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Wendy:

Foreign. Good morning.

Bridget:

I'm Bridget.

Wendy:

And I'm Wendy.

Bridget:

And this is Blake and Beans. What the f***? With this weather?

Wendy:

I don't understand.

Bridget:

Ugh. Do you think people in. More like on the West Coast. Let's stay. Let's see. If you've never seen snow before. Do you think they just picture it as this lovely falling flakes? But no, they have no idea. Blizzard.

Wendy:

A few years ago, I was living in California, and I came back to Iowa in February for our Bacon Fest gig.

Bridget:

Oh, yeah.

Wendy:

And if you remember, there was a huge blizzard that night. And these guys weren't like, they'd never seen snow, but they were lifelong Californians, so they hadn't. They'd been skiing or whatever. And several times one of them went out in his shorts and then had to come back and be like, oh, I got. I thought it'd be okay for just a second. Like, no, it's not.

Bridget:

No.

Wendy:

And they were doing snow angels, and he just. From a stand, fell backwards flat.

Bridget:

What?

Wendy:

And I'm like, you can't. And like her. And I'm like, the snow is not a pillow.

Bridget:

It's not. Oh, my God.

Wendy:

And I was like. Anyway, we were also drinking.

Bridget:

I can't believe that. But if you don't know, you don't know.

Wendy:

Yeah. He's like, I just thought the snow would be softer.

Bridget:

I know you would think the snow would be softer, but no, it can have a crust of ice on it. Oh, my God. Any who it's gonna get. Nice. Are you guys gonna just hole up?

Wendy:

Yeah, absolutely. I tried to get a freaking grocery delivery this morning, but Walmart wouldn't let you do delivery today, I'm guessing. Cause they're anticipating the snow, those f******. I know. I'm like, there is.

Bridget:

Yeah. I did last night. Because yesterday morning I got up and I have to work on Saturday morning. So I got up and realized immediately that I was completely out of toilet paper. Right. And then I. Okay, okay, I'll figure that out. And I go make my coffee, pour a cup, realize that my half and half is sour.

Wendy:

Oh.

Bridget:

I was just like, what the h***? This is no way to wake up.

Wendy:

No.

Bridget:

And if you are out of toilet paper during a blizzard, you are.

Wendy:

Yeah. Or a pandemic, too.

Bridget:

You need the three shells.

Wendy:

Okay, Bringing that up. We need to watch that movie.

Bridget:

We will.

Wendy:

Okay, so. So this week's movie is The Great Outdoors 1988. Currently streaming for free on Tubi. Or if you don't want to watch a bunch of ads about online mobile casinos you can rent it on Amazon prime because I don't know. Did you watch it on Tubi? I watched it on Tubi and yeah, they have a lot of ads, which is annoying, but the most annoying ones are the ones with the slot machine ads. And it just plays a slot machine and makes all the noises and I hate it so, so much.

Bridget:

Oh, my go. Do you know what I've been hooked on lately? I'll put it on while I'm working. Judge Judy. Oh, the cases are real.

Wendy:

The courtroom is real sassy.

Bridget:

But in between, when they do commercials on that, it's like Roku, Live tv, whatever. They're all commercials targeting people on Medicare and Medicaid. And they're all these like, oh, they don't want to tell you this program exists. Well, this is something I've already been paying for. And there's a few of these commercial that are very much geared toward black people.

Wendy:

Okay.

Bridget:

The person speaking is black and saying things like, I ain't got no. You know, it's very offensive.

Wendy:

Oh, that reminds me of the Letter Kinney episode where tries to make a video and has each one of the ethnicities and then tells them they have to be like the stereotype of it. And Gail, the black bartender, is like, what's up? Or something like that. He's like, you get the assignment.

Bridget:

Oh, my God.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

I don't even remember that episode.

Wendy:

Yeah. So it was for a political ad.

Bridget:

You gotta have every stereotype for a political ad.

Wendy:

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. The commercials are out of control. If it's not for Medicaid, it's for some kind of prescription drug which they're now advertising. Zepbound, which is Tirzepatide, the weight loss and diabetes drug. Now they're advertising it as a treatment for sleep apnea.

Bridget:

Interesting.

Wendy:

Which, I mean, it makes you lose weight, which helps your sleep apnea. I don't think it could directly help it.

Bridget:

That's reaching.

Wendy:

Yes, I agree. But it is something that I watch during this movie.

Bridget:

Wow. Well, I mean, they could just go on and on and on and on and on.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

About things that. That happen in your body when, you know, you lose weight.

Wendy:

Yeah, exactly. So many things improve and that's why the drugs are great. I mean, I'm on one. I felt like, is this even true?

Bridget:

It's weird. I like commercials and I like advertising, but I look at it with a critical eye.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

And I am so skeptical all the time and. No, not skeptical. You should always be suspicious.

Wendy:

Yeah, absolutely.

Bridget:

Because they're selling you Something. Yeah.

Wendy:

And I work in advertising, so I know these conversations that happen when they decide the messaging.

Bridget:

Right.

Wendy:

And with health stuff, I feel like you have to be more careful. But they obviously must have gotten some kind of FDA approval to prescribe it for that. I, I appreciate a good ad too, because it's creativity. And I go, oh man, that, that was a genius idea. I wish I would have had. Sometimes. Yeah.

Bridget:

You know, they'll pick certain words and phrases that they know are going to get inside your head. Have you ever seen the mini European facelift commercial? I'm Dr. Cherry.

Wendy:

I feel like, yes, I have.

Bridget:

And at the end he goes to eliminate your wrinkles and reduce your jowls. I'm like, f*** you talking about my jaw. I know.

Wendy:

That's one thing I didn't anticipate worrying about when I aged. Like, I just thought I'd be worried about wrinkles.

Bridget:

Yeah. And you have none.

Wendy:

I have some, but I have good genetics, you know.

Bridget:

You have snail mucin.

Wendy:

Well, I do take care of my skin, but I have good genetics and I take really good care of my skin. But it has not stopped me from starting to get jowls. Yeah. Like, and I'm getting a little bit of a turkey neck and there's not much I can do about it.

Bridget:

That's a waddle.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Ally McBeal.

Wendy:

Oh yeah, remember that?

Bridget:

And the character talked about it, I think.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

To stroke the waddle. Ew.

Wendy:

Something for everyone.

Bridget:

Yep. That's nasty. Okay. Anyway, back to the movie.

Wendy:

Back to the movie. So we went on a tangent there about Tubi, but honestly, Tubi, I like it because, man, there's everything you could ever want on there and it's free.

Bridget:

Yeah.

Wendy:

So if you can suffer through some terrible ads, it's all good. But if you don't want to, it's like$4 on Amazon.

Bridget:

So the Great Outdoors is the story of the Ripleys, which is John Candy and his wife Stephanie Farrisi. And they play Chet and Connie Ripley. They're kids. Buck is the older one and I don't even think I could find the name of the younger one. So he is so irrelevant. Yeah, he's just a little bit of comic relief.

Wendy:

Yeah. John Kennedy doesn't care about bonding with him, I guess.

Bridget:

I don'. I think so. And then we've got the Craigs, which is Dan Aykroyd and Annette Bening and they are Roman and Kate, that's Chet's brother in law. And the kids are Cara and Mara and they are red headed Twins. Right out of the Shining.

Wendy:

Yes. Yes.

Bridget:

So creepy. So, okay, the gist of the movie is that Chet remembers going to this cabin in Wisconsin when he was younger. So they drive from Chicago for this big. Kind of spend the summer together with the family and bond and stuff. And it's, A, not quite what they expected. And then B, you see Roman and

Wendy:

Kate in the Beamer.

Bridget:

I thought it was a Mercedes.

Wendy:

Was it?

Bridget:

At any rate.

Wendy:

Oh, it was. You know what? It was a Mercedes.

Bridget:

They are rich and you know this right away. One thing I noticed, though, is that while Chet and Connie are just tooling down toward the cabin in their, like, family truckster.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Roman is driving like a bat out of h***. He is determined. And you're like, what are they doing? Why are they in such a hurry? It's creepy. So basically, they crash. Not the car, but the vacation.

Wendy:

Yes.

Bridget:

I'm sorry. That was a funny choice.

Wendy:

That was good.

Bridget:

Obviously, this is the stereotype of the rich snobs, because, well, they're awful.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Roman is awful.

Wendy:

Terrible.

Bridget:

And Chet's just like. So. I mean, John Candy, you know, he's not gonna haul off and hit somebody. He's gonna just have this awkward, uncomfortable laugh and, you know, try to hold it in.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

But Roman is the worst, and he thinks he's the best.

Wendy:

Yeah. Well, that's the thing about people like that, is the reason that they have gone after success so hard is because they're insecure. Yeah. And then they must talk because they're insecure.

Bridget:

Right.

Wendy:

So, yeah. It all comes from a place of insecurity. So right from the get. Jump. Get jump. From the get go jump. Right from the jump. I mix those up right from the jump. He's definitely not who he says he is, because why would he even be here if he really doesn't want to be in the woods? And they could have been in Europe, like, you know, that's.

Bridget:

And they weren't invited.

Wendy:

Exactly.

Bridget:

Oh, wouldn't you be so p*****?

Wendy:

I would. I would tell them to get the f*** out of there. Maybe. I wouldn't. They're family. I thought this had a lot of parallels. It was basically National Lampoon's Christmas vacation, but in the woods. I see that because it's like Dan Akron is sort of like Randy Quaid character in that. Except that they're. He's more like him than you think in the beginning because. Except he's rich instead of poor. But it's sort of like a very similar dynamic. Showing up unannounced, just really grinding On Chevy Chase's Gears. John Candy's Gears. So I was like, yeah, this is like that movie, but in the woods.

Bridget:

Yeah. It's that uncomfortable, like, situation.

Wendy:

Right.

Bridget:

Situational. I found this movie to be deeper than it appears.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

And very touching. And lessons were learned.

Wendy:

Yes.

Bridget:

I mean, it's a good movie, and it holds up.

Wendy:

Yeah, it really does. There's a few things. They're husband and wife, but the dynamic between Chet and Connie was a little weird in parts. Like, in the beginning when he just starts undressing her.

Bridget:

So. No, I saw that as. Okay. They've got this teenage kid, and they're still really in love.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

And they giggle and he flirts, and.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

He was trying to get it on, and she. You know, they're. They're still in love.

Wendy:

Yeah. It was actually ended up being cute. But at the beginning of that interaction, I was like, it gave me the ick. Just because I know, like, when I'm cleaning, I don't want to be being hit on.

Bridget:

Well, she did say no at first.

Wendy:

Yeah. That was. That was. It wasn't really. The undressing her was. Yeah. But their relationship was cute. And then later on, when they're alone, Chet is just like, I'm leaving. I can't do this. And then he picks her up by the neck.

Bridget:

Oh, God.

Wendy:

And throws her down like, he's gonna choke her. But he's kidding.

Bridget:

Yeah.

Wendy:

But it's terrifying to think that, like, your husband could do that to you.

Bridget:

Well, there's size difference for one.

Wendy:

Yeah. Big size.

Bridget:

I was just calling her, like, a little sprite.

Wendy:

Yeah. And she thinks it's funny, and it must be, like, a bit that they do. But the second that he did that, I was like, just like, he's out of his.

Bridget:

And don't check your wife. Roman and Kate, on the other hand, do not have a good marriage.

Wendy:

No.

Bridget:

And they do not have a sex life. Which comes up later.

Wendy:

The washing machine.

Bridget:

Yes.

Wendy:

Speaking of, have you seen the. Or heard the new Casey Musgraves song? It's called Dry Spell.

Bridget:

Okay.

Wendy:

And it's talking about how she's going through a dry spell, and at one point, she's been sitting on the washing machine.

Bridget:

Yo, go find yourself a spin cycle. That was so great.

Wendy:

But I liked that Connie was, like, kind of curious. She's like, oh, does that work? Like, maybe we should go sit on the washing machine. Right.

Bridget:

Too bad I have to go to the laundry mat.

Wendy:

Awkward. Why are we blowing through so many quarters?

Bridget:

God d***. Plus, you have to Wait so long for the spin cycle to come around.

Wendy:

That's true.

Bridget:

Here's what I noticed kind of happening. Find out later why Roman is there. And I was like, this is like when you schmooze a client.

Wendy:

Absolutely.

Bridget:

Except Chet doesn't know he's the mark. If you were in business together and you knew that was occurring, then it wouldn't be so weird for Roman to be like, we're having lobster around a golf or something to discuss the deal. But poor Chet doesn't know, so everything seems just over the top and, like, showing off. Hot dogs. Gonna grill those hot dogs. No, you're not. We're having lobster tails.

Wendy:

You know what's in hot dogs?

Bridget:

Lips and. Yeah, the raccoons are the best.

Wendy:

I know that line where they're like, yeah, I love lips and.

Bridget:

Yeah. Oh, and rocks on the trash can lids. Well, that won't work.

Wendy:

Yeah, that made me laugh because. Wow. I've seen raccoons do a lot of crazy s***. I saw one move. It was a small tv, but somebody had put a TV on top of their trash can so they couldn't get in. I watched raccoons move it.

Bridget:

I pictured just, like, furniture movers coming out of the house, each holding a corner of the tv.

Wendy:

Right.

Bridget:

Like, we're. We're going.

Wendy:

Yeah. And they work together to do stuff. They'll climb on each other's backs to get into dumpsters. I've seen that. When we went camping one time, we had one open our cooler and steal a single egg. I remember that it was so, like, careful with the egg not to break it. It took it out of the container. Like, it didn't even rip the container. I was like, wow, that's some dexterity.

Bridget:

Yeah.

Wendy:

And later on the next night, we put a bungee cord over it. And the raccoon couldn't figure that out, but we heard him trying to get in there, like, snapping it and stuff.

Bridget:

They're so smart.

Wendy:

So smart and adorable. Yep.

Bridget:

Well, I had a pet one, you know that.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

His name was Bill.

Wendy:

Yeah. I guess we should say, while we're talking about raccoons, why that it's particularly funny is because they subtitle them.

Bridget:

Yes.

Wendy:

And so you get the dialogue of the raccoons. And they're very funny. And I like, especially, I think the last time we see him, there's no trash. And they're like, well, maybe the humans kept it inside. And they did. Which they did. And he's like, ew. Inside. Well, you know, humans aren't very Clean animals. Which is so true. We're the dirtiest animal.

Bridget:

But besides that, when they go to clean up the trash, he's like, there's maggots in the meat.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

How long is the trash in there?

Wendy:

I know.

Bridget:

Maybe it's like, the whole summer's worth.

Wendy:

Yeah. Gross.

Bridget:

Yeah.

Wendy:

Well, they. Yeah. The owners of the cabin tell them that they cleaned it and they didn't. And a bunch of fishermen had just been there, so there's, like, fish in the shower.

Bridget:

Oh, yeah. That's weird. Why would you. Yeah. Have fish everywhere.

Wendy:

You would clean them in the kitchen.

Bridget:

Actually, most people just, like. Maybe you just had one in your hands and you're like, I gotta go take a p***. And then you gotta set it down so you can hold your ding dong.

Wendy:

What could be so urgent?

Bridget:

He was holding the fish while he was rocking a p***. Oh, I did write this down. The raccoons also say something about their articulate fingers.

Wendy:

Yes.

Bridget:

That's why they can grab stuff.

Wendy:

They have one of the few species that have thumbs besides all the apes.

Bridget:

I think they can open peanut butter jars. That's nuts.

Wendy:

Yep.

Bridget:

Ugh. They are so cute, though.

Wendy:

I want to befriend one or a colony of them and, I don't know,

Bridget:

do what my dad did and shoot a raccoon and realize that it has a litter.

Wendy:

Oh, man. That's what my grandpa did, too.

Bridget:

My mom had Farmers have to protect their crap.

Wendy:

Yeah. They'll get in there, they'll kill chickens, and they'll definitely steal all their eggs.

Bridget:

Oh, yeah.

Wendy:

We may or may not have a raccoon in our attic right now. We have something crawling.

Bridget:

Oh, no.

Wendy:

We went up on the roof and even closed up some spots that seemed like what could be where it was getting in, but. Well, we saw that they broke in again, whatever it is. So I don't know if it sounds bigger than a squirrel to me, but. I don't know. We haven't seen it. We just hear it sometimes.

Bridget:

Whoa.

Wendy:

So, yeah, we got some anyway. Maybe I already have a pet reck.

Bridget:

When we lived in Sheldon, that crappy house next door.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Had a big hole up in the peak of it. Do you remember that?

Wendy:

I do. The ducking duck.

Bridget:

And I watched this duck land, crawl into the hole, come back out. Yeah. When do you ever see a duck?

Wendy:

True. I never see ducks flying very much.

Bridget:

No. And. Or just on the ground or landing anywhere. We also had geese in the yard at one point. Now, that's scary.

Wendy:

Yeah. I went on a walk at work the Other day, and they have a little pond and there was a couple geese. And of course, they were standing right in the path, so I could. Couldn't really go around them. And they hissed at me. And I've been bit by a goose before, so I was nervous, but they just hissed. They didn't come after me. I was like, you're in my way. There's go.

Bridget:

And they bite and twist. Oh, my God.

Wendy:

It's like a really tight pinch.

Bridget:

Yes.

Wendy:

It's not fun.

Bridget:

No.

Wendy:

Geese are the worst.

Bridget:

Chased by a goose in the car.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

I mean, seriously. We sped and it's just wings outstretched. They're huge.

Wendy:

They are.

Bridget:

Yes.

Wendy:

They're very large and so unafraid of anything.

Bridget:

It was scary.

Wendy:

They're very aggressive, I guess is the right word.

Bridget:

Well, there were goslings there, too. Ryan Gosling in the ditch. So I wanted to get a closer look. That's why I slowed down to begin with.

Wendy:

We're about to be in that season, aren't we?

Bridget:

Bad idea.

Wendy:

Baby goose season.

Bridget:

Love them from afar and watch out for their poop.

Wendy:

Yeah. A lot of wildlife in this movie. And one thing I was thinking is that this kind of movie probably couldn't be made today because I don't think you can use bears in this way anymore. These are obviously, like, handled bears, trained bears, and they interact with them directly. Several times. They're crawling on the car.

Bridget:

Cody's like, I think we should leave. He's got three bears on the car. You can't even see out the windshield. Yeah.

Wendy:

It's like, let me just rethink this. That's what he said. Yeah. You should have not thrown candy bars at a bear.

Bridget:

And he throws nut. That's what. Beetlejuice.

Wendy:

And they're wrapped too. So. Yeah. The scene is he takes. Is it. This is the younger son that they go see the bears. Any John Candy. Chet throws wrapped candy bars at the bear and repeatedly hits the bear with them. So poking the bear, literally. And then is surprised when they all come over to the car and try to scratch it.

Bridget:

But that. That place and that event, the bear dump, and people just sitting in their cars watching the bears eat like garbage. Yeah, that was. I'm like, what? What is this? And it's not safe. No.

Wendy:

Is it real life? I bet.

Bridget:

I have no idea.

Wendy:

I wouldn't be surprised if they're somewhere like that. I mean, I would watch that.

Bridget:

I mean.

Wendy:

Yeah. I wouldn't throw anything at them, though.

Bridget:

Bears really freak me out close either.

Wendy:

Well, you should have a healthy Fear of them. But they're so fast for being so big. They can run like 30 miles an hour or something like that. Crazy.

Bridget:

So when Chet tells the bear story that there is a bald headed bear out there because of what he got shot.

Wendy:

Yeah. He got buckshot because he tried to get into the cabin when him and Connie were on their honeymoon.

Bridget:

And he tells it as a. Like a fireside scary story which freaks out all the kids.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

This is the beginning of Roman learning how to be a good father.

Wendy:

Yes.

Bridget:

Is he overhears Chet talking to the boy. Just about. About, you know, it's just a story as he's putting him to bed. That gives Roman the idea to go and talk to his own daughters.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

And he's like, I was scared from a story when I was about your age. So he proceeds to tell them a horrifying story.

Wendy:

Does even worse.

Bridget:

Army psychiatric patients roaming the woods, kidnapping a family and eating them.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

I mean. Yeah. And then he leaves the room going, so no more bears. Think about cuddly things. It's like. I mean, he tried, though.

Wendy:

Yeah. You can see a little bit of a character arc with Roman trying to be a better person. And in the end, he does something out of character that doesn't redeem him, but.

Bridget:

Well, kind of.

Wendy:

It redeems their relationship. No.

Bridget:

He has a few more steps to go.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

After Roman has a change of heart. Only because of the things that Kate is saying to him. Chet ends. Ended up giving him this money for this investment, which really wasn't real. I think he just wanted it to live on. They were broke. Sell the Mercedes. How about that?

Wendy:

Yeah. Stop buying lobster tails for 28 bucks a piece.

Bridget:

Right. At that point, they're having. He's coming clean to Chet and Connie about how they're actually broke. And this is a surprise to Kate too. Meanwhile, it's pouring rain and those creepy little girls run off and go into a mine.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Dummies. What?

Wendy:

And somebody. And it doesn't seem like they really care the first time because this is the second time they go into the mine or go near the mine at the end. Because the property owner warns Roman that he saw his daughters running around this mine.

Bridget:

Exactly.

Wendy:

And it's dangerous. And they don't really care.

Bridget:

No. Nothing is even remarked upon.

Wendy:

And they don't notice the girls are gone for a while.

Bridget:

Right.

Wendy:

They're just looking around. Like all of a sudden, Kate's like, where are our daughters? Where are your daughters? They had boots and raincoats on. They like got all Ready to leave. So nobody was watching them.

Bridget:

Always matchy matchy too.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

So cute. But yeah, that's when they do figure out that the girls, Roman and Chet, are searching for them in the woods without a flashlight in the rain. And they figure out that they're in the well. And that's where Roman becomes a father sort of figure. Father figure. Yeah, because he doesn't. He's claustrophobic. He doesn't parent normally. He ends up going down there. And John Candy wouldn't have fit down there.

Wendy:

No.

Bridget:

So he's going off. I'll get you rope. You know, they're figuring this out. Although why they couldn't have just thrown down a rope and pulled the girls up.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

I don't know. But anyway, so he's down there and, you know, he's like, oh my God, I love you girls, and holds them and rescues them all by himself. And I think that experience changed him absolutely. Yeah.

Wendy:

Any, you know, traumatic experience where you're like forced to face anyone's mortality, especially your kids, that should change you, I would hope. And yeah, it does. It softens them up. And he also, I think, realizes he's capable in that moment, which makes you a better father too, because it's hard to parent people if you don't feel like you have good things to offer them. And I think he kind of just feels like the only thing he has to offer is money. And he has failed at that too, so.

Bridget:

So. Right.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

So they go back to the cabin without even going, hey, Chet. Or.

Wendy:

Yeah. How did they not cross each other? I have no idea in paths, but yeah, you would. Then when Chet comes back, nobody is. It's not weird that nobody decided to tell him that they were back. And they're like, where have you been? Ha ha ha.

Bridget:

Oh, my God. And they really were in danger because that bald headed bear was in there right. Right behind them.

Wendy:

Yeah, He. He accidentally pulls the bear out of the well when he thinks he's saving Dan and the girls.

Bridget:

The bear's tugging on the rope like, you know, a toy. He's like, little help here. And he has a smart idea of wrapping the rope around the tree so that he's pulling. The way that that works is he's pulling himself toward the mouth of the mine, which makes him come face to face with the pair. So great big bear chase, big bear chase, big bear chase me. No one can understand what he's saying when he runs in and slams the door of the cabin.

Wendy:

I know. Poor John Candy. He had to Do a lot of athleticism that it didn't want to do.

Bridget:

It's like Paul Blart.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Surprisingly nimble. Coffee break. Let's talk about our beans.

Wendy:

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Bridget:

Yeah.

Wendy:

He runs a lot in this. And he's. He's. We didn't even talk about that part, but we'll finish with the bear. But that scene with the bear pushing down the door, there's obviously, like, a fake dummy underneath the door when they. When their bears jumping on it, but it is a real bear really jumping in the scene on the door.

Bridget:

Yes.

Wendy:

I'm like, wow, that's so crazy.

Bridget:

I mean. Yeah, they used to really abuse. Use bears a lot. Like, the whole, like, bear. On the sidecar of Motorbike, I read that they would actually pull out their teeth.

Wendy:

Oh, so they weren't as dangerous.

Bridget:

Yeah, supposedly not as dangerous, but, I

Wendy:

mean, they still have their claws.

Bridget:

I mean.

Wendy:

Yeah, that's. Well, their mouth, too, but, like, their claws are just crazy.

Bridget:

Maybe they declawed them like cats.

Wendy:

Yeah. Which. That's another thing that I didn't. I think a lot of people maybe still don't realize how barbaric decline. Because I didn't know that, like, we grew up doing it. My parents did it to our cats. And then when I found out what it actually was, I was like, I'm never doing that.

Bridget:

I don't think vets do it anymore.

Wendy:

Oh, really?

Bridget:

I do not think so.

Wendy:

I know it was made illegal in a few states, but I don't think it's, like, technically illegal federally or anything.

Bridget:

Well, I'll bet that if you asked your vet to do it, that they would definitely, you know, talk you out of it.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

If they did perform that particular surgery. Oh, it's so nasty.

Wendy:

I know. I'm glad that that's a thing. I mean, just don't get a calf. You're worried about it scratching something. You know, don't get a cat.

Bridget:

Take my cats. Honestly, they're the worst. Okay, so the skiing.

Wendy:

Yeah. Roman insists that they get a jet boat instead of the pontoon that they were planning on because it's cooler, it's flashier, and that's Roman style. And then he's trying to teach. Chet's trying to teach the younger son how to water ski, and they're doing it right off the dock, which absolutely nobody does that.

Bridget:

Does that make sense?

Wendy:

No, it's It's a terrible idea.

Bridget:

Not only that, they're not even on the edge of the dock with the rope. They're way back, almost to shore.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

So there's a whole Runway. Yeah.

Wendy:

Roman ends up taking off while Chet is still holding onto the rope. Have you ever water skied?

Bridget:

Yes.

Wendy:

It is very tough to hold on to yourself. I've never been able to do it for very long.

Bridget:

There's that thing in your head that says, let go of the rope. But there's that other thing in your head that says, no, I can. I can get this. I can get. Get. You know, get stood up. I have had the most forceful enema from water skiing because I didn't let go of the road.

Wendy:

Yeah. It's brutal.

Bridget:

Yeah.

Wendy:

I could never get the hang of it.

Bridget:

And I can never go. I. I'm too afraid to cross the wake. I And my brother would be driving the boat and he would be turning and turning into. So that you had just trouble everywhere. No, I don't last too long.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

So that's fun, though.

Wendy:

Yeah. I like tubing. That's more my speed, because you can just. Same kind of thing, but it doesn't hurt. But. Yeah. So he ends up getting dragged all over this lake, and he still just never lets go anywhere yelling, let go. Yeah.

Bridget:

And. Oh, yes. And when he's like, you b******. What is he saying? Connie goes, oh, I think he said faster,

Wendy:

because he clearly looks like he's having a good time.

Bridget:

Oh, yeah.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

And she says, oh, I love to see him relaxing like this. There's nothing relaxing about that.

Wendy:

No. And they're. They're clotheslining a bunch of people in their boats.

Bridget:

What?

Wendy:

And is wild.

Bridget:

Talk about seeing your own mortality.

Wendy:

Yeah. That scene gave me a lot of anxiety. I don't know, but it was funny.

Bridget:

It was great.

Wendy:

You go over the. At the end, he goes through all the p**** willows and the. The vegetation. And that was almost his last straw. He's like, I can't. I'm gonna be picking burrs out of my a** for weeks. Yeah.

Bridget:

Oh, my God. I don't know what it is. It's. So the guy that runs the. There was a birthday party.

Wendy:

Oh, God.

Bridget:

For an old f***** who's like a hundred, right?

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

And they attend the birthday party, and he's sitting over there with a paper hat on in his wheelchair. This is Weekend at Bernie's in the woods. They just think he can't hear or whatever. Get in there, kids. Let's get a picture.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

The kids kiss them. The two twins kiss them on the cheek. No. That's cute. Well, a man wouldn't like to be kissed on the cheek by a couple little girls. A dead one. Ew.

Wendy:

That's.

Bridget:

There's another vacation situation when Aunt Edna is dead and everybody jumps out of the car to get away from it. Yeah. After they realize that the guy's dead, Chet goes, wash up. Go wash. Go wash your. Why would that matter?

Wendy:

I don't know. Humans are weird about dead bodies.

Bridget:

Oh, yeah, I sure am.

Wendy:

I get. Reminded me of that song. I think it's a Joe Diffie song. Prop me upside the jukebox if I die I don't want to go to heaven But I don't want to go tonight. Wow. Fill my boots up with sand Put a stiff drink in my hand Prop me upside the jukebox if I die.

Bridget:

Gross.

Wendy:

Yeah, that was what that guy was thinking. Maybe he had that in his will. That song came out after this movie, I think. God.

Bridget:

Creepy. They don't do humor human taxidermy, do they?

Wendy:

I don't know if that's legal.

Bridget:

I can't believe that came out of.

Wendy:

Well, actually, it. They kind of do. Haven't you ever been to an open casket funeral? That's human taxidermy. Really? I mean, they don't stuff them full of anything, but it's. They're full of chemicals and.

Bridget:

Yeah, you're right. Gross.

Wendy:

Yes, we do. We just don't usually leave them in our home.

Bridget:

Right. Well, they do weird stuff. They sew their eyelids and they slow their lips shut and they break all their fingers.

Wendy:

Oh, I didn't know that.

Bridget:

They can lay them naturally.

Wendy:

Oh, yeah. Cuz you. The body gets stiff. Right. So you can't move it around. Yeah.

Bridget:

Breaking fingers is a rigorous pursuit. I didn't do that. And we completely. We didn't even go into the stupid love story.

Wendy:

Yeah. It was a side thought.

Bridget:

It's like kind of dumb.

Wendy:

I think that somebody wrote the script for this movie and then they were like. Like, I think it needs a little bit of a romance story. Or. And it was added on as a extra thing because it didn't.

Bridget:

It didn't even need it at all.

Wendy:

No.

Bridget:

And the. Just as the teenage boy wants to kind of walk around town, there's carnivals and all this arcades and s***. Meets a local. I'm more local than you can imagine.

Wendy:

What does that mean?

Bridget:

I have no idea.

Wendy:

She's just lived there her whole life. I don't know.

Bridget:

Yeah. Yeah. She's A local.

Wendy:

Yeah. Big whoop, right?

Bridget:

I know about guys like you, that kind of whole thing, like. But it's still. It's a summer love and you know you're gonna stay together. They're like 15.

Wendy:

Yeah. No, they're not.

Bridget:

Although she seemed about 18.

Wendy:

Yeah, she seemed older.

Bridget:

It's the 80s. It's that hair and the weird makeup. Yeah, it doesn't. Looking back, they just don't look even right for their age, I guess. You know what I saying?

Wendy:

I do.

Bridget:

Anyway. Yeah. I'm glad you agree on that. That whole thing didn't even need to be in there. They didn't even need to have a teenage son.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Not at all.

Wendy:

True. It could have just been the one son that he's trying to bond with, not two. Yeah.

Bridget:

Yeah. Well, yeah, that's what I think. I love this movie. I love all John Candy movies.

Wendy:

Yeah, I think we talked about that when we watched Cool Runnings that. I kind of forgot how much I love John Candy. And again, yeah. The. The parallel between Paul Blart, because I love Kevin James too, but. Yeah. The physicality that he brings to the roles, even though he's like. Well, he's a big figure, so he brings a presence, I think, like the bear. The story, when he's telling the bear, like, he's a great storyteller. It wasn't that scary of a story, but he was good at telling it scary. And I. I think. Yeah. I just love him.

Bridget:

Yep. So great. Anything else?

Wendy:

I don't know, other than that he makes the bear. Bald headed bear also bald butted.

Bridget:

Yes.

Wendy:

Was a great way to end the film.

Bridget:

Poor bear.

Wendy:

I know.

Bridget:

Little b*** cheeks.

Wendy:

Yeah. Do you think they shaved the bear? Probably.

Bridget:

It looked like it was prosthetic.

Wendy:

Oh, the b***?

Bridget:

Yeah, it was a round b***.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

Like a person b***.

Wendy:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the b***. But the head. I think they really shaved the bears.

Bridget:

Probably. Yeah.

Wendy:

Anyway, that makes me sad. But also it was cool in a movie.

Bridget:

It was hilarious because the hair just blew off the b***. No bears were harmed in the making of this movie. Goodness.

Wendy:

Yeah.

Bridget:

All right. Did we do it?

Wendy:

I think we did it.

Bridget:

We flicked some beads.

Wendy:

Okay, love you.

Bridget:

Bye. Bye. Party all night long. Ra.

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