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Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Leanna Holsten and I'm Sienna Jacob, and welcome
Speaker 2: to Tossed Popcorn, the podcast where two idiots watched every
Speaker 2: film on the American Film Institute's one hundred Greatest American
Speaker 2: Movies of All Time, the very slightly less racist tenth
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Speaker 2: Today we're watching The Farewell. Isn't it wrong to lie?
Speaker 2: I mean, if it's for good, it's not really a lie.
Speaker 2: I mean it's so a lie, it's a good lie. Warning.
Speaker 2: There will be spoilers about this recent film. Yeh the Sianna.
Speaker 2: Had you seen this before? I had not, but you'll
Speaker 2: hear that I knew stuff about it for my prediction. Okay,
Speaker 2: please may I hear it right now? Please? Huh, yeah,
Speaker 2: no problem, I'll open it here. I go.
Speaker 3: Hi, Leanna, this is Ciena. I'm about to watch The Farewell.
Speaker 3: I have not seen this film, but I'm I listened
Speaker 3: to the podcast episode it's based on, I think because
Speaker 3: it's about what.
Speaker 2: A family who's not telling their grandma that she's who
Speaker 2: terminally ill because I don't think you have to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the family member's decision in China, which I
Speaker 3: thought was kind of like a good idea. So anyway,
Speaker 3: I predict there will be moral quandaries and a lot of.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 3: It will be dramatic and sad, sad, I guess, oh
Speaker 3: my gosh.
Speaker 2: But yeah, all right, I love you goodbye. Whoa. Yeah
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 3: When it came out, I was like, wait a second,
Speaker 3: I know this story. I think it must have been
Speaker 3: in this American Life episode or something interesting. But it
Speaker 3: was really good. It was like super interesting.
Speaker 2: So I was very excited about it when I heard
Speaker 2: about it. Wow, yeah, oh my god. Okay, well here's
Speaker 2: my prediction. I would lie to hear your brain prediction fantastic. Okay, ready, hi, Sienna,
Speaker 2: it's Leanna. I'm about to watch the Farewell. I all
Speaker 2: I know about this is it is devastuted, So I
Speaker 2: predict I might be devastuted and familial relations, maybe a
Speaker 2: bit of air travel will be involved. Okay, Yeah, and
Speaker 2: you know, I think there might be some lovely score,
Speaker 2: a lovely score of music to the film. But no
Speaker 2: worries if not love you. How you doing? By the way,
Speaker 2: I'm okay, well this is exactly why we put hey
Speaker 2: girl right here. Oh yeah girl, By the way, Monday,
Speaker 2: Monday is the deadline before we uh talk about you.
Speaker 2: I'm drinking okay, okay, look at this. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 2: just thought you'd ask so I was answering. Okay, No,
Speaker 2: I was asking, has me that's very bad. I'm loving
Speaker 2: this beverage. That's extremely it. Cianna's drinking out of a
Speaker 2: very art deco glass, a little bit of a chay moment.
Speaker 2: All of this just feels like, I don't know what
Speaker 2: you'd be proud of me. I don't know why. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: sure I'll be proud of you for that. What random
Speaker 2: say you'd be proud of me for this? And then
Speaker 2: you have to be yeah sure. I don't have further plans.
Speaker 2: My partner's mom gave me a chi mix for my
Speaker 2: for my birthday, and I actually made it on the
Speaker 2: stovetop yesterday because it was like my first day off
Speaker 2: in a while. Yeah, hey girl, though, I wanna I
Speaker 2: am asking about you, Hey girl? What's up? Hey girl?
Speaker 2: I My my old gym closed because a boutique fitness
Speaker 2: studio hates to see me come in. No, at the
Speaker 2: end of last month, what was it? What was the
Speaker 2: you'd do? It was Orange Theory Fitness TM, which ism
Speaker 2: whusive in the US. I was gonna say, like that
Speaker 2: called that being called a boutique. It's boutique. But they
Speaker 2: had four London locations and they closed all of them
Speaker 2: at the end of January. I know all of them.
Speaker 2: It's literally the third boutique fitness studio in as many
Speaker 2: years that has that I have crossed the threshold of
Speaker 2: and then soon after it has closed permanently, permanently. I'm
Speaker 2: like a portender of doom for boutique fitness studios. What
Speaker 2: are you gonna do now? So I joined just like
Speaker 2: a gym, a regular ass gym around the corner, an
Speaker 2: ass gym. Honestly, yeah, a little bit. These days that's
Speaker 2: the trend. And today I had when you join, you
Speaker 2: get like a free personal trainer taster session is what
Speaker 2: it was called. So you'd like do an hour with
Speaker 2: a personal Yeah, I had. I got to lick one
Speaker 2: personal trainer. No, you do a one hour session with
Speaker 2: a personal trainer. And what I learned from it is
Speaker 2: that every single part of my body is incredibly weak.
Speaker 2: There's no way that's true. You're so strong every part
Speaker 2: of my body. It was so humbling. I guess that's terrible.
Speaker 2: I think really what happened is I got absolutely the
Speaker 2: most out of this session because I went into it prepared.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, and as a result was
Speaker 2: rapidly humbled because I went into it knowing what I
Speaker 2: would like to work on and the areas that I
Speaker 2: know i'd like to work on. Sure, and to no
Speaker 2: one's surprised, those areas did turn out to be weak,
Speaker 2: and that's why I need to work on them. But
Speaker 2: as a result, it was just an hour of me
Speaker 2: doing things I'm not good at. Huh, totally, and that
Speaker 2: that was kind of a bummer. Yeah that's tough, Like
Speaker 2: you impress them with anything. You're like, give me squats
Speaker 2: and I can do them. Yeah no, yeah, yeah that would.
Speaker 3: Be I understand that would be sort of disheartening, especially
Speaker 3: when you've been working out so much for so long and.
Speaker 2: Then you're like, oh, I'm sorry. I considered myself to
Speaker 2: be a strong woman, but I guess every part of
Speaker 2: my body that's ever existed is a piece of garbage. Oh,
Speaker 2: I guess I'm made up of pieces of garbage.
Speaker 3: I was at my fitist a while ago in terms
Speaker 3: of like most frequently working out, and then my friend
Speaker 3: that I decided to go to like the gym in
Speaker 3: my apartment complex, right before I moved out of this apartment. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and she handed me one set of twenty pound weights
Speaker 3: and it.
Speaker 2: Was over for me because I normally just do like
Speaker 2: little weights. Yeah, And I was like, I don't actually
Speaker 2: know how to interact with these, and yeah, I looked
Speaker 2: like there was also a big mirror and watching myself
Speaker 2: trying to lift these twenty pound weights was one of
Speaker 2: the worst things I've ever had to see. No, Like
Speaker 2: I thought of myself in my mind, I'm like this
Speaker 2: like strong, badass, strong core, let's go. And then I
Speaker 2: looked like SpongeBob lifting up those stuff animal workout like
Speaker 2: the wells. It was so it was so humbling. I also,
Speaker 2: I don't mean to blame TikTok for yet another foible
Speaker 2: in our society, but what is good? What are people
Speaker 2: doing at the gym these days? I haven't been to
Speaker 2: a gym since like college, because then I was doing classes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: for most of my adult life. Going back today, everybody
Speaker 2: in the free weight whatever machine area, multiple people were
Speaker 2: doing handstands. What's that for? In the middle of the room,
Speaker 2: elaborate complex handstands. They were standing on their hands and
Speaker 2: moving their legs around in the air in ways I'd
Speaker 2: never seen before. And I said, what are we all
Speaker 2: training for? And why are we all knowing how to
Speaker 2: do this? You should only do that if you're like
Speaker 2: a professional mascot or something. Thank you. If you have
Speaker 2: to be very boldly doing things with your body for
Speaker 2: all to see, not just working out. Yeah, I'll have
Speaker 2: to keep an open mind when I return and remember
Speaker 2: that these might be professional mascots and to give them
Speaker 2: their training space. Are you about to be performing for
Speaker 2: a huge crowd of spectators? Perhaps because you better. That's
Speaker 2: the only reason I hope that I should hope that's
Speaker 2: too much. That's not what was going on in gym's
Speaker 2: back in my day. I wasn't seeing people doing handstands.
Speaker 2: That's for a gymnasium. That's for gymnastics. That is so strange.
Speaker 2: You're in the wrong gym, you guys. I'm so making
Speaker 2: the gym for being upright or horizontal but upright on
Speaker 2: your feet. It's too much. I'm just trying to get
Speaker 2: myself to even like stretch my neck out this week. Honestly,
Speaker 2: yesterday at the gym, I was stretching and I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, am I the hottest woman alive? And
Speaker 2: then I looked to my left and somebody was doing
Speaker 2: the same exercise as me, but was a thousand times
Speaker 2: hotter than I'll ever be in my life. And I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, I should kill myself. That is the
Speaker 2: worst thing ever.
Speaker 3: Going to a gym would be really hard in that way,
Speaker 3: because I'm like, I'm super content with my body. But
Speaker 3: if I were to see it in a row of
Speaker 3: people who go to the GM every day, I don't
Speaker 3: know if I could see myself like try to do
Speaker 3: like a good morning you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Oh my god. I know people run on the treadmill
Speaker 2: near me, and I have to pretend I'm like a
Speaker 2: horse with blinders on. I'm like, the pace I am
Speaker 2: going is acceptable, honest, I am an acceptable human woman,
Speaker 2: pretending it's okay that I am running at this pace
Speaker 2: and in this body, because it is okay that I
Speaker 2: exist on this earth as this present human woman. I
Speaker 2: am an acceptable human woman. I have to keep saying affirmations.
Speaker 2: Pretending that you're a horse is probably an actually helpful
Speaker 2: to do while you're on the treadmill. I just get
Speaker 2: down on our fours and clomp clomp away. But they're like,
Speaker 2: she's clopp she's really good. Ah, hey girl, hey girl,
Speaker 2: let's see. Let's see what's going on with me.
Speaker 3: I had some fun things to share, and now I
Speaker 3: don't remember them. I was sick last week, which is
Speaker 3: one of the reasons that I'm like so uncomfortable in
Speaker 3: my body this week, because it turns out when you
Speaker 3: lie in bed for a long time, it's very uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: Isn't that so dumb? Because it's meant to be recuperating,
Speaker 2: it's the most comfortable thing in the world, and yet anyway,
Speaker 2: it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: So I'm kind of getting back to my normal life.
Speaker 3: I'm just glad I'm not stuffy. I had a bunch
Speaker 3: of jobs this week, and it just had to be
Speaker 3: the week when I just felt just terrible. Just every
Speaker 3: day i'd wake up and be like, maybe today's the
Speaker 3: day I'm better, and it'd be like, how am I worse?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Well, here's one part of it. Here's something I found out.
Speaker 3: I think I have an allergy now to some.
Speaker 2: Of my god foods. What no, no, this is my
Speaker 2: greatest fear.
Speaker 3: I oh god, I have never had an allergy. But
Speaker 3: then shortly after the fires, I ate a salad with
Speaker 3: sesame sticks in it.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, I remember, and I gave around. I loved
Speaker 2: delicious from Trader Joe's.
Speaker 3: Let it be known, they're delicious. But the next day
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, my throat and my tongue burn.
Speaker 3: It must be from the fires.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then a few days later I ate another salad
Speaker 3: with all these sesame sticks in them, and I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, dude, the fires are like having an
Speaker 3: effect on me, like four days after that fact, even
Speaker 3: though it went away for a while.
Speaker 2: That's crazy, the fires. It's the fire fires.
Speaker 3: But then I was eating a sesame stick and it
Speaker 3: felt so bad to swallow, and I was like, oh, no,
Speaker 3: wait a second, We're like maybe I'm allergic to sesame.
Speaker 3: And then I haven't thought about it much since hasn't
Speaker 3: come up. And then I worked a long day the
Speaker 3: other day on a set and immediately went and got.
Speaker 2: Did you ever get No, you're vegetarian. My god, thank you.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I just I'm so happy we still connect, even
Speaker 2: though I talk about meat so much in more ways
Speaker 2: than one. Mama, I'm always talking about uh uh.
Speaker 3: I went to what's it called the Chicken Place, the
Speaker 3: chicken place where all the family members like murdered each other.
Speaker 2: What you don't know what? Oh, chicken, I don't know,
Speaker 2: chicken lore, chicken. It's okay, yeah, but I ate it.
Speaker 2: And the next day I was like, oh, I'm sick.
Speaker 2: Even my throat hurts today.
Speaker 3: I can't believe I'm getting sicker even though should be better.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then the next day, as I was eating it again,
Speaker 3: I looked down as I realized there was tahini.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: And to be honest, anybody who has allergies like I
Speaker 3: could use some tips. I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 3: My tongue is really irritated and has been all week.
Speaker 3: I went to a dinner party and it was so
Speaker 3: hard to eat everything.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I do not know what's gonna happen. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'll pray for you. Thank you. Yeah. Speaking of great
Speaker 2: tragedies and not knowing someone's health outcome, yes, yeah, would
Speaker 2: you please give US A synopsis of the film The Farewell.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm pretty sure I finished writing it. Okay, The Farewell.
Speaker 3: Billy's grandma gets tests back, reporting that she is terminally ill,
Speaker 3: but she is not.
Speaker 2: The one who receives them. Her sister does.
Speaker 3: As is legal and oftentimes customary in Chinese culture, no
Speaker 3: one in the family tells nine I the grandma that
Speaker 3: she is sick. The whole family comes home to China
Speaker 3: for a staged wedding in order to spend time with nine.
Speaker 2: Nine before she passes. It is a very emotional ride
Speaker 2: for our protagonist Billy.
Speaker 3: Who is struggling to make ends meet in NYC and
Speaker 3: loves her nine I very much. It's tough to think
Speaker 3: about what life could have been like had she her
Speaker 3: family stayed in China instead of moving to the US.
Speaker 2: And of course it's tough because her grandma is dying.
Speaker 2: It is sweet and interesting, there's lots of family time.
Speaker 2: V end yes, yes, wow, yes.
Speaker 3: Yes, Aquafina. Aquafina in a dramatic role. And dare I say.
Speaker 2: She's a great job.
Speaker 3: Certainly, Hey, no, no, nothing's wrong, You're completely fine. I
Speaker 3: would just maybe recommend during this ad break going outside
Speaker 3: getting some ice cream.
Speaker 2: Living your life Okay, just really try to live your
Speaker 2: life today. Okay, we'll be right back. You're gonna want
Speaker 2: to take advantage of these three minutes, that's all I'll say.
Speaker 3: Leana, show to move on to our phone notes, where
Speaker 3: we talk about the notes Duke on our phone while
Speaker 3: watching the movie.
Speaker 2: God Please Please. Okay, oh my god. Well we've asked
Speaker 2: similar questions to one another, so let's just do it.
Speaker 2: Dive right into this. Okay, and Sienna, your first note
Speaker 2: is would you like your family to be the ones
Speaker 2: delivering your tough news or naw?
Speaker 3: Oh okay, and Leanna, you said, Sienna, if you were dying,
Speaker 3: would you want to know? Okay, big questions, up topic,
Speaker 3: big questions. My answer is no, you would not want
Speaker 3: to know. Yeah, I'd love going.
Speaker 2: Out this way really. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's like I do understand if it's to a point
Speaker 3: where you can't do anything about it, hmm, the stress
Speaker 3: to me, I understand that, Like, there's a certain amount
Speaker 3: of just enjoying life, and I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people find the peace on their own in situations like this,
Speaker 3: Like that's what you're striving for, is the piece that
Speaker 3: you might feel if it was just like okay and
Speaker 3: not the most stressful thing in the world. And one
Speaker 3: way for that to be the case is just to
Speaker 3: like keep going on with your life.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 3: I personally love this, but I also understand that there's
Speaker 3: like it's so you know, it makes sense, it works.
Speaker 3: It seems like it works in Chinese culture because there's
Speaker 3: already culturally so much of a as her uncle was
Speaker 3: saying later, like an understanding of what the family does
Speaker 3: for each other where it would be so random in
Speaker 3: the United States since the family structures here are so random. Yes, yeah, families,
Speaker 3: you have no idea if anybody's close, you have no idea.
Speaker 3: If they do have responsibility for each other, you have
Speaker 3: no idea if they care.
Speaker 2: About each other. Like it's just like yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: a weird place trying to define family over here. That's
Speaker 2: so true. Yeah, it's tragic. Yeah, I think I would
Speaker 2: want to know. Yeah, I think I would want to
Speaker 2: know because I like getting my ducks in a row,
Speaker 2: Like I'd want to have my trash taken out literally
Speaker 2: and metaphorically before my time comes, and there's people that
Speaker 2: I would I'd be like, I'd like to get an
Speaker 2: apology from before I go, okay, who I think, I'd
Speaker 2: oh so many an a lot of long listed men. Okay,
Speaker 2: so you wouldn't want to say anything to anybody else.
Speaker 2: You'd want them to say things to you, which is
Speaker 2: completely absolutely absolutely I'd say, come to my bedside and
Speaker 2: apologize to me. Now is the time. And then I think,
Speaker 2: you know what I think would be fun is I
Speaker 2: would love to if I knew my time was coming,
Speaker 2: I would throw my funeral before I died, so everybody
Speaker 2: had to come and give nice speeches and recount silly anecdotes,
Speaker 2: fun from our time together on the on this earth,
Speaker 2: because like, what is the point of that happening if
Speaker 2: you can't be there to witness it and get all
Speaker 2: the compliments? You know? Yeah, so true, That's what I
Speaker 2: would want, and I would want to look. I would
Speaker 2: want to wear a big, glamorous dress in whatever state
Speaker 2: I was in, and I'd like there to be a
Speaker 2: talent show that is gorgeous. I want everybody. I want
Speaker 2: all my friends to perform in a talent show and
Speaker 2: do whatever it is that is their talent, do their
Speaker 2: absolute very best as your fine whatever their talent is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's amazing, say really nice things about me and then
Speaker 2: there's a talent show and then I can die like
Speaker 2: whenever after that. I love that idea. Actually, so i'd
Speaker 2: really I definitely want to know in advance so I
Speaker 2: could play the show. Yeah, that's a great idea because
Speaker 2: then you can be like, God, my friends really did slay,
Speaker 2: Like look at all these friends I am asked, who slay?
Speaker 2: That is so funny. That's what I would want. And
Speaker 2: then your question, would you like your family to be
Speaker 2: the ones delivering you tough news? What do you mean?
Speaker 3: I don't know, first of all, just kind of my
Speaker 3: first thought was like, honestly, I'd love if my family
Speaker 3: was the one who knew all this stuff about me instead,
Speaker 3: so they can decide.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. And you didn't have to. Yeah, so this
Speaker 2: iss liked a lot what the uncle said about it's
Speaker 2: our duty to carry that emotional Burthen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I what was I just thinking about one
Speaker 3: of the reasons I personally, Oh yeah, I feel like
Speaker 3: I get too precious about everything in life, like the
Speaker 3: smallest things ever about like, oh, this needs to matter,
Speaker 3: this needs to matter. So for me having that information
Speaker 3: which thing about life?
Speaker 2: You have no idea?
Speaker 3: It's completely possible that I will someday receive information of
Speaker 3: this sort and have to deal with it.
Speaker 2: But I just.
Speaker 3: Hopefully I'll be much older than and like more at
Speaker 3: peace with things, because I tend to just like I'd
Speaker 3: love to not overthink it and be.
Speaker 2: Like, yeahs the matter, This needs to matter, This needs
Speaker 2: to matter. This is what I'm suposed to do. This is
Speaker 2: what I'm supposed to do. Know is like, it's just
Speaker 2: it's okay, you.
Speaker 3: Can keep living life as you are. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: guess I was just thinking about.
Speaker 2: What it's like.
Speaker 3: I started kind of thinking about how my family would
Speaker 3: handle such information. I love my mom so much and
Speaker 3: she's really tactful, but then also sometimes when she has information,
Speaker 3: she like has to sort of insinuate it in some way.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's like do you think your family could
Speaker 2: keep this or like, do you think they'd handle it well?
Speaker 2: Or like, I absolutely could. This is one thing your
Speaker 2: family can really bring to the table. Is nobody talking
Speaker 2: about the absolutely fantastic at not telling anybody that's any
Speaker 2: of you. It could be on the table for any
Speaker 2: of you right now. You wouldn't know, but do you
Speaker 2: I yeah, I members of your family, it would be
Speaker 2: they'd be struggling to keep feeling you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Senna, I just want to say, you might want
Speaker 3: to get the ice cream today.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, what what are you talking about? This
Speaker 2: life is actually for some of us really short. Yeah,
Speaker 2: go outside, No, I'll just watch TV. You know today
Speaker 2: doesn't feel like the best day to watch TV. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's go. God, it would feel so threatening about to
Speaker 2: kill me. Am I getting the fareweld? Am I getting farewelled?
Speaker 2: Are you guys fairwelling me right now? Wait a second,
Speaker 2: you have to be honest. Is this a farewell? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I loved well. We'll get into the wedding
Speaker 3: more later, I guess. But like it's just a bunch
Speaker 3: of family members eating so much food, and then sometimes
Speaker 3: people get up and give a speech or sing a song.
Speaker 2: I please. I had the exact same opinion about this wedding.
Speaker 2: I loved it so much, Like this looks incredible. This
Speaker 2: is exactly what it should be, And you're sitting with
Speaker 2: the people you like the most. They didn't make them
Speaker 2: so anyone else. Yeah, they sat with their best family friends,
Speaker 2: like the best get to play games. Yeah, play games
Speaker 2: that are like mildly drinking related so you get to
Speaker 2: sit down the whole time. Oh so fun. Okay, I
Speaker 2: guess I'll keep going with it. Okay.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Leana, you said tea. God, I ate
Speaker 3: breakfast during this Otherwise I would be starving. Oh I mean,
Speaker 3: I gotta get me a good meal today. I got
Speaker 3: me a good meal.
Speaker 2: Right after this. Girl. Honestly, my heart out today is
Speaker 2: because fifteen minutes after that, a friend is coming over.
Speaker 2: But in that fifteen minutes I have to leave and
Speaker 2: go get a meal because I have nothing in my home.
Speaker 3: I when I went to get chicken in THEBA before
Speaker 3: I realized that I was allergic to it, of course,
Speaker 3: I were just two meals instead of one.
Speaker 2: And it was the smartest thing.
Speaker 3: I love that, Yes, smart because then I didn't just
Speaker 3: have food. I had a full meal waiting for me.
Speaker 3: And I don't think I'm allergic to the other parts.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. I mean, I hope. But it
Speaker 2: was delicious. And you know what I ate this morning?
Speaker 2: A bit of meat. I ate like a bite of beans.
Speaker 2: I was like, here, I go, let us let's contextualize
Speaker 2: that for the listener. When I am sleepy and need
Speaker 2: a blast of energy, which is all the time, every
Speaker 2: day of my life. Siana texted me a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago and was like, you know what you should do.
Speaker 2: You should eat a bit of meat. Maybe just when
Speaker 2: she is right. She is wrong for me, but she's
Speaker 2: right generally and of meat. Just I completely.
Speaker 3: I think vegetarianism is like one of the best things
Speaker 3: that you can do, and I think you of it.
Speaker 3: I love the idea, but I genuinely don't know what
Speaker 3: you eat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me neither. I certainly have oats in the morning. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know. It's also funny I talked about I don't
Speaker 2: get enough protein. It's a real problem. I'm so sleepy
Speaker 2: all the time. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I almost never cook meat because it's just like takes
Speaker 3: one like, oh god, no, absolutely not, no, the risk.
Speaker 3: I just eat it so hot, kidding feral. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Leanna tell me more. You said the
Speaker 3: overlaps between this and WASP culture are many.
Speaker 2: Oh, this was really fun. This was like a cultural
Speaker 2: exchange because of course there are cultural differences, sure, but man,
Speaker 2: were there similarities. A relative asking you within like minutes
Speaker 2: of you arriving, if you're if you've started seeing someone
Speaker 2: yet absolutely and I think that's universal. But hello from
Speaker 2: my culture to theirs, I said, and I see you
Speaker 2: mainly mainly just not telling people things. It's so funny
Speaker 2: that it comes from like what we think of so different.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, like strongly collectivist and strongly individual individual mmm
Speaker 2: mm hmmm. My granddad once called my mom and was like,
Speaker 2: I just wanted to let you know my surgery went well,
Speaker 2: and she was like, what surgery? Oh my god. He's like,
Speaker 2: I didn't want to worry you, but it's it's odd
Speaker 2: I feel. I feel like in WASP culture it ends
Speaker 2: up being very fracturing, whereas the purpose of it in
Speaker 2: this culture was like to come together, like everybody bore
Speaker 2: the burden together to help one person, if that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, hm.
Speaker 2: That is so so funny. Also, them being like I
Speaker 2: don't think you should come. I'm sorry, and she's, oh
Speaker 2: my god, I'm coming, like my grandma's dying. Wild you're
Speaker 2: gonna make it.
Speaker 3: You're unfortunately going to be too emotional, so just don't
Speaker 3: think you just don't come.
Speaker 2: There were so many lines in this that were absolute bangers.
Speaker 2: They were so devastating and they were so funny. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, oh I think we are gonna have different
Speaker 2: answers to this, but maybe not. You've written would you
Speaker 2: enjoy getting a massage with your aunt? I as I was,
Speaker 2: can we say, can we say oh yes or no? Answer?
Speaker 2: On three? Yeah, let me think for one second? Okay, okay, yeah, ready, okay, yeah, one, one, two, three,
Speaker 2: probably not okay, okay, all right. When I'm getting a massage,
Speaker 2: I'm already embarrassed to be there, but just by myself,
Speaker 2: nude body under a sheet, and I'm like, I'm so sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm really sorry everyone that this is happening. I love
Speaker 2: how close they are, but I was like, that is
Speaker 2: actually crazy for some like this is just like not
Speaker 2: everyone's experience of getting a massage with their aunt. No,
Speaker 2: and they seem like like she calls her auntie, but
Speaker 2: like when later when her dad is drunk and her
Speaker 2: mom takes her dad's pants off so he can sleep
Speaker 2: in his like shirt and box. Oh yeah. I was
Speaker 2: like no, no, no, no, no no no no no
Speaker 2: no no, that is crazy. To get out, exit the room,
Speaker 2: run go, And then I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: our culture our culture is just has read read sirens
Speaker 2: about absolutely the wrong things, you know, it's like, oh, actually,
Speaker 2: everyone is fine.
Speaker 3: A number of times. I you know, what parts stood
Speaker 3: out to me was when they go to the grave site.
Speaker 3: They go to the cemetery, and every grave looked the same.
Speaker 3: It's like you have at least at this plot, it's
Speaker 3: like there's a specific kind that everybody had. But it
Speaker 3: had like a little altar for all the families to
Speaker 3: leave all sorts of stuff, and it was very like
Speaker 3: there were so many different that's where like the uniqueness
Speaker 3: comes in, is like what your family leaves.
Speaker 2: But it was like it was just I thought it
Speaker 2: was really beautiful. I had a couple moments in this
Speaker 2: movie where I was like, oh, right, communism, I know,
Speaker 2: and the only thing. Yeah, I was like that. And
Speaker 2: it was like the apartment buildings at the beginning when
Speaker 2: she first arrives in China, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's why. I'm like, that's so beautiful. And I wonder
Speaker 2: how they thought of oh.
Speaker 3: H oh, okay, and you know, and you start getting
Speaker 3: behind it and then you're like, well, okay, but anyway,
Speaker 3: uh huh, it's complex. Really need to learn more about
Speaker 3: Chinese history because okay, her grandma fought in the war,
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: And that was not like a plot twist, I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I was like, oh yeah, probably a nurse
Speaker 3: or something. Nope, she got shot.
Speaker 2: I very much was like, oh, boy, which war I know?
Speaker 2: I don't know which war it is. I don't know.
Speaker 2: We don't learn anything. We're not not a single thing
Speaker 2: that does not involve us. Is crazy, Yeah, it is crazy.
Speaker 2: I know so little about world history. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Chinese history is so interesting, it's so long. I know,
Speaker 2: there is so much history there ancient cultures. It is
Speaker 2: actually crazy. I always think it's funny to watch.
Speaker 3: Movies or TV from like cultures that have ancient roots,
Speaker 3: because some of the tropes they have are like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: this is a funny trope. We have like, oh that's
Speaker 3: a funny trope. That's sort of like Charlie Chaplin. And
Speaker 3: they'll be like, yeah, this is a funny trope that's
Speaker 3: from like you know, three hundred bast or something. You're like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, you literally have so many characters.
Speaker 2: Yeah that spans dynasties. Awesome, that's really cool. Anyway, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 2: I love that. Uh Leanna, you said, okay, boo sucks.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's the one shot that Boo sucked,
Speaker 2: and immediately I said, oh, bad vibes, bad vibes off
Speaker 2: this kid. My name is not little Bao, it's Boo,
Speaker 2: just bow. Okay. Yeah, he's like playing his video games
Speaker 2: the whole time. Yeah, he has that like phone neck
Speaker 2: or whatever it's called where you're so used to hunching over.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, technic. Yeah, that would be terrible to do that.
Speaker 2: It'd be terrible to have that. It'd be terrible for
Speaker 2: your next person. I know. I say that. I don't
Speaker 2: also have that. Yeah, do you have to get married
Speaker 2: to someone you've been dating for three months so that
Speaker 2: your entire family has an excuse to go visit your grandma?
Speaker 2: Maybe try talking to that person this ad break. We'll
Speaker 2: be right back, ah Leanna, we both were down. This
Speaker 2: line you wrote down is yeah, you wrote down she's
Speaker 2: she's dumb. I don't like her. Like I also wrote
Speaker 2: that down. This movie is so full of bangers, you said, Oh,
Speaker 2: and you said, lol me about all my friends partners,
Speaker 2: she's dumb. I don't like her, I said, my friend's partners.
Speaker 2: But it's like also just anybody who's brought into my
Speaker 2: life that I don't want to spend time with that's
Speaker 2: so real, that's I love. I think we as a
Speaker 2: society need to accept that there are people who are
Speaker 2: friends are friends with who we are not going to
Speaker 2: be friends with. And that's okay. I am really concerus. God,
Speaker 2: reaction is gonna be she's dumb. I don't like her.
Speaker 3: I'm going to point in my life where I'm confused
Speaker 3: about myself because I think myself as being quite nice
Speaker 3: and accepting of people, and like, yeah, sometimes to an
Speaker 3: extent that's like it annoys me, how like just default
Speaker 3: nice I am versus like having some when.
Speaker 2: People first me. But a number of people recently have
Speaker 2: told me, like, I'm really mean to some people. You
Speaker 2: are that the thing is, I'm just really mean to
Speaker 2: just random guys, like I just mean to boys, of course,
Speaker 2: but like especially just like boring.
Speaker 3: I guess what's happening is that I thought I've been
Speaker 3: really discreet about people that I don't like, But I'm
Speaker 3: not being the school.
Speaker 2: Have I told you I just stopped talking to them
Speaker 2: and turn away. Oh my god? Have I told you
Speaker 2: the story of the time that my flatmate's friend visited
Speaker 2: us for a weekend. I thought I was masking it
Speaker 2: so well. And then months later my flatmate mentioned them
Speaker 2: and was like, oh my gosh, yeah, I like that
Speaker 2: person who hates so much. And I was like, what
Speaker 2: do you think I hate? And they were like, yes,
Speaker 2: it was so obvious the entire time they were here.
Speaker 2: It's so funny. And I was like, what are you
Speaker 2: talking about. They were like, he said something and you
Speaker 2: said shut up? I said, or no. They were like,
Speaker 2: every time he made a joke, you said shut that's
Speaker 2: so funny. That is so funny. Shut up.
Speaker 3: My friend said something of like, yeah, well, Cianna's really
Speaker 3: mean to all the guys were bringing into the house,
Speaker 3: and I was like, what, We've never addressed that, but
Speaker 3: I guess I'm like, my friend brought a friend over
Speaker 3: who she's really close with, but I think it's just
Speaker 3: egotistical and annoying.
Speaker 2: And he like told her to go. He was like,
Speaker 2: put your shoes.
Speaker 3: On, and I like to her because they were going
Speaker 3: to go somewhere, and I was like, Oh, you're just
Speaker 3: gonna come into my house and just talk to someone
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: That's how you feel brought up. Oh my god, I
Speaker 2: remember when you met my somebody I had a crush
Speaker 2: on for a long time. You met them in person
Speaker 2: for the first time, and afterwards you just went all
Speaker 2: I can say is you g l Why? No, it
Speaker 2: wasn't even after it was while we were still in
Speaker 2: his home at the party he was having. I literally
Speaker 2: think I'm so discreet sometimes, and then I'm like, why
Speaker 2: did this person not talk to me? And it's like, Santa,
Speaker 2: because you were literally bullying them the entire time that
Speaker 2: you met them. You spelled out the word ugly to
Speaker 2: describe them. I completely stand by it. I literally support
Speaker 2: everyone in this world except for hear me up specifically boring, boring, inconsiderate, unfunny,
Speaker 2: lame white dudes. Nice. Okay, I have to read some
Speaker 2: of these nuts. Leonti who said if my whole family
Speaker 2: came to visit me but they all looked ugly and sad,
Speaker 2: I'd be pissed too. Wait, that is what the grandma
Speaker 2: keeps doing. She's like, yeah, you look really ugly. I
Speaker 2: don't think you should go out today. All of you
Speaker 2: look really bad and like somber, Like what the hell
Speaker 2: is going a joyful time? I'd be pee, Oh you
Speaker 2: look awful. Why did you come here if you're gonna
Speaker 2: be sad? And ugly.
Speaker 3: Honestly, her Grandma's observe at af Then you've also said
Speaker 3: you can't be weird at the wedding. Me to myself.
Speaker 2: Last summer and this year, I'll be going to a
Speaker 2: cousin's wedding in the US and will be so much
Speaker 2: that doesn't exist. No, I don't know when that one's happening,
Speaker 2: but it's real and will happen. My cousin's getting married
Speaker 2: in March, and I'm much like last year. I'm flying
Speaker 2: in the day before from the UK. I will be
Speaker 2: so jet lagged the entire time, and I just have
Speaker 2: to be like upright and normal and cheerful. Oh, I
Speaker 2: can't be weird at the wedding. Don't be weird. Don't
Speaker 2: be weird at the wedding. Oh my god, Siena, I
Speaker 2: had the same thought you wrote these graves kind of lit, yeah,
Speaker 2: and I wrote something almost identical to that. You said,
Speaker 2: is this when you said this is honestly kind of yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh I thought I said lit, but was sleigh. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, embarrassing for me. The personal trainer today, at
Speaker 2: the end of the session he was like, who's your
Speaker 2: favorite music artist? Just like randomly can I ask? And
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, probably Beyonce and he was like
Speaker 2: I knew it. I was like, what what does that mean?
Speaker 2: And then I was like, wait, do I give off
Speaker 2: that energy? He was like yeah. I was like, well,
Speaker 2: that's actually that means a lot to me. Thank you
Speaker 2: for saying that. But then I was like, what gave
Speaker 2: it away? And he was like, you kept saying slag
Speaker 2: nine times out of ten. When people say slay a lot,
Speaker 2: it's because they love Beyonce. Okay, that's so good. That's nice.
Speaker 2: I love to imagine how many times you were saying
Speaker 2: slay during this person session. I will say I did
Speaker 2: literally up topay every rep Okay, instead of grunts, I
Speaker 2: say sleigh. That's so funny. Anyway, I loved this scene
Speaker 2: at the grave where they bring like items that the
Speaker 2: person loves. I love that. I was like, that is
Speaker 2: just it feels like there are so many divides between
Speaker 2: Eastern and Western culture, and I feel like one big
Speaker 2: thing is like I feel like a lot of Eastern
Speaker 2: cultures have a dialogue around death. Yeah, we do not
Speaker 2: at all in the West, and they will like, like,
Speaker 2: death is not the end for people, And this was
Speaker 2: one of those lovely ways of like keeping that person's
Speaker 2: spirit alive, of like going and bringing their favorite foods
Speaker 2: and like smoke, like cigarettes, and like a coat, a
Speaker 2: paper coat for the winter so they don't get cold.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I love that. Yeah, we don't
Speaker 2: do death very good over here, No, we do not. Leonna,
Speaker 2: you said Ellen, Oh what the dog dog? The dog
Speaker 2: name was Ellen. The dog's name was Ellen. That was
Speaker 2: really funny. I loved it the whole. That reminds me
Speaker 2: of your family, an entire family, just facing a dog
Speaker 2: that is that's absolutely us. Yeah. It's like just trying
Speaker 2: to get the dog to do absolutely anything, and then
Speaker 2: the dog does and we all go yes, yay, yeah
Speaker 2: a hundred Sienna, mm hmmm. Yes. Your final notes are
Speaker 2: wait is still with us, but this movie is out now?
Speaker 2: Leanna you said yes, ny night, Yes, Okay. For context,
Speaker 2: everybody at the very end, well the beginning, the first
Speaker 2: like the title card is like based off a true
Speaker 2: lie hi, and then the very end they're like nine,
Speaker 2: I uh was diagnosed and six years later she's still
Speaker 2: with us, And you're what does this movie is out
Speaker 2: now mean? I guess you listened to the podcast episode
Speaker 2: what I meant to communicate with this, and it was
Speaker 2: quite late by that time, so I pretty much chyped
Speaker 2: that like uh, and then immediately fell asleep. So I apologize.
Speaker 2: But this movie is out now. What I'm struggling to
Speaker 2: understand is that she's not supposed to know. She's not
Speaker 2: supposed to know, and.
Speaker 3: She's alive, and they did a whole movie about how
Speaker 3: she doesn't know about this thing. You'd think she probably
Speaker 3: found out question mark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, she's like, what's your movie about, honey.
Speaker 2: She's like, uh, nothing, I don't know. I'm curious about that.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's like I hadn't thought about that at all. Also,
Speaker 2: the podcast had come out well before. I can understand
Speaker 2: her mom not I mean, her grandma not listening to that,
Speaker 2: but the movie, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I asked that question, but there's no
Speaker 3: way for us to have answers. So we'll find out
Speaker 3: in the trivia, which makes me think, should we move
Speaker 3: on to our next segment?
Speaker 2: Yes, please move to where we award badges for banquets.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, honestly not this bow badges
Speaker 2: for banquets and tradges for.
Speaker 3: Uh traveling for hours and hours and hours. Oh and
Speaker 3: everyone's mad to see you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would suck. I have like four badges okay,
Speaker 2: I have seven. Okay, yeah, I assume you're talking about
Speaker 2: the dog a few times, so you probably have more,
Speaker 2: only ones, thank you. I have a badge for the
Speaker 2: doctor is a woman. Yeah, very beginning, the doctor they
Speaker 2: talk to is a woman. Hig girly high girl. Badge
Speaker 2: for this couple. I loved the couple who was getting married,
Speaker 2: who like barely knew each other. Oh, they were cracking
Speaker 2: me the heck up. Oh they're so awkward. They were
Speaker 2: medic relief. It was so hard to watch. They were
Speaker 2: so awkward that they ever spoke. Sorry, no, I don't
Speaker 2: think they Well, we'll get to that in my trages.
Speaker 2: A badge for that bejeweled and lacy baseball cap that
Speaker 2: the ant is wearing in the first scene. Loved it.
Speaker 2: Badge for quality time.
Speaker 3: This family spending so much quality time together, like they're
Speaker 3: barely on their phones except for now, and uh, it
Speaker 3: was just nice.
Speaker 2: They just enjoyed each other's company. So nice. Yeah, badge
Speaker 2: for it must be much nicer in America. It's just different.
Speaker 2: That was so real. And is a direct exchange, a
Speaker 2: verbatim exchange that I have had so many times in
Speaker 2: the UK. Really, do people think it's better in America
Speaker 2: or worse? Better? Well now they know, yeah, like post
Speaker 2: election it's been different. But my first like year and
Speaker 2: a half here or so, especially for comedy, everybody was like, oh,
Speaker 2: it must be so great in LA, like the scene
Speaker 2: there must be so good. And I was like, it
Speaker 2: seems different.
Speaker 3: It's so so different in the UK watching you do
Speaker 3: all these like festival like like little festival things and
Speaker 3: like competitions, like I don't know anything like that.
Speaker 2: In LA. It's like, I think it's different. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think it's really different and getting your shows and getting
Speaker 2: reps to come and I don't know. Yes, it's just different.
Speaker 2: It's just different. It's definitely different. It's definitely different. Badge
Speaker 2: for this grandma. I just loved her vibe so much.
Speaker 2: She was so loving and so funny. Yeah, I just
Speaker 2: love touching your little butt, like, oh my god. But yeah,
Speaker 2: a badge for hahaha. These umbrellas the scene where Grandma's
Speaker 2: in hospital and they're all trying to find the hospital
Speaker 2: and it's four of them with different colored umbrellas was
Speaker 2: so really fun. Yeah, so fun to watch.
Speaker 3: I also love when they walked into a room and
Speaker 3: they're all trying to find an ear ring.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, yeah, that is fun. That is fun,
Speaker 2: just like moments of such like mundane every day Yeah
Speaker 2: stuff peppered in totally badge for carrying the emotional burden
Speaker 2: for her. Wow, that's beautiful, that's what I wrote. Yeah,
Speaker 2: A badge for that doctor is hot, a doctor that
Speaker 2: the grandma immediately tried to cut Billy up with. I
Speaker 2: was like, you're right to do so, Grandma, great instincts.
Speaker 2: Badge for showing somebody I'm adding.
Speaker 3: This one, which is one okay, badge for I forgot
Speaker 3: to say it earlier. Badge for showing somebody who's thirty
Speaker 3: in a global city struggling to find work. Oh yep,
Speaker 3: they're just like, yep, have you gotten like just getting
Speaker 3: uh getting an email back that says, oh you didn't
Speaker 3: get the fellowship. Yeah, like unfortunately thousands of people applied,
Speaker 3: and you're like, well yeah, that happens every year.
Speaker 2: Horrible. A badge for this dog Ellen Ellen Ellen, who
Speaker 2: sings Oh I love Ellen obsessed. And my final badge
Speaker 2: is a badge for OMG. This is the song Beyonce
Speaker 2: sings so wow, Okay, I do love Beyonce. During the wedding,
Speaker 2: one of the people who does karaoke sings a really
Speaker 2: beautiful operatic song. Yeah, and Beyonce sings that song in
Speaker 2: her sings a bit of that in her song Daughter
Speaker 2: off the album Cowboy Carter, Oh my gosh. And it's
Speaker 2: like Italian opera or some form of opera's Gorgina Gorgina
Speaker 2: trages trages.
Speaker 3: Oh, I also want to give a badge for the
Speaker 3: after credit song. Did you like that song after credit song?
Speaker 2: Wait, the during credits song? Oh, I definitely noticed it.
Speaker 2: I don't remember it now, so I guess not because
Speaker 2: they didn't uh trages. Yes, This trage I have is
Speaker 2: more of a confusion sort of situation where I just
Speaker 2: don't understand, so like, are the cousin the cousin and
Speaker 2: just girlfriends like they're married now? Are they gonna get
Speaker 2: divorced or are they forced to stay married or.
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: She Al said that grandma lived for six more years.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, I don't know. I have two trages
Speaker 2: on that, Okay. The first one is a trage for
Speaker 2: it's crazy to me how the cousin is not helping
Speaker 2: his fiance at all. She literally doesn't even speak the language. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he never is translating for her except once during
Speaker 2: the wedding scene. They do not seem like a good couple. No, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: in his defense, he almost never speaks. Yeah, that is true.
Speaker 2: Do you have another badge on that or trage on that? Yes,
Speaker 2: my other trage and this is not nice, so I apologize.
Speaker 2: My other trage is the cousin is so ugly, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: He definitely, they definitely gave them they they were they were.
Speaker 2: They had the look of comic relief. I'll say that
Speaker 2: I thought she was really pretty though, and then he
Speaker 2: was really funny. The hair was so bad, and I
Speaker 2: was like, what the hell? What the hell is going on?
Speaker 3: Both of their facial expressions were cracking me up so much.
Speaker 3: They were very like they were like Napoleon Dynamite levels
Speaker 3: of awkward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, trage fur What did I write down? Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: What I wrote down was trage for she'll come to
Speaker 3: her wedding, And what I meant was tragh ford that
Speaker 3: moment where the Grandma's like, oh well, don't worry for
Speaker 3: your wedding, We'll do this, And that's the kind of
Speaker 3: thing of like grief and realizing oh, you won't be there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so heart wrenching. Mm. My final trage is trag
Speaker 2: for the dog was only in one scene. Yeah, that's true,
Speaker 2: because the dog was on the poster for the film
Speaker 2: when I clicked play, but only on one scene. Tragh.
Speaker 3: My final trage is this is personal taste, and I
Speaker 3: wonder how you feel about it. But the very final
Speaker 3: song of the movie, I was like, oh what, Oh.
Speaker 2: I know they chose it on purpose and there's probably
Speaker 2: some significance, some like emotional significance, and so I shouldn't
Speaker 2: be just a hater on it. But it was like
Speaker 2: I really didn't like it. It was was it just like
Speaker 2: a in English?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just a song in English sung by
Speaker 3: like a theater person is what it sounded like, or
Speaker 3: like it was a choir song or something.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know. I felt like the point was
Speaker 2: that it's very raw and maybe it was a cappella
Speaker 2: or something. But I was just like, hmm, I'm not
Speaker 2: liking this. Yeah boo, Well, Sienna, let's get engaged into
Speaker 2: our next segment. How to pretend you've seen this film.
Speaker 2: This is for you are at your cousin's wedding and
Speaker 2: Boo comes up to you while you're just trying to
Speaker 2: play a fun game with your family and interrupts the
Speaker 2: game and says, oh my gosh, Wow, playing a game
Speaker 2: with your family at a wedding really reminds me of
Speaker 2: a beautiful film about a young teen boy and his
Speaker 2: cell phone. And I'm going to talk to you all
Speaker 2: about it. It's called The Farewell. And here's every single
Speaker 2: thing I know. And in order to uh put Boo
Speaker 2: on a plane and send him away, here are a
Speaker 2: few things you can say to pretend you've seen the
Speaker 2: film The Farewell. Hmm, yes, Boo, I've seen The Farewell,
Speaker 2: and I understand that you are going to try to
Speaker 2: talk to me about it, but everyone thinks it's better
Speaker 2: if you don't. Yes, Boo, I have seen the film
Speaker 2: The Farewell. Extremely fun and slay fact. In addition to
Speaker 2: writing and directing the film, Lulu Wang also plays piano
Speaker 2: in this for the soundtrack. Oh my gosh, she is
Speaker 2: literally did she absolutely rip it on the piano during
Speaker 2: that one scene? I don't know. Yeah, that was sick. Awesome, Boo,
Speaker 2: I've seen The Farewell. Please stop talking and eat something.
Speaker 2: Look at your face, it's not right right. They said
Speaker 2: the meanest things that also were true.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, uh as you were just asking, yes, yes, bow,
Speaker 3: I have seen the film The Farewell. The person playing
Speaker 3: the piano in that apartment scene is Aquafina No way,
Speaker 3: she like she studied jazz and she's really good at piano.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's awesome. Badge for that. Damn yeah,
Speaker 2: that was that was awesome. I'm sorry, Bao, I've seen
Speaker 2: The Farewell, but I can't listen to you talk about
Speaker 2: it right now because somebody's just come on the mic
Speaker 2: for karaoke and it's Ellen. Yes, this is I guess interesting. Yes, Boo,
Speaker 2: I have seen the film. I've seen the film The Farewell.
Speaker 2: The director and writer Lulu Wang when she made them,
Speaker 2: she discovered that she had really underestimated, considerably, considerably underestimated
Speaker 2: the rates she would have to pay Chinese actors. For example,
Speaker 2: the woman who plays nine Ie is a very popular
Speaker 2: actress in China, which makes sense because she was so good, amazing,
Speaker 2: and Lulu Wang had to personally plead her to accept
Speaker 2: the role. She plead with her, yes, which I'm so
Speaker 2: glad she did. I'm so glad she did because it
Speaker 2: was awesome. She was so good, little round butt. All right, Sienna,
Speaker 2: let's have a sham wedding in the form of our
Speaker 2: segment should you watch this or where we tell you
Speaker 2: our beloved listeners if we think you should watch this
Speaker 2: film or if you should do something else with your time.
Speaker 2: My opinion is that yes, you should watch it. I
Speaker 2: really loved it. Yes, Leanna, what do you think I
Speaker 2: would say? Yeah? Absolutely, you can watch The Farewell. It's
Speaker 2: a cool one hour forty minute. We love that it
Speaker 2: deals with themes so true. It's interesting to watch it
Speaker 2: if you were raised in like a very very very
Speaker 2: Western culture. Yeah, I think if you're looking for something
Speaker 2: that's episodic and also about kind of like a meeting
Speaker 2: of like Eastern and Western culture, and I think we'll
Speaker 2: be discussing death a lot. You could watch season three
Speaker 2: of The White Lotus, which just started and it's set
Speaker 2: in Thailand this season and I'm one episode in and
Speaker 2: I'm loving it. Oh my gosh, I'm about to start
Speaker 2: watching it today probably. Oh, I'm so excited. Sianna, what
Speaker 2: would you rate the film, The Farewell.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I had a wonderful time. I really really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: This is the kind of movie I love, So.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and give us a five. Yeah,
Speaker 2: gives this movie. It's so much I'm rating them so
Speaker 2: much higher now that we're just watching movies directed by women.
Speaker 2: To know, there's so much easier to watch, It's insane.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, yeah, I enjoyed that experience. I guess.
Speaker 3: Oh, sometimes generalizing works because I always say that female
Speaker 3: directors are the best.
Speaker 2: But now I know it for sure, we are approving it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I will give this film five delicious family feasts out
Speaker 2: of five. What about yourself? I will give The Farewell
Speaker 2: four Little round butts out of four. I'm out of
Speaker 2: five little round bots, little round butts out of five.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it a lot. I think it was like
Speaker 2: a personal taste thing of like, it wasn't my favorite
Speaker 2: movie ever totally. I think because a lot of it
Speaker 2: was just like really real. But I loved learning about
Speaker 2: a different culture and their approach to something, and also
Speaker 2: seeing how it really really overlapped with my culture. Are
Speaker 2: who freaking knew?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 2: And that's it. Everyone that has been our review of
Speaker 2: the Farewell. Thank you so much for listening. We are
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Speaker 3: Now and join us next week when we will be
Speaker 3: watching the PoTA Ladies.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited. I have already had it. I've already
Speaker 2: so excited. Here, thank you, we love you. Bye Farewell.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I loved during the wedding photoshoot when
Speaker 2: a different bride and groom walked into their set o.
Speaker 2: Sorry we're lost. The little settings of this film yeah
Speaker 2: really fun, Like, what was that place