Houselights from The State News

On this episode, host Liz and guest Gabi describe their favorite (and least favorite) movies, shows and characters, many of the romance variety.

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Liz:

Welcome back to House Lights, your one stop shop for everything you need to hear about this week in the world of entertainment. As always, I'm your host, Liz Nas. And this week, our, beautiful cohost, Claire Donahoe, is not here, but we do have, our amazing, wonderful GA reporter, Gabby Urie. Are you excited to be here? Oh, absolutely.

Liz:

So it's actually a lie. She told me she was really nervous before we started this recording, so I just wanna put you on blast.

Gabi:

Okay. So fun fact, I've actually been waiting an entire year until you'd invite me back again. So don't disall my name.

Liz:

Okay. Amazing. Wonderful. Wonderful. And last time we talked about, girl code and female rage.

Liz:

And I think this time we're gonna talk a little bit about the opposite of that, which is love. We're gonna talk about love, which is it. It's actually, Gabby, will you marry me?

Gabi:

No. I've got an article, dude, and I I can't. I'm sorry. I'm busy.

Liz:

Oh, yeah. That's fine.

Gabi:

Yeah. So

Liz:

Alright. Yeah. Well, it's awkward now. Cut the camera.

Gabi:

Cut the camera. We're done.

Liz:

Just kidding, guys. We're gonna talk about romance movies. And so I've done such a stupid intro on my car. It wasn't even planned at all. Anyways, we're gonna talk about romance movies.

Liz:

And the one note that I wrote down for today, and I think that's why we're going so crazy, the one note that I wrote down today, was romance movies oh, no. Fall fall is

Gabi:

the season of romance period. Agree? Question mark.

Liz:

So do you agree or not? Is fall romantic? I think it is, personally.

Gabi:

I think see, I think spring's romance.

Liz:

Yes. I think I feel like in Michigan, where we're filming this beautiful podcast, you know, for our international listeners, we we don't really have a lot of spring, I feel like. I feel like we go from, like, very, very cold, like, wintery to, like, summer really, really quick. Maybe there's, like, a day of spring, and Michigan State just feels alive again.

Gabi:

So then we get one day of romance, and that's it.

Liz:

I I

Gabi:

think that's kinda sick.

Liz:

We have to fit it all

Gabi:

into that one day. Exactly. See, I once read, like, a poem where it was all, like

Liz:

Super literate and, like Yeah.

Gabi:

I'm like smart of them. I'm super, like, underground with my poems.

Liz:

We're not, like, really like that. I'm just like Yes. We don't we don't really read. Okay. The hey.

Liz:

You do journalism. You think I read these articles? They just they're making anybody edit their machines nowadays. They're just letting anybody be edit their machines. Anyways, continue.

Liz:

Here's a lot. You wrote a poem.

Gabi:

Okay. So it was a poem and it was, pretty funny where it was, like, spring is the blossoming of love and romance, and then winter, everybody gets divorces because it's the death of spring

Liz:

Right. I guess. I would say but isn't winter technically cuffing season? Because, like, you don't go out anymore. Like, you're not having your hot girl summer, and then it's like there's really nothing to do.

Liz:

So then, like, in winter, you just, like, want somebody to, like, cuddle under a blanket with and, like,

Gabi:

watch a movie. But I feel like nowadays, I'm seeing more people be like, please somebody cuff me up for winter than people actually being

Liz:

cuffed up for winter. Like That's so true.

Gabi:

Like, have you been on MSU Yakiak?

Liz:

Oh, oh, it is the worst place in the world. All it sees people in the world. Place in the world. 10000%. Like, I've never seen more, like, depraved messages than on our MSU Yik Yak.

Liz:

I've just been like, just need a baddie. It's worse than that, but I just I wanna keep it house lights, like, approved.

Gabi:

I posted once on Yik and it was for an article. I was like, does anybody have like, if you guys have experienced this at all, please contact me, like, during the

Liz:

what? Coughing season?

Gabi:

Quite yes. Exactly.

Liz:

Of course. Corniness? Yes. Of course. Do you guys do guys know about this?

Gabi:

Have you guys ever, like,

Liz:

gone through puberty maybe? Have you thought about that before? Hit me in VR. I'm writing a Sadie's article. That's

Gabi:

yeah. That was so that was exactly what it was.

Liz:

Okay. Yeah.

Gabi:

And then somebody DM'd me, and they were like they were like, hey, cutie. And I was like, I am asking you about an article on housing.

Liz:

I am on the clock.

Gabi:

I am quite literally on the clock, and you were messaging me over an anonymous app saying that I'm a cutie. I don't even know who you are. You are just yellow bus emoji. That's it.

Liz:

Was this and and and they don't they don't know who you are either because you're just like another emoji. Well, but

Gabi:

they could sense my aura. I'm sure.

Liz:

Oh, absolutely. They could be like, oh my god. Sheah, you can't, Betty. And they were like, ding. Getting into these DMs.

Gabi:

Oh my god. Well, did

Liz:

they have housing issues or did we not get that far?

Gabi:

We didn't get that far.

Liz:

So what season was this part of? That was fall. Oh my gosh. You just pulled in the the meaning of our podcast.

Gabi:

Okay. We can cut the cameras. We're done now.

Liz:

We did it. So alright, guys. Thanks for listening to how it's nice to see you. But, yeah, fall's a very romantic season. I feel like I like to curl up with a a hot beverage, maybe a hot cider.

Liz:

I can give you that

Gabi:

for hot cider.

Liz:

Maybe some some popcorn and watch a little romance movie. And specifically, the literally, the only reason I feel like this is because, one, it's colder and I'm like, oh, I'm so lonely.

Gabi:

Go on yik yak.

Liz:

And just go on yik yak. And then, 2, When Harry Met Sally is a fall movie to the highest extent, which is my favorite romance movie. I was literally just thinking about this movie the other day, and that's why this podcast episode is, like, happening. It's one of my favorite and you've never seen

Gabi:

I've never seen that. I've seen, like, a lot of other romance movies except for When Harry Met Sally. My brother nags on me about it

Liz:

all the time. It's like a it's a it's a classic. It's like a friends to lovers. They have known each other for, like, 12 years and she's a journalist, by the way, in the movie. So I don't know.

Liz:

There's just, like, a little added extra for me. I'm like, But, yeah, they, like, met when they were both moving to New York from Chicago because they were the only 2 people that they knew were moving to the city. So they did a little road trip, and then they ended up, like, you know, fall you know, not being connected anymore. And then, like, couple years later, they reconnect. And then every few years, they run into each other, and then they're, like, best friends for, like, 2 years, and then they fall in love.

Liz:

Okay. But Claire Slow burn.

Gabi:

But Claire, why high, said that it was, like she said it was, like, weird for some reason. What did she what was weird about it? Or they were toxic or something?

Liz:

Yeah. I guess see, here's the thing. She said that Harry and Sally are toxic because they, like, go out they, like, go out with other people. But I feel like that's just, like, how life goes. You can be friends with people and not know that you should be with them because you're wrapped up in other people.

Liz:

But I think another reason is because, like, when they end up and when, like, when they start to, like, be together, like, the first time they sleep together, he's like, I'm out. Because he got scared of, like, their friendship turning. And so she's like, like, Sally is just kinda like, what dude? Like, you just slept with me because I was sad about my ex? Because apparently he was like, when they reconnect for the final time, they both just got broken up with, like, recently.

Liz:

Okay. And so he's always sad about his ex, but she never is. And then finally, one night she's super sad, he, like, kinda swoops in. They end up, like, sleeping together, and then he gets really freaked out by it. But you know what?

Liz:

But in that's just, like not to generalize a gender, but, like, that's kinda just men, I feel like. I feel like that's, like, kind of realistic.

Gabi:

Yeah.

Liz:

It's like not that, like, every man uses women when they're feeling depressed, but, like, I think that men just don't know the moment. Yeah. They're not reading the

Gabi:

room. The timing's not great.

Liz:

The timing's not great, and so I think that I don't know.

Gabi:

Well, I also feel realistic. I mean, I guess I could yeah.

Liz:

That's what I was thinking. Together in the end, like, both being in love. So it's like yeah. There's, like, toxic moments, but I feel like that's, like, real. And you don't see a lot of, like, real romance movies.

Liz:

I feel like that's, like, I don't know, toxic and realistic, sort of the same thing sometimes. It's a very,

Gabi:

like Unfortunately the line is, like, kind of just very blurred on that one.

Liz:

That's what I was gonna say. It feels like not necessarily, like, fully toxic toxic toxic. It just feels human. Yeah. And, you know, we can we're very philosophical in house lights.

Liz:

And, you know, human nature is inherently toxic sometimes. And sometimes you just have to let it be before we can be fully healthy. Just like John Lennon would say. I read that in a poem. Just kidding.

Liz:

Can't read. Just kidding. Never read. But, yeah, tell me some of your favorite romance movies.

Gabi:

Okay. So I was dissing on it the other day, but I do really love 13 going on 30.

Liz:

That's good.

Gabi:

Hot take. I do think it is a good film when it comes to romance. I haven't I'm trying to think of my other, like, top

Liz:

Mark Ruffalo is pretty cute, though. Marco He's pretty cute. Please. I'm so in love with him. He's He's just like a little photographer boy.

Liz:

Right?

Gabi:

He's just a little photographer boy. What can what can you do about him? You know? You know? 13 going up 30.

Gabi:

There was another one that was just on my mind. Oh, Little Women. Love.

Liz:

Is that technically a romance movie, though? I think it can There's, like, part of it is romance.

Gabi:

I think a major aspect of it is romance, but I don't think it necessarily, like, would categorize it as romance. Yes, please.

Liz:

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm not even It depends on what romance you're paying attention to in the movie because you have your Joe Mhmm. And Laurie and your Amy and Laurie. So what part of it screams romance to you?

Liz:

And this is very important to me. I think

Gabi:

okay. I think both do.

Liz:

Okay. Because I think Amy

Gabi:

and Laurie are the romance, but I think not even That's insane. Sorry. Don't be a hater. But not even

Liz:

You're crazy.

Gabi:

Not even digging into Jo and Laurie as a romantic couple, but Jo's struggles with romance throughout the entire film make it, in my mind, that it is a romance film even if her, like, experience with romance isn't the center point. Although, I do kind of hate that she married whatever the guy's name is at the end.

Liz:

Well, we don't know. Like, type I mean, she does. It's it's the book. So, but I like that guy. He's he's there for her.

Liz:

He's not Timothee Chalamet. Not everyone can be Timothee Chalamet. Yeah. No. And, honestly, Timothee Chalamet's character is just so needy throughout the entire movie.

Liz:

Yeah. He He's just so I don't I don't know what else

Gabi:

to do. Kind of he is kind of a baby

Liz:

about it. Kind of a baby about it. Not a good thing. That's why I'm an Amy approach for each other. Sorry.

Liz:

I'm not saying that I'm an Amy hater because I do think that that's kind of a red flag when people are an Amy hater. But I think that I'm an a d Amy hater for the right reasons and that she's just kinda she goes really good. Are you at the Internet's? Oh my god. That's so scary.

Liz:

What you just did with your lip there was like, oh my god. She's gonna punch me. Chad, did we see that?

Gabi:

That was me holding my lipids so I wouldn't start laughing.

Liz:

That wasn't intended thought that it was like an acting when you kept her face. The shake of the head and then my

Gabi:

lips started quivering because I was about to laugh at myself.

Liz:

That's super narcissistic. Hey. What do you mean by that? Anyways, so Amy is just sort of a whiner. I don't think that because, like, people are like, oh, like, Joe is the best because she's, like, wanting to go out and, like, do things and but I just kinda think Amy's a whiner.

Liz:

But I also get it because she was, like, in the shadow of Joe her entire life. Mhmm. I don't know. I'm not I just think that Joe and Lori were besties, but, you know, besties can't always be together forever. Because sometimes maybe you're just too much like that person Mhmm.

Liz:

To be together. And I think that's sort of a Joan Moore. I'm psychoanalyzing fictional characters.

Gabi:

Sorry. I'm really trying to think of where I'm gonna put my resignation letter right now Oh. After that kind of thing.

Liz:

Straight to me, actually.

Gabi:

Okay. In

Liz:

my email, hey. You've tried before. Okay. Perfect. Perfect.

Liz:

In-depth. Put a letter. Do you remember Lore drop. Lore drop.

Gabi:

See, for me, like, I feel like Amy isn't necessarily whining about the fact that she's in the shadow. I always took it as her whining about the fact that she has to carry the family name on her shoulders. Because while Joe could take the time to gain independence and make herself and make her own name, she was the one who had to go off to even though she didn't because she's kind of a quitter.

Liz:

That's why I hate her because she's a quitter.

Gabi:

She, like, had to go to France. She took all those courses. She was gonna marry the little basic, ugly, rich guy

Liz:

because it was Fred Vaughn. Fred Vaughn

Gabi:

because it brought in the family money. Right. Like so I think her whining was more over the fact that she had to carry the family name.

Liz:

That's so true. That's a

Gabi:

really good point. Thank you, I try.

Liz:

Little Women is also super fall. I feel like Yeah. When I think of fall, I'm like, okay. I wanna watch Little Women.

Gabi:

I think it's perfect for the transition from fall into winter because they have the scene where Amy's, like, foot is whatever it's doing as a foot, and then she's, like, running through the snow.

Liz:

Oh, yeah. Well, and it's Christmas at one point.

Gabi:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Gabi:

Because then they go and give the food to the one family.

Liz:

Yeah. No. It's a good movie. But no. I don't I feel like it's not exactly a romance.

Liz:

I agree there's a lot of romantic parts, but I feel like it's more based on, like, the family. Mhmm. And, like, sisters. Not to say that that isn't, you know, romantic in a way that's, like it not everything has to be, like, you know, relationship romantic. I mean, you know, love is, you know, love is also your family.

Liz:

Yeah. Love is, you know, with the mother and oh my god. Laura Dern is the mom. I know that that's not what we're talking about right now, but I just love Laura Dern. She's wonderful.

Liz:

She's You don't love Laura Dern?

Gabi:

I don't know her enough.

Liz:

It's not Big Little Lies. She's really good in that. You should watch that. I think I brought up Big Little Lies more than any other piece of media on this show. I don't really know what to say to that,

Gabi:

but that's fantastic to hear.

Liz:

Thank you. It's Reese Wither Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman.

Gabi:

I know the first name.

Liz:

Shailene Woodley, who was in the full moon stars. Talk about a good romance movie. I recently rewatched that. I don't like it. Why?

Liz:

I don't really have any good arguments for it, but I just there's something about it. Like, it's Like, you haven't liked it ever? Like, even when you were, like, a cringey little middle schooler?

Gabi:

Well, I haven't watched it since I was

Liz:

a cringey little middle schooler. Oh, but you didn't like it then? I didn't

Gabi:

like it then. And it's like one of the Chill out.

Liz:

Don't say it like that. I didn't like it then. I believe you.

Gabi:

I don't like it. I didn't like it then. I don't like it now. I'm not ever gonna like it.

Liz:

Don't try and make me like it. Dude, you should like it. Dude, just get over it and like over it. Okay. But why?

Gabi:

Just I think it was just too, like, quite frankly, cringey. Even for cringey middle school me, it was too cringey. Because isn't that the one where it was the same where he's like like he's smoking the cigarette?

Liz:

Oh, that hurts so bad. So bad. It's a metaphor, you see. You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to kill you. That's the stupidest thing ever.

Liz:

That's, like, written on my brain. No. I rewatched it, like, not this past weekend, but the weekend before because my friend from Texas was up and we were really in a romantic movie Mhmm. Like, mood. Mhmm.

Liz:

So that's why I also wanted to do this podcast because I just I've just been thinking about it a lot recently. And, I realized that I could probably recite that movie. Like, I watched it so many times again. Also, it's weird when they make out in the Anne Frank house.

Gabi:

That was wild.

Liz:

That was wild.

Gabi:

That was fantastically wild. I feel like the whole film

Liz:

And everyone clapped too. They made out in the Anne Frank attic, and then everyone clapped.

Gabi:

I don't remember them clapping. I don't remember them clapping.

Liz:

They didn't. And everyone like, the end of a Tumblr story.

Gabi:

Oh, I I'm picking up what you're putting down now.

Liz:

Thanks.

Gabi:

I'm there with you. Leading into that whole Tumblr thing, he gives off Tumblr vibes. He gives off Kool G, like

Liz:

The movie was, like, all of Tumblr in 2014, and, like, it makes sense.

Gabi:

And I hated it. It gave off him being all like, I listened to The Beatles, but

Liz:

you probably wouldn't be able

Gabi:

to know any of their songs because, like, they're super underground. Like, okay. That's the vibes he gave off.

Liz:

I don't know if that's Ansel Elkhorn vibes. I feel like that's, like, overall John Green vibes. Like, any any book that you've read by John Green is, like, just a little messed up. Just, like, a little bit too Tumblr. Like, he thought he was really cool, like, in high school and, like, college.

Liz:

Think I saw that. For sure.

Gabi:

Oh, he would've been in the garage band. I could feel that in my bones.

Liz:

Oh, yeah. He was at a co op, like, just banging out on a bass. For sure. Get the go off. That was super annoying after.

Liz:

I do wanna talk about romantic books as well because I've been really I mean, I was about to say recently, I've always been into romance novels Mhmm. And, you know, English English major. Do you have any romance novels that you wanna recommend?

Gabi:

I don't write any literature.

Liz:

Oh.

Gabi:

So going into romance novels, I'm I'm not sure if this would be accurate.

Liz:

It's good

Gabi:

thing you're telling me to

Liz:

speak because I can't read or write. True. Thank you. Keep going.

Gabi:

I'm not sure if it's categorized as a romance. I don't know if it's a romance novel, but I love, Good Girls Guide's Murder. I just finished the entire series.

Liz:

Oh, isn't it, like, a Netflix thing now?

Gabi:

It's the Netflix thing now with that one girl who is in Wednesday.

Liz:

Yeah.

Gabi:

Not Wednesday, but Wednesday's, like, colorful friend. Yes. And she, like, plays Pip, which is the main character. And it's basically, like, Pip Pip's kind of you core. Really?

Liz:

She has a podcast in the second book. Oh, not even in the first one? In

Gabi:

the second and third book, she's got a podcast. Different from you, only a little bit. She's exploring murders as opposed to weekly happenings. Okay. Only a little different though.

Gabi:

Only a little bit different. And she falls in love with this boy named, like, named Ravi, Ravi Singh. And, his whole thing was his brother was claimed to be to be a murderer in the first book, and then they, like, proved his brother's innocence and then they fell

Liz:

in love. Spoiler alert, guys. Oh, I hope

Gabi:

you guys can read. Wait. Can't read. And then you won't be able to read the book, and then it's fine. I didn't spoil anything unless they listen to an audiobook, then we're

Liz:

screwed. Sorry, guys.

Gabi:

Anyways, continue. But, yeah, then they fall in love. And they're super cute because he's, like like, he's super cute and funny, and I'm super funny. So it works well. It's something I would wear if he were real characters.

Liz:

Here's a good here's a good question about romance novels and movies. Do you, like, pick your favorites based on, like, if this person would be your type in a movie? Or, like, it yeah. No. I feel like that's so, like, I feel like most people do that.

Liz:

Like, I feel like that's not, like, a hot take. Mhmm. But I was, like, that's such a funny thing that, like, if someone's not our type, like, oh, this movie sucks. Like, this book sucks. Mhmm.

Liz:

But, like, if that's your type, you're gonna be super into that, like, movie and, like, novels.

Gabi:

When I was younger, I originally hated Hunger Games because I didn't find any of the guys cute. And then I realized Josh.

Liz:

Josh. Okay. Let's have some respect for Josh.

Gabi:

I don't think he's cute.

Liz:

Hot take. Even now in FNAF, There is some I want that quoted. Even now you don't think he's cute in FNAF. You even used the shortened version of it. You couldn't even say 5 Nights at Freddy's.

Liz:

In FNAF? Well, there's just so many edits of him after,

Gabi:

I do have

Liz:

5 Nights at Freddy's movie.

Gabi:

I do think I have one edit of him saved on my TikTok from the FNAF movies.

Liz:

There we go. You think she knows. No. What do you mean you spoke about? Everybody has I think I maybe have one.

Gabi:

I mean, I guess

Liz:

I might have, like, one edit that one specific. What are the 2 or 12?

Gabi:

Or maybe an entire film.

Liz:

To ride by, Yes. I know exactly which one you're talking about. Yeah.

Gabi:

I have that one saved, David. But I don't think he's cute. That was just on a whim.

Liz:

I just did that because I never posted it and, like, watch it every day. I'm, like, whatever.

Gabi:

Yeah. I wake up and then I go to bed and I just watch it on repeat for 5 minutes.

Liz:

It's like, wow. I'm like, this is good. This is nice. It's just a way to unwind.

Gabi:

But I hated Hunger Games as good because I didn't find and then I realized I found girls cute too

Liz:

and then I found cat is cute. You're like, wait.

Gabi:

She's kinda cool. So then I liked it because I thought Cat is cute. Yeah. But at the beginning, I hated it.

Liz:

I hated Gayle so much just because I wanted to punch him in the face. I That almost turned me off of it. And then I was like, PETA season.

Gabi:

See, I never watched I didn't read the series yet because I'm as we've already prefaced illiterate as an English major. And so when I watched the film because I watched the films before I read the books. And I watched, like, the first one, and I was, like, I was, like, oh, none of them are cute, but I guess, like, I can get on team Gale at the very least.

Liz:

That's insane. And then I found out he killed Prim. Spoiler. Guys, spoiler. If you haven't out for a while watched.

Gabi:

You don't know. Maybe there's 2 year olds watching this podcast, listening to it that haven't watched the Hunger Games.

Liz:

We said how horny our college campus is. You just said it again. If you're 2 The 2 year old If you're 2 years old, like, get out of here, dude. Get some parental controls on that. Like, swipe out.

Liz:

Anyways. Yes. I got it. I know that we also want to talk about romantic tropes that we found not good or, like, romance movies that we're like, oh, this is, like, a weird trope. Do you have any?

Gabi:

So I mentioned it liking it earlier. 13 going on 30 is a really weird movie. It is. You've got a 13 year old girl in the body of a 30 year old woman in Mark Ruffalo Kisses said 13 year old, but technically 30 year old girl? Damn.

Gabi:

I hate to say it. Really peculiar. I hate to say it, guys. Also, the scene in 13 going on 30 where I forget what his name was, but he was the one office guy that she, 30 year old her, was cheating. Like, he was cheating on his wife with her, and then he, like, came on, like, he, like, came on to her in the office, and she was like, ew.

Gabi:

Get off of me. You're 13. Don't know if you know even if you're in a 30 year old body. Like, that's just the idea of it and the like, idea of them acting that out is so weird to me.

Liz:

That is so weird.

Gabi:

What do you think?

Liz:

Yeah. Being mentally 13 isn't cool. Yeah. Get over that. I think that that sums it up pretty well.

Liz:

I don't know. I I'm gonna say something. I don't really love that movie all that much. I don't really like Jennifer Garner as an actress. That's all I'm just saying.

Liz:

And I don't know. Like, I feel like she's, like, she's, like, like, she's kinda, like, millennial core. She's not even millennial. She's older than that, but I don't know. There's something about her that's, like, giving not that.

Gabi:

Okay. So I hate that take, but I'll let it happen, I suppose.

Liz:

I hate that take. I guess it's okay if

Gabi:

it happens once or twice.

Liz:

I'm gonna talk about a romantic trope that I hate. And, like, Destined soulmates, like, in the face of anything. So, like, The Notebook. That's where I was gonna go next. Because, like, just over first of all, I rewatched The Notebook, right, when I was my me and my friend was were in the mood for a little romance movie.

Liz:

And she was like, we should rewatch The Notebook because I remember hating it. And I was like, I remember hating it. And she's like, what if it got good? I'm like, why would that happen? But we did it anyways.

Liz:

And didn't realize that they only knew each other for 3 months Mhmm. In, like, their senior year of high school, and now they're gonna cheat on their romantic partners to be with each other.

Gabi:

It's so The Notebook, my best friend, Abby, loves The Notebook. She thinks it's, like, the best film ever. That's insane. It's we like, she made me watch it. You're telling me he's, like, swinging off the top of the Ferris wheel, threatening to, like, just drop if she doesn't go on the date with him.

Gabi:

And everybody's like,

Liz:

oh my god. That's so sweet. Oh my god. That's so cute. He's What?

Liz:

Like, someone help him. I will say Ryan Gosling is very pretty in that movie.

Gabi:

Well, yeah. But that's Ryan Gosling.

Liz:

Right. That's just, like, his face.

Gabi:

That's how he always is.

Liz:

He can't

Gabi:

really I I think it's just a weird film.

Liz:

No. I think it's weird. I just hate that they cheat on their partners. James Marsden is way too nice to, Rachel McAdams, and cheating should not be condoned.

Gabi:

Not technically a movie, but Gilmore Girls when, Rory makes Dean

Liz:

Yeah. In the

Gabi:

acting, cheats on his wife with Rory. Yeah. Insane. That's but I think everybody, like, hates on that enough. Like, I think Yeah.

Liz:

Like, I know we are not original to be like Yeah.

Gabi:

I think we've already been like, hey. Cheating on your partner is kind of bad, Rory.

Liz:

Well, and she's just, like, fully in her, like, flop era at that time anyways.

Gabi:

They don't like

Liz:

Been dropping out of Yale and stuff.

Gabi:

Her and I beef over that.

Liz:

No. Literally. I didn't watch Gilmore Girls until my freshman year of college. Mhmm. And then I was watching it, and she was like, yeah.

Liz:

I'm gonna be a journalism and political science major. And I'm like I didn't really I hope that no one thinks that, like, I was trying to be like Roy. Like, I hope that no one's like, oh my god. She's so cringe. Like, really?

Liz:

That's your choice of major? And I'm like Okay, Roy. And I'm also, like, the only child of a single mother. Oh. Like, there's a little bit too many similarities there for people to be like, oh, like, it was just a coincidence.

Liz:

And, like, it was. I never watched Gilmore Girls. That's what they all say. This is me actually just trying to convince people that I'm not like Rory.

Gabi:

I swear. I'm not like Rory.

Liz:

I'm not like Rory, guys. But, Jesse in that show.

Gabi:

Which one's Jesse again?

Liz:

The hot one. Okay. They were Astra Dean. Blonde? No.

Liz:

No.

Gabi:

Okay. The one that,

Liz:

He's the one that was,

Gabi:

what's his name's like, nephew.

Liz:

Yes. Yes. Beautiful.

Gabi:

Awesome. Love the scene where what's his name throws Jesse into the lake. Yeah. That was good. That was fantastic.

Gabi:

Cinematography? Beautiful. Wonderful.

Liz:

I was just having no knowledge and just talking. Right? Totally. You know what's his name in this part of the episode and this The poor 2 year olds aren't gonna have a hatch on for this one. They're gonna be so confused.

Liz:

They're gonna be so confused. But talking about the Dustin's soulmates, in a movie that Ryan Gosling is in as well, La La Land is the perfect version of this because they are so soulmates. And then, spoiler alert guys, they don't end up together in the end. But they just let live, bro. He has his business.

Liz:

She has a kid and a husband. If it was the notebook style of movie, they would break up their families and their dreams to be with each other, but that's not realistic. In La La Land, they just go their separate ways at

Gabi:

the end. You don't like La La Land.

Liz:

Woah. Why? This is sad. It's That's what my mom doesn't like it. She refuses to watch it with me.

Gabi:

Yeah. It's too emo, number 1. Number 2, it just it's it's too close to Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield for me. Like, did you see the scene where they were like, not the scene. It was a real life moment,

Liz:

Gabby, who wasn't a singer.

Gabi:

Where they're at the award show and, like, I think it was she got an award and then Andrew was like and she was like, yeah. They're too close to Andrew and Emma for me to actually enjoy it.

Liz:

Did you see that Andrew Garfield is doing the interview with the chicken truck lady and they're in love, dude? I'm so excited. I'm so excited for that. Did you see him crying his eyes out on the Modern Love podcast? He's, like, reading this, like, love poem and and the podcast host is, like, what hit for you, Andrew?

Liz:

And he's, like, it's just so beautiful. It's so beautiful. I don't know. It's hard for me to explain. He's so cute.

Liz:

And he was just he was, like, crying. I'm in love with him. That's, like, my number one celebrity crush, I think. I think but he's kind of crazy because he's, like, 45. Okay.

Liz:

Well Whatever. I've really got

Gabi:

no excuse. But if I had a excuse, it would be a really good one for why it's okay for Andrew to date either

Liz:

of us.

Gabi:

So I think that's number one for me.

Liz:

Call us. Except he's gonna fall in love with the chicken shop lady, and that's, like, 2nd best. That's that's that's love with being interviewed with her.

Gabi:

You know what? If he's on the chicken shop podcast, I think he needs to come to House Lights.

Liz:

To the House Lights podcast.

Gabi:

Yes. Andrew, if you're seeing this

Liz:

Hit us up. You know when I usually do, like, a tangent in the beginning of the episode? I forgot to make one, but I just came up with one at the end. Do you mind if I tell you a little quick quip about my life? Go about it.

Liz:

This is my random tangent at the end. We're switching up. You know? My mom really loved challengers. Isn't that crazy?

Liz:

And what if we just ended it right there? Thank you guys so much for watching House Lights. Gabby, thank you so much for coming on, and I hope to see you again soon. Yeah. Too.

Liz:

Woah. See you next week. Bye.