Reese Witherspoon

0:00Hello, I'm Cresy Detectives, welcome to the Lincoln Fort Files. I'm Joy. And I'm Larissa. And we're here to report on all things comfy and cozy. Hello, I'm Cresy. La la la la la la la la la la la la. I always needed but extra today. Extra today, Lord knows. OK, let's go right into fun things and updates. I feel like I haven't so many, but they're all connected, but they're all so random. And I love it. You go first. You go first. OK. So I bought CDs, and I said, You my little stack and I love them. I'm so excited. You've been listening to them. I have also it made me giggle so much because the What is it called? They're good to go at your car. Oh, no, it worked fine But it was so fun. No, I met your way you realized about your car I have a sunroof. Oh, sorry, I'm trying to yell at you. I got so excited. I'm getting it's right

1:04Joy editing just lower that I'm so excited. I was like driving and I was like this will be so cool I had a sunroof and I looked up and I was like Way to manifest I'm so glad you texted me you're like I have no idea and I'm like I'm so jealous of you right now I also like detailed the car inside with like no, I'm like trying to make it cute and cozy But the thing that made me giggle about the CDs is the Britney Spears CD that I got like the first CD uh-huh It had like melted like candle wax. So like homegirl was like I could actually just like Thought it off and it was fine. Oh, that's good that it's so cool. Yeah, yeah, and the oh I tapped the mic now I'm just all kinds of a hot mess today. I was just Um and the macy gray CD Pause or it skips at this one part and I'm so not used to hearing a CD skip that my brain keeps thinking I like clicked pause on the song My gosh, that's my how it like rewires the thing And is it is it the macy gray CD that

2:07Yeah, yeah Yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna get like that, but that and I also really like I forgot how much you just like listen through a CD Like number six. I don't know what it is on the macy gray CD, but I love that song too Like nearly as much as the other one. So yes, that was very fun. Oh, so fun. Oh, you got those all in a thrift store Yeah, I Realized this one thrift store in my area. I like wrote. It's like a local thrift store versus like a goodwill They rotate days of what they have as a percentage off and one of the days is media And I like went up to double check and I was like does this include CDs if she was like yes Because I'm sure she's like why you even getting these, but they're a dollar a piece That's awesome. I was like yes, that would be my day. I will go and hang out. I also have been very excited for my concerts And so I started making like bracelets with all those are so cute. I made a little one. I'm gonna claim one because that's really cute. I May have made you want me to show you No, I'm gonna be surprised. I'm gonna be okay

3:09You're exactly like this, but this one I made for myself too. Oh So cute. I'm gonna sneeze code to take this hold on I'll keep talking she can just mute this out and chew But yeah, I started making stuff and then I was thinking I don't know if this is lame or not But I was thinking like what's something that I could carry a lot of that I could trade a lot of without having to like wear a lot of you know So I Decided as of right now unless it's lame and the cozy detectives say boo hiss I decided to make like little rings. Oh, I just thought it could I feel like nobody are betraying So just like little beaded rings and I'm making them all different sizes and stuff and they're stretchy and you know Just reminding me of did you do girl scouts? I don't know if we've talked about this. No, I never did But I it's like right in my bend diagram to a yeah, so I did for a few years So some lorissa lore I was really sad because all the girls in my troop when Season just like didn't want to do it so I didn't have anyone else so I couldn't keep doing it because you have to have like

4:10A troop and I didn't want to just like join a random one Um, the reason I brought it up is at so they would have They have these different girl scout events like in your area. So there's one where we all spent the night in this museum Um, and how fun You have typically like a bucket hat and you trade what they call swaps and it'd be little pins that you would Attach to your head So it was kind of like an OG Friendship bracelet. Yeah, trading situation. So I like my mom it texted me about that a couple weeks ago I think and then I meant to bring it up on here and ask if you did it and that you just reminded me with the ratings so I've I somehow have been to like I don't know what they're called a pinning or something like when people got their patches But I was like and I had this like memory of sitting there watching them and I know it's not a dream because I like have too many details You know what I'm saying? But well, they have so they have the the triad patches which are like skills you get on the front and then there's badges for experiences that you get on the back

5:15But then they also have pins you can get I think when you move up levels. So There's like you start out. I think as a daisy. I mean, I was a brownie to look at a certain age and then you're up to like junior And you work your way up the ranks Okay, one random joy lore thing because you said brownie. Have you seen Medea goes to jail? I haven't seen any of those movies. I've heard they're really funny though So for your regard it's for gar i don't remember how I say her name. I can't say it right And she is so funny. She is Medea's salesmate and one of the things she was like she makes her something when she first enters and she was brownies for my brown And I think that every time someone says the word brownie Oh my gosh. She like it's so funny. There's so many funny lines from her Okay, wait you say some update Okay, then you're wrong. I'll I'll share the one that I was texting you about that I said I was going to wait to say

6:18Okay, so I I'll just come out right and say I won't build to it I recently found out via friend of the show miles That there are eight seasons of repair shop for free on 2b. So I started watching it My word obsessed. Thank you miles To be that's Yeah, there's ads and stuff, but you get to it's completely free So yeah, I started watching it. Do you love it? Yes, it's so I The first episode because I didn't realize it just uh So they has one through eight and it randomly started me. I think I'm the first episode of season eight So the one I watch is may even be one that you haven't seen yet because I think you said you're the first four Yes, okay So I yeah, I just got dropped into it, but it I mean it wasn't I don't feel like I was lost especially because I had your case file

7:19Explaining things um, but it had the like the clock guy you really like Oh, yeah, he was fixing one Um, and then they did they had um, this Like bronze horse statue that this little girl she was older now, but she bought it with her first like paycheck ever for her dad I was like Yeah, she said it on the dad said it on their coffee table for like 30 years and it was broken into a bunch of pieces and then there was Rugby hat that was like 120 years and this just blew my mind I think it it's so fascinating and I mean when you talked about this of the craftsmanship that goes into these repairs But the guy and I don't remember his name, but he does the fabrics and stuff he had glasses he took So it was this kind of purpley color of this velvet fat and so he the velvet is kind of fading

8:22and patches and stuff So to color match the Warren parts he blended up beats strained out the juice and then with a fine little paintbrush painted beat juice onto this hat and then the color So genius and I don't know I was just a mesmeral all time with how much detail like the clock I went Spoke by spoke by spoke Yeah, right to your parent and I was just like fascinated um But I'm also doing a re-watch of shits correct now. So it's kind of like a alternating situation. I know Catherine a hair miss you Because that got moved back to HBO. So I was able to watch that I see you have it as part of our Internet Oh nice Once you hit any any episode that has the bear ladies in it, too Oh, I know. I'm so excited for that So the reason I was able to remember your what season to you are I dig go back and listen to

9:27That episode we talked about it because it's been so long and And it was literally before we even did videos like I think our fourth episode ever But I went back and listen to it and I was laughing Again because at the beginning we're talking about Lala land and you're trying to remember the name of The observatory, which we had just had this conversation in a recent episode and you did the same like Guggenheim Yeah I was just laughing because of it. We literally had this conversation No detectives you will know that I am not lying because I will still get a confused just the same Oh, I was just laughing so hard. I was like wow we just have the lilies stations over and over again I'm proud of you down though, which is Do you remember the name of the conservatory the Griffiths, right? Yes. Good job. Look at me go. Look at me go. Look at me go Someday like I'm so proud of you What you're in the accepting I did finish my second book

10:27It is what was it? Everybody always popped off. It was one of the Bob golf ones that I was reading At the end he's like we're talking about something and it just got me I'm just like sitting here like crying as it was It was good. It was a good book, but it is what so my Reason of bringing that up one because I finished a second book, but I'm proud of you in the timeline multiverse It is technically still winter. So do I come that as a winter? Yes, by the time this comes out No, you can't do this winter because the goal isn't to finish Yeah, you got two in winter. You're supposed to do two. You're still on track. Absolutely. Okay, because I was like I remember you saying that I remember episode at this point, but and I was like wait So which one do I count it as so I'm like okay? So I still have two books for spring, which is when this will be out So I'll be a sprayer. And you can honestly if you wanted to Kind of do it as a quarterly which is I mean because technically this is the second day of March. So yeah, yeah, the episode clearly

11:31Yeah Okay, yeah, so I could do that too. I know my roots just like I'm not used to Having like a book number goal for the year normally. It's like I won't tell you what minus No, I still look hey reading is reading any number of books that you read you are reading so valid That's true. I'm doing it and actually for my spring one my next update And then this is my last update So I feel like I'm talking so much about my things. I know you're not I love I love hearing it Please don't if you have more please tell more I think I'm just I'm really wanting spring to feel very very fun and very lighthearted and very colorful and all these things and I have decided that is when I want to which is I think on my spring bucket list if I'm not mistaken I feel like this is just once again joy I mean, I couldn't look back at it. I'm sure it's on there because there's something about matcha

12:32But I want to make the strawberry so I know the syrup was on there But I have a plan. I have a full full laid out plan. I have a recipe that I'm going to use I have matcha on the way because I am out So I'm going to do iced matches And then I do want to try to do like a cold foam type of vibe Because I want to very much at e spring and so I can like read have my matcha like how vibesies How fat what's it? How how fabulous is that? Thank you. Thank you there You texted me that you had a new hobby I just think it's to be eating. Oh, okay. Okay, I got it. I didn't know that I didn't know the video film was it was on top of it because you with it you had talked about that in terms of The concert so I didn't know if it was like Yeah, that's my hobby. I'm just making sure you have a beating baby. I'm trying the thing is I was so cute I like that. I know. I'm out. It's uh cojectives. It's What do they call it? My pretty little daisies like you most yeah daisies are oh sunflowers I think it's what their technically is supposed to be

13:33They're very pretty, but yes, I'm having fun with it Going to do some sticky things and also I kind of really want to be like so like one of the things in Everybody always to also talking about like loving people and things like that And I'd love to be the person that's wearing the bracelet and someone's like oh, it's cute I'm like you're happy like I want to be her. I want to do that. I want to be fun. So I'm like Yes, that sounds so fun So yeah, just make people say a little bit brighter. So okay, what's your last one? I have one more I texted you a little bit about this, but for the cozy detectives. So yesterday I went to a Pride and Prejudice So pretty another throwback to a case file episode um They're all case well not technical case file so it's anyways a previous case file Yeah, it was so fun. I've never been to this tea room before But they do apparently a different theme tea every month. So They just did Pride and Prejudice and I texted joy. I said you need to come here because They're doing a hobbit theme coming up and then they're also what was the other one, but I thought you would

14:38I don't remember now Oh, it was um Yes, okay, I knew there were both very you because they're also doing an Alice in Wonderland in a mid-summer night stream So yes, it was super fun. It was very pretty inside They had we were so full. They had a ton of food and the tea was very good So nice super fun time very cozy obviously and I was like I'm ready for spring You know that's what my question is like did you get like tea sandwiches? Was it tea like little thingies or yeah We got like a bunch of different sandwiches. They had these um I've never had anything like this before especially at a tea but they had these little The crispy potato rounds with a little dollop of sour cream and two and little chives. That was super good But yeah, we had a lot of sandwiches like the traditional cucumber. There was a roast beef one And then we got two scones We do a regular scone and then a seasonal scone so their seasonal one was this strawberry

15:41With white chocolate. That was pretty good Um, and then they had like a ton of desserts We couldn't even finish all the food because we got so much of it. It was really good. Whoa I'm already so fine. I want to go to the habit one. The habit one sounds so cool If you come down, I'll take you Well, fast you play. We'll see you all right. So we get into it. Yeah So like how we have our little line. That's like our same thing. You know, it's either me or you Shall we get into it? That's the thing we need to start mixing up now because we always do the intro now we need to be like Shall we get into it? Today we are talking about a person, but then we have the case files So of course, it is a Reese Witherspoon, which you can tell from the lead title Um, but we have some background on Reese and then some fun facts and then case files So do you want to go in some of your Fun facts? I we did not plan this, but I'm very proud. We Are releasing this episode the same week as her birthday and go us

16:44Um, I texted Joy the other day when I was researching and I was like wow good on us We never get it that planned it that well, but her birthday is March 22nd She was born in New Orleans Um, and I I wrote this fact down because I think it really led to her Being such a force for women strong women in their stories But her mom who was Betty Reese, so she took the stage name Reese because that was her mom's maiden name Um, but Betty has a PhD in pediatric nursing and was actually a professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University Wow, that's amazing. Yeah, and I think you know Women getting PhDs at any point is incredible, but especially I think back then that was very not the norm And so I think that's probably where Reese got her Love of telling women stories for sure. Yeah, that is very cool

17:44I know she talks about in a few interviews. I saw she was talking about Also like empowering women with like the money side of things the dating side of things I like that she like with the um the book club that she has now I feel like she's just like hitting all these different areas, which is so I don't just well rounded. You know what I mean? It's just yeah Looking at all the angles. We'll speaking of her book club. I'll jump to that That started in 2017. So every month she picks out a book and I don't know if you knew this joy, but That's where Daisy Jones and the sixth blew up because that was one of her picks and then her production company is the one who made it into the show Oh, wow. Oh, it's just a production company, too Oh, yeah, watch I can talk a little bit about that too um So it was founded And 2012 originally called Pacific standard and now it's part of a wider umbrella called hello sunshine And it's their goal really is to tell women stories because basically resourcing

18:49She had a hard time getting directors and producers to pick up women stories and she's like fine. I'll do it myself um And the first two were and she does a lot of book adaptations, which I love um the first two that they did We're both in 2014 One was gone girl. I don't know if you see oh wow Yeah, and then the other one was wild which she has said that that's the film she's most proud of I've read actually read the book twice. I did reread it for a challenge last year and then I've seen the movie one time And I forgot that Laura Dern plays her mom in that and she's only nine years older than Reese's So I thought that was kind of interesting and then they actually start together again But they're friends and they're in the big little lie show that they both did So I was just like I don't know if you've seen that one. I haven't but I need to I need to catch up on some research I feel so behind on anything she's done after the early 2000s

19:51Like I feel like she's almost like opra vibes with what she's doing You know like the book club. Yeah, like the production company all of that. I feel like Yeah, absolutely. That is very cool Yeah, I feel like the The fun facts that I have are basically through different interviews that she had so in one of the interviews she was talking about um Basically being a fantastic business owner and seller and she said the best piece of money advice that she ever got was Don't get into dead or don't let anyone control you with money And I feel like kind of what you're saying about like the empowering woman side of it I feel like that specifically she was talking to Women about in that empowerment of like money being a tool and I feel like she's used that tool very well Um in regards to the things that she's poured her money and heart into Um, it's so funny because my my brain every time I think of the wild I actually have not neither seen nor read it But I just think of good more girls. Oh, yeah, of course Hey, I know I'm trying to think if I I think I

20:52I think I read it saw after a year in the life um It's it's a really interesting and it's a very cool story Again, she I think reached read the book and really wanted to be able to share this amazing story um And so I definitely recommend it um But also Gone girl might be the more enticing read but I think they're both really enticing but gone girl is like have you read that one? Is it even more that could be one? Yeah, that one It may not feel as I think it's more intricate But that one because of the success of Gone girl was the twist. Yeah, and I I feel like thriller and mystery authors have been trying To match that twist since that book came out and they have yet to be able to pull that off like I have read one book where the twist really left me like In the same way, but I People have authors have just really been trying and failing sorry authors

21:54I couldn't do it myself you're better than me But they cannot be at that Gone girl level because I just like Yeah, I remember watching it and just being like In awe of what just happened. Mm-hmm. Do you feel like the book was able to give more intricate detail than the have you seen the movie as well? Yeah, yeah, I've seen I actually read we were watched the movie um In the fall I think that was on her fall watch list, but um, but you have the book because It's all For the first half like half it. Well, I don't want to say. Yeah, you're good. It's just it's kind of it changes And that is what allows for yeah. Oh, that's so interesting. Okay. Yeah, I'll add which is gonna be so funny I literally have the the Emily Henry one like Gone girl so intense I that's literally my vibes of reading because I just I know there's some people that that could only read romance Or they only read through and I just get bored with the same genre so I'm always vibing and bopping around and yeah, so Um, I just have a couple of their little Reese tidbits

22:57Mainly about her acting because that's obviously what she's most known for So I didn't I knew she started young. I didn't really she started at 14 in the acting industry Her first role was in 1991 and it was the man in the moon and then Legally blonde in 2001, which we are not doing Sorry, but day two that will be coming up Um was kind of the turning point in her career because I when I was researching I was like what was it Yeah, I was like what wasn't the first go. It was like 10 years after But I was like what really like washed her to a list household name and it was that role Which makes sense because she was just incredible. Oh, yeah Was that the first time she had a leading role or am I making that up in my head right now? I'm not sure. I didn't go into that much detail But she did she does have an Oscar

23:58And she got that the same year that my case file came out, which is kind of finished. They're very different vibes But it was for walk the line and she played June and Carter cash Hmm I have no idea, but I've heard great. Have you seen that? It's pretty good. Um, it's I don't know. I feel like and I mean Daisy Jones is the same way So I can't really talk, but it's hard when you do any sort of singer Gets famous. Yeah, he has a love interest. He's battling with addiction. I'm like it's every story. It's a star is born It's Daisy dry, you know, yeah, but also I mean this one was real life, but again, it's it's a story that's been told a bunch of times But I'll eat it up every time I know we're also not doing cruel intentions, but that is that I do feel like that's another one in the 90s. Yeah, I forget that she's in friends Yeah, really forgot that yeah, yeah, yeah, so good and all of that is before legally gone

25:00Yeah, she had her um first daughter like right before she did friends too, I think wow that's amazing and her Like she was 36 when she had The most recent kid. I don't know how to say that right, but like She had kids all the way up her youngest. Yeah, her youngest. There you go. There's there's your right You got it you got it Yeah, that's wild. All right, anything else you want to do about uh behind the scenes of her or do you want to get to your case file? I think maybe do a little bit of my case file. I don't have too much by the scenes again because it was early 2000 But yeah, my case file is sweet home alabama I love this movie. I have it on DVD and have I think it's one of my The lockbuster ones maybe I'll have to double check this actually um I don't know if it was the very first, but this was one of the very first PG 13 movies ever I think it was this grease

26:00Grease is PG 13 Girl, have you not a movie? Have you rewatched it? Have you rewatched it like as an adult? Okay, I think that's like the The millennial even just the music. This is the millennial classic experience where you watch you graces a kid You're like oh, this is so fun vibes and then every song is so yeah, like do you know what this like you know the song like Grease Lightning is about It's not just the car. I didn't realize that until it's been time Yeah, it's them like yeah using it like for girls. That's so funny No, and my brain that again, that is exactly where you're just like it's like kids music nowadays stinks And then you're just like singing whatever I don't want to get any of the songs because I'm sure they're all bad You know Yeah, yeah, that's so funny. I came out in 2002 But it's wild because I guess that she so the first After that was set to play in this role

27:03was Charlize Theron, but she picked a different project and so it went back out on the look for The character and Reese was cast the day legally blonde came out Whoa, I guess and so it's like wow like what like a like a boom boom type of like a thing right? So in a big day for her That a huge day for her came out in 2002 and basically what it is is The actors and it that's kind of a love triangle early 2000s again So Reese with this book plays Melanie Patrick Dempsey plays Andrew and Josh Gray's Anatomy her I that was one of my tidbits because I was like wow, I forget that that's pretty gray's Anatomy Josh Lucas plays Jake and then I feel like And it's only literally two roles, but Candace Bergen I think size your name please Kate, which is Patrick Dempsey's mom And I feel like in my brain she played that role all the time, but the only other place I think she actually played that role is Miss congeniality when she's like the mom and then she's also like

28:07Yes, she's like the main judge, right? Yeah, I thought I always thought that too. I was like oh, this is just like her type And I'm like I think it's only two probably because I watched both of those movies a bunch of times She's me rewatching over and over But what it is is she I'm gonna say I'm gonna say spoilers because you kind of have to it's part of the whole thing. Yeah, it's almost It's definitely 20 plus if not yeah, yeah So what it is is Melanie is in New York She is about to get engaged and she does at the very beginning of the movie to Patrick Dempsey and Drew The mom finds out and then becomes his whole thing and yeah, because she's what like a senator governor She's in politics, right? Yeah, yeah, he she's setting him the his mom is basically setting him up to be like the next president Like not like the next president, but like down the line for sure. Yeah, like this is his path to presidency And then Melanie's like, okay, I gotta go for a second. I'll be right back. And so she has to go to

29:08Alabama Which is not actually Alabama apparently. Alabama is Georgia because that's where they filmed most of it Oh, I was gonna say not Alabama. I was like, yes, that's the whole name Yeah, cuz that's where she's from So I was just like what do you mean not really? I just didn't realize that most of it was from the Georgia and I'm like oh, yeah, I did it either Again, like you thought into my brain. I'm like everything's something exactly where it's at But yeah, so she has to go home and then we find out don't don't she is technically still married to her first love Jake which Is Josh Lucas who was interviewed about because I guess there's been a few times where there's been offered a second like like what if we did We have Malibu in the two or whatever I will say I don't know if it's controversial take or not, but Josh Lucas I'm gonna start with like the ending. I don't know. I'm starting follow me close detectives Josh Lucas said you would love to know where the characters ended up And spoiler at the end of this she picks him and he thinks that they're divorced again

30:10Oh, yeah, I think so they I just They don't communicate. I don't think they have anything in common. I mean don't get wrong I love when they get back together at the end, but there's no way that's one of my favorite conversations I've seen people talk about more recently. Do they make do they make it past the credits and oh I started thinking about that with brown comms again, and I'm like, I don't feel like they would yeah, or like Who is the better pick I have not I'm gonna spoil it more recent movie now, too, I guess. Do you see I think it's called the materialist When I don't think I will see it because I heard so many bad reviews. Oh, okay I have not seen it either, but it gives similar vibes If you get the just of this movie, I think you kind of get the just of that movie And I think that was one of the things everybody was talking about is like why why wouldn't Melanie pick Andrew like why would she pick Jake and I guess so one of the things that happened in the movie is one

31:11I will talk about the ending was a whole different ending one of the things that they cut out of the movie I don't know if it was for time if it was just not showing well I'm not sure but they have a lot more Throwback scenes to their childhood where it gave more backstory to Melanie and Jake And I think that that would help us as the audience and I guess it wouldn't because they didn't use it But it's looking back at the movie I feel like that would help me understand why she picked him over picking Andrew because in the movie I do feel like at this point that her Dempsey was also one of those characters that just kept getting left like James Marston always gets left and I'm like why I think I think that's a good point of seeing them as kids um Plus because isn't it to kind of fanning plays her right she's yeah, she's been talented. It's so cute Um, and I think they they do a fairly good job of you know Talking about the past and kind of just saying like where things went wrong

32:11But I don't feel like they truly and like a regret it's a wrong calm. I get it But in a realistic sense. Yeah, I'm just like I don't think these two characters would really work But uh, I don't are you going to talk about the one line that they say as kids and then when they get together Oh, no, I don't have that written down go for I know I just love that line where they're like so I can kiss you anytime. I won't So Why would you want to kiss me fault? My one is and I think I might even get the line wrong because I didn't even have to rewatch it Where she's like, yeah, baby, you know bar Like I'm like, I love that one Anytime I see like a kid in like a place where I'm like this don't be no sense for this kid I was just on you have a baby I'm part of bar um It was a big turn in that scene later, but it's fine and she does make up for it later, but Also one of the things that I was like oh like speaking of kind of classic romcoms the director was Andy Tennant who

33:16Also So he did sweet home alabama ever after hitched full-scaled Like those are like the big ones as you know, I'm like, no, those are all yeah, I know like super super classics But like classic enough like ever after Yeah, I found that about my director too, but we'll get into it my turn Yeah, I don't know him as a person, but I just looked at his history and I was like wow that that part is really cool um But okay, so I will talk about the ending now because oh so The original ending of the movie that they filmed so many times That so it's raining at the end of the movie Iconic and what we see is they go out to The ocean which I also have some fun behind the scenes on like could like be really do that to Oh my gosh, please I need to know because I'm like is this actually a thing Yeah, I looked it up. I was like, I have to know that like that's like really enough I was like my most exciting behind the scenes fact I found no, I'm very excited to

34:16I'll say to stay tuned On today's episode But So they go out to the sand and that's when they decide they kiss Probably a happy ending so I can kiss you in a time. I won't But And then they go and they meet up with the family everybody's happy. They're all like in that tent kind of thing Yeah, but the original ending was It like Flashed So like I think she goes out to the sand or something like that and then it flashes I watched it so long ago. I got so mad about it. Oh, I feel like Back to me because isn't it I think it's on the DVD. It's like that alternate ending It it remind me because like it's coming back in like pieces So it performed horribly with audiences. I would have pitched a fit if I was in the theater and this is how this end day But he's carrying her in And she's like lifeless. They're both yeah snoked. He's walking in to where her family is and he basically says that she's dead Yeah, okay, and then

35:17Yeah, so what he's basically claiming is that and I can't remember what her like she changes her name when she moves to Newark I can't remember what her fake name is but but he basically goes like Fake name blah blah is dead and he's like long live Melanie, but like she's like lying dead Like the basically pretend she's dead and then it's like oh no, she's now like Back home ta-da. Yeah, and then everybody claps and then they're good to go and then they like all hang out and it For obvious reasons performed horribly I just I do feel really bad for Reese with her spoon though because in an interview With my brains trying to remember what the oh, yeah, I think it's I think she Melanie is the same name, but I think she goes by Carmichael in that's what it is today times where her real name is like smoother. Yeah, that's weird. That just came back um But Candice virgin who plays the Is that what I was Sorry, that was my phone. No, you're fine. My brain was like smoother. I don't know where and it was gone

36:21um It was something about like her Oh, I lost it cozy detective. That's okay. If it comes back at a point even if it's my case, but please share Tonight But yes, so the original end date obviously tested horribly so they changed that Yeah, I'm getting into The actual could this happen? So the lightning glass thing so Jake's whole business is based upon when they were kids and it's very cute It's very romantic. She sees it and she's like wow, this is amazing Well, lightning does hit sand and does create something But that is blown glass hand blown glass. So it doesn't create a look like that It kind of looks almost kind of like coral reef vibes Okay, I always I don't know why I guess in my head. I didn't think

37:23In the movie and this is just I guess Larissa brain and how it works. I always pictured But he like picks up this the glass from the sand and then somehow like sculpts it into the things he sells but I don't know if it does. I don't know if that's I didn't rewatch it In my last part of my watch, but I mean they don't say that that was just like oh I think this is how it would work because I was like I don't even know if that's right Yeah, I guess in my brain what happened is it the he has all the poles out there the lightning hits the pole Goes into the sand and then he like scoops it out and is like ta-da That's what I guess I pictured him doing Which Cool though. So the shop that there was a lot of different shops that did it But one of the names that I found was a shop in the Windsor area of Vermont It is called Simon Pierce And if it is still there that is one of the shops that made the hand blown glass

38:26looking Items so if you're wondering on that's basically I'm not like basically from the movie, but similar you could go there Something very surprise so expensive. Oh, I know But I just thought it was cool that I guess lightning actually does do Like a stretch. Yeah, because I guess you guys like very Petrifies the sand kind of it looked like that's why kind of looks kind of coral reefy because it's got that like texture of it Um, yeah, but also one other thing is back to the the love triangle of it all I Also think this would have helped in The audience being like oh, okay, obviously she's gonna pick Jake is originally in one of the earlier cuts Patrick Dempsey's character Was a lot and I don't know if this is something where they Cut it and then it didn't play well or they the thing I know that they did do is they recut it to make it feel more like Okay, who's she gonna go with because it felt more like even ground Yeah, one of the early cuts. He was a lot more arrogant And kind of like I was kind of old

39:26Yeah, I was gonna ask that yeah, it was like he's usually when you have some sort of I guess I'm thinking of like his other role kind of similar to this in made of honor, but he The girl I feel like even yeah, they just make it either with their polar opposites or he's more you find out He's kind of a jerk or a bad guy, but I was like Yeah, he's a really good guy and like don't be wrong I think Melanie and Jake have incredible chemistry and they obviously have a past, but I'm like I tried to do anything wrong. Yeah, also you said yes to marrying this like one wild thing when you are still married to But to it's like you did say yes to marry this guy you had this whole like clearly life thought plan moving forward and so Yeah, you go home and all that changes, but Yeah, I I don't know what I think about that recut because it does make it more like well They won't they of it all, but I think right again I just I just always feel bad for the person like the James Marzen of it that just kept getting left and stuff

40:31Yeah, I find it cozy a lot of the times because in nostalgia, I do think it's a calm so the comedy parts of it are funny Um, I feel like they do a pretty good job balancing out like some of the humor of the south, but not like I don't feel like they make them a caricature of the south So there's been was asked in it. I was on the view. She was asked like what's something of the south that you think of when you think of the self And she said monogrammed things and I'm like girl. Yes, 100% that's exactly Like I already put something out everything. I don't know if you just don't want them to steal it or that's like yes, right Okay, sorry, sorry, you're good. All right, my case while is just like heaven And I did at first I was like I don't need to rewatch it, but I we had some time last night so we did rewatch it And I will have you seen this one? Yeah, it was a while ago Okay, so I'll do a quick like synopsis for anyone who hasn't seen it. It's so it's a very

41:33Hogi there's like magical realism. It's kind of a silly premise, but I still eat it up So this one came out in 2005. It also stars Mark Ruffalo And it was written by Peter Tolin and Leslie Dixon and the director is Mark Waters and he also did freaky friday and mean girls Yeah, so yeah, you were kind of mentioning like oh, I didn't realize they he did these other classics and I was like I don't know my director did these either so I was kind of cold to learn And then I didn't know this, but it's based on a French book called if only it were true And I watched a clip from the premiere and re said That she was moving when she signed onto the movie and was unpacking a box and that book was in that box And she thought hmm, this would make a really good movie and then lo and behold Wow, that's crazy Right such a good little story And it kind of yours too of just like the timing of when she signed on man this girl has some good luck

42:35She's just going with it. Yeah. Yeah So the premise of the movie a Reese's character her name is Elizabeth And she is a doctor in San Francisco and basically her job is her entire life like they always kind of make these some snide side Comments of oh, she's not married. She doesn't have kids her whole all she knows is this job And so she ends up in a bad car accident which lands her in a coma Meanwhile, so that happens and then we cut to David, which is Mark Ruffalo's character his wife died a few years ago and we find out this is just a side Fun fact His wife is her name is Laura, which is Reese's real name So I don't know if that was intentional or just like That's what my name is Laura Reese No, because race is her maiden name So She was born I don't remember her full name But she picked Reese out because it was her mom's maiden name and then but her birth name is Laura

43:38Whoa, wow. Yeah, so I don't know if it was an intentional to make David's wife's Name That or if it just happened to be a coincidence, but I just thought it was kind of a cool thing. So He ends up subletting Elizabeth's apartment while she's in the coma but she Kind of quote quote as a ghost appear in being apartment But only he can see her And so she doesn't really remember anything about her life and jackal never what talking about this is kind of a plot hole because She remembers very specific details of the apartment, but She doesn't even remember her name at one point Yeah, so I just in jackal was like well, maybe she has to see it because later on she remembers things when she sees it And I was like maybe that's why she can remember the apartment So he thinks he's kind of losing his mind or he seeing some sort of ghost and she thinks he's a squatter in her apartment

44:42And but eventually they kind of come together to figure out who she is what happened because again, he's the only one who can see her And so they go to this restaurant and a man collapses and she coaches him through how to save his life And so she's like oh, I'm a doctor and they go to the nearest hospital And so that's where they find out she's a doctor And that's where she's being kept on life support and so they tell David She's got a DNR and they're trying to basically convince Elizabeth's sister to take her off life support And so then Elizabeth and David are now trying to figure out how to get Elizabeth's like spirit back into her body essentially So I won't spoil the ending But it is kind of very it's like a hokey premise in general But speaking of Elizabeth's sister so in the movie her character's name is Abby And she is played by Dina Dina spyby waters who is the director's wife

45:48Oh Yeah, it's just like we're using those little connections. I see my skin And then mark waters the director grew actually grew up in San Francisco So in an interview he was talking about that he was excited to kind of include places in the movie where he consider kind of these old stopping grounds But so one of the things with the apartment that they're kind of sharing is this roof top I guess just like rooftop area and David is this landscape architect and he turns it into this gorgeous Um garden and sign up kind of why we picked at least for me why I wanted to do this theme in this movie is because we're in spring and it's literally peak goals of spring But there's Since it's in San Francisco, there's a view of the bridge But all of the scenes on the roof of the skyline are all CGI Oh, I know

46:49I know well it makes sense so because it's such unpredictable weather Which the fog they have a couple of scenes of showing with like San Francisco frog And they did that like I guess artistically as this like heavenly motif since she's like In between These the this life in the afterlife. So they're like hmm. We will use this fall To be simple so That's bad Yeah, and then another little thing with Um San Francisco. So obviously they have the cable cars. It's like what they're known for So apparently They were Going to have just like a prop cable car go through and this one scene But it broke down, but mark waters was like that's okay. We'll just wait for a real one So there's this scene where mark ruffalo is very adamantly crossing the street and he's with his realtor and she's in these heels And so they're crossing the street and this real life cable car is just like

47:52I come in and this realtor is like in her heels and that was like a real thing I'm like dude It doesn't build anything to the scene You didn't need to have for risk her life with this cable car. Oh My word Does it increase the budget save a lady, you know, right? Like just it's okay We get it in San Francisco. You don't have to have the cable car But despite that Everyone did say that mark waters was really great to work with they said he's like very precise But that he kind of let the actors play around with The dialogue and then on the flip side he said that he really enjoyed working with Reese because she has a great wit And that's kind of like why she can shine really well in romp guns Um And Reese said that one of the reasons she took the role was because she thought I'm gonna try to explain this but basically because

48:53In a lot of the scenes She is sort of interacting at least through David with people who can't see her So we can see her as the audience, but the the person she's Acting it alongside or against can't see her so she just thought that would be really cool to be like I want to place someone who can hear what people are saying behind your back and not know that you're actually big It's like the good uh Courtney's love or whatever that TV show was Like she could always see things, but they nobody else could see it and yeah, yeah, I'm safe live um and then So kind of going off of that They had Mark Ruffalo where at earpiece So basically Reese would be elsewhere kind of feeding Her lines for him to react to because there's some scenes where we see Reese and then there's other scenes where it's She's not there, but he can still see her Um and then I just thought that's a spun in an interview

49:55They asked him was that like hard for him to do and he said no, I did that a lot as a kid Oh I thought I had a friend for exactly um and then not to bring down the mood He's fine now, but I didn't know this he had a brain tumor in 2002 Really yeah, so I mean he's fully recovered by yeah, I didn't know that and so I think That was kind of a part of the reason just of like the subject or of this movie and then a lot of people Didn't think he could be funny or do comedy or kind of be a leading man So he took this role on to kind of prove them wrong Even though 13 going on 30 came out the year before so literally yeah Clearly he can be a leading man Yeah And Jacqueline was saying yeah, we need Mark Ruffalo to do another romcom And I'm like well people need to start saying he can't be funny and then he'll do

50:55Yeah, um Yeah, and this oh he's so good in this too He he does a lot of physical comedy like there's a scene I don't want to spoil it, but there's a scene where they're visiting Elizabeth's sister and they have this like little kid's play set that the daughters are sitting at And so he's sitting there and at one point he kind of like falls over and I know he's just so he's so good Yeah, exactly. Oh, I'm glad you mentioned the timey because that was some what people were pointing out in kind of this like Making of montage But the way he delivers a lot of his comedic lines is really good timing But kind of this deadpan quality that just makes the jokes land really well Um, so yes, I'm glad you brought that up and I was kind of debating on whether I was going to bring this up, but I'm feeling fun tonight. So I'm going to I found I don't remember the name to be able to credit them like I did last time, but I found this reddit red

51:57Okay, so Joy, do you remember because basically when they're trying to get through to Elizabeth's sister He's like give me some dirt on her and so the whole thing is she made out with her best friend JJ right before her wedding Oh, I think I've always seen this when we maybe once so I don't okay So she tells him that re or yeah breeze tells David Oh my sister made out with her ex-boyfriend right before her wedding and then it's spoiler It's later revealed that that's also David's best friend and so That actor has red hair and the One of the daughters of the sister Abby also has red hair Neither the parents have red hair So the theory is that that's actually their kid that they Yeah, and then there's also a line Where JJ is like there's gonna be it. There's gonna come a day where I'm gonna need help moving a body

53:03And I don't want to hear it from you and so the theory is like he's gonna like to seek his revenge And I was like I'm living for this like secret plot that like Was intentional for people to figure out or they cut stuff out of it or it's just happened Stance but the reddit sleuths figured it out and so watching it last night like we were totally buying it We're like yes, this is happening. This is Yeah, so any because it's effective if you've had that club before you're not alone Reddit is on your side. Yeah, so But yeah, those are my fun facts. Why I find it cozy obviously the roof top garden also I Wanted to rewatch it last night is also to check on this you need a rewatch it joy because the apartment is such good early 2000s interiors like oh, it's so good. I kind of thinking of you the whole time. I was like you need a watch. Just put it inspiration I'm going on 13 going on 30 for stuff like that. Yeah, you know

54:06And also in that coming up soon. No, we're doing we're doing I know I thought of another thing Why didn't I pick I also love Penelope we need to do something So good. We'll pop the plan um and then the last little cozy bit I have I really think they have good chemistry again. Why I'm just floored that people think Mark Ruffalo Campio leading man because he has incredible chemistry with Jennifer in 13. I was going on 30 and in this and I'm just like give This man more romance, please. Yeah, I feel like it is that Can you make timing like in the good way like a little quirky and like not socially awkward by any means but just like he kind of like I don't know like a different vibe to it than a lot of And I love it, but I feel like that's the rom-com vibe that you like want in a lady man. Yeah I mean like you got different ones, but like that is definitely one of them Yeah, and he's like kind of grumpy in this but like not to a point where it's unlike a book obviously He's still breathing his wife and so he's just I know it's just like a very realistic. Oh

55:09One other thing that I was I was gonna include or not so There he's a side character, but it's of the actor who played Napoleon Dynamite John Header And I completely forgot about this until I was doing research for this There was his big rumor and again sometimes when that we had celebrity rumors back then like before TikTok and stuff I'm like how did this spread But there was this rumor that he died after Napoleon Dynamite and this was like basically the movie that like revealed he was still So fun and a movie basically like ghosty vibes He's the one who's like I can see the ghost Wait, another or another Well, this one that's not confirmed, but I'll confirm thing. Did you see the arm? Whatever it's called the thingy wait Hillary deaf was on it and she was like I think I did Call her daddy. Thank you I was like it's not cold I was gonna say it um Which was like I think I did crash the thing and then they were like oh the premiere. Yeah

56:15All right Kido Kido first you want me to I'll go first because I'm gonna swap mine because I wrote down my bracelets But I got too excited and I talked about them earlier But the other thing that I really did do To make my life cosier is and I don't know close objectives. Don't judge But I deep cleaned my car because again, I want to add the fun things and the views and the like I want to add a Maybe I can't decide if it's gonna be like more cozy or I'm gonna be like no, I want to see this guy of like one of the stained glass Sunroof things that I've seen But before I do all that I'm sorry I'm ready But before I do all that I want to have like a clean slate in the car So I did like a really intense steep cleaning And I just I got in it excited to take something to post office and I was like Like I had like my CDs everything was like dusted and it's not like I don't know I'm not a grossy person, but I just don't know the like to detail the car

57:15I feel like it's something that you have like specifically especially like I pulled out that vacuum like I was going for it Um So I feel like that will make my life cozier and so absolutely another thing I did this week And then I feel like I'm gonna end up talking about car things for like a hot second So if next week I'm with something else new for my car. I will let you know I beat it something and I hung it from the review. Oh I was just thinking about that when we were talking about um the sunroof in my first car and all of that And I had for the longest time like a pink Lay hanging from my mirror and I'm like oh I can't do that now because I feel like it would just bother me But oh it was such a vibe back then And then when you were senior and you got the little graduation tassel to do hang your I was like one of those like don't mess up the beanie baby tag Like you know, I mean so I was like I can't mess up the tassel so I like And look again, where is that tassel at this point? But in my brain I was like I got put it in this box in this thing so I'll keep it forever

58:18I know I got well now I have my masters or grandma. Maybe I'll hold my master's past I'll but you'll it Okay next thing I'm kind of scared of the I can't jump down to me rabbit holes But I feel like zip it down something where you get like the little brine stones and you like Like glue on yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel that in my future at some point too But I'll show you in cozy tech tips you will be able to hear this because there's so many paid listen See okay, I think I talked about this on The pod, but I went to a little book the dazzling workshop and I didn't finish it and I I have a friend She has our book club and she like does a ton and every time she posts on them like I need to do that So that's the inspiration for me to finish my book. So thank you. I need to do that. Yeah, I love that That was a good two percent. Yeah, oh that yes, that wasn't mine for today. I can do mine Yeah, yes for the past. Yeah, yes, yes, yes. So I feel like we do this maybe like once a year and they always tend to come up naturally

59:25so But this time we had a friend join us and we had a little nostalgia night on last Friday And it was kind of cute the way that it came about. So my friend who we invited she because we already kind of made plans to just hang out that night But she posted on a subs deck about how she was craving the after macaroni and cheese. And so I was like, oh my gosh, we need to have that. And so we made it a whole thing. We had the craft macaroni. For me and Jacqueline growing up, our kind of little staple, like quickness, little meal that we had a lot of the time as kids. We, she would have like chicken nuggets, and I would have tequitos, and then we'd have carrot sticks and cucumbers and ranch. So we had that as well. And then we did ice cream sandwiches for dessert. And I haven't had one in decades, but we got Capri-sign, and it was so good and fun. It was pretty much perfect. Strawberry, kiwi. Oh, classic, clarinet. Yeah, so that was really fun. That little throwback and like sticking the straw

1:00:27in the pouch and everything. And then we watched the Lizzie McQuire movie. Love, I need to start watching all this. I've never seen razor voice. Never. Okay, that one's super sad. I've only seen it like once or twice, because it's, oh my gosh. Yes, it's one of the saddest. I've never ever seen the meaning about her singing. Yeah, I guess this happens very early on, and I will like trigger warning you. Yeah. Her brother dies in a car accidently at the beginning of the movie. So it's really about her dealing with the group of them. Yeah, so, it's so interesting. Like what little joy would or wouldn't pick as a kid? And it's like, I bet what it was, is someone was like, it's sad. I was like, no, no. Yeah, I really have only seen it a couple of times because of that. Okay, that's good to know. But I do have a cozy detective 2%. We got this DM that I thought was really sweet and cute. So in our most recent episode,

1:01:27was where I talked about how you and I were, are my 2% were like listening? Yeah. That's what she said. Love your 2% from last week when you listen to old episodes. Yes, that is what it's like to be a cozy detective. And I'll slow you on them. And then also added, I say this as a GG fan who falls asleep to go, my girls, every night, run, don't walk to PBS for all creatures, great and small, which was someone else's percent. It is totally the cozy show ever. So, I love that. That's it. I have a YouTube comment. I can share. Please do. On our Winter Musicals episode, Laura Melissa said, love this episode. Just saw a fan tip on Broadway last month for the first time since I was a kid. So, so incredible. Love it. So good. Love it. I know. Good. With the chandelier actually coming down and everything, it's so, it's honest. All right. Well, thank you for listening.

1:02:28Be sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube at Blink at Fort Files pod. Send us your 2% cosier and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts. Then join us next week in the Blink at Fort because we're going to discuss because you have our favorite 90s things. Oh, that's the same. Yeah, that's the first one. Maybe that's what you thought of the nostalgia. Like it was the most interesting or neat, I think. So, yeah, that's the point. I love it.