February 2, 2025 • 56 mins
Hey there, Gossip Girl fans! This week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve are diving into the thrilling chaos of Gossip Girl Season 2, Episode 23, "The Wrath of Con." As the season approaches its climax, the stakes have never been higher for our beloved Upper East Siders. Serena finds herself in a tangled web of lies and deceit, all while grappling with her feelings for Gabriel, whose past is anything but innocent. Meanwhile, Chuck and Blair's relationship takes a turn as they navigate their complicated feelings amidst the chaos. With Georgina back in the mix, the drama intensifies as the Non Judging Breakfast Club hatches a plan to take down Poppy and reclaim what's theirs. Join our hosts as they unpack all the scheming, backstabbing, and unexpected twists that make this episode a standout. Expect plenty of laughs, insightful commentary, and a few surprises along the way!
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Leif (00:00):
When she offered it. Just take it.
Steve (00:02):
Yeah.
Leif (00:03):
99% of the population can't afford to send their
kids to Yale.
Steve (00:07):
Yeah. And your girlfriend is
like, here is the money for it. It's
like. It's basically like if you bought a
sandwich.
Leif (00:24):
Hey up, reciters and all you scandal loving listeners out
there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast pod
where the coffee is strong, the waffles are fresh,
and the gossip is hotter than ever. My name is Leif
and I'm your seasoned Gossip Girl veteran.
Steve (00:37):
And I'm Steve, your newbie, the
greenhorn, the, What are we calling me these days, Leif?
Leif (00:43):
I'm not sure, but I do know that the Lord can't enter a
body sullied by alcohol.
Steve (00:47):
Well, that's pretty good because I like to be the one doing the
entering.
Leif (00:51):
All right.
Steve (00:54):
He's so disgusting.
So here's the deal, folks. Leaf has been watching Gossip
Girl since it first aired, and I'm tuning in for the first
time. And together, we are your dynamic duo,
bringing you all the drama, romance, and
sometimes questionable fashion choices of
this iconic 2007 series.
Leif (01:13):
That's right. Each week we'll be taking a deep dive into the show
one episode at a time. We'll analyze all the hidden
parallels, obscure references, and we're also going
to take a look at the behind the scenes gossip and some stories
from fandom along the way.
Steve (01:26):
And M, since we are all about inclusivity here at the non
judging breakfast pod, there is always room for you at the
non judging breakfast table. So grab a
mimosa, some coffee, or maybe
some of Nate and Chuck's special medicine. And let's go ahead and get
started.
Leif (01:41):
And this episode will be releasing on February
3rd, but the week we are recording is right
after all the LA fires broke out. a
lot of. A lot of homes destroyed. Hooting. Leighton Meester,
Adam Brody.
Steve (01:54):
Yeah, and I was actually thinking of this on the way up
of. You know, our. Our hearts definitely go out
to all of you in LA going through this.
I. Robin's close friend lives
out there. She's trying to get him to leave the city
because he's. He keeps saying, oh, it's not.
I'm safe in my house, but you can't go outside.
It's just smoke everywhere.
(02:16):
So be safe out in LA if
anyone is listening to us out there.
Leif (02:22):
but also this week, Leighton's trailer for
her new show on the CW came out.
Steve (02:27):
No kidding.
Leif (02:28):
Yes. She is doing a show called Good Cop,
Bad Cop. Premieres in February.
Steve (02:33):
Okay.
Leif (02:34):
It Appears she's part of a family of cops. her
father is played by Clancy Brown.
Steve (02:39):
Okay.
Leif (02:40):
Adam Brody is going to have a cameo in at least one episode.
Steve (02:43):
Oh, all right. Personally, I'm so over
cop shows. Like, they're.
Leif (02:48):
I was over them always. yeah.
Steve (02:51):
I mean, I was a. I was a huge Law and
Order fan at one point, and there were a few
other times. A few other shows along the way,
but for the most part, like you said, I'm.
I'm not a huge.
Leif (03:04):
It doesn't appear from the trailer. This is a
procedural, per se. It's more of a comedy.
Steve (03:09):
Okay.
Leif (03:10):
It's like a family comedy. Type that. It's a sitcom.
Steve (03:13):
Okay. I mean, I'm probably going to give it a chance
because I love her. I liked her
in How I met your father, which was also
not a great show. I don't need a show to be
great to watch it. Leaf will tell you that I enjoy a
lot of really, really terrible stuff. I'm
typically the guy in our friend group who
(03:33):
likes everything except the Lord of the Rings,
which baffles everybody.
Leif (03:39):
But we are here to talk about Gossip Girl. Today
we're going into season two, episode
23, the Wrath of Khan.
Steve (03:49):
I loved the title here. I
got a good chuckle of it at the end of last episode.
Great reference to Star Trek.
I really wanted them at some point to,
You were conned, Con.
Leif (04:04):
The original air date for this episode was May
4th, 2009. May the fourth be with
you.
Steve (04:10):
May the fourth be with YOU. Interesting to have a Star
Trek reference on. May 4.
Leif (04:18):
Episode was written by Sarah Goodman.
This is her first episode of Gossip Girl and only
her third writing job. However, she does go on to be a
mainstay in the writer's room all the way through the show's final
season. And most recently, she is
the showrunner for, the Cruel Intentions remake.
Steve (04:35):
I didn't realize there was a Cruel Intentions remake. Have
you seen it?
Leif (04:39):
I've watched a couple episodes. It's not horrible,
but the actors just aren't. Sarah
Michelle Geller and Ryan Phillipe.
Steve (04:46):
Yeah, it's just. Yeah, that movie
is. It's a perfect movie. Yeah, it's.
There aren't many movies I will actually call perfect, but I feel
like that one throws through and through is a, perfect
movie. Also, the. The writing on
this episode. It's obvious why she got a,
nod to stay in the room. The writing in this
episode is damn near impeccable.
Leif (05:08):
Yeah. The episode was directed by
Janice Cook, who previously directed
episode 116, All About My Brother.
And then episodes three and 16 in season
two, The Dark Knight. And you've got Yale, so it's
interesting.
Steve (05:23):
She did the other Georgina episode. Right.
Wasn't all about my brother. Was when.
Leif (05:28):
Yeah, that's when Eric came out. Right?
Steve (05:30):
She outed Eric. Yeah. And
so another Georgina episode. again,
this episode, I felt was well
directed and really well written. Yeah.
Leif (05:43):
Why don't you, go ahead and give us that vulture recap?
Steve (05:45):
Sure thing. In your face, all you
parent groups who decried Gossip Girl as a
sensationalist, immoral piece of trash.
This episode, the second to last one before the
season finale, reminded us that this
show is not merely a sensationalist, immoral
piece of trash. It's a tool for learning.
(06:05):
For instance, this episode introduced its
audience to the new vocabulary word
fochelite. It's a word we like
almost as much as mokalite, which
we coined and we suspect Gabriel
is. Plus, the kids at home were schooled
about issues in the news. Ponzi
scheme. Very brief
(06:27):
recap this week.
Leif (06:28):
Yes. short and sweet and. Yeah. Just tried to Google
mochalite, and I still don't know what it means.
Steve (06:33):
Or moshalite.
Leif (06:35):
Yeah. Yeah. Motionlight's probably better.
Steve (06:37):
Yeah, it's probably motionlight.
Leif (06:39):
There's link to stream moshalite music
such as motionlight. There's a
moshaverse.
Steve (06:47):
Yeah.
Leif (06:48):
Who knows?
Steve (06:48):
Yeah. Oh, a male socialite,
maybe.
Leif (06:52):
Can men not be socialites?
Steve (06:53):
I don't know.
We're out of my league here.
Can men be socialites? Or is it because, I mean, they
don't go out at the debutante ball? You
know, that's for the women.
They just escort. Right.
Leif (07:10):
Yeah. We go into the
episode. We begin act one with a
monologue.
Four wise men once said. I get by with a
little help from my friends. But on the Upper east side,
there's an added challenge of finding out who those friends really
are.
Steve (07:29):
Yeah. Love the Beatles reference.
Leif (07:31):
Doesn't know. It makes sense, though.
Steve (07:33):
Not at all. But I love that they made it. Yes.
Leif (07:36):
We begin almost right where we left off last
week. Chuck is riding a cab back to the city.
He calls Serena, who apologizes that she didn't
believe him sooner. Georgina, is still with Chuck and
still playing up the Jesus card.
Steve (07:50):
I don't believe there's been any other
episode that picks up
immediately following the previous
episode like this.
Leif (07:59):
I think the previous Georgina,
run, where after Serena says, you know, I killed someone,
it kind of picks up.
Steve (08:07):
You're right. You're Right. It picks up right there with
her and Blair talking about it.
Leif (08:13):
But going back to the good writing, directing, and
also, I guess, costume design, they're all wearing the same
clothes and you could tell some of them are a little bit wrinkly
looking.
Steve (08:22):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (08:22):
So, yeah, good work by the prop department there.
Steve (08:25):
Yeah.
It was.
All in all, it was seamless.
This was essentially a two part episode
without the to be continued. It
really. I was kind of excited
to be immersed right back into
the next moment when usually it's a couple
days.
Leif (08:44):
Serena enters her apartment with the intention of telling
Lily about Gabriel skipping town. But
Lily sidetracks her with a lavish gift. Because
Lily is suddenly so proud of Serena, Serena doesn't
reveal the sauce. She instead calls Blair.
I smell a scheme brewing.
Steve (09:00):
I smell, a. I'll take care of this. By
one of the kids. Again. Don't worry, I'll handle
it. By one of the kids.
Leif (09:07):
But again, also, you know, back to the
writing. This is not the first time in this
episode they set something up that pays off later on with the
bracelet.
Steve (09:16):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (09:18):
Nate and Blair are still arguing about the apartment, but
Blair needs to go help Serena now. In the end,
Nate decides to tag along this time.
Steve (09:26):
And I was glad he did
because I, love that this
episode is another non judging Breakfast Club
episode.
Leif (09:35):
Everyone's stories are intertwined.
Steve (09:38):
Yes.
Leif (09:39):
The entire cast except for Vanessa, who's not in the episode.
Okay.
Steve (09:42):
Yeah, that's fine.
Leif (09:44):
I also thought this was an interesting parallel
to previous scenes with Dan and Serena
where Dan is always understanding what Serena needs to
drop. Dropped everything to go help Blair, but Nate
was a little more not understanding.
Steve (09:58):
Yeah, that is true. Although Nate
also. I was surprised in the previous
episode that Nate didn't do anything to help
Serena. That Nate was very
much, very selfish in the moment. I want
to do this thing with you, Blair. And now
that that has kind of, to a
degree blown over. They still have more to talk
(10:20):
about, but Nate being like, well, I'm
going with you. I was actually glad that it's
like, good. You need to be involved with.
Leif (10:28):
No, it's good that he went with her. But the initial reaction of
not wanting her to go to help Serena. Yeah,
I'm not saying it's necessarily bad, but it's just, an interesting
parallel with the Dan and Serena scenes previously.
Steve (10:40):
You're right. Especially with the relationship
that Blair and Serena have. The drop everything. No matter
how much we hate each other, we drop everything
for each other. So you're. You're right.
Leif (10:52):
Dan Gets that. But Nate is still
getting there, I guess.
Steve (10:56):
yeah. Although Dan ran got
tired of it too though by the end of that
relationship. The whole. Especially one year
ago from now when Serena wasn't telling
him what was going on.
Leif (11:09):
But that wasn't to go help Blair. That was just to go
party with Georgina or whatever she was doing.
Steve (11:14):
Well and. And covering up the murder she didn't commit.
Leif (11:17):
Yes. The
Humphreys are walking down the street. Rufus is
still on cloud nine. He announces that he is going to propose
to Lily. After getting Eric's permission, Dan
cuts out to try to convince Serena to come to
brunch.
Steve (11:31):
First of all, Rufus is too happy. Zip ity doo
dah. Also,
I feel like his acting.
Leif (11:40):
I always forget his name. Matthew Settle.
Steve (11:43):
Matthew Settle. I always feel like his acting
kind of is. He's better at some things than
others and he's not very good at happy. But I
feel like whenever he's happy someone was like, act
happy. And that's what we get.
Leif (11:58):
Nate and Blair arrive at Serena's place. Serena
admits that she messed up with Gabriel. But Blair and Nate
agree to help.
Steve (12:05):
I loved. I loved Blair here and this wasn't. It's
not something I wanted to be right about. And
then instantly I'm here for my friend.
Yeah.
Leif (12:14):
Don't tell me he gave you scabies.
if only. If only.
Steve (12:20):
Yeah.
Leif (12:21):
Also arriving is Chuck and
Georgina who says she just wants to apologize to
Blair.
Steve (12:27):
I really like Georgina here.
Really like her in this entire
episode.
Leif (12:34):
I told you. They lean into her style
going forward.
Steve (12:38):
They really do. It is a
180 from last year where I
couldn't stand Michelle
Trachtenberg. Yeah, it wasn't even Georgina. It was.
I couldn't stand Michelle Trachtenberg. And this
year Michelle Trachtenberg has been
awesome.
Leif (12:55):
So originally Josh Schwartz wanted
Misha Barton for the part, but she turned him
down. I, think she would have worked better for the original version of
Georgina.
Steve (13:04):
You think so?
Leif (13:05):
She has that charisma.
Steve (13:07):
She does.
Leif (13:07):
She draws people in. She's not a great actress, but she
draws people in.
Steve (13:11):
I guess my concern with her is that
I find her to be a little flat.
Leif (13:16):
Yeah, she's definitely flat, but she can. But she still is
able to draw people in solely based on
her looks.
Steve (13:23):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (13:24):
The non judging Breakfast Club is now gathered
in Serena's room. Serena is leaving a
voicemail for Gabriel stating that she is pregnant.
Steve (13:33):
She's so fucking stupid. The whole
like. But I know there had to be something real there
between beneath. It did There.
Leif (13:41):
Serena, she was.
Steve (13:42):
Right.
Leif (13:43):
So.
Steve (13:43):
But although was she. I don't know if
he would. I still don't believe he was telling the truth.
Leif (13:49):
I think he was. Because if, like you
said, if. If he didn't have feelings, he would have just left
like he was supposed to. He should have been arrested
here.
Steve (13:59):
Well, he should have been arrested here, but
they're stupid. Like, they're so
fucking dumb about how they handle it.
Because. Because even if he's not
the main culprit, even if it is all
Poppy putting this scheme together,
he's still doing it. He is
still involved in this Ponzi scheme that is still
(14:22):
illegal and still involved with not having your
money.
Leif (14:25):
Well, like you said, he was. You know, she was
originally a mark, but I think he did sort of
fall for her, because everyone falls for Serena Vander
Woodsen. Dan arrives
and finds out that the investment is fake. Serena begs him not
to tell Rufus so that she can handle it.
Steve (14:42):
Yeah, kids are gonna handle it because your mom gave
you a bracelet. Not that your mom's gonna handle it any
better.
Leif (14:51):
Well, she's gonna make it go away.
Steve (14:52):
She'll make it go away, but we'll get to
that. Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (14:57):
Just when it seems that things can't get any worse,
Georgina barges in and everyone starts yelling at each
other. However, they are saved by the bell as
Gabriel does.
Steve (15:06):
Call back her entrance. It's going
to take an act of God. And she just walks
in and it pauses and you have that
moment of like, oh, they all look at her and then they scream
at each other and they're all fighting and
they. You brought her here. And oh, my God,
I love,
Leif (15:23):
So good.
Steve (15:24):
I loved it.
Leif (15:25):
Yeah.
Steve (15:25):
Again, that's writing and directing.
There's not even much that the actors needed
to do because there was just such
great timing in that scene.
Leif (15:37):
And that is the end of Act 1. We move
into Act 2. Serena is
meeting with Gabriel and she calls him out on his
scheme. Chuck enters, backed by security guards,
and threatens to call the feds. Gabriel claims
that Poppy has the money.
Steve (15:53):
Serena wants to be loved
for who she is so
badly that she will accept
anyone telling her that. They do.
Leif (16:02):
Yeah.
Steve (16:03):
And that's where I didn't necessarily
think that Gabriel was telling the truth. I think that
he heard, oh, she's pregnant. Oh, shit, this
is going to come back on me. I better do something
about it was my impression of him. I also don't
think Armie Hammer was. Is a fantastic
actor either. I think he's quite terrible at
conveying Anything. I believe that you
(16:26):
need to have human emotion, not eat human
emotion in order to. In order
to act. And I think he just lacks
it. So I think that. That. That there.
That lends a lot to the discrepancy
between our view of what happened there,
because I don't think that he conveys
anything very well.
Leif (16:47):
True. Except smarmy
asshole Dan finds Lily and spills
the tea. Lily says he did the right thing and
that she will take care of the situation quickly and
quietly.
Steve (16:59):
Y'all should know Dan can never keep his mouth shut.
Never.
Leif (17:02):
Yeah, And I like how they're fighting new
and creative ways to hide the baby bump.
Yeah, she's wearing, like, a jacket,
a wrap, and she's got a Birkin bag.
Steve (17:12):
In front of her. It's really funny, because I actually
thought that maybe she already had the baby
from one of the other scenes where it looked like she
had, like, they were still covering, but she had
less because, you know, sometimes you still carry that, that.
That. Wait a little while, but yeah, like.
Leif (17:29):
She'S wearing a jacket inside the whole episode.
Steve (17:31):
Yeah, she is indeed.
Leif (17:35):
Back at the restaurant, Gabriel is explaining to Serena and
Chuck that his Ponzi scheme with Poppy. And Gabriel
reiterates that in the end, Papi
took the money and screwed him over as well.
Steve (17:46):
Yeah. This is where we get the Focalite ball
line. I swear, you were just a mark at
the beginning, but I fell in love with you.
It's so lame. If he did fall in love with her, it's
just as lame as if.
Leif (18:01):
The reason why. Yeah, because if he didn't fall in
love, there's zero reason for him to show up here
and zero reason to.
Steve (18:08):
Explain everything unless it's all a lie.
And Poppy was like, well, here's how you have to handle this new
thing, because, my. And my. Because
the last time we saw the two of them
together, they pop. I'm, Poppy and
Gabriel, they were super happy, but they
were like, oh, she's on her way here. We better clear out of
(18:28):
here. And then Poppy came back. It all felt
very planned and rehearsed to me.
Leif (18:33):
Well, yes. And then, like, put it away like she was
gonna buy him out, but she took all the money out of the account and
just didn't show up.
Steve (18:40):
But they were very romantically.
They acted romantically involved when they
were by themselves.
Leif (18:47):
Yeah. I think he's just a him, though.
Steve (18:49):
Yeah.
Leif (18:50):
Yeah.
Steve (18:50):
And I. And I. Yeah, Largely that
the way that he and Poppy were
when they found out Serena was coming
back, that's what told me it's all a lie
again.
Leif (19:01):
I get different, different writers for each episode. So, yeah,
in this episode, it was. It was written as if
that he did have feelings for her.
Steve (19:08):
I didn't get that.
Leif (19:10):
Nate and Blair are still bickering outside the hotel
with Georgina, begging for Blair's forgiveness.
Gabriel, Chuck and Serena exit. Gabriel still wants
to pursue a relationship with Serena, but she says
he's gotta go.
Steve (19:23):
Yeah, yeah, I don't really have
anything for that.
Leif (19:26):
The non judging Breakfast Club drafted an
unwilling Georgina into the war against Poppy.
It sounds like they have a plan. Gossip Girl has this
to say. It looks like
Georgina is losing her religion, whereas Bee met
her match in the battle for G's soul.
Steve (19:43):
When Georgina says to Blair, everyone's
forgiven me except for you. That's not how
forgiveness works, Georgina. You can't
just. Everyone else is doing it. I'm just waiting on
you to forgive me.
Leif (19:56):
And has everyone really forgiven her?
Steve (19:58):
I don't believe anybody has.
The other thing I had here was when they let
Gabriel go and Serena's like, oh, he won't be
hard to find. The guy that just took all of your
money and can disappear at any second won't be hard to
find if he is lying right here, Serena.
He can just go right to the airport and be
(20:19):
gone.
Leif (20:20):
Yes. Chuck's PIs are, able to find people anywhere.
Steve (20:23):
Yeah, I guess so.
Leif (20:25):
Lily is going over the list of investors with Bruce
Kaplan. When Serena arrives at home, Lily pulls
Serena aside and absolutely eviscerates Ah, her with
words. Lily tells Serena to just stay out of
it because mother knows best. After Serena leaves,
she tells Bruce that they are going to do something a
little different with Rufus's payout.
Steve (20:44):
Yeah. Lily once again being concerned about
appearances and how it's going to
look on her and Serena.
Leif (20:52):
Speaking of Rufus, he is walking down the street with
Eric, who is underwhelmed by Rufus proposal
ideas. However, ultimately Eric is happy
and welcomes Rufus to the family.
Steve (21:03):
Yeah. Again, Eric being
the most pragmatic and adult person
here, is basically
saying, are you sure my
mom is the one you want to marry?
Leif (21:18):
Also, another good setup for later in the episode when
Rufus says Lily is nothing like Cece, and Eric just kind
of gives him a look like, sure about that?
Steve (21:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it's so true.
Leif (21:32):
Yeah.
Steve (21:32):
And I love how Eric knows this.
Eric knows his mom, Eric knows his grandmom,
and Eric is the most grounded
Upper east sider on the show.
And so for him to have that reaction. I really.
I love Eric.
Leif (21:48):
Meanwhile, Blair is using Georgina's desire for
forgiveness to push her into helping with the scheme to take down
Poppy. However, just as Blair is able to convince
G. S calls B to call off the plan.
Steve (21:59):
two things. The first is that the list of things that
Blair says that
Georgina did that she needs forgiveness for, she didn't
do to Blair. She did to Serena.
Leif (22:09):
Well, she didn't really. I mean, at least on the show, she has
not really done anything directly to Blair. So why is she even asking for Blair's
fort given.
Steve (22:16):
Exactly. Other than to me
it's the history of them that she
needs forgiveness for. So the fact that
Blair. I kind of wished they
would have made stuff up that wasn't in the
show that she did to Blair to get
forgiveness like they did when Georgina
got sent to her parents.
Leif (22:37):
Yeah.
Steve (22:37):
In the. In the previous time. The other
thing about this, the if you
cut revenge out of the Bible, it's really just
a pamphlet.
Leif (22:50):
How did you know my favorite passage?
Steve (22:54):
And you shall know my name is the
Lord when I lay my vengeance
upon thee.
Leif (23:02):
I think, Flair watches Pulp Fiction a lot.
Steve (23:04):
that's exactly what I was thinking.
Leif (23:08):
Serena is disgusted when she comes out of her room to find
Lily having polite tea with Poppy. Lily
reiterates the best thing to do is let her and it
go. Who gives a fuck about the next guy. Am I right?
Steve (23:19):
Yeah. Lily sucks in this episode.
Lily. It's funny because I often
root for Lily. I usually like
Lily a lot in a lot of what she does.
And yet this episode
made her a complete villain while
sticking 100% true to character,
which I thought was really, really well
(23:42):
done. Showing the really negative
side of this person who is
a. Is usually a very good cast
member. One of the better people and one of
the often a better voice of reason sometimes
for a lot of things. And for her to really suck for
a whole episode really made for good tv.
Leif (24:03):
Yeah. We'll get more to it in the stock watch.
But even though this is a great episode,
not a lot of people are going up.
Steve (24:10):
No. No. Yeah. Why did that had the same
thing. Yeah. Really to
go up in this one, you had to be on screen for like five
seconds or less.
Leif (24:20):
Dan, alone in the loft, gets a call from the business manager
who lets him know that Rufus is going to start receiving dividends in
about six weeks.
Steve (24:28):
Yep. Another guy just. Oh, here's some important
business information for you for your dad
kid who does
this.
Leif (24:37):
He must. It must actually depend as secretary again.
Steve (24:39):
Yeah. Yeah, it had to
be a receptionist or secretary because every one of
them on this show should be fired.
Leif (24:48):
Maybe Dan should actually has his future
career.
Steve (24:53):
Yeah, he could because then he can tell everybody everything
all the time.
Leif (24:57):
Serena goes to Blair's house. Looks like the plan is
back on. Poppy must pay.
Georgina is going to pretend to be a rich Canadian who just
moved to New York and is planning on meeting Poppy for tea.
Steve (25:09):
I loved it. I love the non judging breakfast
club talking with each other. Nate with the are you we sure
we shouldn't just call the cops? But the way, the way it was
cut, the way it was edited, the way it was
directed and.
Leif (25:21):
Yeah, that's actually the next scene after the commercial break.
Steve (25:23):
Oh, my bad.
Leif (25:24):
Yeah, so you're right. Yeah. We come back from the
commercial and the NJBC is ironing out
the plan when Serena gets a call from Dan. Serena
is passive aggressive because Dan ratted her out, but still
tells Dan that the plan is still on.
Steve (25:38):
Yes. And Yeah, like I said, I love them being
together here.
I love that they all
contributed. They all shot lines
in Chuck smelling Georgina.
Leif (25:53):
Smells of aspiration.
Steve (25:57):
So fucking creepy.
Leif (26:01):
Rufus and Jenny are at the penthouse setting up for Rufus
proposal. When Lily gets home earlier than expected,
Jenny whisks her up the stairs to.
Steve (26:09):
Distract her little J with her sweet little pep
talk for daddy. I love, I love how nervous Rufus
is and how Jenny gives him the pep talk and I love how supportive
she is.
Leif (26:19):
And Jenny's rapid fire explanation of Twilight is
so of the time.
Steve (26:23):
Oh yeah. Yeah.
Leif (26:25):
The NJBC plus G arrives in New
York's famous Russian Tea room. The girls enter,
but Nate holds Chuck back for a private conversation
about their little love triangle with Blair.
Steve (26:36):
Yeah, I, I was again on team Nate
here. and I was very much like.
Because Nate isn't saying you have
to back off, you have to leave her alone. He's saying
you have to decide if this is what you want or
not. Because this is what I want. And so
if you don't want it, get out of the way. And if you
do, say something so we can work it out. I
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felt that that was a lot better than last week where he was trying
to piss a circle around Blair.
Leif (27:04):
I agree. Dan calls Lily and asks about the
dividends and then once again spills the tea on Serena's
plan at the Russian Tea Room.
Steve (27:12):
Narc. Dan is such
a narc. Yeah, I don't, I don't blame
him. I never, when Dan is a narc, I
don't typically Think he's doing the wrong thing. I
believe Serena's doing the wrong thing in this.
Leif (27:27):
Yeah.
Steve (27:27):
Instance.
Leif (27:28):
Although Lily might not be the best person to
tell.
Steve (27:32):
Well, and Lily's not the best person to tell. And the
other thing is, Lily isn't handling it any
better. Like Serena's handling
of it is almost better
than. Than Lily's, because at
least Serena's, if it would have been
executed properly, could prevent her.
Poppy, from doing this to other
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people.
Leif (27:54):
Not really, though, because the cops were not the plan.
Steve (27:57):
It was the PI they were going.
Leif (27:59):
To blackmail her into giving the money back and then. But then let her
go.
Steve (28:03):
Oh, yeah, that's true.
Leif (28:05):
So.
Steve (28:05):
So it's not much better.
Leif (28:07):
So, honestly, I mean, Lily. Lily's plan is
not good for future victims, but it is
good for getting the situation solved. And.
Steve (28:15):
Yeah.
Leif (28:16):
Swept by the rug.
Steve (28:17):
Yeah.
Leif (28:18):
Lily immediately calls Serena and orders her to stop
the plan. However, Serena ignores her and tells her
she's got to go and hangs up.
Steve (28:26):
Yep.
Leif (28:27):
And then while Lily is making another call,
Rufus is still setting up for the proposal when he stumbles across
the investor payout list and sees that he is getting more
than the rest. According to the spreadsheet, he only
invested 40,000, but is going to be receiving
indefinite monthly payments of $5,000.
Steve (28:44):
So, first of all, your entire music catalog was only
worth 40 grand because that's what you were saying you were
gonna use to invest, and
you sold it for 40 grand. That doesn't
seem like a lot to sell your.
To sell the publishing rights. I feel like he'd be
making more off of them than that.
And also, why are you snooping, Rufus?
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You found this document.
Other people's financial business.
Why are you snooping?
Leif (29:15):
I like how it's just in there with bags of money, too.
Steve (29:17):
Yeah.
Yeah, because that's
how they keep their money.
Leif (29:26):
Probably have, like, dollar signs on.
Poppy is meeting Georgina's new alter ego,
Cheryl Lynn. Gossip Girl has this to say before
going to break. They say
that numbers don't lie and money talks, but does
Georgina still speak Poppy's language?
Steve (29:45):
I love Georgina. The Sex and the
City, like, playing into the
whole, I'm a
damsel in distress socialite,
or I'm trying to be in this circle
and trying to do these things.
She plays into it so well,
and it made me think she's using.
(30:07):
She's still using all of the Christian
motif m in it. But you see
the schemer in here.
Leif (30:14):
Yeah.
Steve (30:15):
You see the person who loves taking on this character
and running a scheme and
plays it so well, by being
disarming and be almost
self humiliating. Because you know that if you were to
actually say to somebody like Poppy Lipton, are you a
Carrie? That they would laugh in your face.
Laugh in your face.
Leif (30:36):
And we move into Act 3.
At the Russian Tea Room, Blair and Chuck are waiting for a
text from Georgina. But Blair use it as an opportunity
to give Chuck one more chance to admit his feelings.
Chuck once again fails to man up.
Steve (30:50):
I like that. Blair says, we'll figure it
out. All of us. I recognize
that if you and I happen, there's a
problem with Nate, but we will all work
this out. It. You just have to let
me know.
Also, stupid Chuck.
Leif (31:07):
Yeah.
Steve (31:07):
So stupid.
Leif (31:09):
Serena overhears their conversation. And once Blair
walks away, Chuck admits that he does love Blair, but he
can't make her happy.
Steve (31:16):
Poor Chuck. I, think that the
real turning point, and this goes back to the
conversation that he had with Blair. I think the real
turning point was when Blair said to him,
you just want me to be as miserable as you are. And I
think that that really
moved something in Chuck that he
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loves this person and never wants her to be as miserable as
he is.
Leif (31:39):
Yeah.
Georgina is roping Poppy in for the takedown, but it
seems to stumble when Poppy demands cash
again.
Steve (31:50):
Georgina staying in character, having
the whole oh my,
my sweet Bible camp, if I can ask my
daddy for more money. And I
loved. I loved it.
Leif (32:02):
Nate enters the restaurant and lets Serena and Blair know that
the police are outside.
Steve (32:07):
Yeah, something's not right here.
Leif (32:09):
Immediately I was like, that wasn't the plan.
Steve (32:11):
Yeah, I was like, the police. That wasn't the plan.
Leif (32:14):
Georgina gets a text from Blair that the cops are outside,
so reluctantly hands Papi the bag.
Steve (32:20):
Bag of cash.
Leif (32:22):
Serena goes outside to get the cops and come in and
arrest Poppy. But it turns out that the Serena is the one being
arrested. As Serena's being cuffed, she tells Blair and
Nate to call Chuck. Poppy slips off in the
confusion.
Steve (32:34):
Yeah. Lily is having her daughter
arrested to protect her reputation.
Leif (32:40):
I do get it. because she does explain it a.
Steve (32:42):
Little more later when this can go
away.
Leif (32:45):
And you know, getting arrested is not the thing
that's gonna hurt her reputation. It's conning her friends and
family, you know, into losing money.
Steve (32:53):
Yeah, that.
Leif (32:54):
That's the bad thing.
Steve (32:55):
And I do get that.
Leif (32:58):
And we go to commercial and come back for the
epilogue. Blair enters the
restaurant and blames a dumbfounded Georgina for setting
them all up.
Steve (33:07):
Oh, B, that's a mistake. Yeah,
I get why? You're suspicious.
But that's a mistake. B.
Leif (33:14):
He pushed a little too hard.
Steve (33:16):
Although the way that this wraps up,
maybe she pushed her in in the exact right direction too.
Leif (33:22):
Yeah. Yeah. See what happens? Rufus
confronts Lily about the list and her ultimate
repayment plan for him. Rufus gets
extremely self righteous. and Lily was
wrong to go behind Rufus back, but I totally understand where she's coming
from. When she told him how hard it was to watch him agonize
about paying her dance tuition.
Steve (33:41):
Awesome. You wouldn't let me send my kid to
jail. How come
you get to send your kid to jail and I can't send my kid to
jail?
Leif (33:50):
It's a fair point.
Steve (33:51):
It is, it is. It's also,
I thought that was just a really
funny moment for him to
be like, wait, you wouldn't let me do that.
Leif (34:02):
Well, I think at this point, Rufus does realize that was the wrong
move.
Steve (34:05):
Yeah, I agree. I think you're right.
And I think that him seeing someone else do it
reinforces that it was the wrong move.
Leif (34:15):
Let her play for college. Seriously.
Steve (34:17):
But seriously, you have
a ridiculously wealthy
billionaire wife, soon to be
fiance. If you didn't get. If you didn't
bail because she wants to help you
out. And I, do understand
the embarrassment angle
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of, for Rufus if that was a public
thing. Now I also understand it's kind of
condescending to slip him money Behind.
Leif (34:45):
Oh, yeah, behind the back is wrong. But when
she offered it, just take it.
Steve (34:50):
Yeah.
Leif (34:50):
99% of the population can't afford to send their
kids to Yale.
Steve (34:54):
Yeah. And your girlfriend is
like, here is the money for it. It's
like, it's basically like if you bought a
sandwich at the police station.
Leif (35:05):
Serena discovers that it was Lily that had her arrested
for stealing, quote unquote, the tennis bracelet that Lily
gave her at the beginning of the episode. Again, very good
setup and payoff.
Steve (35:15):
Yeah, yeah, it was really well done.
Leif (35:17):
Rufus finds out that Lily had Serena arrested
and then points out the hypocrisy of shopping or
stopping him from doing the same to Jenny. Earlier in the season,
Rufus decides that the proposal was a big mistake.
Steve (35:29):
Oh, I jumped ahead. I didn't realize I jumped ahead there.
Leif (35:31):
Yeah, the first conversation was more arguing about the money. And then he
finds out because, she gets the call.
And Riff is like, what was that about? And he's
like, oh, yeah, Serena's arrested.
Steve (35:42):
Yeah, I had her arrested. Yeah, I was thinking that that was all the
same scene, but it wasn't. But I had her
Arrested. I'll go with you.
Leif (35:50):
No, it's all right.
Steve (35:51):
You don't have to. Okay, fine. I did.
Leif (35:53):
I'm going to let her stew there for a while first.
Steve (35:56):
You wouldn't let me put my kid.
In a cop car, but you're going to have your kids stew in jail
for a couple days.
Leif (36:03):
Outside the police station, Nate and Blair
mutually decide that moving in together isn't the right move right
now. However, prom might be a bit more suitable considering
their ages.
Steve (36:13):
Very mature conversation. Yeah, they were very.
Both of them were like, this is where this
came from. And it wasn't okay, we are 18.
Leif (36:22):
There was no rush to play let's.
Steve (36:23):
Go to prom first. That was
cute. You should ask me to play prom first.
Cute and very grown up. I liked it.
Leif (36:32):
And then the episode ending montage begins with
Georgina calling Blair to tell Blair that she is going after
Poppy. It appears Georgie is back to her old
self. Tell Jesus that the bitch is back.
Steve (36:44):
That I loved it. I thought she was so
great. And seeing the. I don't
want to say heel turn, but
seeing the sunglasses on
and the I am not that sweet little
girl anymore. You. You brought it out of me.
Leif (37:01):
And. Yeah, and it is one of the most iconic lines from
the show.
Steve (37:05):
Yeah, yeah, it was fantastic.
watching this episode
now I understand why Shannon wanted to be
on a Georgina episode so bad. Watching
this now, I understand why Shannon loves Georgina so
much.
Leif (37:21):
Lily is drinking alone. Rufus arrives home and tells
Dan and Jenny to return the ring before sulking
off to his room.
Steve (37:27):
Mr. Dramatic Pants. @ least
this time it's an adult conflict between
Rufus and Lily and not, how many people did you bang?
Because the last time they had a conflict, it was
silly and juvenile.
Leif (37:41):
And this is a little silly. And you have to. Because it's about versus
pride.
Steve (37:44):
It is. And Lily trying to
sneak him money that he wouldn't accept
otherwise. And
another piece of this that I keep
reflecting on is if Lilly
gave you a $5,000 a
month allowance, like this thing
is, no one would know. No one would know except for you
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and Lily. Your kids don't even have to know.
So what is the embarrassment?
And I'll also say this from my point of view
where for the past six years, my wife
supported me. You know, I was on workers comp.
I was injured, I couldn't work, wasn't allowed to make money,
and my wife had to cover the
bills, had to cover most of
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our expenses, most of my
things that I would need from day to day.
And yes, it is. I
Understand the embarrassment
angle of not being able to support yourself, because I've lived
that firsthand. But this isn't even not being able to support
yourself. And the only people that knew that Robin
was doing that was me and Robin and
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anyone that we trusted with that
information. And now all of you. But
because, Because again, I'm also not the prideful person
that Rufus is. I knew I was in a
situation that I could not
provide what I wanted to.
Leif (39:08):
And you. Were you already married when you went on
disability?
Steve (39:11):
Yeah.
Leif (39:12):
That's slightly different.
Steve (39:14):
There is. You're right. There is that difference
that we were already married. We
were. We were married. We were already
married, but for like three or four months.
Leif (39:25):
Yeah.
Steve (39:25):
So it wasn't. It was new. We were only
married that summer. We were married
in July. I was hurt in November.
Leif (39:33):
Chuck, Nate, and Blair are each using their own unique
methods of persuasion to get Serena out of jail.
Steve (39:38):
I loved. I loved, loved,
loved this.
Leif (39:42):
you got Chuck trying to blackmail. Nate's using
his grandfather and the mayor connections,
and Blair's just using her entitled whining.
Steve (39:51):
So great, great. I loved it. It just.
It just felt so. I
want more of the. The non judging
Breakfast club doing stuff. I feel like it's. This
is the second time that they've done a
story with them. Both times it was the
end of the season, so I'm assuming that that's going to become an
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end of season thing because I know that they
have those patterns and I'm excited for that.
I loved this.
Leif (40:20):
And then the final scene of the episode is Serena getting
her now infamous mugshot taken.
And Gossip Girl ends the episode.
Oh, no. We warned you that no good would come from
spinning a wicked web. You just got tangled up in
your own lies. And the more you twist,
the tighter the trap until you're locked in a
(40:41):
prison of your own making. Smile for the camera.
S xo exo
Gossip.
Steve (40:48):
The only lie Serena told is that she was pregnant.
She. Well, I mean, this all the. I guess
it's just.
Leif (40:54):
It's the whole montage, you know, that's broken. It's broken up. I
put it all together just because it sounds better, but yeah, it's broken up over all
those final scenes.
Steve (41:01):
Yeah. And all of it all falling. Yeah, I remember
now. The mug shot is great.
Leif (41:07):
Yeah, it's all over the Internet and it
actually comes back in the show. Like, there's various
shots of it throughout.
Steve (41:14):
To get one of those hung up in here.
Serena mugshot next to the other Gossip Girl posters.
Leif (41:21):
Yes, but that is our episode what's coming
next.
Steve (41:25):
So I am predicting
I'm going to start with Georgina, that Georgina
is going to work her
own scheme to fix the Poppy
situation and get her money back. And in
doing so is going to have a greater
turn to then target either
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Blair or the non judging breakfast Club.
That will result in her having to be shuffled
off again like at the end of last season.
Leif (41:54):
So we, got 24. So we got two more episodes.
Steve (41:57):
After two more episodes.
Leif (41:58):
Is that gonna happen this season?
Steve (42:00):
Yes. Yeah. I believe that the next episode is her
going after Poppy and then the season
finale is going to be
her going after the rest or maybe just
Blair. But I feel like there's going to be a
greater turn against them
to leave it into the next season for when
she eventually comes back next season. is she always
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an end of season thing or is she.
I also predict that Rufus and Lily are going to
be fine. Robin, is like, they're broken up. They're going
to break up. This is it. They're broken up now. And I'm like,
this is too central to the show.
This relationship is way too
important to this show to end.
(42:43):
So I think they're gonna be fine.
Leif (42:46):
Anything else?
Steve (42:48):
I don't think so. yeah, I don't think
so.
Leif (42:52):
Well, let's get into some segments then.
This week in Fan and we jumped into the wayback machine to
visit the television without pity forums from
2009. Hello there,
Peabody. Here. And this is the wayback machine
for traveling through time. And this is my boy,
Sherman. Speak, Sherman.
Steve (43:11):
Hello.
Leif (43:12):
Good boy. Overall, it was a
good episode. Most people really liked it.
Steve (43:17):
Yeah, it was.
Leif (43:19):
Yeah. Eric is the only sane Vander
Woodsen.
Steve (43:23):
Eric is the only sane Upper East Sider.
Let's broaden that umbrella a little bit.
Leif (43:31):
Most fans are bored. And over the Chuck and Blair back
and forth.
Steve (43:35):
Yeah. So I'm glad that's finally done.
Leif (43:40):
Dan needs to shut his trap and go back to Brooklyn.
Steve (43:43):
Narc.
Leif (43:47):
Blair is going to regret pushing Georgina over the
edge.
Steve (43:50):
Agreed. That is my big prediction.
Leif (43:53):
Yeah. And finally, Rufus, get
over yourself.
Steve (43:57):
Get over yourself.
Take the money. Put your kid through college.
The college you dreamt of his whole life that
he got into.
Leif (44:08):
You, were willing to take financial aid. Why is that any different?
Steve (44:10):
Yeah. Yeah. Taking
financial aid from taxpayers versus somebody who
hardly pays taxes.
That would be a write off for her. Yeah.
Charitable donation.
Leif (44:26):
The Dan Humphrey Foundation.
Steve (44:27):
Dan Humphrey Foundation. She could start a foundation and have
a tax write off. You're benefiting her,
Rufus.
Leif (44:38):
Let's move into episode grades. What do you got this
week?
Steve (44:41):
A. I, I. And, bordering A,
this might be. This is definitely top five
episodes. This is one of the best episodes of Gossip
Girl so far.
Leif (44:51):
I agree. Writing was on point. Directing was
very good. Acting was good. we didn't even mention it,
but, you know, the Layton tearing up in the
Chuck and Blair scene, it was perfect.
Steve (45:02):
We don't talk about her acting as much as we used to because
it's just a given. But, yeah, brilliant.
Leif (45:08):
And I'm gonna just go ahead and give it the A plus.
Steve (45:11):
Yeah, it deserves it. I. You know what? I'll
do it too. I'm gonna give it the bump. I'm gonna give it the A plus
bump. It was super smooth. Which
is another thing, like, Gossip Girl often
has hang ups somewhere in an
episode that you kind of go, what?
Why would they do that? And in this, when
they did it, my big why would they do that? Was
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letting Gabriel go. But it was also so
in character for everything going on.
Leif (45:39):
And the biggest plus is that everyone's story
was intertwined.
Steve (45:43):
Yes, everyone's story. Everyone.
Leif (45:46):
You didn't have Dan of Anessa, like, sitting off in the loft drinking
by themselves. And, everyone was coming
together.
Steve (45:52):
Yeah. You pretty much had every
character in the room with every other character
at some point in this episode,
when Dan walks in and when Georgina walks
in, we got to get this crazy out of here.
Leif (46:10):
Going on over to Stockwatch. He got going up.
Steve (46:13):
I had Poppy going up because she seems
to be getting away with this. I had Eric
going up for being Eric. I had
Jenny going up as well. And
yeah, those are my ups.
Leif (46:27):
I have the exact same thing. Poppy's
winning the scheme. Eric was sane
and pragmatic as usual, and Jenny
was being a good supported daughter and helping out, being a
good wing woman for, Which is a little bit weird, but
she was doing her job.
Steve (46:43):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (46:44):
Who do you got going down?
Steve (46:46):
Serena, Lily,
Rufus, and Chuck.
I didn't give it to Blair because I felt like Blair kind
of landed in the middle because she's still
working things out with Nate. I didn't give
up or down to Nate because I feel like he landed right where
he was previously. I. I felt like
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a lot of people didn't go anywhere but
serene Serena in jail, Lily being
a horrible mom and pretty shitty
girlfriend, Rufus being a shitty
boyfriend, and Chuck just
being shitty.
Leif (47:22):
So I had the same four as you. But also, I'm
gonna add Dan, because once again, it looks like he's
losing his tuition for like the third time.
Steve (47:30):
I was so, you know, I should put Dan on there. I was
really back and forth on Dan because I felt like he
was doing the right thing in the episode despite losing his
tuition again.
Leif (47:40):
Yeah, I think he was doing the right thing. But yeah,
again he's losing his tuition for
like the third time now.
I also had Nate and Blair because they're both
with people that. I mean, Blair is not in love with
Nate and Nate is with someone that doesn't love
him.
Steve (47:58):
that's fair.
Leif (47:59):
I also have Georgina going down because she lost her Bible
money.
Steve (48:03):
The reason I didn't have Georgia, because I thought of that
too. But other than the Bible money, I
had Georgina going up because she was
awesome in the whole episode.
Leif (48:13):
She was awesome, but it was not what she wanted
to happen. Yeah, she like,
like I said, Lily was also entertaining, but she was
horrible.
Steve (48:23):
Yeah, that's true, that's true. But yeah, I'm keeping, I'm
keeping Georgina even for now because I want to see what she
does. But here's the best outfits
from the.
Last episode we've seen.
Leif (48:37):
Who do you got for best outfit?
Steve (48:39):
Georgina. That the purple outfit? The
purple dress with the purple headband. I just
thought it really
popped. it really
communicated the angle.
She was going for the
wholesome yet stepping into
society look. I really enjoyed that
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outfit.
Leif (49:01):
For me, it was Jenny's leather jacket with the black
mini and like the assortment of necklaces.
Yeah, the jacket necklaces really made m it work.
Steve (49:09):
It was, yeah, that was awesome. Yeah, I really liked it.
Leif (49:13):
Well, that is it for segments. You got anything to plug
this week?
Steve (49:17):
I do. On March
15, I will be at
Dawson Street Pub playing
some Black Sabbath songs. There will be a night of Black
Sabbath music with a, few different bands. And then
they asked me to come and do a few ukulele
Black Sabbath covers. So I will be doing that on
March 15th at Dawson Street Pub in
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Roxboro. Maniung, Philadelphia, whatever
part you want to call it.
Leif (49:44):
I think Jake Shikamboro does do a black savvy
song. I want to look into that.
Steve (49:50):
Okay. Right now I'm definitely doing Sweet
Leif because of my affection for the
Sweet Leif. I really
want to do something from the Glenn Hughes era. I find him
to be a phenomenal. I can't sing like Glenn Hughes, but
I find him to be a phenomenal singer and I
really like some of his work with Sabbath
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and I also kind of feel like I have to do something from the
do era because I Fucking love Dio. I'm thinking
maybe Heaven and hell.
Leif (50:17):
Nothing for me to plug this week so I will just go ahead and
give you my socials. I'm on Instagram and on
Bluesky hotcapicola. That's H
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And if you want to check out our Discord server or our
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website@uh,
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Steve (50:47):
I'Ll also plug my TikTok is
Steve Marshon and my Instagram
is also at Steve Marshon M A R C
H I O N and my blue sky is at
Steve the weed Wizard. And also if you would like to get in
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love to hear from you. So please send us an
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talk this week at work.
Leif (51:45):
thank you everyone for joining us and we will be back next
week to Talk about Season 2, Episode
24, the Pent ultimate episode of the
season titled Valley
Girls.
Steve (51:57):
Very excited.
Leif (51:58):
The max episode description reads
flashback to Lily's life in the
80s.
And this was actually a failed backdoor
pilot.
Steve (52:09):
No kidding.
Leif (52:10):
This was. They were trying to make a show of Lily
and rufus in the 80s and supposedly
they're gonna rope in Sandy and Kirsten from the OC as
well. It's gonna be a big crossover universe. But it
never happened.
Steve (52:23):
I'd watch that.
Leif (52:24):
I would watch that too. Especially, especially when you see the
casting. They do very. They did very good casting.
Steve (52:29):
I'm excited.
Leif (52:30):
Lily and her sister.
Steve (52:31):
I'm excited. Her sister.
We have never heard of Lily's sister.
we've never even heard Cece mention Lily's sister.
I don't even know the writers know Lily has his
sisters.
Leif (52:44):
Well, she does starting next week.
Steve (52:46):
I think they find out this week.
Wait, she has a sister? Just everybody in the writer's room when Josh
Wirtz comes in, and then her sister, and they're all like, wait, what?
Leif (52:57):
Well, until next time. You know you love us.
Steve (53:00):
XOXO Every time you walk away
run away you take a piece of me with you
there Every time you walk
away run away you take a piece of me
with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of m me with you there
(53:21):
oh it seems I'm walking right to
your door
my heart's still resting looking for
something more
are you ever gonna see everything you mean to
me I'm trying really hard to believe
every time you walk away or run away you take a
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piece of me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
never feels right when I'm out here on
my own m.
Leif (54:06):
I.
Steve (54:06):
Left last night and it feels like way
too long
are you ever gonna see everything you mean
to me I'm trying really hard to believe
every time you walk away run away you take a
piece of meat with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
(54:28):
piece of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
come back to me
smile and you'll make my life
complete
(54:51):
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away take a
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piece of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
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every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there.
When she offered it. Just take it.
Steve (00:02):
Yeah.
Leif (00:03):
99% of the population can't afford to send their
kids to Yale.
Steve (00:07):
Yeah. And your girlfriend is
like, here is the money for it. It's
like. It's basically like if you bought a
sandwich.
Leif (00:24):
Hey up, reciters and all you scandal loving listeners out
there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast pod
where the coffee is strong, the waffles are fresh,
and the gossip is hotter than ever. My name is Leif
and I'm your seasoned Gossip Girl veteran.
Steve (00:37):
And I'm Steve, your newbie, the
greenhorn, the, What are we calling me these days, Leif?
Leif (00:43):
I'm not sure, but I do know that the Lord can't enter a
body sullied by alcohol.
Steve (00:47):
Well, that's pretty good because I like to be the one doing the
entering.
Leif (00:51):
All right.
Steve (00:54):
He's so disgusting.
So here's the deal, folks. Leaf has been watching Gossip
Girl since it first aired, and I'm tuning in for the first
time. And together, we are your dynamic duo,
bringing you all the drama, romance, and
sometimes questionable fashion choices of
this iconic 2007 series.
Leif (01:13):
That's right. Each week we'll be taking a deep dive into the show
one episode at a time. We'll analyze all the hidden
parallels, obscure references, and we're also going
to take a look at the behind the scenes gossip and some stories
from fandom along the way.
Steve (01:26):
And M, since we are all about inclusivity here at the non
judging breakfast pod, there is always room for you at the
non judging breakfast table. So grab a
mimosa, some coffee, or maybe
some of Nate and Chuck's special medicine. And let's go ahead and get
started.
Leif (01:41):
And this episode will be releasing on February
3rd, but the week we are recording is right
after all the LA fires broke out. a
lot of. A lot of homes destroyed. Hooting. Leighton Meester,
Adam Brody.
Steve (01:54):
Yeah, and I was actually thinking of this on the way up
of. You know, our. Our hearts definitely go out
to all of you in LA going through this.
I. Robin's close friend lives
out there. She's trying to get him to leave the city
because he's. He keeps saying, oh, it's not.
I'm safe in my house, but you can't go outside.
It's just smoke everywhere.
(02:16):
So be safe out in LA if
anyone is listening to us out there.
Leif (02:22):
but also this week, Leighton's trailer for
her new show on the CW came out.
Steve (02:27):
No kidding.
Leif (02:28):
Yes. She is doing a show called Good Cop,
Bad Cop. Premieres in February.
Steve (02:33):
Okay.
Leif (02:34):
It Appears she's part of a family of cops. her
father is played by Clancy Brown.
Steve (02:39):
Okay.
Leif (02:40):
Adam Brody is going to have a cameo in at least one episode.
Steve (02:43):
Oh, all right. Personally, I'm so over
cop shows. Like, they're.
Leif (02:48):
I was over them always. yeah.
Steve (02:51):
I mean, I was a. I was a huge Law and
Order fan at one point, and there were a few
other times. A few other shows along the way,
but for the most part, like you said, I'm.
I'm not a huge.
Leif (03:04):
It doesn't appear from the trailer. This is a
procedural, per se. It's more of a comedy.
Steve (03:09):
Okay.
Leif (03:10):
It's like a family comedy. Type that. It's a sitcom.
Steve (03:13):
Okay. I mean, I'm probably going to give it a chance
because I love her. I liked her
in How I met your father, which was also
not a great show. I don't need a show to be
great to watch it. Leaf will tell you that I enjoy a
lot of really, really terrible stuff. I'm
typically the guy in our friend group who
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likes everything except the Lord of the Rings,
which baffles everybody.
Leif (03:39):
But we are here to talk about Gossip Girl. Today
we're going into season two, episode
23, the Wrath of Khan.
Steve (03:49):
I loved the title here. I
got a good chuckle of it at the end of last episode.
Great reference to Star Trek.
I really wanted them at some point to,
You were conned, Con.
Leif (04:04):
The original air date for this episode was May
4th, 2009. May the fourth be with
you.
Steve (04:10):
May the fourth be with YOU. Interesting to have a Star
Trek reference on. May 4.
Leif (04:18):
Episode was written by Sarah Goodman.
This is her first episode of Gossip Girl and only
her third writing job. However, she does go on to be a
mainstay in the writer's room all the way through the show's final
season. And most recently, she is
the showrunner for, the Cruel Intentions remake.
Steve (04:35):
I didn't realize there was a Cruel Intentions remake. Have
you seen it?
Leif (04:39):
I've watched a couple episodes. It's not horrible,
but the actors just aren't. Sarah
Michelle Geller and Ryan Phillipe.
Steve (04:46):
Yeah, it's just. Yeah, that movie
is. It's a perfect movie. Yeah, it's.
There aren't many movies I will actually call perfect, but I feel
like that one throws through and through is a, perfect
movie. Also, the. The writing on
this episode. It's obvious why she got a,
nod to stay in the room. The writing in this
episode is damn near impeccable.
Leif (05:08):
Yeah. The episode was directed by
Janice Cook, who previously directed
episode 116, All About My Brother.
And then episodes three and 16 in season
two, The Dark Knight. And you've got Yale, so it's
interesting.
Steve (05:23):
She did the other Georgina episode. Right.
Wasn't all about my brother. Was when.
Leif (05:28):
Yeah, that's when Eric came out. Right?
Steve (05:30):
She outed Eric. Yeah. And
so another Georgina episode. again,
this episode, I felt was well
directed and really well written. Yeah.
Leif (05:43):
Why don't you, go ahead and give us that vulture recap?
Steve (05:45):
Sure thing. In your face, all you
parent groups who decried Gossip Girl as a
sensationalist, immoral piece of trash.
This episode, the second to last one before the
season finale, reminded us that this
show is not merely a sensationalist, immoral
piece of trash. It's a tool for learning.
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For instance, this episode introduced its
audience to the new vocabulary word
fochelite. It's a word we like
almost as much as mokalite, which
we coined and we suspect Gabriel
is. Plus, the kids at home were schooled
about issues in the news. Ponzi
scheme. Very brief
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recap this week.
Leif (06:28):
Yes. short and sweet and. Yeah. Just tried to Google
mochalite, and I still don't know what it means.
Steve (06:33):
Or moshalite.
Leif (06:35):
Yeah. Yeah. Motionlight's probably better.
Steve (06:37):
Yeah, it's probably motionlight.
Leif (06:39):
There's link to stream moshalite music
such as motionlight. There's a
moshaverse.
Steve (06:47):
Yeah.
Leif (06:48):
Who knows?
Steve (06:48):
Yeah. Oh, a male socialite,
maybe.
Leif (06:52):
Can men not be socialites?
Steve (06:53):
I don't know.
We're out of my league here.
Can men be socialites? Or is it because, I mean, they
don't go out at the debutante ball? You
know, that's for the women.
They just escort. Right.
Leif (07:10):
Yeah. We go into the
episode. We begin act one with a
monologue.
Four wise men once said. I get by with a
little help from my friends. But on the Upper east side,
there's an added challenge of finding out who those friends really
are.
Steve (07:29):
Yeah. Love the Beatles reference.
Leif (07:31):
Doesn't know. It makes sense, though.
Steve (07:33):
Not at all. But I love that they made it. Yes.
Leif (07:36):
We begin almost right where we left off last
week. Chuck is riding a cab back to the city.
He calls Serena, who apologizes that she didn't
believe him sooner. Georgina, is still with Chuck and
still playing up the Jesus card.
Steve (07:50):
I don't believe there's been any other
episode that picks up
immediately following the previous
episode like this.
Leif (07:59):
I think the previous Georgina,
run, where after Serena says, you know, I killed someone,
it kind of picks up.
Steve (08:07):
You're right. You're Right. It picks up right there with
her and Blair talking about it.
Leif (08:13):
But going back to the good writing, directing, and
also, I guess, costume design, they're all wearing the same
clothes and you could tell some of them are a little bit wrinkly
looking.
Steve (08:22):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (08:22):
So, yeah, good work by the prop department there.
Steve (08:25):
Yeah.
It was.
All in all, it was seamless.
This was essentially a two part episode
without the to be continued. It
really. I was kind of excited
to be immersed right back into
the next moment when usually it's a couple
days.
Leif (08:44):
Serena enters her apartment with the intention of telling
Lily about Gabriel skipping town. But
Lily sidetracks her with a lavish gift. Because
Lily is suddenly so proud of Serena, Serena doesn't
reveal the sauce. She instead calls Blair.
I smell a scheme brewing.
Steve (09:00):
I smell, a. I'll take care of this. By
one of the kids. Again. Don't worry, I'll handle
it. By one of the kids.
Leif (09:07):
But again, also, you know, back to the
writing. This is not the first time in this
episode they set something up that pays off later on with the
bracelet.
Steve (09:16):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (09:18):
Nate and Blair are still arguing about the apartment, but
Blair needs to go help Serena now. In the end,
Nate decides to tag along this time.
Steve (09:26):
And I was glad he did
because I, love that this
episode is another non judging Breakfast Club
episode.
Leif (09:35):
Everyone's stories are intertwined.
Steve (09:38):
Yes.
Leif (09:39):
The entire cast except for Vanessa, who's not in the episode.
Okay.
Steve (09:42):
Yeah, that's fine.
Leif (09:44):
I also thought this was an interesting parallel
to previous scenes with Dan and Serena
where Dan is always understanding what Serena needs to
drop. Dropped everything to go help Blair, but Nate
was a little more not understanding.
Steve (09:58):
Yeah, that is true. Although Nate
also. I was surprised in the previous
episode that Nate didn't do anything to help
Serena. That Nate was very
much, very selfish in the moment. I want
to do this thing with you, Blair. And now
that that has kind of, to a
degree blown over. They still have more to talk
(10:20):
about, but Nate being like, well, I'm
going with you. I was actually glad that it's
like, good. You need to be involved with.
Leif (10:28):
No, it's good that he went with her. But the initial reaction of
not wanting her to go to help Serena. Yeah,
I'm not saying it's necessarily bad, but it's just, an interesting
parallel with the Dan and Serena scenes previously.
Steve (10:40):
You're right. Especially with the relationship
that Blair and Serena have. The drop everything. No matter
how much we hate each other, we drop everything
for each other. So you're. You're right.
Leif (10:52):
Dan Gets that. But Nate is still
getting there, I guess.
Steve (10:56):
yeah. Although Dan ran got
tired of it too though by the end of that
relationship. The whole. Especially one year
ago from now when Serena wasn't telling
him what was going on.
Leif (11:09):
But that wasn't to go help Blair. That was just to go
party with Georgina or whatever she was doing.
Steve (11:14):
Well and. And covering up the murder she didn't commit.
Leif (11:17):
Yes. The
Humphreys are walking down the street. Rufus is
still on cloud nine. He announces that he is going to propose
to Lily. After getting Eric's permission, Dan
cuts out to try to convince Serena to come to
brunch.
Steve (11:31):
First of all, Rufus is too happy. Zip ity doo
dah. Also,
I feel like his acting.
Leif (11:40):
I always forget his name. Matthew Settle.
Steve (11:43):
Matthew Settle. I always feel like his acting
kind of is. He's better at some things than
others and he's not very good at happy. But I
feel like whenever he's happy someone was like, act
happy. And that's what we get.
Leif (11:58):
Nate and Blair arrive at Serena's place. Serena
admits that she messed up with Gabriel. But Blair and Nate
agree to help.
Steve (12:05):
I loved. I loved Blair here and this wasn't. It's
not something I wanted to be right about. And
then instantly I'm here for my friend.
Yeah.
Leif (12:14):
Don't tell me he gave you scabies.
if only. If only.
Steve (12:20):
Yeah.
Leif (12:21):
Also arriving is Chuck and
Georgina who says she just wants to apologize to
Blair.
Steve (12:27):
I really like Georgina here.
Really like her in this entire
episode.
Leif (12:34):
I told you. They lean into her style
going forward.
Steve (12:38):
They really do. It is a
180 from last year where I
couldn't stand Michelle
Trachtenberg. Yeah, it wasn't even Georgina. It was.
I couldn't stand Michelle Trachtenberg. And this
year Michelle Trachtenberg has been
awesome.
Leif (12:55):
So originally Josh Schwartz wanted
Misha Barton for the part, but she turned him
down. I, think she would have worked better for the original version of
Georgina.
Steve (13:04):
You think so?
Leif (13:05):
She has that charisma.
Steve (13:07):
She does.
Leif (13:07):
She draws people in. She's not a great actress, but she
draws people in.
Steve (13:11):
I guess my concern with her is that
I find her to be a little flat.
Leif (13:16):
Yeah, she's definitely flat, but she can. But she still is
able to draw people in solely based on
her looks.
Steve (13:23):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (13:24):
The non judging Breakfast Club is now gathered
in Serena's room. Serena is leaving a
voicemail for Gabriel stating that she is pregnant.
Steve (13:33):
She's so fucking stupid. The whole
like. But I know there had to be something real there
between beneath. It did There.
Leif (13:41):
Serena, she was.
Steve (13:42):
Right.
Leif (13:43):
So.
Steve (13:43):
But although was she. I don't know if
he would. I still don't believe he was telling the truth.
Leif (13:49):
I think he was. Because if, like you
said, if. If he didn't have feelings, he would have just left
like he was supposed to. He should have been arrested
here.
Steve (13:59):
Well, he should have been arrested here, but
they're stupid. Like, they're so
fucking dumb about how they handle it.
Because. Because even if he's not
the main culprit, even if it is all
Poppy putting this scheme together,
he's still doing it. He is
still involved in this Ponzi scheme that is still
(14:22):
illegal and still involved with not having your
money.
Leif (14:25):
Well, like you said, he was. You know, she was
originally a mark, but I think he did sort of
fall for her, because everyone falls for Serena Vander
Woodsen. Dan arrives
and finds out that the investment is fake. Serena begs him not
to tell Rufus so that she can handle it.
Steve (14:42):
Yeah, kids are gonna handle it because your mom gave
you a bracelet. Not that your mom's gonna handle it any
better.
Leif (14:51):
Well, she's gonna make it go away.
Steve (14:52):
She'll make it go away, but we'll get to
that. Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (14:57):
Just when it seems that things can't get any worse,
Georgina barges in and everyone starts yelling at each
other. However, they are saved by the bell as
Gabriel does.
Steve (15:06):
Call back her entrance. It's going
to take an act of God. And she just walks
in and it pauses and you have that
moment of like, oh, they all look at her and then they scream
at each other and they're all fighting and
they. You brought her here. And oh, my God,
I love,
Leif (15:23):
So good.
Steve (15:24):
I loved it.
Leif (15:25):
Yeah.
Steve (15:25):
Again, that's writing and directing.
There's not even much that the actors needed
to do because there was just such
great timing in that scene.
Leif (15:37):
And that is the end of Act 1. We move
into Act 2. Serena is
meeting with Gabriel and she calls him out on his
scheme. Chuck enters, backed by security guards,
and threatens to call the feds. Gabriel claims
that Poppy has the money.
Steve (15:53):
Serena wants to be loved
for who she is so
badly that she will accept
anyone telling her that. They do.
Leif (16:02):
Yeah.
Steve (16:03):
And that's where I didn't necessarily
think that Gabriel was telling the truth. I think that
he heard, oh, she's pregnant. Oh, shit, this
is going to come back on me. I better do something
about it was my impression of him. I also don't
think Armie Hammer was. Is a fantastic
actor either. I think he's quite terrible at
conveying Anything. I believe that you
(16:26):
need to have human emotion, not eat human
emotion in order to. In order
to act. And I think he just lacks
it. So I think that. That. That there.
That lends a lot to the discrepancy
between our view of what happened there,
because I don't think that he conveys
anything very well.
Leif (16:47):
True. Except smarmy
asshole Dan finds Lily and spills
the tea. Lily says he did the right thing and
that she will take care of the situation quickly and
quietly.
Steve (16:59):
Y'all should know Dan can never keep his mouth shut.
Never.
Leif (17:02):
Yeah, And I like how they're fighting new
and creative ways to hide the baby bump.
Yeah, she's wearing, like, a jacket,
a wrap, and she's got a Birkin bag.
Steve (17:12):
In front of her. It's really funny, because I actually
thought that maybe she already had the baby
from one of the other scenes where it looked like she
had, like, they were still covering, but she had
less because, you know, sometimes you still carry that, that.
That. Wait a little while, but yeah, like.
Leif (17:29):
She'S wearing a jacket inside the whole episode.
Steve (17:31):
Yeah, she is indeed.
Leif (17:35):
Back at the restaurant, Gabriel is explaining to Serena and
Chuck that his Ponzi scheme with Poppy. And Gabriel
reiterates that in the end, Papi
took the money and screwed him over as well.
Steve (17:46):
Yeah. This is where we get the Focalite ball
line. I swear, you were just a mark at
the beginning, but I fell in love with you.
It's so lame. If he did fall in love with her, it's
just as lame as if.
Leif (18:01):
The reason why. Yeah, because if he didn't fall in
love, there's zero reason for him to show up here
and zero reason to.
Steve (18:08):
Explain everything unless it's all a lie.
And Poppy was like, well, here's how you have to handle this new
thing, because, my. And my. Because
the last time we saw the two of them
together, they pop. I'm, Poppy and
Gabriel, they were super happy, but they
were like, oh, she's on her way here. We better clear out of
(18:28):
here. And then Poppy came back. It all felt
very planned and rehearsed to me.
Leif (18:33):
Well, yes. And then, like, put it away like she was
gonna buy him out, but she took all the money out of the account and
just didn't show up.
Steve (18:40):
But they were very romantically.
They acted romantically involved when they
were by themselves.
Leif (18:47):
Yeah. I think he's just a him, though.
Steve (18:49):
Yeah.
Leif (18:50):
Yeah.
Steve (18:50):
And I. And I. Yeah, Largely that
the way that he and Poppy were
when they found out Serena was coming
back, that's what told me it's all a lie
again.
Leif (19:01):
I get different, different writers for each episode. So, yeah,
in this episode, it was. It was written as if
that he did have feelings for her.
Steve (19:08):
I didn't get that.
Leif (19:10):
Nate and Blair are still bickering outside the hotel
with Georgina, begging for Blair's forgiveness.
Gabriel, Chuck and Serena exit. Gabriel still wants
to pursue a relationship with Serena, but she says
he's gotta go.
Steve (19:23):
Yeah, yeah, I don't really have
anything for that.
Leif (19:26):
The non judging Breakfast Club drafted an
unwilling Georgina into the war against Poppy.
It sounds like they have a plan. Gossip Girl has this
to say. It looks like
Georgina is losing her religion, whereas Bee met
her match in the battle for G's soul.
Steve (19:43):
When Georgina says to Blair, everyone's
forgiven me except for you. That's not how
forgiveness works, Georgina. You can't
just. Everyone else is doing it. I'm just waiting on
you to forgive me.
Leif (19:56):
And has everyone really forgiven her?
Steve (19:58):
I don't believe anybody has.
The other thing I had here was when they let
Gabriel go and Serena's like, oh, he won't be
hard to find. The guy that just took all of your
money and can disappear at any second won't be hard to
find if he is lying right here, Serena.
He can just go right to the airport and be
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gone.
Leif (20:20):
Yes. Chuck's PIs are, able to find people anywhere.
Steve (20:23):
Yeah, I guess so.
Leif (20:25):
Lily is going over the list of investors with Bruce
Kaplan. When Serena arrives at home, Lily pulls
Serena aside and absolutely eviscerates Ah, her with
words. Lily tells Serena to just stay out of
it because mother knows best. After Serena leaves,
she tells Bruce that they are going to do something a
little different with Rufus's payout.
Steve (20:44):
Yeah. Lily once again being concerned about
appearances and how it's going to
look on her and Serena.
Leif (20:52):
Speaking of Rufus, he is walking down the street with
Eric, who is underwhelmed by Rufus proposal
ideas. However, ultimately Eric is happy
and welcomes Rufus to the family.
Steve (21:03):
Yeah. Again, Eric being
the most pragmatic and adult person
here, is basically
saying, are you sure my
mom is the one you want to marry?
Leif (21:18):
Also, another good setup for later in the episode when
Rufus says Lily is nothing like Cece, and Eric just kind
of gives him a look like, sure about that?
Steve (21:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it's so true.
Leif (21:32):
Yeah.
Steve (21:32):
And I love how Eric knows this.
Eric knows his mom, Eric knows his grandmom,
and Eric is the most grounded
Upper east sider on the show.
And so for him to have that reaction. I really.
I love Eric.
Leif (21:48):
Meanwhile, Blair is using Georgina's desire for
forgiveness to push her into helping with the scheme to take down
Poppy. However, just as Blair is able to convince
G. S calls B to call off the plan.
Steve (21:59):
two things. The first is that the list of things that
Blair says that
Georgina did that she needs forgiveness for, she didn't
do to Blair. She did to Serena.
Leif (22:09):
Well, she didn't really. I mean, at least on the show, she has
not really done anything directly to Blair. So why is she even asking for Blair's
fort given.
Steve (22:16):
Exactly. Other than to me
it's the history of them that she
needs forgiveness for. So the fact that
Blair. I kind of wished they
would have made stuff up that wasn't in the
show that she did to Blair to get
forgiveness like they did when Georgina
got sent to her parents.
Leif (22:37):
Yeah.
Steve (22:37):
In the. In the previous time. The other
thing about this, the if you
cut revenge out of the Bible, it's really just
a pamphlet.
Leif (22:50):
How did you know my favorite passage?
Steve (22:54):
And you shall know my name is the
Lord when I lay my vengeance
upon thee.
Leif (23:02):
I think, Flair watches Pulp Fiction a lot.
Steve (23:04):
that's exactly what I was thinking.
Leif (23:08):
Serena is disgusted when she comes out of her room to find
Lily having polite tea with Poppy. Lily
reiterates the best thing to do is let her and it
go. Who gives a fuck about the next guy. Am I right?
Steve (23:19):
Yeah. Lily sucks in this episode.
Lily. It's funny because I often
root for Lily. I usually like
Lily a lot in a lot of what she does.
And yet this episode
made her a complete villain while
sticking 100% true to character,
which I thought was really, really well
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done. Showing the really negative
side of this person who is
a. Is usually a very good cast
member. One of the better people and one of
the often a better voice of reason sometimes
for a lot of things. And for her to really suck for
a whole episode really made for good tv.
Leif (24:03):
Yeah. We'll get more to it in the stock watch.
But even though this is a great episode,
not a lot of people are going up.
Steve (24:10):
No. No. Yeah. Why did that had the same
thing. Yeah. Really to
go up in this one, you had to be on screen for like five
seconds or less.
Leif (24:20):
Dan, alone in the loft, gets a call from the business manager
who lets him know that Rufus is going to start receiving dividends in
about six weeks.
Steve (24:28):
Yep. Another guy just. Oh, here's some important
business information for you for your dad
kid who does
this.
Leif (24:37):
He must. It must actually depend as secretary again.
Steve (24:39):
Yeah. Yeah, it had to
be a receptionist or secretary because every one of
them on this show should be fired.
Leif (24:48):
Maybe Dan should actually has his future
career.
Steve (24:53):
Yeah, he could because then he can tell everybody everything
all the time.
Leif (24:57):
Serena goes to Blair's house. Looks like the plan is
back on. Poppy must pay.
Georgina is going to pretend to be a rich Canadian who just
moved to New York and is planning on meeting Poppy for tea.
Steve (25:09):
I loved it. I love the non judging breakfast
club talking with each other. Nate with the are you we sure
we shouldn't just call the cops? But the way, the way it was
cut, the way it was edited, the way it was
directed and.
Leif (25:21):
Yeah, that's actually the next scene after the commercial break.
Steve (25:23):
Oh, my bad.
Leif (25:24):
Yeah, so you're right. Yeah. We come back from the
commercial and the NJBC is ironing out
the plan when Serena gets a call from Dan. Serena
is passive aggressive because Dan ratted her out, but still
tells Dan that the plan is still on.
Steve (25:38):
Yes. And Yeah, like I said, I love them being
together here.
I love that they all
contributed. They all shot lines
in Chuck smelling Georgina.
Leif (25:53):
Smells of aspiration.
Steve (25:57):
So fucking creepy.
Leif (26:01):
Rufus and Jenny are at the penthouse setting up for Rufus
proposal. When Lily gets home earlier than expected,
Jenny whisks her up the stairs to.
Steve (26:09):
Distract her little J with her sweet little pep
talk for daddy. I love, I love how nervous Rufus
is and how Jenny gives him the pep talk and I love how supportive
she is.
Leif (26:19):
And Jenny's rapid fire explanation of Twilight is
so of the time.
Steve (26:23):
Oh yeah. Yeah.
Leif (26:25):
The NJBC plus G arrives in New
York's famous Russian Tea room. The girls enter,
but Nate holds Chuck back for a private conversation
about their little love triangle with Blair.
Steve (26:36):
Yeah, I, I was again on team Nate
here. and I was very much like.
Because Nate isn't saying you have
to back off, you have to leave her alone. He's saying
you have to decide if this is what you want or
not. Because this is what I want. And so
if you don't want it, get out of the way. And if you
do, say something so we can work it out. I
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felt that that was a lot better than last week where he was trying
to piss a circle around Blair.
Leif (27:04):
I agree. Dan calls Lily and asks about the
dividends and then once again spills the tea on Serena's
plan at the Russian Tea Room.
Steve (27:12):
Narc. Dan is such
a narc. Yeah, I don't, I don't blame
him. I never, when Dan is a narc, I
don't typically Think he's doing the wrong thing. I
believe Serena's doing the wrong thing in this.
Leif (27:27):
Yeah.
Steve (27:27):
Instance.
Leif (27:28):
Although Lily might not be the best person to
tell.
Steve (27:32):
Well, and Lily's not the best person to tell. And the
other thing is, Lily isn't handling it any
better. Like Serena's handling
of it is almost better
than. Than Lily's, because at
least Serena's, if it would have been
executed properly, could prevent her.
Poppy, from doing this to other
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people.
Leif (27:54):
Not really, though, because the cops were not the plan.
Steve (27:57):
It was the PI they were going.
Leif (27:59):
To blackmail her into giving the money back and then. But then let her
go.
Steve (28:03):
Oh, yeah, that's true.
Leif (28:05):
So.
Steve (28:05):
So it's not much better.
Leif (28:07):
So, honestly, I mean, Lily. Lily's plan is
not good for future victims, but it is
good for getting the situation solved. And.
Steve (28:15):
Yeah.
Leif (28:16):
Swept by the rug.
Steve (28:17):
Yeah.
Leif (28:18):
Lily immediately calls Serena and orders her to stop
the plan. However, Serena ignores her and tells her
she's got to go and hangs up.
Steve (28:26):
Yep.
Leif (28:27):
And then while Lily is making another call,
Rufus is still setting up for the proposal when he stumbles across
the investor payout list and sees that he is getting more
than the rest. According to the spreadsheet, he only
invested 40,000, but is going to be receiving
indefinite monthly payments of $5,000.
Steve (28:44):
So, first of all, your entire music catalog was only
worth 40 grand because that's what you were saying you were
gonna use to invest, and
you sold it for 40 grand. That doesn't
seem like a lot to sell your.
To sell the publishing rights. I feel like he'd be
making more off of them than that.
And also, why are you snooping, Rufus?
(29:07):
You found this document.
Other people's financial business.
Why are you snooping?
Leif (29:15):
I like how it's just in there with bags of money, too.
Steve (29:17):
Yeah.
Yeah, because that's
how they keep their money.
Leif (29:26):
Probably have, like, dollar signs on.
Poppy is meeting Georgina's new alter ego,
Cheryl Lynn. Gossip Girl has this to say before
going to break. They say
that numbers don't lie and money talks, but does
Georgina still speak Poppy's language?
Steve (29:45):
I love Georgina. The Sex and the
City, like, playing into the
whole, I'm a
damsel in distress socialite,
or I'm trying to be in this circle
and trying to do these things.
She plays into it so well,
and it made me think she's using.
(30:07):
She's still using all of the Christian
motif m in it. But you see
the schemer in here.
Leif (30:14):
Yeah.
Steve (30:15):
You see the person who loves taking on this character
and running a scheme and
plays it so well, by being
disarming and be almost
self humiliating. Because you know that if you were to
actually say to somebody like Poppy Lipton, are you a
Carrie? That they would laugh in your face.
Laugh in your face.
Leif (30:36):
And we move into Act 3.
At the Russian Tea Room, Blair and Chuck are waiting for a
text from Georgina. But Blair use it as an opportunity
to give Chuck one more chance to admit his feelings.
Chuck once again fails to man up.
Steve (30:50):
I like that. Blair says, we'll figure it
out. All of us. I recognize
that if you and I happen, there's a
problem with Nate, but we will all work
this out. It. You just have to let
me know.
Also, stupid Chuck.
Leif (31:07):
Yeah.
Steve (31:07):
So stupid.
Leif (31:09):
Serena overhears their conversation. And once Blair
walks away, Chuck admits that he does love Blair, but he
can't make her happy.
Steve (31:16):
Poor Chuck. I, think that the
real turning point, and this goes back to the
conversation that he had with Blair. I think the real
turning point was when Blair said to him,
you just want me to be as miserable as you are. And I
think that that really
moved something in Chuck that he
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loves this person and never wants her to be as miserable as
he is.
Leif (31:39):
Yeah.
Georgina is roping Poppy in for the takedown, but it
seems to stumble when Poppy demands cash
again.
Steve (31:50):
Georgina staying in character, having
the whole oh my,
my sweet Bible camp, if I can ask my
daddy for more money. And I
loved. I loved it.
Leif (32:02):
Nate enters the restaurant and lets Serena and Blair know that
the police are outside.
Steve (32:07):
Yeah, something's not right here.
Leif (32:09):
Immediately I was like, that wasn't the plan.
Steve (32:11):
Yeah, I was like, the police. That wasn't the plan.
Leif (32:14):
Georgina gets a text from Blair that the cops are outside,
so reluctantly hands Papi the bag.
Steve (32:20):
Bag of cash.
Leif (32:22):
Serena goes outside to get the cops and come in and
arrest Poppy. But it turns out that the Serena is the one being
arrested. As Serena's being cuffed, she tells Blair and
Nate to call Chuck. Poppy slips off in the
confusion.
Steve (32:34):
Yeah. Lily is having her daughter
arrested to protect her reputation.
Leif (32:40):
I do get it. because she does explain it a.
Steve (32:42):
Little more later when this can go
away.
Leif (32:45):
And you know, getting arrested is not the thing
that's gonna hurt her reputation. It's conning her friends and
family, you know, into losing money.
Steve (32:53):
Yeah, that.
Leif (32:54):
That's the bad thing.
Steve (32:55):
And I do get that.
Leif (32:58):
And we go to commercial and come back for the
epilogue. Blair enters the
restaurant and blames a dumbfounded Georgina for setting
them all up.
Steve (33:07):
Oh, B, that's a mistake. Yeah,
I get why? You're suspicious.
But that's a mistake. B.
Leif (33:14):
He pushed a little too hard.
Steve (33:16):
Although the way that this wraps up,
maybe she pushed her in in the exact right direction too.
Leif (33:22):
Yeah. Yeah. See what happens? Rufus
confronts Lily about the list and her ultimate
repayment plan for him. Rufus gets
extremely self righteous. and Lily was
wrong to go behind Rufus back, but I totally understand where she's coming
from. When she told him how hard it was to watch him agonize
about paying her dance tuition.
Steve (33:41):
Awesome. You wouldn't let me send my kid to
jail. How come
you get to send your kid to jail and I can't send my kid to
jail?
Leif (33:50):
It's a fair point.
Steve (33:51):
It is, it is. It's also,
I thought that was just a really
funny moment for him to
be like, wait, you wouldn't let me do that.
Leif (34:02):
Well, I think at this point, Rufus does realize that was the wrong
move.
Steve (34:05):
Yeah, I agree. I think you're right.
And I think that him seeing someone else do it
reinforces that it was the wrong move.
Leif (34:15):
Let her play for college. Seriously.
Steve (34:17):
But seriously, you have
a ridiculously wealthy
billionaire wife, soon to be
fiance. If you didn't get. If you didn't
bail because she wants to help you
out. And I, do understand
the embarrassment angle
(34:37):
of, for Rufus if that was a public
thing. Now I also understand it's kind of
condescending to slip him money Behind.
Leif (34:45):
Oh, yeah, behind the back is wrong. But when
she offered it, just take it.
Steve (34:50):
Yeah.
Leif (34:50):
99% of the population can't afford to send their
kids to Yale.
Steve (34:54):
Yeah. And your girlfriend is
like, here is the money for it. It's
like, it's basically like if you bought a
sandwich at the police station.
Leif (35:05):
Serena discovers that it was Lily that had her arrested
for stealing, quote unquote, the tennis bracelet that Lily
gave her at the beginning of the episode. Again, very good
setup and payoff.
Steve (35:15):
Yeah, yeah, it was really well done.
Leif (35:17):
Rufus finds out that Lily had Serena arrested
and then points out the hypocrisy of shopping or
stopping him from doing the same to Jenny. Earlier in the season,
Rufus decides that the proposal was a big mistake.
Steve (35:29):
Oh, I jumped ahead. I didn't realize I jumped ahead there.
Leif (35:31):
Yeah, the first conversation was more arguing about the money. And then he
finds out because, she gets the call.
And Riff is like, what was that about? And he's
like, oh, yeah, Serena's arrested.
Steve (35:42):
Yeah, I had her arrested. Yeah, I was thinking that that was all the
same scene, but it wasn't. But I had her
Arrested. I'll go with you.
Leif (35:50):
No, it's all right.
Steve (35:51):
You don't have to. Okay, fine. I did.
Leif (35:53):
I'm going to let her stew there for a while first.
Steve (35:56):
You wouldn't let me put my kid.
In a cop car, but you're going to have your kids stew in jail
for a couple days.
Leif (36:03):
Outside the police station, Nate and Blair
mutually decide that moving in together isn't the right move right
now. However, prom might be a bit more suitable considering
their ages.
Steve (36:13):
Very mature conversation. Yeah, they were very.
Both of them were like, this is where this
came from. And it wasn't okay, we are 18.
Leif (36:22):
There was no rush to play let's.
Steve (36:23):
Go to prom first. That was
cute. You should ask me to play prom first.
Cute and very grown up. I liked it.
Leif (36:32):
And then the episode ending montage begins with
Georgina calling Blair to tell Blair that she is going after
Poppy. It appears Georgie is back to her old
self. Tell Jesus that the bitch is back.
Steve (36:44):
That I loved it. I thought she was so
great. And seeing the. I don't
want to say heel turn, but
seeing the sunglasses on
and the I am not that sweet little
girl anymore. You. You brought it out of me.
Leif (37:01):
And. Yeah, and it is one of the most iconic lines from
the show.
Steve (37:05):
Yeah, yeah, it was fantastic.
watching this episode
now I understand why Shannon wanted to be
on a Georgina episode so bad. Watching
this now, I understand why Shannon loves Georgina so
much.
Leif (37:21):
Lily is drinking alone. Rufus arrives home and tells
Dan and Jenny to return the ring before sulking
off to his room.
Steve (37:27):
Mr. Dramatic Pants. @ least
this time it's an adult conflict between
Rufus and Lily and not, how many people did you bang?
Because the last time they had a conflict, it was
silly and juvenile.
Leif (37:41):
And this is a little silly. And you have to. Because it's about versus
pride.
Steve (37:44):
It is. And Lily trying to
sneak him money that he wouldn't accept
otherwise. And
another piece of this that I keep
reflecting on is if Lilly
gave you a $5,000 a
month allowance, like this thing
is, no one would know. No one would know except for you
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and Lily. Your kids don't even have to know.
So what is the embarrassment?
And I'll also say this from my point of view
where for the past six years, my wife
supported me. You know, I was on workers comp.
I was injured, I couldn't work, wasn't allowed to make money,
and my wife had to cover the
bills, had to cover most of
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our expenses, most of my
things that I would need from day to day.
And yes, it is. I
Understand the embarrassment
angle of not being able to support yourself, because I've lived
that firsthand. But this isn't even not being able to support
yourself. And the only people that knew that Robin
was doing that was me and Robin and
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anyone that we trusted with that
information. And now all of you. But
because, Because again, I'm also not the prideful person
that Rufus is. I knew I was in a
situation that I could not
provide what I wanted to.
Leif (39:08):
And you. Were you already married when you went on
disability?
Steve (39:11):
Yeah.
Leif (39:12):
That's slightly different.
Steve (39:14):
There is. You're right. There is that difference
that we were already married. We
were. We were married. We were already
married, but for like three or four months.
Leif (39:25):
Yeah.
Steve (39:25):
So it wasn't. It was new. We were only
married that summer. We were married
in July. I was hurt in November.
Leif (39:33):
Chuck, Nate, and Blair are each using their own unique
methods of persuasion to get Serena out of jail.
Steve (39:38):
I loved. I loved, loved,
loved this.
Leif (39:42):
you got Chuck trying to blackmail. Nate's using
his grandfather and the mayor connections,
and Blair's just using her entitled whining.
Steve (39:51):
So great, great. I loved it. It just.
It just felt so. I
want more of the. The non judging
Breakfast club doing stuff. I feel like it's. This
is the second time that they've done a
story with them. Both times it was the
end of the season, so I'm assuming that that's going to become an
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end of season thing because I know that they
have those patterns and I'm excited for that.
I loved this.
Leif (40:20):
And then the final scene of the episode is Serena getting
her now infamous mugshot taken.
And Gossip Girl ends the episode.
Oh, no. We warned you that no good would come from
spinning a wicked web. You just got tangled up in
your own lies. And the more you twist,
the tighter the trap until you're locked in a
(40:41):
prison of your own making. Smile for the camera.
S xo exo
Gossip.
Steve (40:48):
The only lie Serena told is that she was pregnant.
She. Well, I mean, this all the. I guess
it's just.
Leif (40:54):
It's the whole montage, you know, that's broken. It's broken up. I
put it all together just because it sounds better, but yeah, it's broken up over all
those final scenes.
Steve (41:01):
Yeah. And all of it all falling. Yeah, I remember
now. The mug shot is great.
Leif (41:07):
Yeah, it's all over the Internet and it
actually comes back in the show. Like, there's various
shots of it throughout.
Steve (41:14):
To get one of those hung up in here.
Serena mugshot next to the other Gossip Girl posters.
Leif (41:21):
Yes, but that is our episode what's coming
next.
Steve (41:25):
So I am predicting
I'm going to start with Georgina, that Georgina
is going to work her
own scheme to fix the Poppy
situation and get her money back. And in
doing so is going to have a greater
turn to then target either
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Blair or the non judging breakfast Club.
That will result in her having to be shuffled
off again like at the end of last season.
Leif (41:54):
So we, got 24. So we got two more episodes.
Steve (41:57):
After two more episodes.
Leif (41:58):
Is that gonna happen this season?
Steve (42:00):
Yes. Yeah. I believe that the next episode is her
going after Poppy and then the season
finale is going to be
her going after the rest or maybe just
Blair. But I feel like there's going to be a
greater turn against them
to leave it into the next season for when
she eventually comes back next season. is she always
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an end of season thing or is she.
I also predict that Rufus and Lily are going to
be fine. Robin, is like, they're broken up. They're going
to break up. This is it. They're broken up now. And I'm like,
this is too central to the show.
This relationship is way too
important to this show to end.
(42:43):
So I think they're gonna be fine.
Leif (42:46):
Anything else?
Steve (42:48):
I don't think so. yeah, I don't think
so.
Leif (42:52):
Well, let's get into some segments then.
This week in Fan and we jumped into the wayback machine to
visit the television without pity forums from
2009. Hello there,
Peabody. Here. And this is the wayback machine
for traveling through time. And this is my boy,
Sherman. Speak, Sherman.
Steve (43:11):
Hello.
Leif (43:12):
Good boy. Overall, it was a
good episode. Most people really liked it.
Steve (43:17):
Yeah, it was.
Leif (43:19):
Yeah. Eric is the only sane Vander
Woodsen.
Steve (43:23):
Eric is the only sane Upper East Sider.
Let's broaden that umbrella a little bit.
Leif (43:31):
Most fans are bored. And over the Chuck and Blair back
and forth.
Steve (43:35):
Yeah. So I'm glad that's finally done.
Leif (43:40):
Dan needs to shut his trap and go back to Brooklyn.
Steve (43:43):
Narc.
Leif (43:47):
Blair is going to regret pushing Georgina over the
edge.
Steve (43:50):
Agreed. That is my big prediction.
Leif (43:53):
Yeah. And finally, Rufus, get
over yourself.
Steve (43:57):
Get over yourself.
Take the money. Put your kid through college.
The college you dreamt of his whole life that
he got into.
Leif (44:08):
You, were willing to take financial aid. Why is that any different?
Steve (44:10):
Yeah. Yeah. Taking
financial aid from taxpayers versus somebody who
hardly pays taxes.
That would be a write off for her. Yeah.
Charitable donation.
Leif (44:26):
The Dan Humphrey Foundation.
Steve (44:27):
Dan Humphrey Foundation. She could start a foundation and have
a tax write off. You're benefiting her,
Rufus.
Leif (44:38):
Let's move into episode grades. What do you got this
week?
Steve (44:41):
A. I, I. And, bordering A,
this might be. This is definitely top five
episodes. This is one of the best episodes of Gossip
Girl so far.
Leif (44:51):
I agree. Writing was on point. Directing was
very good. Acting was good. we didn't even mention it,
but, you know, the Layton tearing up in the
Chuck and Blair scene, it was perfect.
Steve (45:02):
We don't talk about her acting as much as we used to because
it's just a given. But, yeah, brilliant.
Leif (45:08):
And I'm gonna just go ahead and give it the A plus.
Steve (45:11):
Yeah, it deserves it. I. You know what? I'll
do it too. I'm gonna give it the bump. I'm gonna give it the A plus
bump. It was super smooth. Which
is another thing, like, Gossip Girl often
has hang ups somewhere in an
episode that you kind of go, what?
Why would they do that? And in this, when
they did it, my big why would they do that? Was
(45:33):
letting Gabriel go. But it was also so
in character for everything going on.
Leif (45:39):
And the biggest plus is that everyone's story
was intertwined.
Steve (45:43):
Yes, everyone's story. Everyone.
Leif (45:46):
You didn't have Dan of Anessa, like, sitting off in the loft drinking
by themselves. And, everyone was coming
together.
Steve (45:52):
Yeah. You pretty much had every
character in the room with every other character
at some point in this episode,
when Dan walks in and when Georgina walks
in, we got to get this crazy out of here.
Leif (46:10):
Going on over to Stockwatch. He got going up.
Steve (46:13):
I had Poppy going up because she seems
to be getting away with this. I had Eric
going up for being Eric. I had
Jenny going up as well. And
yeah, those are my ups.
Leif (46:27):
I have the exact same thing. Poppy's
winning the scheme. Eric was sane
and pragmatic as usual, and Jenny
was being a good supported daughter and helping out, being a
good wing woman for, Which is a little bit weird, but
she was doing her job.
Steve (46:43):
Yeah. Yeah.
Leif (46:44):
Who do you got going down?
Steve (46:46):
Serena, Lily,
Rufus, and Chuck.
I didn't give it to Blair because I felt like Blair kind
of landed in the middle because she's still
working things out with Nate. I didn't give
up or down to Nate because I feel like he landed right where
he was previously. I. I felt like
(47:07):
a lot of people didn't go anywhere but
serene Serena in jail, Lily being
a horrible mom and pretty shitty
girlfriend, Rufus being a shitty
boyfriend, and Chuck just
being shitty.
Leif (47:22):
So I had the same four as you. But also, I'm
gonna add Dan, because once again, it looks like he's
losing his tuition for like the third time.
Steve (47:30):
I was so, you know, I should put Dan on there. I was
really back and forth on Dan because I felt like he
was doing the right thing in the episode despite losing his
tuition again.
Leif (47:40):
Yeah, I think he was doing the right thing. But yeah,
again he's losing his tuition for
like the third time now.
I also had Nate and Blair because they're both
with people that. I mean, Blair is not in love with
Nate and Nate is with someone that doesn't love
him.
Steve (47:58):
that's fair.
Leif (47:59):
I also have Georgina going down because she lost her Bible
money.
Steve (48:03):
The reason I didn't have Georgia, because I thought of that
too. But other than the Bible money, I
had Georgina going up because she was
awesome in the whole episode.
Leif (48:13):
She was awesome, but it was not what she wanted
to happen. Yeah, she like,
like I said, Lily was also entertaining, but she was
horrible.
Steve (48:23):
Yeah, that's true, that's true. But yeah, I'm keeping, I'm
keeping Georgina even for now because I want to see what she
does. But here's the best outfits
from the.
Last episode we've seen.
Leif (48:37):
Who do you got for best outfit?
Steve (48:39):
Georgina. That the purple outfit? The
purple dress with the purple headband. I just
thought it really
popped. it really
communicated the angle.
She was going for the
wholesome yet stepping into
society look. I really enjoyed that
(49:00):
outfit.
Leif (49:01):
For me, it was Jenny's leather jacket with the black
mini and like the assortment of necklaces.
Yeah, the jacket necklaces really made m it work.
Steve (49:09):
It was, yeah, that was awesome. Yeah, I really liked it.
Leif (49:13):
Well, that is it for segments. You got anything to plug
this week?
Steve (49:17):
I do. On March
15, I will be at
Dawson Street Pub playing
some Black Sabbath songs. There will be a night of Black
Sabbath music with a, few different bands. And then
they asked me to come and do a few ukulele
Black Sabbath covers. So I will be doing that on
March 15th at Dawson Street Pub in
(49:40):
Roxboro. Maniung, Philadelphia, whatever
part you want to call it.
Leif (49:44):
I think Jake Shikamboro does do a black savvy
song. I want to look into that.
Steve (49:50):
Okay. Right now I'm definitely doing Sweet
Leif because of my affection for the
Sweet Leif. I really
want to do something from the Glenn Hughes era. I find him
to be a phenomenal. I can't sing like Glenn Hughes, but
I find him to be a phenomenal singer and I
really like some of his work with Sabbath
(50:10):
and I also kind of feel like I have to do something from the
do era because I Fucking love Dio. I'm thinking
maybe Heaven and hell.
Leif (50:17):
Nothing for me to plug this week so I will just go ahead and
give you my socials. I'm on Instagram and on
Bluesky hotcapicola. That's H
o T C A P I C o
L A and you can follow the
podcast at non judging breakfast pod
on threads, Instagram and TikTok.
And if you want to check out our Discord server or our
(50:40):
Patreon, just check out our
website@uh,
www.nonjudgingbreakfastpod.com.
Steve (50:47):
I'Ll also plug my TikTok is
Steve Marshon and my Instagram
is also at Steve Marshon M A R C
H I O N and my blue sky is at
Steve the weed Wizard. And also if you would like to get in
touch with the non judging breakfast pod, we would
love to hear from you. So please send us an
email@nonjudgingbreakfast
(51:09):
podmail.com we'd love to hear your
thoughts and read them on air. And
while you're at it, if you could go ahead and give us
a like and a subscribe or
follow and if you could leave a comment telling us about
what you think of the episode that really helps us with our
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(51:30):
algorithm. And finally while you're at it,
if you could tell a friend what you are listening to, we would
really appreciate that. Get your friends listening to the non
judging breakfast pod. Make us the water cooler
talk this week at work.
Leif (51:45):
thank you everyone for joining us and we will be back next
week to Talk about Season 2, Episode
24, the Pent ultimate episode of the
season titled Valley
Girls.
Steve (51:57):
Very excited.
Leif (51:58):
The max episode description reads
flashback to Lily's life in the
80s.
And this was actually a failed backdoor
pilot.
Steve (52:09):
No kidding.
Leif (52:10):
This was. They were trying to make a show of Lily
and rufus in the 80s and supposedly
they're gonna rope in Sandy and Kirsten from the OC as
well. It's gonna be a big crossover universe. But it
never happened.
Steve (52:23):
I'd watch that.
Leif (52:24):
I would watch that too. Especially, especially when you see the
casting. They do very. They did very good casting.
Steve (52:29):
I'm excited.
Leif (52:30):
Lily and her sister.
Steve (52:31):
I'm excited. Her sister.
We have never heard of Lily's sister.
we've never even heard Cece mention Lily's sister.
I don't even know the writers know Lily has his
sisters.
Leif (52:44):
Well, she does starting next week.
Steve (52:46):
I think they find out this week.
Wait, she has a sister? Just everybody in the writer's room when Josh
Wirtz comes in, and then her sister, and they're all like, wait, what?
Leif (52:57):
Well, until next time. You know you love us.
Steve (53:00):
XOXO Every time you walk away
run away you take a piece of me with you
there Every time you walk
away run away you take a piece of me
with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of m me with you there
(53:21):
oh it seems I'm walking right to
your door
my heart's still resting looking for
something more
are you ever gonna see everything you mean to
me I'm trying really hard to believe
every time you walk away or run away you take a
(53:43):
piece of me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
never feels right when I'm out here on
my own m.
Leif (54:06):
I.
Steve (54:06):
Left last night and it feels like way
too long
are you ever gonna see everything you mean
to me I'm trying really hard to believe
every time you walk away run away you take a
piece of meat with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
(54:28):
piece of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
come back to me
smile and you'll make my life
complete
(54:51):
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away take a
(55:13):
piece of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you you there
Every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there
(55:36):
every time you walk away or run away you take a
piece of me with you there.
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