Yeeted Rivalry

Two loons from the Heated Rivalry Fandom, join us for yapping about queerness, music, and micro-moments that scratch your brain.

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Yeeted Rivalry

Missed Opportunities

May 02, 2026 • Liz + Nat • Season 1 • Episode 16

0:00 | 1:09:25

Hey everyone!
Thanks for your patience while we dealt with life shit but
WE ARE BACK and we are finishing up episode two of Heated Rivalry!
Up next is SKIP!

Fic Recs:
Nat -
Burn, crash, reset (Ilya's POV) by sasha_udodo
https://archiveofourown.org/works/785...
&
Hit, run, repeat (Shane's POV) by sasha_udodo
https://archiveofourown.org/works/785...

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SPEAKER_02 0:06

Y'all, it has been more than a minute. Four score and four score and seven years ago. So we recorded our last episode, what, three weeks ago?

SPEAKER_01 0:20

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:21

Ish, right? And it wraps up episode two of Heated Rivalry. Thank you very much. So we are posting that. Yes, this is that will be after this.

SPEAKER_01 0:32

That will be after after what you just we wanted to say, we are live.

SPEAKER_02 0:37

We are live. We acknowledge that it has been a minute and that life has happened. So we appreciate you sticking around. We hope you enjoy the episode. And in a few more days, you'll have yet another episode.

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Yeah. So we'll see you uh on the other side. All right. Okay. Hello. Welcome back. It is yeeted rivalry. Natalie is here. So is Liz. Say hi, Liz. Hello. She is here. We are here. So are you. Or as as uh God, what was her name? I feel so bad. But welcome back. We are still here. They are in space.

SPEAKER_02 1:21

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:22

But by the time you are listening to this, they will have gotten home safely. Safely. And we will have finally had history without tragedy.

SPEAKER_02 1:33

I know. Oh that's serious. So interesting fact about not about my life at all, but kind of about my life. I worked at Framingham State College, which is now Framingham State University.

SPEAKER_04 1:47

What the fuck is McGoo?

SPEAKER_02 1:49

Fuck fuck off. And which has the Krista McAuliffe Center. And it was in the building where I worked. And it's like a little center where kids would come and like learn about the outer space. And was named after the astronaut Krista McAuliffe, who went to Framingham State.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 2:10

Fun fact.

SPEAKER_01 2:11

Look at that.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

That's all I got. That's my connection to space, y'all. I'm done. Thanks for coming.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

Little little trivia tidbit you know. You never know. That's all I it's all I have to offer. Well, do you have a can? I do. I have a can. All right. Let's get them cracking. Let's do this. Yep. Here we go. Is yours a sun drop? No, it's I'm back to my um my sparkling waters.

SPEAKER_02 2:34

Oh, very nice. Mine is a black a black cherry, which is superior to all.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

This is just a lime one.

SPEAKER_02 2:41

Lime. Lime is also acceptable.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

Yeah. These are the Kirkland, the Kirkland brand sparkling waters.

SPEAKER_02 2:47

They're so good and they're so cheap. I love them. So cheap. Cheap is the priority these days.

SPEAKER_01 2:53

Oh, yeah. We like all right. So first up on the docket is our bracket finally completed, concluded.

SPEAKER_02 3:02

Not only did it conclude, it was the second bracket in the the like the Ulta STEM, as I spontaneously named it one morning. The winner. The crowned, the crowned winner. Will you come to my cottage this summer? And there was some discussion. First of all, that shit got heated.

unknown 3:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

Loved it. It was so fun.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

It was so fun.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

Thank you, everyone, for thank you. Seriously.

SPEAKER_02 3:29

The amount of absolute joy that I got out of people's pseudo distress over having to choose between something that absolutely doesn't matter was highly enjoyable. And the fact that that one wins kind of kills me because it's not very vocal stimmy. It's catchy. It's a nice little graphic. The acronym.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

I think it is.

SPEAKER_02 3:55

You think it is?

SPEAKER_01 3:56

Well, yeah, because if you're if you're saying if I'm saying like, will you do something?

SPEAKER_03 4:01

I'll be like, Will you uh will you will you come to my like to me?

SPEAKER_01 4:07

That's it. The a vocal stim is like if it if you stop in the middle of what you're saying too, to be like finish it out. Okay.

unknown 4:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:16

I guess to for me, for like my brain and the way it works, like different things like the way he says better. That seems more of like a like the single words or like the shorter phrases seemed more applicable to be a vocal stamp. Now I'm the one who made the bracket too. So I mean it's your fucking fault. It's my fucking fault. I quit. Oh my god. And I'm done. So congratulations. And the uh the loser has to go play for the Metros, which is fate worse than hell. Um, so sorry to hear about that. Oh my god, I need to pause. I'm sorry, I have the episode running and got very distracted. Oh sorry about that. Uh so yes, so the bracket and our second piece of business that's very important is which hopefully by the time we release this episode will have been rectified. Yeah, but speaking about brackets. But speaking about brackets, our good friend Bella Books, is it Bella and the Books? Bella.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

I think it's Bella I never know the I never know people's exact screen names.

SPEAKER_02 5:25

I'm so terrible at that. Uh, but the th her threads account was suspended and she was running a bracket for the kiss of the day, and everybody was really looking forward to it and participating in it already. Um, and the suspension is absolutely unfounded. So um, if you haven't already helped out with um reporting it through Instagram and through threads or or posting about you know getting her returned, please do because she's a core person in the fandom and has done a lot of really cool stuff and generated a lot of joy for everybody. So please bring back Bella.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

Yeah, it's Bella underscore the underscore books. Nice. So we love you. And I believe if you listen to this, we we your presence is your presence being gone is felt.

SPEAKER_02 6:16

Ugh, it's terrible. I like it.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

Yeah, zero out zero out of ten. Dislike, negative likes, decline, rejecting thumbs, thumbs down.

SPEAKER_02 6:27

That's all I got. I didn't have another one.

SPEAKER_01 6:29

Yeah, I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. I'm donezo. Uh so Bella, we love you. Hopefully, by the like Liz said, by the time this is out, um, it's fixed. But if not, we will we will keep fighting. We will keep fighting another day.

SPEAKER_02 6:45

And we will bring the kiss of the day back. Yes, yes. Never fear, never fear. All right, so what is your most recent reheat? What do you got?

SPEAKER_01 6:56

Um, my most recent reheat was I reheated episode five.

SPEAKER_02 7:02

Ooh, the fave. Look at you giving yourself a little treat, a little self-care. Going to Tampa.

SPEAKER_01 7:11

And then watching the rest of this episode tonight, I realized like I haven't watched, I haven't done like, I mean, I haven't done the full reheat since my mother-in-law was here last year, last month. But yeah, um, I it's been like I feel like it's been so long since I've like actually sat down and like watched. And so watching, watching the Vegas penthouse scene, I was like getting all those same belly feelings that I was and I was just like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_02 7:34

Yeah, what is happening? Oh my god, it's not feelings Tuesday. Oh no, it's not. I just you know how I don't like it.

SPEAKER_01 7:44

But we didn't we didn't talk about any feelings this Tuesday, so I feel like if that happens, we are allowed to I we can we can submit uh an extension.

SPEAKER_02 7:54

No, there's no ex there's no extension form. If you don't get your feelings in on Tuesday, you have to wait until the next Tuesday. That's how it's you have to like. I'm from the Midwest. I was raised Catholic, and you have to tamp them down. Yeah, all feelings and emotions get pushed down.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

That's why she hates me because I tell her I love her like a million times a day.

SPEAKER_02 8:17

Um, I do the same, so fuck off.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

You do it uh in a reactionary way.

SPEAKER_02 8:23

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

I'm just giving it. We really we're really airing this. Okay. No, go ahead. No, no, I'm just saying she doesn't like the feelings, but I make her I make her remember that she has them every single day. Every single day, every single day. All right, what's your most recent reheat, darling?

SPEAKER_02 8:43

I reheated Skip. Nice because I love me some episode three, I really do.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

Well, and that's good because we're about to start it too after this episode.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

I so when I was watching it, I actually thought of that. I was like, oh my god, are we actually about to finish episode two? Oh, I know. And I I have to finish Game Changer.

SPEAKER_03 9:01

You do, you do. I have to finish Game Changer.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

I have to finish Game Changer.

SPEAKER_02 9:05

Is it just not is is it it's not like gripping you the same way, or is it just no, I mean it's good.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

Just taking time. Yeah, it's just there's just yeah, there's just some parts that like for me are they're just like dragging. Like why didn't there have to be like a whole chapter about uh Scott's like bruise? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 9:30

Like so wait, we're gonna okay. Slight slight departure from the topic at hand. I in my book club, we had to read, um, I shouldn't say had to, but the book club that I'm in locally chose a Taylor Jenkins read book. And it was the Carrie Soto book. My dudes, there was so much fucking tennis in that book. I am sorry, but and like bless that that you found so many words and paragraphs and pages to describe a serve. I simply could not. I could not.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

That's miserable.

SPEAKER_02 10:16

Oh my god, and like I wanted, I desperately wanted to like it. I'm not a huge tennis fan. I'm not not a tennis fan.

SPEAKER_01 10:25

I'm gonna start sending you songs that talk about tennis.

SPEAKER_02 10:28

Shut up.

SPEAKER_01 10:29

But I have so I have so many there are I have like four that I'm gonna be able to talk about. Why right off the bat?

SPEAKER_02 10:35

Why?

SPEAKER_01 10:36

Why do you have so that's so random?

SPEAKER_02 10:38

But that is the book that comes to mind when people talk about how certain books just like go on and on about something. Uh that I have I have flashbacks to learning learning way too much, but then also absolutely fucking nothing about tennis. Yep. Both both things were true at the same time. It was it was excruciating.

SPEAKER_01 10:59

Yeah. But I think that's kind of what's cool about heated rivalry with the book compared to the show, because I remember when the show first came out, there were a lot of people that were like, I thought there was gonna be way more hockey. And it's like you in in but but in the book, there is more hockey because it has to be described. Right. So it's like you're seeing the same amount of hockey in here, yeah. But visually it gets it, yes, it goes, it's all going very fast. Correct. So it's like, unless they're gonna put it in slow motion, right? They're not gonna fucking do that, right? And but yeah, I did remember to bring my book, everyone. I have my book here.

SPEAKER_02 11:41

Natalie gets a gold star for today. Yay, Natalie. No one could hear that. I couldn't. She tapped her microphone with the book just to prove it. I tried. You did, you made it. I tried, I tried. So now we are back in Vegas.

SPEAKER_03 12:01

We sure fucking are.

SPEAKER_02 12:03

Have we back in Vegas? We entered the room, did we not? We did enter the room. We entered the room and we talked about the fact that Ilya was standing there. He was standing there, and that I was slightly irritated because I wasn't 100% sure. Did he get a code? Was there a key card?

SPEAKER_01 12:20

Yes, that is the thing that we don't know. And it sounds like there like something happened, but like there's like a thing. Yeah. But then the the other thing that I think, but I mean, no, this is what year is this again?

SPEAKER_02 12:36

2005 14? It's four like 14, yeah. Because that's right. It's after Sochi.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

Because the only thing I could think is maybe um that was a tiny burp for anyone who's like, little baby one. Uh maybe like a penthouse, they have some app or like some way where he's able to.

SPEAKER_02 12:59

2014.

SPEAKER_01 13:01

I don't maybe. Maybe I mean I mean if it's if it's like a super fucking nice hotel.

SPEAKER_02 13:06

I have I don't go to super fucking nice hotels, so I got nothing.

SPEAKER_01 13:09

You know, or maybe there's maybe there's something inside the hotel where he can hit a button and it like unlocks the door or something. Penthouse.

SPEAKER_02 13:18

I always I don't think I've ever been into a penthouse. And no, that's not true. I did go in one once. It that's a long story. But it was like the kind where the the key card had to you had to use it in the elevator. So like you couldn't get up to that floor because the elevator, when it opened, you were like in the living room, basically, of that particular thing. So before we move on too much, I want to say that I also noticed that in the text messages, the text messages evolved from just being the first letter of Jane or Lily to full name. And I don't know why I found that weird. Like that was an unusual change. I mean, I they just keep differentiating it from, you know, like technology is right changing and all that stuff. It just seemed like an interesting change to me. That it's like obviously they're never gonna put like a picture or an avatar or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 14:12

Um, but I mean it just goes back to whenever Shane was saying Lily and putting the quotations around it. Like, why are you putting the quotations around it?

SPEAKER_00 14:21

Right, like just say it, dude.

SPEAKER_05 14:22

The choices that they made in that respect.

SPEAKER_02 14:25

I don't get it. Shane, just okay, stop.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

It's fine, it's fine. Okay, I don't need to get it. I don't need to get it.

SPEAKER_02 14:31

You don't. That's why we're here. So we beep beep into the room and we have right off the bat. Right off the bat, Ilya.

SPEAKER_01 14:39

Just yeah, just just there, ready to go. Yep. And my note says, Jesus fucking Christ.

SPEAKER_02 14:49

So ironically, mine says, holy hell. Thank you very much. And my first question is, why the fuck are tuxedo shirts so goddamn long?

SPEAKER_01 15:00

And then why are they so awkward? Like it looks so awkward. It doesn't look it doesn't look hot to me. Like he looks hot, but yes, obviously.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

But like the shirts themselves, and I've thought this my entire adult life. They why are there humans out there with exceedingly long torsos that makes it necessary? But like even Shane, when he's getting undressed, it's like he pulls the shirt out for like a half an hour before he's like, eh fuck it.

SPEAKER_01 15:30

And he like starts unbuttoning it. But he's the only thing the only thing I can think is it's to ensure that the shirt isn't gonna get untucked. You know what I mean? Like it's long enough to where it's like it's it's in there, so it's not coming out. Because like that would be annoying if your shirt kept coming on unbuttoned. But isn't it to have that shut down? Men if there are any men listening.

SPEAKER_02 15:56

If there are any if there are any anyone who wears tuxedo shirts, can you please inform us why the fuck they're so long? And is it is it a hindrance on your humanity? Because I feel personally offended by how long I feel like at that point just feel hot. I feel I I feel claustrophobic looking at it. Yeah, like I imagine that being tucked in and that it's like down to your fucking knees. That sounds terrible. Yeah, yeah. Uh sorry, I I have a lot of feelings about tuxedo shirts, apparently. Um he's standing next to the open door, which is giving I was smoking a cigarette.

SPEAKER_03 16:35

Love is an open door.

SPEAKER_02 16:41

Feels weird to me that you chose that song. I mean, not because it it's a good tie-in. Still weird. Still, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

It's I mean, I did watch those movies like um in 2014. No, I watched them like last year recently.

SPEAKER_02 16:57

Oh cute.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

I was go I was watching like a I was trying to watch a bunch of movies last year, and then I ended up realizing that I'm more of a TV show person because I was like I ended up watching TV shows more than I was watching the movie. So that's valid. Yeah, but I was just watching a bunch of like stuff that I hadn't seen or I hadn't seen in a long time. So when I w I went through a little a little uh Disney animated kick, watched watched all the the goodens. So nicely done. Yep. So catch up Shane with his bow tie, undone, carrying his jacket.

SPEAKER_02 17:32

Yep, seems a little unshayne-like to me, not gonna lie. The undone bow tie. I feel like he's he's having his like Neil Young moment.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

It to me, it makes me makes me think that he is. I mean, not think it to me, it shows that he's already just like so nervous.

SPEAKER_02 17:49

Yeah, he's like kind of cosplaying, casual.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

Yeah, but also like I can't breathe. Like, yes, oh yeah, that's good. Yeah, like I wanna, I can't.

SPEAKER_02 17:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

And then Ilya with the wide open shirt and the glass of vodka, and and then him like tapping the bottom of the glass. Like, stop yourselves. I'm like, uh is that the is that the physical manifestation of how much difficulty you are having with trying to control yourself?

SPEAKER_02 18:15

Really? Uh I think so. I think I think honey birds.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

Let me he's like, let me tap this instead of that.

SPEAKER_02 18:23

Yes, uh, because he does that, he he does a lot of that at the Tampa Bar. He does a lot of the like fidgeting and stuff. Yeah so 100%.

unknown 18:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:33

He's and I have I have here somewhere about him being nervous. Yeah. So somewhere. My handwriting is atrocious.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

He's just it's also sad because like he's watching Shane, but he's already just like disassociating.

SPEAKER_02 18:46

Oh, and it's it yeah, like he's he's made the rules, right? Like he established it in the dirty, filthy bathroom. And uh Shane is actually complying. But he just like wants something else entirely, you know, and it's just trying to keep him at arm's length. And oh, like what a heartbreaking. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's fun and it's hot, but it's so it's so heartbreaking too, you know? And I do I do love though the look that Shane gives him when he sees Ilya watching him get undressed. It's like just shy of an eye roll where he's like, all right, I get it. Like you're watching me, and this is like, you know, you're having your kink moment, whatever. Um, and Ilya doesn't even look all that serious about it. It's more like, you know, Shane's projecting a little bit, but he's like, All right, fine, you know, check me out, fine, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Yeah, he's already feeling the weird vibes, though. He's like, All right, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Something's off. Something I don't think I ever noticed that look that he gives back to him. No, yeah. I just rewound it. It's cute. He's like, he's just kind of like, how dare you? And then he folds his clothes like sweet baby angel that he is.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

And Ilya watches it, watches the clothes.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

He watches like the pants, yeah. You know that it's just doing this to Ilya's heart. Bringing it out. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 20:27

Is it is it squelching? Shut the fuck up.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

I fucking hate you. Shit's gonna follow me forever. Ugh.

SPEAKER_00 20:36

Never didn't even. I swear to god, I didn't plan that. It just happened. It was very organic.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

Whatever. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. I love you so much. So we got big ass windows.

SPEAKER_02 20:53

Yes. Wait, I have I need your thoughts on windows.

SPEAKER_01 20:56

Okay. So I like them. I'm a fan.

SPEAKER_02 20:59

I'm I'm a fan. Love love a good window. So I got I got two right here.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

I got so many. I got I got tons in my house. Oh, yeah. If I go if I go out of this room, I got way more. I got some more. You wait till you see upstairs. There's more upstairs. There's one in almost every room. Fuck off, really? Yeah, okay. Let's get back.

SPEAKER_02 21:22

I got some in my car. Ooh.

SPEAKER_01 21:24

The car windows are really nice. Really nice.

SPEAKER_02 21:28

You know what else I got? I got a fucking sunroof. I have a sunroof too.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

That's the best kind of window. It is.

SPEAKER_02 21:34

It's the tilt, the moonroof thing.

SPEAKER_01 21:36

I don't have a moonroof. It's just a regular sunroof. It's so sad.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

Yeah, that's alright. It doesn't do the tilty tilty. No. I tried. I even yelled at it. I was like, I don't think it works that way. No, sure it doesn't. Um, so anyway, would you have the same concerns as Shane being where it is? No. Me either. I was like. My ass would like walk around naked and be like, what ev? What just happened? Oh no. I think something has happened with an animal. Hold on. Natalie is vacating the premises temporarily and letting in a kitten. And the kitten is coming back with her. The kitten needed. Here's Lily.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

Here you go. Lily has dropped festivities. I looked behind and the door was closed, and her little paw was just going like this.

SPEAKER_03 22:31

She's like, let me in. She's like, you didn't tell me you were recording. I have to lay up on the chair or on the kit tree.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

Yeah, now she's like, she's literally licking herself. Now she's about to go to sleep. Yep. She's like, this is my Sherry's on the floor over here. That's our spot. So yeah, sorry. Animal interruption. That's our actually, I'm not sorry. You're welcome.

SPEAKER_02 22:55

No. Animals are very important. So yeah, and the windows thing didn't I would not be that high up. And it I just wouldn't care. I I I would figure if you're going to the trouble of looking, bless you.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

But I guess it also is like a through line because he felt that way on the rooftop in episode one. So totally valid. So I so obviously whatever he's concerned about here is has to be similar to whatever he was concerned about in episode one, whatever that is.

SPEAKER_02 23:28

But this is what kills me. Motherfucker takes him to a room filled with windows.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

Well, the window is smaller and it's you know.

SPEAKER_02 23:38

I know. But I just want to be like, Shane, babe. That would also the bed is right in front of the fine. Alright, I will suspend my irritation for the sake of the hotness.

SPEAKER_01 23:57

He grabs the chair.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

Um shout out to the best heated rivalry tattoo that I have seen on the interwebs. Yes. Oh my god. By far the best. Someone. And if you are listening to this, I love you. I will start a religion after you.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

Someone I'll find it on threads and make sure that we we tag it in the description.

SPEAKER_02 24:22

Someone got the chair and a glass of vodka sitting on the ground next to it. Perfection. It's no notes. It's so good.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

And it's like the perfect amount of detail and like the perfect amount of no detail.

SPEAKER_02 24:40

Exactly. And it's like, and it's it's subtle, and it's you don't have to know what it is, but if you know what it is, you know.

SPEAKER_03 24:50

You know. Oh, you know. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 24:54

Oh my god, so good. Sorry, I just had to do that. We're good. The the Shane asks, you know, says something about the windows, and then you know, Ilya doing the little like head tilt. Stop yourself with a head tilt and dragging the chair, fucking screech hurt around the world. Nice babe. She was she was cooking that one for a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

But the thing I like the most about the chair drag is that it was not really planned. And I love that since it wasn't planned, they had no idea the effect it was gonna have on everybody. Right seriously. Did you just say it? The chair drag heard around the world. The chair, yes.

SPEAKER_02 25:38

Yes, so good, so perfect. Well, and what's funny to me is that so many people you'll see people post, and all their posts will say on threads is screech, and you'll just see all these comments like flood in, and it's all like the the emoji of like the sweating face or or whatever, because everybody knows exactly what you mean. And like if that's not the power of sound in a show, I don't know what is.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

So fucking true.

SPEAKER_02 26:09

So so so good. Um, also the stopping point that he like stops the chair and just gives it one last little wiggle.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

He's like, gotta make sure I'm front and center.

SPEAKER_02 26:20

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

I gotta just the right angle.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

I gotta get in here.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

Tells him to get on the bed, and oh my god, I just paused it, and he has the cutest little Shane has the cutest little smirk on his face right now.

SPEAKER_02 26:33

Because as he's waiting to get on the bed, it's like when he turned to get on the bed.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

He's got tiny little tiny little smile.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Tiny little smirk. I do love when he gets on the bed, his little butt booty scooch back into the pillows. I'm like, oh, get get that lumbar support. Get it. You don't you don't know what's happening. I mean, he could be putting on a movie. You just he crosses his legs. Right? Nice and cozy. He's gonna hand you the newspaper.

SPEAKER_01 27:06

And then we hear Ilya talk about the vodka, which, you know, very good vodka, hard to find in America. So we're setting the stage that once again the things that they want are difficult for them to get to be because of where they are or where they're from.

SPEAKER_02 27:25

Do you think this is also like nervous chatter on Ilya's part?

SPEAKER_01 27:30

I think so. And I think he's trying, I mean, I think it's it's nerves, and it's also him just trying so hard to like it's like Slavic effort. You know what I mean? It's like I I can't I can't show you my emotions, so I have to just do this and just talk about this. Something, yes, yes, this is the thing that I that I can talk about with like no emotion. Right. Like this is the this is vodka.

SPEAKER_02 28:04

Hello. Have you ever seen? Did you ever watch New Girl?

SPEAKER_01 28:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

And um Jess talks about um how she learned how to talk to models is just to describe like look at things and describe them. Yeah. She's like, This is a table, the table is flat. And the woman goes, The table is flat. That's what it reminds me of, where it's like, just like be very concrete with stuff. Yes, no, just stay right here and you're good.

SPEAKER_01 28:32

And then we get one of my favorite lines because it's also one of my favorite gifts when he says touch yourself.

SPEAKER_02 28:42

So I can't.

SPEAKER_01 28:43

We just shout out, shout out to Amar, our friend Amar, who is I mean Sasha as well, but yes, I feel like they both of them they use this gift so well. The time I have literally screamed laughing at the shit that you guys have posted this on. Yes, true.

SPEAKER_02 29:05

Oh, it is true. But oh my god. And I feel yeah, like I I don't think I could ever duplicate nor do nor it's I don't deserve to. It's I feel like they have earned they have earned the right to the the perfection of timing. Yes, with that particular one.

SPEAKER_01 29:23

Oh my gosh, it says touch yourself, and he's like, What? He's like it's my special day, Hollander. I want to watch, I want to watch you.

SPEAKER_03 29:31

I want to watch too.

SPEAKER_01 29:33

Boyeurism. Just kidding. Even though that's actually what all of this feels like anyway. Oh, yeah. Okay, I mean, yeah, obviously. Someone posted about that. They were like, I wish that I could actually just like be in the room and watch it. And I was just like, holy boy, holy voyeurism, Batman. Isn't that that's what we're doing doing? That's she's like, I want to be there. And it's like, that's fair. That's that's fair. Okay, that's fair.

SPEAKER_02 30:02

Because you're gonna be like, Hey, could you just could you move over just a little bit? I can't see. I'm gonna move this lamp. Hold on just a second.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

Just and Shane's like, I've never, and he's like, no shit. No shit. And he's like, well, at least give me vodka first. And he's like, mm-hmm, vodka is for later as your reward.

SPEAKER_02 30:25

That might be one of my like top five favorite lines. Ugh. And like probably one of my favorite vocal stims, too. And I definitely use it super inappropriately with my kids because they'll be like, can we do whatever? And I'm like, that's for later as your reward. And that's all like, of course, this is what I'm saying. I mean, it's perfect. Do they do they know that? No. Do they need to know that? Also, absolutely not, no, but it does, you know, make me happy. So that's the important part.

SPEAKER_01 30:55

Um, I do think it's interesting because he says it, and you can see Shane is like not mad, but he's like trying to figure out Ilya right now. And then you can literally see him just like resign to, and he's like, Okay, well, this is what I'm doing. I think it's so crazy that it's like you okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:16

I it's it's like a and I realize for the purposes of the show and the runtime that they're not gonna spend you know 15 minutes of him agonizing over whether or not this is gonna happen. But that's a really quick ass turnaround of like being shocked to be asked it, and within like six seconds to be like, all right, here we go, head back on the headboard and let's do that. And the fact that he's like he's like, I'm just gonna I'm like, okay, okay. I will be honest, I was very surprised that caressing was the start of it. Same, same, right? Right, same, and I I did see somebody on threads, not gonna take credit for it, that said that the reason he started like that was that that's the way Ilya touches him. That's fair. And I was like, I like that. I like that's that's kind of like a nice parallel. Like he was like, right? It's like he's like touching his titties.

SPEAKER_01 32:16

Yeah, I my note my note says, I honestly can't believe he did this, but also how could he not? It's both, it's so both. Uh and like I read I I think this is the one that I read recently, right? Did I say that?

SPEAKER_02 32:35

Oh my god, is there a fire? Oh god, wait, hold on. There's a fireplace. I fucking forgot to mention the fireplace. Fuck you. Hold on, go back. Sorry, go back to right. No, no, no, no, no, no. You have to go back. It's fire, it's fire. Remember? We talked about fire right before the chair dragged. I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_01 32:53

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:54

Yes. Do you see it? It's like in the wall in between the living room and the bedroom. I totally forgot, and I told myself I wasn't going to. But as he's dragging the chair, you see the fireplace, and then you see a little bit of it as chain, chain. Who the fuck is Chain? See, see? Yeah, I see it. You see some like reflections of it and stuff when they're in the right.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

That's very true. You did it. Thank you. Everybody, everybody take a deep breath. We're good. We're good. We're good. We're good. Everything's okay. I'm exhausted. I'm exhausted.

SPEAKER_02 33:31

This girl is on fire. No? Are you trying to find the spot in the book? Yeah. See.

SPEAKER_01 33:37

He rubbed himself through the fabric of his briefs for a few minutes, making sure to emphasize the outline of his erection. He already found himself enjoying this. His fear was forgotten. You're such a slut, Shane. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 33:53

It took two sentences. And you're done for.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

Sir. Honestly. So funny. Oh my god. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 34:04

I love it. It's 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10 for sluts.

SPEAKER_01 34:09

Sluts get all the points. And the way that Ilya is just fucking studying him. I mean, I want somebody to look at me like that. Well, I don't know if I do actually.

SPEAKER_02 34:23

Take it back. I mean, if you want to unpack it, we can unpack it, baby.

SPEAKER_01 34:28

Well, nope, nope. You're all set. I'm I have my bags and I'm ready to go.

SPEAKER_02 34:33

I'm gonna keep that shit zipped up. So yeah, the the staring that is happening with Ilya is no fucking joke.

SPEAKER_01 34:41

I mean, eyes on the prize.

SPEAKER_02 34:44

And like, yeah, he's definitely watching, like, he kind of like tilts his head as Shane is moving his hand, but then I feel like he starts to like nervous talk again. Mm-hmm. So Shane starts getting the goods.

SPEAKER_01 35:00

Yep, he's trying to deflect again.

SPEAKER_02 35:02

He's trying to deflect because he's like, wait, this got this is going faster than maybe I thought it was gonna go. And he starts.

SPEAKER_01 35:08

Or I thought I don't know if it's it's going faster than he thought it was gonna go. I think he's just shocked that it's actually happening, that Shane's actually doing this.

SPEAKER_02 35:16

Right, exactly. Yeah, right. I mean, and aren't we all? Yes, yeah. So he starts talking about, aren't you curious how it feels?

unknown 35:26

What?

SPEAKER_01 35:32

And the look on Shane's face is it's like it's so cute because he's like mad, but then it cuts back to him and he's giggling, like he's laughing, and he's like, Let me take off these pants really quick.

SPEAKER_02 35:45

Let me just in the giggle. I feel like there's like a little bit of a laugh, yeah. Like giggle, and I love his little booty raise to get his little little shorts off.

SPEAKER_03 35:55

Yeah, he's like he's like boop.

SPEAKER_02 35:57

There's a little there's a little speed bump. I guess and then Ilya, the most missed opportunity and I have to shout out to you, Natalie, because I believe after was it after this episode aired, or it was like so not long after this episode. Well, you came in later. We've discussed this, but you posted very early on in the fandom. Please share. What did what did you post?

SPEAKER_01 36:22

That Ilya should have sniffed the fucking boxers. Complete missed opportunity. Missed opportunity. I mean, I'm literally nobody, nobody should listen to me. But when I was watching it, I was like, Snow it!

SPEAKER_03 36:40

Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it.

SPEAKER_02 36:42

Oh, go, go, go. And I I don't disagree. I don't fully I don't know. I don't know where I I necessarily land on this one, but I will be honest, I thought the same thing. Because I was kind of expecting that that's what was gonna be or at least not like a overt sniff, but a like face nearness. Yeah, if you will, but instead of like just dropping them on the ground.

SPEAKER_01 37:16

Yeah. But I think it was power, I think it's a power move.

SPEAKER_03 37:20

Yeah, fair enough.

SPEAKER_01 37:22

And I also just noticed this. After he drops, after he drops the boxers boxers and it cuts back to Shane, Shane is moving his arm and he looks down at himself and then looks up at Ilya, and then Ilya, that's when Ilya is looking at him and then looks down and says, fuck.

SPEAKER_02 37:40

Really? Wait, no, yeah. Yeah. He looks so and it kill what kills me is that Shane's face is like weirdly innocent. I'm like, you are a slutty little slut, and I love you.

SPEAKER_01 37:57

Yeah.

unknown 37:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:59

And watch when it cuts to Ilya. It's like, uh-uh. Mm-hmm. Sir.

SPEAKER_02 38:06

Sirs.

SPEAKER_01 38:07

Shane was like, watch this, and he was like, okay.

SPEAKER_02 38:11

All right. Do I need can I? All right, I'll stay right here.

SPEAKER_01 38:16

Why is Ilya so fucking hot?

SPEAKER_02 38:20

It doesn't seem fair. I feel offended. Can you be offended by someone's hotness? Is that possible? Yes, because that's how I feel every day. I am. Like I'm offended when he like walks up to the bed and he takes off his shirt and I'm We're not there yet. Sorry. Jesus Christ. I was.

SPEAKER_01 38:41

I got I got really excited. I love when he says, Are you gonna fuck me? And he's like, We'll see. Will we? And then the part that just makes my stomach do fucking flips.

SPEAKER_02 38:56

When he's like, Are you I need I need when he said I need, I think that was like another I gotta make myself my little list of like my audible gasp moments and the I need was an audible gasp moment for me. Yeah. Because I didn't think Shane, I didn't think he was gonna like own up to it.

SPEAKER_01 39:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:20

And the the hotness. Go ahead. No, go ahead. No, you're good. Go, go, go, go. The hotness of Ilya and the way he holds the glass and takes his last sip before he stands up. I can't.

SPEAKER_01 39:36

I think my favorite line in this whole part is is when he says what and then uh Shane says, you know, and when it cuts back to him and he says, tell me, I'm like, oh just inject it into my Natalie.

SPEAKER_02 39:59

I'm just going to describe to anyone who's listening that Natalie has just chrysalised herself into her sweatshirt, and she is now she will emerge a beautiful butterfly. No, I'm angry. No, she's an angry butterfly.

SPEAKER_01 40:14

Angry tell me.

SPEAKER_03 40:15

Tell me, tell me what you want. And then he says, You, I need, I need to.

SPEAKER_01 40:23

No, you just like, oh, and then the fucking breath that Ilya takes. He's like, oh fuck.

SPEAKER_05 40:32

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 40:35

Sir. I cannot. Um, for clarification's sake, I believe we talked about this before we started recording. Also saw a post on this about about this on threads. Somebody was watching with their friend, and they paused it and they were like, I need you to understand what's happening right now. Is that he is not touching his dick. He has his fingers in his ass. And the friend was like, thank you for that clarification. This all makes a lot more sense now. Yes. That is true, everyone.

SPEAKER_01 41:13

Let us continue. You didn't see it. You don't see it in any scenes. But there is an opening up that must happen. Correct. This is however I will I will not continue to speak of it because I do not know. Therefore, I will no longer speak on a subject of which I have no experience.

SPEAKER_02 41:35

But you will use that accent to emphasize such things. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 41:40

As soon as I feel uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_02 41:45

I will either use this accent or I will burp.

SPEAKER_01 41:48

Or I will burrow into my sweatshirt.

SPEAKER_02 41:52

All right. But we just had to make that point.

SPEAKER_01 41:56

Well wait, because him saying I need you, like that was it. Oh my god. That's all Ilya needed to hear. And he was like, oh, oh, oh, oh. All right, if you insist. I'll take off this real long shirt. And then yeah, he was like, let me let me take this blanket off. Hold on, my apron is in the way. This is my snuggie. Hold on. Also, Shane does not have socks on.

SPEAKER_02 42:29

Oh, that's a big step for. Well, here's what I will. This is what I this is what I will argue re re the socks, is it doesn't appear to be carpet. Because I also have a sock issue when I'm in like hotels. I don't want to be barefoot on carpet that is in hot because it skeeves me out. So I completely I uh in that sense I'm very like sock oriented. This seems to be like a Tylee Marble situation. So I feel like his need for socks could be suspended. Or it doesn't fucking matter, and it's slightly less hot with socks on, so they just tapped into it.

SPEAKER_01 43:09

That's fair. Both are both could be true.

SPEAKER_02 43:12

Both can be true.

SPEAKER_01 43:15

So he swings around, slides across the bed. We get the back dimples. The blessed back arch. The back dimples and the back arch. I mean the one two punch. Yeah. Just it's the big bang, but two of them. And then he just is nuzzling, just nuzzling up, and Ilya is uh telling him that's good.

SPEAKER_02 43:45

Go pour yeah, and in the book, it's if you want to find it blown more power to you, but he I don't have to it's like on our I marked it. Did you really? I love you, but he he's like thinking it, he's like he's imagining what he wants. To do is crawl across the bed to Ilya. And then in like another probably less than a page, that's exactly what's happening. And he's like, basically, he can't believe that's what's happening, but thank God that's what's happening.

SPEAKER_01 44:16

Okay. He wondered if Rosanov was going to start touching himself too. He cracked open an eye. Okay. Shane opened both eyes. He wanted to get off the bed and crawl on his fucking knees to where Rosanov was sitting. He wanted to nuzzle his cock through his pants. He wanted to press his open mouth to that bulge he could see from here. There you go. There it is. And then uh Ilya says, open yourself up. Use your fingers. So there you go. There you go. It says it in the sacred text.

SPEAKER_02 44:51

The scrolls have spoken.

SPEAKER_01 44:53

No, it's funny because I finished it and I was like, we're just gonna earmark that because I was like, I know we're about to record this episode, so I need to reference it. Someone get my tabbies. Yes. And so we have the the fade to black, and then we come back to them just fucking going for it. And the hand on his back, that's it, that's a very important thing. There's a reason why they show that, and it's because that is the one thing that Shane like feels and remembers the most about their time together. Right. So I think it's interesting that they like zoomed in like or started directly on that. Yeah. And then they're so sweaty. I'm like, fucking Christ.

SPEAKER_02 45:42

Someone come fan Natalie, please. Why are you so sweaty? I know it's like it's hot, but it's also like, ugh. Yeah, right? It's it's both things.

SPEAKER_01 45:50

Yeah, but man, it's so fucking hot. I just think it's funny that Ilya's just like it's the it looks awful when I do it, but it's hot when he does it. But it's still funny when you're like, that's what you're doing. It looks hot on you, but anyway. It's so funny. Right. It still gives me the giggles a little bit, but and we also know from an interview with Hudson that he, since this was one of the first episodes or first scenes that they shot, I'm assuming this is why he declined the the padding thing. Um, so he didn't have the extra padding outside of the stuff that just came on his intimacy garment. And so after they shot the scene, he had a fucking stomachache because shit was banging up against his balls the whole time. I was like, Jesus Christ, dude.

SPEAKER_02 46:40

That's how how do you all right? Listen, I have again this do you is there a workman's comp for that kind of shit? You know, like how do you what does that paperwork look like?

SPEAKER_01 46:55

I mean, I guess there's there could be something. I mean, I'm I'm sure if it was a problem, they would have taken care of it.

SPEAKER_02 47:00

You know, I mean I can't I can't imagine they wouldn't, but I was like, God, how fucking miserable is like, you know, no ill intent or anything, but accidents happen and ouchy.

SPEAKER_01 47:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:12

Super unpleasant.

SPEAKER_03 47:13

Yeah, but but we love you, Huddy.

SPEAKER_02 47:17

So good. Good job. Uh oh, and again, right before I can't believe you just called him Huddy. That's so gross. I did on purpose to make you know. It gives me it gives me such fucking such fucking icks. Um, right before this, uh, he commented on someone's post on threads, so we can only assume that threads is you know, kind of burning down as we speak. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:42

We're trying to record podcasts.

SPEAKER_01 47:43

Not now. Please shut up now. We have things to do. Not now. Get out. But yeah, somebody posted a picture of like a dick-shaped crash thing in a in the ground, and they were like, damn, you okay? And he was like, It's not uh girthy. It's not girthy enough. Jesus Christ. It's like they don't want everybody to calm down.

SPEAKER_02 48:08

Gee, you hmm, I wonder, could it possibly be? I can't fathom. So once we got the hangin' and bangin', we cut to them sit on the bed, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:24

Ilya already disassociating. Oh, yes. He's like already just like gutted because he knows that Shane has to leave, knows he like everything is just now that that's over, everything that he knew was gonna come after that is now going to happen. Right. And also Shane's face drinking the vodka. He's like, he's so unhappy.

SPEAKER_02 48:49

He's like, I would give it anything for a fucking ginger ale or uh one of my micro macrobiotic smoothies or anything. Um, so much self-soothing for Ilya. I mean, the smoking obviously, but the face rubbing, the neck rubbing, you know, like he keeps like kind of stretching his neck. Uh there's one point where he like rubs his eyes with like like rubs his like cheekbone, and it looks like he's like trying to stop himself from crying.

SPEAKER_01 49:18

Yeah, he just did that. Yeah, and he's it's and then just trying to just trying to like connect him. Trying to talk about Russia and like the mo it's funny because it seems like this is the result of what he learned when he was in Sochi sitting with with Carter and Scott. Like it's not safe. Being that type of person isn't safe. And so it's like it feels like this is his roundabout way of trying to be like, hey, like I know that this isn't cool. Like, do you how do you feel about it?

SPEAKER_02 49:53

Yeah, like I've I've now figured some of this stuff out. Are are you actually okay? And he just wants to play it cool.

SPEAKER_01 50:05

And Shane keeps prying, and he says, the thing I found the most interesting was by the end, because he was like, Do you like it there? Oh and then Ilya says, What difference does it make? And Shane says, A pretty big one, I think. And I noticed that as soon as he said that, the that like that like panic music that starts playing started playing. So it was almost like Shane was validating the fact that Ilya matters and that him having to go back to Russia matters, and that it also matters to Shane.

SPEAKER_02 50:46

Right. That he's worried that he's like yeah, worried about his well-being and worried about kind of the mood that he's even in in that moment, much less his safety once he leaves. Oh, sad baby boy, sad baby boy, Ilya. And the I mean I feel like there are a lot of queer people who relate to this when it comes to the obligation that you feel like returning to home, whether it's uh another country or close to where you live now. Um and the there does come a point, I I think, or at least there did for me, where you realize that it is obligation and that you you start to learn how to like cross over from that. Yeah or maybe you don't, and you know, like it and there's no timeline for anybody, you know, like all of those caveats, you know, it's everybody has to do things on their own time, but it that shit just weighs on you when you're going somewhere that isn't isn't safe and you can't be yourself. Um it does it doesn't even have to be for long and it can reset you back into trauma response and and put you in a bad place and protect your peace, everyone. Yeah, and I know I've been there and it's no good. Yeah, fucking sucks.

SPEAKER_01 52:31

So he tells him he's gotta sleep. So he gets up and then he says, So I'm off. And he says, Go bye, Hollander. And then the way that Shane, I mean, he you can tell he feels so awkward, but it's also like so gutting to see them both literally screaming for each other on the inside, yeah, and then not being able to articulate that into like words to each other.

SPEAKER_02 53:01

They are little deflated versions of themselves. I mean, very muscular, but very deflated versions.

SPEAKER_01 53:07

Yeah, and I mean the way that he's like so disappointed when he's just like he's walking out. I was like, oh my god. And then God, when it cuts back to Ilya, I mean, he is like gone. Nobody's home, nobody's home.

SPEAKER_02 53:20

No, not a stitch.

SPEAKER_01 53:22

I my note said we see Ilya sitting there knowing he won't see Shane again until next season, completely out of his body. No one is home.

SPEAKER_02 53:29

Bless him. And Shane to me, I think I wrote down, looks like he um like kicked a can. Yeah, he turns he turns around and he looks like he just like kicked the dirt. Yeah, like he was like, Oh shucks. Oh, and just like heads out the door.

SPEAKER_01 53:44

Um, I he doesn't even get into the elevator before he has the text window open. Yes, right.

SPEAKER_02 53:51

I mean, zero chill points on that one, huh?

SPEAKER_01 53:54

Another another mirror though, for just a split second.

SPEAKER_02 53:58

Mm-hmm. My girl.

SPEAKER_01 54:00

Mm-hmm. And then he gets in the elevator, and this is what I think is so funny is watching the progression of how the text messages go. Yeah, because you can just see how he because like he first says see you next season with a smiley face. Yeah. And then he deletes just the smiley face. Because he's like, that's he was like, whatever he's like, whatever we just did was not that. No. And then he just deletes the whole thing. Right. It's like, okay. Yeah. And then he says, We didn't even kiss.

SPEAKER_02 54:35

Like I feel like I'm not even I'm not even exaggerating. I feel like I felt a collective of like all the people who are watching that at the same moment. Especially when he started to delete it and delete it slowly.

SPEAKER_03 54:57

So slowly.

SPEAKER_02 54:58

It's like I I felt my heart just like ripping into little pieces. And then the combination of him saying, fuck. And then tapping his head on the wall, and then tapping his head on the wall. Oh God. I I think I was sick. I think I was like, it was at that point that I like got like nauseous because you know, you're up against like another week of waiting for the show at that point.

SPEAKER_01 55:34

Yeah, I remember I remember when I watched it for the first time because this happened, and I remember I started uh the week that episode five came out. That's right. So I watched this and I haven't read the books yet at this point. And it ends, and then I go to start the third episode and it's skip. Yeah. I was so fucking confused. Right, yes. So confused because it starts the same way. It doesn't start the same way, but it starts with and I I literally paused it and I was like, wait a second. Yeah, what the fuck? This okay, who the fuck are these people? I remember telling Gerard, I was like, okay, okay, fine. I trust, we'll just see. We'll see. And then it edit on him, and I was like, okay, got it.

SPEAKER_02 56:18

Yeah, right. Trust the process, trust the process.

SPEAKER_01 56:21

Yeah, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_02 56:22

Yeah, that's what kills me about people who are maintaining that they're not reading the long game until season two comes out. And it's a book that's been out for a really long time. And I don't understand all the books they're been out.

SPEAKER_01 56:43

If somebody's trying to avoid spoilers, it's their responsibility to avoid spoilers.

SPEAKER_02 56:47

I I I just that would exhaust me.

SPEAKER_01 56:48

It would be all the information's already out there, it's not like it's not there.

SPEAKER_02 56:51

So I it it stresses me out for them the idea of trying to avoid spoilers.

SPEAKER_01 56:57

I so I just don't I don't care about spoilers.

SPEAKER_02 56:59

Like, I don't trust somebody to like move my car around the corner. Why would I trust people to mark spoilers on the internet?

SPEAKER_01 57:07

That's valid. Right?

SPEAKER_02 57:09

I just I can't. I don't I can't do it. I don't trust my kids to like carry my coffee from the living room to the kitchen.

SPEAKER_01 57:19

No, no, both literally dump it on themselves and then you're going to the hospital.

SPEAKER_02 57:24

Exactly. Like, no, I say to my kids like every weekend, I was like, this is not an urgent care weekend. We are not going to urgent care. We're doing nothing that requires urgent care. No.

SPEAKER_01 57:34

That's fair.

SPEAKER_02 57:35

And they usually make good.

SPEAKER_01 57:37

So spoilers, not my response. Yeah, hopefully the only time we go to a hospital uh is in episode five.

SPEAKER_02 57:46

Yes. I that took me a second. That's really sad. That took me a second. Baby is tired. That's fair. But it's okay.

SPEAKER_01 57:55

Baby tired. We just we have completed episodes.

SPEAKER_03 57:58

Natalie Joy. My love.

unknown 58:02

We did.

SPEAKER_03 58:03

16 episodes for two episodes of television.

SPEAKER_01 58:10

That's horrifying. Oh, I think it's horrifying for us, but hopefully it's not horrifying for everybody listening.

SPEAKER_02 58:16

I really hope it's not. I mean, I assume if they're listening at this point that there's some kind of modicum of joy.

SPEAKER_01 58:23

Well, we are we are our un unhinged feral bitch selves.

SPEAKER_02 58:27

That is true. According to that people left. I I gotta find that post. Here, do do your fic, and I'm gonna find um, I have to find that post. Hold on.

unknown 58:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 58:42

All right, so fix this week. Since we just did the Vegas penthouse scene, and I I have suggested these before, I think it was like early, early on in in the podcast, like in the first like three or four episodes. But our sweet baby, Alexandra, she wrote she wrote the two Vegas fix it fanfics. And so since this is what we just went over, I think that it's good to suggest those again. So one's from Shane's point of view, one's from Ilya's point of view, and yeah, so it's all what would happen after if he did, if Shane did send the text message. So I love I love them. Go do that, go heal your heart a little bit, you know, because it's gonna be a while before we get back to our boys.

SPEAKER_02 59:30

That is true. That it will. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 59:32

Yeah, that's sad.

SPEAKER_02 59:34

I didn't think of that. Yeah. I know.

SPEAKER_01 59:35

We'll get a little we'll get a tiny bit of Iliad. We'll get tiny bit. Yeah, but that's yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 59:40

So um, all right. I'm going to before I do my fake, I'm going to share. I really, I actually very much appreciated this because I felt very seen. Um but a a user on threads, it's NLFR underscore H M. Uh, and their comment was, wow, there are so many. I did oh, it was on something about um heated rivalry podcasts. And it said, Wow, there's so many I didn't even know about. Here are some that I have saved. Ye did rivalry, yeeted rivalry are the most unhinged, feral bitches ever. And it is like listening to my best friend and I, if we were all so feral and unhinged in public, my neighborhood has witnessed me guffaw, choke, gasp multiple times because I listen while walking. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:25

We love you, we love you. We make you laugh.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:33

Yep. Honestly, that's the best. And we're fresh endorsements. Yes, we see you. We see you. We see you, and we love you, and we guffaw you. Yes, good job. We love you. Consensually, yeah, consensual, consensual guffaw. Um, all right. So my your fic. My fic is called No Rest for the Winner. And the summary is after another devastating loss for the Ottawa Centaurs, Shane chooses Ilya as the forfeit for the winner's room. Which would be fine if it weren't for Ottawa's policy that everyone, even the captain, has to be supervised to make sure nothing gets out of hand. It's good. It's short. It's a three three thousand words. Oh, perfect. Yeah. I love those little shortties. Yeah. And it's from it's from 2024. Oh. Oh. Gone back to the re show show.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:38

Oh, also, before we get into our yeets, we do want to say really quickly thank you to everybody. Our stream count uh crossed 6,000 last week. We're at like 6,700 right now. So it's pretty, pretty fucking wild. So just wanted to say thank you to everybody.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:57

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:58

And it's so wild that I barely know what that means.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:01

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:02

I don't really know what it means either.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:04

I mean, I do, but I it's it's like a it's it it's like an intangible Yeah, it's like it's like a fake uh it's like a fake thing. It's like when people talk in like millions of dollars.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:16

It's like a fake metric.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:18

That's not a real number.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:19

Thank you for giving us your ears. Earballs for the hours that you have. We appreciate it. Yes, and hopefully it has brought joy and other lovely things to your life. So on to the yeats we go. Yeet and I have them this week.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:38

Yes, Natalie. I I give you all the credit this week. I mean, I'm I am on board. Don't get me wrong. I'm I'm jumping, I'm I'm fucking sat for these. Go. I'm ready. I'm so fucking ready.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:51

I was like, I don't know where you're going with that.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:53

No, I am I'm ready.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:55

They're right, they're so good. What we are yeeting out this week is cyberbullying. Because for some reason, people have started doing that again, but they've started doing it with people from or people that are associated with the show. The director of photography was like basically attacked online and being accused of all kinds of shit that is just not real. People are literally creating problems that in in places that they don't exist. And I think it's gonna be really hard for all of us right now because there's gonna be just this influx of this negativity, and I think we just have to try to remember that that kind of shit eventually they get tired. And right now, like yeeted or yeeted rivalry, it's not all about you. Uh ye uh, let's get fired up. Um, the show. Nice, oh good, nice, was so good and so positive and brought so much good into the world for the time, especially the time when you know it was really crazy for all of us in America, and as as we got to watch it spread to all these different countries, um, I think that it's just unfortunately, it's just the natural progression of time that when a pendulum swings really far one way, it is going to swing far the other way. And I think that right now we're in that other way swing. And we just have to just protect your peace. Yeah, don't don't get too involved, don't let people that are just fucking trying to mess with you and mess with everybody don't give them the time of day because it's just not worth it.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:51

It's just not worth it. So we're eating out cyberbullying. Fucking shut the fuck up. If you want to bully someone, you can come bully me. Don't do that. Because then I'll come for you, and that's not fun either. No, I just, I just this is my this is my favorite thing when people bully me online. Ugh.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:12

I was like, I wasn't I wasn't sure what you were gonna do. I was like, are you showing me something on your phone?

SPEAKER_01 1:05:16

You're like, oh, it's all done. It's gone. No, it's gone. All done. The problem, I just go off.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:24

Shut down. All done. Um stay the yeet in. Stay the yeet in. Eating in.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:30

We are eating in, flirting with your friends.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:32

So good.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:33

Because we've said it before: if you're not a little bit in love with your friends, what are you doing? What are you doing? I'm in love with all my friends.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:40

That's true.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:41

I'm specifically in love with one friend.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:46

It's not me. Sasha. It's not me. It's Sasha.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:51

You're such a fucking assessment.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:53

I love you so much. Sasha, I said, just give me your partner's number. I just want to talk.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:03

Oh my god, honey.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:05

Oh, I love it. I love, I love all of you. Uh so yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:09

I feel like your yeet in was a little self-serving.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:11

I'm just gonna say for me, it's like for me, I I think it's a good challenge for everybody. Like, don't don't be weird, but like don't make it weird. Flirt with one of your friends this week. Tell them that they're hot. Tell you know, like say something to gas them up and make them feel good that is different than like you're doing a great job. Not that that's bad, but like flirt with them. Do it. They can be like, Are you flirting with me right now? And you'd be like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:38

Yeah, I actually am. How's it make you feel? How's that dopamine hitting you? Is that pretty good?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:45

Do you like it? So yeah, don't cyberbully and do flirt with your friends.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:51

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:52

Basically, the that's the lesson of this episode.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:55

These are rules to live by, honestly.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:57

They're rules I live by.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:58

I mean, can I get a bumper sticker? Honestly.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:01

Yeah. Yeah. I am gonna get a bumper sticker, I think, from Camille.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:06

Oh yeah?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:07

Yeah, and it's like uh I think it was like it's like looking for a bisexual Russian hockey player wearing the number 81 or something like that. So specific. I know. She had a maid. That's so great. It's so good. I'll find a picture to send it to you. That's amazing. Uh but yeah, so we love you guys. We finally finished episode two. So next up, we will be diving in to skip. We do not skip skip. We are not skip skippers. Nope, skip is skipping. The story of Skip is so important. If without Skip, we would not have Shane and Ilya. We would not we would not have the cottage, we would not have any of these things. Exactly. We wouldn't have any of these things because with without what Scott and Kip go through, Shane and Ilya would never be together. So truth. Truth bombs by Natalie. You can't pretend that that's not important. So if you think it's I do think it's funny that they speedrun like the whole book in the episode, though. I know.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:10

It's true.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:11

Like, all right, we're like skim, speedrun, go and go.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:15

That three-year breakup, it happens in 30 seconds.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:18

I think that's part of partially why it's hard for you to get through the book. I'm just like, man, the episode is so much shorter than this. I don't ever see anything about this fucking bruise. Jesus Christ.