Reese Witherspoon

Hello, 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.

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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

Joy 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

Yeah, 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

You'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

A 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

But 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

Okay, 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

Explaining 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

and 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

That 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

It 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

Yeah

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

But 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

They'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

I 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

With 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

Um, 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

I 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

She 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

Like 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

I 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

I 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

Mainly 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

And 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

Yeah, 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

Grease 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

was

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

Yes, 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

Alabama

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

Oh, 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

I 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

But 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

Also

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

I'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

Yeah, 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

um

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

In 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

looking

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

Yeah, 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

Yeah, 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

Hogi 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

She'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

Whoa, 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

And 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

Oh

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

I 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

I 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

In 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

They 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

Yeah, 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

Okay, 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

And 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

And 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

One 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

All 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

I 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

I 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

so

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

in 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,

was 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.

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Oh, that's the same.

Yeah, that's the first one.

Maybe that's what you thought of the nostalgia.

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So, yeah, that's the point.

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