Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha and welcome you. Steffan
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Speaker 2: And welcome to the very first feminist movie Wednesday, as
Speaker 2: it is being published on a Wednesday. But we are
Speaker 2: opening up this year with a great throwback of one
Speaker 2: of my favorites from college. Like my college roommates and
Speaker 2: I would quote this, I think I did that to
Speaker 2: you while we were watching it together, which is the
Speaker 2: classic my Big Fat Greek Wedding. Apparently, as any and
Speaker 2: I were talking about this, there has been two more
Speaker 2: additions to this film line, and it just kind of
Speaker 2: goes on with the family and what happens with them.
Speaker 2: It was released in two thousand and two, yes, while
Speaker 2: I was in college, and of course that meant that
Speaker 2: I had some good old memories with this as my
Speaker 2: friends and I really loved this movie because it was
Speaker 2: somewhat wholesome, and if y'all remember during my college years,
Speaker 2: I was very caught up in the Christian world. Talked
Speaker 2: about the fact that I didn't watch TV at all
Speaker 2: for a long time because you know sin, but this
Speaker 2: was one of those that we allowed in our lives
Speaker 2: because it was at least less cursing, less sex.
Speaker 3: So you did tell me a funny fact about.
Speaker 2: And we will come back to that because this is
Speaker 2: a ridiculous part of my life and what we were
Speaker 2: thinking of that time. And I also told you that
Speaker 2: when I was in school, I was in social work
Speaker 2: and in my program there was a Greek woman. She
Speaker 2: we were all like, I guess twenties, early early twenties,
Speaker 2: and she talked about the fact that this movie was
Speaker 2: exactly like her life, and she was like, y'all, if
Speaker 2: y'all need a testament about how accurate this is, it
Speaker 2: really is as a Greek woman, I can tell you
Speaker 2: it is on the nose, which is not surprising because
Speaker 2: the writer and creator of this movie, Nia Verdallas, who
Speaker 2: is the main character, is the writer of this movie.
Speaker 2: She actually did it as a play for a split second,
Speaker 2: I think, because she didn't have any backing during that time,
Speaker 2: and it got picked up by Rita Wilson, who was
Speaker 2: Greek loving this play, and her and Tom Hanks, whose
Speaker 2: own label PLAYTNE picked it up and did it as
Speaker 2: one of their first movies that they produced. So there
Speaker 2: you go. That's part of the movie. If you just said,
Speaker 2: if you didn't know that far anyway, So let's do
Speaker 2: a quick recap. We have the main character of Fetula
Speaker 2: or Tula Portculis, played by again the writer of the
Speaker 2: movie and creator, Nia Verdallas, who is a thirty year
Speaker 2: old woman living with her parents and still very single
Speaker 2: to her Greek parents Dismay played by Laine Kazan and
Speaker 2: Michael Constantine. And now she puts it, this is a
Speaker 2: failing as nice Greek women are supposed to be quote,
Speaker 2: do three things in life, marry Greek boys, make Greek babies,
Speaker 2: and feed everyone until the day we die. So while
Speaker 2: her family is large, loud and proud Greek family who
Speaker 2: works hard in Chicago, and she does love all of them,
Speaker 2: but she wants something more. She wants to go to
Speaker 2: college and do something different than working at the family
Speaker 2: restaurants and having a lot of babies. And after an
Speaker 2: awkward interaction with her future love interests played by Sex
Speaker 2: and the City alum John Corbett, she had her makeover
Speaker 2: both physically and mentally. Soon she was taking off those
Speaker 2: silly glasses sarcasm and putting the contacts in and sitting
Speaker 2: with the white girls at school who accepted her unlike
Speaker 2: her childhood experience who all made fun of her. She
Speaker 2: with her mother and her aunt come up with this
Speaker 2: grift essentially to get her father to allow her to
Speaker 2: start working at her aunt's travel agency. Well because you know,
Speaker 2: men are the head of the household and need to
Speaker 2: be the one to suggest these things or is offensive,
Speaker 2: so obviously they had to work that out. Soon after
Speaker 2: she starts working, she meets Ian Miller slash John Corbett
Speaker 2: again and they are smitten and in love. Even though
Speaker 2: her family is against her marrying a non Greek man,
Speaker 2: they finally give in after Ian converts to Greek Orthodoxism
Speaker 2: and is baptized into the church so they can get
Speaker 2: married there. Soon after, we have a very large, lavish wedding.
Speaker 2: They all celebrate being together because the Miller family's name
Speaker 2: comes from the Greek word apples, as her father likes
Speaker 2: to say, while their family name Portaclis means oranges, so
Speaker 2: apples and oranges fruits together essentially, is what he says.
Speaker 2: And they live happily ever after, right next to her parents,
Speaker 2: who have bought them a house as their wedding gift.
Speaker 2: So that is pretty much the whole entirety of the movie.
Speaker 2: Very delightful, very easy watch Annie. I have to ask,
Speaker 2: because so Annie and I did watch this together, and
Speaker 2: I was very delighted by the fact that we could
Speaker 2: do that because I'm like, oh, yeah, this is gonna
Speaker 2: be hilarious. Not only do we have old technology from
Speaker 2: two thousand and two, because Tula gets to go to
Speaker 2: school to do that specifically, and there was like this
Speaker 2: whole like print for computer and tourism and she jumps
Speaker 2: on board and Annie's like bursting out laughing at the
Speaker 2: whole advertiser. It's so good.
Speaker 3: I loved it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so we had all of that, so we
Speaker 2: got to see it together. So what was your thoughts
Speaker 2: on the movie. I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: It was I had a lot of It was pretty
Speaker 1: comical in like looking back in it, because it does
Speaker 1: have a lot of the tropes you know that we've
Speaker 1: talked about, like the kind of movie makeover. We did
Speaker 1: talk a lot about the religious aspects. It was like, no,
Speaker 1: I would never do that. And of course I had
Speaker 1: to talk about my fan fiction. That is, I have
Speaker 1: two fan fiction that I've read that I love that
Speaker 1: are based loosely on this movie.
Speaker 3: So I was thinking about.
Speaker 1: That and it was really fun to watch it with
Speaker 1: you because you did have all the quotes you and
Speaker 1: you would like do them with as the line came on,
Speaker 1: which is something I.
Speaker 3: Normally do and we watch something together. So that was
Speaker 3: very fun. Yeah, I mean I thought it was a very.
Speaker 1: Like you said, it was like a it was an easy,
Speaker 1: enjoyable watch, like everyone kind of worked out and it
Speaker 1: was nice.
Speaker 2: Exactly what's so funny? So again I was in my
Speaker 2: religious heyday in this, and so watching this was quite
Speaker 2: funny because we also understand this whole level of like
Speaker 2: tradition and weddings and how it means such so much
Speaker 2: for families sometimes. And my roommate and I at the
Speaker 2: time loved quoting movies at each other. This was one
Speaker 2: of them that we would quote all the time. We
Speaker 2: would quote Bride and Prejudice, which is that Bollywood version
Speaker 2: of Pride and Prejudice. We did that as well as
Speaker 2: Bend It like Beckham, and as well as any of
Speaker 2: the Christopher guests. Mockumentaries, so it includes like Best in Show.
Speaker 2: I don't know if y'all know any of those, but
Speaker 2: it's ridiculous, and it's all mockumentaries that are pretty much
Speaker 2: ad lips. But anything like that. We would quote in
Speaker 2: Big Fat Greek. We my big fat Greek wedding was
Speaker 2: up there, including like the scene where the dad gets
Speaker 2: upset when she asked to go to college with his
Speaker 2: why do you want to leave me? We used to
Speaker 2: do that to each other all the time. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: that was the thing that we did, the line I
Speaker 2: have to tell you. So I did read a few
Speaker 2: things about facts behind this movie Yanada YadA, which there's
Speaker 2: not a lot but outside of like, yes, this is
Speaker 2: actually based on her family, Verdalas actually would write things
Speaker 2: down that her mom would say to put into the movie.
Speaker 2: That whole bit about her being the lamb in the
Speaker 2: kitchen and the tiger in the bedroom was a line
Speaker 2: that her mother had said to her. She was like,
Speaker 2: I vomited a little bit in my mouth, and then
Speaker 2: I wrote it down, like that's her quote to that,
Speaker 2: and then apparently that's the bit because I had laughed.
Speaker 2: Because Aunt Vula, who was played by Andrea Martin, who
Speaker 2: is an icon in herself and most of the roles
Speaker 2: that she's ever played. She uh is Maria's sister, but
Speaker 2: her light about the lump on her back is actually true.
Speaker 2: Like her aunt, her in real life has this lump
Speaker 2: on her back but has her twin in it.
Speaker 3: Wow, that was pretty intense. I wasn't expecting that. I
Speaker 3: have to say.
Speaker 2: It was so classic, like she's like, Okay, you're a family,
Speaker 2: let me tell you this family secret, and then being
Speaker 2: of course, like not being not white people from America
Speaker 2: be like what is happening? What is happening? Like they
Speaker 2: are telling everything and sharing all the things, very like
Speaker 2: homie and like this is tradition and we're so proud.
Speaker 2: And then the white people were like, we don't have traditions.
Speaker 2: This is odd. Like they got like hammered, they got
Speaker 2: real hammered, they got real hammered. Like those scenes actually
Speaker 2: made me dizzy. I could like I can't watch the
Speaker 2: scene when they would like be like spinning, I was
Speaker 2: like yeah. But like also the fact that you know,
Speaker 2: she was like, oh you're Greek, you had a secretary
Speaker 2: That was like and then going through every other like
Speaker 2: ethnicity but realizing as like I think she said that
Speaker 2: either being Guatemalan or something, You're like, what the I
Speaker 2: understood that bit by the way, I understood that bit.
Speaker 2: But having all of that was super fun to see,
Speaker 2: like come back to and talk about it, and then
Speaker 2: like it holds pretty true to what I remember. There's
Speaker 2: nothing on here that was shocking. I can't like I
Speaker 2: was remembering, like, yeah, it's offensive because even then you're like,
Speaker 2: come and all the purpose of us have children. Of course,
Speaker 2: like we know that that's a stereotype with a lot
Speaker 2: of cultures, even my uncle, like my family, but like
Speaker 2: the level of the stereotype was so heightened. But you know,
Speaker 2: when it comes to ethnicities and being very proud of
Speaker 2: your culture, that's that whole different level. A lot of
Speaker 2: South Korean families are very much like that as well,
Speaker 2: So I'm like, but of course, being adopted, I don't
Speaker 2: know those traditions. But again, there's not the other that
Speaker 2: was like really out of like the realm of like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, this is so badly offensive that I
Speaker 2: was like, Okay, all right, is it It's still holds.
Speaker 2: It still holds as a movie that I'm like, you
Speaker 2: should watch this and also realize how ridiculous it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was funny because I I've never seen it,
Speaker 1: but I do remember when it came out because it
Speaker 1: was very popular, and I think I think that was
Speaker 1: at the time when I would watch like Entertainment Tonight
Speaker 1: or whatever, so I like knew about it, but for
Speaker 1: some reason in my mind, I thought it was going
Speaker 1: to be This sounds terrible, but its actually probably says
Speaker 1: something about the time. I thought it was gonna be
Speaker 1: about her losing a lot of weight so she could
Speaker 1: fit in her wedding dress.
Speaker 3: Oh really yeah, and then they were gonna go to Greece.
Speaker 1: Like I had this idea of what it was, and
Speaker 1: she'd meet this guy and then so elements of that
Speaker 1: were there, and like the like she got rid of
Speaker 1: for glasses you said, did her hair differently, But it
Speaker 1: was just funny to me that I don't know where
Speaker 1: that came from.
Speaker 2: I think it has happened. I think it does happened
Speaker 2: later stuff like that. I did see an article talking
Speaker 2: about the thinning of and I don't know who they're
Speaker 2: I didn't read the article. I just saw the title,
Speaker 2: so I can't absolutely verify that. But there's that conversation
Speaker 2: and they do eventually go to Greece, so you're not off.
Speaker 2: It's just not this one.
Speaker 3: I got it all mixed up.
Speaker 1: It's been fair, but I mean I also think like
Speaker 1: it was funny to watch because it did have some
Speaker 1: things that I was like, I wouldn't say shocked vibe.
Speaker 3: I was like, wow, you're just gonna say that about.
Speaker 1: Like the gender roles, which on I will talk about,
Speaker 1: but I do think, like it is true a lot
Speaker 1: of us have experienced that, maybe not to that extent,
Speaker 1: maybe not with the cultural level perhaps, but like that
Speaker 1: kind of what are you doing with your life, like
Speaker 1: get married, go do this? So it was interesting to
Speaker 1: kind of see the they just came out and said it.
Speaker 2: Okay, they just I mean again, she says, this is
Speaker 2: what she heard from her mother, so she just wrote
Speaker 2: it all down. So essentially yeah, no, and then like
Speaker 2: the background and we're gonna talk about that the mom
Speaker 2: has of being there during war times and how how
Speaker 2: much they struggled and really wanted to be different for
Speaker 2: their family, which was like a beautiful reminder. Even though
Speaker 2: it's a very lighthearted movie, it's come of like that
Speaker 2: there's a lot of history there that we haven't dealt into.
Speaker 2: And I don't know much about the history myself, and
Speaker 2: but like having that understanding they've been through some things,
Speaker 2: the parents have. But yeah, let's get into the themes.
Speaker 2: I guess we're probably gonna touch on all of that,
Speaker 2: which includes of course family. I think family would be
Speaker 2: the number one outside of like finding your love, but
Speaker 2: family is the top theme here, and of course traditional
Speaker 2: roles is a big plot to this, which is she's
Speaker 2: trying to break away from but she still is a
Speaker 2: part of.
Speaker 1: Right because if you haven't watched it, it starts with
Speaker 1: her working at their family's restaurant, yes, and getting these
Speaker 1: comments all the time.
Speaker 3: Like you look old, like what are you doing?
Speaker 1: And then she feels this responsibility to stay there, and
Speaker 1: that's sort of when the as you called it, the
Speaker 1: grift comes in of her being able to convince the
Speaker 1: father to go learn about the computer and get a
Speaker 1: different job. But yeah, I mean that's definitely throughout the
Speaker 1: movie we see that as her struggling with well, my family,
Speaker 1: family is so important to me, My family is so big,
Speaker 1: like my family want to prove you. It's always there
Speaker 1: of this like idea of she doesn't want to hurt
Speaker 1: her family and how does that work?
Speaker 3: How do you make that work out?
Speaker 2: Right? And then obviously you have the mom talking to
Speaker 2: her about how to be a good wife and taking
Speaker 2: care of everyone, because that's what she does in itself.
Speaker 2: Even though she understands that, she also says to uh
Speaker 2: Dola that you know, that's my side, that adventure side.
Speaker 2: You want to see things, you want to learn things,
Speaker 2: that's my side, you know. So she understands that, but
Speaker 2: she still plays her role as the matriarch, the mom
Speaker 2: and being still very supportive of her daughter. So that
Speaker 2: was lovely to see as well. Of course, we have
Speaker 2: that hole in that traditional roles is the head of
Speaker 2: the household comment, which that is big in Western culture. Obviously,
Speaker 2: when we talked about Christian trauma, Christian related trauma, and
Speaker 2: religious trauma in itself, that was one of the biggest
Speaker 2: points of why it has to be structured this way.
Speaker 2: Is the head of the household, so it's not unusual
Speaker 2: and it is not an unfamiliar to topic. Of course,
Speaker 2: they do again make it a comedy by making sure
Speaker 2: you understand that he thinks he's running things, but in
Speaker 2: actuality he's not, which is a very big trope for
Speaker 2: almost all American sitcoms.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yes, behind every great man, there's a great woman.
Speaker 1: There's a quote you used to.
Speaker 2: Do, right, Oh, yeah, there is that quote. What we're
Speaker 2: talking about where the girl I said in our social
Speaker 2: work class. She would use the line men as the head,
Speaker 2: but the women are the next, and turn it whichever
Speaker 2: the way they please. Like that's she would say that,
Speaker 2: And I don't even know what reference, but she would
Speaker 2: say that often, Like of course, with social work we
Speaker 2: would talk about different cultures and ethnicities and why it's
Speaker 2: important to like understand and like abide by that a
Speaker 2: little bit. But like she would say that quote a lot.
Speaker 2: I don't know why that stands out for me, but
Speaker 2: like my other friend would also say, this quote to
Speaker 2: a lodge is a funny line because none of us
Speaker 2: were dating any boys at the time, but I don't know,
Speaker 2: they came out a lot. Yeah, they use that.
Speaker 3: I do like the I would say.
Speaker 1: The women of Vula's family, like her aunt and her mom,
Speaker 1: often might like not agree with her, but then they'd
Speaker 1: listen to her and they'd be like, okay, we'll help
Speaker 1: you give you need, like they were on her side,
Speaker 1: even if at first they were like wait, I don't know, confused.
Speaker 2: And it didn't take the mother oftentimes to be the
Speaker 2: one to talk reason to the husband for him to
Speaker 2: understand or even at least accept, Yeah, things that she
Speaker 2: wanted and then yeah, compromising for family. I think I
Speaker 2: would put religion as a part of that. Because we did.
Speaker 2: We had this whole moment of like, wow, he converted
Speaker 2: from being I think he said that he was Presbyterian to
Speaker 2: being Greek Orthodox, which is a commitment, as we could
Speaker 2: see on the movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was like, you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: I knew that. I don't think I do it. Maybe
Speaker 1: I've never met the right person.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not something that you actually believe. I don't
Speaker 2: know that's something that you would want to do. But again,
Speaker 2: for them, this was more like tradition than anything else
Speaker 2: for him, and he wanted to respect that, even though
Speaker 2: it was really disrespectful to the father when they originally met,
Speaker 2: Like that whole point of them meeting was so tense,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I don't know, even though I
Speaker 2: know he's not wrong, but him being so disrespectful was
Speaker 2: like But at the same time, they're thirty. He's like
Speaker 2: mid thirties and she's thirty, So I was kind of like, Eh, okay,
Speaker 2: I get it, but h yeah, don't hurt doctor or
Speaker 2: dad like that. That's awkward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll talk about that more later. But like
Speaker 1: it was because it was sort of implied. There were
Speaker 1: so many moments in this where Vulah would be like,
Speaker 1: it's just not going to work out.
Speaker 3: I don't see why.
Speaker 1: My family, well he would say I don't see why,
Speaker 1: and she'd be like my family, like that's got to
Speaker 1: be a Greek man, and so he they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: well i'll do this. I'll convert. Because they wanted to
Speaker 1: get married married in the church. It just I guess,
Speaker 1: to me, that seems like such a big thing, so
Speaker 1: I get it. But it also was like that's a lot. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot for sure.
Speaker 2: But with that is the family expectations that we were
Speaker 2: talking about, because not only did Doula have to do
Speaker 2: deal with it herself because she wasn't expected to go
Speaker 2: to get an education, that he didn't want her to
Speaker 2: have an education because what if she does something like,
Speaker 2: you know, carry drugs for somebody, which was ridiculous, like
Speaker 2: everybody like what what? But then we do have parents
Speaker 2: who do like go off the deep end about what's
Speaker 2: going to happen. My parents. I was afraid of what
Speaker 2: I was going to become, and it kind of happened.
Speaker 2: So there they I became a flaming liberal. Oh no,
Speaker 2: but like that kind of level as well. But also
Speaker 2: the brother had that deal of the expectations, not necessarily
Speaker 2: like the gender roles. But he loved being an artist.
Speaker 2: He did this whole sketch and it was really beautiful
Speaker 2: for a new menu, and his dad was completely dismissive,
Speaker 2: and so he was quickly shut down and ran away
Speaker 2: until Tula, who had the courage to do something different,
Speaker 2: and so he felt the courage, which still did not
Speaker 2: like the So at the end of this comment like
Speaker 2: that the wedding is happening, he decides that he's going
Speaker 2: to be a painter. And he tells his oldest sister,
Speaker 2: who has done everything to the tea as the parents
Speaker 2: would expect. He even had like four rowdy boys all
Speaker 2: the things, and she he was like, I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: a painter, and she was like, great, you can start
Speaker 2: by painting my fence. Like that level of condescension. So
Speaker 2: you're like, well, there that is.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, I mean it was. His relationship with Tula
Speaker 1: was very sweet. He was very protective. This is a
Speaker 1: common show I'm sure in rom comms. Was definitely in
Speaker 1: fan fiction. If like the shovel talk, the threats of murder.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of that going on, like if
Speaker 1: you hurt her, I'll kill you. I'm kidding, but I
Speaker 1: will kill you. It's a joke.
Speaker 2: It was very mob like.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: I was like, I guess, greasily, I guess they're not
Speaker 2: too far.
Speaker 3: Well in the tradition, say.
Speaker 1: In that particular case, went along with them much more.
Speaker 1: I would have been much angry when they tricked me
Speaker 1: to say something that wasn't Yeah, so they do do that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: They tricked him because he's trying to learn a little
Speaker 2: bit of Greek, because he wants to be part of
Speaker 2: his family very so they tried to get him to
Speaker 2: give him comments like some some phrases, and it ended
Speaker 2: up being like, uh, yeah, I have three testicles and
Speaker 2: Greek and everybody laughs at him, you know, like a
Speaker 2: few of those. That happened a few times. But same time,
Speaker 2: you think he would learn his lesson. Don't trust the
Speaker 2: brother in law.
Speaker 3: Well, they then they brought in the other Joey Faton.
Speaker 2: Joey Fatone. Yes, I did forget Joey Fatones first. I
Speaker 2: don't know it's not the only one. Because I'm believe
Speaker 2: he was in the sequels too. He was featured in this.
Speaker 2: It was quite a delight.
Speaker 3: Well, he was also messing with me, Yes.
Speaker 2: As they should, Yes as they should, but odd as
Speaker 2: they expected.
Speaker 3: Rather Yeah, but that's how he got tricked the second time.
Speaker 2: Yes he did. But I will say too because I
Speaker 2: don't really mention. We didn't really mention before about the
Speaker 2: family Ian Miller's family, the Miller family, Rodney and Harriet,
Speaker 2: or as the invitation puts, Rodney and Harry, who was
Speaker 2: being completely sidelined by the Greek family. Again, that could
Speaker 2: have been problems. And they are very like odd coupling,
Speaker 2: like they don't know what to do with each other.
Speaker 2: You do obviously get the ideal that the Miller family
Speaker 2: are a little bit snobbish, very white and well to do.
Speaker 2: They had the expectations that Ian would be a lawyer,
Speaker 2: but he ended up being a teacher and they were
Speaker 2: not too happy. But obviously he is very independent so
Speaker 2: does not care for the pinions of his family and
Speaker 2: pretty keeps it pretty succinct in their relationships like, nah,
Speaker 2: we're good, this is what's happening. Enjoy It almost gets
Speaker 2: to the point though it does look like he enjoys
Speaker 2: torturing his parents a little bit by bringing him like
Speaker 2: it wasn't his fault. The gathering, the first family gathering
Speaker 2: because it was intended to be the small parents only,
Speaker 2: and then the Portacalas decided to bring the family, which
Speaker 2: includes all the cousins, and she has like thirty something
Speaker 2: cousins and then their family, so they all came through,
Speaker 2: so not complete, but he was enjoying watching them spiral
Speaker 2: and being uncomfortable, so it seemed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, and they were just very awkward.
Speaker 1: They were very quiet, and I mean to their credit,
Speaker 1: if I had showed up at something I thought was
Speaker 1: going to be small and then it was this, I
Speaker 1: probably would have been a little And that's when they
Speaker 1: got drunk, because if they kept being like have.
Speaker 3: Some ouzoh cheers more and more and more. But then
Speaker 3: you also pointed out like when the wedding actually does happen,
Speaker 3: you have like her side of the aisle packed out,
Speaker 3: and yeah, I inside it.
Speaker 2: Is quite fri Yeah what he talks about he has
Speaker 2: two cousins or something, three cousins. It's like, okay, well
Speaker 2: let me tell you. But yeah, but they do finally
Speaker 2: come in and they get to be a part of
Speaker 2: the family and they start enjoying the festivities going on,
Speaker 2: the jokes, the fact that he calls her Harry because
Speaker 2: it's all the invitation. It's quite cute, and they all
Speaker 2: are family quote unquote, So hopefully we see that throughout.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was obviously a very difference in the
Speaker 2: two families and what they look like and how they
Speaker 2: came together. Oh other fun fact, the ball dude that
Speaker 2: plays Ian Miller's best friend her real life husband. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I do that. I found that out a long tomic.
Speaker 2: I was like, what, which I found funny? But yeah,
Speaker 2: but her choice for the male lead was always going
Speaker 2: to be John Corpett, like she always thought of him
Speaker 2: as the main But moving on to the gender roles
Speaker 2: obviously is a part of the theme. Yes, women get married,
Speaker 2: have children and feed everyone, and that's kind of how
Speaker 2: they keep it as is the entirety of even though again, yes,
Speaker 2: Doulah does break that a little bit by marry a
Speaker 2: non Greek man as well as I only having one
Speaker 2: child I believe, instead of ten children. I don't know
Speaker 2: if she had. I don't think she has any more
Speaker 2: in the sequels. Someone who's seen this you need to
Speaker 2: let me know because I don't want to look it up.
Speaker 2: But and then she keeps, you know, telling her. At
Speaker 2: the end credit we see her telling the daughter, yes,
Speaker 2: you have to go to Greek school, which was one
Speaker 2: of the big things that growing up from in Greek
Speaker 2: school and learning Greek was important. And then her saying,
Speaker 2: but you can marry whoever you want. I'm like, is
Speaker 2: that the reward?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's interesting?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, but again it does They do seem to
Speaker 2: want to break it, but they don't truly break that, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is still very like get married, which
Speaker 1: is perhaps to tell a child, but we all heard
Speaker 1: it growing up. Yeah, it was just funny watching it
Speaker 1: because we were talking about like, yeah, no, marriage was right,
Speaker 1: We're good. So it was interesting to watch, which are
Speaker 1: a lot of wrongcoms are so it's not unique, but
Speaker 1: like the focus on getting.
Speaker 2: Married, yes, and that was the entire ye of thing,
Speaker 2: I will say. And this, of course, you also have
Speaker 2: the moments with the family where they're complaining, like he
Speaker 2: literally brings his brother in law and or sister in
Speaker 2: law and brother in law come into the restaurant so
Speaker 2: they can have a conference about why Doula is not
Speaker 2: married and what they need to do because they were
Speaker 2: going to send her to Greece so she can find
Speaker 2: a Greek man. And they're like, she doesn't want to go,
Speaker 2: and the responses she don't want to go, and then
Speaker 2: like they go back and forth about that and they're like,
Speaker 2: she'll be okay, and they look at her and she's
Speaker 2: in her quote unquote frump girl era as she puts it,
Speaker 2: just you know, glasses and sweaters. How dare you? They're like,
Speaker 2: but you know, the very good news is she'll always
Speaker 2: be around to take care of you, you know, all
Speaker 2: these things. And then her brother Nicko, because they're all
Speaker 2: nick and Nicholas, nick everything. One of them, quite funny,
Speaker 2: comes to sit down. He's like, and I'll get married soon, pops.
Speaker 2: And he's like, oh, you have plenty of time and
Speaker 2: gives him a kiss and that's kind of that level
Speaker 2: of like he's only a few years younger than her,
Speaker 2: but there's no expectation for a man because he can
Speaker 2: have children whenever essentially, so he's fine, you know beyond
Speaker 2: go out there have fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the family like conference thing was interesting and they
Speaker 1: i mean they say it within earshot of her face.
Speaker 2: She can hear everything.
Speaker 1: Yes, I do think it's funny too that this had
Speaker 1: so many of the like you know, her front era
Speaker 1: and then she changes, uh, like to look better to
Speaker 1: go like I told you, like if you play some
Speaker 1: harror music behind this, this becomes a stalker movie because
Speaker 1: she like hears he's a teacher and then decides to
Speaker 1: go to school. But I thought she was gonna try
Speaker 1: to take his class, but she didn't do that. She
Speaker 1: going to but okay, but then he sees her through
Speaker 1: the window and gets beat up by an old lady
Speaker 1: and she's very like It has a lot of those like.
Speaker 3: Very rom comedy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, trups, Yes, I have a bit of them, like
Speaker 2: oh the accident. She's so goofy that she goes to
Speaker 2: get him a pamphlet and gets shrun back by her
Speaker 2: headset which is hooked to her computer. Quite funny her
Speaker 2: phone rather And then we also had the cousins. I
Speaker 2: thought this was a funny take the cousins Nikki and Angelo,
Speaker 2: who is the kids of Aunt Vula, coming in and
Speaker 2: they're arguing about who's having to do what and who
Speaker 2: does more work, and you know Joey Fatone plane Angelo
Speaker 2: is like, your hair looks flat today, and she's like,
Speaker 2: bite me. In the day. She hits him and then
Speaker 2: he whinds and I'm like, ma, She's like, oh, my baby. Essentially,
Speaker 2: she goes be a lady to Nicki and I was
Speaker 2: like what, they're just like fighting, and then she takes
Speaker 2: up for the young man, which is like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: feel like that is very specific to a lot of
Speaker 2: I don't think it happened to my family, but I
Speaker 2: do feel like my youngest brother, who was still a
Speaker 2: little bit older than me, got a baby like he
Speaker 2: was the baby, even to the point that my older
Speaker 2: siblings called him the baby because like it didn't matter
Speaker 2: that I existed, he was the baby because it was
Speaker 2: the youngest boy compared to me. I felt that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure, and that kind of like pressure
Speaker 1: for women to be like more sure. It was also
Speaker 1: funny because Nikki was the one who showed up and
Speaker 1: told to like, we've been seeing you making out.
Speaker 3: I got back to Meat and then to her and
Speaker 3: then to her.
Speaker 1: Now everybody knows you kind of gossiping between family, right right.
Speaker 2: She's like, they got you, hello, mister pottery class, which
Speaker 2: was the lie she gave when she would go on days.
Speaker 2: And then she was also the one that took over
Speaker 2: the wedding. So speaking of I think the wedding traditions
Speaker 2: and the wedding in itself was a big theme because
Speaker 2: it was the giant uh climax of the movie. Essentially,
Speaker 2: we have the Yettie dress as she's like I'm a
Speaker 2: snow monster. At the end, we have the pimple scene.
Speaker 2: Of course you have to have like the pimple scene,
Speaker 2: but this only accentuated the windex which is the father's
Speaker 2: solution to everything, which I believe was based on her
Speaker 2: father for real, for real. Uh yeah, that's about right.
Speaker 2: Then we have the fact that the whole wedding is
Speaker 2: taken over by family. Her cousin Nikki is the one
Speaker 2: that picked out the dress, her sister is the one
Speaker 2: that made the invitations against her will essentially and bothable
Speaker 2: the dress was bought by her also her family. None
Speaker 2: of this, none of this was her plan, but she
Speaker 2: went along with it. And then the whole like women
Speaker 2: getting her ready having the conversation again. This is where
Speaker 2: that line of like women in the bedrooms, lambs in
Speaker 2: the kitchen, and tigers in the bedrooms came in, and
Speaker 2: then we have like all of the cousins coming in
Speaker 2: doing the different makeup, the shoes, that whole like moment.
Speaker 2: And then when the wedding happens, the spitting on the bride,
Speaker 2: which is like Miller family, was like, what the to
Speaker 2: be fair? Because I don't know about this tradition either.
Speaker 2: I would have been shocked to. I was like, didn't
Speaker 2: mad at her? What's happening?
Speaker 3: Apparently it was to keep the devil.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something about keep away though evil or something, and
Speaker 2: it's maybe. And again I think like this is very
Speaker 2: very Greek, and if we have any Greek listeners, please
Speaker 2: let us know what types of traditions truly still exists
Speaker 2: and if this exists still in like because I find
Speaker 2: that fascinating anyway, but I found it interesting. Part of
Speaker 2: the wedding tradition was also meeting of the families, and
Speaker 2: we already kind of talked about them sharing secrets with
Speaker 2: each other. The bunt cake, which was also a line
Speaker 2: that we love to do bunt cake and then filling
Speaker 2: the hole with a potted flower still one of my
Speaker 2: favorite moments. I'm like, that's about right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So that.
Speaker 1: Because in my fan fiction, those were the two I
Speaker 1: remembered that very well. Was the cake as a hole
Speaker 1: in it. They didn't understand this bunt cake. And then
Speaker 1: the vegetarian scene where Ian is it's revealed he used
Speaker 1: vegetarian and to those families.
Speaker 2: Like and Vula is especially upset, and Ula is like,
Speaker 2: no meat again. She is the like the comedic relief
Speaker 2: in the entirety of the film, honestly, but she's like,
Speaker 2: no meats. No, and she's like obviously trying to figure
Speaker 2: this out, getting kind of upset. And then he was like,
Speaker 2: it's okay, it's okay, it's okay. I'll make liamb look.
Speaker 2: It is one of the big trips. It is very cute.
Speaker 2: The whole level of also him being the only child.
Speaker 2: We don't really see it, but the cousins are actually
Speaker 2: really shocked and a little bit of Paul that he's
Speaker 2: an only child, because they were like, does he have
Speaker 2: brothers to be set up right? And then when she
Speaker 2: says that, she's like, we're like what what the only
Speaker 2: child again? A part of that of moment. And then
Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting because of the wedding traditions.
Speaker 2: It happened when talked about it with the dating, but
Speaker 2: like also asking for hand in marriage. I don't know
Speaker 2: if that happens, but I'm assuming if he was upset
Speaker 2: about her dating without permission, that he would also need permission. Oh,
Speaker 2: he does complain about that. He does complain about that,
Speaker 2: in which she's in the living room hearing, and that's
Speaker 2: when she's like, maybe we shouldn't get married, or maybe
Speaker 2: we should run away. Is because he is loudly complaining.
Speaker 2: The father is loudly complaining that not only did he
Speaker 2: date her without permission, he's not asked him for her
Speaker 2: hand in marriage, has not talked to them at all.
Speaker 2: And then he's like, you know, I don't know anything
Speaker 2: about his family. This is not good. Essentially, they're all
Speaker 2: very upset by what is happening and how modern and
Speaker 2: somewhat western. This relationship was American Western relationship. It was,
Speaker 2: so it is interesting to see that as well, and
Speaker 2: obviously a big theme of something that he has to
Speaker 2: get past poor Costos. Yes, get past that.
Speaker 3: Yes, the father, Yeah, yeah, we talked about that.
Speaker 1: Uh, my dad did this. He asked my mom's family
Speaker 1: for permission. It's when he would tell the story later
Speaker 1: to me, it sounded strange to me. As a kid,
Speaker 1: and he so he was so scared. Apparently he like
Speaker 1: gestured with his hands very like exuberantly, and he got
Speaker 1: his like hand something from his like clothing stuck in
Speaker 1: the fan and it spun around and it caused chaos.
Speaker 2: So that's a that's a rom com scene right there.
Speaker 2: That'd be so and it somehow like smacks the dad
Speaker 2: in the head and hairs a tupe and it flies off,
Speaker 2: that would be the scene.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then he was he said like the My
Speaker 1: mom's mom was immediately like yes, but he was. Her
Speaker 1: dad was like, I don't know about you and he,
Speaker 1: my dad, They are definitely from very different circumstances. She
Speaker 1: was pretty well off and he was not. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that was at play, but I just know,
Speaker 1: like I always thought that. When you tell me that,
Speaker 1: I was like, say, yeah, I had to ask.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think it was strange to me because again,
Speaker 2: I was raised in a very southern traditional home and
Speaker 2: it just sounded sweet, like it sounded romantic. I love
Speaker 2: my father, my adoptive father, my father, so very very much.
Speaker 2: He is someone who and I are like psychologically and
Speaker 2: emotionally similar when it comes to being very analytical, being
Speaker 2: a romantic without being too romantic type of thing. We
Speaker 2: have very sentimental ideals about things, and it's hard for
Speaker 2: us to let go let go of some of those
Speaker 2: sentimental things. So and he's also a very kind, kind man,
Speaker 2: and like, I couldn't imagine him not approving of who
Speaker 2: I was with, even if it went against his beliefs.
Speaker 2: I don't think he could ever say it out loud,
Speaker 2: and I don't think he would ever push back. I
Speaker 2: think he would have to rethink some things. But the
Speaker 2: ideal that he would say you can't come here, you're
Speaker 2: not welcome here, or any of that seems impossible to me. Again,
Speaker 2: that's not necessarily true. I could be completely over positive
Speaker 2: about this, like over more hopeful than I should be,
Speaker 2: but like even still, like when he didn't know if
Speaker 2: I was heterosexual or homosexual, like he kept it kind
Speaker 2: of loose, Like there was a moment I think he
Speaker 2: thought I had a girlfriend, but he still asked me
Speaker 2: about her, and so I'm like, you know, that makes
Speaker 2: me think, And he did admit later he's like, I
Speaker 2: wasn't for sure, but I didn't want to ask. I
Speaker 2: was gonna wait till you told me. Type of thing.
Speaker 2: And she wasn't a girlfriend. She was just a good
Speaker 2: friend of mine. But like I wasn't dating anyone, and
Speaker 2: the only people are talking about with my close girlfriends.
Speaker 2: And he was just like, and you're, you know, late twenties,
Speaker 2: early thirties, still single. They they get concerned, which is ridiculous,
Speaker 2: which is the trope in itself as a player in
Speaker 2: this movie, because she was a thirtieth single and they're like,
Speaker 2: you're get old, you need to get married. But yeah,
Speaker 2: so like all of those things. But because of that
Speaker 2: type of man, I would think that it could be
Speaker 2: sweet that my father would have a relationship with my
Speaker 2: partner that that well, that they would talk about it first.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, it is really odd to
Speaker 2: ask permission for me Like that's because I think my
Speaker 2: dad would be like he would be honored by that,
Speaker 2: like that he would find that I was like, yes,
Speaker 2: that's this is very nice. But I think he also
Speaker 2: made up with like if Samantha wants to you better ask. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I think that the thing is it could
Speaker 1: be it can be very sweet, as you're saying, it
Speaker 1: can be more of a kind of like they're not
Speaker 1: going to tell you no, right, but it's like just
Speaker 1: a nice gesture. Yeah, I think some for for me
Speaker 1: at least, it can be hard to just so much
Speaker 1: of our our western marriage culture is very right, like
Speaker 1: the basically you're asking for the man, the husband, the father.
Speaker 3: For the woman that you can marry as man.
Speaker 2: Like, it's just it's a transfer of ownership the original
Speaker 2: intent as we know this, and there's this level of
Speaker 2: like there was a bargaining about like what can I
Speaker 2: pay or what can you pay me to take your daughter?
Speaker 2: Or what can I pay you to have your daughter?
Speaker 2: And we know that, so that's definitely a thing. When
Speaker 2: it became romanticized, it's like, oh, right, that could be sweet,
Speaker 2: but there's that level and then like I've had you know,
Speaker 2: family members who's X now X did that and they
Speaker 2: were like, oh, this is so sweet, and like that
Speaker 2: didn't end up very well, did he? No? And he
Speaker 2: had promised to take care of him for you like
Speaker 2: it Like it's a good in theory in some ways,
Speaker 2: but yeah, it's also a reminder of like I can
Speaker 2: also understand why this could be offensive for some women.
Speaker 2: You're like, hell, no, he doesn't know me. And we
Speaker 2: also know like a lot of parents and are not
Speaker 2: the best parents, and things happen, and to involve them
Speaker 2: at all and feel like they have to have some
Speaker 2: say so it's more offensive. So mm hmm. There's a
Speaker 2: level of course, this is not what's happening here. We
Speaker 2: know this, But I do think Doula probably also things
Speaker 2: in her mind, I don't want I want this to
Speaker 2: be because I want y'all to be happy. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: it's not something that was necessary for her. Ad meant
Speaker 2: anything sentimentally to her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I do think that's a good point you
Speaker 1: brought up, Like, because there's a whole scene where she
Speaker 1: gets done with the wedding and they're her and Ian
Speaker 1: are in the car going to the reception and she
Speaker 1: like takes off the makeup and she takes off the veil.
Speaker 3: That her family put on her.
Speaker 1: Like, so the wedding was much more for her family,
Speaker 1: and it was for her as well, but it was
Speaker 1: much more of like, this is for the family. But
Speaker 1: then they had that moment of like I'm going to
Speaker 1: take some of this off, yeah, and then.
Speaker 2: She says do we have to go?
Speaker 1: Yeah, having a great time, but it did feel sort
Speaker 1: of a like, Okay, this is more for me now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I also wanted to bring up because one of
Speaker 1: the most funny, bizarre things you said to me was
Speaker 1: when he asked Ian asked her to marry him. They
Speaker 1: had just had sex, and you had a funny ane ghost.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So again, this is one of those moments of
Speaker 2: like we are an our romantic era in college, thinking
Speaker 2: that I would be someone's wife, have children. I hope
Speaker 2: that I could have children, because honestly, that was always
Speaker 2: in the back of my head, like that might not
Speaker 2: be possible for me, as well as the fact that
Speaker 2: I would be the perfect Christian wife, which is kind
Speaker 2: of that same layer being the perfect Greek wife. And
Speaker 2: then that whole like moment of like, oh, we're gonna
Speaker 2: have the family thing and yes, I see this and
Speaker 2: the father being a part of this. But my friend
Speaker 2: and I, the same one that we would quote these
Speaker 2: things to each other, laughed and was like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: So he comes out of nowhere and proposes. You know,
Speaker 2: it has that ring underneath the bed, which by the way,
Speaker 2: is still a hold. Everything's like, why do you have
Speaker 2: it underneath the bed? A weird setup, but like that
Speaker 2: was just like the first thing I had thought but
Speaker 2: it becomes I'm like, can you imagine, so this is
Speaker 2: the friend and I talking. Can you imagine if like
Speaker 2: when your children ask you, oh, tell us how you
Speaker 2: got engaged, and you have to be like, yeah, so
Speaker 2: we had sex and then he just blopped out a
Speaker 2: ring from under the bed and said, marry me, love you.
Speaker 3: Just like the level of like.
Speaker 2: The shame of having to try to hide that, I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, what the hell was I thinking that
Speaker 2: this was a problem instead of just being like, oh,
Speaker 2: howcky you there's they're you know, so intimated, so close,
Speaker 2: which should be celebrated that they're that close that they
Speaker 2: know how much they love each other after such an
Speaker 2: intimate moment. But in my head, I was like sex bad,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, kind of me before marriage. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that was something that's always sticked in my
Speaker 2: in my mind after the fact, now that I'm here
Speaker 2: and I'm like I want to get married. Yeah, we're fine,
Speaker 2: we're good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So that was something that I thought was hilarious and
Speaker 2: I will never like, it will just be there. It's
Speaker 2: part of my shame of like, yeah, I'm glad I've
Speaker 2: grown up a little bit, you.
Speaker 3: Know, we all we had those things.
Speaker 1: I mean even I was like, wow, he's doing it
Speaker 1: right now, you know a lot.
Speaker 2: But that's the thing is like there's also this level
Speaker 2: of expectation and TikTok oh. It's been quite funny to
Speaker 2: watch on like the videos and the amount of things
Speaker 2: that people will do and how wild a proposal can get.
Speaker 2: That I'm like, you know, this is one of those
Speaker 2: things where she's like absolutely in the adulthood of like, yes,
Speaker 2: I get to get married. I get to be with
Speaker 2: the person I love for the rest of my life
Speaker 2: type of moment instead of being like, what the hell,
Speaker 2: I'm not even dressed, bro, and you're asking me to
Speaker 2: marry you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, there's something very nice about it because
Speaker 1: it was just like a moment that they shared and
Speaker 1: they were happy together, and they were she was very very.
Speaker 3: Happy to say yes, Like it was like I didn't
Speaker 3: have that pressure on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think I'm a big person who's like you
Speaker 1: talk about whoever you're with about it. It doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be like you're ruining the surprise. But I once
Speaker 1: had a conversation I think it was three guys and me,
Speaker 1: and I was saying like, I don't this was you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get married, but I was like
Speaker 1: I would hate a big, extravagant public proposal. And they
Speaker 1: were so like what it was funny to see because
Speaker 1: you know, men, it's not like they escape these tropes
Speaker 1: in this like socialization either, and they were all like,
Speaker 1: by god, that's what you're supposed to do us that
Speaker 1: they love. I was like, some people, yes, other people know.
Speaker 1: Other people hate that.
Speaker 2: You can ride likelihood gonna get from me, just me
Speaker 2: walking away because I don't want to be in front
Speaker 2: of everyone anyway. And then you all staring at me,
Speaker 2: and if especially the no conversation, no mention of marriage ever,
Speaker 2: and then you pop it up the rain, You're like,
Speaker 2: it's coming on. I've seen several awkward TikTok videos of
Speaker 2: dudes doing this big elaborate thing like uh like pop
Speaker 2: up dancers everywhere like flash flash mobbing and then doing
Speaker 2: that and the girl go, can we talk about this
Speaker 2: at home? Like that?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the.
Speaker 3: Thing is a lot of times it kind of feels
Speaker 3: like a trap.
Speaker 2: If you do that's that other conversation that that is
Speaker 2: actually an a beast of tactic and a trap because
Speaker 2: you want to embarrass them into saying yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if it's this big public thing and everybody's.
Speaker 2: Like, oh no, no, don't do it, don't do it.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like the same thing with like some
Speaker 2: of the big over the top uh gender reveals and
Speaker 2: then you don't. Apparently people who don't get the gender
Speaker 2: that they want really acting out and you're like, why
Speaker 2: are you doing this? Yeah, there's so many there's so
Speaker 2: many problems with this in general, but like, yeah, big
Speaker 2: open gender ofvills, Yeah, I want to take those through.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, talk it out, talk it out.
Speaker 2: Get out. I'll tell you though. You can see a
Speaker 2: lot of red flags from those big moments.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you'll read those signs. But dang, dang, but yeah,
Speaker 2: so my big Factork wedding. I'm so glad you have
Speaker 2: finally finally watched this during this time. What was so
Speaker 2: funny is after we streamed this, there was several you know,
Speaker 2: suggestion for you and another movie popped up that I
Speaker 2: was like, have you never seen this movie? We may
Speaker 2: have to watch this next year.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: I am having a great time. I do, like I said,
Speaker 1: I understand my fan friction better now.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was gonna say, did you go I can
Speaker 2: read it?
Speaker 1: I did, and if this was a different podcast, I
Speaker 1: would go into some thoughts about it. But I do
Speaker 1: understand it better now, and it is really really interesting
Speaker 1: because I would say in both of them, because again
Speaker 1: they are too that I've read, the big family is
Speaker 1: like really really caring and really great, and the small
Speaker 1: family is borderline abusive, which it wasn't necessarily in this
Speaker 1: at all, but like because you and I think both
Speaker 1: have hang ups about family, not saying anything, but like
Speaker 1: the big family doesn't necessarily equal like better to me, right,
Speaker 1: So it was just sort of like, huh okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Interestingly enough, my partner's family is a
Speaker 2: smaller family because they don't have like partners and they
Speaker 2: don't have children as where my family is a giant
Speaker 2: family because not only do they have partners and children,
Speaker 2: but those children schild has children as well, and then
Speaker 2: new partners have come in with their children. So yeah,
Speaker 2: big families are not necessarily better.
Speaker 3: But I do think that's what we've been taught in
Speaker 3: a lot of things.
Speaker 2: Yes, especially in families who are wont to grow their population. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if that makes.
Speaker 1: Sense, Yes, yes, I mean that can look a lot
Speaker 1: of different ways.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm trying to think about because like obviously the
Speaker 2: Greek family, Greek babies, Greek families get bigger and bigger,
Speaker 2: you know that kind of ideas, like you extend the line,
Speaker 2: the family line, right.
Speaker 1: Because it can't be very specific to like if you're
Speaker 1: super proud of your family, family name, families can be
Speaker 1: like that. But I don't know, it was just interesting
Speaker 1: to me to read it because I've had this thought
Speaker 1: lately about my Star Wars thoughts where there is I
Speaker 1: have seen that a lot, and I'm like, that's just
Speaker 1: such a I haven't realized how big of it's true.
Speaker 3: That is.
Speaker 1: It's like the big family, not even necessarily because I
Speaker 1: feel like the foun family thing has become really popular lately,
Speaker 1: but this isn't even necessarily that. So I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm fan fish, this is definitely not.
Speaker 2: Gotcha.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I don't know, I was just interesting interest,
Speaker 3: but I did. I had fun.
Speaker 1: Watching it, Yes, and I'm looking forward to whatever You're
Speaker 1: trying to, uh cover some ground of the rom coms.
Speaker 2: I've missed, well, the class coming back to the Twilight saga,
Speaker 2: so yes, from that That's very funny to me because
Speaker 2: technically that was more my It's true, but this this
Speaker 2: old elder millennial slash the nexter. I still enjoyed a
Speaker 2: vampire movie.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, I mean mostly romance.
Speaker 1: I just missed out on a bunch of those things,
Speaker 1: but also a bunch of the like nineties classic feminist
Speaker 1: movies like yuh Fried, Green Tomatoes and Lead It their
Speaker 1: Own and Elm and Louise.
Speaker 3: So you're helping me out.
Speaker 2: Oh, I got this, We got this together.
Speaker 1: Yes, we do, we do well. I look forward to it.
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, listeners, if you have any thoughts
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