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3 Cocktails In
Addicting conversations between friends who have been there, done that and still want more.
We are 3 friends who got this crazy idea to start a podcast based on our friendships, family lives, professional lives and experiences! This idea kept coming up in our conversations, especially after a cocktail or two or maybe three, and we finally decided to ACT on it!
We don't claim to be experts on too many things, but friendship? Well, we've got that down. We're making our way through major life changes, searching for work that excites us, busting myths associated with 'old' people, and keeping a sense of humor about it all.
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Exploring Hollywood's Magnetic Pull
How does Hollywood keep us glued to our screens with stories that repeat and actors we can't seem to forget?" Our latest episode of "Three Cocktails In" begins with a chuckle-worthy tale of Amy's epic showdown with a cold she whimsically dubs "the plague." As we laugh through the importance of taking sick days seriously, we find ourselves retreating indoors, where TV marathons become inevitable. This leads us to ponder the magnetic pull of celebrities—why some stars shine brighter in our eyes, while others leave us mystified. Through our personal anecdotes and thoughts, we explore what makes certain celebrities so captivating and how our individual perceptions play a role.
Hollywood's typecasting is nothing new, but why do actors like Jennifer Garner and Reese Witherspoon often land similar roles? We muse over how their portrayals have influenced their careers and reflect on David Schwimmer's struggle to break away from his iconic "Friends" character. The discussion gets juicier as we dissect Angelina Jolie's enduring allure and speculate on whether the scandalous elements of her public persona drive her mystique. Together, we unravel how the film industry molds our understanding of celebrity trends and ignite conversations about the ever-evolving world of stardom.
Pop stars take center stage as we debate the impact of generational shifts on music and talent. From Beyoncé's captivating performances to Billie Eilish's songwriting genius, we dive into the diverse talents shaping today's music scene. Our conversation spans the changing landscape of female pop stars, critiques of bands like Coldplay and bro country, and the timeless debate of talent versus appearance in the music industry. We cap off our episode with lively recommendations, including the Netflix series "Black Doves" and Ruth Ware's book "The It Girl," perfect companions for those cozy nights indoors. Join us for this spirited discussion and discover what makes these stars and their stories so unforgettable.
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Speaker 2:Well, good evening everyone. Hi hi amy, hello, hello, good evening, and well, a good morning, good evening, good afternoon, whatever time of the day you happen to be listening to this. This is another uh episode of three Cocktails In where we did not have Amy with us last week. So let's do a quick check in. Amy, have you recovered? Yeah?
Speaker 4:I had the plague, the plague.
Speaker 3:I had the plague plague.
Speaker 4:Okay, I have the plague. I had the plague, I'm I'm glad we do this remotely then, um, I had a cold like I haven't had a cold since I was like in fourth grade, you know where. It's just like congested, gross, sleeping with a humidifier on. I have been subsisting on NyQuil, dayquil in rotation cough drops, and today was the first day that I have not taken either product.
Speaker 4:I will still take NyQuil to go to bed just because it is a very nice, nice, soothing thing to take before you go to bed. But yeah, thing to take before you go to bed. But yeah, it was. Uh, it was not fun.
Speaker 2:No, actually take days off from work. Yeah, I know and so, and that I I don't know about you too, but I always have felt even though I know I physically cannot go to work because I'm sick, I know I physically cannot go to work because I'm sick, I can I could never really enjoy a sick day. I was always feeling guilty about not being there or feeling like you know, oh, she called in sick. Not that I was ever a a compulsive person to call in sick, but I just I could never enjoy a sick day.
Speaker 4:Well, I think that was usually a sign then that you really were sick. If you enjoy a sick day, it's called a mental health day, and that's something different, which I still don't have a problem doing. I don't do it very often, but you know it has, it has happened. But I laid in bed and I coughed all day. There was just no way I could have greeted anybody that came. People would have looked at me and gone like no, thank you, I don't need the house. Yeah, which brings me to my second point, and I think this is a good topic. It's not the topic of discussion for tonight, but I think it's a good little segue. If you're sick, stay home. If you are sick, stay home. You are not, unless you're a heart surgeon and you're working the er this weekend. Even even in that case, stay home. Yeah, there's nothing any of us that does that. Somebody else can't take over for 24 hours. Yep, yep, or it's your gross and you spread it to everybody else.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it is very true, Very true. And most of us in the more you know, can work from home. Yeah, you know, if you have a, just like you said, you know you see customers um face to face. Not good to be really crappy sick.
Speaker 4:But also, if you're in a big office or a small office and you're by other people, I mean, yeah, do everybody a favor and stay home. Yeah, just stay home. So you know what else I did while I stayed home? What did you do? I?
Speaker 2:watched a lot of tv. Yes, well, and I think a lot of people have been doing that because, because it has been so frigid, cold everywhere. Um, so, certainly here in the midwest, but also just all across the country. Country Florida and Texas are Madeline sent a picture of snow in her yard, yeah, in.
Speaker 4:Houston, Yep, South of Houston. The cat didn't know quite what to think about it, and so all of us, you know in the group message was like take the cat outside, see what happens. She's like no, no, we're not doing that.
Speaker 2:So when there's snow in those areas, everything just kind of shuts down. So it kind of leads us to our topic tonight, with a lot of taking in of content and movies and series and things like that. We just kind of started talking about the, the concept of celebrity and what that means. You know, it means different things to different people, but it got us thinking about, you know, who we love and who we can kind of do without. But we just thought we'd kind of dig into this topic a little bit today and talk about the phenomenon of celebrity, what I mean. One thing I've always I always really kind of wanted to be a some kind of, you know, celebrity of some kind. I always thought, well, that looks quite nice. And I know that it's not all roses and, um, whatever, but um, there are some that we love more than others. I guess we'll just kind of kick off this conversation that way.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah for sure. So we're not necessarily yeah, we're not necessarily saying you know we dislike them, we think they're maybe overrated, you know that we shouldn't pay as much, you know, attention to them as they are just some people that I just scratch my head and wonder what am I missing?
Speaker 4:Now, this happens to me a lot like when it comes to art, when it comes to books, when it comes to a lot of creative literary things you know of the mind and that have won awards. Sometimes I just look and go, I don't get it. What, what am I missing here?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think there are different. I don't know that level is the right word, but when you so, let's. Let's throw out some examples here. Um, when you think about, you know, your, your classic isn't the right word either, but somebody like Meryl Streep, that is, um, that has had such a long and amazing career and you can give her any nationality, any dialect, any you know. She plays tough, really serious topics and she can do comedy at the same time. I mean, the woman is unbelievably talented. You put somebody like that up next to to. Who are we going to call out?
Speaker 4:Well, should we try and get somebody of her age Era?
Speaker 2:Sure Sure, if we can.
Speaker 4:Now we're really on the spot, no kidding. Okay, I've got one. Okay, diane Keaton Okay, he walks a fine line for me sometimes and I think some of her earlier work was really good. The stuff I'm seeing, diane Keaton, jane Fonda, um, that, that group of women, now they're not doing, and maybe that's maybe because there aren't that many things, but I don't know, they're not a Meryl Streep no, they play the same character in a different movie.
Speaker 1:You know what.
Speaker 3:I mean, they act the same, they talk the same.
Speaker 4:It's the same person, just in a different plot yes, yes, um, and if we're going to talk about that whole phenomenon, um, you know, my boyfriend does that quite a bit and it does it. It's hard sometimes, but I continue to watch george clooney but he is who's? Who's your boyfriend? Yeah, george, george and I. George has always been one of my my dear loves, but it is george clooney in every role.
Speaker 2:As of the late, yes yeah, yeah, okay, and I feel like, so I wouldn't put him into into a category of overrated, I would just put him into the categories. That's just, that's his celebrity, that's how he right, that's how he has made himself a celebrity and we love it because he's handsome. He's a smartass and we enjoy the movies, we enjoy going all the way back to ER, we enjoy the roles and so that can be enough, because it's entertainment, it's entertainment. We don't need to judge him for just being on that level.
Speaker 4:We still have to have okay part of acting ability so now let's go to somebody else's boyfriend in this group, who I do have a problem with lately, and that's matthew mcconaughey don't you mess with my matthew. Yes, so he used to be mat McConaughey, funny guy, good looking guy, enjoyed those movies and then all of a sudden he's been honing his craft. It's just like get the hell over yourself, Okay, but wait. And you're still Matthew McConaughey trying to do a serious role.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but the not the role like um, the one that he lost all the weight, and that was fire's club yeah, I mean that he wasn't playing the same old matthew mcconaughey character like in how to lose a guy in 10 days, um yeah, but now he doesn't want to go back to do any of the other stuff anymore yeah like it's beneath him craft yeah, yeah, he gets to decide that's true, and I get to have my opinion about it exactly.
Speaker 4:I think that when you, when you don't want to go back to the thing that made you popular and made people fall in love with you, you're snubbing all of us who made you into what you are.
Speaker 2:I don't think I agree with that. I don't think I agree with that. I can see your perspective on that, but as he looks at his career, you might not have that much fulfillment anymore if you spend your entire career playing the same role. So look at Meg Ryan Her entire career was career playing the same role. So look at Meg Ryan she, her entire career was kind of the same thing. She played the same kind of character and we loved her.
Speaker 2:She was sweet and cute and we ran to the movie theaters to see every one of the movies that she did because they just, they were light, they were happy, they made us feel good and that was all we needed from her. Yeah, but but I mean these people just like us, these are their careers. They get paid a lot more money than we do, but they probably could. Maybe in his case, I'm guessing he got to a point where he was like I want to do another kind of role and I don't think that he would ever go back and say, oh, how to lose a guy. No, I, I, I mean, I would hope that those people wouldn't go back and and poo-poo those early films that made them the stars that they are today.
Speaker 4:I just don't understand why, why they give up on that. I mean, I get growing and wanting to try new things and stretch yourself and and do more. You know, obviously that's why we're here, yep, but at the same time it's like, like you know, is it really all that? I mean, has he gone back and done anything fun for like the last 10 years?
Speaker 2:well, maybe he doesn't have to. Yeah, you know, that's the thing.
Speaker 3:I think at some point they just pick the roles they want to do. You know Jennifer Garner, she's stuck in the mom. You know she's always a mom in the movies she's done lately. You know PG 13 type movies, you know.
Speaker 4:She's another one that I've never understood the appeal. I mean, I think she's. I think she would seem like a very nice person. She's another one that I've never understood the appeal. I mean, I think she would seem like a very nice person. Yeah, she's like the girl next door, yeah.
Speaker 2:There are a lot of girls next door. What was her breakout Like? How did she?
Speaker 4:Was she in Felicity? Oh, I don't know. Was she in that?
Speaker 3:The first time I remember seeing her, she was on TV in that show where and she was pretty young, where I don't know how to describe what she was Not a superhero, but she was like she wasn't one of the Buffy Vampire Slayers, was she?
Speaker 3:No, no, and I can't even think of what the name of it was, but she kind of was I don't know Gosh, I can't think of what it would have been. I should Google. She would do martial arts, almost you know, like gosh. What was that movie? It was a television show. Hmm, I don't know. I'll have to figure it out.
Speaker 4:Well, she was in a couple movies, 13 going on, 30?.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was a pretty early one, 13 going on Electra, so 2005. No, that's not it. Early one, 13 going on Electra, so 2005. No, that's not. It, though, was like it. It was more like a superhero, but there was a okay Alias. It was called Alias. It ran from 2001 to something Several years. Yeah, she did undercover and spy work, so it's kind of like a spy movie.
Speaker 4:That's the first time I remember her being in anything well, if we're talking about people doing the same role all the time? Reese witherspoon, although I have to say that I really like her in the Morning Show.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 4:I did too. I do like the good mean Reese Witherspoon. I think that she does that very well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was good. If anybody hasn't watched that, that's on Apple TV. That's a good one.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and I like Jennifer Aniston in that, which I do sometimes feel really bad for celebrities that have been so popular in a particular role that they have a very hard time getting out of that. Yeah, and I think that Jennifer Aniston, after many tries, finally found the comedic roles where she got to play the nasty person like the, the bad boss or what is that horrible boss? That it led us. It's like that transition to now we could see her as something other than you know, right?
Speaker 2:yep, yep, the. So there's a new series out right now, starring david schwimmer oh yeah, and I can't remember the name of it now, I'm drawing a blank on it. Bill and I started it. We watched a couple episodes. I was super excited about it because you know how much I love friends and and it was hard for me to watch because I want to remember Ross.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, I want to remember David as Ross and it just it made me Too weird. It's too weird because it puts the number of years that that series is now behind us right in front of me Did you see that meme where it showed how old all the kids on friends.
Speaker 4:Yes, like ben would have been 29 or something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and they're high in their 20s.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, weird I, I didn't like it, I'm like no, I want to remember him as ross and we are all still that age, because the age that they all were as actors at that point they were, they were within a year or two of us yeah, so yeah, that's our pocket.
Speaker 4:David Schwimmer many years ago had a supporting role in was it Saving Private Ryan or was it Band of Brothers?
Speaker 2:It was Band of Brothers.
Speaker 4:Band of Brothers.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 4:And that was an excellent choice for him because he you know he was a supporting character so he could come in, but he was a real ass in that and you know it provided this other yeah, you didn't think you were watching Ross because it was so different, but he wasn't on screen long enough for your head to have to switch back and forth between Ross and you know whatever. Yeah, because he would come on for a little bit and then you wouldn't see him for a couple episodes again. So that I thought was very, very helpful. He draws a lot of love or hate pee that people either really respect him or they cannot stand him why you would not like him.
Speaker 4:He's super, he was super smarmy Ross was yeah.
Speaker 1:Ross was annoying.
Speaker 4:If you had to hang out with Ross all the time that would get annoying.
Speaker 2:It's always been annoying. You know, it's always fun to watch the bloopers and there was one they were showing. They were showing a table read at the beginning of one of the episodes. So for people who don't know, table read is when you're just at the beginning points of doing your next episode and you're all literally sitting around a table with your script and you're just reading your lines. And so Ross is reading his lines and um, and so ross is reading his lines and he just kind of pauses and he goes oh poor ross, david was just feeling so sorry for this character, so pathetic at times, but so lovable yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3:Yes, we get off on a tangent there, but yeah, I have one I really don't get as well, and that is angelina jolie. Yeah, yep, do not get it. What's so great?
Speaker 4:no, I don't either, okay, so I had mentioned this just a little bit before we were talking about this, and I wonder if it has to do with the scandal factor, the whole. What the hell is going on like I feel I'm curious. I mean, first of all, she comes on on to the scene dating Billy Bob Thornton, taking her brother to some red carpet event, where they both look like they're almost making out and they're wearing vials of blood, and I mean just the weird factor.
Speaker 1:Weird.
Speaker 4:Yes, so that's a phenomenon of celebrity People who are in the celebrity because of something just so weird, odd, yeah, yeah, which I have kind of a I'm not sure what to think about this actress. But nicole kidman, because I mentioned, I've mentioned her before sometimes I really like her, sometimes she just I'm like why did? Why is she still acting? Because sometimes I don't even think she can act. I loved her in moulin rouge.
Speaker 3:I love some of her earlier work she's probably it feels like she's about the yeah, I agree, kind of almost the same thing all the time, but she had, I mean, does she constantly work? If there was ever someone that is, you know, you could at least describe as hardworking. I mean she's got what 10 things out, you know, in any year. I mean it's a lot of stuff. There was a lot that she was in this year. I mean it's a lot of stuff. There was a lot that she was in this year, yeah, which is always amazing, but again, real similar when she came onto the scene.
Speaker 4:She was Tom Cruise's girlfriend, then Tom Cruise's wife, then Tom Cruise's weird Scientology stuff and then getting out of it, just like Katie Holmes was in a big TV series. She gets divorced from Tom and goes silent. That woman, she was thinking man and now she's doing theater and stuff. So I find that very interesting too. Talk about celebrity not working in your favor, or you know the side effects, Kitty, you want to talk about your favorite, j-lo, my favorite.
Speaker 2:I have kind of a I don't know love hates not the right thing with J-Lo but I I do enjoy the fluffy movies that she's made. They're those things that if I'm, if it's a Saturday afternoon and I'm doing laundry and the Maiden Manhattan Maiden Manhattan comes on, I will sit down and watch it because it's just a fun, light-hearted love story. But I don't like all everything that we see when she shows up in social media and she gets a really bad rap for being hard to work with and you know, nasty to the paparazzi and and all of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:So but Bill and I went to see her in concert and we had really close seats and I'm just telling you that was good. It was a good show, um so but yeah, I don't know it's I. I think she's a very, she's very, very talented, amazing dancer. She's probably a good singer. You know, put her next to Whitney Houston, you're not anywhere near right. But. But there's an entertainment value there.
Speaker 4:Yes, and business woman I would say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:And and that's the question for me sometimes is they bring it on themselves. You know a lot of the you know stuff that gets out and the way you know they treat paparazzi. You know all those people that you know they used to say there's no bad press or no bad PR cause you're out and people you know you're in the news news so people are thinking about you, whatever. But I don't know. I think there can be, can can make you look bad enough.
Speaker 2:You get well, I feel like that is completely up to them. I mean it. So in a lot of cases they are tipping the paparazzi off to let them know you know they're going to be here to get the shot. But then there are some of those that they act like the paparazzi is intruding on their lives. And what are you doing? And get that camera out of my face? And I just think that if they just went about their business and let people take photos of them and all you're doing is walking from your car to the inside of the building and you're not putting your coat up in front of your face and everything, I would think that the paparazzi would get tired of getting that same shot over and over again. So just let him freaking take the shots and don't make such a big deal out of it.
Speaker 4:Well, and there are plenty of really huge celebrities that have managed to have kids. Yes, and you never see them. Think about Julia Roberts. I just saw her on an interview. She's got two kids in college. I've never seen a picture of those kids yeah, never. And she's maintained work. She's worked the whole time. You know, if you don't want paparazzi following you all the time, you could move out of new york yeah, yeah, and don't make a scene about it every time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, about it every time. Yeah, hmm. I think it'd be kind of cool to have people chasing me around with cameras.
Speaker 1:You mean?
Speaker 3:people don't do that. You don't get followed by the paparazzi. Now, huh, a different paparazzi.
Speaker 4:I am going to say that a different. You know, I, I am going to say that I sure as hell don't want to come on and do a podcast without my makeup on or my hair done and in my sweats. So I'm not sure, I'm not sure that I'd be ready to commit to always I mean, yeah, this is the done up me, this is, this is as done up me, this is, this is as good as it gets people. I don't know if I want to commit to having to do this every time I leave my house, because I don't do it every time I leave the house. I'm not, you know, I mean, if I'm going to target in the grocery store, I might have a baseball hat on and yeah, no makeup. So I don't want. Yeah, but then again, I don't have. I mean, I don't have somebody that could go to the grocery store for me, cook my food for me, take me to the gym.
Speaker 2:Maybe if I didn't have to do all that other crap easier, I don't know oh man, wouldn't I mean some like when I dream, when I, when I truly like, if I am just daydreaming the thought of I, I just feel like it would be so amazing to have somebody cook for you, so be able to plan your meals so that you're eating good, healthy foods and it's the grocery shopping is done for you and the cooking is done for you. I would love that. I would also love to have somebody be able to drive me wherever I need to go, like whenever I need to go. That would be nice too.
Speaker 4:My first thing would be to have somebody clean my house Like every day. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like housekeeping, comes in when you head out to work and you come home and your bed is made and you've got fresh towels and just like living in a hotel.
Speaker 4:Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those are the positives that we think you know that we would enjoy. So that's, I know a piece of it is like why do they complain so much about you know getting, you know being bothered by paparazzi and just people crowding them and all this kind of stuff? You know you have all this great stuff and you know, can't you deal with 10 minutes of maybe inconvenience?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know, it is a phenomenon.
Speaker 3:It is a phenomenon, yep, yep, yeah. Who else do we want to say not worth it, overrated, you got anybody else?
Speaker 4:Well, I'll throw out the big one, the big one. The queen, the queen, the queen, yeah, queen Bee, queen Bee, the queen, the queen, the queen, yeah, queen bee queen bee.
Speaker 2:I I don't get it. Okay, is it? Is it a? Is it a generational thing?
Speaker 4:you know what I think it is. I think it's a public relations thing, because I mean, when we were, you know, when we were coming up, as people like to say, I mean there were pop stars that were everywhere, but there wasn't the social media, so they were in our face all the time. They weren't selling clothes and going on shows. I mean the queen's never on shows. She doesn't really do any press.
Speaker 3:I will say that Right, but every halftime show she does is just for me weird.
Speaker 4:well, you know what I mean yeah, I mean you, you guys, I mean you two know this about me. Um, a musician, to me, what I respect in musician is somebody who plays their instruments, writes, writes their music. I don't always have to have them have a pretty voice. She has a pretty voice, but can't we just all agree she has a pretty voice. Is she an artist? Is she an artist of the year? Is she all that? She's a vocalist.
Speaker 3:Yeah, maybe that's the difference. She has to be showy because she can't just stand behind a microphone and sing well, I mean, you know what I mean, but it's not her music no, it isn't.
Speaker 3:But you know, I'm just saying all her shows. You know, riding in on a horse, um, the one that got it for me a few years ago and I can't remember what it was for, maybe an award show where she was pregnant. She was like mother earth or something. No, you know what I mean. They can't just stand and sing. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Like you look at even a lady gaga. She, like adele for sure, excellent voice, lady gaga even there's just. You know she sings. She might play the piano. There's not a lot of. You know, early in her career was a lot of weird, but now there's not so much. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4:So like uh we've said on here too, we're not super huge Taylor Swift fans. I mean, she's okay. We I think we all have way more respect for her for business. You know that music isn't isn't for us.
Speaker 3:But yeah, that's why I don't think it's generational, because I liked her, it was Swift and I like her music and I agree we all respect her for very excellent business mind and where she's gone, you know, and she's super young and hasn't been on the scene forever, you know. So I don't think it's just that we're old, we can't like Beyonce or, you know, taylor Swift, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4:Well, I think they're the same age, aren't they?
Speaker 3:I think they are, oh they're not young no yeah, yeah, no, they're.
Speaker 4:You know, I know you guys don't like Billie Eilish. I happen to really like Billie Eilish because of the musician part of it, the whole. You know she's doing her own music, sort of thing, so I like that about her, but she's a weird one.
Speaker 3:Yep, yeah and I think you can at least enjoy that. She's got talent. You know what I mean, yeah, so whether you like it or not, or think it's weird or not or whatever, you know. So that's different than I don't know a lot of the female young pop stars. I don't know that they have the talent, they just sing poppy.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Pop, popular, whatever.
Speaker 4:Well, I mean, that is generational, that you have those generational pop star voices, because for a while it was Jessica Simpson, christina Aguilera, you know, mariah Carey, incredible voice, but everything was a production with her At our age it was, there were some one-hit wonders out there. There was the Tiffany, there was the real poppy stuff that you know what are they doing now the mall tours, mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah Well, I don't understand Coldplay either. I don't understand why that's such a big popular.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm not a fan that. To me, every song sounds the same. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2:nothing it's whiny yeah it's just okay it's weird.
Speaker 4:It's like bro country, not a bro country fan either.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so here's, here's a funny question for you that I just thought of, and I've thought of this different, you know, would this is going to kind of be weird, but would Ed Sheeran, elton John you know you get my drift Would they be anywhere without their actual talent? You know, can you, can you?
Speaker 4:Could they have been showmen?
Speaker 3:Sure, you know what I mean. They have extreme talent, but they're not great to look at. You know what I mean, and this is in my opinion, as opposed to you know what I mean Some that probably have less talent.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the talent definitely got the attention. Yes, the, yes, the wasn't a documentary but the the movie on elton john, like they that they did after bohemian rhapsody um, that was really good and it talked, talked a lot about his early life and he was just so yeah, uh, almost like lady gaga, that it was just all about. He was just so flamboyant in the theatrics of his performance, so that allowed people to see his talent. Yeah, with Ed Sheeran, just such a beautiful voice and he writes his songs. Right, please tell me he writes his songs. Okay, yeah, but yeah, I mean you, you have to have that talent to be able to make up for the appearance.
Speaker 3:Sometimes, unfortunately, yeah, I'm trying to think of a female artist, but I'm not coming up with anybody. Really.
Speaker 2:Did you guys see Carrie Underwood on the? I watched the entire inauguration and I realized that I have never watched an inauguration before and I was actually fascinated by the whole, just the process of it. Um, but so she comes out and the music doesn't play, so she had to sing america, the beautiful acapella oh yeah, I was busy that night.
Speaker 3:It was during the day I was in the whole day affair. Yeah, it's a big long production.
Speaker 4:I worked that day I was, I was in the office, did not have my phone on, so, um, you know, there have been people over the years that have been kind of you know big names for a decade or so and then they fall out of favor. Um, helen hunt, I never understood, back in the the days of mad about you and twister, and you know what was the movie she did with, uh, jack nicholson, um, where she was the waitress, and pay it it forward.
Speaker 3:No, that's not it. No, yeah, I never really, but anyway, she's the same kind she plays. She's the same person, just in a different role all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is one.
Speaker 4:Interesting. We've talked a lot about women here. Now my boy, brad, my other favorite, brad Pitt. Some of his earlier work was really really I thought was really good. River Runs Through it, yeah that's my favorite. I love that movie, yeah, some of his early stuff and then he started doing a whole bunch of stuff that I just super loved him in All the Oceans 11. You know, Oceans 11, 12, 13. You know, mr and Mrs Smith, I loved his role in that recent movie with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum Channing.
Speaker 3:Oh, that comedy, yeah, that was fun, yeah, yeah, where he plays.
Speaker 4:I love those and I don't mind that it's Brad Pitt up there, you know, like he doesn't take himself so seriously that he feels like he's got to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like I like. If you compared to me Matthew McConaughey and Brad Pitt, cause they're I mean, they're both attractive men. Both did a stream of comedies, um little bit of reverse, and when they did their serious stuff, I feel like Brad Pitt did some more, did their serious stuff. I feel like brad pitt did some more of a serious stuff early on and matthew mcconaughey later on. Yeah it, you know, I think they're equitable yeah probably is there
Speaker 1:a but coming here.
Speaker 3:What's your? What's your point?
Speaker 4:I. I wish that matthew mcconughey would be a little bit more like Brad Pitt in that. Just do sprinkle in some of the other stuff that we all enjoyed you in. There's nothing wrong. The goal is to make people happy, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well or elicit an emotion.
Speaker 3:You try to elicit an emotion. You try to elicit an emotion. Sometimes I don't know. Comedy.
Speaker 4:I guess I'm just bummed that I don't get to see him in lighthearted, fun, enjoyable movies. Yeah, I don't like to watch depressing, dark, sad movies all the damn time. I want to escape from dark, depressing and sad and live in happy laughing joyful movies, rom-coms. Rom-coms. I like a good thriller. I like a good Jason Bourne. I miss Bruce Willis and the Diehards and those type of movies I always enjoyed. I even enjoyed early Sylvester Stallone movies because they were funny as well as thrillers. Were they thrillers? I don't know.
Speaker 3:I don't know about that Action adventure? Yeah, action adventure. I don't know about that Action adventure.
Speaker 4:Yeah, action adventure, I like that category.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, just kind of fun to think about those, as we are definitely in that time period where a lot of people are hunkering down and we're consuming a lot of content right now.
Speaker 3:So yes, we are.
Speaker 2:Yes, we are yeah.
Speaker 3:Do we have any um shots, oh, not yeah Shots, sure, but recommendations. That's what I was thinking, and I do have one. We've talked about a bunch. I watched black doves on oh, I watched that too. It is a short series, like seven or eight episodes, starring kira knightley. I loved it, absolutely loved it. So there's my.
Speaker 4:It's a netflix, so everybody loved it she's one of those that sometimes I really like what she does and other times I don't, but I really liked her in that I did like her.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. So there's my, my rack of the week.
Speaker 4:I read a book this last week oh you did good, the the it girl by Ruth Ware. Um um, I got it for Christmas and it was really good. I like her books oh yeah, I think most of them and I found this interesting, and maybe this is something we should talk about and bring Miss Mallory back, the English major. Ruth Ware's books seem to center on various women who find themselves doubting what they saw or what they believe has happened. So a little bit of imposter syndrome, a little bit of um gaslighting, a little bit of ghosting to her characters, the main characters, and I find that very interesting. That large part of the books end up them having to struggle through their doubts to convince themselves or figure out if they were just imagining stuff. So, it Girl, I would recommend that book.
Speaker 3:Interesting Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, so here's one that Bill and I watched that I don't think I would recommend, but then, at the same time, I want people to watch it so that they can, so that we can look at each other and go what the hell was that?
Speaker 4:Train wreck factor.
Speaker 3:All right, what is it? It's one of those that you just can't look away. You have to keep watching it.
Speaker 4:Kind of like.
Speaker 3:Tiger King. Kind of like Tiger King.
Speaker 2:I never watched that.
Speaker 3:Well, you didn't miss a lot, but a lot of us struggled through it just because it was so bad.
Speaker 4:There was a lot of what the hell was going on.
Speaker 3:There was a lot of what the hell was going on. There was a lot of what the hell. What is it? Night bitch.
Speaker 4:Oh, oh, I tried. I got a third of the way through until she got to be like doing the stuff on her back in the sink and I was like and about and what in the? World and our friend, shannon.
Speaker 4:Shannon Schottler posted a story about it and she's like she was talking about it and she's like what, yes? And so I said you know? And she goes I don't know that you need to watch it, you know. And so I texted her the same thing that I'm saying here and I go, do I need to finish it? And she gives me like three sentences. I'm saying here and I go, do I need to finish it? And she gives me like three sentences. I'm like that's the perfect review. That was the review they should have put on the movie, because it was you finish it, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we, we plowed all the way through um. Is it a movie?
Speaker 3:it's yeah yeah it's.
Speaker 2:Amy Adams is the female lead. Okay, and I don't want to give it away, for people who do intend to watch it Love to have further conversation about it. But basically, this woman at night becomes a female dog, which is where bitch comes in. Okay, um, but it's it's just.
Speaker 3:Is it one of those where, yeah, is it one of those that you have no idea how they wrote it or who wrote it, because they would be so?
Speaker 2:weird, yes, like who came up with this idea, and it's one of those that you get to the end and then you just have so many questions. But I also feel a little embarrassed asking the questions because I want to say did that really happen or was she?
Speaker 2:dreaming dreaming, you know and I. So that's why it feels that is one that would be good to be able to talk about it with someone, because I that kind of movie. I look at it and I just say, amy adams, what were you thinking? Yeah, so what is it on?
Speaker 3:what service is it on netflix? Pretty sure, that's netflix?
Speaker 2:yeah is it.
Speaker 4:It's either netflix or hulu, I can't remember okay, I have netflix, hulu and prime and I it was not on prime. I don't think it was on prime okay. Yeah, it was weird and I was, it was late at night and I kind of was like okay, I'll watch it, and I'm watching it and I'm like okay, and then all of a sudden I'm like nope and I'm out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. I hate it when you do that, like I will watch a movie based on who's stars in it, but then it's like what in the heck were they thinking it was not good?
Speaker 4:yeah, yeah, so that's how we at least finish them. I quit, so then I really don't know why they were.
Speaker 3:Well, if they're not good, I fall asleep. So I'll fall asleep and I won't see most of it anyway yeah that's funny all right.
Speaker 2:Well, does anybody have? Does anybody have a shot? I? Feel like my shot is don't watch night Bitch, but yeah.
Speaker 4:I think what you're actually saying is do watch it, but not because I'm recommending you watch it?
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly, please watch it so we can talk about it. Call me yeah.
Speaker 4:I'm going to be out on that one. I will not, yeah.
Speaker 3:If I can't find anything better to do, I might try, all right.
Speaker 4:We'll see. All right, and I said, read the it, girl. Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's good enough shots for today.
Speaker 2:That sounds good, all right. Well, thank you both. Thank you to our listeners and viewers. Thank you so much for supporting us and being here. All your comments, your messages, stay tuned. We've got lots of fun episodes in the queue. All right, peace out. See you all next week. Peace.
Speaker 3:Cheers, oh yeah, bye-bye, cheers, cheers, all right.
Speaker 1:Woo Look, cheers. I can't ever stop. I'ma tour the forest runnin'. Get me to the top. I don't need a invitation, knock, knock. I'm about to start a celebration. Let me in Brought a good time for some friends. Turn it up loud past ten.
