WEBVTT - Episode 6: 'Friends' with Ruth Bennett 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.960 Hello, this is Christian Bush and welcome to episode six 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:13.200 of Geeking Out, my new podcast. Every episode is a 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.360 new person talking about what they're obsessed with that has 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.279 nothing to do with their job. The only requirement is 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:21.400 that they're totally geeking out on it and they want 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.640 to talk about it. From Mickey Mouse backpacks to knock 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.480 off Jettie highball glasses, from do it yourself guitar pedals 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:33.520 to CrossFit achievement tattoos, from indoor bouldering to collecting seventies 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:37.000 lunch boxes. Tell me about what you love, why you 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.640 love it, how you got into it, and what makes 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:44.680 it awesome. Every episode is presented in three chapters. Chapter one, 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.040 my guest and I talk about what they're obsessed with. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.600 Chapter two is a game I called trade It, where 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.120 my guest and I turn each other onto one thing 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.520 that we've discovered. And chapter three closes the show with 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.520 me talking about music that I'm currently geeking out on. 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:04.280 And one I believe that curiosity is contagious and the 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:09.360 life is better with a soundtrack, So let's go Chapter one. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.160 Today's guest is Ruth Bennett, who works as an assistant 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.880 for a writer and an executive producer in the TV 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.360 and film business. She's a proud Michigander who splits her 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.600 time between l A and Nashville. She loves dogs and 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.640 her laugh is completely contagious. My producer Whitney, and I 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.600 went to her apartment in Santa Monica to talk about 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:33.160 her obsession, which you can probably guess based on the 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:45.040 music that's playing right now, that was still this way 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:52.480 everybody breath it Okay, where are we? We are in 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.760 Santa Monica, California, in my apartment. Yes, and we're in 0:01:55.760 --> 0:02:00.400 the path of the Santa Monica Airport. So yeah, sanamunic 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:04.320 Airport annoying planes. Well here comes on now there it 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:08.960 is okay, I love it, um And so what do 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:10.560 you What is it that you do for a little 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.560 I am an assistant to an executive producer, writer director 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:19.400 in the entertainment television film Yeah, and what what does that? 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.200 What does does that mean that you do? Ever? That 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:26.720 means well, most of my day is spent watching television 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:32.560 movie reading scripts, reading books that are potential projects coming 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.040 in for her, giving her my thoughts ideas if there's 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:39.360 a project going on, setting meetings, scheduling, also doing things 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.120 like watching her dogs. Like literally doing it. Also, she 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:46.520 can focus on what she needs to and what would 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.760 you be obsessed with that you would like to confess 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:55.160 at this time? Welcome to the confession. Well, I will confess, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.120 and I'm proud, like I don't need to hide and 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.360 confessional Like I'm all loud and proud about it. But 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.000 I'm a huge Friends fan and have been since day one. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.760 I know it's twenty bazillion years old, but I still 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:11.080 watch at least an hour of Friends every day. It's comforting, 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.320 it's part of my routine. I cannot get through a 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:18.840 day without an episode of Friends. So yeah, a lot 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:20.520 of people. I mean, I don't discuss it with people, 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:25.960 but I would just started. Yes, I mean clearly, I'll 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.240 talk about it on a podcast. Clearly, we'll talk about 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.960 it on a podcast. Um. So just to be clear 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.919 for people that are maybe too young to understand this, Uh, 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.800 this is Friends the TV show. Yes, Friends TV show, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.920 the ensemble, which is actually playing in the background right now, 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.440 because I thought it was appropriate when you guys came 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.600 over that I would be playing let the record show 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:49.040 Ruth watching the episode over my shoulder. Wow, I'm actually 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.920 facing her. I have done it in bed for to No, 0:03:51.960 --> 0:04:00.240 I'm just kidding. Have it on the background, were watching 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:05.200 h This is the Halloween episode I believe of season eight. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.840 When when did this begin begin during the original seasons? 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.240 Oh yeah, right away because it came out when I 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:16.440 was a freshman in college. And wow, because I'm old 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.800 and kids today don't know how this goes. But like 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.080 when I went to school, you know, I went to college. 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.400 You know, communal TVs were like a thing or there 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.480 were big shows and it was appointment television. You weren't 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:29.920 going to watch it if you didn't catch it. So 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:31.520 and this was one of the things where all the 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.480 girls on my floor we would all be like, oh yeah, 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.080 I'm gonna watch Friends Thursday nights, and so it was 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.560 like a thing. It was very relatable and we all, 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.680 you know, wanted to live in New York. We're downe 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.520 with theater schools, who were like, yeah, I want that 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.799 apartment that will be a part of my life. So yeah, 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.200 that's right from the beginning. Hooked. Yeah, And I do 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.320 think that's a good point that back in the day, kids, 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.120 if you didn't have a VCR with you at college, 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:03.560 you had to find the TV in the dorm. Communal room. Yeah. 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.240 We used to all gather around for Beverly Hills Man, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.560 yes and place. Yeah, totally the same type of thing. 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:15.440 So Friends was that for us? When did you start 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:20.279 to realize that this was something beyond just maybe being 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.440 a fan of the TV show, like it would be 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.400 any other TV show you watched. Um, Well, I think 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:29.200 because now twenty five years later, I'm still watching it. 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.600 I know every episode by heart, like I know what's 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.360 going to come up next, I know the punchlines. Yet 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.800 I still I literally watch it every day, So I think, 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.520 And maybe when it was ending, you know, I remember 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.520 as a kid like shows what end, Like I remember 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.240 Mash ending, and it was very sad, and it was like, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.320 you know, clearly I do work in television, so television 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:56.040 is important. But I remember so vividly, like the lead 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.000 up to the end of Friends, like how emotionally like upset, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.880 Like they were on Oprah together and they would do 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.040 all of these interviews and I would be like crying, 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.599 like I was having like anxiety and panic attack that 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.159 Friends was ending and then I wasn't gonna be able 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.840 to watch it. Yeah. I was with Rebecca, my best friend, 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.480 Rebecca Um and we both and it was and so 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.280 I just knew them like I was really affected, like 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.640 it was I was affected by it and so yeah, 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.159 so it's slowly just been a slow burn something to do, 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:30.440 like yeah, get rid of Yeah, so funny. Did you 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.240 own them on all the different mediums? Like did you 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.680 own the episodes? What? How did you first start to 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.400 rewatch them? Um? Well, you know it's been on syndication 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:44.320 on TBS and oh wow, that's like buzz marketing for them. 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.839 But it's always been on syndication, TV Land, TBS and 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.800 it's always come back. And yes, I did have DVDs 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:53.880 for a really long time now over the course of 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.560 time because I've cut everything down, like I have only 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.960 my favorite CDs left. Um, I don't have them anymore 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.599 or but yep, I had. But you also had to 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.080 buy them per season. And because I've been so broke 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:06.640 over the course of my life, like I've never had 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.800 a whole Friend set. I've only ever purchased like seasons 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:15.480 that I wanted. Uh yeah, so I've had that as well. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:20.760 Have you had to pick a favorite Friends season? M h, 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:25.360 which one is it? They made ten seasons altogether, and 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.600 season eight is my absolute favorite. My favorite arc, like 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.440 the three storylines like when I am low and I 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.240 just need to like recharge my batteries or I just 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:37.880 need something to make me feel good. I will watch 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:43.440 the three episode arc of when Rachel when they all 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.640 figure out that Ross is Rachel's baby's dad, right, so, 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.280 and that is called these ones. I do know that 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.800 is the one with the red sweater, and then the 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.440 one after that is the one where Rachel tells So 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.880 that's the one where Ross finds out, and then the 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.200 one after that is the one with the videotape. Just 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:04.000 hands down my favorite Friends episode ever, Like yeah, it's 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.840 the bomb, and it shows how Emma came to me, 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:12.800 which is amazing. This is amazing. This happened with other 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:17.800 TV shows uniquely, like this is nope, um Sex in 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.240 the City. For a while I was watching that, but 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.640 that was because I did not watch Sex in the 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:27.240 City as it was happening. I didn't couldn't afford HBO, 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.320 so I was a little behind the curb on that one. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.200 It wasn't something that I watched all the way through 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.440 when was a fan of from the start. Though I 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.680 have gone back and I do appreciate it and have 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.400 watched seple of times, but again, nothing, nothing is comforted me. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:44.960 Nothing is Friends. That leads me to the sex in 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.440 the city correlation leads me to the most important question, 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:52.240 which friend do you most identify with? Okay, let's dig 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:57.400 into actually the show itself. Okay, see, and I think 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.720 that this is hard because I think part of what's 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.320 her feel about Friends is that you sort of see 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.480 yourself in all of them. Right though, I feel like 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:12.160 I most identify with Phoebe because she is sort of nonsensical. 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.640 She's really funny, you know what I mean, she just 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:19.480 kind of I don't she's the mom, even though she's 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.240 the most irresponsible, you know, because she's just sort of 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.520 sort of what you need, and she's got this magical 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.120 like little I don't know, she's she's sort of like 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.720 the fairy who. Okay, there's a theory you haven't heard about, 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:38.160 the fan theory where the whole premise like that Friends 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.600 takes place those are my neighborhood children. Friends takes place 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.840 inside Phoebe's head and she's a homeless person. So that 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:52.440 is like, yeah, like theory yes on the internet that 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.319 that is like the real story behind Friends is that 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.960 the entire story of Friends is that Phoebe is a 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.640 homeless persondent to takes place in her brain. So recently 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.640 I've gone back and watched it thinking that, and that 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:10.560 actually kind of makes sense. But because because she is 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:15.280 so nonsensical, because she she actually like she treats. She's 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.160 the rudest, like she is the most means. She says 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.800 the meanest stuff to each one of them, you know 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.120 what I mean. She takes them to task and she's 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.800 the most brutally honest. Yet she is also very loving 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.760 and very sweet and um even when they're like all 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:37.440 sort of spinning out of control. She's real, folks, even 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.400 though she's crazy, she's like the center. She's sort of 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.400 the focus one. She's the one you can come back 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.400 to because you can always rely that she's going to 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.800 be the most Phoebe. And that's sort of why I 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.160 relate to her. And I don't relate to Rachel at all. 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.000 I mean, I do relate to Rachel, but you know, 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.560 like popular, cute, little a little girl La, not so 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.160 much Monica. I totally relate to Monica, except Monica is 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.200 a little O C D like her competitiveness, but she's 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.600 also way to O c D. That's super O c D. 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.560 But yes, and Monica and her relationship with her brother, 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:18.840 love it, love it, Grassy poo. I faintly remember in 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.520 the back of my brain that before Friends came on, 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:27.280 I saw Phoebe as a character in another TV show. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.679 Is that true about Ursula, that is her twin sister Ursula? 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:37.839 And is that how Friends became Friends? Is that it was? No? 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.280 Do you know the answer to this? It just seems 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.280 like this is the o G they needs, the o 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:47.760 G of Friends, right, connection is NBC? Yes, and the 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:53.320 production company I think so Crane and Crane are the 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:59.680 two there behind what was that showing mad about? Yes? 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:07.880 And Ursula is a waitress at I didn't watch that show. Yeah, 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:14.959 I was completely with real and it was a it 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.080 was a boy thing. I was just I had a crush. 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:23.920 Even the question is this because your friends obsession extend 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.240 to the extended friends family? Like did you did you 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.120 follow them all into movies into their other shows? Yes? 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:36.360 Actually I have because yeah, and I never would have 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.559 thought about that until right now, but I sure have. 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.719 And there are things that I think that are like, 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.199 for example, I don't think David Twimmer is a really 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.720 terrific actor. I mean, it's so funny thing about it. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.640 If you are ever listening, David tim I'm terribly sorry, 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.720 but anyway, but I think he's a fantastic director, like 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:59.280 some of the things that he's done. Um, yes, so 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.840 I have absolute Really Matthew Perry, God bless him. I've 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.360 enjoyed his shows except for The Odd Couple, which I 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.240 don't like. I love Jennifer Anderson. I'll watch anything that 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.160 she's in because she's a cool check Courtney Cox. I've 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.240 loved everything that she has been in. Cougar Town was 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.720 again a really good one. Yeah, totally have. The answer 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.200 is yes, thank you for helping me put that together. 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.160 Oh my god. Well okay, and here's the thing is 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.080 that Lisa Kudro I think is one of the best 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.600 female comedic actresses. I think her comic timing The Comeback, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:36.040 which is the show, I mean, it was so painful 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:40.320 and so amazing and so wonderful and and she's and 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.760 that's part of why I love Phoene so much, because 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.880 she'll just deliver these little lines and just get in there. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:50.160 And that is Lisa Coudro knowing how to deliver that line. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.520 And bringing it to that character. And I also think 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.720 that that's part of the reason why Friends worked so much, 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.800 that they were just truly a great ensemble cast and 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:03.480 they all played to their ranks. And yeah, that's part 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.880 of what I love too. Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:13.400 bought anything for your apartment to replicate things in Friends? 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.959 I have not, but I have bought friends like paraphernalia. 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.560 Like I had a big friend's coffee mug once. That 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.840 was my favorite mug and then it broke. I had 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.240 a friend zip a hoodie sweatshirt which I bought from. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.360 One of the first lot tours I did when I 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.320 moved to Los Angeles was to go to the w 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.160 Bee Law and I bought friends gear there and I 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.280 wore that until it just died. So I have had 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.320 different things, but no, I have not like the door 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.360 frame or anything but the people covered. No. I've also 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:51.360 never had a people never. No, never had myself. My 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.320 question is because you know the generation below ours, So 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.520 Ruth and I are forty two ish, give or take, 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.680 you'd never know to look at us, um the generation 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.600 right blowers, the thirty two year olds, are equally as 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:07.080 obsessed with friends, even though they were like seven when 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.760 the show came out. Why do you think it resonates 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.320 with them as well? I think they were watching it 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.040 at TV Land. And here is why I say this, 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.640 because it's even even a slightly younger generation. Again when 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.400 I first moved here, so I was taking care of 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.960 this family, um, and they had three wonderful kids, and 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.160 they're all now like the youngest one that I it's 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.320 how I came to be with them because he went 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.760 to school with my god daughter. Um. He now just 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.720 a freshman in college. Boy. Um. But they were friends 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.320 with Marta Kaufman and they would go to friends takings 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:46.000 all the time, right, So I think that they watched that. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.680 So they watched it too, even though they were young 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.440 like that age because that's when Friends was finishing. So 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.960 you have they were in fifth and sixth grade his 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.240 oldest sister, right, So you have them that started watching it. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.280 But I feel like all of these other kids have 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.880 now also been watching it on TV Land, you know 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:05.960 what I mean, And it's just such a part of 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.040 their like I love Lucy, you know what I mean. 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.080 Like for us, I love Lucy was around and it 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.960 was something that you turned on. It was on when 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.560 you're after school. So I think that for these kids 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.880 growing up at the back end of it and then 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.400 having it immediately go into syndication, you know, and being 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:28.520 a part of just the cultural phenomenon that it was, 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.040 I think that that that plays a part definitely about 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:36.840 the story that resonates. Do you think, what why do 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.160 people stick with it? Stick with friends because you can't 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.120 identify with the apartment or their jobs or they're even 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:47.320 like their clothes, because that's not attainable. But I think no, 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.880 And honestly, when you really look at it, like there's 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.320 the whole will Fell suscension of dislief, there are certain 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.080 things that you don't really want to pay attention to 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.560 those of us that know New York. No, that that's 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.800 a huge, huge apartment and there's no way and how 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.200 that they were ever going to afford that, And yes, 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.120 you can break it down like that. So yeah, but 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.119 that doesn't change the fact that we all have a 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.639 group of friends that you've all grown up with, you know, 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.280 like these like so the characters in the show have 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.280 known each other some since that you know, our brother 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:22.320 and sister clearly, some since early childhood, you know, some 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.960 since college. So we all can sort of relate to that, 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.479 and having your posse of friends still be friends and 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.880 have this sort of communal life, you know, in your 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:37.600 early twenties and being fairly successful like that is kind 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:39.239 of you know, the dream of it all. Let's just 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.760 keep you know, high school going, or you know, let's 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.879 just so yeah, I think that that's totally relatable, and 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:49.040 it again is very comforting and homie and you're like, oh, yeah, 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:50.960 I wouldn't it be great. I've lived with my best 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.720 friend and dated my other best friend and we had 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.160 you know, so it's also completely unrealistic if you think 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.240 about that, you know, like, I mean, yes, I have 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.000 a core group of I think back on college had 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:06.439 a core group of you know, six to eight friends 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:08.399 that were always together. They were always hanging out at 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.760 my house and we as a pack did things and 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.800 in different circles. Yeah, we also had a larger circle 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:18.800 that was way more inclusive, you know. But then again, 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.320 that doesn't make it for a good twenty twenty eight 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.600 minutes story on TV What's a week? What episode do 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:29.240 you think may be the most uncomfortable? Maybe the most uncomfortable, okay, 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:33.800 are the ones where Phoebe's real mo like, um, Phoebe 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:39.840 given you know, the triplets away, there's like a whole 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.639 little thing where she's like, just ask if I can 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.320 keep one, you know what I mean? Like those things 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:46.920 make you start of uncomfortable, and when she when her 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:53.120 little heart strings are being pulled on, that does uncomfortable. 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.200 But I don't know other than that. But I also 0:18:56.240 --> 0:19:01.320 don't like in general, when like sit coms are trying 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.880 to be poignant. I want them just to be funny. 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.520 You know. I realized everybody has a message or whatever, 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.400 and I don't see this as a rule, but as 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.399 a rule, I really want them just to be like funny. 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.560 So any of them that try to like really send 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:19.040 a message, like, leave that to my drama. What are 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:27.000 your favorite jokes? Um, Usually they're just lines, Yes, well, 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.840 all of the ones that you see on the memes, 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:36.280 like he's you know, he's her lobster, ms chinandeler bong 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:40.560 you know from the episode, and they're playing trivia like 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.520 all of those things. Yes, so, and those are relatable, 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:49.080 But I find that my favorite favorite moments are very subtle. Um, 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.000 I was bringing at Phoebe, So I'm gonna give one 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:57.359 to Ross David Swimmer. There's the episode where Monica and 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.760 Chandler are trying to get pregnant and they're doing it 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.520 all over and Chandler fakes it because he doesn't really 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:05.720 think that he wants to get pregnant right now. And 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:08.760 two times in that episode, Ross happens to be in 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.720 the apartment when Monica says something completely inappropriate, the same 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:16.040 I'm your brother, And the second time he's looking for 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:20.880 a tie, and so Chandler like delivers the blow like, 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:24.800 you know, I you couldn't get pregnant because I faked it, 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:26.920 And she was like what And all of a sudden, 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:30.080 you ever cut straws and me it was like, I 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.239 don't really need a tie, you know. It's just like 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:34.760 the way he delivers it. It's not really a joke, 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.760 but it's such a perfect moment. You're like, yeah, So 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.320 those are really my favorite, I mean, in addition to 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:47.560 all of the classics. So if somebody has never watched 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:51.200 Friends that's you know, living under a rock, or maybe 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:55.800 they're just younger, where would you start them? Like? How 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.960 if you wanted to help someone go into your obsession world? 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:05.160 How how would you get on there? Um? Interesting, So 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:09.359 Angelina had actually asked a while ago because she was 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:13.040 never a huge fan of Friends, she didn't watch it religiously, 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.240 and she was doing something and she put up on Facebook. 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.040 She's like, Okay, I feel like I really just need 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:20.000 to get into Friends and watch some of the best 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.080 you know, and try to figure it out. Where do 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:25.800 I begin. It's what she said and what I say, Um, 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:29.080 Friends has a Thanksgiving thing. I mean, you know, all 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:33.359 TV shows have their holiday shows, but Friends Thanksgiving episodes 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:36.760 are like a thing. And so I say, any Thanksgiving 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.080 episode of Friends, if you're new to Friends, you can 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:41.600 just start and just watch the Thanksgiving episode from each 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:46.760 season and that would be a good little snippet, you know. Um. Also, 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:48.960 clearly in the three episode of Art that I said, 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:51.760 so that does sort of give it all away. So 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.520 maybe I shouldn't suggest that people that are new because 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:56.119 you want to you kind of want to get it, 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:59.680 but everybody knows. Like that's the thing is that people 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:02.600 that have a watch Friends, you sort of like know, 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:05.440 like you know about the cheesier lobster and the Ross 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:07.920 and Rachel and how it all ends up. So yeah, 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:11.080 so maybe I would suggest then that three episode arc 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:16.160 in season eight. Um, and hands down like the funniest, 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:18.960 I mean, of all of the Thanksgiving episodes. The Lone 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:21.199 Brad Pitt is really hilarious and it's one of my 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:25.040 favorites again just of all time, Like that's one of 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:32.359 the best. Which side that is flashback episode that is 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:37.960 one of the Thanksgivings is like a Thanksgiving flashback. So 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:40.959 what they do is they just flash back to Thanksgivings 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:43.080 that haven't actually been on the air, but it's just 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:46.719 like different Thanksgivings in time before and so that is 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:52.680 in I think that might be season seven word Monica 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:56.600 and Chandler are engaged and they're going back because they're 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:59.720 revealing things that had happened, like Monica had cut off 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:04.919 Chandler's toll on accident way back. You don't want to 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:09.000 go there? Yeah, man, god, it's such a good show. 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:13.160 So do you think the show will survive the test 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:16.560 of time? You think that thirty forty years from now 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:20.200 it would be like an I love loosely? Yeah? Does 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:25.240 it feel that way to you or is it it does? Actually? 0:23:25.520 --> 0:23:32.439 I think I think it stands up. So maybe not, 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:36.480 because you have, like the Andy Greta show, things that 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:40.200 do do this leave it to beaver, you know things 0:23:40.200 --> 0:23:43.040 that kids still watch and that are on TV. Yeah, no, 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:46.360 I do. I think it will. I mean, it might 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:48.879 not be as hetty, and it might not always deliver 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:53.080