1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:27,300 [Music] 2 00:00:27,300 --> 00:00:32,260 Welcome to the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast. I'm Olivia, here with my fellow Junkie. 3 00:00:32,260 --> 00:00:38,180 I'm Shauna. And I'm so excited. I haven't seen you in a long time. I want to hear what you've 4 00:00:38,180 --> 00:00:43,140 been up to, what you've been obsessed with in my absence. I missed you so much. I feel like 5 00:00:43,140 --> 00:00:48,180 there's a big space between us. It's the hole in our heart for Nicole. I'm going to pretend like we 6 00:00:48,180 --> 00:00:53,140 haven't just spent the last two hours catching up with each other. Oh my god, it's good to see you. 7 00:00:54,100 --> 00:01:00,420 I love you so much. I haven't seen you till right now. I am almost done with Bridgerton. I'm on the 8 00:01:00,420 --> 00:01:07,460 finale of season three. Okay. You know, I'm not enjoying season three as much as I thought I would. 9 00:01:07,460 --> 00:01:13,700 Yeah. I can't quite pinpoint what it is in my brain that I'm not liking about it as much. 10 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:20,820 Because I really like Penelope. Her and Colin, I'm convinced by them as a couple. I don't know. 11 00:01:20,820 --> 00:01:27,620 They went from being like just friends to deeply f***ing in love to, oh my god, I'm really mad at you. 12 00:01:27,620 --> 00:01:32,500 Just very quickly. Yeah. I don't know. Well, I think pacing was very weird. They built their 13 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:38,820 friendship. And I can see like a genuine like caring there. Yeah. For each other. But they didn't give 14 00:01:38,820 --> 00:01:44,740 us enough time to be like, oh, like Colin sees her in this way now and that way. I totally agree. 15 00:01:44,740 --> 00:01:49,380 I guess we were supposed to think over the course of two or three episodes. Because I think they 16 00:01:49,380 --> 00:01:54,580 kiss at the finale of what episode three or the very end of episode three or four or something. 17 00:01:54,580 --> 00:01:58,660 Yeah. They kiss. Well, they kiss them and there's the carriage scene. Oh, you're right. You're right. 18 00:01:58,660 --> 00:02:03,780 Okay. So the carriage scene is until episode four. Yeah. That's like the cliff. Yeah. And then 19 00:02:03,780 --> 00:02:09,220 all of a sudden, they're wildly in love. And we know that she's been in love with him. But yeah. 20 00:02:09,220 --> 00:02:14,180 He's fully on board devoted to her. I don't know. It seems it felt a little rushed. Yeah. 21 00:02:15,780 --> 00:02:21,380 I just felt like they were doing too much. Like, why do we need another family member or all that? 22 00:02:21,380 --> 00:02:28,420 Another family? Like, normally it's like one love line, one story line. I agree. That's why 23 00:02:28,420 --> 00:02:34,580 texted you and I was like, are we supposed to care about Francesca? Because I really, yeah. She 24 00:02:34,580 --> 00:02:40,580 was like a genuine baby in the last frame when I watched that. Yeah. They recast the actress, I think, 25 00:02:40,580 --> 00:02:45,220 from last time we saw Francesca. And now all of a sudden we're supposed to remember. Oh, yeah, 26 00:02:45,220 --> 00:02:50,260 there's another Bridgerton daughter you should give a f*** about. She's kind of bland. Yeah. She's 27 00:02:50,260 --> 00:02:55,060 an interesting one. I think she looks like the Phoebe, what's her name from the first season, 28 00:02:55,060 --> 00:03:00,420 enough. But she's beautiful. One of my friends said she looks gorgeous, but she has like an 29 00:03:00,420 --> 00:03:06,100 Instagram face, not like I'm a Regency Beauty face. I think that's kind of where I could see that. 30 00:03:06,100 --> 00:03:10,340 I could see that. And they could definitely tell this season. Like, I think, 31 00:03:11,220 --> 00:03:18,340 oh gosh, the actress who plays Penelope, Nicola Coughlan. She's got like acrylic nails on, 32 00:03:18,340 --> 00:03:26,020 it falsies. Girl, come on. Blow up time. Season one, they didn't have, it was very light makeup, 33 00:03:26,020 --> 00:03:30,500 very realistic. And now they're like, we're leaning into the fantasy a little bit here. She's 34 00:03:30,500 --> 00:03:36,180 gonna have some acrylic. Yeah. We're just gonna go with it. I don't know. I'm enjoying it. And so I 35 00:03:36,180 --> 00:03:42,020 figure I'll finish the finale in the next day or two or whatever. And then I started reading 36 00:03:42,020 --> 00:03:49,140 Fourth Wing, which is a novel that I know you have already made your way through. Let me pull up 37 00:03:49,140 --> 00:03:55,700 the author on the scene. Rebecca Yarros. Thank you, baby. Thank you. Yes. I'm really enjoying it so far. 38 00:03:55,700 --> 00:04:00,980 I am only on chapter seven, but I did start last night. So I'm trying to read fast. You don't 39 00:04:00,980 --> 00:04:07,140 yell at me like usually. Yes. You've picked up the pace. I'm trying. I'm trying. I feel you. 40 00:04:07,140 --> 00:04:13,300 I'm like, shoulder. Why are you so straight, Master Trinidad? You're training. Yes, Mommy. I'm like, 41 00:04:13,300 --> 00:04:18,340 that one really means chef in the bear who's like, you'll never amount to anything. Oh my god. 42 00:04:18,340 --> 00:04:25,460 Show him a kill. Yes. I have never seen Joe McHale be so mean as he is in ‘The Bear.' Because he's 43 00:04:25,460 --> 00:04:30,660 actually so funny. Yeah. You see him in ‘The Bear' and you're like, oh, Daddy Chef, no. Yeah, you're like, 44 00:04:30,660 --> 00:04:39,380 but yeah. So I'm enjoying Fourth Wing so far. Again, everyone who's listening watching, 45 00:04:39,380 --> 00:04:45,380 I just started. So I don't want anyone to get mad at me. But it does give me Divergent vibes. 46 00:04:45,380 --> 00:04:53,300 Really hard. I agree with that. I think that there's only so many fantasy ways to play it. I don't 47 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:56,660 know why. No one can think of another one. There's so many. There's so much. So much. So 48 00:04:56,660 --> 00:05:01,940 into the yeah, like the magical college kind of thing. Because that's Divergent as well. That's 49 00:05:01,940 --> 00:05:06,980 Harry Potter. I mean, I'm okay with a magical college, I guess. And it kind of reminds me of anime. 50 00:05:06,980 --> 00:05:13,860 Instead of Umbrella Academy, my hero academia and a lot of anime, they all go to like a hero college 51 00:05:13,860 --> 00:05:19,380 or a magician college or a soul reaper college and then learn their training and then level up. 52 00:05:19,380 --> 00:05:25,060 That's what I'm kind of trying to go with it as. Yeah, it's just like, I'm not like all the other girls. 53 00:05:25,060 --> 00:05:32,580 I have silver in my hair. This is my childhood best friend. We don't want to have sex. Yes, we do. 54 00:05:32,580 --> 00:05:38,100 Oh, there's a guy over there who wants me dead. We're definitely not going to have sex in 15 55 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:45,700 chapters. Yes, we are. Yeah, I don't know. But I'm enjoying having. I really like it. Iron 56 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:51,940 flame was such a popular book release last year. Second. Yes, it's a second book in the fourth 57 00:05:51,940 --> 00:05:55,860 wing series. The series has a completely different name though. It's not even like the fourth 58 00:05:55,860 --> 00:06:01,540 wing series. It's like another thing. But it's super good. The third one's coming out in I think 59 00:06:01,540 --> 00:06:07,140 October. No, don't quote me on that. It's time in the fall. I think it's actually at the very 60 00:06:07,140 --> 00:06:13,860 beginning of 2025. But it's very time to finish this one and the second one. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, 61 00:06:13,860 --> 00:06:18,260 you can do that. I'm going to take that long because I really am enjoying it. I've been making my 62 00:06:18,260 --> 00:06:29,380 breakthrough. You're never. Yeah, they do also. I don't know. Okay, I am new kind of to this fantasy 63 00:06:29,380 --> 00:06:36,740 romance genre. I know you are a veteran. Yeah. So they have the signets in fourth wing, which are 64 00:06:36,740 --> 00:06:41,860 like the dragons. Give them. I don't know. I'm just like, does every fantasy book have to give you 65 00:06:41,860 --> 00:06:48,900 a tattoo? It's one of a bond. But yeah, there's always a touch of darkness. Yeah. 66 00:06:48,900 --> 00:06:53,860 P.D. skips her the tattoo. Until like, I don't know. And then obviously in a quarter of the 67 00:06:53,860 --> 00:06:59,220 words in wrote, I don't know. Maybe it's like a popular thing in Greek mythology or like North 68 00:06:59,220 --> 00:07:08,900 Norse mythology. Because a lot of fantasy books are retellings of Greek Roman and Norse mythology. 69 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:15,140 And that's ultimately what they are. Yeah. Why a lot of them become similar. Yeah. I'm not complaining. 70 00:07:15,140 --> 00:07:20,660 I love me a good trope. Yeah. And it means to lovers. Come on. I just think it's so interesting. 71 00:07:20,660 --> 00:07:24,740 What were the Greeks on it? They we've really been like, that was a hit. 72 00:07:24,740 --> 00:07:33,860 Let’s keep replaying it! The Greeks were horny and bisexual. And I love that. Yeah. I love it. But for us to be 73 00:07:33,860 --> 00:07:40,580 retelling stories from then. I see. So all we need to do is just retell that Greek story over. 74 00:07:40,580 --> 00:07:46,260 Yeah. And it could be that it's the most inherently human thing. And before the horny and bisexual. 75 00:07:46,260 --> 00:07:51,940 No, you that too. I do believe that. But like this type of storytelling is just inherent because 76 00:07:51,940 --> 00:07:56,420 what if the Greeks like learned it from other people, you know, that I think that stuff's pretty 77 00:07:56,420 --> 00:08:00,900 cool. I think that is so interesting too. And not to get too deep and weird. But like if you look 78 00:08:00,900 --> 00:08:05,860 at the Bible as a piece of literature too, it's like there are so many ancient texts that kind of 79 00:08:05,860 --> 00:08:11,380 follow the same tropes for so many of those because humans just kind of inherently crave a certain 80 00:08:11,380 --> 00:08:17,700 plot point and start type of storytelling. Yeah. A lot of them are just borrowing from like other 81 00:08:17,700 --> 00:08:23,540 cultures. Yeah. Yeah. So very interesting. Squirrel! Squirrel! So we're talking about the Bible. 82 00:08:26,180 --> 00:08:33,620 No, but I really like fourth wing. I think that I like. A guitar more, but I am really excited. 83 00:08:33,620 --> 00:08:40,020 I think Rebecca Yara's does a great cliffhanger and setting things up really well. But that also makes 84 00:08:40,020 --> 00:08:45,380 you really angry that you don't immediately have the next book. So it does kind of creep that void 85 00:08:45,380 --> 00:08:49,620 within you. I mean, that just reminds me when we were all used to be waiting for the Harry Potter books 86 00:08:49,620 --> 00:08:53,860 that you know, and you finish want to be like, what the f***? I think you have to wait for the next 87 00:08:53,860 --> 00:08:58,340 Sunday come out. Yeah. Wait for the date all that. But yeah, it's been really, really good. 88 00:08:58,340 --> 00:09:06,820 I'm excited. A touch of darkness was good because it was just so filthy. It was filthy. Yeah. 89 00:09:06,820 --> 00:09:13,940 Which I love. But the plot was little. They were really leaning into the Greek side of it. 90 00:09:13,940 --> 00:09:18,660 Yeah. They were really like, you know, this the story arc we're telling. We're not adding anything 91 00:09:18,660 --> 00:09:26,260 else. I was, I mean, do we tell the story of why we're listening to it? Okay, we did because you 92 00:09:26,260 --> 00:09:32,580 were listening to it. And it made it made it got me go and my engine's rev. I love that for you. 93 00:09:32,580 --> 00:09:38,500 I love that for you. Fourth wing has engine revving. I yes. Yeah. It's pretty good. It's better than 94 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:44,820 that. I think in doing it. Yeah. I'd say it's in between the two of those. Yeah. 95 00:09:44,820 --> 00:09:51,300 Don't tell me who does it. I know. Okay. What have you been up to? So I have been traveling in the skies 96 00:09:51,300 --> 00:09:58,420 speaking of engines. We've been traveling a lot for work. And I normally fly American. And so I have 97 00:09:58,420 --> 00:10:07,700 been perusing those movies and TV shows. And it got me to start Palm Royale, which is with Christian 98 00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:16,100 Wigg Laura Dern Ricky Martin Ricky Martin? Yeah. And a ton of other really, really famous actors. 99 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:21,860 And I'm happy with Laura Dern. Oh, I love her so much. But like Ricky Martin's in it too? I'm here for it. 100 00:10:21,860 --> 00:10:28,260 Yeah. It's it's so good. And I'm escaping the other actors names. But they only have the first three 101 00:10:28,260 --> 00:10:36,580 on on the plane. And it's it's so interesting. It's such a like a silly little funny first person 102 00:10:36,580 --> 00:10:45,540 kind of narrative within a murder mystery. Okay. But it does in like Palm Beach, Florida within a 103 00:10:45,540 --> 00:10:51,700 country club. So it's a very like silly kind of premise. I just flash back to my last job for a 104 00:10:51,700 --> 00:10:58,180 second. Sorry. Working car auctions in Palm Beach, Florida. Yeah. And so it's kind of like the story 105 00:10:58,180 --> 00:11:03,060 of like these elites. And it's a little bit of like a murder mystery who done it. But I think they do 106 00:11:03,060 --> 00:11:09,220 such a good job at bringing in all of the politics and in class and wealth disparity. The public. 107 00:11:09,220 --> 00:11:16,020 That's like right by yes. Maralago? Yeah. And so it's so good. It was so funny. So I watched the 108 00:11:16,020 --> 00:11:21,620 three on the plane over my various travels. And whenever I go to town, my mom watches my dog for 109 00:11:21,620 --> 00:11:28,180 me. So I spent the day there. And we just binge the entire rest. Yeah. That's so cute. It was so 110 00:11:28,180 --> 00:11:35,860 good. Honestly, everyone should watch it. What's it on Apple TV? That is the one. No one. I know 111 00:11:35,860 --> 00:11:41,060 streaming platform that I don't have. And I'm getting there. They're making really high quality 112 00:11:41,060 --> 00:11:46,820 television to try to get people to come in. I would say do it because I selfishly really want 113 00:11:46,820 --> 00:11:51,780 a second season. It was so good. I mean, I haven't watched Ted Lasso still. You know, same. Morning 114 00:11:51,780 --> 00:11:58,820 show is very good. I know it was Nicole's favorite show was she's passed on. Yeah. That is the 115 00:11:58,820 --> 00:12:05,700 call for instant in it. So that that checks it out to me. Yes. Yes. I don't know. I need to get on it. 116 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:11,300 I don't know. I have an app. If I have an iPhone, can I just. Is it like, does it have anything to do 117 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:16,260 with Apple? You just pay for it? Just any other platform. You can download it on anything. But yeah, 118 00:12:16,260 --> 00:12:26,260 you have to pay for it. It's a subscription. Yeah. I don't know. I just, I just demand this to be free. 119 00:12:26,260 --> 00:12:31,540 You know, it'd be great is if we could invent something where you could just watch any television 120 00:12:31,540 --> 00:12:36,260 show you want. And you could just flick through it like with a remote and just be like, I don't like 121 00:12:36,260 --> 00:12:40,820 that. And then like, go to the next one. I'd be like, I don't like that. You know what I mean? Yeah. 122 00:12:40,820 --> 00:12:46,980 Like, yeah, I think a lot of people knew what you meant. What if we could just get back to that? Or I 123 00:12:46,980 --> 00:12:54,820 mean get to that. Where do you think we are? I know. We got to spend more money than we have. Okay. 124 00:12:54,820 --> 00:13:01,700 Oh, you weren't making a joke. I was making a joke about cable. And how cable would be cheaper than all 125 00:13:01,700 --> 00:13:07,700 of these platforms. But the way you described it was streaming. No, because for streaming, you have to pay 126 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:16,580 like $19 here. $19 for that one. $19 for that one. Cable is all just mushed together. And did you 127 00:13:16,580 --> 00:13:23,860 think cable was free? No. Okay. I'm like, parents tried for it. It was for me. Cable was cheaper than 128 00:13:23,860 --> 00:13:29,700 paying 15 bucks a month for what five different streaming services that we all have now. I think 129 00:13:29,700 --> 00:13:35,940 Cable is now cheaper. But at the time, it wasn't. I'm not talking about flex and all those got 130 00:13:35,940 --> 00:13:43,460 creating. Okay. So it's not Netflix. Disney plus Apple TV. Crunchyroll. How many more do we have? 131 00:13:43,460 --> 00:13:49,700 Crunchyroll. That's the anime one. Okay. Well, that's a little niche. No. Lots of people like it. And 132 00:13:49,700 --> 00:13:53,860 you're going to like it soon. Okay. A little spoiler for an upcoming episode. Yeah. I love your 133 00:13:53,860 --> 00:13:58,740 watches. I love you. I watch his anime for the first time. Yeah. Why did I read that in my head is 134 00:13:58,740 --> 00:14:06,420 like you are always sunny title the gang watches anime. There you go. I love it. 135 00:14:06,420 --> 00:14:10,580 producers will like that. You'll be like giving them the episode title right there. The gang watches 136 00:14:10,580 --> 00:14:16,100 the anime. Write that down. Write that down. Write that down. How the top? Well, my other obsession, 137 00:14:16,100 --> 00:14:21,540 where again, going to spend a lot of time talking about today. Shawna has twisted my arm 138 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:30,100 or should I say my stomach and your inter submission in the coma in the best way because she is cookin' 139 00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:38,420 some stuff up. We are going to talk about the bear. Yes, chef. We're going to take a quick break and 140 00:14:38,420 --> 00:14:50,100 we're going to get cookin'. The bear recently dropped all 10 of its third season. A fourth season 141 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:55,060 has already been greenlit so hopefully we don't have to wait very long. But the show has been 142 00:14:55,060 --> 00:15:02,100 amazing with critics, viewers, tons of social media hype throughout this process. And if you have 143 00:15:02,100 --> 00:15:08,020 heard us talk throughout this episode, Shawna has been trying to get me to watch this for a very long time. 144 00:15:08,020 --> 00:15:13,940 It's so good. And I don't know what it was about it that I don't think it was the right time or the 145 00:15:13,940 --> 00:15:20,420 right place. But I will tell you over this last weekend, it was more like a day and a half. I binge. 146 00:15:20,420 --> 00:15:28,420 This is so fast. I told you slow down the fans will understand. You're like, no, I'm doing it. I'm doing it. 147 00:15:28,420 --> 00:15:34,340 And so once I got to the second episode, I was pretty hooked. It gets you really quick. It's like 148 00:15:34,340 --> 00:15:39,460 breaking bad in that way when the first episode you watch and you're like, well, shit. Here we go. 149 00:15:39,460 --> 00:15:46,180 And I'm curious, did you ever watch shameless? You know, I haven't. But I've seen a lot of clips on 150 00:15:46,180 --> 00:15:53,460 Instagram, which is stupid, which make it look really funny and interesting. Yes. I think it might 151 00:15:53,460 --> 00:15:58,980 happen eventually. But I've also heard that shameless is kind of like weeds, which started out really 152 00:15:58,980 --> 00:16:03,940 strong. And then I despised by the end. And so that kind of sits in the water. When Emma, you're 153 00:16:03,940 --> 00:16:10,100 rossum leaves who's like the main character. It gets bad. Any show that continues on after 154 00:16:10,100 --> 00:16:15,700 main character. I see. And I think that it like no wind to stop. No, wind to call it. And that's why I'm 155 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:21,460 so glad like the boys is ending next season breaking bad new into it. Yeah. Call it before it sucks. 156 00:16:21,460 --> 00:16:28,980 Yeah. I was a avid shameless fan. It's eight seasons. I'd watch it after an already. It was in 157 00:16:28,980 --> 00:16:33,940 its last season when I watched it actually. So by the time I got through eight seasons and this 158 00:16:33,940 --> 00:16:40,740 was back when television was not eight to 10 episodes per season, it was a lot. So it was a 22. 159 00:16:40,740 --> 00:16:47,620 It is a yeah, it is a very big commitment. But it is some amazing television. And that is actually 160 00:16:47,620 --> 00:16:55,060 how we met the world met Jeremy Allen White who is the main character in the bear. Now shameless 161 00:16:55,060 --> 00:17:02,100 is set in Chicago. And it's also about a very dysfunctional family. So it's very similar to the bear. 162 00:17:02,100 --> 00:17:10,260 It is very similar to the bear. And so it was a little bit difficult for me to see him as 163 00:17:10,260 --> 00:17:17,300 carmy and not as lip from shameless because it is kind of similar. And we both Chicago. 164 00:17:17,300 --> 00:17:22,900 I'm real quick for someone who hasn't watched the bear. It's an American comedy drama television 165 00:17:22,900 --> 00:17:28,740 series. Do you think it's a comedy or a drama? That's so funny to me. It was like it's one 166 00:17:28,740 --> 00:17:36,420 comedy awards. But I would say it's a drama series. Me too, right? Like it feels there are funny 167 00:17:36,420 --> 00:17:40,500 moments. But for the most part, you end an episode and I'm like a kind of need to cigarette and 168 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:47,460 some whiskey and a steak. It was created by Christopher store for FX on Hulu. Jeremy 169 00:17:47,460 --> 00:17:53,300 Allen White stars as carmy, Brasado, an award winning chef. You returns to his hometown in Chicago 170 00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:59,620 to manage the chaotic restaurant that his deceased brother left him a sandwich shop called 171 00:17:59,620 --> 00:18:06,900 what the beef the the beef in the north side of Chicago. There it is. North river. The supporting 172 00:18:06,900 --> 00:18:15,700 cast includes Iban Moss back rack, a yo edgy beer, Lionel boys, Liza Collins, Zias, Abby Elliott, 173 00:18:15,700 --> 00:18:23,460 Matty Matheson, John Bernthal who plays the dead brother and many more celebrity cameos. 174 00:18:23,460 --> 00:18:31,140 John Borentos just. I love him so much. He's such a good and honest underrated actor. 175 00:18:31,140 --> 00:18:36,420 Like this man's going to get an academy award someday. He's such a good actor. Yeah, I don't think he's 176 00:18:36,420 --> 00:18:42,340 he's an amazing supporting actor that I've seen him in everything. Like he's really really good at that 177 00:18:42,340 --> 00:18:49,540 that role. I haven't seen him in a lot of leading. He was in the Punisher TV show. Which I made 178 00:18:49,540 --> 00:18:56,180 through the first season of and really finished the second one. He's again a supporting character 179 00:18:56,180 --> 00:19:00,820 in the walking dead. Yeah. But he's such an important supporting character that he dies so early 180 00:19:00,820 --> 00:19:07,220 on the show and fans are still like get this more shame. Yeah. My toxic trade is I would date 181 00:19:07,220 --> 00:19:13,940 chain in real life. Absolutely. We would. He is a cop but I wouldn't date him but I would sleep with 182 00:19:13,940 --> 00:19:18,020 that. If I met him not knowing he was a cop and I there's like, oh, I kind of like this guy 183 00:19:18,020 --> 00:19:28,180 then I figured it out. I might wouldn't like I'm already hooked. I've already been in me. 184 00:19:28,180 --> 00:19:35,460 I didn't see that. I just said, I mean look at him. He's so handsome. He's a good looking guy. 185 00:19:35,460 --> 00:19:40,420 He's a perfect guy. He's the Punisher. And so the reason that I brought up shameless is Jeremy 186 00:19:40,420 --> 00:19:46,580 on why was my favorite character in shameless. Was he dummy hot in shameless? Yes, but he's a little 187 00:19:46,580 --> 00:19:53,940 bit younger in it. And so the same character and it's so interesting. It's a really simple one. 188 00:19:53,940 --> 00:20:07,380 tightly wound like short fuse Chicago boy and like kind of driven in a way but to the point where 189 00:20:07,380 --> 00:20:11,460 prevent themselves from success. That's the thing is they're getting in their own way. 190 00:20:11,460 --> 00:20:19,620 Carmi is so focused on being a good chef that he gets in his own way of being a good chef, right? 191 00:20:19,620 --> 00:20:24,980 Like we know that he's talented in the show. But okay, we're going to obviously talk about spoilers 192 00:20:24,980 --> 00:20:29,620 throughout this episode. Yeah, so I haven't watched the very yet. Yeah. The same thing we did for 193 00:20:29,620 --> 00:20:35,860 House of Dragons. Exactly. Season one and season two. We are going to talk about season three 194 00:20:35,860 --> 00:20:42,260 episode one. Yes, I've only watched the first episode. Do this bitch. You powered through it so 195 00:20:42,260 --> 00:20:46,580 fast that now you're ahead of me. I know. Well, first of all, if I say I'm going to do so, 196 00:20:46,580 --> 00:20:52,340 everyone would do it. This is true. And it was really good. I went to sleep last night probably 197 00:20:52,340 --> 00:20:56,420 midnight watching it. And then I woke up in the morning and was like, I need to know what happens 198 00:20:56,420 --> 00:21:02,260 today. So I just had it up on my second screen and was like writing marketing emails. There might be 199 00:21:02,260 --> 00:21:06,420 me. There might be like a yes chef and email news. Whether somewhere. I don't know. 200 00:21:06,420 --> 00:21:15,860 I need 55 beeps. 55. Well, jokes. Wait, I can't show. Yeah. So I will say from first impressions, 201 00:21:15,860 --> 00:21:23,780 I had seen a lot of TikTok clips and claim around it. And I knew everyone said, yes, chef, 202 00:21:23,780 --> 00:21:31,300 but I did not realize how much like I thought it was just about Jeremy Allen. Why it's 203 00:21:31,300 --> 00:21:36,900 true. He calls everyone chef and everyone calls him chef. Sheffa cousin. Yeah. I love people cousin. 204 00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:43,540 No one goes just cousin. You can't like, he can't get a name. No, she's just cousin. Yeah. And so I 205 00:21:43,540 --> 00:21:50,580 was like, wow. And in the first season, it was used enough second season. I was like, whoa, 206 00:21:50,580 --> 00:21:55,300 we turned the dial up on that. Because at that point, everyone is chef kind of right? Like by the 207 00:21:55,300 --> 00:22:00,580 end of second season, they have the bear open. And he wants it to be a Michelin star restaurant. 208 00:22:00,580 --> 00:22:09,060 And so I think in his mindset, he's already running the beef as in his mind, a Michelin star restaurant. 209 00:22:09,060 --> 00:22:13,140 And I know how he's treating everyone. And that's how he's making them all on the ship. And obviously, 210 00:22:13,140 --> 00:22:20,020 they're used to Mikey's way of running the ship, which is a little more chill and probably drug 211 00:22:20,020 --> 00:22:26,420 and do ship is on fire. The ship is on fire and holes coming up throughout it. And there's drugs everywhere. 212 00:22:26,420 --> 00:22:34,180 It's all over the ship. Everything's on fire. So the helm beating a guy. I know what they do it in 213 00:22:34,180 --> 00:22:42,420 the kitchen. But at the very end of season two, aO a debris father says, yes, chef. Well, she's like, 214 00:22:42,420 --> 00:22:47,380 I have a good day, chef. And I'm like, the dad doesn't even work in the kitchen. Why is he so sure? 215 00:22:47,380 --> 00:22:56,100 Respect. She earned that respect. So starting season one, I hated Richie. I thought he was such a dick. 216 00:22:56,100 --> 00:23:02,820 I thought he was so obnoxious as like this character is just needs to leave. He can't stop screaming. 217 00:23:02,820 --> 00:23:12,020 And I have like ADHD and I have no way sensitivity sometimes. So if I'm at a place and there's too 218 00:23:12,020 --> 00:23:17,860 many sounds at once, sometimes I get so overwhelmed that I have to like go to the club bathroom. 219 00:23:17,860 --> 00:23:25,060 And I'm just in there with my own thoughts. You would die. I would die. But for some reason, 220 00:23:25,060 --> 00:23:32,420 this show still I can still watch it. And everyone is screaming. Everyone's screaming entire time. 221 00:23:32,420 --> 00:23:36,500 You start and you're like, Richie's a dick. We don't like him. By the end of season two, Richie's 222 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:42,500 my favorite character. I adore him. I want to use my favorite. But I think he's a great character. 223 00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:48,980 So when he goes to the cooking school, it is so it is so. Working to work that restaurant. Yeah. So 224 00:23:48,980 --> 00:23:54,500 I was essentially live texting Shonda throughout this because I watched it a day and a half. 225 00:23:54,500 --> 00:24:00,260 But I just texted her when I was going through it. And I was like, Marcus and his love for pastries 226 00:24:00,260 --> 00:24:07,540 is making me want to cry. I did cry for the record. I was boo. And I'm like, it was just over this man's 227 00:24:07,540 --> 00:24:15,060 pure love for pastry art. And I was like, it's so. Marcus is so pure. I am. I feel like 228 00:24:15,060 --> 00:24:22,740 her. I'm just going through the angel. And so we're going through and like I think third an 229 00:24:22,740 --> 00:24:28,260 episode goes by. And I go, the guy who plays Richie is so good at douche. You can't take accountability. 230 00:24:28,260 --> 00:24:34,180 But somehow you still like it. I just said, oh girl, just you wait. Just you wait. And she is 231 00:24:34,180 --> 00:24:39,940 Marney's boyfriend in the girls. I totally forgot that he was in the girl. I thought you were going to say 232 00:24:39,940 --> 00:24:44,980 you haven't seen the girls. No, I watched the girls. Which is the piece of white fence. Oh, it's just 233 00:24:44,980 --> 00:24:51,860 girls. You're right. Not the boys. Yeah. Girls. It's peak white feminism. But I watched the first. 234 00:24:51,860 --> 00:24:57,780 I think the only season I watched was the final season. Because I was just no 235 00:24:57,780 --> 00:25:01,940 character on that show is a good person. It's terrible people and I couldn't do it anymore. 236 00:25:01,940 --> 00:25:07,540 Yeah. But I forgot he was on it. Yeah. But you're right. He's absolutely the same character. 237 00:25:07,540 --> 00:25:14,180 He is very good at playing that specific guy who's like loud, boy, stress. 238 00:25:14,180 --> 00:25:19,940 Do you know he's in the MCU now? He was cast and fantastic for it as the thing. 239 00:25:19,940 --> 00:25:25,220 Yeah. You see the original or not the original. But the fantastic story about the day. 240 00:25:25,220 --> 00:25:29,140 You know the thing then. That's exactly what I was getting at. You see the jazz gal. 241 00:25:29,140 --> 00:25:35,220 Yeah. He's the thing. And the coming one. Okay. So excited for his entry into the MCU. 242 00:25:35,220 --> 00:25:42,900 Yeah. And if you've never seen the show, little bit of a trigger warning, it does start with someone 243 00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:47,380 on a live. They're themselves. There are a lot of references throughout the show. I mean, I think 244 00:25:47,380 --> 00:25:52,420 the show itself is honestly, I mean, it's about cooking and owning a restaurant. I can just 245 00:25:52,420 --> 00:25:58,980 struggle to go through it. But honestly, it's a show about trauma and family generational trauma. 246 00:25:58,980 --> 00:26:02,020 Generational trauma. I think that is the overarching theme here. 247 00:26:02,020 --> 00:26:06,340 Yeah. Generational trauma, PTSD and mental health. Yeah. 248 00:26:06,340 --> 00:26:11,380 Absolutely. So the show starts with Carmies brother Mikey completing suicide. 249 00:26:11,380 --> 00:26:18,180 And he leaves the beef. The original beef. I'm just going to call it the beef. Yeah. 250 00:26:18,180 --> 00:26:25,460 To Carmies. And it's this family owned sandwich shop. And then we get like flashbacks throughout 251 00:26:25,460 --> 00:26:31,460 this series about like their family dynamic. Very messed up. Oh my god. 252 00:26:31,460 --> 00:26:37,940 Same as shame. It's like it's this really, really messed up family where they don't really deal with 253 00:26:37,940 --> 00:26:45,540 anything. Lots of alcoholics, lots of dysfunctional family relationships. And I think it does a good 254 00:26:45,540 --> 00:26:52,100 job at personifying the different ways that that kind of chaos has in a family. And you can really see 255 00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:58,660 it within each of those different siblings. And I think very, very interesting. I think our parents 256 00:26:58,660 --> 00:27:03,860 are all my generation at least of millennials. Like our parents were raised to really 257 00:27:03,860 --> 00:27:10,420 disassociate, ignore. And those patterns do show up within your children. I think it's a really 258 00:27:10,420 --> 00:27:15,220 good examination of that. We can talk about mental health and my family growing up. 259 00:27:15,220 --> 00:27:21,460 Yeah. Are you a little stressed today? And like it manifested itself. Like it, right? And I feel like 260 00:27:21,460 --> 00:27:27,700 that's and that's the age group that Carmies in. And you can tell that he's totally processing all 261 00:27:27,700 --> 00:27:32,740 of the trauma that he went through the Christmas episode. Yeah. I kept waiting for you to get to that. 262 00:27:32,740 --> 00:27:39,540 It's the most stressful episode of television I've ever watched. And I like Jamie Lee Curtis plays 263 00:27:39,540 --> 00:27:49,060 their mom. She kills it so good at it. She's so good at it. Is she so just drunk and angry and sad? 264 00:27:49,060 --> 00:27:56,340 Yeah. And you know, it's like not about the kids all about her. Yeah. I had a family member who 265 00:27:56,340 --> 00:28:03,300 who passed away from, you know, taking their own life about a year ago. And I thought it was a really 266 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:12,260 great representation of how people go through that grief. How families try to support each other. 267 00:28:12,260 --> 00:28:17,780 Like almost they're not okay. So they're not asking how each other okay. I thought it was beautiful. 268 00:28:17,780 --> 00:28:23,540 Yeah. The ending of season one with the note and all of that. Like, oh my god. Let's, okay, 269 00:28:23,540 --> 00:28:29,220 let's break that down. Go ahead. Because you just watched it. What like six hours ago? Yeah. And so 270 00:28:29,220 --> 00:28:33,860 the entire time, Carmies like, why did he leave me this restaurant? Like, I don't understand. They 271 00:28:33,860 --> 00:28:40,420 had a kind of a rocky relationship. They loved each other so deeply. But Mikey was so into drugs. 272 00:28:40,420 --> 00:28:45,300 Yeah. Mikey was his idol like that older brother that you want to be and look up to. 273 00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:48,980 Got a little rocky at the end. He said, you can't work in this restaurant, which I think was 274 00:28:48,980 --> 00:28:54,260 really just his way of trying to get him out of staying in Chicago for a work of course. So he 275 00:28:54,260 --> 00:29:00,500 wanted him to go to New York and do those things. Learn about cooking until like if you're just stuck 276 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:06,740 here at the beef. Yeah. And I think it was that moment, but he can't recognize that at that moment. 277 00:29:06,740 --> 00:29:11,940 And so he's like, why did he leave me this? And he's spending this entire time trying to figure it out. 278 00:29:11,940 --> 00:29:17,300 The business was in debt. The taxes weren't being paid. He's trying to figure this all out and he 279 00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:21,940 gets this letter at the end that cousin's been hiding from him, right? Yeah. Cause it became real 280 00:29:21,940 --> 00:29:26,340 in the family. And so throughout his entire life, because he uses role model, he would go to him and 281 00:29:26,340 --> 00:29:31,220 say, it doesn't matter. Let it rip. Let it go. Your anxious. Such as a matter of let it rip. And 282 00:29:31,220 --> 00:29:36,020 that would always be what he talked to him. Like he said, it's a car. Yeah. Yeah. To get him out of a 283 00:29:36,020 --> 00:29:41,300 panic check or get him out of his head and just go with it. Go with the flow and be in the situation. 284 00:29:41,300 --> 00:29:48,660 And in his letter, it basically says let it rip. And it says the bear. And which is essentially 285 00:29:48,660 --> 00:29:53,540 the title of the show. And it's going to be a name that call him bear. And it's the restaurant that they 286 00:29:53,540 --> 00:29:59,060 were supposed to open together, but they had their falling out and never happened. And so a lot of 287 00:29:59,060 --> 00:30:06,020 the first season is him grappling with how do I honor his legacy? How do I turn this business around? 288 00:30:06,020 --> 00:30:12,900 Do I even want that? How do I bring my current life into my old life? I thought it was just so well done. 289 00:30:12,900 --> 00:30:17,300 I really like that they showed Karmie going to an alcoholics anonymous meeting too. 290 00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:23,860 Because addiction is a family disease. Yes. So it affects the entire family. It's not just the 291 00:30:23,860 --> 00:30:31,140 person who's ill. And so him going to these meetings and his he's full of a family of addicts. 292 00:30:31,140 --> 00:30:36,580 Yeah. And then he's finally able to open up and talk about his story. I thought that was just so 293 00:30:36,580 --> 00:30:41,700 beautiful because a lot of people probably don't realize that you can go to these meetings as a 294 00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:46,980 family member of somebody who's you know an addict, something like that to get support. So I 295 00:30:46,980 --> 00:30:52,580 thought that was just such a nice touch. And Jeremy Ellen White, it's like a monologue in that scene. 296 00:30:52,580 --> 00:31:00,100 It's just so well delivered. He's such a good actor. It's so good. So I assumed he was from Chicago. 297 00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:05,300 He loves Chicago. He's from New York. He's from Brooklyn. Is he really a Brooklyn? I was like, 298 00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:11,460 I was a little upset by that. But again, I grew up in Chicago. So love Chicago. Okay. 299 00:31:11,460 --> 00:31:16,500 I do love I love New York City. I've been in Chicago twice. New York City once. 300 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:22,340 I've actually never been to New York City, but I'm going in October. They're both just so amazing 301 00:31:22,340 --> 00:31:27,780 and so good in their different ways. Right. The pizza. This show made you so hungry, right? 302 00:31:27,780 --> 00:31:33,700 Yes. Thankfully I did all in one day. So I just won't be craving. I did end up like making some 303 00:31:33,700 --> 00:31:39,220 crazy like, crazy, like, pet chat a mushroom thing because of the fucking pasta. But I'm over there 304 00:31:39,220 --> 00:31:46,660 making like easy Mac. Yes. My dogs like me like you stupid bitch. I consider putting real cheese 305 00:31:46,660 --> 00:31:52,660 in like one of those easy Mac little cubs. I consider that cooking. I consider if you make 306 00:31:52,660 --> 00:31:56,900 instant like ramen noodles, but you crack an egg in it and you chop up some green onion. 307 00:31:56,900 --> 00:32:00,740 Yeah. It's in like some spice cooking things. I've checked. I've checked. I've checked. I've 308 00:32:00,740 --> 00:32:05,860 checked. Yeah. We have to find cooking. Like is it the act of heating food? You know, that's a great 309 00:32:05,860 --> 00:32:11,140 question. Microwave in because then all of those easy bake ovens. Did you ever have an easy 310 00:32:11,140 --> 00:32:16,100 bake oven growing? I did. Did you eat them? Yeah. They're good. I have in the food. 311 00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:24,260 The oven itself. Did you bring down those metal pieces? It just consumed it. No, no, no, no. 312 00:32:24,260 --> 00:32:30,740 Carmi. Carmi served it to me. I didn't know. Do you know? Carmi could serve me shit and I would 313 00:32:30,740 --> 00:32:37,620 eat it. Oh my god. Jeremy Ellen White in his like underwear campaign. Yeah. Well, while we were 314 00:32:37,620 --> 00:32:45,300 talking, I also just remember he took iron claw, which is also a very just social family. It was so good. 315 00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:51,460 But by the end of it, I was like, I'm so sad. I want to watch something funny. Yeah. Now I'm just like 316 00:32:51,460 --> 00:32:55,940 really curious. I want him to do an interview and suddenly give a little breakdown about whether I 317 00:32:55,940 --> 00:33:03,220 get so great, especially like a actor or actress who's been in the industry for, you know, 50 years. 318 00:33:03,220 --> 00:33:09,300 I've so many good insights about directors of their process. I agree. I really like those. 319 00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:13,700 Maybe not as much as like hot ones does. As Jeremy Ellen White been on hot ones, if not, 320 00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:21,060 he definitely needs to be. So does Ayo. I think she's incredible. She honestly is such a good actress 321 00:33:21,060 --> 00:33:27,380 in this. I know she's a great writer as well. Like she wrote bottoms, which is with what's her face, 322 00:33:27,380 --> 00:33:34,500 Rachel, Senate. So good. So good. I think she's just incredibly talented. She's incredible. 323 00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:38,260 That episode where she kind of goes like restaurant to restaurant and tries all the 324 00:33:38,260 --> 00:33:43,780 and it was his restaurant. I love this. So serendipitous. Okay. So amazing. I guess the very end of 325 00:33:43,780 --> 00:33:49,940 episode one of season three, that's where I left off. Episode one is very artsy. There's very little 326 00:33:49,940 --> 00:33:56,260 dialogue. It's set to just a musical score. And it's a flashbacks. It's a lot of flashbacks mixed 327 00:33:56,260 --> 00:34:02,980 with like him apologizing to Sydney about being locked in the freezer and calling cousin. 328 00:34:02,980 --> 00:34:11,460 So what I thought in season three, episode one against spoilers is that we were seeing him after 329 00:34:11,460 --> 00:34:18,180 he had like left again and he just decided he was going to leave the bear restaurant. Yeah. 330 00:34:18,180 --> 00:34:23,940 And then we were kind of flashing back in between. But you said that you thought it was 331 00:34:23,940 --> 00:34:29,780 them flashing back to him first left. Exactly. And that's why his sister was, you know, 332 00:34:29,780 --> 00:34:34,660 flashback to his sister being like, I love you. Here, take money. He's like, it's fine. I don't need 333 00:34:34,660 --> 00:34:38,660 your money. It's fine. He's trying to leave the bear. She'd be like, are you fucking kidding? 334 00:34:38,660 --> 00:34:44,020 Yeah. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. No, she was like, take money. Please, please. Yes, it's fine. 335 00:34:44,020 --> 00:34:49,300 And then it flashes back to him and he's training under Joel McHale who just walks by and goes, 336 00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:55,540 fuck you. Yeah. I can't imagine you're working at any job in your posh to smoke. So I was like, 337 00:34:55,540 --> 00:35:01,220 hey, hey, fuck you suck a dick. Yeah. You're like, shit. All right. I did give me a PTSD to working 338 00:35:01,220 --> 00:35:07,860 in a restaurant where you're like, God, the amount of unprofessionalism that happens. I'm sure that 339 00:35:07,860 --> 00:35:13,380 I and not like you and I were ever cooks, but like the food industry is just insane. I've worked 340 00:35:13,380 --> 00:35:20,420 decade long in the food industry, right? Before I found like my career now, but I worked at this place. 341 00:35:20,420 --> 00:35:25,220 I won't shout them out in case they listen and they decide to sue. I don't even think they're in 342 00:35:25,220 --> 00:35:31,140 power anymore in power. It was a Greek restaurant. And the name of the restaurant was based off 343 00:35:31,140 --> 00:35:37,700 of a popular romcom movie. Okay. And they would literally shout at me, Sean, you're so stupid. 344 00:35:38,260 --> 00:35:44,180 Sean, are you keep fucking up? I was 19 years old to be very, probably worth fucking up. 345 00:35:44,180 --> 00:35:48,900 But I was like a 19 year old waitress. I went to freshman at college. I just got through life 346 00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:54,980 tragedy. Yeah. And I was such a fragile baby angel. And I remember driving home one day from this 347 00:35:54,980 --> 00:36:01,380 job. I had my little waitress apron on and I saw my checkbook in it and I was just trying to get 348 00:36:01,380 --> 00:36:06,260 home and just weeping. And this cop pulls me over for speeding. And he comes up to me and like, 349 00:36:07,460 --> 00:36:16,420 yes, he's just like, you know how fast you're going? And he just looks at me and he sees my little 350 00:36:16,420 --> 00:36:22,180 apron. And I was weeping and it probably helped. But I was like a 95 pound platinum blonde 351 00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:27,860 baby girl. And he's like, just slow down, sweetie. Life will get better. Don't worry. 352 00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:38,900 I would yes, chef. But yeah, the restaurant industry is brutal. And I can't imagine what it's 353 00:36:38,900 --> 00:36:43,460 like working in those like Michelin Stark wrote trying to prove yourself kind of shit. 354 00:36:43,460 --> 00:36:48,740 Because if it was that bad working in my big Greek place that I won't say the name of, 355 00:36:48,740 --> 00:36:53,700 then my big, gricky place, like big Greek wedding restaurant. 356 00:36:55,540 --> 00:37:00,580 Yeah, that place does suck though. I've been there. I have a word to there, but food's not good. 357 00:37:00,580 --> 00:37:05,780 So it's definitely no bear. Don't eat the tiziki. Yeah. Oh god. Yeah. Don't do it. 358 00:37:05,780 --> 00:37:09,700 I'll add to the inner work. Do you know? Legically donate the tiziki. 359 00:37:09,700 --> 00:37:19,460 Allegedly. I've 20 years or yeah. We're like 15, but we'll do a six years. I am Jesus Christ. 360 00:37:20,420 --> 00:37:29,300 An ancient being. I worked there 65 years ago. Yeah, I think it's really going to be interesting. I 361 00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:35,700 keep thinking about Sydney and how they're going to deal with her anxiety and her process of 362 00:37:35,700 --> 00:37:42,260 kind of seizing control as a woman within a very male dominated and true thing as a woman of color. 363 00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:48,660 Yeah. As a woman of color. Absolutely. I think it is just so well done. The side characters where I 364 00:37:48,660 --> 00:37:55,220 talked about Marcus, Tina, the other one. I love Tina's. Because in the beginning too, I was like, 365 00:37:55,220 --> 00:38:03,380 Tina's a bitch. Yeah. You're like, oh my god. I get it. And she, you know, and I heard in Sydney's 366 00:38:03,380 --> 00:38:09,540 relationship. I think they just did a really good job about workplace insecurity and the feelings 367 00:38:09,540 --> 00:38:15,300 that come with them and trying to prove yourself. Yeah, prove yourself and work over in posture, 368 00:38:15,300 --> 00:38:20,420 syndrome and ask for help and like realize those things. I thought it was just an amazing well done 369 00:38:20,420 --> 00:38:25,060 series. So I'm glad you forced me to watch it. That is another important overarching theme that I 370 00:38:25,060 --> 00:38:30,500 think you just hit on is imposter syndrome. Yes. Like no one in this entire show thinks that they're 371 00:38:30,500 --> 00:38:36,660 good enough at what they do. I mean, maybe that's just part of we see the flashbacks obviously to 372 00:38:36,660 --> 00:38:40,660 Joel McHale's character. I don't even know if they get his character in name. And if they do, 373 00:38:40,660 --> 00:38:48,100 please fans, let me know besides just New York chef or new. Yeah. Like his head chef teacher, 374 00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:53,060 but he just convinces him the whole time that you're buried some suck. You get stuck. 375 00:38:53,060 --> 00:38:58,980 I got it literally like. And then when the bear is opening before a car me locks himself in the freezer, 376 00:38:58,980 --> 00:39:04,180 he thinks that he sees him, right? And it's just that imposter syndrome that we all feel no matter 377 00:39:04,180 --> 00:39:10,820 what we do for a living that you suck at this. Like, yeah, why did they hire you? But you have to 378 00:39:10,820 --> 00:39:15,620 keep telling yourself actually like, I don't know what I'm doing here. Yeah. Well, also if you want a 379 00:39:15,620 --> 00:39:28,500 James Beard award, like you're really good. And so yeah, I thought it was just so good. I'm so glad 380 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:33,380 that you liked it and that you watched it. Yeah. I think that again, it really connected with me because 381 00:39:33,380 --> 00:39:40,820 my family member, like the dynamics. I'm from there. I love to cook. Oh, the Chicago B roll too. 382 00:39:40,820 --> 00:39:46,500 Yeah. It's like you must be loving this. Just all the beautiful shots of Chicago and all just the food 383 00:39:46,500 --> 00:39:52,180 and the subway or not the subway, but the train or whatever. Yeah. Like the like the the uncle who's 384 00:39:52,180 --> 00:39:59,460 kind of like mob adjacent like local journey. Yeah. Yeah. Reminds me of my dad so much looks like my dad. 385 00:39:59,460 --> 00:40:03,780 Did you say it in an episode that I was your dad at some point? Yeah, you guys have really similar taste 386 00:40:03,780 --> 00:40:08,980 and things. I love that you really like. Yeah. Yeah. That's funny. So I remind you of Uncle Jimmy too. 387 00:40:08,980 --> 00:40:15,460 No, because that's more an appearance. Okay. That's good. I don't want to look like in like background. 388 00:40:15,460 --> 00:40:22,020 Like yeah. Yeah. I mean, you remember. You remember, dad, doesn't he look like? I do not remember. 389 00:40:22,020 --> 00:40:26,820 You just drunkenly asked him for a cigarette. Oh my god. I forgot. That's your tap. 390 00:40:27,380 --> 00:40:33,460 It was on my 30th birthday. We're talking sick casino and Sean has never met my dad before. 391 00:40:33,460 --> 00:40:37,940 Okay. Let me preface this. I only spoke cigarettes when I'm really drunk. 392 00:40:37,940 --> 00:40:43,300 It can't send you family members are listening. But yeah, your dad gave me a cigarette. Yeah. 393 00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:46,340 Yeah. Great guy. Love him. Love that guy. 394 00:40:46,340 --> 00:40:51,140 Oh, Johnny. I'm like a little uncle Johnny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 395 00:40:51,140 --> 00:40:56,660 That's the freaking gobbagool with my freaking cigarette. Oh, now you're getting New Jersey. Oh, 396 00:40:56,660 --> 00:41:02,180 shit. Yeah. What's a Chicago accent? Kind of like what they're doing. But like it's less like 397 00:41:02,180 --> 00:41:09,940 you. You. You. You guys. It's more like big like kind of yeah. We seem fucking cigarette. Yeah. 398 00:41:09,940 --> 00:41:13,700 Yeah. Yeah. It's a little closer. It's like a mix between a Minnesota and a New Yorker. 399 00:41:13,700 --> 00:41:18,740 I say that felt a little bit more so. Yeah. We're speaking cigarette. Wait. No, that was average. Yeah. 400 00:41:18,740 --> 00:41:23,620 We got it. We got a mystery. We got a mystery part. We got a mystery accent to her. 401 00:41:24,340 --> 00:41:29,460 Yes. So it seems like the season three again, we're only gonna talk about episode one. 402 00:41:29,460 --> 00:41:37,380 I've seen the second one so far. But it seems like they're really gonna go for kind of dismantling 403 00:41:37,380 --> 00:41:44,500 this car me as this perfect good guy, really making him not necessarily like an anti-hero. Or would 404 00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:48,740 you kind of see that from the first episode? You know, I just hope that car me 405 00:41:48,740 --> 00:41:54,180 repairs the relationships in his life. Because in the first episode, we see him making that 406 00:41:54,180 --> 00:41:59,220 phone call to Richie and apologizing for the way that he spoke to him the restaurant night 407 00:41:59,220 --> 00:42:04,660 or the opening of the bear night, I should say. So like Sidney and Richie and the staff 408 00:42:04,660 --> 00:42:09,300 held down the opening night of the bear. Because car me's in the walk in the entire time. I've 409 00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:15,380 got existential crisis. Yeah. And they held it down. Yeah. And so I think we're gonna see him the 410 00:42:15,380 --> 00:42:20,260 first couple episodes really try to like amend those relationships. Especially like the one with 411 00:42:20,260 --> 00:42:27,060 his girlfriend too. His friend, that's a girl. Oh yeah. His friend with benefits girl like that he 412 00:42:27,060 --> 00:42:35,460 kind of dumped from like the other side of the cooler door. Yeah, that was that was pretty crazy. 413 00:42:35,460 --> 00:42:42,020 So I hope we see him mend some relationships. I would love to see car me have some sort of 414 00:42:42,020 --> 00:42:46,180 personal life. I mean, and we kind of touched on that in season two with him getting a girlfriend. 415 00:42:46,180 --> 00:42:51,700 Yeah, or exploring a relationship with a woman. So I hope that we get to see more of that in season 416 00:42:51,700 --> 00:42:55,860 three. Because he's just he's actually a young guy and he's so stressed out. Dude's gonna have an 417 00:42:55,860 --> 00:43:01,460 aneurysm by the time he's 40. Do you really? He's smoking enough cigarettes. So, oh yeah. 418 00:43:01,460 --> 00:43:08,180 So much. It's just so angry. Just angry and just veins popping and smoking and just like. 419 00:43:08,180 --> 00:43:15,300 Yeah, I think the season's gonna be, you know, I think in his mind they survived with 420 00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:21,540 out of him. So they don't need him. And that's gonna just send him down a spiral. He's valuable. 421 00:43:21,540 --> 00:43:25,460 He's like, do they even need me here? Can Sydney do all this shit herself? Because their 422 00:43:25,460 --> 00:43:29,780 partners in the restaurant like they might even necessary here. And then help definitely feel 423 00:43:29,780 --> 00:43:33,700 the imposter syndrome. Yeah. I think we're definitely gonna see him and Sydney's relationship 424 00:43:33,700 --> 00:43:38,580 of all a lot. And a lot of people have been saying like, do we ship them? And just because there's a 425 00:43:38,580 --> 00:43:42,580 man and a woman on a show doesn't mean that they need to be shipped. Yeah, right. We don't have to 426 00:43:42,580 --> 00:43:47,780 love them. Like they don't need to be in a romantic relationship. They can be business partners 427 00:43:47,780 --> 00:43:58,340 and friends. Marcus and Sydney though. I better get to the other. Oh, also. Marcus. Is mom? 428 00:43:58,340 --> 00:44:02,340 Oh, that's right. But man, I get my heart shrieks. If you're a pastry chef and you look like a 429 00:44:02,340 --> 00:44:08,580 little gentle giant teddy bear. Come, come find me. You'll find her. Come find me. And show me your 430 00:44:08,580 --> 00:44:15,380 pastry. Show me your pastry puffs. Oh, okay. I just want to know what makes me like actually a 431 00:44:15,380 --> 00:44:22,340 pastry. Yeah. What makes him so cute is his like purity for his pastries. I know. It's just so sweet. 432 00:44:22,340 --> 00:44:27,460 Yeah. Yeah. So I'm excited. I like him. I'm excited to see where everything goes. I'm excited to see 433 00:44:27,460 --> 00:44:34,580 I'm just everyone evolve more and as is the bear grows and oh yeah. I'm excited to see 434 00:44:34,580 --> 00:44:39,540 of Jamie Lee Curtis shows back up and actually steps foot inside of the restaurant and eats some food. 435 00:44:39,540 --> 00:44:44,020 I think that they've been priming her. So I think she'll be back. She's primed. She's finished all 436 00:44:44,020 --> 00:44:50,980 those Halloween movies. So she's she's out of contract. She's ready. She's ready. But it's his mom ready. 437 00:44:50,980 --> 00:45:00,100 No, no, neither of them are ready. Yeah. Well, that about wraps up this episode. And I must say, 438 00:45:00,100 --> 00:45:05,940 I think it deserved at least one Michelin star maybe two. Don't you think I'm so hungry. 439 00:45:05,940 --> 00:45:12,020 We're gonna make some food. We'll make that omelette with the potato chips. Now, where do they find 440 00:45:12,020 --> 00:45:18,100 you on social media? You can buy me Shauna Trinidad on Instagram and TikTok @shaunatrinidad 441 00:45:18,100 --> 00:45:34,820 and you can find me, Olivia, on Instagram @livimariez L-I-V-I-M-A-R-I-E-Z and you can send us your thoughts, 442 00:45:34,820 --> 00:45:42,580 hopes, wishes, recipes, dreams, whatever you like. Pastries. Pastries for sure. Bye first going to the 443 00:45:42,580 --> 00:45:51,220 Pop Culture Junkie Podcast social media links. 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