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Joy Ride(2023)- The word joy is apt

Oct 01, 202348 min
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On this week's episode of Teen Girl Talk, we're covering the unbeliavably funny movie, Joy Ride. Where four friends head to China for various reasons and come back changed both personally and in their friendships. Also on this episode Suesie gives good advice about horses. Frank recounts moments from pottery class. Intro and outro is Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill.

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Welcome to teen Girl Talking Girl Talk. I'm Czi, Coda A Frank and Coda, and this week we are joy Ride. This is the raunchiest movie. Yeah, I mean Bottoms was pretty raunchy. This hout does Bottoms by a lot, Frank by a by a garden mile. Yeah, like, I was pleasantly surprised. But let's say, not prepared at all. I mean, it's not the raunchiest thing I've watched for teen Girl Talk. That

dirt movie was that Death Leppard. No, it was Mutley Crue. The Mutley Crewe movie still takes a kick for the Yeah, I didn't watch that. Yeah, put me out washing my hands, okay. Because you were like, oh, it's grossed. I was like, oh, I don't want to watch that, and then you're like, but I already watched it. I was like, well, it sounds like you problem. I mean, you did give me like two hours of free rate of not watching stuff, so I've all but I've catched in all of it. At this point,

I've forgotten want shows. I know that the second season of Kril Summer you were like, no, I just can't. I mean, yeah, but that I had already used it way before Kurl Summer M. I wonder what it was. But okay, so this movie is your classic four friends on a road trip movie, but it is nuanced and varied in a way that is like very fresh and exciting and also again incredibly unanticipated. I guess.

So Frank watched the movie first and told me that he was like screaming, laughing, and I was like, okay, I'm I'm ready, but I didn't know what to expect. Go again, and I watched him was like, holy shit. So we have four friends and we get like a little kid flashback for one of the first scenes, and it is Audrey and Lolo and they are in incredibly white down in I think Seattle. I guess

they're like in a suburb of Seattle and they're at the playground. Audrey has been adopted, so her parents are white, but Lolo's parents had emigrated from China, and you can tell that they have been through sort of the cycle of white ignorance before, where they're like, yes, we're from China, Yes we speak English, yes we're we moved here a while ago, and Audrey's parents are just kind of like, oh great, did your daughter want to play with our daughter, and they're like, I guess though, and

this is my first big laugh break because a shitty little kid comes up and uses a slur that I am not going to repeat, and then Lolo punches him. Then he sort of like stubbles forward, and then a girl on a swing boots him, like swings in and boots him across the la. I was like, oh my god, it's like the other one here, and you're like, this is a kid. On the other hand, You're like, but this kid sucks. I feel like this is the starting shot of the movie, being like, look, you were going to laugh at

a bunch of shit. You should not be laughing at. It's going to be a lot. And then I think then we go straight to title credits, right where we get the montage with them growing up together. Yeah, like and apparently they are just really okay with with Lolo, like just every year during picture week, just flipping the bird to the camera. I was just like, I guess, I guess after a few years they were just like, she's just gonna do it, might as well just accept it.

I mean, I guess so. But also I feel like that artwork was like a little more problematic because She's like, here's a shurtle. Here's a shurtle with but cheeks, like very fellica. Yeah, because I was kind of like, what sort of teacher was like, Yeah, if you want to hold your art work up during the like school picture, that's fine. And I'm like, well that doesn't really like follow the whole the whole process,

but I mean unimportant. It's to let us know that Audrey is busy winning ribbons and being super good at school and Lolo could definitely give a shit and is off being a free spirit sort of badass. Can I just tell two quick stories from my high school art experiences, mainly in pottery? Okay, we do see a penis bong. Dylan and I argued about whether Lolo made a butt bong or a penis bong. I think it was this bong. He thought it was a butt bong. Okay, so yeah, so

that was part of it. Is My teacher was just like, if you try and make a bong, I will it will get in f and I will destroy it. Yeah, and then somebody else is like, okay, but teach, what if I wanted to make a spoon, but like you could drink the milk out of the handle, so it had like a straw in the handle, and she's like, do you mean like a pipe. She's like, nah, not a pipe, a spoon with a straw in it. And she's like, I here's the other thing. You should not

be eating or drinking at a fired pottery unless it is professional grade. So definitely not drinking or eating or smoking out of high school fired pottery. She also showed us this this guy making a kiln like it's it was clearly this video is from the eighties. This guy made a like at home kiln, but very clearly and like you know how these like those apartment complexes that kind

of wrap around one big like common area. Yeah, so this guy was just like digging up his yell, like digging up this common area and build this pretty sizable kiln in this apartment complex. And then it was firing his pottery in the middle of the apartment complex. I'm just like, is a sequel to this him like homeless And he's like, I've made another kiln and it's just like a trash can and he's like, yeah, I'm gonna fire my new pottery. He just throws in some newspaper to keep himself warm.

I mean, because the thing is shoe. Even if he owned like let's say he owned the condor or apartment or whatever, you can't just dig up the lawn. Also, you have to like contact I don't know who. I don't I've never built anything, but I'm pretty sure there's like pipes and stuff in the ground, so I mean I would be careful. Yeah, I thought you were going to say that it exploded. No. Really, all I know about kilns is what I've learned from Jane and Daria's mom,

because she's always talking about like hotspots and her kiln and stuff. And she doesn't care what Trend and Jane do because you know, they're artists, so it's fine. I'm on. Yeah, those are just two things I want to bring out that that uh and my art teachers is classed that keenas Bong never would have flown. Also, I was also now remembering that movie dude we did where like there was that big thing over Donkey Bong. I don't remember this at all. I believe you, but I I don't remember this

movie. It was not a great movie. There was someone in it though, right, like there were like actual stars in it. Lucy Hale Aquafina. Yeah, did that come out during the pandemic? I think no, I came up before it. We might have just did it during the pandemic. Yeah, but what was the premise of that? It was, But

it's kind of the similar thing. A bunch of teenage friends were trying to get over the death of Lucy Hale's brother and she was just like, mom, donkey Bong is very important to the memory of my brother, and her Mom's like, I'm destroying donkey Bong. Okay, I don't remember any of this. It does sound like very hacky writing. Yeah, it wasn't great. Well, like, so, okay, did you make sense why I

don't remember it? But you know it is great. So to bring us up to speed of where Lolo and Audrey are right now, they are so Audrey is living in a house, Lolo is living in the like, I don't know, I would say the guest house, guest house out back. Frank was about to say shed. It's definitely not a shed is a domicile. We see, like, you know, Audrey's movie up at the ranks as a lawyer. Lolo is just kind of continually making more phallic and sexual

art. Get a very cringey scene where Audrey is, what is that called it? What is that squash? I was gonna say wall ball squash with the mostly male or all male, all white, all lame from all what the all all lamee? Yeah? So her boss is like, her boss

knows enough buzz word. This character is written great because the boss knows the enough buzz words to know what he should be saying, but also it is very misguiding cringe e. So he talks about being an ally, says some ignorant stuff basically about Asian culture, like broadly about Asian culture, and tells her that she needs to like steal this deal with China Wave by going over there and wooing the CEO who is going to be played by Ronnie Chang from

the Daily Show. And Megan is how I know him and from fighting with Hussan Minaje on which we call it instagram a lot. I mean they seem to be BFFs or frenemies. I can't tell, And she's like, sure, I can definitely do that. I'm bringing a translator. And one of like the shitty white dudes questions whether she is fluent, and she says to him, yes, I did. He says, well, how do you

say that? I'm fluent in conversational Chinese. So she says to him, I practice for an arrow on due lingo, and obviously he doesn't understand, so he's like, whoa. So then we have a little going away party with the two sets of parents, and Audrey's parents are showing pictures from when Audrey was adopted, and Lolo says, you know, like, oh, look, written in Chinese in the back of this photo is the adoption agency and we should see if we can find your birth mother. And Audrey's like,

I don't know. I really don't want to like this. This is a business trip. And she keeps repeating that this is a business trip. This is a business trip, and Lolo's like, but we used to talk about this all the time as kids. You know that you want to meet you know, know where you came from and meet your birth mother. And so then Audrey's like, I don't know, and they get ready to go

on the trip. Once they're at the airport, Lolo springs on her Oh, my cousin dad I is gonna come, and immediately Audrey bristles and says like, I don't know. If that's a great idea. They they never define what dead I did that part of Audrey's hair burned off, but it's uh, it is mentioned, so gives me big Hazel energy. Yes. She is played by Sabrina Woo, who is a Canadian comedian. I believe

Dilshaw me a clipper. Her stand up it's it's pretty good and she I generally think that everybody had so much fun on this movie from what I could tell, But it seems like she is really leaning into this character who's very like kind of wacky, and initially Lolo says like, oh, don't worry about it. She's not gonna hang out with us. She's super into BTS and she's gonna go hang out with her BTS friends, and Audrey is dubious. But it's too you know, it's basically too late. They're at the

airport. She confiscates some stick lighters from Dead Eye and it's like, okay, let's go. So they get there. There's like a conversation about like tourists versus like residents. I don't I don't know how, and that it's easy for people who live in China to delineate who, like who's in American

Tourists. Yeah, we get kind of like, uh, we get an explanation, kind of like Aquafina gives Constance Wu in Crazy roch Asians are any teen movie where they're going through the Cafeterian defining the different groups of people, like where they're like this is so and so group, and this is so and so group. Yeah. So they they're also going to go meet Audrey's friend Cat, who is a Chinese like TV star on this like period drama

kind of show. They went to college together. They were college roommates. Yeah, and Audrey reveals something too Lolo that I guess also to Dadie, but Dadi doesn't seem to care that Lolo is now obsessed with finding out information about even though Audrey is like, how like do not mention that, She's like, oh, I'm going to mention this NonStop because the thing is that

Lolo things. Lolo is clearly jealous and thinks that Kat might be kind of lame, and in order for Audrey to prove to Lolo like, oh no, she's pretty cool, you guys will have a lot in common, she lists off like oh, she you know, used to be like very into dating and like you know, pursuing people, and she has a tattoo on her lady parts and Lolo's like, wait what and it wants more details, and Audrey's like, I don't know, I really don't know. And She's

like, is it a big tattoo? Did she go in with ideas or did she just tell the artists to like go ahead? And I'll just like, I don't know. We really can't talk about this. So once they get to the set, Kat is in the middle of a dramatic scene. I think the show is called The Emperor's Daughter and she has been taken captive by a bad guy. She's saved by like a very hunky leading man who turns out to be her Beyonce Clarence, who is very religious, and they

are saving themselves for marriage. And Audrey's kind of like, because Kat is telegraphic to her, I've always been a woman of God, as you know, Audrey, and Audrey's like, yeah, well, it's like really, And so they get ready for a night out on the town with the CEO of China Wave and it's like a club and they're drinking, and initially he does not let on this is Ronnie Chang's character. He does not lean on that he can speak English, so she is letting Lolo and Kat translate for

her, and Lolo says, like, I would hit it hard. So they do shots, and then after a thousand year egg shot, Audrey throws up all over him, and he's kind of like, Okay, look, I can speak English. I do know that your friend wants to sleep with me. Yeah, it kind of sucks that you threw up all over me, but I am having a birthday party for my mother, and I believe that you can know who you're going into business with if you know where they've

came from and know their family. So Kat is sort of stumbling over this because you know, she is not familiar with China, she hasn't met her mother, and Lolo sort of swoops in and says, oh, well, Audrey's super close with her mom. We're gonna go find her and we will definitely be at this party. So they now have both their ticking clock and their prime directive. By the weekend, they need to find Audrey's mom and I guess convinced her to go to this like random dudes party, so it's

a pretty tall order. They decide, Oh, go ahead, yeah, sorry, I was going through the IMDb. Audrey's terrible boss's name is Frank. He reminds me so that actor reminds me so much of Paul what's his name from How Paul Sheer? From How Did This Get Made? His name is Timothy Simmons. Yeah, it's not Paul Sheer, but he sounds like Paul Sheer and Timothy Simons. You are a good looking man. This mustache and you're rying deb does not do you any favors. Wow, Frank's coming

out with the the harsh critique no mustaches. I'll send you this picture, okay. But yeah. Also also, Audrey vomits on dead eye. Who takes it like a chance is yeah, not fothered. She convinces a man in like a local I don't know if it's a T shirt stand or a food stand or something, to literally host her off. So there's a little bit of bickering about how they're going to accomplish this pretty tall order, and they decide to, uh, you know, just push through with this kind

of wacky plan and make it happen. So the next day they're on the train and they're looking for a train car to sit in and these are the types of trains where they're almost like smaller rooms rather than rows of seats. So we see Audrey choosed to not sit in either of the cars that have other Chinese people in them, but to pick the car with like the shadiest,

sort of twittiest white woman. And her friends are understandably dubious about this choice, and so Audrey's really leaning into it and she's like, oh, how long have you been here? What's it like? And this woman is just sort of like squeaking out of her mind. She's like, it's great here. The Chinese youth are great. And Audrey's like, I've heard the

crime has gone up. So this woman starts getting like very agitated, and it turns out that she's a drug dealer, and as she goes to poke her head outside of the little cabin, Lula's like, Audrey, what the fuck? She is clearly suspicious and a drug dealer, and Audrey like, what, No, she's just a nice American girl like us. So then the drug dealer popped her head back in is like, they are going to

search our bags. You guys are either going down with me or you're gonna help me, and they're like what, No, we're not gonna help you. She opens up a balloon of cocaine and showers cocaine over all of them, a move that apparently was in the preview because they'll remembered it, but I didn't, so I was genuinely shocked. Oh no, so we see them like eating pills, doing it. Enough cocaine to kill a horse, like I don't know why you would want your horse to do cookine, but

it definitely could not handle this amount of cocaine and swallowing condoms. Yeah, dead eye shouts, I'm I'm not ready to have sex lunched lunch. Yeah, she's handed a condom. So eventually the people pass by, but Jess the drug dealer, uh just the drug dealer or claims Cat's very fancy bag as her own. And the problem with this is Jess not Jess. Cat told Audrey to put all their passports, which is a terrible idea when you're

traveling. Don't put all passports in one place into her bag instead of Audrey's money belt. Always keep you your passport on you. Well that's you know what that one, But don't keep give them on one place. I mean, the other part is it's very if you get stuck in a like a train car with a drug dealer, then in the mayhem that ensues when she's trying to start drugs on your person and herself, your backpack full of passports

may go missing. And that's not actually what happens, because I assumed when she gets up to go to the bathroom and she's acting super suspicious the drug dealer again I don't remember if that character has a name, and she's like, oh, I have my period. Oh no, I'm bleeding it. It looks really weird and very all footing. Like the female body is beautiful in all its processes, but sharing with strangers that you are bleeding and clearly

faking it, honestly is all footing. So I thought then she was going to take the back pack, but apparently the backpack is in the locked suitcase. And then the woman just straight up steals Cat's suitcase. It's like, this lady sucks. So the police are like, we don't want to look

in your butts and like and again this is the movie's heightening. So Audrey gives like a clearly stone out of her absolute mind speech about how she's a lawyer, she's a good lawyer, but she's wearing like a camusle topic it's clearly all bumpy with drufts, and they're like whatever, we're just gonna kick you off of the train. So the drug dealer and we don't know what happened to her. She's still the suitcase and they're on the side of the

road, just completely zonked. DEDI is trying to eat a cat tail. Cat is terrified that she still has she has taken seven balloons a cocaine out of herself and is worried that there's an eight and Lolo is describing it as she needs to reach in and get it like a claw mache. It's like this whole At this point, you're like, I am just on the ride with this movie, Like I just need to sit back and embrace the absolute

absurdity of what's happening, because the best part is obviously the actresses. No, this is nuts, but everyone's just kind of like, Okay, well, you have to get that eight balloon of cocaine out of you. So then we look keep saying do not worry about it. My Instagram Boo Baron Davis, who I did not know as a basketball player. Dil was like, oh, yeah, he's a basketball player is coming to get us, and so ok ahead, sorry, I also want to bring up the Audrey

is very like showing she's very addicted to cocaine. Now She's like, I've wondered with that. Girl's a kid. Do you think she has more coke? Yeah? And when dad I eats the cat tail and then runs into the field, she's like, Dad, I, if you find more coke, come back and it's like, well, I need if we're really you know, sort of softballing ideas, like seven balloons of cocaine just came out

of cat, so you're good. I don't think you need more than that, She tells cat if if you get a clean one, so I could never I'm way too squeamish, Like yeah, so so yeah, Baron Davis shows up with his with his excuse with Baron Davis and his basketball team who are playing in China show up and this reminds me of a wedding I went to where was that? Is that a hotel? And there's like a rugby team staying there as well, And like me and one of the bride'smaids were

just like Jesus Christ. They are all so giant and muscular nands. Well, when did they get to the hotel? We basically have a moment like that because again, all the ladies are so high. Oh I shouldn't say, oh the ladies dead Eye identifies as they them, but everyone is so high and they're kind of what's up? Sorry, I was gonna say, like I was reading the Wikipedia article. Dead Eye becomes the like non binary

by by the end of the movie. So when we get to the time skip, like dead Eye is being referred to as they them, Okay, but not before that. Yeah, but I mean I think we should just use they them. Yeah, And I mean it's easy enough to say they are checking out the basketball team dead I does not seem interested in like a romantic pursuit, but they're pushed towards one of the players that is wearing a BTS shirt. And so Kat's ex is there and David, I think,

as well as two dudes who are interested in Audrey. And so Audrey is at the bar trying to train an email I believe to the adoption agency to make contact with her birth mother. And so one guy comes up and he can speak English, and he's with another guy who can only speak Chinese and Hindi and everybody vind Yeah, what's the one guy that's like speaking English with her? Okay? It's okay. So I'm going to describe the couples that

are going to spend the night together. It's spend the night together loosely. In some cases, well, Kenny and our Vind are with Audrey, Baron is with Lolo, Todd is with Kat, and Judging is with is with Dad I Okay, so then they're like kind of vibing at the bar. Audrey does this very funny thing where she says she speaks Gollum and does a terrible Gollum impression and they look at her completely sort of perplex and she's like, do you guys have that or hear it? And they're like, yeah,

it's like an international hit. In international success, we have Lord of the Rags. Okay. So that is an underlying thing that we've not talked about throughout this movie is Audrey's complete detachment from like you know, from her from her country of origin, like you know, the on the side of the road. The girls have an argument where Lolo says, like, if you weren't so racist against your own people, like, you know, we would not have gotten like our ship stolen by the one obvious drug dealer on

the train. And like then Audrey, this is one of my line that I think it's so funny where she's like sometimes I fantasize about Splinter and it was like he's a rat, which he's a good father. Yeah, that was so. What I like is that they give the characters like a lot of dimension. It's not just that Audrey is like kind of uptight and inflexible.

She is also a big weirdo like the rest of them. And I think that is the difference between like mediocre writing and good writing, is they let Audrey be strange and like have these friendships and also participate in the fun. She's not just a wet she's both. She's a wet blanket who's like this a work trip. This is a work trip and you guys are irresponsible and da da da da da, even though she's kind of dragged everyone along

this way. But then we also get stuff like the golumn impression and her being attracted to Splinter, like those I think are the kind of character touches that make a movie like this so much more appealing and make it possible that like the scenes that are coming up are not just egregious. You're like, oh, these are multifaceted women who have a lot of desires, so yeah, we can have a bunch of like really raunchy like sex scenes interspliced with

a dance battle and it feels natural. It doesn't feel like in a movie like American Pie. And I know, I'm going back like twenty years and that was sort of like the beginning of comedies where women were allowed to be sexual too, instead of just being objects for men to serve pursue, And there was a lot of that in American Pie as well. I'm not trying to hold it up as an example, but I feel like that was the point where movies start tentatively having a conversation about like, well, what if

women desired sex? And it's but everybody's feelings around sex are complicated, and it's not just like men are animals that women need to avoid and women need to be pursued by men, but like that this is a complex thing, and I feel like this movie pays a lot of honor to that, where they're like Loo and Cat say, a bunch of grishit and it's funny, but they can also have these softer sides, like the conversation between Barron and

Lolo about art. It's like really cute and just feels like a regular conversation, like she's like, this is what my art's pursuing and he's like, oh, that's cool. Like it feels organic, And I really appreciate that because and I think this is depression, especially with the writers strike, Like good writing should be rewarded, people who write good things should get to write

more things. Yeah. Yeah, Like like of the matter is like it's kind of the normal aspect is kind of reversed where it's just like the women in this out of control in this movie and all the men are like at least this group of men are so like well put together and responsible, like so like one name. When tomorrow morning comes and they tied the women for what happened, it feels real because they're just hearn Davis comes down to the breakfast part and it's like, what did you do to my team? These

two men have a concussion. I think that the guy in the dance battle with Deadye had like a torn acl or something. And then oh, what was the name of the guy that was with Kat Todd you have to shop. Yeah, so it got We don't need to describe exactly what happened. You shouldn't just see it for yourself. It's very craping, but you know, and all the ladies are kind of like, what are you gonna do? Like then then like did I flips like flips? Oh my god,

that was so funny, Like did I just flips John game? Very fly? I'm gonna have to play the game by myself. And then storms off and a huff and I need again this is it feels realistic, like you brought your friends to the party and they injured everyone. What the fuck? Yeah, And so as he's stomping off, I think it's Audrey says like, but you were a ride and or cat does and then Audrey's like, don't worry, we will figure it out. And so they get to the

adoption agency by hitchhiking. And one of the things that was it Chris that was talking to Audrey the night before had said to her was, you know, you're using a lot of eye statements, and in China it's more about the collective. I think Chris might be the actor's name is Chris Pang. He plays Kenny. It's Kenny keny okay. So he says it is more

about the collective than the individual. So we see Audrey gets to experience China through this hitchhiking and the people who drive them are really sweet and give them food and at one point they're on like a motorbike with a little boy.

It's all. It's like all very whimsical and cute. When they get to the adoption agency, it's just one woman and she explains that she provides a service that when Korean teens have to give birth, but they just, you know, it's a thing where their families just wanted to happen as fast as possible and not bring attention to the family so that they can go home.

And she's saying this all in Chinese, so Audrey doesn't know what's going on, and they have to explain to her, you're actually not Chinese, You're Korean. And they had stayed at Kat's family the night before and Audrey had been like really accepted by the family and she was feeling really good. Her

and dad Eye have like a moment where they connect. Now Audrey is feeling really rejected and doesn't know how they're going to get to create because they don't have passports or passports got stolen, and that's when Dead Eye says, they

have a friend that they can contact, and it's an internet friend. But the plan is first they're spitballing plans that are all very bad but very funny, and then the plan is to pose as a K pop group, get on a jet and go over that way because K pop groups don't actually have

to go through airport security. The problem with this is that there is a prickly airport security person and then the Instagram Internet friend comes brings fans, and the airport security person says, fine, but prove to me you're a K pop group, and so they all perform a version of Web but the lyrics are changed. It's pretty funny. It's China specific. And then at the end of the dance, someone steps on Cat's skirt and pulls it off and

apparently she is not wearing under fans and we see the tattoo. We get an inside view of the tattoo. It's a lot and because it's being live streamed, everybody knows about it. And Cat's whole thing is that she plays the good girl characters and she had a movie lined up in La and now

she believes she's going to lose all this. Clarence shows up. Clarence is upset and basically breaks off their engagement and runs away because the thing is the tattoo is also a devil, so that's why she had kept it a secret. So now everyone's upset they didn't get to Korea. And or they do get to Korea. Yeah, they get they go on a shipping barge. Yeah. And there's a part where like they're all sitting miserable and dirty amongst the chickens and other animals and goats. Yeah, I think. Kat says

like, these chickens need to stop. And dad I just takes a chicken and you hear like, oh, like, dad, I, did you just kill a chicken? No? And so once they're all in Korea, they they're still half in their k pop outfits. Kat is inconsolable about how this is going to affect like her career and her engagement. And this is

where we have the sort of breakdown of the friend group. So everybody is just throwing accusations all over the place and they all go their separate ways because Kat and Lolo points out to Audrey that she's been selfish this entire time. All they've done is try to help her, and she is too self consumed to think about anything about herself. Audrey's upset because she didn't sign the account because the CEO saw the live stream and knows that she's not with her mom.

Her boss, Frank, is also on this call and immediately fires her, which sucks. And this whole time, Dady is in a shop buying like the cutest little teddy bear drinks and it comes out saying four drinks for four best friends. And then as they're all as they come out, the other three friends are all screaming at each other, and dada I drops the drinks and is horrified, and that's when everyone sort of stumps off to their

corners. Yeah, I'm just like, no, at least still be friends with dad I. So then Audrey goes to her birth mother's grave and meets get her widow, but her birth mother's widow because and initially I was like, Wow, what a coincidence that he was there at the same time. This later gets explained away, and he says that her friends let him know that she was going to be there and they must be really good friends. And Audrey sees a video of her birth mom that she took after she got

sick. This really made me cry. It was very sweet, and the consulate comes through. Audrey is going to go home. She reconciles with all of her friends. Kat reconciles with Clarence. Clarence explains that he was intimidated and he assumed that cat you know, had had sex before. But he wants to be with her and he loves her, and he explains that much more graphic terms, but you get the idea. And so then we fast forward to a year later. They are all on a girl's trip in Paris,

and it's very cute, and we get like an update. They're all doing well. Audrey has opened her own practice, Kat is doing fine with Clarence and Dead Eye. I can't remember what Dead Eye's plot point was. Did I did get a tattoo? Yeah, let me see if they can find on the Wikipedia did I? It's mostly I think that like Dead Eye has fully accepted themselves as being non binary, Like that's that's the band of

their story. The movie ends with Dead Eye showing the tattoo, which is in the same place as Kat's tattoo, and then all of the friends say, oh, it glows, and the movie kind of ends with a zoom in shot, like a sweeping zoom and shot as if I don't know how to explain the shot, because the camera is as if it's looking up from the tattoo, so the three actresses are peering over at it, and then

the movie es, Yeah, it's ridiculous. So I just wanted to bring a brief note about the the excuse me, the man that Audrey meets at her mother's grave, that's not her father, that's just her husband. I just I'm not sure if we mentioned that. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm also very excited that he is going to be playing fire Lord Ozi and the live action Avatar Last Airbender Show. Oh okay, I was gonna say,

didn't they already make one of those? They made a terrible movie, but Netflix seems to be trying to do their best to make like the Avatar Show be better and by not having the big The big problem with the Avatar Lost Airbender movie is that everybody was white except the bad guys, and also all the bending was horrendously unimpressive. It's like just blowing some leaves. Like Okay, So in the show, like you firebenders can just create fire like when

they like punch or whatever. In like the movie, they had to have fire to bend, which somebody on Tumbler pointing out, like how funny would that be if like that was what it's like in the show. And like Zucha's like, okay, I'm gonna fight. You had to like like make a tiny fire and he's just like with like the sticks, like he that's

ridiculous, Like you know, so it's funny. I'm not a stuily sure if you call him Audrey's you know, step dad or whatever, but like it's it's gonna be weird, just like to see him and like being such a good guy here and then being the like one of the worst fathers and Amatid the last air ventor oh right, because his kid is like on the boat with them, right, and he's like mad at him all the time.

This kid is Zuko. Yeah, he's the one on the boat yeah with the big scar that his father gave him or the airship or whatever it's called. Yeah, and then he's just like also I'm going to applaud my daughter for you know, killing people, and meanwhile I'm going to make my son hunt down things I mediously. Yeah, so this little child one of the worst dats Jet worst dats. So next week we're going to do wish

upon a Star, which was requested by Sherry. Thank you. If you would like to write us, you can write us at real Team girl talk at gmail dot com. We have a Facebook group and age that Frank moderates. If you'd like to review the show five stars please, we would love that. And until next week, I'm Susie Coda, a Frank Coda, Team Coda

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