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Two Noras and a Mic
Rom Coms
This week’s tales weave through the joys and trials of balancing family life and finances, all while sipping tea and humorously debunking the mysteries of tea bags. Whether it's celebrating victories on our kids' sports teams or anticipating a blissfully uneventful weekend, there’s something for everyone in this lively conversation.
Fashion enthusiasts and bookworms alike will appreciate our playful exploration of quirky trends, from the nostalgic delight of shamrock shakes to the bizarre world of furry nails. Ever pondered the charm of book bars like Gulp Fiction, where you can sip and read? We’ve got you covered. Our musings also touch on seasonal lifestyle trends like "rot girl winter" and "feral summer," questioning their role in our lives with a dose of humor and homemade Bailey's milkshakes.
Rom-com lovers, this one's for you! We're diving into the heart of romantic comedies, from classics like "You've Got Mail" and "Pretty Woman" to modern gems. We reminisce about TV couples that captured our hearts, while also grappling with the realities of summer planning and household chaos. With discussions on everything from soundtracks to the occasional surprise in family-friendly films, we invite you to join our journey down memory lane and share your favorite rom-coms for our next watchlist.
Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora and Nora, are you the silly one?
Speaker 2:Don't do that because honestly, in my head I was like I'm not going to fall for it this week. When she says welcome back, I'm not going to say anything because I know she's not talking to me. She's talking to the listeners.
Speaker 1:To those tuning in for the very first time and to those who return back week after week for more welcome. We're glad you're here. We are and glad you're here. Thank you for having me, You're welcome and thank you for lunch.
Speaker 2:You're welcome. You treated me to lunch. That was very kind.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Nora. Well, I owed you because you treated last week to lunch and now everyone knows we do better on the podcast, when on a full belly, yeah, don't you think? Everyone knows we take turns. Our finances are very balanced, yeah.
Speaker 2:One Nora's not pulling the other. It's very equal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've had a full day before we sat down and hit record. We got all of our sillies out. We got all our giggles out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all of our news, but we saved a little bit for the podcast, wouldn't it be great if we were like and that's our podcast, but what have you been up to? I had the best weekend ever. I was a little jealous, oh my gosh. Well, it was crazy because at last we recorded two of my children had strep and the flu.
Speaker 2:And and the flu and you were good, but you were worried that maybe you were going to catch it Because you know you look at your two sick kiddos and they were sick. I don't know if anyone else's children have had the flu this year, but it's brutal. It just knocked them out and they were sick and hurting and crying. It was ugly and I was supposed to leave Thursday morning on the train and go to St Louis and meet my college friends. But then on Wednesday afternoon when my kids were so sick, I was like I can't go. It's hard to leave sick kids and my husband was very nice, he's like you could go. I got this and then I was like they're sick. We have two other kids who are not sick and then, even if like all the makeup work, all the school work and I was like I don't want to go and then come back to just disaster.
Speaker 1:Everything that goes along with being sick.
Speaker 2:Yes, all the kind of like the stuff that piles up and I really didn't think I was going to get to go. But I ended up pushing it back a day and thank God for strep medicine and they made a turnaround and they were able to go to school on Friday. So I was able to go on Friday and I had the best time.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm so happy you had a chance.
Speaker 2:There were 16 out of 20 of us who made it.
Speaker 1:That was a good turnout.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was so great. And four fifths Wow, look at you, math star.
Speaker 1:That's impressive 80 percent Sure. Not the math, Nora, oh math star.
Speaker 2:That's impressive 80%.
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 2:Not the math, nora, and if I am the group trouble Carry on. But you and I talked a little bit about it when I got back. But something about being with people who kind of know me as Nora Ryan and not as like, oh, eden's mom, or oh, we have kids in the same grade, like it just it was like good for my soul and it was like a reset and we just laughed until we cried Dayton beats slow, so that was also really nice and, yeah, it was, it was awesome and you were a rock star because you returned home and then went right to rehearsal for the musical.
Speaker 1:I did.
Speaker 2:I stayed. It wasn't a wild night, but it was a late night, Like I probably didn't go to bed till 2, but then I'd be up at 5. Do you do better?
Speaker 1:I crashed hard, though Do you do better staying up super, super late without the cocktails, or do you do better having a bunch of cocktails and going to bed early?
Speaker 2:Staying up late without cocktails.
Speaker 1:And I'm the opposite.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Like I would do so much better if we went hard in the paint until like 8.30. Okay, versus if I had to stay up till 2.
Speaker 2:Okay, huh, yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, how about you? It was business as usual around here yeah. Lots and lots of games.
Speaker 2:How are your kids' teams doing? Are people happy with their teams? Mostly.
Speaker 1:Mostly yeah. We've got a lot to celebrate and a few challenges along the way, and that's about it from the sports world. I'm trying to think what we did. It was quiet over here which was nice. Yeah, that has to be good, we don't often get that, and when we do, we try to appreciate it best we can.
Speaker 2:We have a quiet weekend coming up and I almost feel like I jinxed myself by saying it out loud that now something's going to be like, now we're going to be busy.
Speaker 1:all of a sudden, we have a Super Bowl and we have the day off on Friday.
Speaker 2:Super Bowl. Yeah, that is nice. Yeah, I am very excited because you gave me a hot tip on some iced tea that doesn't cost a million dollars. Good, and it arrived today.
Speaker 1:Have you tried it? I haven't made it.
Speaker 2:It's still in its leaf form, but I you want the leaves in the bag. I don't think you ordered correctly. It's leaves, isn't it? Leaves In the tea bags, like real live leaves, oh, like the tea leaves chopped up in the tea bags.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that what that is.
Speaker 2:Those are leaves. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:What did you think was in there? I don't know Crumbs, tea crumbs, tea, crumbs.
Speaker 2:Those are leaves. Those are leaves. How did they flee from? Well, they are grown. That's why you have the different kind of tea. So it's made from leaves. How do they flavor? Well, they are grown. That's why you have the different kind of tea.
Speaker 1:So it's made from leaves. There's a passion fruit tree.
Speaker 2:Well, there might be some flavoring involved in that.
Speaker 1:I mean, does it make calories?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know it comes from a black tea tree. Well leaves, yeah, tea leaves it's made from plants, but they're on a tree, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then they pull the leaves off the tree, chop them up and put them in a bag and we boil them.
Speaker 2:Yes, ma'am For centuries.
Speaker 1:That's how it's been done.
Speaker 2:Who would have thought so? Black tea, which is my fave, comes from the Melaleuca bractita, commonly known as the black tea tree, and it's in the myrtle family and it's native to Australia. It's a large shrub. Get out of here, Hooray, for that, because, wait, you really didn't know that tea was from leaves.
Speaker 1:I thought it was from tea. I mean, I don't know, I don't know, you just never thought about it.
Speaker 2:I think if somebody was like where does tea come from you? Wouldn't be like the river of tea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I didn't know that those leaves chopped up. I thought it was like spices.
Speaker 2:Well, there are some teas have spices in them, but yeah, it's leaves. That'll get you. You learned something new every day.
Speaker 1:See, look at that I do want to ask you, speaking of drinks, what you think about a shamrock shake.
Speaker 2:Oof, I don't think much of it.
Speaker 1:You haven't thought about it a lot. I'm not a fan. I will make my own shamrock shakes Well you used to make a Bailey's shake, didn't you?
Speaker 2:I was talking about that with my friend Margie, who was with me when I kind of had my little rock bottom because she gave to visit London. She's like, yeah, weren't you drinking milkshakes? I'm like, oh, bailey's milkshakes, and she and I just got over surgery. We're prank calling people from london in the united states.
Speaker 1:Well, for those of you that think highly of the shamrock, shake it's back february the 10th okay, and you can also order a mint chocolate mcflurry which is like that, I bet is really good yeah, because the shamrock, do you like it doesn't?
Speaker 2:it has a funny taste. That's the chemicals. Oh, that's the chemicals gotcha. I like to just make milkshakes and put green food coloring in it and mint flavor, no, just grease. But I would, I would, I do like mint chocolate chip. That would be nice, that would be a really good flurry, that would be great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, well, maybe we'll try that. I also had a question for you. Oh sure, do you know the word in the English dictionary that has the most definitions? What's a thinker?
Speaker 2:I'm trying not to look at your notes.
Speaker 1:Well, I was thinking you might know this, because it's kind of like trivia-ish, oh gosh, and I didn't want to put you on the spot. Your brain is just so smart that I thought you might know this?
Speaker 2:I don't know, it's filled up with a lot of all the songs at the moment is it running right now? Is that the word running? Run what? Oh, look at you and you're a runner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's originally it was set in 1928, but then it was replaced by Run. That's cool, but I started thinking about it. I mean just briefly, I didn't look it up and I wasn't trying to like fact check it, but I was surprised by Run.
Speaker 2:That makes sense Like your refrigerator. Runs means it's working. Let the water run, let it flow. You have a run in your pantyhose.
Speaker 1:Look at you. You run around.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now I have that song in my head, that Norris Barkley song.
Speaker 1:Let's do a run through, run, run around hey.
Speaker 2:Do you know that song?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Yeah, run through, wow. So there you have it. There you go Run DMC. Yeah.
Speaker 1:That was number 17. Have you heard of this new trend, nora, called furry nails?
Speaker 2:Ew, it sounds like they have mold on them. Yeah, that's what it looks like and I will say the picture that they first show. I gagged a little bit. What is the fur?
Speaker 1:made out of oh wait.
Speaker 2:Well, the first picture was this woman with like feathers on them, which is disgusting. It looks like raccoon tails.
Speaker 1:Oh, gross it looks like a peacock.
Speaker 2:Actually Don't appreciate that, no, but really it almost looks like you put sand on them. Oh, those look cute. They look like fuzzy sweaters. She's holding a little tiny teacup. It's weird.
Speaker 1:It almost looks like. It looks like sand art it looks like it's sand art.
Speaker 2:It also looks like your nails were wet and then you brushed up against someone's sweater and it got stuck on your nails.
Speaker 1:I just don't think I have the patience to sit there and let someone.
Speaker 2:Oh okay, hurry your nails. She put pom-poms on Some people. It looks like they glued like yeah, fuzz balls, little puff balls on there.
Speaker 1:That doesn't seem very sanitary Because Like, yeah, fuzz balls, little puff balls on there, that doesn't seem very sanitary.
Speaker 2:Because think about if you take a shower or wash your hands. Well, that's what this article said Like people are worried if they start to smell In, like if.
Speaker 1:These are cute, these are really cute.
Speaker 2:This isn't fur. I don't know if that's furry or not but it looks like a sweater. Looks like a cable knit sweater. I do not have the attention span to sit and get my nails painted normally, let alone anything extravagant, and also I just feel like that's lighting money on fire. How long is that going to last? And that's got to cost at least $75.
Speaker 1:I just wonder what kind of supplies.
Speaker 2:You need flocking powder. That's what this is and this article was like it's flocking powder. I was like, at flocking powder, I was like which is? I do you know what? That is what the flock fuck you.
Speaker 1:No, I don't know. I don't know. I was like, well, maybe nora knows what that is. No, I don't know what flocking is, but if you need me, I'll be at this other trend that's on the rise oh, book bars, book, what. Can you go and read and have a drink? Yes, yes, there's a famous one in Oxford. Oh, it has the best name. What is it? Gulp Fiction. Gulp Fiction. These pictures were so charming. Can we go there? Yes, I would love to go and have a couple drinks. Is there one in Chicago? Not that I found. No, maybe I didn't look hard. Could we start? We could? Do you have to bring your own book? No, a bookstore and a bar? Yeah, isn't that so cute? That is cute, I know.
Speaker 2:That's a good reason to leave your house and not participate in rock girl winter. Oh, is that like rotting in bed. Yes, don't like like that, is it a hot girl summer yeah, or a feral summer, I think this one oh yeah, they were like wild right I just don't think that's something to aspire to.
Speaker 1:No again smelly I draw the line at hercule, jerkle, hercule jerkle, but don't rot. No, don't rot, Yikes, all these crazy trends. And also I don't think laying in your bed is a trend. No, it's called lazy, again lazy. Yeah, it's called lazy. So stop trying to put a trend on it. People Right, I did have a question there. You go On the Googles. Are you going to tell us what it is? Because I wonder why the Super Bowl was on Sundays and why they won't just change it to Saturday. Oh, I know.
Speaker 1:Because, in preparation for this upcoming weekend, I was, you know, trying to get all my ducks in a row, and it's all about money, because people are more available on Sundays To sit at home and watch TV Than they are on Saturdays. But then to that I thought well, if people got accustomed to Super Bowl Saturday, then they would start being available.
Speaker 2:Because our kids' driver's ed was canceled on Sunday. Yes, it's almost like it's a holiday, because people know no one's going to show up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a few schools in New Jersey that have late starts due to See.
Speaker 2:I think you know, if you can't beat them, join them in a little bit with that Right, or have our kids have their Friday off. It'd be nice if they had Monday off. Super Bowl Monday should be a thing, just like I think Halloween should always be a Friday. That'd be great, wouldn't it?
Speaker 1:Let them go to school. I believe in Wisconsin it's on a Sunday all the time.
Speaker 2:Or growing up Like trick-or-treating For Ryan.
Speaker 1:growing up it was always on the weekend, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think that's really smart. I don't want it on a Saturday or Sunday. I like that they're at school. Friday's great, yeah, because you don't want the whole day them being like we don't know, we don't know, we don't know no.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're right, I think it is nice. The one last thing we have to talk about I think our listeners know how much you love skinny jeans. They do, yes, and they're definitely coming back, but they're not kind of coming back in the same way. They're trying to make it different what? And I kind of feel like if it ain't broke, I don't think you're going to like this.
Speaker 1:Are they coming back?
Speaker 2:better, different, different, better, well not Not necessarily skinny jeans, but skinny pants. I'll take a skinny pants, Fine, but these they're like. They're either super extreme or they're like loose ankle, like cigarette pants kind of. Oh, I don't like those. And then, or they're doing them with a cut in them Like a slit, yeah, with a slit, split hem in the front. What's a split? No, no, Like gross. I don't like that at all.
Speaker 1:That's giving me like mermaid vibes.
Speaker 2:It's bizarre it looks like they took the front of the pants and then just cut like five inches up. It looks like she wants to show off her shins. It's like would you like to see my ankle bone?
Speaker 1:Here's my shin. Oh, come on why I know.
Speaker 2:Or they're like.
Speaker 1:Oh, come on why.
Speaker 2:Why, I know. Or they're like well, we want to bring them back, but they can't be exactly the same, so let's cut a slit right in the front of them. Yeah, I don't appreciate that. No, me neither, plus your ankles might get cold. They might. Yeah, how do you wear your socks with those?
Speaker 1:Well, that's a whole other ball of wax.
Speaker 2:Socks yeah, I know I've kind of converted what To what are these crew socks?
Speaker 1:Yes, same yes. Who gave me these?
Speaker 2:Oh, I was like gosh. These are way more comfortable and my ankles are warm. I still sometimes, though, I'm like I got to do the no-show. But, when you exercise, what do you wear? I wear short socks when I exercise because, I kind of have some that I'm used to.
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Speaker 2:Our topic today. I think maybe Al might listen to this podcast because it's one of his favorite things to talk about. Rom-coms, my favorite type of movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was excited and I kind of I always think of what you say when we were trying to watch all the Oscar movies, like why can't there be a rom-com?
Speaker 1:And there was one once, wasn't there?
Speaker 2:Well, I'm not going to read the whole list. Oh, more than once, but there's been. But you think about the whole history of movies. This article said there have been about 14 rom-coms that have been very successful at the Oscars.
Speaker 1:And do you know any of them?
Speaker 2:I knew all of, I had heard of all of them. I would say one of my favorite favorite old movies from the 1940s the Philadelphia Story. Oh, I've never seen that one. You've never seen an old movie? I don't think so. Like a black and white old movie? I don't think so. The Philadelphia Story is fantastic.
Speaker 1:What is the most recent one?
Speaker 2:Silver Linings Playbook from 2012. That was weird and that was not a rom-com. Well, that's so then. Shakespeare in Love, which I would say is a rom-com. Ok, I didn't see that, but it's like a period rom-com.
Speaker 1:You didn't see that one.
Speaker 2:No, it's so good, that one is great, but then this is controversial because Al told you to watch this movie oh I know what you're going to say as good as it gets.
Speaker 1:That was not a rom-com.
Speaker 2:Which is not a rom-com. I don't think it's a rom-com either.
Speaker 1:It was a good movie, a little spooky, but yeah, because you're like oh, did she really end up with him at the end?
Speaker 2:Yeah, did she. She's got enough on her plate.
Speaker 1:We didn't Ryan, and I didn't even finish it. I think she does I don't know, yeah, I mean great for him, but I don't know when I googled best rom-coms to do some work for this.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, what came up? All my favorite movies, because I wrote down some of my faves.
Speaker 1:What are some of your faves? Well, like you tell me what came up, they're my favorite movies. That's my favorite genre of movies. Oh, so they're all my favorites.
Speaker 2:I said I really love Sleepless in Seattle.
Speaker 2:Is that on the best list? Yes, it is on the best list. Sliding Doors no, I love that With Gwyneth Paltrow, it's so good. Iq no. Ryan, oh my gosh. The Holiday yes. Bridget Jones Diary no, that wasn't on there. Jennifer Lopez and then there's one I don't. This movie classifies itself as a sci-fi rom-com, but I it's not. I don't. Palm Springs it came out in 2020. It's Andy Samberg. How do you find all these little treasures? Well, the first one two, three, four, five, six are from like the 90s or 2000s.
Speaker 2:Palm Springs is the only recent one, and that was great. I really really liked that movie.
Speaker 1:Was it sci-fi?
Speaker 2:No, it's kind of like Groundhog Day. Andy Samberg is in like a time loop where he's reliving the same day over and over again in Palm Springs and then he accidentally pulls this girl in with him by accident and then they go through the time loop and they kind of fall in love and through the time loop and they kind of fall in love and then they try to figure out how to get out of the time loop.
Speaker 1:It's weird but it's good. How about You've Got Mail? That's one of my very favorite movies that's taken.
Speaker 2:that was a remake of an old movie called the Shop Around the Corner.
Speaker 1:Oh, I look, I saw that. Yes, I saw that. When I was doing my work I used to live right by that hot dog place. You did, yeah, how about One Hearing the Tale, you didn't mention that.
Speaker 2:I like that one, but it's not one of my faves. Is that one of your faves? Yeah, I really like that one. It's good, though, I do like it.
Speaker 1:I like Crystal Clueless Pretty Woman. The Proposal Sweet Home Alabama.
Speaker 2:Wait, wait, wait. Hold on, what Clueless. What was after that?
Speaker 1:The Proposal? What's the Propos? Oh, okay. Oh, with Ryan Reynolds. Yes, that's a great one. Yeah, if you guys, if you haven't seen that, you should see it. Ryan and I have seen it probably a hundred times. Yeah, and Pretty Woman, I love Legally Blonde. Is that a rom-com? I don't know, maybe Kind of that wasn't on the list. Yeah, but one of my favorite rom-coms wasn't on the list. I forgot one.
Speaker 2:What Father of the Bride, oh, is that a rom-com, though I don't know. It's a comedy Because it's more like a father-daughter.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Is it a family movie? Family movie, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2:Have you ever seen Say Anything no With John Cusack?
Speaker 1:and Ion.
Speaker 2:Skye. No, so it was from the 80 of my favorites. But Sleepless in Seattle is funny, because you're rooting so much for Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan to end up together and they've never even met or communicated. Yes, that's what the crazy thing is about some of these movies, but you know what the nice thing about some of these movies is is that they're predictable.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you know there's going to be a problem in the middle and that they're going to get together at the end, and I think that's why I like rom-coms so much, because I can kind of check out you can enjoy it and I don't have that anxiety that I feel like when I watch the Marvelous Mrs Maisel when she gets on stage.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Or I don't know what this series was called on Netflix. Was it called Palm Springs? She like pretends, she's like trying to get into the country club and then, yes, with Kristen Wiig.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I loved the costumes.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh it was so stressful and I loved like the time period that it was at am springs it might have been it's I watched it on an airplane we couldn't watch it. We had to stop. It was because she's lying. It gave me so much worry. Yes, it made me feel, because she's writing checks for things she can't afford. She's lying to people about who she is and you're just like no stop.
Speaker 1:But the costumes were so great she's stealing from that old lady, oh God yeah.
Speaker 2:So yeah, yes, I think the good news about rom-coms is that they're like, predictable and it ends happy. But I think what is kind of like twisted about them is there was always so much like before you fall in love you have to have a big fight.
Speaker 1:Like it was always like you either have to be enemies or they fight, or there's like someone gets their heart broken and then they get back together. And is that how? I mean? You always see the, you often see the other side of like movies and films.
Speaker 2:and Well, I just feel like when I was younger, every once in a while I'd be like I't know, like I kind of like him, but it's kind of boring because he's, he calls and we meet up and like this is great, I'm like there's no like this is great but there's no like we haven't had like a big fight so we could then make up when there's violins playing. You know, like I feel like in a way like you kind of of as a younger person. You're like, oh, that's how you fall in love.
Speaker 2:Oh, right, but there has yeah, there has to be a huge conflict and there has to be the drama or the big you know gesture of professing your love. Like 10 Things I Hate About you, I love that movie with.
Speaker 1:Heath.
Speaker 2:Ledger. I never saw it. Oh it's so good. It was on the list though. That movie with Heath Ledger. I never saw it. Oh it's so good, it was on the list though that. But you know what movie I think is totally bananas, and I loved this movie. When it came out, I had the soundtrack my Best Friend's Wedding.
Speaker 1:Oh, I loved that movie. How crazy is she in that movie?
Speaker 2:though, yes, yes, like bananas, and you're like I can't believe I was like rooting for her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you should be like poor Cameron Diaz. I would like to see that movie now, because I haven't seen it in probably 10 years, and see if I would see it through a different lens.
Speaker 2:I think you probably would, because I was then thinking about how I feel like there's not as many rom-coms, there's not as many rom-coms kind of are on the precedent of like mistaken identity or being like anonymous, or kind of being able to blend in, and now, with like phones and social media, like it's hard to do you can't do some of those things, like the plot wouldn't be as believable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know, I don't know because I read a whole article about it and this article talked a lot about how a lot of movie theater, movie companies you know they want to do big blockbuster movies instead of rom-coms or they'll make like mid-budget movies, but if they don't think they're going to do well in theater when they're done, they would rather call it a loss and get the insurance money rather than release it and not make money. Which my children were explaining this to me that they're like oh, there's this animated movie that never came out, like they just took the insurance money. Which my children were explaining this to me that they were like oh, there's this animated movie that never came out, like they just took the insurance money. And I was like what Is that a thing?
Speaker 2:And they were like oh, yeah, oh, that disappoints me Because I bet those are the movies I probably like the most. But then they were saying a lot of the rom-coms now are on streaming. Oh, we are watching a great series. Are you still watching it? The podcast one yeah, end it.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's good. I can't wait for more. Yeah, it's all good yeah.
Speaker 2:I was thinking he, I just forgot his name. I'm just thinking of his name on the OC.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't know, he and Rachel Bilson were like my favorite. But it had me thinking about TV couples or like rom-com couples. I'm thinking about TV couples or like rom-com couples, and some of my favorite are kind of random. Did you know, did you? I didn't write down specific couples? What about Darren and Samantha on Bewitched?
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:That's one of my favorite couples. Yes, weren't they great?
Speaker 2:Rob and Laura Petri. They were great and who are they From the Dick Van Dyke Show. I thought maybe if you knew Bewitched you might know the Dick Van Dyke Show no, but I like Beth Dutton and Rip from Yellowstone.
Speaker 1:Oh, I've never seen Yellowstone. You've never seen Yellowstone.
Speaker 2:No, it is not. I feel like I've missed the train. I feel like that has left the station. Why?
Speaker 1:Because there's so many Yellowstones, I know but movies are standalone.
Speaker 2:This series like there's, like 1924.
Speaker 1:Oh no, watch the.
Speaker 2:OG the OG Yellowstone. Yeah, look at this.
Speaker 1:It's a little gory.
Speaker 2:Okay, but it's Because they're cowboys. Yeah, giddy up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the other couple I loved and I realized it wasn't a rom-com when I was thinking about TV couples or movie couples, it was the Bodyguard.
Speaker 2:I've never seen the Bodyguard. You haven't no.
Speaker 1:Now you know how I feel, and I know how you feel when you haven't seen something. I had the soundtrack. It was great.
Speaker 2:It was rated R when it came out and I was in seventh grade so I couldn't go see it. Why? Because I was only 12. Oh Okay me neither.
Speaker 1:I had a fake id to go see movies but, when I was 18 and I saw it. It was amazing. I heard it's really great. Okay, go watch it. Okay, you're gonna thank me later. Okay, yeah, and I'll watch.
Speaker 2:Um oh, the philadelphia. Watch the philadelphia story. Is it in black and white? It is, but it's not subtitles.
Speaker 1:sometimes I have a hard time following characters if they're in black and white why?
Speaker 2:Their shape is preserved. Sometimes they wear hats, I don't know. I have the play the Philadelphia Story. If you would rather read the play.
Speaker 1:Oh, for God's sake, watch the black and white silent version.
Speaker 2:Or IQ is really good If I was going to ask you to watch like an obscure rom-com that I like, IQ. That was one. I had the VHS tape for that.
Speaker 1:Did we talk about Love Actually and how awesome all those couples were?
Speaker 2:Oh, those were. We have never talked about that's. Al's probably his favorite movie, that and Shawshank Redemption. Oh, that was not a rom-com no, it's not. But I do love that movie and the scene that I always like. My heart breaks for the friend who's in love with Keira Knightley.
Speaker 1:Oh with the signs, oh with the signs. I just love all the scenes with the prime minister and Natalie.
Speaker 2:He's really good in that, yeah, he's great. And how he stands up Hugh Grant yeah, he's doing great oh good, good for him.
Speaker 1:He had a little hiccup, he had a little hiccup.
Speaker 2:He did A little lapse in judgment. A little giddy up in his hitch, giddy up, maybe too much giddy up in his itch.
Speaker 1:But yeah, no, he's doing a lot. Okay, good, Good for him.
Speaker 2:He was in the paddington movies and was like really excellent in them. He was hilarious, great, yeah, okay, good, he's doing fine, all right, good, he was also in about a boy. Did you ever see that? No, that's a great movie. Um, oh, you know, it's one of my favorite favorites. I just thought of it. Have you ever seen high fidelity? No, okay, watch that. Okay, I changed my mind. Subtitles Black and white. Nope, full color English Great Takes place in Chicago. Great John Cusack, perfect Jack Black.
Speaker 1:Check in with you next week.
Speaker 2:All, right, and what am I supposed to watch? The Bodyguard yeah, can't watch that with my kids. No, because they're not 18. Right, okay, that's the one you out of all of them. Well, I think you've seen all the others, have I?
Speaker 1:Okay, and that's not even a rom-com. What is it? Have you seen? Love and Basketball.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Okay, I see that.
Speaker 2:Okay, Love and Basketball yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, the Bodyguard too, though, who knows. I'm only going to have time for one, I think Well gotta pick one. Does it have to be a rom-com? Well, our episode is a rom-com. Okay, then watch love and basketball. Okay, okay I like both those things okay, but did you know what the highest grossing? I feel like a ping pong ball. Did I do what the highest grossing rom-com was? Love, actually, my big fat greek wedding. Oh, I think I saw that once.
Speaker 2:I saw that once and then I feel like it replayed on our college movie channel a lot.
Speaker 1:But could you tell me what it's about, because I can't even remember. I mean, I'm not asking you to.
Speaker 2:She is Greek, she comes from a very strong Greek family. She's like a little dorky and then she kind of gives herself a makeover and then she meets and falls in love with a guy who is not Greek and then they get married. So it's about kind of him coming into her family.
Speaker 1:Is it worth another watch? I think it's cute.
Speaker 2:You could probably watch it with your kids, I bet.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, you know what we tried to watch the other night, and it was good until it got a little risque. Uh-oh, mr Mom.
Speaker 2:Oh, I haven't seen that in ages.
Speaker 1:Either had I, and I was just trying to think of something you know. I don't have a lot to choose from, sure, because I don't see a ton of movies.
Speaker 2:Your kids would love a Philadelphia story.
Speaker 1:They would love what A Philadelphia story.
Speaker 2:Okay, have you ever seen Moonstruck? No, okay, that's like one of my mom's favorite movies.
Speaker 1:And Al and I watched it like a year ago and we were both like this is a terrible movie. Oh, I bet I would love it, because also I love your mom.
Speaker 2:I love my mom too, but I was like it was one of those ways where I was like why are they falling in love with each other? They don't seem to like each other at all.
Speaker 1:That's kind of like when Al told me to watch as Good as it Gets.
Speaker 2:I was so confused by this movie. I was like no, oh, they shouldn't be together. They fought the whole time and then they just made out. I was like, do you talk to a movie when you watch it, not a rom-com? If it's scary or suspenseful, I get like don't do it. Yeah, Like what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1:Or if a movie ends and I don't feel like I have been ready for it to end, like it hasn't been resolved'll be like what are you kidding me? This is how you end.
Speaker 2:This is how it ends like one of the oscar movies we watched with the shipwreck one. I forget what it was called. I was very unsatisfied with that ending and you told, and I told netflix. I was very disappointed.
Speaker 1:I sat through this whole movie and that's how it ends um, I wonder if our listeners have any suggestions for us to watch a rom-com that they would love for us to see.
Speaker 2:You're our social media whiz, but we can just ask them to send us a message.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, DM us.
Speaker 2:You can text us through the podcast platform. Whatever you get us on, whether it's Apple Podcasts or Spotify or Amazon, whatever. Yeah, weigh in, tell us what we should watch. Yeah, shall we high and low? Let's go for it, alrighty. Where are you at this week? Well, my original low was that I was cold, but my real low, I'm not ready for summer camp stuff.
Speaker 1:I missed it. I missed the summer camp sign-offs. Yep, wait, we've already missed it.
Speaker 2:I missed all the Loras stuff, the summer camp sign-ups, yep, wait, we've already missed it. I missed all the Laura's stuff, oh yeah, but now it's like the local camps, like the day camps, like that has opened up, and I'm like, no, it's February, I know, like when I'm still have had like I just cannot wrap my head around it.
Speaker 1:Why do they need us to sign up? And it makes me angry. Why do they need us to sign up so soon?
Speaker 2:They know how many spots are available, right, I don't know. It's very stressful, I agree, and I don't know what we're doing yet and then the pool sign up came out.
Speaker 1:I was like no, oh, I missed all that Good. I did see some stuff from our kids' schools about sports camps, but I'll just sign them up when it gets closer. Yeah, my oldest two I don't have to worry about, because they're taken care of through school and club soccer. It's my younger two who will have club soccer, but then I like them to do a little something else. It's too much.
Speaker 2:But I also am an underscheduler in the summer and I was last year and I was patting myself on the back.
Speaker 1:It's a really nice pace. It makes it feel like summer, because if you want to get up and go, get up and go, giddy up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, where are you?
Speaker 1:at my low is, my floors are dirty. Oh, but they're not because I clean them. They don't look dirty, nora. Well, I'm wondering if I have to have somebody come out and clean my wood floors. They were just refinished last year.
Speaker 2:They're only a year old. They're only a year old?
Speaker 1:Yes, I know, are you looking at them? Don't look too close. No, they really don't look dirty to me.
Speaker 2:I was like really, maybe just because it's cloudy, maybe On a sunny day, maybe they don't look dirty. Or maybe they look dirtier, no, no, not when the sun's out. That's my low. My high is my date and weekend.
Speaker 1:Ah, that's my high is wait for it. Okay, summer camps, my new acrylic closet dividers Ooh. I ordered some off Amazon for my daughter's closet. Yeah, and they are incredible, so I ordered more for my youngest son.
Speaker 2:Way to go.
Speaker 1:They just clip right onto the shelves. No.
Speaker 2:Like the wire shelves.
Speaker 1:The girls have had their closet done by one of those companies and it was great, but then she has an additional closet that doesn't have anything special. It's like shelves. And yeah, this, just they slid right on.
Speaker 2:I kind of want to take a peek at these. I'll show you. I love an organized closet. All right, all right. Well, thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and don't forget to send us a DM or send us a text letting us know what your favorite movie is. And don't forget to check us out next week. Bye, bye.
