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This podcast is all about movies! Here my reviews, with some input from other movie enthusiasts , on all new movies. Weekly episodes that review the newest movies in theaters. I also review a throwback movie along with each episode that is picked by my guest. And every once in a while there will be bonus episodes of just older classic movies and just movie, tv, and pop culture updates. Let me be your movie guy.
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Babes and Baby Mama with Amanda D
This episode explores the comedic and heartfelt connections found in "Babes" and "Baby Mama," two films centered around friendship and motherhood. The hosts discuss personal experiences related to the films' themes, offering insights into how these stories resonate with their own lives while providing Hollywood updates.
• Overview and personal updates from the hosts
• Discussion on the emotional narratives of "Babes"
• Analysis of the comedy in "Baby Mama"
• Connections between the characters and their friendships
• Recommendations for similar comfort films
• Closing thoughts on both films and future episodes
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excuse me, is anybody sitting here? Sorry, this is taken. Sorry, cool, cool, all right, we're back with this. Seat's taken where I'm your host, rob miranda, the first episode back after the pod fest, to let you know what I learned um to join me. I have recurring guests. This is the second time on the podcast, miss amanda. Yes, second time. Second time. The last time you were on for the halloween episode, so it's a little bit different. I barely been to the movie theaters this year. Thinking about it, I don't think I've been yet this whole year, which is wild because it's like january 22nd yeah, that's wild for you.
Speaker 2:That's kind of normal for me. I don't really go to the movies.
Speaker 1:Well right now in january there's not really a whole lot of movies I like my couch, so you like your couch. Well, this is a perfect episode for that, because we're not doing any movies that are in theaters right now. We're doing a throwback episode where it's a bonus episode. We're doing two movies that we both. It's kind of a theme like unintentional theme, I feel like, because you picked your movie yeah, 100 and I.
Speaker 1:I picked a movie we. I had never seen your movie before, so I really didn't expect to be that similar. So we're going to be talking about the new movie that came out in 2024. It's on Hulu right now. It's called Babes. And then, for our throwback movie, you also picked a pregnancy movie called Baby Mama, starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Never seen it. It was my first time watching it, so I'm excited to let you know what I thought about it, because it was pretty interesting, pretty cringy.
Speaker 2:Pretty the best.
Speaker 1:Pretty, the best, I'll give you that. But it's a new year. So far, I feel like I've been killing it this year.
Speaker 2:Me too.
Speaker 1:You started a new position this year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, at work and that's cool, but I feel like I'm always killing it. So I mean that's awesome too yeah, that's true uh, only a month in.
Speaker 1:So I mean, hey, yeah last episode I talked about um podfest, when we were in podfest down there, coming back to the chicago weather, which is like negative 11 degrees I'm already over winter already um, but podfest is amazing. I've been showing, I showed you some pictures and everything before and um it's. It was a game changer. It's something I want to do again. There's one chicago coming up pretty soon oh, that'll be really cool yeah, yeah, it was we.
Speaker 1:We met, networked with a lot of people out there. Some people were trying to get up coming up here to chicago so we can show around, be the real cool kids then yeah, hell yeah, dude, that's so awesome yeah, yeah, I'm glad that you were able to go too, because I mean, it's just such a different experience you know to like get away and experience it. So what are some thing experiences you're doing this year?
Speaker 2:the concerts uh, we're doing a 5k together yes, we're doing a 5k in june yeah, and I mean that's kind of a concert in itself too, from what it's a night concert.
Speaker 1:I'm not night 5k. Uh, we're running around soldier field, yeah it's like a rave it's a rave with the dj.
Speaker 2:A couple few djs there, I think I think there's like four different stages and it's like, oh, like as you run, so I'm gonna be, like you know, going hard running, and then there's gonna be a stage and I'm gonna be all squirrel, I'll be like oh stage, and then squirrel yeah, but then I'll still be getting it hard because you know I'll be dancing and then like all right, now it's time to run, and then run to the next stage.
Speaker 1:I feel like when you're doing it, when it's like that, you don't even feel like you're running a 5K.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think so too, and you're looking forward to the next stage. I feel like so it's like you get to party a little bit at this stage with that DJ and that rave. There's like that bubble spot where it's going to be a bunch of bubbles. And then there's like a lantern thing, so I'm really excited about that actually.
Speaker 1:I might be doing the 5K in November again.
Speaker 2:The chocolate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the hot chocolate race.
Speaker 2:Oh listen, I still dream of that chocolate.
Speaker 1:It's exclusive it's so good it's so good. That's not sold anywhere. They make it specifically for that race.
Speaker 2:So it's the best chocolate I've ever had, and who are you seeing?
Speaker 2:because I'm seeing a couple concerts this year and some couple stand-up comedians honestly, I have more plans to travel hell yeah than I do to see. I'm going to a show. I'm going to like um, a dubstep show actually in a week, and that'll be really cool. I'm gonna wisconsin. But as far as traveling goes, I really want to take a train to colorado and I'm very excited for that. I was wanting to go for my birthday, but I think I'm going to push it back a little bit because we got a lot of stuff going on well.
Speaker 1:On top of that, your birthday's in february too yeah.
Speaker 2:So if I wanted to go, I kind of already had to have that put together, which I don't, so we're pushing it back a little bit, it's okay I know I'm going to disney again this year.
Speaker 1:Um, I'm going to see post malone again yes, I'm excited for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, why wouldn't you be um?
Speaker 1:stand-up comedians. I want to see a lot more stand-up this year. Like ralph albosa is one of my favorites. Um burke kreischer would be pretty cool, but I think he's like on a break right now I want to get into more local stuff, I think like I feel like there's a lot of big things that I did like in the past years.
Speaker 2:I want to give more of my attention to like the upcoming artists and the upcoming comedians. I think that would be really cool for me to do this year, so I think I will look into that a little bit more and I know last time we came on here we talked about your side business with aending and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you plan on doing big events this year with that, because I know we talked about you expanding your ideas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to do. You know what the problem is. I want to make a lot of money and work very, very little. That's just what I want to do. So I've been looking into other different things to rent things out be a part of stuff. So I've been looking into other different things to rent things out be a part of stuff. Well, I planned, my friend's baby shower last year and that went over so well.
Speaker 1:I remember that you were using a company property to make the invitations and stuff.
Speaker 2:What's theirs is mine. What's mine is theirs. They own me at this point anyway. So what's a couple colored copies? It's fine, there was this girl I knew who.
Speaker 1:Um, she started a side business like that too.
Speaker 2:She rented those inflatable jump houses yeah, that's a that's a money maker and they're like she's not that expensive, like by the time you rent those out you've already if you rent those out four times in that year you've already paid for it, so that's she's okay, she has like 30.
Speaker 1:She has like those inflatable obstacle courses, not two and everything. Those water slides.
Speaker 2:My friend went in on the rest of with some of her friends and they bought a inflatable water volleyball and it's just huge. It's huge, though, and they like never rent it out because it's massive. But I mean it's still a cool concept, and it was like I think it was seven of them or eight of them or something, so they all didn't really pay that much money for it, and they all like share the proceeds when they like rent it out.
Speaker 1:Fuck yeah, that's awesome. Let's get back into the episode. We're going over two movies, but before we get into that, we're going to bring back a segment I haven't done in a while, called Hollywood Updates, where we're going to uh.
Speaker 1:So let's start off the first one. David litch is in talks to direct oceans 14, the movie. This movie is in very early development. Screenwriters and cast hasn't been officially announced yet, but george clooney is already on his producer. If you don't know who david david litch is, he's known for like movies like bullet train, fall guy, deadpool 2, atomic blonde and violent night. So this guy is very in depth with like violent movies or like action movies, let's just say so. I think it's pretty cool, like it's. Oceans 11 is like more of a heist kind of movie. Yeah, I think you pull it off. Are you a big fan of the ocean movie?
Speaker 2:honestly, action movies this is gonna sound. I'm gonna sound like such a baby. Action movies kind of freak me out.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because if I watch them in theater I feel like I'm in the movie and I start getting crazy anxiety. I know it sounds insane.
Speaker 1:Do you watch like 3D or something?
Speaker 2:No, It'll be regular Ray, totally regular Ray, and I'll be sitting there and I'll be like oh my gosh, I am in this plane that's getting hijacked right now.
Speaker 1:I felt like that at a Top Gun Maverick. That was a sick one to see in IMAX.
Speaker 2:I feel like that in everything. That's why I stick to like happy, fun movies.
Speaker 1:But are you a fan of the Ocean's Eleven? I've never seen it. No, Surprise. That's okay. They're pretty cool. They're like Brad Pitt, george Clooney I love George Clooney. They made an all-female cast Ocean's 17th thing like that a couple years ago. The 2025 Oscars nominations have been announced. The 97th award will air on Sunday, march 2nd. It's going to be hosted by talk show and podcast host, conan O'Brien. I fucking love Conan O'Brien.
Speaker 2:I feel like Conan O''brien is very like 90s 90s yeah, wasn't he like big in the 90s? That's when he first like started like his talk show host, but no, he's huge. I feel like if I could punch anyone in the face, it'd be conan.
Speaker 1:I hate that you just said that no, it'd be Conan O'Brien.
Speaker 2:I hate that you just said that no, it'd be that Ben Stiller, ben Stiller, a hundred percent.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, he's one of my favorite humans. He's just a worm guy.
Speaker 2:He's just a worm guy. You know what does that even mean? Exactly Worm guy.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. Conan O'Brien's great. I love his stand-up comedy.
Speaker 2:He's very ginger. Yeah, he's like the most red-headed person you would ever meet in your life. Have you seen the movie?
Speaker 1:sugar and spice?
Speaker 2:I don't think so it's about these cheerleaders that rob a bank, and one of the girls is obsessed with conan o'brien oh, I'm that girl and that's you're that girl, hey girl yeah uh, but like one of that bitch one one of the um scenes in the movie is she's like trying to summon conan o'brien's love, and she's like conan o'brien, conan o'brien and conan o'brien yeah, and she's trying to like manifest like him falling in love with her, and so when you say conan o'brian, that's all I think about he's funny and I think he's hosted uh big award shows like this before and I think he's gonna do a great job.
Speaker 1:There was a very sad story about it that came out. Like this past december, like his, his early december, his mother passed away okay, mother, father, but then, like a few days later, his other parent passed away. So back to back, days later, within a few days of each other, back to back, and the top of those, around the holiday time too, and all that.
Speaker 2:That actually kind of sucks.
Speaker 1:Sorry, conan yeah, yeah, now how you feel I love you, just kidding uh, this might you like horror movies. Gremlin's three is in the works after 35 years. Filmmaker chris columbus has quoted that he's one of the work. He's been working on the script since 2020, and then he's still like to use puppets instead of cgi to be more like the originals oh, I love that idea.
Speaker 2:I love being like the idea of keeping it like classic rather than just like altering it to be like everything else I did uh first grandma's on this podcast.
Speaker 1:You know it was greg. With our friend greg he picked that movie, and, um, that was one of the biggest selling points for me that they use real practical effects. Yeah and uh. Do you think it's gonna work in today's world though?
Speaker 2:I think for the nostalgia. Yes, I think there's people that are still gonna want that.
Speaker 1:But do you think it's gonna look?
Speaker 2:good also, you've seen beetlejuice too, or the new beetlejuice I have how do you feel that felt like I loved that, though I did I did like it.
Speaker 1:It was good I think they're very good job about like, um, keeping the same style as the original. Yeah and I'm kind of hoping it's gonna be this one. I didn't even see the second one. I didn't know there was a second one.
Speaker 2:Honestly, I knew there was a second one, but I think I watched that like in passing. Like most of the things that I watch, it's usually when I'm doing something else. And so I was probably folding laundry or cleaning my house and I was probably in the background or something. Because I only remember bits and pieces of it, I think.
Speaker 1:Do you think you would go to the theaters to see the Gremlins 3?
Speaker 2:I definitely will 100%.
Speaker 1:Ryan Gosling is in the talks to star in Sean Levy's new Star Wars film. If you don't know who sean levy is, he's known for directing movies like deadpool and wolverine, the night at the museum franchise free guy cheaper by the dozen, big fat, liar and real steel.
Speaker 1:This guy is one of my favorite directors, not not so much for like the deadpool wolverine, obviously, but like he's like the adam project, I felt that was one of my favorite movies of that year. That came out, uh, cheaper by the dozen, like that was so nostalgic. That's it not at the museum. I didn't even know it was him I did like.
Speaker 2:Well, you know I don't like night at the museum, for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1:Ben, whatever his name is oh, I was like why? Because you're like, you think that shit's real I'm terrified of museums.
Speaker 2:No, uh, cheaper by the dozen. I loved that as a kid. I watched that like back to back, that and holes. Don't talk to my family about it. They'll literally go on forever about it, about how I was obsessed with both those movies.
Speaker 1:It's embarrassing cheaper by the dozen and holes. Yeah, you know they're.
Speaker 2:I think I mentioned the holes actually the last time we talked, which makes it even more embarrassing you know?
Speaker 1:uh, they're redoing holes as a tv disney plus series oh my gosh yeah, I don't know who's like in talks a star in it. That's gonna be my whole life but I mean it's gonna get like it was, like um shia labeouf was so iconic in that movie yeah, very true yeah, uh, but ryan glasson being a star wars film, you're not a star wars person, are you? During the pandemic I tried, I tried, I did try to.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I watched them in the order I was supposed to, because somebody's like no, you have to watch them like this, and the other person was like no, you need to watch them like this. So that way it's still surprising for you and I just got overwhelmed. So then I was like you know what? I'm not gonna watch them at all I, I'm, I'm kind of with you it's too overwhelming.
Speaker 1:It's like if I tried getting the marvel movies right now yeah it's work, it's really and especially there's so like I don't have I have commitment issues when it comes to series and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:But with relationships.
Speaker 1:But I feel like Star Wars is so popular, like they're well known, that I already know the plots and everything, so I don't really get interested in there.
Speaker 2:And I'm always that girl that's like if this is cool, it's instantly not cool to me, Like that's just how I am, so if everybody likes it, I'm already just like you.
Speaker 1:Like you like star which is probably why you like baby mama so much I loved baby mama.
Speaker 2:Please. It's so good.
Speaker 1:I can't wait to talk about it I wanted to get your opinion about this. Like, um, it ends with us lawsuits blake lively. Uh, have you been keeping up with that?
Speaker 2:no her and her co-star I've heard a lot of stuff about it, though so she sold her.
Speaker 1:She I can't talk.
Speaker 1:She's suing her co-star for sexual harassment on set and stuff like that I thought it honestly making like not crazy allegations but like just allegations of itself, which is enough for america to turn on this guy. But this guy is coming back with receipts saying like no, you were the fucking bitch. And he's countersuing her for the defamation because because of her allegations he got fucking bitch. And he's countersuing her for defamation because of her allegations he got fired from his agency. His company is taking a huge hit and you know he's kind of unhirable right now. But he's coming back with receipts and making her look bad.
Speaker 2:Because I've seen now not that TikTok is the most reliable source, but I've seen like videos of her kind of like directing him in some of their more intimate scenes yeah and like forcing, like, oh, like you know, you should do this, you should do that, you should do this like kind of forcing that kind of intimacy onto her while they're filming and there's, like you know, video of it right, and that's what's confusing to me. It's like how can?
Speaker 1:he's also like flip-floppy to me, dragging ryan reynolds name down there too. He's suing him as well because, like, supposedly, he had a huge hand in writing some of these scenes too, and all that and he's well one. He's messy. It's a huge lawsuit. I mean, I trust me as a movie fan, like I'm loving the tea going on right now oh yeah, um, and but it's just a question like people are like you're just taking the guy's side because he's, you know, you're a guy, or like guys, can't be victims either.
Speaker 1:You know, there's a whole big thing going on with that.
Speaker 2:Just like that johnny depp case exactly with the amber, the amber herd or whatever. Is that her name? I don't even know, so irrelevant but anyway that if that's her name, um like, and it's the same concept. It's just like people are shitty and they're not always girls or they're not always men. It's crazy to me. I followed that for a while, that whole Amber Heard thing.
Speaker 1:I don't even know when that court case is going to start, but I'm looking forward to that court case and I'm looking forward to the Diddy case.
Speaker 2:Oh P Diddy.
Speaker 1:How, like these conspiracy theories that we heard the other day, like, or I told you about the other day, like where these la fires were supposed to be started by diddy?
Speaker 2:yeah, he's just in the, he's just in the field, he's just like lighting stuff on, not him, but like he's in jail, he's been sitting in jail oh yeah, I forgot about that yeah, but I mean that's pretty wild to think about.
Speaker 1:Uh, next update chris brown sues warner brothers for 500 million dollars over the chris brown a history of violence docu-series. Have you seen that docu-series? No, but I love chris I love chris brown too, I hate to say rightfully so he's suing them because I mean, it is his past and and it sucks what happens and it is important to address it. But it seemed kind of random. It seemed like you were just picking a topic that you know is going to get views.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1:Are you going to watch that series at all?
Speaker 2:I would definitely watch it.
Speaker 1:It's out right now 100%. I would watch it that, and Because you're a big documentary person I love documentaries you've seen the jerry springer one, yet no, but that's on my list.
Speaker 2:It's on my um watch later okay, chris, okay, I, uh he.
Speaker 1:We have a co-worker who's obsessed with her and she's called us today, like to make sure we watch the new chris brown music video oh, she didn't call me.
Speaker 2:Maybe that's why I had that missed call from her. Maybe.
Speaker 1:That's probably why Maybe, but I like Chris Brown's music.
Speaker 2:I love Chris Brown. I think he's just very talented. He's just very talented overall.
Speaker 1:But it makes you wonder where a career would be at if that incident didn't happen.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I think it would be way more in the movies and it's hard, because I do very much stand up for abuse, but I also think that there's other things that are involved. There's alcohol, there's drugs and obviously in Hollywood, of course, those things are present and I don't know.
Speaker 1:In my opinion.
Speaker 2:I feel like if Rihanna can kind of move past it and not really mention it and kind of be over it, then I feel like, yeah, didn't they collab on songs after that too? I just feel like if, if the person that took the abuse could be over it, then why are we still talking about?
Speaker 1:I mean, I remember, I remember those images first got released I know they're burned in my brain and I hate it. He fucked her up.
Speaker 2:I literally hate it. What the fuck, chris, come on, yeah, but I wish I wish his uh career. You know he could have a big career I wonder if his music would be any different.
Speaker 1:Turn this around, honestly, he should well, he's gonna get 500 million dollars exactly would you. You know his concerts are well one. They're expensive. But he has that meetup thing. You pay a thousand dollars to take pictures oh yeah, with like people's girlfriends yeah, and various. He's open to most poses too, like if you want grinding on him, they'll do it hell yeah and the guy the boyfriend's always just standing on the side like pissed, pissed as hell yeah, yeah, chris brown and my girl just macking over here would you pay a thousand dollars to meet chris brown like that?
Speaker 1:I'd pay two shush I don't know if I would, maybe three no, I'm just kidding not three maybe three is excessive.
Speaker 2:Two, two and a half game 2800 yeah yeah 29 all right, fine.
Speaker 1:I'd like to see funny poses, like when they do prom poses.
Speaker 2:Oh my god oh yeah, like those old, like hollywood shots. Do you know how these shots?
Speaker 1:is I don't know if they had that out here I kind of thought they would have that for chris brown, though, like it's like a 30 second photo shoot whatever, uh the last update I got for you. National popcorn day was just last week, which means cinemark was doing like bring your own popcorn bucket, we'll fill it up a trash can I people done that.
Speaker 1:I've seen all kinds of things that they're like a um home depot, like fiveon bucket kitchen, where people bring ginormous cookingware Traffic cones. I've seen Someone cut a basketball in half when it was using that. Someone used their Xbox box like the box it came in. It's a fun way to get people in the seats, I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know what? It reminds me of that 7-Eleven thing with the Slurpee.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Very similar.
Speaker 1:Did you do that?
Speaker 2:No, but I one 7-Eleven is far. Where's their 7-Eleven Griffith?
Speaker 1:I guess Griffith is the closest one I know of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm definitely not going to Griffith, for I don't even care if it was the biggest slushie.
Speaker 1:Jeez Slurpee, I'm not doing that that's all I got for Hollywood updates, so now let's go into the first movie, babes, like I said, this movie came out in 2024. I wanted to see this in theaters but it was very selected theaters and the only time to go see it is if you go to Chicago. I think Michigan City is known for showing smaller movies like this, but I also heard Michigan City's movie theater sucks.
Speaker 2:I've heard that too, arec person or you like the portage. Imagine, um, I've been to the portage like once. Um, I really like so amc is out here. There's a lot of cinemark. That's in illinois where my family's at. So whenever we go to the movie theaters it's always cinemark, cinemark is good too, and I do like cinemark a lot. I don't mind AMC, I just feel like AMC is like great value, I think.
Speaker 1:Dollar.
Speaker 2:General. You know, that's what I feel like, Dollar General, so but it's not bad.
Speaker 1:Cinemark is more like Target.
Speaker 2:Cinemark is elite and AMC is like its jealous younger brother or something.
Speaker 1:This movie is Babe, before I get into it. This movie's about lifelong friends, eden and dawn, one single when one and wanting a baby and the other one already a mother, navigate challenges to their bond when eden pursues pregnancy alone after a one-night stand. This movie was directed by pamela pamela alden and written by ilana Glazer. Sorry, written by Ilana Glazer and Josh. I don't even want to try to pronounce this oh god, yeah, so give it to me.
Speaker 2:That's a good idea.
Speaker 1:Josh, we'll go with that. Robin Witts Robinowitz.
Speaker 2:Robinowitz, this is your first time watching this movie.
Speaker 1:I've seen this, like maybe once before. I told you to watch this. What's your is your first time watching this movie? Well, I've seen this, like maybe once before. I told you to watch this. What's your first impression? So you like this movie honestly, I loved it. I thought it was after watching your movie I was like, yeah, she's gonna love this yeah, no, I definitely did.
Speaker 2:I liked it a lot. It kind of reminded me, honestly, it reminded me of baby mama and, like meets, bridesmaids and well, producers made bridesmaids, I was gonna. I was thinking that I was like this is very similar and it had a very like as life goes on kind of theme like it was it? Yes, there was a plot and everything, but it was just like oh, then this happens and this happens, it was.
Speaker 1:It was very enjoyable so movies like this and baby mama and several other movies we can list online, I refer to these as algorithm algorithm movies. Okay, they follow a simple algorithm. You know it's like having predictable plot lines, having popular songs pocket, pocket lines in the movie that makes like, oh, this is kind of relatable and semi-relatable relationships between you and your friends.
Speaker 2:That you know a hundred percent that's.
Speaker 1:These are comfort movies. You know these are movies. This is a perfect movie if you want to come home after a long day of work. You got to do the dishes and make that. Pop it on in the background. Yeah, it's easy plot to follow. You already know what's going to happen at the end. It's. It's a fun watch. I'm not shitting on it it's.
Speaker 2:It's good. I loved it. I really did. I wasn't, I'll be honest with you. I was not expecting to like it as much as I did. I watched it, I think, three times in the span of two weeks just because, oh, I want to make sure I know this really well so I can talk about it. It was just like the first time. Yeah, I was doing my nails when I watched it the first time so it was like here and there, but the second time I was like really into it.
Speaker 2:I was like this is actually really good. And then I watched it a third time also, just to kind of make sure I got everything, and it was very enjoyable.
Speaker 1:It's very well, I mean it's starting and it's relatable, like you said, especially for myself like we're gonna talk about that for real. But ilana, glazer and michelle it's another bad name ilan michelle beauty, but too I don't know that new, isn't it?
Speaker 2:I looked her up earlier because she reminded me of that other girl from bridesmaids um melissa mccarthy no maya rob maya rudolph.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 2:Now you say that and I don't know if it's just because they have similar skin tone with freckles, but no definitely similar humor. Yes, yeah, and deliverance in like their performance, but these two, like, have been friends for over 20 years.
Speaker 1:They said so, which explains their chemistry together in this movie. They're so funny and I you know I could see some of the characters in youtube, so I guess you gotta relate to the bull. Uh, people might know ilana or yeah, ilana glazer, from broad city, rough night, the night more the night before, and party city michelle has been known for always be my, maybe marry me, and survival of the thickest. I don't know what that's about, but it sounds like a hilarious title yeah, big booty bitches, that's what it sounds like big booty bitches big booty bitches this movie was great.
Speaker 1:We're gonna go around some of my favorite plot lines in the movie, but overall it was great. It was easy to follow. Um, I usually say this at the end, like I'm already giving this like a 9 out of 10 I would give it a 9 out of 10.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I probably would, I mean there's. There's some stuff that I would definitely change, but like overall, like it's not meant to be serious, it's supposed to make you laugh yeah, there was a few things like the whole like kid with the 666 stuff, I like I thought it was hilarious, but also I was just like oh, what is this?
Speaker 1:but?
Speaker 2:it was funny, but let's go down.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna list some of my favorite things about this movie. We'll just talk about it. Uh, the movie opens up with a uh have thanksgiving tradition. They go to the movies every thanksgiving together, which I love that I've started that tradition with our friend fernando. We go to christmas and movies um your boyfriend.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just kidding um, but I love that, but it opens up so funny. This is like the michelle's. I don't want to call her by her real name, dawn this is dawn's second. She's pregnant with her second kid there and she gives birth like not in public, but she goes in a labor in public in a very hilarious way, almost in denial, like where she was like this seat's fucking wet and she's like let's move seats. She moves seats three times, like all these seats are fucking wet.
Speaker 2:This theater is gross.
Speaker 1:It's like, oh shit, my water broke. And then she's like, instead of going to the hospital, they go out to eat.
Speaker 2:I mean sometimes. I mean sometimes because that's true.
Speaker 1:They don't let you eat, and so then you're starving and you're like in pain, you're sitting there last hour.
Speaker 2:Sometimes, yeah, and all you want is a cheeseburger, and they won't even let you have that you can have ice chips.
Speaker 1:That's about it, you can speak well to this, because you, because you have to have a child, child I do, and so I got an old baby, a little baby, a little baby. She's cool. I've met her before you know. You talk about her all the time at work.
Speaker 2:She's in a tech talk too yeah, I'm like obsessed with her right now also too. She's cool.
Speaker 1:She's at a great age so I mean, did you have like flashbacks there?
Speaker 2:and this is watching this movie 100 and like it's weird, so like I had my daughter when I was super, super young and so like I didn't know well, I didn't know what the fuck I was doing, but that's anybody that has a baby.
Speaker 2:Nobody knows what the fuck they're doing. It was weird because when it was like for me, my first, it was a lot of stress, a lot of anxiety. Everybody's told me that that goes away, usually with your second Watching it being like, oh yeah, with my first one it was like this we have time, they go to get lunch and she's ordering more pudding or whatever, and like you just think you have so much time because you just don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So it was definitely like relatable and I was, and but also it was much more realistic than some of the other movies that I've watched, like the fact that she was like crawling on the floor. I some of the other movies that I've watched, like the fact that she was like crawling on the floor.
Speaker 1:I was like, yep, I've been there like you know just a lot of it. So, yeah, I mean it's. I mean I kind of related more to eden's part in this one because, like I have best friends who have kids and I was there and you not that you feel left out. You want to be involved as much as possible and then just don't without overbearing. So I mean, yeah, of course I relate to that character as well too. Um, he didn't her first thing. She's a good friend. She's like now that you're not pregnant anymore, you can do all those things like let's go eat sushi.
Speaker 2:She ends up buying like over 200 bucks worth of sushi I was like oh my gosh, how much sushi did you actually buy? Like three full bags worth and maybe I just get cheap sushi. I don't know, my sushi is. Sushi is like I don't know 12 bucks a roll, and it makes me wonder how many rolls you got.
Speaker 1:So she ends up, like you know, not being able to stay because she's not really legally family, so she ends up taking the train ride home. This is probably the most I don't know. I don't want to say unrealistic, but, like most fantasy part of the whole movie, yes, where you meet this significant other, that she met a guy on the train and you?
Speaker 2:could you just so happen to connect so well with him from one stranger on the train, yeah, from the get-go.
Speaker 1:I mean they had great connection, they had great humor together.
Speaker 2:It was that for her. Yeah, it must be nice, right, you know?
Speaker 1:but it was, that was nice to see. You know, that's the fantasy part of it. Like, oh man, like I wish I'm gonna start taking the train now, you know yeah, and they end up not a bad idea and this.
Speaker 2:This does help that this guy was a handsome guy you thought he was handsome you don't like it because he was black no, first off, I very much enjoy dark men. Okay, but um no, I I didn't think he was ugly. I don't even know what eden was. Is she mixed too I? Know, michelle was black no, she was not mixed, because remember in the movie she's like tell me about a black, tell me about being a black mom. And she said well, you're not a black mom you're a mom to a half black baby. Yeah, that's right do you have any advice for being a black mom?
Speaker 1:and she's like you're not just a little jabs like that made this movie so much funnier too yes, yeah, but they're real, like, just very real, like how you would normally joke with your friend exactly, and one of my hot takes about movies um, I'm not a big fan of sex scenes in movies because sometimes you're watching them. No, I'm just kidding but like sometimes you watch them, like why am I watching a grind on this person for like a good?
Speaker 2:seven, eight minutes.
Speaker 1:I just feel like it's kind of cringy, like I'm just kind of like yeah, because you might be watching with your kid or your parents or something like that.
Speaker 2:You know yeah. Or sometimes, like your boyfriend or your girlfriend is just like hey should we do what they're doing? So, it just gets kind of yeah, it's just.
Speaker 1:But I love the way they did in this movie. They didn't really show anything inappropriate, but like it's like a montage of them giggling with each other, you know, feel like you know, just exploring each other. It was done tastefully. I like this a lot and it was so simple.
Speaker 2:It was a little hard. So I don't understand hookup culture at all, like I don't. I don't get it. So it was interesting like watching it, because I don't do hookup culture, so like I could never imagine bringing someone back to my apartment and being like do you want to have sex? Because I kind of want to have sex, like that just is so weird to me, yes, and it was like a conversation. She's like well, I'm on my period and he's just I would. He's a stranger.
Speaker 2:I would never be telling a stranger that, and then being like hey, do you want to see me naked? Because I want to see you naked hey stranger. I definitely want to see you naked.
Speaker 1:That's just weird before that to me. They on the train. They're like I never got came in before and she's like I never came to no one either.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how do you have that? Conversation like they should have been like drunk or something, just to make it just not. So how are you having this conversation, sober?
Speaker 1:so her thing was like, not because they were open about getting tested a lot, but um, her thing was like she didn't want to get pregnant. But like, oh, it's cool, I'm on my period, I can't get pregnant but also stds was that too. But I was like, okay, that doesn't mean he still can't wear a condom.
Speaker 1:Then I mean like I mean, I understand that I have a latex allergy, so I'm never I'm never doing that, unless like sheepskin or something weird, but I'm never doing that and I hate to say it's almost like a one-night stand because it did show very well connection to and that's what kind of bum.
Speaker 2:I wish they would have showed her a little bit more bummed out about it, because I'm proud of. The reason why I don't do one-night stands or hookup culture is because I literally fall in love with somebody like instantly. So I wish that that kind of had like that kind of effect on her a little bit more like you had this great connection before you even had sex with them.
Speaker 2:And then you had sex with them and then you're like, oh wow, this was great, and you let this stranger come in you and you're gonna tell me that you're not like you know. So I wish they would have had it a little bit more. I wish they would have made her a little bit more crazy, to where she's like. Oh my gosh, I'm like she was sad, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2:But, I wanted the heartbreak, you know, and I think it would have been cool to show a little bit of like after she had the baby and like the struggle with that a little bit. That kind of would have been a little cool.
Speaker 1:But yeah, just a little bit of time jump there, but then you deal with what most people are afraid of getting ghosted. Yeah, we'll talk about why should. Literally, you're the ghoster yeah, I'll literally stop I'll make plans. Oh, it sucks.
Speaker 2:I mean that's plans what we're doing when you're picking me up and then, hey, you're still good in three minutes.
Speaker 1:No, You're still good in three minutes.
Speaker 2:Hey, can I pick you up? Hey, am I still picking you up in an hour Silence.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness, I hate that. That was the most relatable part for me. I think it was like getting ghosted and like it's so relatable because, like you're constantly checking your phone.
Speaker 2:You're thinking about them a lot anytime it goes off, I guess. I mean not when I got ghosted, but like when me and the person I would be seeing or talking to if we would stop talking and I knew that it like was on good terms, yeah, so like in my opinion that is, it's just different, like when it happens on the other side.
Speaker 2:So like there'd be times where I'd be talking to like a guy and I'd get really excited about it and then if we mutually stopped talking, then I would be checking my phone like you know, like so if, if I ever heard like a ding or anything like that, I'd be like well, maybe that's him, because usually most of the time I've been there yeah, but I mean as far as like ghosting wise like I, I'm a big. If you don't want to talk to me, trust me, there's other people that will, so I'm good uh, that must be nice.
Speaker 1:Everybody's got that. This guy ghosted her for a good reason yeah, he did, he died. He died like the next day choking on an almond the first giving, yeah, I did get like I 100, thought like they were lying for this guy.
Speaker 2:He's not dead I thought so too, and I really thought it was going to be like an ongoing thing where he would pop up later on yeah, but he's like oh no, I just didn't want to come into work. So I told him I, like you know, I just didn't show up and they thought I died, or something like that, and they kind of like brush past that fact a little bit.
Speaker 1:Like I would like to see her getting confirmation like she didn't meet his family a little bit, or a little family that he had. I would like to see that like. So I can believe it as an audience member too. You know, um, you know, but this is where her best friend really stepped out to the place like I gotta be there with these pregnancy. I thought this movie was gonna be more about her decision to keep the baby or not. Yeah, that's literally one scene.
Speaker 2:She just kind of jumped in. She was like well, I am, it's a tough call. I'm a mommy, I'm gonna be a mama, I'm like oh, mamacita, oh, no, that's too much, that's too much. So I just thought that part was really funny yeah, yeah it's.
Speaker 1:But her friend was kind of disappointed when she heard she was gonna keep the baby.
Speaker 2:It was like bitch, you're not ready to raise a kid by yourself yeah, and I think that just came from a point of knowing, like just uh well, just knowing her friend too, because her friends and she kind of yeah, she kind of seemed like a oddball kind of you know, and nobody wants to raise it. Nobody wants to sign up to raise a kid by themselves, trust me.
Speaker 1:So they do little things. They go to the doctor's appointments like that. The doctor had a for no reason at all. He had the funniest scenes with his hair.
Speaker 2:I loved the doctor. I loved the doctor. He's like, yeah, just ignore the hair. I don't know what it's doing.
Speaker 1:No, one's even talking about your hair. It's a cool moment where the next time you see him bald and he has a weird shaped head and he has a Kangol hat at one point.
Speaker 2:Yes, or you know what? I loved the fact when she was like, I decided to theme my delivery. It's going to be prom. I was like yes, girl, Love that for you.
Speaker 1:If you could pick a theme for your year of pregnancy, what would it be?
Speaker 2:Probably like tie-dye.
Speaker 1:Tie-dye.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it'd be all tie-dye, Tie-dye. Yeah, it'd be all tie-dye theme. We'd all have like flower crowns and we'd all just like sit on the floor and tie-dye all day.
Speaker 1:Would you ever do a home birth? Hell, no, it seems scary, right One.
Speaker 2:I'm deathly afraid of death while giving birth. That's a huge fear of mine. That's probably why I don't have more kids, because I have anxiety yeah, but actually not right now.
Speaker 1:Was your first one, pretty smooth yeah. You're not a person to say it.
Speaker 2:No, my first pregnancy like my pregnancy was so easy. I was never sick. The only thing I didn't eat meat for a long time because it grossed me out, until, like my last trimester and then like the last month.
Speaker 1:These people who like are just being in style the same way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, these people who are just being installed the same way. Yeah, I mean I guess so, but it made me sick the thought of cutting into a chicken breast.
Speaker 1:I was like gross.
Speaker 2:Until I got to eight months, and then all I wanted was McDonald's chicken nuggets. That's all I ate my mom literally got me a $50 gift card just so.
Speaker 1:I could buy. I don't even think that's real meat either. It's not.
Speaker 2:So then it was fine. But no, it was pretty easy, it was, and it wasn't as long Like a lot of people go really far, like 36 hours 40 hours, 42 hours. Mine was 22 hours. I only pushed for like an hour but my epidural didn't work. They were like, hey, you have like a pinched nerve or something when you sit. So I was. I paid thousands of dollars for the epidural and then it didn't even work and I still had to pay for it.
Speaker 2:And I was like, can I return this? Like it didn't even work. Yeah, that's pretty funny, this bunk epidural.
Speaker 1:That's how CEOs get shot.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:Exactly. But I like one of the things I like about this movie it bounces back between the friends a little bit too around her for the pregnancy but also tells the friend side too, like about how she's a a new mom to two babies. Now she struggles with the idea going back to work not the idea, but like she struggles going to work because one of the biggest things like she doesn't have a nanny anymore because her nanny quit on them yeah, because of her demon child and we'll talk about that like the reason that we bring a demon child, like even like volunteers, to babysit them once I know, I love that she was like you know, like just between us
Speaker 1:because I don't know like, well, yeah, you don't have this experience yet, but like, the oldest child gets jealous of the second child and so he's performing backs like I'm the baby. So he's wearing diapers and pretending to be a baby the whole time. Yeah, so he's like you know what, trying to help her friend to make him grow up a little bit. Like you know, if you're a big boy, you watch this r-rated movie with me four years old and not only any r-rated movie.
Speaker 2:It was the exorcist right the omen, the omen and um she what he watches it.
Speaker 1:And then they got a new babysitter. She walks in the bedroom. He's like six, six, six, everywhere upset on crosses. He's speaking in tongues. This kid's fucking four years old.
Speaker 2:Like how impressionable is he so funny?
Speaker 1:and then now you don't gotta deal with that. And then I like her. What's her name? Um dawn, when she goes back to work, she's a dentist. They gave her a cake that, in the shape of that, looks like her face. Oh my god, that looks horrible. But I like that. Like they touched on this topic too, because, like it's not well, her husband was so like nice too. Like I'm going back to work tomorrow you're gonna go back to work, go out with your friend, enjoy yourself. You know, that was very sweet. And that was the night they did actually see in ecstasy and, uh, found out she was pregnant. Um, I think it was mushrooms, mushrooms, yeah, yeah, you're right, sorry, mushrooms. There's also other funny scenes, like when she was pregnant, she's full-on pregnant, eden's pregnant, and they do that photo shoot in her backyard yeah, he's like why is she wearing a mosquito net?
Speaker 1:it's like it's the vision it's trying to look like beyonce her pregnancy photos out there, beyonce, beyonce um how about the scene where you know they're getting frustrated. They're just drawing things out of the front?
Speaker 2:I mean, that looks fun as fuck oh yeah, and I think that you know there's like those rage rooms yeah, yeah, I've always wanted to go to them I would be there's one. I think there's one in crown point I know there's one in cedar lake yeah um, I thought that would like. That would just be like so cool to be able to let out your anger like that. I think a lot of this movie was very relatable and when she broke that pot and she's like that was my favorite pot.
Speaker 2:And then she's like I like that pot and i's like that was my favorite pot. And she's like I like that pot. And I'm like, oh my God, I'd be so pissed if my friend came over and broke one of the pots that I liked.
Speaker 1:I'd be like what the hell Bring it B-Y-O-P.
Speaker 2:Bring your own pot, don't bring mine.
Speaker 1:Um, but this movie also touches on the hard facts. That was kind of I mean, I thought it was going to be a sweet moment. It's like he's going to do the right thing now Cause I think he had another family at this point he's gonna do the right thing and be there for her daughter. He opened it's like I can't do this, like I'm not going to be here for you, Like that was pretty fucking shitty.
Speaker 1:I mean at least it. He even praised her like you came out fucking awesome versus like you know. And the last relatable thing I got on here is like how she's a eden is a yoga teacher out of her apartment and you love yoga, so that's relatable for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm a big yoga guy, so then, um, yes, like uh invites.
Speaker 1:She asked her best friend, I can't do this alone. What if I move in with you guys?
Speaker 2:That is me and my best friend Emily. So.
Speaker 1:I mean, I can just understand where she's coming from to move in. And I can also understand where her friend Dawn's coming from as well. To say no and get mad about it, and they ended up breaking up about it. Mm-hmm, yeah, to say no and get mad about it, and they ended up breaking up about it.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, yeah, I think that is the most relatable, I think, for me Only because I had my daughter super young and my friends didn't start having babies until right now. Well my baby is 16. Or about to be 16 in March. So it is very relatable, and especially because I don't live by my family. So I have relied a lot on my close friends, people that I even became close friends with through work or through school, and to kind of give my kid that kind of family kind of feel.
Speaker 2:Because, I'm not around my family all the time, I can't take a trip down the road and drop her off at my mom's house where my mom will feed her dinner and watch movies with her and play boggle or whatever. You know, I don't have that type of luxury. So my friend, my best friend, Emily, she has been such a provider for that for my kid Like I used to live with Emily when I a couple of years ago, and she would get up in the morning with my daughter and they'd go get donuts and they'd get coffee and they'd do game night every sundays and, but did emily have her own kids?
Speaker 2:not yet, but now she does now she's married with her first baby and it's hard for me because she had always been there for me and julie, and now she has her own husband and her own baby, and so I'm just like, well, I'm just the third parent, and she's just like, but you're not. And I'm like, but I am, you're confused.
Speaker 1:That's exactly what this movie is about, but like but I understand.
Speaker 2:I also understand I'm not being completely naive in that.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I know the boundary, you know but it just lives in this movie like we're. You know, you do have to start that separation with your friends. I talk about this all the time with my therapist and you know even like even in dating.
Speaker 2:You know, like when I was dating my ex-boyfriend, it's like I spent all my time with him and like it was like me, him, my daughter, all the time, and so like even my friends took a back seat. And I just expect that same thing for my best friend, emily, with her having now a baby and a husband.
Speaker 2:So it's just that line that you kind of have naturally kind of fade out into it's just life, yeah but it's hard because then, like my kid was young and you know, grew this attachment almost to these adults and now these adults are having their own stuff and it's like, oh well, where's our family at?
Speaker 1:and it's like it's just me, sorry, it's literally just me, but I mean, that's what makes these movies so relatable and like it makes you feel like okay, like I must be doing something right too, if they're making movies like this.
Speaker 2:Yeah and I mean and it's still a school, like, don't get me wrong, it's not like we stopped friendship or anything like that and still very much have this. It was more like a big family. Now it's just like more like a cousin situation rather that's awesome. Yeah, it is very cool me and emily joke all the time about her. She's like I'll just buy a condo and then you can live on one side and then we'll live on the other side, I'll be sick and then you always have a babysitter.
Speaker 1:My kids old enough and I like to be at home so you guys can go, hang out and do whatever you want yeah, this movie is great, though it was very entertaining, very funny, like if you're watching this for a great plot, like you're not gonna get it. It was very predictable, though I mean it has its flaws, yeah, but, like I said, it's not meant for anything serious. It's meant for, like, something for you to come watch home after work after a long time, hang out nice glass of wine or something like that, you know.
Speaker 1:Or you look for friends night, you know, have your girlfriends over, or you're, you know, or fernando over and you know something like this.
Speaker 2:You're like it's it's girlfriends, or fernando?
Speaker 1:yeah yeah, it's a chill watch. I had a great time watching this. I I wish I watched in theaters, but I think I watched this twice at home now since it came out yeah, I do like it.
Speaker 2:I'll probably watch it again at some point in time in my life. Honestly, I want to give you some recommendations after the episode too.
Speaker 1:Um, but yeah, nine out of ten for me, still with you few all, right now I want to move on to the next movie, which is going to be called. Baby mama came out in 2007, I believe. Uh, your pick of this movie, and I remember when this movie came out it was a huge deal because it's the bomb.
Speaker 1:It's tina fey and amy poehler. They're fresh off of snl doing this movie. Um, this is like the second movie they teamed up on. The first one was mean girls. Obviously they've done many more things together. Uh, sisters is another movie that's been off of this. It was a huge deal because there was so such an iconic comedy duo together yes and they still are.
Speaker 1:They're so funny. They hosted the oscars a couple of times, I believe, or once or something like that, and they're just all so funny, like melissa mccarthy kind of funny, my man rudolph kind of funny.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, I love, I love them together because they just vibe so well, they just bounce off of each other so well and this movie came out like I meant a mistake.
Speaker 1:It's 2008. 2008 was a time to be alive. Yeah, time to be alive. Yeah, trying to be alive, like musically movie-wise.
Speaker 2:Not so much fashion or makeup. Well, you can skip that, but everything else yes 2008.
Speaker 1:I think I was in middle school, maybe freshman year.
Speaker 2:I'm older than you, so so you're like college. So I'm like ancient, I was in the club In the club.
Speaker 1:For those of you who don't know, this movie is about a successful single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby, discovers she's infertile yeah, that's correct, you're right infertile and hires a working class of women to be an unlikely surrogate.
Speaker 1:This movie was directed and written by michael mccurlars, starring tina fey and amy poehler and for those you don't know, who live under a rock, tina fey is known for snl. Well, they're both known for snl. Uh 30 rock sisters, mean girls, date night and mega mind. Amy poehler is also known for parks and recreation inside out and blades of glory. Out of the two, who's your favorite? Oh no, probably amy there's so yeah, I was a picture of amy person.
Speaker 2:There's so different it's just because she's so almost electric, yeah, and um.
Speaker 1:Tina faye plays more the straight woman.
Speaker 2:That she's funny because like it's more like dry a little bit, but not dry like john mulaney.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, not as dry as john eleni yeah, uh, this is my first time watching it. Like I said, it was a big deal when it came out. I loved it. I I didn't hate this, I did. It was very well because, like nothing in 2008 is the same as watching for the first. If I watch this in 2008, I think this is the funniest fucking movie ever.
Speaker 2:I'm just living in 2008 and that's why I'm just like I love it. It's still very relevant.
Speaker 1:I mean like there's so many comedy movies just 2008,. And that's why I'm just like I love it. It's still very relevant. I mean, there's so many comedy movies just like this and that's why I'm kind of over it. It was entertaining.
Speaker 2:Well, now there is. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Babes is way more funny than this one, I think. But Baby Mama. I have some of my favorite plot lines here that I will go over.
Speaker 2:I love this movie is like easily my top like three favorite what's about a 37 year old woman?
Speaker 1:it played by tina fey. She is always one of the kid in my mind, like just because I'm with stages, I'm 28 right now.
Speaker 2:Like in my mind. I was like bitch.
Speaker 1:You're killing it in your career. Why would you want to like she's? She's so successful she's played a hundred thousand dollars for the surrogate.
Speaker 2:I don't know how much it costs in real life, if that's accurate or not, but I think between like 60 to like 100 probably, I would guess I actually know a girl who did that. I actually know two girls who's done that I mean, that is a business choice that's so hard on your body, though, like and to go through all that and not even be able to keep it that's.
Speaker 2:That's the tough part but like some people, they just some people don't want kids you know, some people would rather have the experience of being pregnant and then just have that and then to be like here you go, here's your bonnet something like that get cooked. No, I think I would get way too attached. I also don't think I would be able to um have sex with somebody else's baby inside of me. I feel like that would weird me out. I'd be like I'm essentially putting your baby at risk on top of that she had the surrogate angie.
Speaker 1:She had a boyfriend too. Like I, I as something like a man, like I don't know if I would feel comfortable with my spouse carrying another person's child, like that too, you know that's weird it's great.
Speaker 2:I think it's beautiful. I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 1:I think people who are able to do that hell yeah it's great and you know it gives opportunities for people can't have their own kids too, because she, because then it is yours.
Speaker 2:You know, honestly, when I was with um, my ex-boyfriend, I didn't want. He wanted kids and I didn't want to have them. I was like I don't want to have them, but if we implant my eggs into somebody else I'd be down for that. Somebody else can carry my kids, I know. And then I looked at that's how I know how much it is, because I was like oh, I would adopt, I would hella adopt. I, I want to foster so bad.
Speaker 1:You'd be good foster mom so bad.
Speaker 2:Because I think it'd be hard to give them back. But I feel like a lot of kids that I have in my life.
Speaker 1:I'm in their lives because of their shitty parents, I can see you working with your aunts. Why is he not a teacher or something like that? I used to be a preschool teacher, yeah.
Speaker 2:But that was fun.
Speaker 1:And then he decided to go babysit grownups in a bar, but that was fun. And then he decided to go babysit grownups in a bar.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, you know, but this movie is so funny with that. It was like that, like the doctor, like when she would find out she's infertile. Like I just don't like your uterus.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:He said like several times I mean this movie had a lot of sci-fi Hallmark movie background music, you know like to make it. That's what kind of killed it. For me was that music ah what do you mean?
Speaker 2:you didn't love the music.
Speaker 1:It was very, but it was in the time era I mean they had like a lot of like pop 2008 songs that came out in the time. I mean that's what made it big back then. I feel like more like pop, more cooler. I feel like but now that, like we're in 2025, like it's more of a throwback, like a like a nostalgic thing, yeah um, actually I didn't know dax shepherd in this movie.
Speaker 1:I'm a huge dax shepherd fan. I'm not a fan of his character in this movie because I felt like he didn't kind of a douchebag he's a douchebag, but like the way he played him, I felt like was um, just not. I could totally tell you to play the character yeah versus like I didn't buy it at all. I mean, you ever seen, um not utopia with, uh, luke wilson and they go in the future and the future is dumb as fuck.
Speaker 2:Anyway, he plays like a dumbass in that, in that movie I don't know why I just thought of hot tub time machine I just watched that like not too long ago too.
Speaker 1:But uh, I I dag shepherd. I'm a huge fan of him. He has a great podcast out there right now too. Um, he's jack now. Have you seen him lately?
Speaker 2:no, he's, I love him, so I would like so funny I would also like to see him jacked he's.
Speaker 1:He's hilarious, he's a great guy. I like seeing him. I like seeing him in serious roles too. He was in in a movie with Robert Downey Jr a few years ago called, I think, the Judge, where he plays a lawyer. He plays a lawyer from Valparaiso here.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's interesting yeah.
Speaker 1:It was pretty interesting. I'll put you on that movie later, but Dad Shepard is great. I think he's awesome. When I think Dad Shepard, I think of let's Go to Prison.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:No, that's how I introduced him. He plays this guy with Will Arnett. That's another episode.
Speaker 2:This movie is predictable as hell, though, whatever.
Speaker 1:I knew after the first visit she didn't even take the Tina Fey to the first doctor visit. She's not pregnant, I already knew it. Well, yeah, I think it's meant for you to know though and as soon as she met that guy from the juice bar, I already knew she's gonna get pregnant at the end well, no surprises there, I guess, but the humor was there the humor was there I mean so?
Speaker 1:funny. I'm a big fan of the her, the jamba juice guy, greg kilner, greg keener. He's a very famous actor but he's also a bigger voice actor too. But his, his, his character is such a douchebag, like it was a predictable rom-com kind of guy yeah, no, I'll give you that there was like a whole big like town meeting, like they were upset with her, like oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:And he interrupts her hey he goes like did you ever get that apartment? Like in a room full of people, I was like what the fuck are you doing? You know that was he. He owns a juice bar in this movie, but originally it was supposed to be a tea kind of place, like a tea bar, but they the whole crew thought the jamba juice was gonna be funnier, which it was. I can't imagine being a grown-ass adult owning a juice bar.
Speaker 2:I would love that.
Speaker 1:And I would have plants everywhere.
Speaker 2:Plants and juice, plants and juice, and I'd make my own juice, and then maybe there would be a Bloody Mary bar, because that's all Bloody Mary is. It's just juice.
Speaker 1:I guess and liquor. How about the scenes? There's another, like how the doctor was a funny scene of babes movie. I think the funny one with this was like the teacher who had like the little baby voice or whatever.
Speaker 2:Yes, the is, it wasn't a list?
Speaker 1:it wasn't a list, she's just.
Speaker 2:It's like a speech impediment it wasn't she couldn't say her r's or w's and like to drug your baby? Yeah, that would be me. How many of you guys prefer to selfishly twug your baby?
Speaker 1:now that's. I mean that's a hot topic, but you know, getting she's like guilting you, she was guilting them a hundred percent.
Speaker 2:But you know what people are weird like that people like women have such like weird standards for other women and how they take care of their babies they try connecting that with a problem like down syndrome and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um now, which is impossible say you were one of the surrogate and you met this person and it ends up being someone like angie, I mean. Now, how would you?
Speaker 2:know, because first off, she's crazy, honestly, but this is what makes it so funny is because I would never have a surrogate come to my house and then be like, yeah, I can read people's auras and she's, and she's standing in the sunset. She's like it's like a sunset, it's like a sunsetty color and it's like she's standing in front of the sunset.
Speaker 1:You're only saying that because she's in front of the sunset so just kind of like, invites herself to move into her house too yeah, I thought that was a little, a little extra, but she was all for it you know she was taking care of her like it was her own, like baby which is so sweet like she bought her groceries and everything like that too, oh, yeah, red bull yeah, just you know when she was lying.
Speaker 2:I thought that was a funny scene, like did you put this gum under my coffee table? No no, maybe you put it under there. There's like 50 pieces of gum under there her face when she looks underneath it. She's like she goes to look and she's like it's so funny. Yeah, literally my favorite. Literally, that's just.
Speaker 1:I don't know, maybe you stuck some under there um, but there is a point in this movie where they are starting to become friends a little bit because they're so close together and they do go to a club and they do. She ends well. First I didn't even talk about, like the for opening scene where tina fey's on a date with a guy and she meant she opens up already about wanting kids yeah, like almost instantly the guy dips.
Speaker 1:He makes eye contact with her as he's getting in the cab that's why you just gotta trap him and I think he that was the same guy at the club right, or something like that. Somebody cheated on her or something. Oh no, wasn't she married before and she got cheated on? Yeah, and they found her car, the guy's car and amy poehler grabs the fucking trash can like the hulk and smashes against the back window see.
Speaker 2:This movie is so like low-key.
Speaker 1:You want toxic friends like that, though that's. That's a little bit spicy life that's.
Speaker 2:I'm torn between that all the time. It's like, oh, do I want to be healthy or do I want to be toxic? Because I used to be real toxic you get and then I kind of like grew out of it. Whatever you grew out of it, I grew out of it Whatever you grew out of it. I grew out of it.
Speaker 1:In the past, like two months.
Speaker 2:And like I still very much have the thoughts I'll be like man, I'll show up at that place right now. And then I'm like no, that's crazy, I sound crazy. I need to chill. I hate that. I hate that voice. Now that I have that talks me out of the things I definitely want to do and I'm like fine, I think everyone has.
Speaker 1:Those are called impulsive, intrusive thoughts. Um, hate it. But there is a scene, obviously, where amy puller fesses up not being pregnant. They go to court over it. The whole court scene was ridiculous. She just watched true crime tv and like thought how the top court works. And they find out because she is pregnant.
Speaker 2:Really yeah, because she's like I, you're not going to see a baby in there. And they're like there it is.
Speaker 1:And she's like, holy shit, there's a baby in there, yeah, and it ends up being Dax Shepard's doll.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:But there was a small chance, it could have been Tina Fey's baby's doll. And then I wrote this down on my notes Like she finds out she was Tina, you're not the mother, and she cries. She runs out the courtroom. I was like I wrote down like can you run out of your court session like that?
Speaker 2:wasn't the end of it, you know. No, I think you have to be dismissed, right it's like no one stopped her is this in reality no, yeah, and uh, when?
Speaker 1:well, first of all, going back to when amy polifantos, she was pregnant, the doc goes oh no, no, not amy polifantos, tina fey, at the end she's you're, and he just walks out the room. I was like I think she would have questions yeah, probably. And the last note there that I thought was funny Tina Fey's boss. I loved as an older woman she was kind of judging her for like why are? You having a baby this late in life, and she's also pregnant.
Speaker 2:At the end of the movie you find out she gave birth to twins.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, after she was talented to fail like oh no, that was, that was the surrogacy agent. Oh, the boss is, uh, that one guy from cheaper by the dozen. Okay, oh, steve martin, duh yeah, yeah, and he's like.
Speaker 2:You've just earned five minutes of uninterrupted eye contact and they just stare at each other.
Speaker 1:I'm like she was an oddball, like he said. I loved it. I would love a boss like that. No, he was like a guy could you imagine? He was sitting down on the table in the conference. He's like join me up here. I'm wearing a skirt. It's like no one look, it's okay so funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, she's like. Yeah, when the girl at the agency she's like oh yes, I'm expecting, and she's like you're so old and then she gets twins at the end she's like yes, it's twins, so nonchalant.
Speaker 1:This movie was cute and it was charming and I'm sure if I watched it 2008 I would have thought it's way cooler. It's the best am I gonna watch this anytime soon again?
Speaker 2:probably not I like watch this going to bed for like six years straight.
Speaker 1:I want to say I could totally see that. It's a comfort movie like that. It totally is. Would you like to see something like this remade? Not like exactly the same movie, but like a same scenario? Yeah, I would who would you pick to be the two women, the straight woman and the me?
Speaker 2:no, I'm just kidding, um, probably, um, probably. That one girl, that one blonde girl from bridesmaids, the main character I know you're talking about I don't know her name. I don't know any names you know in this movie, baby mama.
Speaker 1:A lot of the extras are. You know, people are smaller, they're snl castmates too, yeah, and I feel like that's very within the sequence of this is like the higher, it's like they stick together.
Speaker 2:It's like when adam sandler does a movie yeah, exactly, and it's like all of his friends, it's very.
Speaker 1:If they were to make this movie right now, you know who would be doing it sydney sweeney and jenna ortega yeah, but in my head jenna ortega is still a baby 16, yeah in my head she's just a little infant child dude there's this movie jenna ortega came out last year.
Speaker 1:it did gotten zero love because it's a weird scenario. Martin Freeman, his older actor, he's great and everything right. He plays a professor and they end up dating. It's weird and there's sex scenes and everything like that. It didn't get no love because it's like that. It makes you cringe.
Speaker 2:Ew how old was she.
Speaker 1:This was just last year it came out.
Speaker 2:Oh, she was like 19.
Speaker 1:I don't know how old is she now.
Speaker 2:She's in her 20s. Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I told you in my head she's 16. Yeah, she has a new movie coming out with Paul Rudd pretty soon.
Speaker 2:I just started re-watching you.
Speaker 1:It's a good show. Oh, that's right, she is in.
Speaker 2:You. I forgot about that's all I can see.
Speaker 1:Here is 15 year old Ellie the 15 because I just started watching you like a couple, like over the weekend.
Speaker 2:I just restarted watching it because the fourth season's coming out, and so now that's all I can see right now.
Speaker 1:When you with uh Elizabeth Olsen we talked about.
Speaker 2:I'm excited for that oh, I'm so excited for it, but I'm a little I'm nervous because I'm re-watching it. So that way when the fourth season comes out I'm prepared. But I really love the first and second season. I didn't really crazy get into the third one, so I'm hoping maybe this time around I could really watch it and I'll get into it. And then I'll be like oh okay, because where else can you really go with this series? You know?
Speaker 1:right, right. Go back to being honest. What would you give one out of ten?
Speaker 2:be honest yourself 10 easily, easily a 10 easily 10. I would give it like a 7, 7.5 no, I will. Okay, realistically, I do think I probably would give babes a 10 and baby mama like a 9.5, but I think for me it's just the attachment I have to the movie and that's why I want to say 10, which is why I want to, as far as casting acting plot. Yeah, those are my real numbers. Okay, babes. 10 yeah you're sitting on a remote.
Speaker 1:You're sitting there, just hit the middle button.
Speaker 2:Um, these are great remote two Fernando zero yeah these are great movies.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna suggest you're watching it like, especially if it's a hard day at work. You just wanna come home relaxed, put on a glass of wine, something like that. Put this movie on. You have a great night.
Speaker 2:You end up chilling and honestly, even if, like if I was I'm really into coloring right now.
Speaker 1:I got a coloring book in the closet.
Speaker 2:I'm really into coloring right now.
Speaker 1:Like.
Speaker 2:I've been watching coloring TikTok a lot with like the acrylic markers. I want acrylic markers, so bad. That's on my birthday wish list right now.
Speaker 1:I'll link it in the bio, if anyone wants to. Yeah, I'll link it in the bio.
Speaker 2:If you want to click right here. But that's what I'm into and I would recommend this for anybody who, like, wants to sit and, like, maybe do a craft, if you like puzzles like I said, it's algorithmic when I did my nails like it was the perfect movie to just sit and do that, because again you can kind of zone in and out. You're not going to really miss too much when you do that because there's so much little small scenarios that don't affect the plot if you miss out on them.
Speaker 2:It's just extra funny if you get to see them For those listening.
Speaker 1:I'm going to add a new segment to the show now. For those listening who really like these movies that we talked about or are interested in talking about these movies that we talked about, I have a couple suggestions that you might want to go along with it. You might have seen this too.
Speaker 2:But Juno? Oh, I've seen seen juno, but I don't remember juno juno was more about the fact of like teenager dealing with pregnancy?
Speaker 1:yeah, dealing with pregnancy versus like dealing with pregnancy and your boyfriend's dead. Yeah, uh, knocked up with seth rogan oh, I love knocked up always be my maybe. It's a Netflix original. It came out a couple years ago. That was actually in the second or third episode of this podcast.
Speaker 2:Who's?
Speaker 1:in that I know her name. Randall Park is the main man I'm going to get. So much shit I can't remember her name. It's Asian comedian.
Speaker 2:Ali Wong, ali Wong. Okay, that's what I thought, lady, and santa ellie wong, ellie wong okay that's what I thought.
Speaker 1:I love ellie wong, and you know who is. Um michelle the the eden, is that her name for the first movie babes? She's in there too. I've never seen?
Speaker 2:oh, maybe I did see that movie.
Speaker 1:I love ellie wong you would love that movie it's surprising that I didn't see it.
Speaker 2:I think I had it on my wish list to watch, but I don't think I watched it uh, bad moms, mila kunis oh I don't know if I think I've attempted to watch that movie. I always put on movies when I go to sleep, but that they put me to sleep. So I think right now my comfort movie.
Speaker 1:To go to sleep is to the office, it's the show I've never seen the office that's a shame. Um, so those are anyone who, like you, know movies similar to these ones that you might like. Now, I do have two suggestions for you, because you're a big documentary series. Um, these are both on netflix, right?
Speaker 2:now have I seen them no, I don't know.
Speaker 1:We haven't talked about if you have the tinder swindler oh, I did start watching that that one was pretty fucking good. It's about for those you want to watch it it's about, like this man who scams these women to falling in love with them and then he starts taking money from them and then you know it never returns their cause and he does.
Speaker 2:Basically it's me, but in a male form, exactly she's. She's out for your money. I'm a con artist and this one is.
Speaker 1:I think this one's based in indiana too. It's called our father, oh, the sperm donor doctor. Who? Who claims to be helping this woman by getting them pregnant with their they think they're getting pregnant with their spouse and it's actually his sperm, and this guy has like hundreds of kids I heard about that and they're like it's sick, he's has all these kids or whatever, and he wants to keep having more kids, right is this?
Speaker 2:I think that's the same one I'm thinking about I didn't I didn't watch that one it's.
Speaker 1:It's interesting. I haven't watched it yet.
Speaker 2:It's interesting I watch a lot of murder ones yeah, we'll give some suggestions to the crowd um dang it, I wasn't prepared for this no, no, no. There's like um the lacey peterson one, that one's really good. Okay, there's one that is about um, this psycho girl, and she actually kills her kids. Her kids go missing and her mom lauren, what's her name?
Speaker 2:go ahead I don't, I don't know, but it's, it's so good and she like. So her two youngest ones go missing and she ended up like killing them or whatever, and her oldest one knows about it and so like there's clips of her in jail and his, her oldest, calling her and it's like how could you do this and you know whatever?
Speaker 2:And she's like you know, I didn't do this. And he's like no, like you are legitimately insane. So that one's really good. There's one that I just watched that's really good too. Or Bad Roommate. Or my crazy roommate and my crazy ex or something like that, my super crazy ex or whatever it's called.
Speaker 1:I've seen the roommate one.
Speaker 2:That one was a good one, the crazy, ex one is insane, the roommate one is good too. Because it's weird to me that people can be crazy like that with other people and not have a romantic relationship.
Speaker 1:But people be crazy out here. So bitches, be crazy. I love the tea, I love the toxic, that's why I like that stuff, yeah, you would yeah, I'm a tourist, that's why. Well, thank you, amanda for coming on the podcast explains a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it was a good episode.
Speaker 1:I like these two movies a lot and I'm probably I feel like they meshed so well.
Speaker 2:They did unintentionally too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, unintentionally yeah there's a theme there, and then you know also your mom too, so that helps, um, but thank you for coming on. It was a great episode. I was supposed to be wolf, werewolf, wolfman, I think it's called, but that's gonna be end up being next episode now, so stay tuned for that if you want to listen to it. Um, thank you for ever listening again. Thank you so much, amanda, coming on, we'll have you on again in the summer. Uh, oh yeah, I didn't ask you. Is there any movies you're looking forward to come out this year that you know of?
Speaker 2:that I know of. No, I've actually been really out of the loop lately.
Speaker 1:I've been really out of the loop any new albums you're looking forward to come out?
Speaker 2:I've been working on my fitness. You know killing it I've been doing. I've also been trying to be more present, like with my friends and with my family and things. So I haven't really spent a lot of time like on my phone even and I don't really have tv, so I'm out of the loop with a lot of things. Right now it's okay, and you know, tiktok going down for that whole seven hours really tied me in a bind, so yeah, well, it's january too.
Speaker 1:It's a slow month for content coming out right now with the movies and television, and I think we're just all over winter, like I'm just ready for some sunlight it's gonna be a great year like I started all the year with a bang. It's gonna be nothing but up from here yep, you right well, thank you for everyone listening. Uh, subscribe to the instagram page and, um, I'm gonna work on getting youtube soon, so keep an eye out for that. Uh, stay tuned next week where we see, when you see.
Speaker 2:Thank you so so, so so Outro Music
