jasper, comes banging
Speaker 1: on the door and goes, show us your life. I'm drunk,
Speaker 1: let me in. I have something. I have something to
Speaker 1: tell you that you open the door and say, you know,
Speaker 1: my sister, Well, it's even better because I just saw
Speaker 1: a movie that I'm gonna tell you all about, the
Speaker 1: film The Holiday, a movie that felt like it is
Speaker 1: about me.
Speaker 2: A man can be held down in order to slam
Speaker 2: the door or in Jasper's face. We're gonna give you
Speaker 2: a few sentences you can say to pretend you've seen
Speaker 2: the film The Holiday. Oh, Jasper, I've seen The Holiday.
Speaker 2: I just can't have this conversation with you because I
Speaker 2: missed my dead wife so much.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Yes, Jasper, I have seen the film The Holiday.
Speaker 1: And surprisingly, this film was written specifically with Cameron Diaz,
Speaker 1: Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Jack black and mind, which
Speaker 1: is crazy.
Speaker 2: What a weird grouping as well. Yeah, they must have
Speaker 2: just been like the biggest names of the time. I
Speaker 2: was gonna say specifically of the time. Yeah, because it's
Speaker 2: I don't I'm not seeing like chemistry between those four
Speaker 2: in such a thing.
Speaker 1: They had made Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz be like besties.
Speaker 1: That would have been such.
Speaker 2: Good I love and if Kate Winslet and Jack Blackbird
Speaker 2: just being friends, I believe that they had a good
Speaker 2: time hanging out together. Like Kate Winslet seems like she
Speaker 2: was having a very fun time filming this right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and that's great. Yes, Jasper, I've seen The Holiday. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I can't hear you because the Santa Anna Winds have
Speaker 2: really picked up lately, and when those start, anything can happen,
Speaker 2: like maybe you shut up and then he gets blown
Speaker 2: away into the four oh five.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this was in La. Yeah, this guy convinced
Speaker 1: it Oi.
Speaker 2: O sugar Tiths, show us your mof show us your more.
Speaker 2: Oh the Santa Ana wins blue a geezer in England.
Speaker 1: Yes, Jasper, I've seen the film The Holiday. This isn't
Speaker 1: that surprising because it's how movies work. But it's just
Speaker 1: this was so in the time of like movies, movies, movies,
Speaker 1: let's make more, more and more and more. The interior
Speaker 1: sets for Amanda's house were built on a sound stage
Speaker 1: and cost approximately one million dollars with exterior, your walls,
Speaker 1: a roof, plumbing, heating, and electricity. And I'm sorry, this
Speaker 1: is why the world is burning around us. Yep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the things they build. When I briefly worked on that
Speaker 1: movie sound and watch them be like, yeah, I've constructed this, this,
Speaker 1: this this is the yeah we do we build itt
Speaker 1: me just break it down the next day. It's just
Speaker 1: you know, you don't want to put any of the stuff.
Speaker 1: If you want to take any of this foam for
Speaker 1: your puppets, you can't. My god. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: The waste is unfatt so much waste, Like we have
Speaker 2: to do this, we have to make this movie.
Speaker 1: And we've seen it now and we're like it's yes,
Speaker 1: like build a house and then maybe let somebody live
Speaker 1: in it. I don't know, because they have all the
Speaker 1: they do, they have all the capabilities, but it'll be
Speaker 1: like a building functioning house.
Speaker 2: Oh, Jasper, shut up. I've seen The Holiday and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say two things that coming from a woman. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say three things that coming from a woman. You're
Speaker 2: not gonna like the first two for traditional reasons, the
Speaker 2: third because you're a coward. I sew and I have
Speaker 2: a cow. And also I'm amazing at my career, an
Speaker 2: extremely powerful and influential in night industry and financially independent.
Speaker 1: Well f off, I sew and I have a cow.
Speaker 2: That was very funny, Like why wouldn't they just let
Speaker 2: him be funny?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Okay, really funny. We were just talking
Speaker 1: about this because and I don't know why this is
Speaker 1: in the trivia for this movie, but yes, Jasper, I
Speaker 1: have seen the film The Holiday. Reportedly, the three members
Speaker 1: of British Indie rock band the Wombats went to see
Speaker 1: this movie expecting a rom com in the spirit of
Speaker 1: Bridget jones Diary. They ended up hating the film so
Speaker 1: much that they wrote a song called kill the Director,
Speaker 1: Don't love that about It, which contains lyrics like if
Speaker 1: this is a rom com, kill the director and this
Speaker 1: is no Bridget Jones, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: What That song showed up on my Spotify Discover weekly
Speaker 2: and I saved it because I was like, slay, that's
Speaker 2: about Oh no, oh no, it's about killing a woman.
Speaker 2: It's about killing a woman. Oh, I have to unsave
Speaker 2: that song. I thought it was just about life. I
Speaker 2: thought it was like, oh my god, if the situation
Speaker 2: I'm in is supposed to be a rom com, kill
Speaker 2: the Director.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's just about hating something a woman made.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I must life be so complex?
Speaker 5: This is no Bridget Jones.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's so funny.
Speaker 1: That makes way more sense if it's about life, and
Speaker 1: if it's about just hating a woman, Oh no, oh no,
Speaker 1: oh my god, that's crazy. Well, Leanna shouldn't move on
Speaker 1: to our next segment, which is, of course, should you
Speaker 1: watch this, where we tell you if you should watch
Speaker 1: this film or if you should do anything else? What
Speaker 1: do you think?
Speaker 2: I am so I am flabber guess I'm flabbergoosted. I
Speaker 2: can't believe this.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: That's spooky. Honestly, that is spooky. That's like when we
Speaker 2: do an episode and then like somebody prevalently involved in
Speaker 2: that movie dies, like the next week.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh my god, we're killing people. WHOA.
Speaker 2: I would say, you don't need to watch The Holiday.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's a letdown, Like whatever you're looking for,
Speaker 2: it doesn't quite achieve. Like it's not quite a cozy film.
Speaker 2: It's not quite a rom com. It's not like it's
Speaker 2: complicated levels of like perfect home and somebody makes a
Speaker 2: croissant that looks amazing. It just doesn't quite have anything.
Speaker 2: So I would say what you could watch instead is
Speaker 2: a TV show called The Franchise. It's on HBO Max.
Speaker 2: It's like Armando Iannuciese New Show, and it's a send
Speaker 2: up of basically like the Marvel and DC cinematic universes
Speaker 2: and like getting one of those movies made. And there's
Speaker 2: a scene in it where the ad the assistant director
Speaker 2: is talking to the director and he's like, all right,
Speaker 2: and here are the options for the dead wife character,
Speaker 2: So if you could just let me know, like which
Speaker 2: woman is the best for that? And it's a lineup
Speaker 2: of five brunette white women in the same outfit and
Speaker 2: the director is just supposed to pick one to play
Speaker 2: the dead wave. So and it was so it warmed
Speaker 2: my heart. Yeah, to see somebody acknowledge that the dead
Speaker 2: wife is such a trope. Yeah, I was just I
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, see, I know, what would you say.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go ahead and say, if you want
Speaker 1: to see a rom com that's Christmas themed, I don't.
Speaker 1: This isn't my favorite one ever. My family likes it.
Speaker 1: So it's if you want to turn your brain off
Speaker 1: and just these things don't bother you, then it's all good.
Speaker 1: But if you're listening to our podcast, they probably bother you.
Speaker 1: So one that's like a lot goofyer and still has
Speaker 1: romance and is unrealistic in many ways, but it's just
Speaker 1: more fun, to be honest and less trophy more unique
Speaker 1: is Bridget Jones Diary. I always think that's a fun one.
Speaker 1: You know what you're getting. But I don't think you
Speaker 1: should kill the director. I don't feel that way. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody needs to be killed. I can't believe that.
Speaker 1: I just personally don't. I don't prefer this one as much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Seanna, what would you rate the film The Holiday,
Speaker 2: the Hollybobs.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give The Holiday three little bathtubs out
Speaker 1: of out of five medium size. I guess what about yourself?
Speaker 2: I will give The Hollybobs one show us your moff
Speaker 2: out of five, show us your moff. It's such a
Speaker 2: that's so funny, okay, anyway, Oh, I was so bored
Speaker 2: during it. I was so disappointed. I I'm lucky to
Speaker 2: have my like cozy English cottage itch scratched in a
Speaker 2: million other ways. Yeah, yeah, living in England currently.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love Kate Winslet so much so she gets it
Speaker 2: a point and the houses are gorge but Jesus.
Speaker 1: Christ, I'd maybe even give it a two. I really
Speaker 1: don't like it either. It's we watch it every year.
Speaker 1: I'm always the most viral.
Speaker 2: You knew how to go into it, It's true. I
Speaker 2: think I went into it with just high expectations that
Speaker 2: it caused it to fall from grace.
Speaker 1: Still, it's very cathartic to hear so because I always
Speaker 1: feel like I'm alone in thinking it sucks.
Speaker 2: Oh not anymore. Ah wow, Well, happy holidays, Happy hollybobs
Speaker 2: everybody from us at toss Popcorn. That was our review
Speaker 2: of the holiday. Thank you for listening. We hope you're
Speaker 2: having a lovely holiday season. And if you'd like to
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Speaker 2: Why didn't anyone say Barry kiss On it was right there?
Speaker 2: Did they cut it out? I mean, there's just no way,
Speaker 2: no one they missed.
Speaker 1: Cut on a scene book.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there was a whole scene about Barry kiss Smith.
Speaker 1: No, definitely probably a song.