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Gossip Girl S2E22 - Southern Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Episode 22 • 27th January 2025 • Non Judging Breakfast Pod • Mithril Chain Network
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Hey there, Upper East Siders and Gossip Girl lovers! This week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve are back at it, diving headfirst into the juicy drama of Gossip Girl Season 2, Episode 22, "Southern Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Get ready as Serena tries to untangle her messy relationship with Gabriel while Chuck and Blair cook up some scheming that could shake things up. And let’s not forget Rufus, whose questionable life choices are leading him straight to financial doom, plus Vanessa’s antics that are raising a few eyebrows. Join our dynamic duo as they unravel the tangled web of lies, love, and the kind of tension that only the elite of Manhattan can create. Expect plenty of laughs, some eye-rolls, and a few moments that’ll leave you scratching your head as they dissect the latest escapades of our favorite socialites!

0:00 - Introduction and Episode Overview

5:30 - Rufus and Vanessa's Awkward Conversations

12:45 - Serena and Gabriel's Complicated Love Story

20:00 - Chuck and Blair's Devious Plans

30:15 - Gossip Girl Closing Narration

35:00 - Fandom Reactions and Episode Ratings

45:30 - Best Outfits and Final Thoughts

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Edited and mixed by Leif Capicola.

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Leif:

Rufus and Vanessa are once again having a way too

Leif:

intimate of a conversation for what the relationship should

Leif:

be. I guess Kelly Rutherford was busy having a kid or

Leif:

something, but she's in the episode.

Leif:

As the scene ends, Rufus tells Vanessa, let's get out of

Leif:

here. God damn it, Rufus. Where are you taking this girl

Leif:

to the same age as your child?

Steve:

That was. Okay, so

Steve:

there's a couple things to break down here, right? Like,

Steve:

Kelly Rutherford was available. And in this episode,

Steve:

at the same time, I. I believe

Steve:

that one of the things that they're really establishing

Steve:

is that Rufus doesn't want to talk to Lily about money

Steve:

things and about money troubles

Steve:

because she always offers to bail him out every

Steve:

single time, and he doesn't like that. Why

Steve:

are you opening up to this child?

Steve:

And again, and even more, the child that

Steve:

just said to you, hey, I'm just trying to spend as much time here

Steve:

as I can before you sell it, because I really

Steve:

like it here. And then you're like,

Steve:

let's get out of here. Where are you going?

Leif:

Hey, Upper east siders and all you scandal loving listeners out

Leif:

there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast

Leif:

pod where the coffee is strong, the

Leif:

waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than

Leif:

ever. My name is Leif, and I'm your seasoned Gossip

Leif:

Girl veteran.

Steve:

And I'm Steve, the newbie, the greenhorn, the, I

Steve:

don't know, Leif. What do we call this season 2 kid

Steve:

on gossip Girl?

Leif:

I'm not sure. But today's lesson is the subways for more

Leif:

people and middle class professionals.

Steve:

All right, well, as long as you're going to triple my investment, you can

Steve:

just take all of my money.

Leif:

Sounds good.

Steve:

So here's the deal, folks. Leaf has been watching

Steve:

Gossip Girl since it first aired, and I'm diving in for the

Steve:

first time. And together, we're your dynamic

Steve:

duo, bringing you all the drama, romance, and

Steve:

sometimes questionable fashion choices of this

Steve:

iconic 2007 series.

Leif:

That's right. Each week we'll be taking a deep dive into the

Leif:

show. One episode at a time. We analyze the

Leif:

hidden parallels and obscure references. Plus, we'll

Leif:

also be touching on all the behind the scenes gossip and some

Leif:

stories from fandom.

Steve:

And, since we're all about inclusivity here at the non judging

Steve:

breakfast pod, there is always room for you at our

Steve:

non judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab a

Steve:

mimosa, some coffee, or maybe some of

Steve:

Chuck's special medicine. And let's go ahead and get this

Steve:

started. Although Nate's the one who who knows

Steve:

where all the dealers in Manhattan are?

Steve:

Apparently.

Leif:

Yes. Well, you gotta be able

Leif:

to pick up wherever you're at, you know, you never know. You never

Leif:

know when you're gonna need it.

Steve:

Oh, yeah, I understand.

Leif:

So, more news on the Blake

Leif:

Lively Justin Baldoni. Baldoni has now

Leif:

filed a lawsuit against, I believe it's the New York Times for

Leif:

defamation of character. So either way we're going to, we're going to have at

Leif:

least, probably two, at least two court cases about this and

Leif:

find out what happened.

Steve:

Yeah. Because where did this start? I thought

Steve:

it did it start from Blake

Steve:

promoting it and they weren't happy with

Steve:

how she was promoting the film. Where

Steve:

is that? Where like the tension, the

Steve:

post movie tension started?

Leif:

I mean, if you're going by the Baldoni

Leif:

side of the story, it's

Leif:

that Ryan Reynolds uses pool

Leif:

to like buddy buddy up to the author who had originally

Leif:

sold the rights to Baldoni, but

Leif:

then the author gave final cut to Blake

Leif:

Lively. All right,

Leif:

and then, and then, and then during the

Leif:

press tour, everyone basically

Leif:

ignored Baldoni. Everyone else on the

Leif:

movie ignored him and did not mention him at all. Unfriended

Leif:

him on social media.

Steve:

Wow.

Leif:

And there was, there was

Leif:

some swirling at the beginning about, about,

Leif:

you know, was it sexual assault? But then the whole

Leif:

groundswell came up against Blake and now

Leif:

they're saying that that was a, ah, whole like

Leif:

coordinated smear campaign. that's what Blake

Leif:

Lively's lawsuits about.

Steve:

Right.

Leif:

So we're going to find out that. But now

Leif:

tabloids and a couple of, I saw a couple

Leif:

of YouTube videos as well are trying to rope Penn

Leif:

Badgley into the situation. Oh, no, since he, he,

Leif:

apparently he knows. He definitely does know both of them.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Data Blake. And he's, you know,

Leif:

sort of, you know, friends. He's met Baldoni a

Leif:

few times and Paladini was on his podcast like over

Leif:

two years ago.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

But there's uncredited quotes from

Leif:

Pedenbagley and like tabloids

Leif:

saying that, you know, he stands with

Leif:

Baldoni. So now Pam Bagley is going to have to make an

Leif:

official statement about this appearance.

Steve:

Yeah. Oh, wow. And yeah, and

Steve:

that's funny because Penn Badgley

Steve:

often also comes across as very

Steve:

anti toxic masculinity. You were talking all, before

Steve:

we started about how Justin Baldoni really,

Steve:

that was his brand. Yeah. That's how he

Steve:

established himself. And so that's

Steve:

really interesting because I've always

Steve:

kind of gotten that impression. I found Penn

Steve:

Badgley also to be pretty pretentious,

Steve:

but I don't think that that takes away from the fact that I feel

Steve:

like he's very much one to listen to

Steve:

women, you know?

Leif:

So enough about that. We're here to talk about

Leif:

Gossip Girl, Season 2, Episode

Leif:

22, Southern Gentlemen Prefer

Leif:

Blondes Original Air Date April

Leif:

27, 2009 and of course, that's, based on

Leif:

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1953

Leif:

musical comedy film starring Marilyn

Leif:

Monroe. Also a stage play and a

Leif:

book. Probably best known for the number.

Leif:

Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Steve:

Yeah. Yes.

Leif:

Carried a lot of places.

Steve:

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Wonderful. See us show up on Gossip Girl.

Leif:

Be a great thing for 100. Episode

Leif:

Episode written by Leela

Leif:

Gernstein. This is her first of seven episodes

Leif:

of Gossip Girl. She was in the writer's room for three years,

Leif:

going from here till 2011.

Leif:

also previously worked on the OC

Leif:

and a show that I liked but not a lot of people watched

Leif:

was Eli Stone. She, followed up

Leif:

this with a few other writing gigs, including,

Leif:

Harlow, Dixie, and, most recently credited as

Leif:

a creator of a hulu show called

Leif:

Saint X that released in 2023.

Steve:

All right.

Leif:

Episode was directed by Patrick R.

Leif:

Norris, back for his fifth episode in the

Leif:

chair. First season did Bad News Blair

Leif:

and High Society. Second season did the

Leif:

Serena Also Rises and It's a

Leif:

Wonderful Life. A, pretty good, well directed

Leif:

episodes.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, this was. This. Yeah,

Steve:

the. The directing was. It was

Steve:

good.

Leif:

Why m don't you give us the Vulture recap?

Steve:

All right, here you go. The characters on

Steve:

Gossip Girl are steeped in problems of, a

Steve:

decidedly 2009 nature

Steve:

problems most New York residents will sympathize

Steve:

with. The real estate bubble, the

Steve:

recession, the actions of a certain imbecile

Steve:

former president, as Dan puts it, are

Steve:

taking a toll on their wallets and their psyches.

Steve:

But these outside forces have not changed their

Steve:

essential nature. Like a variety of magnets

Steve:

stuck in the same force field, these creatures

Steve:

are forced to perform a constant dance of

Steve:

attraction and are repulsed by one another

Steve:

to varying degrees.

Steve:

Ferromagnetic ex lovers Blair and Chuck,

Steve:

for instance, find themselves suctioned

Steve:

together at every opportunity. And though

Steve:

both also feel the pull of Nate

Steve:

Archibald, their connection with each other is

Steve:

decidedly stronger. Georgina Sparks

Steve:

is sucked away from Jesus to lock horns with her

Steve:

arch enemy, Blair. Meanwhile, Vanessa,

Steve:

opts to stay off the force field that

Steve:

is in Brooklyn this episode.

Steve:

So repulsed is she by her encounters

Steve:

with Chuck Bass. Dan does,

Steve:

too, which is a good thing for the writers,

Steve:

as if young Mr. Humphrey were to set foot in

Steve:

Manhattan he would no doubt be propelled towards

Steve:

Serena, thereby disrupting the plot for

Steve:

everyone else and making it their

Steve:

sucky. another sucky episode wherein the real

Steve:

life couple spends the whole hour

Steve:

mooring at one another. And it

Steve:

wasn't a sucky episode.

Steve:

I keep forgetting that they're. They're still together then.

Leif:

Who?

Steve:

Pen and Blake.

Leif:

Yes.

Steve:

Yeah. So he knows her. He knows her

Steve:

pretty well.

Leif:

Yes. We get into

Leif:

Act 1 with the gossip Girl

Leif:

narration. Eventually,

Leif:

every queen finds herself in unfamiliar

Leif:

territory outside the castle walls. In Blair

Leif:

Waldorf's case, the Village.

Leif:

Nate and Blair are walking on the streets of the East Village

Leif:

home, of Blair's future school, nyu. Blair

Leif:

is a bit squeamish about subways and being out of the

Leif:

Upper east side.

Steve:

Yeah. This is when Nate's trying to show

Steve:

her around.

Leif:

And so they decide to time

Leif:

jump over Blair's final interview.

Leif:

A chance to give us one more college interview.

Steve:

Yeah, I. I thought that was an interesting choice. That she's just

Steve:

in now. Yeah, that. That. That Cyrus just pulled

Steve:

the string and she's in.

Leif:

Pardon me. Would have been nice to see Cyrus again, because it's

Leif:

always nice to see Cyrus. But, yeah, I would have

Leif:

liked to see Blair have a composed

Leif:

college interview.

Steve:

Yeah. And. And m. Get it done. And be impressive.

Leif:

Yes. Rufus is taking Dan and

Leif:

Jenny shopping with his real estate money.

Leif:

Rufus is in an ultra happy mood, and Dan

Leif:

spies him checking out an antique engagement

Leif:

ring.

Steve:

So he's got this real estate money that he doesn't

Steve:

have.

Leif:

You get a truck. You get a truck.

Steve:

Because. Because I listed my

Steve:

gallery at more than I thought I could list it

Steve:

at. You didn't sell

Steve:

it yet. You just listed it.

Leif:

Such a dumbass.

Steve:

He's. So that's why

Steve:

you're only somewhere in the millions, Rufus.

Leif:

Yeah. Blair and Serena are discussing their

Leif:

respective love lives. Blair calls out Gabriel as a.

Leif:

As a foreigner and wants to spy on him with Serena.

Steve:

There is zero indication of Gabriel

Steve:

being Southern.

Leif:

You know, he definitely has a southern accent.

Steve:

I. I didn't pick up on it at all. I didn't feel

Steve:

like.

Leif:

It's not an exaggerated one, but I think he. It's

Leif:

definitely there.

Steve:

Yeah, I never. I never picked up on

Steve:

it. I feel like he does a southern accent about as well

Steve:

as Ed does an American accent.

Leif:

Nate and Chuck are, shooting hoops and discussing Blair.

Leif:

Chuck urges Nate to talk to him about her

Leif:

like they used to before everything went down in season one.

Steve:

Yeah. And this is where I'm kind of like, are you working

Steve:

things out, Chuck, or are you making another

Steve:

play or stewing another scheme?

Leif:

I think he was actually genuine at the

Leif:

beginning, but as soon as Nate pushed

Leif:

him about it, he kind of. He's like,

Leif:

okay, yeah, we're going to do this.

Steve:

Yeah, I kind of felt that, too.

Steve:

And I get. I got it from Nate. Like, I

Steve:

understood why Nate was doing that.

Steve:

I don't think he had to. And I think it only

Steve:

made things more uncomfortable.

Leif:

Yeah. But I got it, because I think

Leif:

Chuck. He realized that he could lose

Leif:

Nate this season. He definitely, I think,

Leif:

learned from that.

Steve:

Yeah, I think so.

Leif:

And as we know, he is one of the three things that Chuck actually

Leif:

loves.

Steve:

Yeah, four, but one he can't

Steve:

admit.

Leif:

And, Chuck's athletic wear continues to impress.

Steve:

Oh, yeah, we. Yes.

Leif:

The velour track suit and the fiaschat.

Steve:

Yep. That was actually. Well,

Steve:

spoiler alert. That's going to be my pick today.

Leif:

But I

Leif:

wasn't pressing a good way.

Steve:

I loved it. I thought it was the

Steve:

funniest thing, and I thought it was so chucked

Steve:

that I had to give it a shout out.

Leif:

Mr. Charming, aka Gabriel, is wowing

Leif:

Rufus and Lily with tales of leaving Big Tobacco in

Leif:

favor of a more altruistic

Leif:

pursuits. Gabriel ducks out, but promises

Leif:

Serena that things will be different once this deal

Leif:

is completed.

Steve:

So I did not. The My m.

Steve:

Only complaint in this arc

Steve:

right now. I don't particularly care

Steve:

for the dramatic irony. I don't

Steve:

care to know that this is a

Steve:

scheme before it turns into

Steve:

a scheme. I'm watching him talk

Steve:

to Serena about this, knowing that he's doing this

Steve:

for the. The Vander Woodsen

Steve:

money and that he's going to

Steve:

use Serena to get money for.

Steve:

For either this investment, but more likely to just

Steve:

rip her off. Right. I see this

Steve:

happening. I don't know if I would see

Steve:

it as clearly if

Steve:

I didn't know it was a scheme

Steve:

already. I kind of wish we didn't

Steve:

know that Gabriel and Poppy are working

Steve:

together.

Leif:

Yeah. It just makes Serena look dumb.

Steve:

Yes, it does. Which,

Steve:

yeah, looks like.

Leif:

Blair is outside the building in spyware.

Leif:

Chuck pulls up and becomes intrigued by the charade.

Leif:

They spot Gabriel, exit the building, and hop into a car with

Leif:

Poppy.

Steve:

You met her in front of

Steve:

Serena's house. You had Poppy

Steve:

roll up in front of your girlfriend's

Steve:

house.

Leif:

Yeah. You're just looking to get caught.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Also, there was really bad ADR on

Leif:

the explanation of Poppy.

Leif:

Like, I'm not even sure if it was actually Leighton Meester saying

Leif:

it.

Steve:

Oh, I didn't even catch that.

Leif:

It's probably like a writer.

Steve:

That's funny. I wonder if she said the wrong name.

Leif:

I mean, that was. I mean. Oh, and you mean and then they.

Steve:

And they dubbed it.

Leif:

Yeah, but like, the way I could tell is

Leif:

because the rest of the shot, you could hear the ambience of New York

Leif:

and then just suddenly like that all cuts out and you hear her

Leif:

name.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

we go to a commercial with another Gossip

Leif:

Girl blast. And ah.

Leif:

When a queen discovers her best maiden is with a

Leif:

dragon disguise, the only thing to do is

Leif:

pull up the drawbridge and trap it.

Leif:

And we go into Act 2.

Leif:

The next day, Blair is telling Serena what she

Leif:

saw over the phone. Gabriel walks into

Leif:

Serena's room. However, the scene cuts before

Leif:

Gabriel can give his explanation.

Steve:

Yeah, I. I didn't really have much for this. Just

Steve:

Gabriel. Go away.

Leif:

We shift back to Blair, who is now explaining

Leif:

the situation to Nate. Nate finds out about Blair

Leif:

and Chuck's impromptu spy mission,

Leif:

Says he's fine, but his space guard is telling a different

Leif:

story.

Steve:

It's so funny how often Serena lets Blair get

Steve:

in her head and then doesn't right away

Steve:

here that she's not trusting Blair and

Steve:

Blair's instincts. Despite knowing that

Steve:

Blair calls these

Steve:

things a lot of the time. Like, Blair

Steve:

can sniff out game knows game. So Blair

Steve:

can sniff out a schemer.

Leif:

Yeah, but Serena's in love and

Leif:

dumb.

Steve:

She's a.

Leif:

You know, she.

Steve:

Yeah, she.

Leif:

I mean, she's shiny object. Shiny object.

Steve:

Shiny object. Shiny

Steve:

object. That is inappropriately older than me.

Leif:

Gabriel is explaining to Serena that he is still pretending

Leif:

to be with Poppy because her contacts are the ones propping up

Leif:

his business deal. Serena reluctantly agrees to

Leif:

go along with the plan for one week

Leif:

only.

Steve:

Yeah, and honestly,

Steve:

sirenishative just said call me in a week.

Steve:

Boom. Okay, if you're going to do this, go play your

Steve:

games. Play your games with Poppy

Steve:

and call me in a week.

Leif:

Are you really that horny, Serena?

Steve:

Yeah. Well.

Leif:

Well, yeah, kind of. Kind

Leif:

of because you're written by a

Leif:

man.

Leif:

Actually, wasn't this episode written by a woman?

Steve:

It was, but the character

Steve:

created. Yes, well, created

Steve:

for television by a man.

Leif:

Dan is at the coffee shop explaining his cater

Leif:

waiter job to Vanessa. Vanessa suggests that Dan

Leif:

and Jenny should let Rufus know they support him proposing to

Leif:

Lily. However, Rufus walks through the room having

Leif:

an angry telephone conversation, and the kids

Leif:

decide now might not be the best time.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. Vanessa's right though.

Steve:

Yeah, she had a good episode.

Leif:

I did not mind her.

Steve:

No, I thought she. Yeah, I. There's a scene

Steve:

coming up that she was a part of that. We'll discuss in more

Steve:

detail, but she was fine.

Leif:

Serena is trying on dresses while Blair is trying

Leif:

to convince her to dump Gabriel.

Steve:

He's having her cake and eating it and eating yours,

Steve:

too. So

Steve:

gross. Oh, Blair.

Steve:

But this is, again, like, trust Blair, because,

Steve:

like, just trust her. She can

Steve:

sniff this shit out.

Leif:

Rufus and Vanessa are once again having a way too

Leif:

intimate of a conversation for what the relationship should

Leif:

be. I guess Kelly Rutherford was busy having a kid or

Leif:

something, but she's in the episode.

Leif:

As the scene ends, Rufus tells Vanessa,

Leif:

let's get out of here. God damn it, Rufus, where are

Leif:

you taking this girl to the same age as your child?

Steve:

That was.

Steve:

Okay, so there's a couple

Steve:

of things to break down here, right? Like, Kelly Rutherford

Steve:

was available. And in this episode, at the same

Steve:

time, I believe that one of

Steve:

the things that they're really establishing is that

Steve:

Rufus doesn't want to talk to Lilly about money

Steve:

things and about money troubles

Steve:

because she always offers to bail him out every

Steve:

single time. And he doesn't like that. Why

Steve:

are you opening up to this child?

Steve:

And again, and even more, the child that

Steve:

just said to you, hey, I'm just trying to spend as much time here as

Steve:

I can before you sell it, because I really like

Steve:

it here. And then you're like, let's

Steve:

get out of here. Where are you going? Are you

Steve:

just kicking her out of the place that she has the keys

Steve:

to that, or are you taking her somewhere? Are you

Steve:

going somewhere with her to continue this

Steve:

inappropriate conversation that you already apologized for

Steve:

laying on her?

Leif:

They really needed to cast someone as one of Rufus's

Leif:

bandmates.

Steve:

Yeah, Rufus needs a friend.

Steve:

Rufus just needs a

Steve:

fucking friend.

Leif:

Or, like, a neighbor. Anyone of, age

Leif:

appropriate.

Steve:

Yeah, like Lily has. Lily has

Steve:

Bex, you know, Lilia.

Steve:

Yes, but somebody that she can but bounce

Steve:

things off of. You know, she has a

Steve:

foil that. That Rufus doesn't have, and it

Steve:

always ends up being Vanessa. And it's so

Steve:

weird because there's this

Steve:

part of him that it's almost

Steve:

fatherly to Venessa but

Steve:

lays on her that you don't lay on your

Steve:

kids.

Leif:

Well, I think that's what the actor is trying to get across. But the

Leif:

writing is not helping him out at all.

Steve:

No, never.

Steve:

It never helps when you have a

Steve:

Rufus. Vanessa.

Leif:

The actor chemistry is not romantic, at all. It's just.

Leif:

It's the situations the writers keep putting them in.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Nate is showing Chuck the apartment he is leasing

Leif:

enough in the fall, which is halfway between NYU and

Leif:

Columbia, sort of. Nate tells Chuck to back

Leif:

off, flare. And then proceeds to pee all over the

Leif:

walls.

Steve:

I. I can't blame Nate

Steve:

here. But also.

Leif:

Oh, I can't.

Steve:

I. I get him Being a

Steve:

jealous teenage boy.

Steve:

Right. But also. Calm down, Nate.

Leif:

I mean, jealous is a feeling. Controlling is an

Leif:

action.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

You can't help how you feel, but you control how you act.

Steve:

Yeah, you're right.

Leif:

Chuck steps outside to take a call from Blair.

Leif:

Blair recruits him to help with a takedown of

Leif:

Gabriel.

Steve:

Yeah. And I mean, Chuck and Blair team ups are

Steve:

really the lifeblood of the non judging breakfast

Steve:

club. And those two need to

Steve:

scheme together. They don't all. Even though

Steve:

they can do it platonically. We've seen them do it platonically.

Steve:

But they need to scheme together.

Leif:

And we go to a commercial break. Queen of

Leif:

hearts or queen of heartache? Careful, Bee.

Leif:

Cut off the head of one love triangle and one of your

Leif:

own might grow back in its place.

Leif:

At, Lily's co op meeting slash party, Blair

Leif:

pulls Gabriel aside to bond with him. At the

Leif:

same time, we see Chuck leading Poppy into the building to

Leif:

reconcile with Serena.

Steve:

Yeah. And then they meet and they.

Steve:

Yeah, you can go to the next one. Ah.

Leif:

Yeah. Poppy enters with Chuck and blows up.

Leif:

And she blows up at, Gabriel, who makes a big show

Leif:

of siding with Serena.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And they made that work for them. Pretty.

Steve:

They. They really did. They. They were right on

Steve:

top of it.

Leif:

And really, they definitely outplayed Chuck and Blair there

Leif:

completely.

Steve:

Completely.

Leif:

And impromptu.

Steve:

Yeah. Seemingly. Unless they had a,

Steve:

if we ever get busted, this is what we do plan.

Steve:

But they. But it also had to happen right

Steve:

there. The Poppy investors

Steve:

before that week had to pull out

Steve:

so that he could go to Serena.

Steve:

So I. They basically sped up their

Steve:

timeline.

Leif:

It seems Dan comes home

Leif:

to find Vanessa waiting for him with his six pack and a bottle

Leif:

of vodka. Vanessa reveals her hookup with Chuck.

Leif:

It sounds like she was also going to drop the bomb

Leif:

about Rufus's financial status.

Steve:

Yeah. And she should, because you don't lay that on your

Steve:

kid's best friend. And

Steve:

I had another. I had another. I hope they're not going to bang.

Steve:

And they still haven't. And I'm really glad that they really are just

Steve:

being friends.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And I really want that to continue.

Leif:

Yes. The. The head to head.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Laying down. Head to head.

Steve:

Yep.

Leif:

It was very, very friendly. Very friendly.

Steve:

Friendly. And yeah,

Steve:

again, I thought Vanessa was good in this

Steve:

episode.

Leif:

So there's more signs of Vanessa banking Rufus Than. Than

Leif:

Dan at this point.

Steve:

Like, reluctantly, like, he's my boss.

Leif:

Jenny and Rufus are walking down the street. Jenny is

Leif:

parenting Rufus now.

Steve:

And also Jenny. When was

Steve:

Rufus ever

Steve:

supportive of you? You're like, oh, you told

Steve:

me if I ever want my dreams, I've got.

Steve:

To go get them.

Steve:

No, he told you, stop getting your dreams and come live at

Steve:

home.

Leif:

That was when she was eight.

Steve:

Yeah, when she was eight. Yeah, you can definitely live

Steve:

your dreams as long as it's on my timeline.

Steve:

I was baffled by that

Steve:

interaction.

Leif:

Serena is talking to Gabriel about his future and

Leif:

insists on helping him find new investors.

Steve:

She's such an easy mark.

Leif:

Yeah, the. The tag team. You know, two episodes with

Leif:

Poppy manipulating her to go to Spain, and then.

Steve:

Yeah, she just.

Leif:

They just worked her good.

Steve:

It worked her good.

Leif:

Chuck, clearly spying on the previous conversation,

Leif:

approaches Gabriel. Chuck is fishing for info on the

Leif:

first night Gabriel met Serena.

Steve:

And, good for Chuck for getting his hands dirty and

Steve:

going in for in the most Chuck way

Steve:

possible. Give me the details.

Leif:

Nate surprises Blair by coming to the party. He

Leif:

invites Blair to move in with him, to which she happily

Leif:

agrees. However, Chuck approaches the pair and entices

Leif:

Blair with continued scheming. Gossip Girl

Leif:

quips, sometimes a queen

Leif:

has to make a choice. A castle with the white knight

Leif:

or a quest with a dark prince. So

Leif:

be. What'll it be? Netflix night

Leif:

with Nate or battling a beast with

Leif:

bass?

Steve:

Nate needs to realize this isn't

Steve:

about Chuck and Blair. It's about

Steve:

Serena. And Nate should get

Steve:

involved because Nate does usually get protective

Steve:

of Serena.

Steve:

And he's so in his head about Blair

Steve:

and Chuck that he's now.

Steve:

And like you said before, and he's trying to control

Steve:

this situation and trying to control

Steve:

Blair, and it's leading him

Steve:

to not do what he would ordinarily

Steve:

do, which is rally to help the

Steve:

friend.

Leif:

One track mind. We move

Leif:

into Act 3. We come back from a commercial

Leif:

to see Gabriel once again charming Lillian.

Leif:

Rufus, it looks like Gabriel has at least one new

Leif:

investor.

Steve:

Yeah. And, at least Lily has the sense

Steve:

to say I need to look it

Steve:

over first. Send me

Steve:

the papers. Send it to my assistant.

Steve:

Let me look over it. But yeah, I'm interested.

Leif:

Yes, but you get the sense that Lily is going to do

Leif:

this regardless because she wants the guy that

Leif:

her daughter's dating to be seen as successful.

Steve:

Yeah, I. I totally see

Steve:

that too.

Leif:

She. She couldn't give a. About the actual company.

Steve:

No, no. Or the money she's giving

Steve:

to him.

Leif:

I liked what river said in the earlier scene, what do you say? It's

Leif:

like, like, doing well by.

Steve:

Doing good or something?

Leif:

yeah, I'm sure Bass really cares about that. Bass Industries.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, they're gonna, they, they,

Steve:

they'll build a hotel using the WI

Steve:

fi. Like in the. Using the WI fi

Steve:

money.

Leif:

Serena and Gabriel's celebration is interrupted by

Leif:

Blair, who pulls Serena off to her room. Chuck

Leif:

and Blair fail to convince Serena of Gabriel's

Leif:

deceit. After Serena goes back to the party, Chuck points

Leif:

out that there is only one person that truly

Leif:

knows what happened that night.

Leif:

I think they did a much better job of bringing her in this time.

Steve:

You're absolutely 100% right. But my

Steve:

first watch through at that moment, I'm

Steve:

like, oh, God, no, no, please, no,

Steve:

please do not do this to me again. That's the

Steve:

last time I'm going to say anything bad about her in this

Steve:

episode because I actually agree

Steve:

they did a, far better job this

Steve:

time.

Leif:

Vanessa and Dan are having a pity

Leif:

party. Dubya catches the stray.

Steve:

Former president.

Steve:

Dan is really being a grown up about this, though.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Especially when Vanessa says, do you blame

Steve:

your dad? And he goes through his list

Steve:

of who he's blaming and he's like, not my dad.

Steve:

My dad's probably the only person more upset than I

Steve:

am. So really kudos to Dan

Steve:

for how he's handling it.

Leif:

He should drink more. It takes that, takes the edge off.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Back at the party, Rufus pulls Gabriel aside and

Leif:

demands to be let in on the investment.

Steve:

Rufus, stop fighting so hard

Steve:

to pay for a scam.

Steve:

He's so offended. And,

Steve:

I felt like Gabriel really was like.

Leif:

He felt bad about it.

Steve:

Yeah, I felt like Gabriel, which is.

Leif:

Interesting, interesting kind of wrinkle.

Steve:

Well, I think Gabriel and Poppy are trying

Steve:

to rip off a bunch of people who can

Steve:

afford to be ripped off, who will never miss the money

Steve:

and never think anything of it. And now here's

Steve:

Rufus handing over his life savings and his

Steve:

life's work. And Gabriel actually is

Steve:

like, oh,

Steve:

dude, you don't want in on this.

Steve:

And he's like, stop looking down on me. This is how life

Steve:

works. He's like, fuck, if I don't take

Steve:

his money, I'm going to look like a huge

Steve:

asshole and I'm going to screw this up.

Steve:

yeah. So I did feel there was a moment of

Steve:

conscience.

Leif:

Yes.

Steve:

From Gabriel, that it is a matter of we're going to just

Steve:

rip off a bunch of rich fucks who will never know this

Steve:

money's gone.

Leif:

Which is which is nice. He's not just a cartoon villain.

Steve:

Yes. And he's, to an

Steve:

extent. What's the word I'm looking for? He's

Steve:

almost. If any of this

Steve:

scheme is true, it's almost Robin Hood,

Steve:

like, you know, to take it from

Steve:

taking these. This money from these rich people to

Steve:

invest into something else. But I don't think there's an

Steve:

investment.

Leif:

They're clearly just taking the run.

Steve:

They're just going to take the money and run.

Leif:

Yeah. And he's. It's not like he was poor or anything.

Steve:

No, no.

Leif:

Nate reluctantly agrees for Blair to go on another

Leif:

mission with Chuck instead of going to look at the new apartment,

Leif:

which is, of course, code for taking a ride to

Leif:

pound town.

Steve:

I liked Blair here asking for

Steve:

his trust and being like, look,

Steve:

you. You can't control this all the time.

Steve:

You're going to have to trust me. And he gave her

Steve:

that. He gave her that trust.

Leif:

And now I want to see Doretto wearing a Mets hat.

Steve:

Facts. Also,

Steve:

I. It's funny because in an earlier

Steve:

episode, the captain was talking about taking him to a Yankees

Steve:

game, so I've always assumed it was

Steve:

a Yankees fan. Now we're learning he's a Mets fan.

Leif:

I think he's just a sports fan.

Steve:

That's. I, would, I would agree. But the fact that

Steve:

it's that the Mets play almost every day,

Steve:

almost three, you know, three days a week, usually

Steve:

at home. So if he goes to games that

Steve:

regularly, I'd think that that'd be more his team.

Steve:

But you're right. I do believe that he is just an all around sports

Steve:

fan. He likes sock.

Leif:

It looks like Chuck and Blair off to talk to Georgina

Leif:

Sparks. We go to the commercial with

Leif:

another Gossip Girl narration.

Leif:

Get off your brooms, kids. We're off to see the wicked

Leif:

witch of the Upper east side.

Leif:

The next morning, Chuck and Blair wake up in the back of a

Leif:

limo, which is parked out in the woods. Oh, look,

Leif:

they're holding hands. We've got bullets flying

Leif:

everywhere this episode. And Nancy Pelozzi catches

Leif:

one. As Chuck explains, he didn't really need Blair to

Leif:

be there at all.

Steve:

Nancy Pelosi air.

Leif:

I like how they both have their, like, little kits.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

For cleaning up Blair.

Steve:

You can't ask for trust and then fall

Steve:

asleep cuddled up in a limo. And then

Steve:

when Chuck gives you his whole

Steve:

speech at the end, you can't fall for

Steve:

his because you were falling for his shit

Steve:

in. In that moment. Her reaction of being frustrated

Steve:

when he left. Yeah, Blair, you asked

Steve:

to Be.

Steve:

To.

Steve:

For trust. So be.

Leif:

Be worthy of it.

Steve:

yeah. Be trustworthy.

Leif:

Chuck finds that Georgina has traded in boot camp

Leif:

for Jesus camp. Omjc. M.

Steve:

I. I'm gonna say I liked Michelle

Steve:

Trachtenberg a lot more this

Steve:

episode. I like Georgina Sparks

Steve:

more the. This scene. Initially it was

Steve:

like when she. Chuck Bass. I was about to be

Steve:

like, oh, no, no, no. And then

Steve:

instantly, like when she started, like where

Steve:

this episode takes her and her character

Steve:

right now, where it. Where we're seeing her

Steve:

at.

Steve:

I really liked it. I really like it.

Leif:

They're leaning into the zany.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

Serena and Gabriel are lying in bed, basking in

Leif:

the afterglow. Serena catches Gabriel in a lie

Leif:

about the night at, butter and immediately peaces

Leif:

out. She's got to go.

Steve:

Yeah. maybe next time catch him

Steve:

in a lie before you bang just your

Steve:

post coital. Maybe I shouldn't trust him.

Leif:

It's such a weird situation because, like, he is with Poppy

Leif:

still and she's like, totally cool with this, I guess.

Steve:

Oh, yeah, because he's. Yeah, I guess

Steve:

she is. Yeah, that. Sorry,

Steve:

babe. I'm gonna have to bang Serena just to keep

Steve:

this thing up. I, won't. I won't be able to keep it up. Well, you know,

Steve:

because they were banging in Spain, so. She already

Steve:

knows.

Leif:

Yeah, she knows from the. I think it was planned from

Leif:

the start.

Steve:

Yeah, she left on purpose, I believe. I think

Steve:

that that's why she.

Leif:

Yeah, the whole. Yeah, the whole thing was to seduce him.

Steve:

Yeah, she's. She kind of knew he'd have to

Steve:

be banging Serena as part of this plan.

Steve:

She's cool with it.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Poppy open.

Leif:

She likes that money.

Steve:

She likes the money more. Yeah. More than. More than

Steve:

the, loyalty.

Leif:

Back at the camp, Georgina explains to Chuck how

Leif:

she found Jesus. She also confirms that Serena

Leif:

and her were not Butter. That the night before the SATs,

Leif:

I.

Steve:

Found her to be more likable and believable.

Steve:

And I. I liked the. I liked

Steve:

Chuck calling our. On the. You're here

Steve:

so that your parents don't send you back to

Steve:

boot camp, essentially, which, I really do

Steve:

believe is the case. But I

Steve:

again thought that she was at least likable that

Steve:

she puts on this front.

Leif:

Well, they're making her a new character for the

Leif:

TV show Down before. In the first season.

Leif:

They try to go with the book version, which was like a cross

Leif:

between Serena and Blair. It's like the charisma of Serena

Leif:

with the scheming of Blair.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And she just doesn't have that charisma of Serena.

Steve:

No, she does not.

Leif:

But she could be the crazy friend that just does

Leif:

crazy stuff.

Steve:

Yeah, she can be the wild card.

Leif:

Yeah, she's the joker.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Steve:

And again, already I like her more.

Leif:

Now that Serena's gone. Poppy busts in and

Leif:

hops on top of Gabriel. It was a scheme all

Leif:

along.

Steve:

Wha. Again, I wish we didn't

Steve:

already know. Because we knew.

Steve:

Yeah. Surprise.

Leif:

Serena calls Chuck and lets him know that he and Blair

Leif:

were right about Gabriel lying, but she doesn't know

Leif:

why. Chuck discovers that Blair took his limo.

Leif:

Huh? And Gossip Girl has this to say.

Leif:

And eventually a queen realizes that a

Leif:

dark prince only has one thing on his mind,

Leif:

and it ain't slaying dragons.

Leif:

So she takes her pumpkin carriage and

Leif:

goes back to the castle.

Steve:

Respect Blair for. For seeing

Steve:

through the scheme at that point and then leaving, being

Steve:

like, nope, I'm not dealing with this shit. Take me out of here.

Leif:

And we go into the epilogue. At

Leif:

Gabriel's hotel. He and Poppy realize Serena is on to

Leif:

them by. When listening to a voicemail from Serena,

Leif:

who says she is coming back.

Steve:

She's a idiot.

Leif:

Rufus, not Serena, knocks on Gabriel's door

Leif:

to drop off his check for the investment.

Steve:

You idiot. I wanted to come here and give it to

Steve:

you in person. Go.

Steve:

All right.

Leif:

Will, er go to Nate's apartment to apologize for going

Leif:

off with Chuck.

Steve:

I felt like Nate was pretty adult here in

Steve:

a lot of it. I felt like his. I. What

Steve:

I liked is that he came clean and was like,

Steve:

Look, I was jealous. I was trying to

Steve:

control the situation. Trying to control you. I'm

Steve:

sorry. I. I thought that he was

Steve:

maybe not adult, but he was being self aware in

Steve:

that moment.

Leif:

Fair. But yeah. Yeah. it was already done.

Steve:

No. Well, I mean, yeah.

Leif:

In Brooklyn, Rufus wakes up Dan

Leif:

with a couple of mugs of coffee and a dad

Leif:

talk. However, Jenny comes in with the ring

Leif:

Rubus had been eyeing previously.

Steve:

This was sweet. But he offers to pay them

Steve:

back. And with what? Rufus, you

Steve:

just got schemed of all your money.

Leif:

Well, he doesn't know that yet.

Steve:

He's so confident right now.

Leif:

Things are gonna be great, man. Trip. Triple

Leif:

that money. And what money? What money is he

Leif:

tripling?

Steve:

the. I.

Leif:

He sold the record.

Steve:

Sold the. Yeah. Which also

Steve:

go on tour, release a new album.

Steve:

Go on tour. There's a market.

Leif:

I mean, releasing a new album's easier said than done, but

Leif:

there's clearly a.

Steve:

Market for Lincoln Hawk. Right? So he could

Steve:

go on tour, boost the value of his

Steve:

catalog again. And you're right that doing an

Steve:

album is hard. More than it. Harder than it sounds. But it can

Steve:

be done. You know, go on the road. Go on.

Leif:

Took him 17 years to write one song.

Steve:

Okay, well,

Steve:

yeah.

Leif:

he also makes chili.

Steve:

He also makes chili

Steve:

and waffles, but Jenny's sick of the

Steve:

waffles.

Leif:

When Georgina finds out Blair was at the camp earlier,

Leif:

she decides to join Chuck for his cab ride back to the

Leif:

city. A dope beat drops as Gossip Girl

Leif:

closes out the episode.

Steve:

Yeah, I like that. I like oh, Blair.

Steve:

And again, the. The needle

Steve:

drops.

Leif:

The song. No, it's the same song from

Leif:

when they did I killed someone.

Steve:

Oh.

Leif:

the kills. You are a fever.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah, I remember now. Good

Steve:

throwback. Yeah.

Leif:

We close with a Gossip Girl monologue.

Leif:

Oh, dear queen, heed the words of a

Leif:

king. Look like an angel, talks like an

Leif:

angel. The devil in disguise.

Leif:

Of course, reference to the Elvis song.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

So what's coming next?

Steve:

I mean, Georgina's about to go head to head

Steve:

with Blair. Blair's trying to

Steve:

figure, you know, they're going to. Man, there's

Steve:

so much about to happen because the scheme's going to come

Steve:

unfolded. I think we may have skipped the part where

Steve:

Poppy comes running back in and

Steve:

says to Serena, oh, my God,

Steve:

like, I'm, I can't believe that Gabriel

Steve:

just packed up everything and left. So there is the question

Steve:

of is this again part of the

Steve:

scheme, or is Poppy now

Steve:

getting double cross. Getting. Doing a double cross,

Steve:

or did she get double crossed? So, like.

Steve:

So there is that bubble up

Steve:

in the air. I just know one thing's for sure. Rufus broke.

Leif:

At least he's got a rich girlfriend. Rub is.

Steve:

Yep. His rich girlfriend is gonna.

Leif:

And his kids already bought him a ring.

Steve:

Yeah. The thing that he can't pay

Steve:

back that he's gonna need to borrow money from his

Steve:

rub. His fiance, to pay it back to his kids.

Leif:

He said he's gonna give him a check. It's gonna bounce.

Steve:

From my dad.

Leif:

Go ahead and get into some segments.

Leif:

This week in fandom. we jumped into the wayback

Leif:

machine to check out the television without pity forums from

Leif:

2009. Hello there,

Leif:

Peabody here. And this is the wayback machine

Leif:

for traveling through time. And this is my boy

Leif:

Sherman. Speak, Sherman.

Steve:

Hello.

Leif:

Good boy. The biggest sentiment,

Leif:

Rufus.

Steve:

Bless your heart,

Steve:

but that's your heart. Oh.

Steve:

Oh, sweetie, you fought so hard for

Steve:

this.

Leif:

They like the Serena's taking an active role in her

Leif:

defense this season.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Sorry. I mean, at the end.

Steve:

At the end.

Leif:

Yeah. Ah. I think they might also. They also, they

Leif:

have seen the promo for next week, so they, they. I think they have

Leif:

some insight what's happening next week. I have

Leif:

not weirdly rooting against Rufus and

Leif:

Lily and hoping the money situation will blow them up for

Leif:

good.

Steve:

I mean, that tracks for the fandom. They're ruthless.

Leif:

Before Nate was just dull. Now he's a creepy

Leif:

asshole in addition to still being dull.

Steve:

Yeah. I'm hoping that Nate learns from this

Steve:

and is less creepy and controlling

Steve:

in the future. I'm hoping that this is just a knee

Steve:

jerk reaction to a situation and that

Steve:

he gets over this.

Leif:

So you think Nate and Blair are going to last then?

Steve:

I don't care if they do. I just,

Steve:

I didn't. I got the sense she was upset. I

Steve:

don't get the sense that she's necessarily ready

Steve:

to leave, but I think that it just kind of makes her

Steve:

torn a little more.

Leif:

Multiple people pointed out that Columbia has a requirement

Leif:

for freshmen to live in the dorms.

Steve:

Most colleges do,

Steve:

of course. Yeah, Here's m.

Steve:

here's my dorm that I am paying for

Steve:

and then here's the apartment I'm living in.

Leif:

Also, Murray Hill doesn't exactly

Leif:

make sense geographically.

Steve:

I don't know where Murray Hill is in relation to the two.

Leif:

So I did look at the map. Murray Hill is like

Leif:

midtown east of Bryant Park.

Leif:

NYU is, like southwest of the

Leif:

island, and Harlem is

Leif:

northwest. Or I mean Columbia is just south of

Leif:

Harlem. Northwest. The island.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

So they're both on the west side, but Murray Hill's on the east side.

Steve:

Yeah. And Blair hates Murray Hill.

Leif:

Yes. Georgina's

Leif:

entry was better than, the season last. People are

Leif:

excited to find out what she does when she gets back to nyc.

Steve:

Yeah, I'm, I'm actually intrigued about

Steve:

her right now.

Leif:

Let's move on over to episode

Leif:

grades. I thought this was a

Leif:

pretty good episode. They got

Leif:

almost everyone of the main cast

Leif:

into the same room at the party. The only ones not there

Leif:

were Dan, Vanessa, and Jenny.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And that, that's. So that's the only thing keeping it from an

Leif:

A. I just gave it an A minus because they couldn't

Leif:

get Dan involved.

Steve:

Yeah, I, I gave it a B plus.

Steve:

And I think the thing that really hurt it for

Steve:

me, as I mentioned way earlier, is

Steve:

the. Is the use of dramatic

Steve:

irony to let me know this was a scheme

Steve:

before it was unfolded as a scheme.

Steve:

I didn't want to know it was a scheme.

Leif:

I mean, A minus, B plus. Pretty close. So.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

On over to stockwatch. Going up.

Leif:

I had Gabriel and Poppy because their

Leif:

scheme seems to be working. Dan

Leif:

because, he was just,

Steve:

Was a good brother.

Leif:

Good, good, son. Jenny, for the same

Leif:

reason she was, you know, good, good sister and a good

Leif:

child. Severfus daughter. And

Leif:

also Chuck is, he definitely out schemed Nate

Leif:

on this one.

Steve:

Yeah. so I also had Gabriel and

Steve:

Poppy for. For the same reason that their scheme seems to be

Steve:

working. I also had Chuck

Steve:

because he outmaneuvered

Steve:

Nate in this and he

Steve:

just sort of kept his cool the entire

Steve:

time. I had Georgina going up for not

Steve:

sucking the way she did the last time she was

Steve:

on. I also had Jenny going up for

Steve:

being a sweet daughter. I did not have Dan going up because

Steve:

he also found out he's not going to Yale.

Steve:

Fair enough.

Leif:

Going down, I had Serena.

Steve:

Yep. Rufus.

Leif:

Obvious reasons we've already talked about. Lily because

Leif:

she also is getting played. And Nate for being

Leif:

a creepy, controlling.

Steve:

Yeah, I had Rupus and Serena

Steve:

both going down. I didn't. I did not have

Steve:

Lily because I don't think

Steve:

that, any investment she makes will be anything that

Steve:

she misses. I don't think this is

Steve:

gonna. I think she just bought it. She'll buy a sandwich with

Steve:

the money, so I don't think it'll affect her as much as it will

Steve:

Rufus.

Leif:

And, she also basically gave the endorsement

Leif:

for all those other people that are going to lose money as well.

Steve:

Oh, that's true.

Steve:

Okay, send her down. Yeah, because that's

Steve:

like, that is her stock is how. Oh,

Steve:

Lily. Fuck. Yeah. That's

Steve:

all I had going down. I left Nate in the middle.

Steve:

He was a controlling asshole. But I'm a Nate.

Steve:

Stan.

Leif:

Moving over, to best outfits.

Steve:

But here's the best outfits from M.

Steve:

The last episode we

Steve:

seen.

Leif:

For me, it was Chuck's purple suit with the purple

Leif:

bow tie and a pink shirt.

Steve:

And I also had a Chuck outfit. Mine was

Steve:

the velour tracksuit that he wore to play

Steve:

basketball. with the ascot to

Steve:

match. I loved that athletic wear.

Leif:

Anything to plug this week?

Steve:

Well, mostly just you can find me if it's

Steve:

still around. You can find my TikTok at Steve

Steve:

Marshon. that is also my Instagram.

Steve:

M A R C H I O N. And then you can find

Steve:

me at the Weed wizard on Blue

Steve:

Sky. And I don't really have

Steve:

much else that I'm promoting at this

Steve:

very time.

Leif:

For me, I am going to recommend the new Dexter

Leif:

original sin series. the casting is

Leif:

phenomenal.

Steve:

I've heard that It's.

Leif:

And you still, you still got Michael C. Hall, doing

Leif:

the. The inner monologues.

Leif:

So that. That's great. And

Leif:

the prologue of the first episode

Leif:

picks up right as new, blood was

Leif:

ending.

Steve:

Oh, and I haven't seen new blood either. Oh,

Steve:

yeah.

Leif:

Do you know what happened?

Steve:

No, really, it's all Paramount. I

Steve:

don't have.

Leif:

Anyways, if you want to follow me on social media, you can find me

Leif:

on Instagram and on Blue Sky. I'm at

Leif:

Hot Capicola. That's H O T C A

Leif:

P I C O L A. And

Leif:

if you want to follow the podcast, we're on

Leif:

Instagram TikTok threads at Non

Leif:

judging Breakfast Pod. And if you want to check out

Leif:

our Patreon, our Discord server, just Visit our

Leif:

webpage www.nonjudging

Leif:

breakfastpod.com.

Steve:

And if you'd like to send us an email and get in touch

Steve:

with us, we'd love to hear your thoughts and read them on air.

Steve:

Our email is non

Steve:

judgingbreakfastpodmail.com

Steve:

please. Also, while you're listening, give us a

Steve:

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Steve:

or leave a comment. All of those things really

Steve:

boost our visibility, especially in Apple

Steve:

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Steve:

tell a friend what you're listening to get other people

Steve:

listening. Tell people about the Non judging breakfast

Steve:

podcast. Make us the water cooler talk every

Steve:

week.

Leif:

And we will be back next week to Talk about Season

Leif:

2, Episode 23, the Wrath

Leif:

of Con, spelled C O N.

Leif:

That's clever. Yes. The Max

Leif:

episode description reads Blair Pressures

Leif:

Georgina.

Steve:

All right. Yeah, I'm here for it. I'm here to see those two

Steve:

go toe to toe with, Georgina

Steve:

2.0.

Leif:

Well, until then, you know you love us.

Steve:

Xoxo.

Steve:

Every time you walk away run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away M you take a

Steve:

piece of m me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

oh, it seems I'm walking right to

Steve:

your door.

Steve:

My heart's.

Steve:

Still resting looking for something

Steve:

more.

Steve:

Are.

Steve:

You ever gonna see everything you mean to me?

Steve:

I'm trying really hard to believe

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Never feels right when I'm out here on

Steve:

my own

Steve:

I left last night and it feels like

Steve:

way too long

Steve:

Are you ever gonna see everything you mean

Steve:

to me? I'm trying really hard to believe

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a piece

Steve:

of meat with you there?

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away, you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there?

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there?

Steve:

Come back to me

Steve:

smile and you'll make my life

Steve:

complete?

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there?

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there?

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there?

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there?

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away and run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away, you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there.

Leif:

Anything exciting happen this week?

Steve:

Go Birds. The Eagles are

Steve:

going on to the, to the playoffs

Steve:

next week.

Leif:

Playing the Packers.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Rematch of week one.

Steve:

Yeah, I was thinking about that. That someone's. That

Steve:

someone's season is about to end the way it

Steve:

began. I'm super

Steve:

confident because we have a fantastic

Steve:

team, but I'm not going to be too cocky because Greene Bay also

Steve:

has a great team.

Leif:

They got a little banged up today.

Steve:

Did they? Greene Bay?

Leif:

Yeah, it's like, the receiver, Christian

Leif:

Watson's almost definitely done for the year, and

Leif:

love, hurt his throwing arm as well.

Steve:

Oh, no way. Although how many times are we going to

Steve:

hear love hurts between now?

Leif:

Love hurts,

Leif:

Love sinks.

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