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EP 119: DON'T LOOK UP! - Your Diet is Now Over

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Bridget:

Foreign.

Wendy:

Good morning.

Bridget:

I'm Bridget.

Wendy:

And I'm Wendy.

Bridget:

And this is Flakin Beans. Hi.

Wendy:

Did you try your coffee yet?

Bridget:

I did. It's tasty.

Wendy:

It's peppermint milk.

Bridget:

This is what it was supposed to taste like last week when I brought the Seven brew.

Wendy:

Oh, yeah, that was white chocolate peppermint.

Bridget:

I'm gonna say I love them deeply and with my whole heart, but you can never taste the flavors or the coffee.

Wendy:

No, I think it's a fun little, like, treat, but I can't imagine getting your coffee there like every morning. First of all, it's super expensive. Right. But I think people are doing that because it's always busy.

Bridget:

It's always busy. But, you know, it's still a much better experience than S. Bucks. True story.

Wendy:

And the line moves faster too.

Bridget:

Yeah. Anyway, so it's 2026.

Wendy:

It is.

Bridget:

Are you doing anything resolutionary?

Wendy:

No.

Bridget:

No.

Wendy:

I kind of quit doing those a few years ago. I never stick with them. Nobody ever does because it's an arbitrary timeline and I feel like it's a very bad time of year to be making resolutions.

Bridget:

It is, because it's deep in the heart of winter.

Wendy:

Yeah. You feel like poop and you think that you're going to have all this energy when the sun comes back, that you're not actually going to have energy and time.

Bridget:

Right.

Wendy:

At least if you're me, you go O. Okay, now we're in the deep, dark time of year. That's when you should be, like, working hard so that when the sun comes back out then you can enjoy whatever. I don't know. That's how I am. I decided I'm not gonna do that this year. But I am starting a new job. Did I tell you that?

Bridget:

Oh, good for you.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

No longer among the unemployed.

Wendy:

Correct. It's temp. But I have to go into the office. So I'm not thrilled about that.

Bridget:

Gross.

Wendy:

But the timing of it is good. And I need. My unemployment runs out like in two weeks, so I gotta do something. Copywriting position. And I'll be in at least until April or May.

Bridget:

Nice.

Wendy:

And then maybe I can actually take my summer.

Bridget:

Yeah. Enjoy that sun. Exactly. We were just saying when I'm not.

Wendy:

Seasonally depressed, I've been walking. Yeah.

Bridget:

I usually take my morning break about 10 o' clock and I just got my a** out of the apartment and I walked for my 15 minutes and I was like, I don't hate this.

Wendy:

Yeah. I wish I would make myself do that because I always feel so much better. But I can't get myself out of the house in the winter. I just.

Bridget:

My whole body is just. Just so cranky. I'm just like, what is this? What? One leg, two leg, go left. Right. It just felt so awkward.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

As I used to be fit, I.

Wendy:

Forgot how to walk.

Bridget:

I know.

Wendy:

I have been rocking on my treadmill inside a lot. I feel like going outside does something different.

Bridget:

It does.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

All that fresh air. Speaking of going outside or not going outside, our movie this week.

Wendy:

Don't look up.

Bridget:

It's like a mirror.

Wendy:

It's is satire, but it feels so real. It does, because you can see this happening. So the basic Premise is Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence are the two main characters, and they're astronomers at Michigan State, and they discover a comet is coming at Earth. And nobody believes them or nobody does anything about it.

Bridget:

Right.

Wendy:

Because they're too caught up in political and their image of what they want the world to be like, and it's infuriating.

Bridget:

Exactly. I mean, first place that they got media attention for the issue was like on a morning show.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Was like, you know, Jenna and Friends, you know.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

But. And it just does speak to that. Just how light they keep everything half joking. They didn't care about serious news. Just want to get the yelling lady off of there.

Wendy:

Yeah. You know, poor. Well, before we go too much further, that haircut. Oh, Jennifer Lawrence is just not doing any favors.

Bridget:

I don't understand it, but it's not good. She's supposed to be edgy.

Wendy:

Yeah. They're trying to make her be rebellious and student. Yeah. And. And make her look a little younger, too, because, I mean, she's a PhD student, so you would be a little older, but I think at this time she's like 30. And then the hair, that Dr. Teddy from NASA, his hair was terrible, too. This should get Marks off for that.

Bridget:

But in DiCaprio's fake beard.

Wendy:

Oh, yeah.

Bridget:

Oh, my God.

Wendy:

Everyone keeps talking about. Well, I've never found Leonardo DiCaprio to be very attractive, personally. But they're going off about the sexy scientist in this movie after he's on the morning show. And I just. I'm like, he looks terrible. I don't get it.

Bridget:

I don't either.

Wendy:

I mean, he's probably more attractive than a lot of scientists you see on these shows, but I don't know.

Bridget:

I don't know. Remember Jeff Goldblum?

Wendy:

I think Jeff Goldblum is more attractive than Leonardo DiCaprio. I'll say that right now.

Bridget:

He's Taller. I'll say that he's taller.

Wendy:

Tangent. But the hair needed to be mentioned because it was bad.

Bridget:

I was glad, though, that they trimmed up his beard.

Wendy:

They made him a little bit more presentable for tv.

Bridget:

Right. I was just like, whoa, they'll take you in the makeup chair and they'll cut your hair.

Wendy:

Yeah, I bet.

Bridget:

I was surprised by that. I mean, I figured they'd put makeup on him, but I didn't know they'd restyle them.

Wendy:

Yeah. I don't know. That would be interesting to find out if that happens.

Bridget:

And the clothes. Putting different clothes on people now. I wonder.

Wendy:

That does happen.

Bridget:

Why wonder who's not wearing their clothes now? Their own clothes. And it's gonna be every single time I go, ooh, I like that top. It's gonna be not theirs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would leave with their clothes.

Wendy:

Oh, yeah. 100%.

Bridget:

Scoot right out of there.

Wendy:

Be like, sorry, I forgot.

Bridget:

Bye.

Wendy:

You can keep my machine leggings in the dress.

Bridget:

Oh, my God. The thing that kind of cracked me up and one of the things that I just jotted in my notes was if you knew you've got six months to live. Leonardo spends the first part of it arguing with trolls on the Internet.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

God, of course.

Wendy:

I get it. But it was a waste of time. In the end, it ended up being that way. But he was still thinking that he could save the world. So of course you're gonna go out there and argue and try to make people believe you. It's so easy to get caught up in those circles because these people don't want to believe you. They just want to argue with you on the Internet.

Bridget:

Right.

Wendy:

Nobody is open to changing their mind in those situations. No, it's pointless.

Bridget:

Yeah. They may or may not even have an opinion. They just know that they can rile somebody up.

Wendy:

Yeah, Yeah. I see this in weird Facebook groups. Like, I'm in a lot of camping ones. And people will post things in there that you just know they're only posting because it's, like, gonna get an attention and people are gonna be mad about it. Why? I don't know.

Bridget:

I don't know. Reaction. Kate is the character that Jennifer Lawrence. Her initial reaction was, I gotta go get high.

Wendy:

That whole sequence where they're calling the government is stressful, but it's exactly how you would feel when you're starting to realize that what you found is real. They're confirming it for you. So it probably was like, oh, maybe what we have isn't real yet. And now they're going, oh, s***. Yeah, it does look like there's a comment. And then both Leo and Jen. Yeah. She goes, I need to get high. And he's just like having an full on nervous breakdown.

Bridget:

He has the best panic attacks. The best. God. And Jonah Hill, the president being played by Meryl Streep, was amazing. And Jonah Hill plays her son, who is an absolute douchebag.

Wendy:

He does it so well.

Bridget:

I know.

Wendy:

That character cracked me up so much. It was so. He was so mean.

Bridget:

He was. And it's like, as if you're not qualified to be chief of staff.

Wendy:

I think my favorite was. Well, he locked him in the room at one point. And Jennifer asks, what if we have to go to the bathroom? He's like, oh, we'll put down some newspaper for you. And then he goes, oh, wait, do you want to go? And she's like, yeah. And then he just closes the door. And her face. I was like, I want to do that to somebody sometimes.

Bridget:

God, what a d***. But you know, he had the hots for her.

Wendy:

Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. That's why he kept nagging her.

Bridget:

He's playing the long game, waiting for.

Wendy:

Her bangs to grow out, which they never do. That's the thing. She would have. In the six months that this movie takes place, she would have had to get that haircut again a couple times.

Bridget:

Oh, yeah, it's her look. Can you. I mean, you've had bangs, right?

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Can you imagine? And every time you wake up in the morning, they are wonky. That's what sucks about bangs.

Wendy:

Yeah. In my experience, my bangs look good for about two days after they get cut, and then I can never control them again.

Bridget:

And if your bangs are that short, I just cannot imagine straight up that looks like. Yeah, closely. Sleep on. On my face, so you know it's gonna go bad. Do you ever dream that you get bangs cut?

Wendy:

No, it's.

Bridget:

Yeah, it's more of a nightmare.

Wendy:

Yeah, that sounds like a nightmare. No, I'm more into, like, my teeth falling out and stuff.

Bridget:

Oh, for real? Absolutely. I had a baby once. I mean, I didn't have it, but it was a little piglet and I was holding it like a baby. I'm not sure what that was about. I couldn't find its crib.

Wendy:

I don't know. You need to talk to your therapist about that one.

Bridget:

I know it. Oh, my God. The whole thing about what would you do if you only had six months to live? It's information that people are getting from their doctors every single day.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

What do they do that's different? Or. I mean, do you make the most of it? Do you live it up? Or do you just continue being regular?

Wendy:

Yeah, personally, if I got something like that, I would go wild. At least for a while.

Bridget:

Woo hoo. Coffee break. Let's talk about our beans.

Wendy:

Are you enjoying flicking beans? Don't keep it to yourself. Spill the beans. Movies are better shared and so is coffee. Can you drop our pod into a friend's inbox? A group chat. Or just tell that cashier at your coffee shop that you love our podcast. A little worth of mouth goes a long way. Let's spill the beans. Thank you, Bean flickers.

Bridget:

Love you.

Wendy:

Bye.

Bridget:

My friend said that they would start smoking again. Oh, yeah, smoke like a chimney.

Wendy:

I would. I would pick up all the bad habits again. I maybe try a few drugs I haven't tried. Yeah, well, it's gonna take a couple months off my life.

Bridget:

Yeah. After they said that. Take up smoking, I said, oh, I take up smoking Crack. Yeah.

Wendy:

No, there must be something to it. People seem to love it.

Bridget:

High reviews, high praise. What is it like kissing God.

Wendy:

So, yeah, definitely would do that. I think there would be. They showed a little bit of this, but I feel like, why aren't more people hooking up? I felt like, oh, for real. There would be just be people doing it all over if they found out they were gonna die if it weren't.

Bridget:

For the morning show host and Leonardo having sex all the time, which is a dumb, dumb coupling. I would have thought the other two. In every other movie, it would have been the two that are trying to, you know, work together and run around and convince people, blah, blah.

Wendy:

I'm kind of glad they didn't go that direction though, because it would have been creep creepy, him being her teacher.

Bridget:

Oh, that is true.

Wendy:

He's kind of her boss.

Bridget:

That is true. And smart. Whenever you can fill a chalkboard with all of those numbers and letters and parentheses, you know you're smart when it takes an entire chalkboard. Yeah. Is that why they're that big?

Wendy:

Come on, I don't do math.

Bridget:

They're that big in second grade, so you know they're no true.

Wendy:

At one point, somebody says to Leo as he's getting on the elevator to a media interview, no more math. And he goes, everything is math. The door shuts and I'm like, it's true. Everything's math. And I don't understand it.

Bridget:

Right. They should have led with, there is a giant asteroid and it's going to hit us and Everyone will die.

Wendy:

Yeah. They should have always led with that.

Bridget:

Always lead with yes. Get to the point.

Wendy:

Yeah. What do they call it? Buried the lead.

Bridget:

Buried the leaf.

Wendy:

Yeah. Yeah. Especially when they're talking to the President.

Bridget:

Yeah.

Wendy:

Because he just starts seeing all these numbers and she just glazes over and he lost her.

Bridget:

I mean, I was glazing over.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

I'm like, oh, don't. No, come on, just say it.

Wendy:

That's a problem with so many movies that people just don't come out and say the thing that they need to say. But I understand why because it moves the story along. But it's frustrating because I hate that in real life. I just want everybody to say what they mean.

Bridget:

Oh, God.

Wendy:

And say what they want.

Bridget:

God. Yeah. I've talked about a particular person that I encounter regularly, always telling the longest stories that can be summed up in one sentence. When you get to the end of it, finally you're just like, oh, my God, let me pick up my eyes. They rolled over there.

Wendy:

That's how everyone feels about them talking about the comet. And so nobody cares.

Bridget:

Right. Well. And it is a denial.

Wendy:

Oh, absolutely.

Bridget:

Big time denial.

Wendy:

That's a huge part of it. Because people don't want to accept ugly truth.

Bridget:

It's right in front of you. You can see it. So just don't look at it and it'll go away.

Wendy:

Literally, just don't look. There's a moment towards the end when you can finally see the comment and that's where they're saying, like, don't look up. That part's even more wild. You can f****** see it.

Bridget:

It's.

Wendy:

Look at it. I've heard this story one time. I don't know if it's true. If you've not seen something before, sometimes your brain will just like not see it because it doesn't understand it.

Bridget:

Right.

Wendy:

And one of the ways that I've heard this explained to me is like, Native Americans couldn't see the ships, the pilgrims coming in. They just like blanked it out. They didn't understand what they were seeing.

Bridget:

Right.

Wendy:

That could be a totally story, but I think that does happen. Your brain is protecting you from this danger and just. I don't see it.

Bridget:

That's like the time there was a bat under. Come on, this is a good story. One sentence. There was a bat under a rug I was straightening on the porch and I didn't know what it was and I was like, leaf, flat, frog. I had no idea. And then it dawned on me when it moved, what it Was. But yeah, it was a moment like that where I didn't know what that was. And it was in a weird position. It wasn't like flying or anything.

Wendy:

Out of context.

Bridget:

Yeah, very much so. That's not what's supposed to be under a rug.

Wendy:

Yeah, true. I found a bat under a rug one time too. It was a very similar experience. Did you watch it all the way through the credits? Because I don't think I saw that last time or I don't remember it. So I guess to back up a little bit, there's this like rich over oligarch. Is that how you say it? Elon Musk character.

Bridget:

Oh, God, yeah.

Wendy:

That basically kills them all because he gets over confident that he can mine the comet for gold and other rare earth minerals. Like to make phones and.

Bridget:

Wait, they wouldn't be called earth minerals, but that's what they called them.

Wendy:

It is. They occur on Earth, I guess. But that thing wasn't from Earth.

Bridget:

Yeah. They're like, we need trillium and bajillion and ochre.

Wendy:

And fried okra.

Bridget:

Yes. I love okra. Don't get me started.

Wendy:

That whole part is really scary because you can totally see that happening. We see it. We have these billionaires going up into space, right? That's happening for real. It's not that far off from the truth. Even though all of this is so ridiculous. You're like, this could happen.

Bridget:

And it's all about money and politics. My favorite part when that s*** didn't work is when he just backed out of the room. I'm dipping.

Wendy:

He's like, I think I have to go to the bathroom. Yeah, I'm going to go to the restroom. And he just walks out. And so. And then Meryl Streep's like, yeah, me too. President's out. Poor Jonas Hill, her son is sitting there. He's like, she's going to come back.

Bridget:

No. He ends up being like the lone survivor. Last man on Earth. It comes out of the. The fire and rubble and everything is burning. And he's like, mom, Mom. She's coming back. And then he does a selfie. Last man on Earth. Wow.

Wendy:

Even though the movie is terrifying, it really does a good job of keeping it light. Light enough that there's all this humor in it. Another funny thing at the end is that Jennifer Lawrence is Kate's character. She has set a timer for the End of the World on her diet app because she just. She's like, I'm not on a diet. But it has this countdown timer.

Bridget:

So I'M so brilliant.

Wendy:

And then the phone, it like comes out in the explosion at the end and it's like your diet is over. Everybody's diet's over at.

Bridget:

Oh my God.

Wendy:

That's such a perspective of like the s*** that doesn't matter.

Bridget:

Diets, Diets don't matter.

Wendy:

Especially any diet that you have a countdown for because that's not going to do you good in the long run.

Bridget:

There's a million people right now setting their diet out on their phones.

Wendy:

I mean, I've been there since January. I have been there. I have tried all those things too. So no judgment.

Bridget:

I think I get a little bit addicted to anything that tracks anything. That's what I. I don't have a Fitbit. When I used to run, it was like imperative. Right When I got back to look at all my stats. Yeah. Did I get faster or did I go farther or am I on a streak? I never missed a day. So it just, it consumes me. I think it's my fitness pal sponsor us. That one where you can see your nutrition and you can put in your recipes. That took me so f****** long. And I was like, oh, I'm so proud of what I made tonight. And I was like, f*** this. This.

Wendy:

Yeah, I tried that for a while too. It's exhausting. Cuz if you cook, you're like, there's like 30 things I put in there now I have to go in and write them all down one by one.

Bridget:

So I can see how many calories are in cinnamon. Yeah, no, thank you.

Wendy:

All this going on. Zig. Thanks.

Bridget:

H*** yeah. They're doing that in a pill now.

Wendy:

Yeah. Used to write a lot of articles about the drugs. They were just starting to come out with the pills when I was doing that. And now.

Bridget:

Weird.

Wendy:

Yep. So I wasn't very good at it.

Bridget:

That's not true. You were just redundant.

Wendy:

I, I just. Yeah, I just got downsized.

Bridget:

Yeah, that sucks.

Wendy:

It happens. Yeah, it's fine. I'll live. There's no comet coming to the earth.

Bridget:

That you know of.

Wendy:

That I know of. That's true. And I don't watch the news anymore. Not that they would tell me. I guess according to this movie they would just be like, haha, let's blow up my ex wife's house.

Bridget:

Yeah. Yeah.

Wendy:

That was a weird comment. It was by the newscaster. When they tell him it's coming towards earth, he goes, can you go to Jersey to my ex wife's house? I'm like, that's not funny.

Bridget:

Yeah. What a d***.

Wendy:

You're talking about your ex wife, probably the mother of his children. On TV like that.

Bridget:

How did they never get on the evening news? Come on. We needed Lester Hole.

Wendy:

They didn't have the right connections. They went to the journalists they knew, and that happened to be these people. And it didn't work out well for them.

Bridget:

No s***. So when the diet is nearing its end and they decide to just sit together and have a great big meal and talk to each other, which. And I. Oh, I just got goosebumps. Who would you want to spend your last moments with and what would you want to be doing? I said having sex.

Wendy:

That's where my mind went when I watched this movie. I was like, probably doing it.

Bridget:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wendy:

I mean, I'd want to be with.

Bridget:

Go out with a bang, if you will.

Wendy:

Literally.

Bridget:

Would you be scared or would you be like them? They really knew it was coming, and they just, you know. This is good coffee. Yeah, it is. Just. They just tried to stay calm.

Wendy:

They were trying to keep it normal. I don't think I would have that much cool, but I don't know. I've never been in that situation. Maybe by the time six months has gone by and you know it's coming, you are calm. If you knew that day that the comet was coming, I would panic. Yeah, maybe not in this situation.

Bridget:

And what's the deal with looting?

Wendy:

I don't know.

Bridget:

You break the windows and steal stuff when you've got six months to live.

Wendy:

Yeah. I mean, I might go steal some groceries.

Bridget:

That's another question. If you were gonna sit down and have a big dinner, what would you cook?

Wendy:

That was a weird thing Joel noticed was they went to the grocery store and they bought all this salmon, and then when they sat down, it was a roast.

Bridget:

Yeah, it's magic.

Wendy:

It's magic. Oh. Oh. Last. I've had this discussion before of, like, Murder Row. Last meals. I don't know. There's too many things.

Bridget:

I feel you can get a lot of different things.

Wendy:

I definitely wouldn't waste my last meal on McDonald's. Not that I don't like it, but it's a convenience food. It's not a.

Bridget:

But they have the McRib. Wendy the McRib.

Wendy:

What if it's not in season when the comet comes?

Bridget:

They used to make a Morningstar Farm sponsor. I McRib.

Wendy:

Oh, yeah.

Bridget:

Yeah. And I love it.

Wendy:

You like barbecue sauce, though?

Bridget:

Oh, I love barbecue sauce.

Wendy:

I don't.

Bridget:

And it's one of the few things that I'll put, like, raw onions on the top of.

Wendy:

Okay.

Bridget:

And pickles. Oh, it's so good. McDonald's sponsor us.

Wendy:

There's a podcast called your mom's house. It's a big one. And they basically bullied McDonald's into making them their sponsor. Nice, because it was a joke that they started running saying that they were sponsors for McDonald's, and then they got a cease and desist, like, you're. We're not your sponsor. Stop saying that. And then I guess in that process, they ended up talking to them and became a real sponsor.

Bridget:

That's amazing. So who can we harass?

Wendy:

I don't. I think we should still go after seven, bro.

Bridget:

I think we should too. Let's contact their corporate office.

Wendy:

I mean, I could shoot our shot.

Bridget:

I don't know why that sounded. That landed funny with me. Anyway.

Wendy:

Anyway, I got off track because I wanted to talk about the end. All the rich people get on a rocket and go to another planet. But before that, the oligarch has said that their algorithm can predict everything, including how you're gonna die.

Bridget:

Right.

Wendy:

And the President goes, well, how am I gonna die? Oh, wait, I don't want to know. And then he goes, well, you're gonna get eaten by a. I don't remember the name.

Bridget:

Brackles. Flores.

Wendy:

Bracky something. Yeah, a weird dinosaur sounding name. They're like, we don't know what that means. So you think their algorithm is just bullshit?

Bridget:

Yeah.

Wendy:

But then they go to the new planet. For some reason, they can't wear clothes in there.

Bridget:

Yeah. Why are they naked?

Wendy:

No reason to be. But I did like that the President had a lower back tattoo. Yeah, right. Do you think Meryl Streep really does have that?

Bridget:

Probably.

Wendy:

I would love that. If it's true. Then she gets eaten by this creature on the new planet. And they know what it's called because.

Bridget:

The algorithm looks like a big dodo bird.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Yeah.

Wendy:

It's beautiful.

Bridget:

And I'm looking around at these people. They are supposed to, you know, start their new civilization. It's all f****** old men.

Wendy:

Yeah. None of them are going to be able to have a child.

Bridget:

Well, I mean, they could father children, but the women were all, like, young and pretty.

Wendy:

Were they? I didn't notice. I was only too focused to every. All the old fat guys.

Bridget:

It was like, ew, It's a whole sea of gray. Remember in wine country when she talks about Colonel Sanders? Pubes. That's what we're looking at. That's what we're dealing with. Okay, I can't handle that.

Wendy:

Anything else?

Bridget:

No. Did we do it?

Wendy:

I think we did it. We flick some be okay. Love you. Bye. Bye.

Bridget:

Party all night long.

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Bridget

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Wendy

Co-host