Speaker 1: Podcast join host Hoho as he discusses the rimiting Netflix
Speaker 1: original series Black Mirror. Now Here he is hoo Per
Speaker 1: broadcasting from Weapini Soft Productions Studio B. Welcome to Black
Speaker 1: Mirror Podcast and as always I'm your host ho Ho.
Speaker 1: So hey, y'all's doing I hope you're doing good. I
Speaker 1: really do, because today we are continuing in season seven
Speaker 1: with episode five titled Eulogy. Now, I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: this episode was, you know, a bit of a tear
Speaker 1: jerker kind of you know, provocative, made you think a
Speaker 1: little bit, and it is definitely a story of what
Speaker 1: happened really when perception does not match reality. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know we've heard it said right that perception is reality,
Speaker 1: But what happens when it isn't what happens when what
Speaker 1: you perceive to have been isn't actually what happened at all.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what this episode is about. Now
Speaker 1: we see in this episode the same thing that we've
Speaker 1: seen in several other episodes, and that is a repeat
Speaker 1: in a matter of speaking of technology being used. And
Speaker 1: in this case, I thought this was pretty stick and
Speaker 1: awesome how this ended up playing out. Now, they used
Speaker 1: this little tech thing that attaches to the side of
Speaker 1: your head, right there on your temple, and that's kind
Speaker 1: of what it uses to, you know, connect in essence
Speaker 1: with your brain and allow you to to see in
Speaker 1: a you know. Well, how they ended up using this
Speaker 1: in this was see and go into the pictures. I
Speaker 1: thought was awesome. So this episode starts, and by the way,
Speaker 1: before we go any further, spoiler alert, we are going
Speaker 1: to be talking about eulogy. So if you have yet
Speaker 1: to see this episode in Black Mirror, head on over
Speaker 1: to Netflix watch it, and then come on back for
Speaker 1: the discussion. So let's go ahead and get into it now.
Speaker 1: This episode started off pretty basic, pretty simple, and whenever
Speaker 1: I seen the actor that was in this, I was like, Ooh,
Speaker 1: I like this guy. This is h you know, Paul Giamaidi.
Speaker 1: I'm probably butchering his last name, but whatever, I mean.
Speaker 1: I've seen him in quite a few different things. An
Speaker 1: awesome actor, he really is. I like his screen presence,
Speaker 1: I like his you know, just what he brings to
Speaker 1: a character, I really do. I like it. I like
Speaker 1: the guy. I like him a lot. And it starts
Speaker 1: off with him and he is in America, which is
Speaker 1: actually kind of odd. For this series. I mean, not
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, what goes on in Black
Speaker 1: Mirror actually takes place in America. You don't really see that.
Speaker 1: You know, this is more or less something that takes
Speaker 1: place in Great Britain or in some other utopian place,
Speaker 1: you know, not really in America. So it was kind
Speaker 1: of neat to see one kind of I guess take
Speaker 1: place in America. I mean, did it really I don't know,
Speaker 1: probably not, but at any rate in the episode, that's
Speaker 1: what it is. I mean, it's taken place in America.
Speaker 1: Kind of cool. I thought that was nifty. But he's,
Speaker 1: you know, walking around in his apartment, you know, things are,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, and he gets a telephone call a
Speaker 1: random and it's asking him if he knows Carol, and
Speaker 1: I forget what the you know what the last name
Speaker 1: that they use and he's like, no, I don't know
Speaker 1: a Carol and it's like Carol this name and it
Speaker 1: is like, well, no, I really don't. Can't say as
Speaker 1: if I recall Carol something or another, and then it
Speaker 1: was like, well her middle name was this, and he's like, oh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know I know that Carol. And they're introducing this
Speaker 1: as a you know, eulogy telling him that Carol had
Speaker 1: passed away, and this was uh Phillip's ex girlfriend, and
Speaker 1: it's like she passed away, she had a daughter, her
Speaker 1: name was Kelly, and upon Kelly's request, trying to get
Speaker 1: as much information, you know, pictures, any other type of memory,
Speaker 1: kind of filling the gaps of Carol's life. This is
Speaker 1: what we're doing. Do you happen to have any pictures
Speaker 1: or anything else of Carol that you would like to
Speaker 1: include in the eulogy. And this is a guide that
Speaker 1: is talking to him and he's like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: not exactly. She's like, well, how about we just send
Speaker 1: you this package and then we'll go from there. And
Speaker 1: it's like okay. And next thing you see is, you know,
Speaker 1: this drone flying in. You know, now obviously time passes,
Speaker 1: but you know whatever, this drone's flying in and dropping
Speaker 1: off a package from DHS No DHL. I'm sorry. Now
Speaker 1: as soon as this, you know, I see this thing
Speaker 1: coming in and I'm like, oh wow, you know, now
Speaker 1: I know that these things, or at least from what
Speaker 1: I have read that these things are a thing, right,
Speaker 1: you know, But where I'm from, you don't see drones
Speaker 1: delivering packages. You know, for me, that's just a little
Speaker 1: on the huh. You know, and especially considering where Paul
Speaker 1: lives in this episode that you know, you really wouldn't
Speaker 1: think that this would be something he would get a
Speaker 1: drone delivering a package. But I'm like, okay, you know whatever,
Speaker 1: But I thought it was kind of neat. I've never
Speaker 1: seen that before. I really haven't. I mean, granted, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that there's YouTube videos out there on this. Okay, sure,
Speaker 1: Now this is assuming that it does, you know, exist.
Speaker 1: I know, this is technology that they are working on utilizing.
Speaker 1: I don't know how far into it that they are.
Speaker 1: I really have no idea, but to actually see it,
Speaker 1: I was like, that's that's kind of pretty neat. Nothing
Speaker 1: that I have seen where I'm at. Maybe you've had
Speaker 1: a different experience, you know, offered you know, some places
Speaker 1: in the city. Yeah, they do drone deliveries. It's just
Speaker 1: to me, it's it's alien, right, it's foreign, it is
Speaker 1: it is to me. I mean, are things different where
Speaker 1: you're at. Let me know. Let me know down in
Speaker 1: the comments below. Send me an email Hoh at Black
Speaker 1: Mirror podcast dot com. Because I'm kind of curious, you know,
Speaker 1: is this something that's commonplace where you're at but any rate,
Speaker 1: any rate, So he opens up this package, right, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of a brochure explaining what eulogy is, what
Speaker 1: they do. He doesn't really read it. It's just kind
Speaker 1: of like a okay, yeah, there's words here, and he
Speaker 1: puts it down, you know, and sees this this little
Speaker 1: disc you know, the the the uplink into into his brain.
Speaker 1: But he doesn't you know, know it at the time,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's talking into it, and you know,
Speaker 1: he gets the the little intro and he he's like, look,
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about it, just you know,
Speaker 1: let's get the intro. What do you want? What do
Speaker 1: you want me to do? Because you know it's what
Speaker 1: I have, what I remember. I don't really see this
Speaker 1: helping you out. But the guide kind of talks him
Speaker 1: into at least looking and he finds, you know, he
Speaker 1: goes up into the attic, I don't know, down into
Speaker 1: the basement. I have no idea where he actually ends
Speaker 1: up going. I don't remember, but he opens up a
Speaker 1: box and he sees some stuff in there, and I
Speaker 1: guess he grabs three different pictures and in this picture,
Speaker 1: it's like, it's not really much of a help, right
Speaker 1: because in what of the picture it's her back is
Speaker 1: to the camera and you can't see her face. But
Speaker 1: what is awesome is what kind of happens next because
Speaker 1: the guide is like, do you want to go into
Speaker 1: the photo? And he's like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Do you want to go into the photos? It's easiest
Speaker 1: instead of explaining it to you, I'll just show you
Speaker 1: what it is I'm talking about. And then she's like,
Speaker 1: placed a little disc on your temple and then you
Speaker 1: can we'll go from there, right, And so he does
Speaker 1: and just like in the entire history of you, you know,
Speaker 1: the eyes well not just entire history of you know,
Speaker 1: I guess there's been several different episodes, and you know
Speaker 1: one of them is Striking Vipers, I guess, and you know,
Speaker 1: the eyes kind of go cloudy in a way because
Speaker 1: now instead of using his eyeballs, it's his it's his
Speaker 1: mind's eye. And this was so cool how they ended
Speaker 1: up using this technology, right, I mean, I thought this
Speaker 1: was wow because instead of just looking at a two
Speaker 1: D image, a two dimensional picture, he was in the
Speaker 1: photographs as in you know, as if everything that was
Speaker 1: there is now in a three D environment that he
Speaker 1: can walk in and around and really see what was there.
Speaker 1: I thought that was awesome. I'm like, dude, that was
Speaker 1: so cool. I mean, now, the first time I've that,
Speaker 1: I could recall in Black Mirror that they've used the
Speaker 1: technology as in, you know, some sort of an uplink
Speaker 1: to blend a two D fot into a three dimensional world.
Speaker 1: This is the first time that I've seen this, you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit different than what they had in Oh,
Speaker 1: what show was that Hotel Riverie, Yeah, a little bit
Speaker 1: different than that. But I just how they ended up
Speaker 1: using the technology in this episode I thought was absolutely amazing. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean, for me, I'm not I'm not much of
Speaker 1: a picture guy. I don't take a lot myself and
Speaker 1: I kind of avoid, you know, having pictures taken of me.
Speaker 1: I'm just I just I don't know, I don't have
Speaker 1: a reason. I'm just I'm not. I'm not about the
Speaker 1: photograph life. I'm not, you know, I mean, I know
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of people out there that are,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but it's just I've never been
Speaker 1: that guy. You know. I don't take a lot of pictures.
Speaker 1: Even though I got a you know, a cell phone
Speaker 1: like most of us do, and that cell phone has
Speaker 1: a pretty stake and awesome camera. I know I've kind
Speaker 1: of played with a little bit, but I really never
Speaker 1: used it outside of work. I mean, I've used it
Speaker 1: for work a couple times, but just for me, I've
Speaker 1: not really I just I just don't do that. But
Speaker 1: how awesome would it be? Sorry about that, I had
Speaker 1: a frog in my throat, had to cough, let me
Speaker 1: take a quick drink. But how awesome would it be?
Speaker 1: Because even though I'm not much of a picture guy,
Speaker 1: I can still appreciate the technology. And it's not like
Speaker 1: there aren't pictures that I've had that has you know,
Speaker 1: been taken of me or other people that I know
Speaker 1: that this type of technology wouldn't be just absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: It would be and how awesome would it be, you know,
Speaker 1: to take a picture. Think back different photos that either
Speaker 1: you've taken of somebody else, of you know, yourself, with
Speaker 1: somebody experiencing something that you wouldn't mind experiencing again, or
Speaker 1: at least seeing in three D. You know, I've said
Speaker 1: that I'm not much of a picture guy, but you know,
Speaker 1: even though I mean, there's definitely some pictures that wouldn't
Speaker 1: just be absolutely amazing to experience in three D. I mean,
Speaker 1: your mind's eye only goes so far, right, There's only
Speaker 1: so much detail you can draw from a picture. There's
Speaker 1: only you know, even being somebody that can think three
Speaker 1: D still to be able to go into a picture
Speaker 1: with all the clarity that that picture can provide and
Speaker 1: it's like wow, to walk around it in that environment
Speaker 1: and to really see I mean, that would just be awesome.
Speaker 1: How many pictures do you have that utilizing this would
Speaker 1: just blow your mind? I'm sure we all have a couple.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we all have numerous or something like this
Speaker 1: would just be holy count. I mean, like, I can
Speaker 1: see how it could be a negative too. I mean
Speaker 1: just like in you know, back in the first season
Speaker 1: with the entire history of you. Yeah, it could be
Speaker 1: used in the negative as long as you don't you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's all about our own mindset, isn't it. It's
Speaker 1: all about our own mindset, our own perceptions into different
Speaker 1: things that has happened as to whether it would be
Speaker 1: a good thing or a bad thing. But it's on
Speaker 1: an individual basis. But wouldn't it still be awesome you
Speaker 1: take some pictures of your most cherished moments, even like
Speaker 1: in this case, and eulogy was somebody whom is no
Speaker 1: longer in your life, but being able to see them
Speaker 1: clearly as they were in three D. You know, my
Speaker 1: father passed away a long time ago, you know, like
Speaker 1: nineteen by nineteen years ago, and yeah, I've got pictures
Speaker 1: that I've seen, you know, pictures that I still have
Speaker 1: a picture that I have, like right underneath my TV.
Speaker 1: So whenever I'm sitting there watching something on the TV,
Speaker 1: below that on one of the shelves is a picture
Speaker 1: of my father. So I get to see him in
Speaker 1: two D quite often, but to be able to see
Speaker 1: him would just be so cool. I mean, that'd be awesome,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it just, yeah, are there people
Speaker 1: in your life that you miss do you like to
Speaker 1: see again? And this could be a technology that could
Speaker 1: be used in that way. So he's he's looking at
Speaker 1: these pictures and one of them is like, you know,
Speaker 1: her her back is turned to the you know, the
Speaker 1: person who took the picture, and he's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't see her face, and that that hit because
Speaker 1: you know, you come to find out that Philip and uh,
Speaker 1: what's her name, Carol is? You know, they were you know,
Speaker 1: they were together for a time. I don't remember how
Speaker 1: long they were together, but they were together and then
Speaker 1: things just ended up happening and you really don't know
Speaker 1: what ian definitely not at this point, but it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it wasn't the best of things, and
Speaker 1: it was you know, we learned that after they separated
Speaker 1: that you know, Philip's life just kind of went into
Speaker 1: the toilet, right, I mean that's kind of the perception
Speaker 1: of what you get that, you know, and he's blaming
Speaker 1: her one hundred percent, absolutely is blaming her for everything.
Speaker 1: And after these three pictures, you're really not getting any
Speaker 1: clearer of an idea of their relationship per se. And
Speaker 1: Philip is still not able to see Carol's face, and
Speaker 1: and the guide is like, well, do you have anything else?
Speaker 1: Maybe there's more that you have that can help out,
Speaker 1: and maybe we'll be able to piece up, you know,
Speaker 1: piece together enough things that will jog your memory and
Speaker 1: you'll be able to see her face. Wouldn't that be dies? Right?
Speaker 1: And he goes back to you know, where he's got everything,
Speaker 1: and he's like, that's not going to help because with
Speaker 1: all of the photos that he has, and you get
Speaker 1: the idea that there's quite a few, you know, I
Speaker 1: think there's like, you know, a dozen or so pictures
Speaker 1: that he's found, but in every one of these pictures,
Speaker 1: he is either cut out her face or has marked
Speaker 1: on it in some way to where you cannot see
Speaker 1: the face at all. And so Philip, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: taken this time to really remember what she looked like,
Speaker 1: and he's not even able to see her face. I mean,
Speaker 1: how how horrible is that, you know, somebody that you
Speaker 1: truly loved, truly cared about, regardless of the pain that
Speaker 1: you felt in the moment, looking back, and not being
Speaker 1: able to remember what they looked like. It's got to
Speaker 1: be hard, you know. I mean I mentioned that, you know,
Speaker 1: I've got a picture of my father, you know, right
Speaker 1: underneath my TV. But in all honesty, it's like, I
Speaker 1: don't remember what my father sounded like. I really don't,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, in time, those type of memories fade.
Speaker 1: And even though there are times whenever I'll hear his voice,
Speaker 1: there's not a tone, you know, it's more or less
Speaker 1: a something that I know that he would say or
Speaker 1: something of that nature. But it's not him. It's my
Speaker 1: interpretation of his voice because I just don't remember what
Speaker 1: he sounds like, you know. So to have somebody that
Speaker 1: you cared so much about not being able to see
Speaker 1: them anymore, ouch not being able to remember what they
Speaker 1: sounded like or what they looked like. And so he's,
Speaker 1: you know, going through these memories, and as they're going
Speaker 1: through these pictures, you kind of a little bit clearer
Speaker 1: of an idea of what really happened between Philip and Carol.
Speaker 1: You know, he's talking about, you know, being at this
Speaker 1: party and this was the first time that those two
Speaker 1: were together, and he's remembering it and it's like the
Speaker 1: biggest positive thing that had ever happened to him in
Speaker 1: the relationship. And then you see another picture with and
Speaker 1: I guess there was like three pictures of this Halloween party,
Speaker 1: and he's talking about how he was or I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: how Carol was spending time with another guy that was
Speaker 1: just all over him and he was upset about that,
Speaker 1: ignoring the fact that he had his coworker that was
Speaker 1: right there by his side hitting on him. But that
Speaker 1: was something that he didn't remember in the moment, completely
Speaker 1: blaming Carol for the strife that happened later on that night,
Speaker 1: and the guide even pointed out to Philip that, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, you look at Carol's body language, and she's
Speaker 1: not all into him. He's you know, she's leaning away,
Speaker 1: She's wanting to get away from him. And yet the
Speaker 1: only thing you can remember is that she sat right
Speaker 1: next to him, but not taking into consideration that she
Speaker 1: didn't want to be there. Her body language was clear,
Speaker 1: you know, So, I mean, this is another case how
Speaker 1: his perception of the event did not match reality. And
Speaker 1: then the guides even pointing to him and pointing out,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, pointing out to him that hey, you know,
Speaker 1: here you're looking down on Carol for sitting next to
Speaker 1: a guy and focusing on how that hurt you. But
Speaker 1: what you're ignoring is the fact that you had a female.
Speaker 1: You had a woman that was all up on you.
Speaker 1: Regardless of how platonic you want to say that it was,
Speaker 1: how meaningless this interaction was, it was still something, and
Speaker 1: you're ignoring one and only focusing on the other. You know,
Speaker 1: looking back in you know relationships that I've had, isn't
Speaker 1: this how we kind of do it. I mean, I know,
Speaker 1: I have, you know, And maybe we do it to
Speaker 1: protect ourselves emotionally. Maybe we do it because you know,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to be the victim in their own story.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to be the aggressor in their own story.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to be the villain in their own story.
Speaker 1: So you vilify somebody else and you vindicate yourself, and
Speaker 1: all too often, I mean, do we have to tell
Speaker 1: ourselves lies in order to do it? We can't just
Speaker 1: look at past events, things that happen between two people
Speaker 1: and say I did nothing wrong. Sometimes we gotta be
Speaker 1: honest with ourselves. And yet you know, I screwed that
Speaker 1: up too, and we come to find find out the
Speaker 1: Philip wasn't able to do that. He ignored what he did,
Speaker 1: not even thinking about it, focusing only on what Carol did.
Speaker 1: And it's like, dude, how many of us do that?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know I have, And don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it. Nobody wants to be the
Speaker 1: villain in their own story. We want to be the hero.
Speaker 1: And whether it's to protect ourselves, protect our own image,
Speaker 1: or whether it's whether it's just because hating somebody is
Speaker 1: a lot easier of an emotion to deal with than
Speaker 1: the hurt and the sorrow that comes around comes along
Speaker 1: with missing somebody. Maybe that's what it is. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: more of a defense mechanism. I'm guilty of it. I'm
Speaker 1: sure we all are in you know, some ways, shape
Speaker 1: or form. I'm sure that we're all guilty of that.
Speaker 1: So he's looking at pictures and you know, here you
Speaker 1: have a picture of her in a band, but she's
Speaker 1: not playing the cello because she is a huge cello fan.
Speaker 1: That's what she wants to do. Oh yeah, and by
Speaker 1: the way, no, I think I think the band picture
Speaker 1: was first. So yeah, the band picture, she's playing the cello.
Speaker 1: And or in the band picture she's not playing a cello.
Speaker 1: She's playing a keyboard. I apologize, she's playing the keyboard.
Speaker 1: And the guide was like, why is she playing the keyboard?
Speaker 1: And Phillip's like, well, the cello didn't fit the sound
Speaker 1: of our band. And the guy's like, well, why didn't
Speaker 1: you change her sound to suit Carol? Why didn't you
Speaker 1: do that? And he was like, well, she never complained
Speaker 1: about it. I mean she was you know, she was
Speaker 1: a musician that could play anything. She was fine with it,
Speaker 1: and it's like, how do you know did you ask
Speaker 1: her type of thing? Right? I mean? And you're really
Speaker 1: getting the idea that Philip, even though he claimed he
Speaker 1: loved her, it really didn't seem as though he was
Speaker 1: able to what's the word, I'm looking for, sacrifice what
Speaker 1: he wanted for the sake of Carol. Like, he really
Speaker 1: wasn't happy about doing that. He didn't want to do that.
Speaker 1: He wasn't able to sacrifice. He wasn't able to change
Speaker 1: for the sake of her. He expected her to change
Speaker 1: for him, but that didn't match the reality he had
Speaker 1: drawn about their relationship, so he forgot that. And then
Speaker 1: that's whenever we go to the Halloween thing, you know,
Speaker 1: the Halloween party, and you know, we come to find
Speaker 1: out that you know, they were up way too late,
Speaker 1: and he and Carol missed an opportunity that very much
Speaker 1: could have been life altering for her because it was
Speaker 1: an experience that she wanted right. But instead she got
Speaker 1: an offer to play in a play. That's funny. I
Speaker 1: don't remember what the play was. What was the play? Ah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, But what's important is this play put
Speaker 1: her in London a bit of a trip, so they
Speaker 1: had to separate for a time. And then you hear about,
Speaker 1: you know, well, okay, you see another picture and it's
Speaker 1: a picture of him laying on a bed flipping off
Speaker 1: the camera. Oh sorry, And the guide asks Philip, okay,
Speaker 1: who's taken the photo? And he's like, oh crap. It
Speaker 1: was this gal I forget what her name was, the
Speaker 1: same one that was being all frisky with him whenever
Speaker 1: he was at the bar working during the Halloween party,
Speaker 1: the same one, and he like, you know, there was
Speaker 1: nothing going on. He's trying to, you know, give himself
Speaker 1: cover that there was nothing going on. It was just
Speaker 1: a whatever, you know it. It wouldn't have even been
Speaker 1: an issue had Carol not called and Emily I think
Speaker 1: Emily was her name, picked up the phone and they
Speaker 1: had an argument, a screaming match between the two, and
Speaker 1: it was just it was bad, right, you know, And
Speaker 1: you come to find out that, you know, maybe Philip
Speaker 1: wasn't as blameless in this whole thing as he would
Speaker 1: have liked to have believed. That he was bring some
Speaker 1: things into context. And then I believe it was about
Speaker 1: three weeks after this, after this fight, you know, Philip
Speaker 1: definitely realizes that, hey, you know, he loves Carol with
Speaker 1: everything that he is, with every inch of his being.
Speaker 1: I guess you can say he loves her and he
Speaker 1: wants to spend the rest of his life with her.
Speaker 1: So he makes a plan. He's going to fly out
Speaker 1: to London. He talks to Carol, she knows that he's
Speaker 1: on his way. He sets up a hotel room, he
Speaker 1: gets a reservation at a very fancy restaurant, orders a
Speaker 1: bottle of champagne because he tells the the employees, the
Speaker 1: people that work in this restaurant, that hey, I need
Speaker 1: a reservation because I'm going to propose to my girlfriend.
Speaker 1: And when he's there, he's drinking and he's upset because
Speaker 1: she's not drinking anything. He proposes. She doesn't respond, she
Speaker 1: can't even look him in the eye. She's got her
Speaker 1: eyes downcast. And he's getting upset. Right, he's getting He's
Speaker 1: like what the hell? And he's like, say something, respond
Speaker 1: instead of just completely leaving him hanging. And she gets
Speaker 1: up and she walks out. He polishes off the rest
Speaker 1: of that bottle, right, you know, I mean he's self
Speaker 1: pity polishes off the rest of the bottle, and then
Speaker 1: he goes back to the hotel. She has packed up
Speaker 1: her things and she's left. He kind of destroys the
Speaker 1: destroys the the hotel room. But you know, they're talking
Speaker 1: back and forth, and this is where we get revealed
Speaker 1: whenever he is inside the the picture, you know, the
Speaker 1: the advertisement for the hotel that I'm sorry, not the hotel,
Speaker 1: but the restaurant that they went to where he proposed.
Speaker 1: And this is where we find out that the guide
Speaker 1: is none other than Carol's daughter, Kelly mind blown right,
Speaker 1: And what Kelly ends up saying is, no, I'm not
Speaker 1: actually Kelly, but Carol was pregnant with me when she
Speaker 1: was there, Because it was Kelly the pointed out that
Speaker 1: Carol wasn't into that guy in the picture during Halloween.
Speaker 1: It was Kelly that pointed out that Carol was pregnant,
Speaker 1: That's why she refused to drink. And also pointed out
Speaker 1: that Carol had left a letter that apparently Philip never seen,
Speaker 1: never read, and had he seen it, had he read it,
Speaker 1: he would have heard her out. Maybe something else could
Speaker 1: have happened. And while they were in this well, okay,
Speaker 1: so he had seen that he got this camera for
Speaker 1: the trip down to London, but he didn't take any
Speaker 1: pictures because there was nothing to celebrate, nothing to immortalize,
Speaker 1: if you will, and nothing happened of it. And he
Speaker 1: looks at the camera and it's a disposable camera from
Speaker 1: back in the day, right, things that we used back
Speaker 1: in the day. And he looks on top of this
Speaker 1: camera and he sees something that probably made his heart stop, right.
Speaker 1: He's seen that there was a picture taken on this
Speaker 1: camera and he's like, oh, so it takes the camera.
Speaker 1: He has the one of those one hour photo places
Speaker 1: and is like, can you process this this camera? It's like, dude,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen one of these in ages. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't need a history lesson. Can you do it?
Speaker 1: And he's like, give me a bit. He goes, I
Speaker 1: want to have to go through all of this role.
Speaker 1: The only thing you're going to get is the one
Speaker 1: photo that's on here. Are you sure? Yes? Do it?
Speaker 1: Do it now? So he does, gets it processed, and
Speaker 1: what you have, what you see? What he gets back
Speaker 1: whenever he gets this developed is the ruin of the
Speaker 1: hotel room. After he got back to the hotel room,
Speaker 1: seeing that she had packed her stuff and taken off
Speaker 1: and he's in the photo. He is explaining what he
Speaker 1: was feeling during this and that's whenever he sees the
Speaker 1: letter that Carol had written to him. Holy crap. And
Speaker 1: he is trying with all his might to pick up
Speaker 1: this letter that's in the photograph, and Kelly the Guide
Speaker 1: is like, oh, you can't do that. It's just a photo.
Speaker 1: It's not how this thing works. After he gets out
Speaker 1: of that picture, then he remembers because she prompted, and
Speaker 1: what he did and the whole He finds the letter
Speaker 1: and after reading what Carol had wrote, it changed everything
Speaker 1: because he found out what was really going on. He
Speaker 1: found out why Carol did what she did. He found
Speaker 1: out that Carol wanted them to move on and stay
Speaker 1: a couple and work through this. But because he was
Speaker 1: so wrapped up in grief in the moment, he was
Speaker 1: blinded by what was really going on, and instead of
Speaker 1: having a happily ever after, or at least the chance
Speaker 1: at a happily ever after, he instead got a totally
Speaker 1: different outcome, totally different direction in his life. How many
Speaker 1: different instances in our lives do you think, where the
Speaker 1: reality that if people were to at least come together
Speaker 1: in some way, some shape or form and are really
Speaker 1: able to communicate what's going on. How often do you
Speaker 1: think that would really change the outcome of a situation,
Speaker 1: change the relationship between two people. I mean, how often
Speaker 1: do you actually think that would benefit I mean, sometimes
Speaker 1: you get two extremes, right, I mean you get people
Speaker 1: who share too much and you get people who just
Speaker 1: can't share at all. And I mean, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you got to find that, you know, that balance between
Speaker 1: the two, right, And sometimes you need to deliver information
Speaker 1: without emotion because that's the only way you can do
Speaker 1: it and keep your sanity. And sometimes we just shut
Speaker 1: off entirely. But this is an instance where on really
Speaker 1: on both of their sides, if they would have done
Speaker 1: some communication, if they would have talked about things, because
Speaker 1: it really seems as though they didn't. They didn't really
Speaker 1: talk about things. They didn't put it out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: did Carol? I mean yeah, Okay, so we know that
Speaker 1: they had a fight. We don't know what was said
Speaker 1: after the Halloween party, and it really does look like
Speaker 1: Philip was kind of oblivious to what Carol wanted, what
Speaker 1: she truly desired, things that was going on. I mean, really,
Speaker 1: was he the one that completely shut down and shut
Speaker 1: himself out and you know, really blocked Carol. Like truth
Speaker 1: he told he kind of looks like that, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it looks like Philip was his own worst enemy.
Speaker 1: Dang it? Right? Is that how it is? On our
Speaker 1: own story? Are we our own worst enemy? If we
Speaker 1: would consider somebody else instead of being completely selfish all
Speaker 1: the time? How much would it change? How much could
Speaker 1: it have changed? I don't know. So the story ends
Speaker 1: where Philip is actually able to see Carol's heart, and
Speaker 1: where he had completely refused before to participate in this eulogy,
Speaker 1: let alone even go to the funeral. He does because
Speaker 1: in his moments of remembering things, he had found a
Speaker 1: cassette tape that Carol had recorded for him, and upon
Speaker 1: listening to this song that Carol composed herself, he was
Speaker 1: actually able to, for the first time in this entire episode,
Speaker 1: see Carol's face, and he was able to see her laugh.
Speaker 1: How awesome is that? That was so cool to actually
Speaker 1: see that. Like I said, this puppy was a bit
Speaker 1: of a tear jerker. And after this happened, he goes
Speaker 1: to the wake the eulogy, and he hears the cello
Speaker 1: music playing, and whenever he's standing there at the door
Speaker 1: looking in, he sees Kelly playing Carol's song, and at
Speaker 1: the end of her playing the song, she looks up,
Speaker 1: she sees Philip, and there's a bit of a nod reconciliation,
Speaker 1: maybe because it's apparent that Carol still felt a lot
Speaker 1: for him. But Carol's reality was different than Philip's reality though, too,
Speaker 1: because Carol thought that Philip read the letter, rejected her
Speaker 1: for what had happened and wanted nothing to do with him,
Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, I wanted nothing to do with her.
Speaker 1: That's what Carol thought to her dying day. That's what
Speaker 1: Carol thought. Again, another aspect where you know, perception didn't
Speaker 1: match reality. And I mean, I understand why Carol wanted
Speaker 1: to just write a letter instead of talking, you know,
Speaker 1: instead of talking with I get that, you know, she
Speaker 1: just poured her heart out, you know, laid her self bear.
Speaker 1: Of course she doesn't want to talk to him. But
Speaker 1: this is another aspect of how much would have changed
Speaker 1: if she would have picked up a phone, either even
Speaker 1: a month, a week later something. This is a story
Speaker 1: of what happens when perception doesn't match reality, And boy,
Speaker 1: how do. I tell you this, I would love to
Speaker 1: see the you know, some things two D images that
Speaker 1: I could experience in three D that would be absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about VR. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: There's some awesome things you can do in VR. There
Speaker 1: really is. I've been having fun in VR, but that's
Speaker 1: not the same, is it. I mean, could you do
Speaker 1: something like this in VR? I don't even know that that's
Speaker 1: even possible. I mean, I'm sure in some way, shape
Speaker 1: or for because like if I remember correctly, you can
Speaker 1: you know, like go to different places, experience different landmarks
Speaker 1: and whatnot, you know those that have you know, things
Speaker 1: in them. But that's different than being in an environment
Speaker 1: and just kind of seeing a panoramic view of everything.
Speaker 1: That's just neat how they ended up using technology in
Speaker 1: this anyway, That's all I got for y'all today. That
Speaker 1: is it. The next episode I am supremely excited about
Speaker 1: because the next episode we are going to be doing
Speaker 1: Uss Callister into Infinity, and this is an episode that
Speaker 1: I was extremely excited to hear about whenever I first
Speaker 1: heard about them doing season seven of Black Mirror because
Speaker 1: this is the part two to I believe it was
Speaker 1: episode one maybe of Black Mirror, episode one of season
Speaker 1: four maybe yep, episode one season for USS Caliser, Part two,
Speaker 1: something that I'm definitely excited to watch. I cannot weigh anyway.
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