Made a decision. I've faced sunny sum on, I hadurdasione nice too weak?
What's that? Everybody? Hey, what's going on Stephanie? Hey,
I just got some good news. Yeah, right before we hit record,
I found out from my book company. I don't know if I've mentioned that
I have a book coming out. Yeah, I don't know if I said
anything about that. Well, you didn't promote it on last show. I
did, I did, I didn't. Oh on Tuesday, I did not
reprobout it. You're you're absolutely right. I didn't talk about it. So
this is like the biggest thing that's been going on in a long time.
You guys, you guys suffered with me when I was writing the book,
and I complained about it constantly because I hate writing. I like having written.
But the book is coming out on January sixteenth, mm hmmm, and
my publishing company has been trying very hard to get me. Besides all the
lovely podcasts and anybody out there that's a podcaster that's having me on their show
and listening to this, thank you. But TV is also really important when
you're promoting a book, and I haven't officially booked anything until just now.
I'm going to be on Drew Barrymore show. What woo, Yeah, the
week of the book coming out. That's perfect. My publicist, that sounds
so fancy. The person who works for the publishing company my publish list with
Simon and Schuster, who has been working with me and really like going to
bat for me, just emailed me and said it's official, but she had
the day she's not. The book comes out on Tuesday the sixteenth, and
she wrote, You're officially booked on Wednesday the sixteenth, So I'm not sure
if that means Tuesday seventeenth or on the day the book comes out. I'm
going to be on the show and it's going to air like a few days
later. But the exciting thing to me is that I'm going to bring Elbe
with me to New York Hey for a ticket for Elbe because will already be
put up, yes, like, and then she can just be along with
me and go to all the stuff with me, which I think is like
super fun. I'd never ever. I mean, years ago, when my
first book came out, you know, I was flying in New York and
doing like the Today Show, and it was it was really exciting, but
I was alone because John had to be home with the babies, with the
baby when Elbe was you know, so Elbie was like one when the book
came out. I started writing it when she was a few months old,
so that would have been like in two thousand and five, and the book
came out in April of six, so she was like a year and a
half. Yeah, so John was home with her. Wasn't like we were
going to fly out as a family. It's like I was flown out to
do like it would It was a very whirlwind. I flew. I was
on the Today Show like early in the morning, crack of dawn, and
then like I think the next day I was on like Fox and Friends and
like a couple of little things and then it's like fly you home. Yeah,
you know, so was it would not have been right feasible and yeah,
and you have little kids, baby at home and stuff. It's just
it's like a job. You just go and you do it, you come
back. And then when last time came out, I think I had twins,
so it was like forget it. Also at that point I was like,
oh, thank god, I get to get away for a couple of
nights, you know, like bring them with me? Are you on crack?
Like no, this is my time. And then I was really enjoying
being in the room by myself and like, yeah, I wrote about this
in the book because also that was I was like, that was my time
to like I'd have my wine, I'd get my have the mini bar,
or go get myself like a you know. It was like I got to
feel like an adult with no kids for briefly. Yeah, anyway, every
book has been that way. I've gone by myself, but like now here
I am with like an adult daughter like you, and she can like she
love her with me, she can go do Drew barrymore with me, like
meet people, Like yeah, that's gonna be so fun. I guess I
can bring her to like Simon and Schuster, which really fun. You get
it's you get a little spoiled. So there's been a few times in my
life where I've been like extra successful. You know, when I had my
own TV show. I will never forget you being like when you came to
do the show with me, you were like, oh shit, this is
like a real show. I don't know. You know, it's like because
you think you don't know what you think when it's like, oh, it's
this little network, but it was like Nickelodeon. Yeah, no, it
was. It was a big tast and crew, yes, director, and
you can treat it nice and you have run throughs and someone's there doing your
hair and makings. Yeah yeah, So that was like a real thing and
you get kind of spoiled. Now. Luckily for me, I was in
my mid forties already when that happened, so it was like, this is
crazy and will never happen again. So like when I first started, when
I was doing stand up and I got a little bit of success, but
not really like I was. I did a star search and I did like
a few TV shows and like it was nice, but like it wasn't building
to anything, and it was kind of my stand up career was disappointing.
You know. It was like even when I worked my way up to getting
actual gigs on the road, I was a middle so it was like I
had to do, you know, twenty five minutes, and I hated it.
And I was never a headliner and I was never gonna be a headliner
because god knows, I've told you I'm never gonna be able to memorize an
hour of material, stand up material, Like it's terrifying to me. I
didn't like it and it wasn't that fun, and I was like not I
would go on auditions and not get stuff. So it was like I wasn't
going to be any kind of TV star. I'd already given that up.
And then when I had Elbe, I was like working my little TV writing
jobs and you know, yeah, it's fine. I honestly I appreciated my
life. It was like I had a fun such a fun job when I
wrote on Hollywood Squares. I remember sitting in my office and just being like,
this is like a great job, Like this is super enjoyable. I
like my life. Yes, this was right before I got pregnant with Lbe.
And then when I got pregnant and had a baby, I really thought
like I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with my life,
because I don't know that I want to be a like TV writing jobs,
even shitty ones are ten hour days. Yeah, Like nobody cares that you
have a baby at home to get to Nobody cares that, Like you were
spending forty five minutes in the car to get there, forty five minutes to
get home. So I was like, either I'm going to need a very
full time nanny because even daycare wouldn't have helped me because you can't leave daycare.
I mean, you can't leave your kid at daycare and get there at
six o'clock. If you're writing on a TV show, they're at six o'clock.
They're like ordering you dinner at that point, you know, yes,
They're like your day's just halfway done. Oh yeah, you know. Many
times I had to stay at jobs till midnight, so I was like,
I'm in no rush to get back into working in TV. So when I
got the book deal, it was like really cool. No, it was
like super exciting. It was like, oh, here's a new direction for
my career. So now I'm like a few years into that when I get
this TV show, right, I mean I'm like several years into just having
written a couple of books. It was like I never expected to have a
TV show. So when that ended, it was also like it wasn't like,
oh, well, now I'm going to be a TV host. I
was like, oh, that was really cool. I'm going to enjoy every
second of this. Oh you're bringing me grilled salmon for dinner in my dressing
room, like I'm gonna savor every moment of like I have a TV show,
but like when it ended, it was it was a bummer, but
it was like Okay. It wasn't like, oh, I can never go
back to like writing on TV. It was like, Okay, I had
another book after that. So I guess what I'm saying is every time something
like this happens, I really enjoy it, of course because it could be
the last time you don't. And and the thing is, like I really
enjoy being a podcaster, like I really truly enjoy life, Like I love
working with you, I love working with Kaitlin, Like I look forward to
this. It's not like, oh, what's next. So I guess what
I'm saying is this is like the icing on the cake. Yeah, super
enjoyable. Yeah it is. I was really hoping that I would get some
publicity, but I was kind of starting to lose hope a little bit because,
like I was saying, before I got this email, it was getting
close and I'm up for like I'm out to Drew Barrymore, Kelly Clarkson.
I'm hoping for these things, but I hadn't heard anything right. So it
was like out there the holidays, so I was like, it's probably not
going to happen. And then I got the email right before we started recording.
It's so amazing. And the best is you can bring Elbe, which
I love that I know, and I told her and I was telling you
right before we started recording role Model too, you know, for her to
see. And also like here, I am really in my well into my
fifties, and it's like you don't know that stuff's going to happen anymore.
I know, and it's really cool. Like you just said, it's like
nothing really impresses my kids that much anymore. Like they they're believe me,
they're proud of me. They're like it's cool that you have a book coming
out. You know, they're proud, but they're not like none of my
kids are like, oh, I want to read your book, like that's
You're cool, Like nobody cares that much. Liked being on the podcast.
But so when Elbie, when I told Elbe in text that I was going
to be on Drew Barrymore, she freaked the fuck out. I've never impressed
her that much. She was like, oh my god, Oh my god,
oh my god, I love Drew barrymore so, Like I was like,
that's yes, that's everything. Absolutely, It's all the hard work,
all the months you took and putting into the book. Just to tell Elbe
I got on Drew Berry right, so so funny. That's great, I
know. And what are we going to do next week alone? She's in
New York. Well, it's not next week, it's the week after and
you guys are going to have Matt Fondelier. Yet we got Matt Fondelier so
far. You know, unless anything changes, we have Matt Fondelier, who's
going to be zooming in kind of you know, the three of us will
kind of host it, talk a lot of true crime stuff. You know,
that's his whole world now, and you know it'll be fun. It'll
be fun for I can get you a or grab one of your pants to
figure it out with you. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. They will have
a surprise guest or something. We'll figure it out. Yeah. That's exciting.
Yeah, because I have a feeling I'll be leaving on Monday. If
I have stuff like Tuesday's the day the book comes out, I'll probably be
there. So on Tuesday when the book comes out, do you like,
does the publishing company do anything or you just like not really, Like no,
I have a podcast that I have to do remotely that they'll probably set
me up at the at Simon and Schuster. They there's some I might get
interviewed for CBS Morning, like Saturday Morning things. I think it's happening that
they want to. If I was coming to New York, they were going
to do the interview there, there'll be like a few things. But no,
it's not like it's like if a They're not going to like have a
party for me, right, Like, I'm a very small author to Simon
and Schuster. They have much bigger people, much bigger fish to fry.
But I will definitely go to the public. I'll go there on the sixteenth
and they'll be like happy to see me, and yeah, I don't it's
it's it's not going to be. It's just that that's when the book comes
out and they'll be watching the Amazon numbers that yeah, I'll watching. The
most exciting book release I ever had was Sippy Cups. Because I was a
first time author, they expected nothing to happen from that book, right.
I was like it was like a funny you know what I mean. I
was not a celebrity. I was nobody anybody had ever heard of, you
know, as I just said, I was writing on Hollywood squares. Nobody
knew who I was. So but they liked the voice of the book.
They hadn't been able to book me on anything. But I got myself booked
on the Today Show right because John had a friend. They had already pitched
me to Today's Show and Today's Show said no, they passed. But then
John had a friend who sent the book to his friend who was really good
friends with the book producer for the Today Show. So I got booked on
the Today Show. So then they were like really excited. They fly you
out for that. The Today Show doesn't fly you out. Your book company
has to fly you out. So they flew me out for that. And
then I went on the Today Show and it was like the perfect out the
prime time where you sell books back then, this was a long time ago.
This was like, you know, like eighteen years ago. But if
you were in the eight o'clock hour, like between eight and eight thirty,
you sold some books. So I did the show. I walk I go
back to the Simon and Schuster and we're all hanging out in the office and
they're like checking Amazon. Oh, that's cool, and they're like refreshing it
and refreshing it. Like right after the show is show book went up to
number twenty one on Amazon Best of the Amazon list, which is insane,
insane, Like I've never had a book do that. That's crazy, you
know. But they were like, oh, my god, this book is
going to be huge because the book went that high. They just know that.
So then they started getting me booked on other stuff. Mostly it was
because I had the stand up background. I was really nervous to do the
Today Show, like terrified, like not eating or like a month before,
I got so nervous live television. Yeah, you know live. I'd never
been on live TV, but I already have that muscle to be funny.
So even though I was nervous, I knew in my mind what things she
was going to ask me, and I knew what I was going to touch
on, and I didn't know enough to like to not talk about all the
breastfeeding crazies and how people pressure you, and so I said all the things
before it was cool to say all the things. I was like it's really
hard. And I didn't love my kid at first sight, and breastfeeding was
ridiculous, and there's these lactavists out there that all want I eat a breastfeed
your kid till they're like sixteen. I said all that. Well, it
just went crazy, like people started buying the book, and then I was
being asked for more media. So that was really fun because they got so
excited about it. Yes, like I didn't know. I wasn't an author,
so I didn't know how that worked. So when they're telling you,
like you don't understand your book is number twenty one on Amazon, Like you
don't understand this never happens, this is like this is insane. Of course,
I got super excited. And then they were like taking me out for
like you know, then I was assigned my own publicist and you know,
that's never happened again and won't be happening this time either, but like,
but it's exciting. Yeah, it's exciting. So normally and including this time,
no, nothing major happens. But they bring you out, they give
you like, they provide you dinner, give you a nice hotel. Yeah,
and you know, yes, coach, Yeah, you know nobody's gonna
go crazy over me. But you know, yeah, but you know,
it's perfect thing for you to bring, you know, for LB. Like,
I think that's so great that you can share that with her, you
know, and she can like appreciate She's at the age where she can appreciate
it, you know, like it's spent in all the hard work that you've
done. You know, you should like you should have a payoff, like
this is great, Like, yeah, it's all worth it, Like this
comes what it's what's what it's about. I know, I love that.
Oh my gosh, we're already sixteen minutes and I just talked to talk to
talk. Oh my, I'm sorry about that. Uh should we do some
shout outs? Oh? Oh yeah, we didn't do our shout outs.
You want to do this too? Okay, Well let's say hi to share
Bear and uh do you want a Hershey bar? And Stephanie's a stinker drinker
and Sandra s night he's being green and Christa gets stroop yeah, and Jennifer
get up and Sarah Stefano and Aaron's dirty Sanchez. She likes that she approved
that message, by the way, and Leslie, don't be a Kaitlin and
Alicias Galante and Kelly Brandt is not your aunt, got a great ass out
of my beach that peach though, and Missy and Gabby, my god,
get out of the streets. Lady, lady, you were I thought you
were turning over a new lead for twenty twenty four. Yes, and Katerina
probably lost a moler over the break it's our own, damn fall yep and
biting down on some chestnuts, roasting no over and open fire and Valerie Bubba
Fenwick and Polly we love your pancakes, and Sina, we love your dancing.
And Elizabeth Williamson we love each and every one of your children, all
of them. And Rita keep rocking that Bassinette, Jacob, I heard that
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And Leslie still growley though he is still growley for sure. And Leslie is
still accosting people, which is dangerous. And Nikki call you a girl?
And Aaron who is? And not? Anna Faris and Katie Murphy and Amy's
a cunt and Kelly Laddie, dam that's it. I love you guys.
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Yes, I have watched so much consumed so much content over the break.
There were days where I was like, I'm not recording podcasts. I have
nothing to do. I Am going to lay in bed all day and watch
TV. Yeah. I watched an entire season of a Real Housewives Ultimate Girls
Trip season two. Oh you did? Yeah? And then Cecily, my
podcast partner of Rose Pricks, I'm all, we need to talk about Derinda
on season two and was like, okay, that was like years ago.
I was trying to tell you you got to watch it. I know.
And I didn't go crazy as she Oh my god, she's a nice I
like to make it nice. I like to make it nice. Listen,
you don't she goes crazy? And when when uh, thank god, thank
god, I have you to talk to you about this. Do you remember
when Tamar and uh Vicky. Vicky was like had a had yoga or whatever,
and then she was so mean to Tamar about it that I'm like finding
myself siding with Tamra, Like I'm like, which of these bitches is worse?
I know, I know she was crazy, Yeah, she was bad.
And then she's eating pizza in her room. Yeah, Meanwhile, that's
okay for her to do that like, yeah, I don't know, And
why is she another Ultimate Girls trip? Like do we need to have another
round of Derinda? No, we didn't need it now, like I'm loving
it. I am loving it. And Kelly Bensimone is so cuckoo crazy?
She is I like the Christian girl? Like how I mean, what is
she like She's got to come up with? Like is it she's jealous of
her? I don't know. It's like is she saying, like, you
know, calling her a fan and I haven't seen I've only seen the first
three episodes. Yeah, yeah, she's she's calling her like a super fan.
And Kristen's like, why I just watched some episodes so that I'm up
on things right, Like I'm not what And she was like why are you
being the narrator? You're hosting the show? Why are you doing that?
What are you? Andy Cohen? I know is she doing? I think
I think that It's all how do I put this? They all are seeing
themselves from outside now. They're all like, am I making good televisions?
How about now? How about now? Oh I need to I'll take a
villain arc eye. They're all trying to start ship because they know what it
takes to make a TV now right right, but you can see right through
it. But I'm still here for it. I have to say, I
used to not like her, but now I like. I think I like
Luyanne, Like she's like the more the most normal one of all I would
have got luayan the Countess is the most down to earth normal voice of reason.
And by the way, now seems to me to be the least of
the drinking problems on the show. Yes, so that she was like at
for a for a point, seem to have the worst drinking problem, like
the only one who was like I don't know, getting sent to rehab and
getting sober and getting arrested, you know. But like I've got to say,
if you watch the different ways they drink. Not to sound judgmental,
but I'm just saying, okay, I want to get it sound judgmental.
Derinda clearly has a drinking problem like no one else besides Derinda to me,
oh and Sonya and of course Sonya yea Sonya, and but Sonya and Derinda,
but you watch their drinking, and you and I have talked about this,
like there's been times where you've been like, I don't know, maybe
I drink too much, right, Yeah, I really believe that you can
abuse alcohol situationally. Like, and this is not if anybody out there is
worried that they have a drinking problem, you probably do. Don't let me
talk you out of it. But I'm just saying, like, sometimes people
can really use substances to get through. And I think that I think Luanne
was going through something right at the time. Yes, it was going on
divorce with Tom and like the whole thing. And like, of course people
sometimes get drunk, you know, people that don't aren't alcoholics that, But
I feel like Luanne was always like I think I can still drink and use
I used to kind of roll my eyes like okay girl, like yeah,
you got sober and now you're like you keep slipping, right, But like
when you watch her drink, you don't see her personality change. You can
you see her having drink. She's not like seemingly like the most hung over
one in the morning. She's not like falling out of her chair right right.
And I'm not saying I'm not just comparing it. I realized that would
be hypocritical since I compared my drinking and you could easily go. Well,
I don't do that. I'm not just drunk as Sonya. I'm not like
being mean to people like Derinda. But it's just like you don't see Luanne
constantly like girls we have to drink, right, She's just like and she's
up the next morning doing yoga and stuff, like it's the most normal she
is. She's become the voice of the reasons what I mean, like the
Countess. Remember when she first came on the scene. Oh, it didn't
like you have the count Countess Luanne and like, you know, oh,
the only thing that bothered me is her eggs, eggs, eggs La Francie,
give me a freaking break, Like I may scrambled eggs. I don't
call it eggs a la francis right, but I think she was doing it
like hamming it up, but whatever, Like it was cute. I like
Luianne now, like she's totally she's got, she's together. You know,
she's got all her faculties. The rest are what the They're just a hot
mess, hot mess, fun to watch, fun to watch. But I
need to ask you if you saw this movie May December, I've been wanting
to watch it. Is it did you watch it. This movie it's on
Netflix because it looks like a chick flick. Is it Christmas Holiday? No,
it's a movie about the Mary Kay Laturno story. Oh, that's what
it's about. Yes, I didn't know that. You didn't know that.
I knew. It was like Julian o'dore plays Mary Mary Mary Kay, Mary
Kay Laturno, Mary Kay. Yeah, and then Villy who was the one
that Mary Kay. You know, she was the teacher in thirteen student when
they met. He was the student, he was in middle school and you
know, and she was cuckoo crazy, right I remember she died like a
year or two ago. Yeah, yeah, they had just separated. Well,
it's basically the aftermath. It's it's it's not a documentary obviously, but
it is based that is what it is. I think all the facts are
the same, their kids and the how old, the age difference and when
it happened and how old they were, and it's it's very interesting really,
so it ends. But I really wanted to discuss the ending with you,
which obviously I'm not going to spoil anything, but it's you're just kind of
like, wait, what really, Well, now I'm going to watch it.
What movies did you guys watch over the Break that you loved. I'll
tell you one that I loved, The Holdovers, Now The Holdovers. Yeah,
that's Alexander Payne. That's yeah, I like him. Yeah, that's
the guy that did Sideways and what's his name? From Sideways is the head
is the what's his name? Uh? The uh? What's Paul gem so
good? So he's in it. He's excellent. So where a favorite movie?
Yeah he is, there's nothing. He's not great, right, I
love the movie? But to call the Holdovers? And where is it on
Netflix or m I guess a Holdovers? Yeah. I had a screener of
it, but I think it's out. It's out. Yeah, I loved
it so much. It's it reminded me of Dead Poet Society. Looks like
it's on Peacock, Peacock Premium, Peacock, Peacocks Peacock Premium. I don't
know if that's I have Peacock. I have regular Peacock, and I think
it was available on there. Okay, how do you pay for but everybody
pays for Peacock. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I really really
loved it, but you guys didn't see it, so we can't really discuss
Maestro. Did you see Maestro? I've been waiting to watch that with Amy.
Okay, I've been waiting to get feedback. It was terrible. No
Oh. I heard him on Stern and I was like, and I didn't
even when I first heard that he was upsie. When I first heard that
he was making that movie, which I guess he's been making for like the
past six years, I was like, I'm a conductor. I don't know
this doesn't I don't think I'm gonna And then I heard him on Stern.
I was like, oh, okay, now I want to see it.
Yeah now, but he sold it. He sold it, but yeah,
so that's disappointing. It was terrible because there's no story like this is supposed
to be the story of Leonard Bernstein or Bernstein Leonard bern and you don't it's
you know what, It's just it's trying to be an oscar vehicle, but
it's not a love story at all. They never the trailer makes right,
that's what it's supposed to be. But John and I were watching it and
I was like, I feel like I've just been dropped in the middle of
a story that people are already telling and I don't know what's going on,
and it never catches you up, and it never really it's like what you
know what it was like. It was like watching a two hour long music
video where you're like snippets and you're supposed to kind of put it together yourself.
And Bradley Cooper is very very manic and and big and and everybody talks
like it's the foot you see. You got me a cup of loud mouth
soup? Yeah good, gather around the piano and then talk to me,
big boy. Everybody talks like that the whole fucking movie and it's so annoying,
and it's in black and white, and I was like, can you
please somebody kill me? And normally John likes that kind of thing, he
doesn't mind it. And even he was like, no, this is there's
no story. I don't know what's going on, because you know, normally
I'll be like John, what's going on? I hate to know this and
he's like, no, I have no fucking idea what's going on. We
watched the whole thing because we kept waiting for to get better. Okay,
good, well I will. None of my friends have liked it either.
Yeah, I didn't hear good stuff about it. No, no, yeah,
like a lot of people fell asleep, like they and then never went
back to it. Yeah, so yeah, And I knew you guys were
gonna watch it, so I was waiting to see what you guys saw.
What did you guys see? I watched ninety Day Fiance. I heard this
is a good season. I'm watching this ninety day, But the ninety Day
the Other Way just fit like it's done, And that was fucking phenomenal.
Really, it was really good. And usually there's a couple people that I
fast forward like, and I don't care about these two. No, I
cared about everybody. It was a lot of the most recent ninety Day the
other Way. Yes, okay, yeah, I'll go look that up.
Oh watch it all. Oh, oh my god. This guy from Turkey
is just an asshole, just such a like, you know, I slept
with twenty four women and I've never been faithful until I met you, you
know. And she's just like this Kardashian want to be from Beverly Hills,
and she talks like a Kardashian. She drives me fucking and she's like moving
to Turkey for him, and he just is like, I've never been faithful.
You're the first person I'm going to be faithful to. You know.
It's just like, give me a break. And then she doesn't want to
have kids because she already had kids and he does. And and then then
there's this Indian couple where I she I don't know, like she's kind of
entitled, she's the American the moves to India for him and all they do
is fucking argue NonStop. That's all they do. And then she argues with
this with his family. It's just drama after drama. And then there's the
gay couple, the two guys that I like, that's been on before and
now they're like relocate. I would say they they're the most mellow out of
the everybody. You know. But it was really good and they did the
reunion and that was fine. And then what else? But what else did
I watch? Well? I watched Our Go Again with Wendy when we were
and I rewatched that like a couple of months ago. It was good,
really good. Yeah, we were like, let's watch this again. We
watched Chris Rock and then we watched Argo does Chris Rock have a news the
last special that came out now, the the the O g One like that
we used to watch back in the day. Oh okay, we like,
let's love Chris Rock. Yeah, so we watched that and then personally still
find Chris Rock really funny. I love Chris Rock. Yeah. A lot
of people feel like he's like his last special wasn't as funny, but I
was like, I have a lot I did too. I liked it.
Yeah yeah. And then oh, I was telling you that the Natalia Grace
Oh yes, yeah, yeah, there's two episodes out. It's unbelievable.
Like you remember when we watched season one and I was arguing with people,
like, like, what are you talking about that you think that she was?
That they those those crazy I mean that was remember that was like watching
abducted and plain Sight. Yeah, you're watching that crazy dad and he's in
it too, And then you have that Jinx moment at the end where like
he and his son are discussing the fact that they like threw her down the
stairs, and like you're like, if anybody actually believes that she was an
adult she had baby teeth and make pictures and they did the DNA test and
it was the mom's baby, and they knew when she had the baby in
the hospital. There was no question. Wow, they makes they make they
make it. In the first two episodes I watched, they pretty much solidify
that she was not an adult. She was a bait, She was a
kid. What would be in it for her to be like an adult,
Like they tried to make her so sinister. The truth was that she was
being abused as family she was, she was being abused, and it's it's
pretty clear in season two, like you hear her side, but you also
hear sides from experts that have really gotten in there and dig to the to
get to the truth. Yeah, and you'll see why. You know,
I used to be an expert in I do genealogy and all that kind of
stuff, genetics, genial whatever. Ilway did that for a while. Yeah.
I didn't go to a schooling, but I watched a lot of shows
about it, right, and listened to a lot of podcasts, So I
got kind of good at it. Just you know, I don't look at
like the research do researchers stuff, just my opinions, right, But I
feel like I, yeah, you know this one, Yeah, I nailed
this one. I told everybody, and people were like, well, I
still kind of think she might be an adult. I was like, mabe,
what evidence, because okay, because in the original, the first show,
they didn't get that expert in there until I saw the baby teeth.
But they didn't bring the one ex the legal expert in there until like like
episode four, and she was like, guys, everybody fucking relaxed. She
had baby teeth in there, like, here's the real story. But they
kind of scare other people were like, yeah, no, never mind with
the baby teeth. Baby teeth, like face, oh, you can't fake
that. Nobody has baby teeth at sixteen, and they they talk about it.
Yeah, and she's yeah, So she tells her side of the story.
She confronts the dead. What I want to know is, where's this
mom? How come she's not in any of it, Like so far,
she's not been in jail. She didn't go to jail. They both didn't
go to jail. I know. But yeah, it gets crazy these Yeah
you gotta watch it. Oh my god, I'm so like, I'm so
excited that, like I want to end this early and just just go home,
like that's how that's how my whole body is filled. Everybody. We
will totally understand if you stop what you're doing and you go watch it.
Right, But I'll tell you so far episodes there's only been I don't know,
but there's there's more to come. Because the episode two ended on a
cliffhanger. I just came. I know, it was like to be continued,
and I was like, no, what I've left you wanting more?
Okay, okay, well I cannot wait for that. Yes, and also
let's not forget what's her face? Just got out of jail. I know
she Rose Blanchard. Yes, yes, think like why was she in jail
in the first name is the most Yes, the people they get off for
like way worse stuff, and like this girl was horrible passively criminally like tragically
abused and put through medical all these treatments, or she killed her freaking mom
that if any if anything has ever been self defense, it's that. Yes,
well they were going to give her the death penalty, but because she
pled guilty and because of all these mitigations, because of all of the shit
they put her through, then she got you know, ten years and she
got out at eight. You know, are they going to give her the
freaking death penalty. Hey, we're going to give her the death penalty because
I watched the whole thing all over again. I watched the act on on
Hulu with what's her name? She was so good arquette, Patricia arc was
it Patricia Arcatt or the other Archette? I don't think Rosanna Arcat's done anything
in a while. I was Patricia. She was so forgot how good she
was playing that mom Like, oh my dear, oh you look so tad.
You know, They're like she had that act like Patricia, Yeah,
you're doing a lot of accents. I'm enjoying it. Thank you. You
did? You did your skippy doo twenty two oh twenty fall scanoo? Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, but yeah, she was so and
the way she was actually twenty two scoooy two skandoo. Yeah, she was
so good and I forgot it, like because Sonny was asking me about he
goes, what is it? What did her mom do? And blah blah
blah. Know what, I'm gonna watch it. I'm gonna watch it again.
Why not? So? I watched it and it's called what's it called?
The Act? You've seen it? I haven't seen it. What I
didn't see that? No, I think because I knew the story so well
and i'd seen like, oh my god, Stephanie, you got it.
It's on Hulu. Okay, oh my god, it's so good. Okay,
it's like eight episodes. Watch it. Yeah, she plays the mom
and the girl that plays her is really good. Oh it's awful. Yeah.
There was a point in time where she pulled her teeth out. She
took it to the and took her teeth out of her mouth. How like,
how how did she was gonna be getting the death penalty for that?
But how I know? Well, because she conspired in killing her her mom.
Yeah, that's why you got to see it. Like she meets the
guy online, like the whole thing. It's eight episodes, it's so good.
But how is it not understandable that like her mom has been abusing her
her whole life. Well, I mean that's what the argument was. And
he got the kid that did it got you know, he got life without
parole. The kid that killed her, that actually did the killing. Wow.
But because she you know, planned it, and there's text messages of
her, you know, like meet me at the door she went and bought
the knife when she was at the mall with her mom. She went to
I would have bought it for her. I know she like snuck away and
went to the hunting hunting store, Yes, you need a weapon. We
are you gonna kill her with your bare hands? Well, I would think
they would have a kitchen knife. I don't know why I spend money on
it. I probably hadn't been sharpened a while. Probably, I guess,
Yeah, it'd be the worst. Like you're gonna go kill your mom,
Yeah, you got it planned out. You're like, I'll just grab a
knife. Like when when it comes down to it, like I'm sure the
knife is fine. Then you go to try to do the killing and you're
like, oh my god, this knife is any tomatoes? Like, yeah,
I should have tried to cut something first, like a piece of like
salamie or something that I would have seen that this is going to be.
I'm gonna be like hacking with this knife, right, It's like not gonna
slice. Yeah, you know when the knife that doesn't slice, Yes,
you can't do that right, right? And she had to make sure like
when at the store, like the guy that's selling the knife to her and
she's saying she's buying it for her dad, who's a fisherman or a hunter.
Good cover story. Yes, And he's like, you know, you
want to get a good handle so your hand doesn't slip. Good. She's
like, yes, I'll take it. Got to get a grip on that
thing. He's like, when you're doing like this, like you're hacking.
Yeah, like the hunting stife. Oh and Chloe Savani Savan's in it.
She's good. She's the neighbor. Let us see it. It's so good.
Zloe Savigny is a very good action She's very good. Yeah, she
pronounce her name. Yeah, she's good. Yeah, save self. Yeah.
But Patricia arcat Man really good, really good. I think she won
an Emmy for it or something. Oh have you seen it? No,
calin an Emmy for Escape from Dana Mora. She was good at that.
That was good. And don't forget she was the star of Medium. Oh
yeah for like a long time. She's had a pretty good career. Yeah
she has. Yeah, she's actually she's very very good in that the Apple
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else you guys have watched? What have you watched, Caitlin, I'm sure
you watched a bunch of it did, but you're not going to be into
the things that I watched. Well maybe our audience will. Okay, Well,
if you thought I was nerdy before with my Doctor Who shows, I
finally got into something that people have been recommending to me for a while,
which is anime. Oh yeh, I started this great anime show called Attack
on Titan, and I've been just binging that. I've been rather obsessed with
Attack on Titan. Oh, okay, a little while now. The one
movie I did watch, which you might have seen, was that Leave the
World Behind. Oh yeah, I saw that? Oh you did? Did
you guys like it? It was long? It was long, It was
all right, It wasn't like anything. That's what I was hearing. I
was hearing that people were like it was too long and slow. Yeah,
it kind of was. Yeah yeah. Well it's kind of like a not
apocalypse, but like like a fault a collapse of society story. But it
all takes place in just one location, So you know, you expect a
movie like that to be a lot bigger in scale. But it's not so
I could understand that part. I wasn't expecting it to, you know,
be that grand. But even still, like it was just so slow.
I really enjoy the first hour and a half and I was super into it,
and I really liked it because I heard I heard bad things about it,
but I think the Rotten Tomatoes audience score was really bad. But I
watched it anyway, and after like an hour hour and a half, I
was like, oh, I'm super into this. And then I was like,
oh shit, I still have like another hour left in this movie.
Yeah, and then rehearschel Ali and what's her face start like dancing in the
room together, and I go, okay, I'm fading out of this,
right, I know, I know. And the like the director, like
the camera work just bug the crap out of me. It was like he
would like take the camera and like spin it around on its side and he
kept doing it over and over. Go right, why are you doing this
so annoying? Right? But it was okay, it wasn't It was okay.
It was at best. Okay. Yeah, I mean if I had
Hawk is great, Oh yeah, Ethan Hawk was good? Yeah, yeah,
I mean if I had to see it in a movie theater, i'd
be pissed. But because I got to watch it on the comfort of my
home, I was like, all right, that's that right now, Like
not any I wouldn't. I didn't think about it after I watched it.
It didn't sit with me nothing. Right. Everybody's talking about, you know
who produced the movie? Who Obama? The Obamas? Oh yeah, yeah
I saw that, No idea, Yeah, I saw executive produce Michelle and
Barack Obama's like what yeah, now, yeah, wow, their first movie
is a Julia Roberts movie, right. I guess they like talk to the
filmmaker about, you know, the scenario in which society is falling apart.
You know, he kind of gave his he weighed in on like how that
could actually go down in real life, Like I was talking that sort of
thing. So, yeah, it was a little scary. So I read
that somewhere. Oh wow, well, what else did you guys watch?
And then everybody's talking about Saltburn? Is that the name of it? Yes?
Did you watch that? No? I watched the trailer for it's on
Amazon. Yeah. I still don't really know what it's about, Like I
can't figure everyone keeps talking about it, but I'm waiting for somebody to watch
it to tell me how it is. It's like, I like the actor
in it. I forget his name, but he's really good. I think
he's supposed to be supposed to be the new No, not that guy,
the other guy. He was in what's that call Inferral movie that came out
last year where they were in Scotland or they're in Scotland or England. Oh
the Banshees of in Shearing. Oh yeah, he was in that. He
was in Eternals. He's supposed to be the new joker, I think.
But yeah, he gets like lured to a mansion by the guy from Euphoria
and they have a bunch of sex parties. It's kind of the vibe I
got from that movie. But I don't that's I don't know really what.
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I will watch it though, I'm
gonna watch it, and I'm gonna watch it. I don't know. I
like the documentaries, you know, like the the Natalia Grace, like I'm
always looking and then I watched it, and then of course I watched the
doc I rewatched the document Henry on the Gypsy Rose, Mommy, Dearest Daddy
Dead Mommy, Dead, dearest, dearest dead Mommy. Okay, so that's
the documentary because I think I watched that yet. No, that's boring,
boring, Okay, No, you got to watch the act. This is
like when I watched The Staircase and then there were like two at the same
time. There was a real documentary, but then there was like the drama,
the dramatization. I think I like the dramatization. One of them was
on HBO. I think that was the dramatization. Yes, yeah, I'm
pronouncing that correctly. The dramazation. Yeah. Yeah. The act is on
Hullo's so much better. Okay, Okay, well it's hard to know because
we like documentaries. Yeah, yeah, like I like it. If it's
a true story, I don't want to say, but yeah, but then
I guess you can do more with the acted out version. Yeah yeah,
So I mean that's I think pretty much what I was watching. I think
you might like, you might like the May December. I'm going to watch
that because a lot of people, you know, you forget that Mary Kay
Laturno was like nutty, like she left her husband and she had kids to
go be with this guy. And remember that he was thirteen. She met
him when he was twelve, and then she got pregnant, right, and
then she got sent to jail. She had the baby, and then she
went to jail, and then she got out of jail and got pregnant again
and then went right back to him. I mean she was nuts, yeah,
but then you know, I mean that was like full on real grooming,
because she always defended it like, well, no, we were in
love. It's like this Romeo and Juliet story, and they were together for
a really long time. So I think some people, I feel mistakenly think
oh, well it must have worked out. Then they guess they were just
really in love. But no, she groomed him and then he was dependent
on her, and he you know, had kind of a weird home life
and so you know, and then he eventually left her. But also and
she was very manipulative and like cried a lot. It was kind of childlike
and needy and like, you know, yeah, so she definitely was had
a mental problem, yeah, or personality. Then they raise these kids,
like so this movie takes place when he's like thirty five and she's like fifty
seven. That's when it takes and their kids are graduating. Yeah, their
kids they had together are graduating high school. That's when it takes place.
It's not a replay of like what happened of the old story, it's like
a where are they now? Like, ooh, what happens later? What's
the relationship like? And the story is that Natalie Portman plays this actress who's
going to be so it's like fictionalized it. It's not a docudrama. It's
like a fictionalized account of where are these people now? But it's one hundred
percent her, And there's all this stuff where they're looking at the tabloids from
when. So the point of it is that now Mary Kay. They don't
call her Mary Kay, she has a different name. But then like one
of their kids is named Mary. So it's like it's all very okay wink
wink. Yeah. I mean, if you read the abstract to what the
movie's about, it's about Mary Kay Laturno. But anyway, uh, what's
her name that I just said? The Actually Natalie Portman plays this movie actress
who's going to be playing Mary Kayla Turno in a movie about her life.
So she's studying her and come to visit to like learn all about her and
learn her mannerisms and how she does her makeup, and like, yeah,
it's just how she gets kind of involved who the family and which she sees
no idea, that's what it was about. So I'm gonna watch it.
Yeah, it's easy. It's just like yeah, yeah, all right,
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