The Chicken Sisters - S01E08 - The Best Chicken in Town, Y'all (Hallmark+ - 2024) ft. Jacklyn Collier

[00:00:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Hi, I'm Bran and I love The Chicken Sisters. Hi, I'm Jax and I like The Chicken Sisters. Hi, I'm Dan and I despise The Chicken Sisters and this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast. Deck The Hallmark, it's this podcast. And friends host this podcast. We hope you like this jolly podcast. Wow, hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of Deck The Hallmark. Merry Christmas. You're happy to be here.

[00:00:39] [SPEAKER_04]: We need to be in the Christmas season right now, Bran. It's great. Between The Groomsmen and The Chicken Sisters. All Christmas movies all the time. You know what I mean? You know the nice thing though is Dan is a lot of people think that Christmas movie magic is only a game for Christmas and I say why should that be the case? You can play it with anything. You can play it with The Groomsmen, you can play it with The Chicken Sisters and you can have a lot of fun. Our amazing producer Aaron Shea was sick this week and we hate that but the silver lining of her sickness, sounds terrible, was...

[00:01:10] [SPEAKER_04]: She is now 100% in love with the Christmas movie magic game. Am I wrong? 100%. It's the best. And... You want to turn her mic on so she can set up? Oh yeah, sorry Aaron, hi. What?

[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I was just saying, yeah, that card game kept me company. I've been watching a lot of Hallmark Christmas movies and even movies I've seen a dozen times locked in.

[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I am trying to figure out if Lindy Booth is drinking hot cocoa or hot coffee in Rocky Mountain Christmas.

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Is this thing separating you from two points? That's right. What in the world is in that mug? What you got in that mug? I need to know what's in that mug, Lindy Booth.

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. I need to play this card.

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_03]: And also Patrick Serrano said at the marathon, it's a great, it's like solitaire and I thought that was a bit much.

[00:01:52] [SPEAKER_03]: I thought maybe he had gone to hyperbole with talking about all the great things you could do with this game.

[00:01:57] [SPEAKER_03]: But it turns out I'm wrong. As per usual, you need to get the game is what I'm saying.

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_04]: We're really excited for people to get their paws on this sucker and start playing with it.

[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a lot of fun and it wasn't going to be available to the public until next week, but it's out now.

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_04]: It's out right now? It's out right now. Unbelievable.

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_04]: You can go to Amazon and get a copy of Christmas Movie Magic right now.

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right. Digthehomer.com slash game. It'll bring you right there.

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_04]: And we're really looking forward to people playing it and letting us know what you think of it.

[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Because I think it's a lot of fun, Dan. Fantastic.

[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Jax, hi. Merry Christmas.

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Merry Christmas. I feel like I need to redeem myself because Dan wiped the floor with me in that game.

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't want to bring it up, but we also played it during Take It to the Tape with a decom.

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_03]: We took out the specifically Christmas cards.

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_03]: So there's cards in there that are like, there's a wrap gift or a shopping bag.

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Those aren't specifically Christmas cards.

[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_03]: You can play this game without it being a Christmas movie.

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_03]: We did it then and I won then. So I'm undefeated.

[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm still mad about it.

[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm undefeated at Christmas Movie Magic.

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_03]: So I don't want to say anything, but since you brought it up, Jax, thank you so much.

[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Undefeated at Christmas Movie Magic.

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_04]: But Jax, you're in the game industry.

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_04]: So for you to say that it's a good game, I think it's pretty high price.

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_01]: It is a great game.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_01]: And I just have a follow-up question.

[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_01]: So Aaron, one, I hope you're feeling better.

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_01]: It sounds like the way you said she's been sick is like she was out for weeks.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I saw her just a mere few days ago.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_01]: She's been out pretty much all week.

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_03]: She's been out pretty much all week.

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_03]: I know.

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_03]: She'll come in and she'll do her producer duties.

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, she's been, you know, skeleton crew here this week.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_04]: I tried to tell her to come home or stay home.

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Dan was insistent.

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_03]: I was kind of upset when she wasn't here when I opened the door this morning.

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_03]: It was like, where's my coffee?

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_03]: With a donut?

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_03]: With a parlor donut?

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Right, because she knows that you need the straw in the coffee.

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_01]: She does, yeah.

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Is that right?

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_03]: I was scrambling on Monday.

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_03]: I'll say that much.

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't know what was going on.

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Dan's the Frank Jr. of the office.

[00:03:51] Okay.

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_04]: He just says, I am.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_03]: This is all good fun.

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_03]: How dare you?

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Don't slander my name.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_03]: How dare you?

[00:03:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Don't slander it.

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_01]: No, because Dan is all about taking down the patriarchy.

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_01]: And he's self-aware.

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_03]: I just need a straw in my coffee delivered to me in my recliner.

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you very much.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_03]: It does.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_03]: You got to admit, it does sound like something just.

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't sound great.

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't sound great.

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Frank Jr. might.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_04]: I expect that.

[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_04]: That's all I'm saying.

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Jax, are you missing Greenville yet?

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm missing Greenville.

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm missing you guys.

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I got a little sad when I was thinking about the end of the Chicken Sisters, and I was

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_01]: like, wait, Deck the Netflix.

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Deck the Netflix is coming.

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_04]: And there's some doozies this year.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_04]: We're really looking forward to.

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Hot Frosty?

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Hot Frosty, baby.

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_01]: She's not too old for Netflix.

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you that.

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_04]: You said it.

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Deck the Netflix preview show coming up, I believe, is next week, which we're really

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_04]: looking forward to.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_04]: There's a handful of movies, and we're going to talk about them and all that good stuff.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_04]: It's going to be a lot of fun.

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_04]: And hopefully, Jax, we don't have to wait much longer for you to come back to Greenville

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_04]: because it's wonderful.

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_04]: And of course, yeah, that Greenville, Visit Greenville is our location sponsor all holiday

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_04]: season long.

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_04]: And as a reminder, if you want to be like Jax and witness the magic of Greenville, come

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_04]: on down.

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_03]: An actual hallmark town during the holidays.

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_04]: You would say that that's true.

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_01]: 100%.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the thing.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I am like a New York City gal thrown through.

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I love it here.

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_01]: But this is what I told the guy in the plane who was telling me how magical Greenville is.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, I love it in Greenville.

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, I wouldn't move there permanently, but I would stay for months at a time.

[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I love my friends there.

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_01]: I love the community there.

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And I just think it is an adorable, adorable town that still feels like there's enough

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_01]: going on, but it has all the charm of the big town, but with the excitement of a city.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you get it.

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_04]: That's a great sell.

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_04]: You and Alex are considering getting your, I believe it would be your fourth home.

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Your fourth home.

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_04]: It's all that Bubbly's has money.

[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_01]: All that Bubbly's has money rolling in.

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_01]: And we've got one in the south of France.

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, of course.

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_01]: A flat in London.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Flat.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Our apartment in New York City.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_04]: This is why you're keeping Alex from Greenville from coming down and visiting and spending time

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_04]: with us because you don't want him to get hooked on Greenville.

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, you know that he would.

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_03]: You now, and no word on if you're going to be here for the deckeys, which we're going

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_03]: to sell tickets to at some point, I'm sure.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_03]: You now come down here twice a year already.

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_03]: You have two standing appointments to be in Greenville.

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_03]: So, I mean, it's pretty much, it's getting to the point where you're going to need

[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_03]: a place.

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, if we would do the in-between.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_01]: So, for example, if next year we knew for sure I was doing the marathon and then the

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_01]: deckeys, wouldn't it make sense just for me to stay on through?

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, for the holidays.

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you basically get to stay for the holidays.

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Deckeys is January 18th.

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Which is really when Greenville thrives.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_04]: I know people say that New York thrives at Christmas.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no.

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_03]: You don't want to, you know, you want to Greenville for Christmas.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Not New York.

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Not New York.

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just worried about Alex's love of Bran is very intense.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, he gave $100 twice just so he could have Bran take off his shirt for the Blitz.

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_01]: So that bromance, I don't know if I stand a chance with that.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_01]: That's true.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_04]: That's true.

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_04]: It doesn't mean that you guys can't still have a happy, thriving relationship.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_01]: That's true.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it kind of does.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_01]: With your bromance.

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, just like, you know, just know that I get to hang out with him on Tuesdays and

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Thursdays.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_04]: You get the rest of the week.

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_04]: That's more than generous of you.

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_04]: I know.

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm being super generous.

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_04]: It's mainly I have kids.

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_04]: That's true.

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Like, my kid, I can't miss more than two days.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_04]: But I think that this is more than fair.

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_04]: All that to say, Greenville, South Carolina, they're going to love this one.

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Come on down.

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a lot of fun.

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Are we ready to dive into the Chicken Sisters?

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_04]: I would love to, Bran.

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Chicken Sisters, the season finale.

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Episode 8.

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Should have been called A Little Bit of Chicken Fried is what it should have been called.

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_03]: It was not called that.

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_01]: That's good.

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_01]: A Little Bit of Chicken Fried, y'all.

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_04]: So the IMDb title is just Gaslight, I think, is what it's called.

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_04]: But the episode on Hallmark Plus is called The Best Chicken in Town, Y'all.

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, my gosh.

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_04]: It's just bad.

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_04]: The best chicken in town, y'all.

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_04]: You're making it bad on purpose.

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll see.

[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_04]: And it went a little something like this.

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_04]: We see the arguments that led to the breakup of Franny and Mimi way back when.

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Franny's husband said that he was the father to Mimi's child.

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_04]: But Mimi insists that that can't be so.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_04]: So Franny decides to run the business with Sherman, her husband.

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_04]: And Mimi, turns out, was telling the truth all along.

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_04]: It wasn't Sherman that fathered the child.

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_04]: The father of the child sends Mimi a letter with some money saying, I can't be around.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_04]: I can't be a father.

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_04]: And so with no one around to help her, Mimi gives the baby up for adoption and starts a new business of her own.

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_04]: We then see Frankie, in present day, discover that letter in a box of family stuff.

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Cut to Amanda and May in the hospital finding out that their mom has MS.

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_04]: I know about your MS.

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Know about your MS.

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Which she wanted to keep under wraps, but this is ultimately what ended up causing her fainting.

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_03]: And they find a way to get her wherever she needs to go in that wheelchair with no problems.

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_03]: They do.

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Open access.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_04]: It's fully accessible.

[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_04]: They understand how important that is.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_04]: And they do what they need to at any given time.

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Accessibility favors all of us, and they get that.

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Including those with MS.

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_03]: This Hallmark Plus is where this show aired.

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_03]: That's right.

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Purely fictional situation where Gus is in a wheelchair with MS, and they make sure that that doesn't keep her from enjoying all the benefits of being a human being that everyone else gets.

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_03]: That's right.

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Which is for a full 42 minutes.

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_03]: You'd love to see it.

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Which I thought was really bold and brave.

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Really nice.

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_03]: It was really nice.

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_03]: It was good stuff.

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_04]: The question now is where is Gus going to live now that her house is burned down?

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_04]: She overhears Kenneth telling May that Gus is welcome to live at the inn.

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_04]: But Gus is a proud woman, so we'll see how that goes.

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_04]: We see Nancy is getting rid of a bunch of Frank Sr.' stuff, finally.

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_04]: She calls Amanda to check on Gus, and she fills her in on what's going on, and they both say that they love each other, and that was sweet.

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_04]: When she gets home, Amanda accuses Frank Jr. of calling the health inspector, which he denies, and he comforts her while also trying to continue to turn her against her family, saying that he bets May knew about the MS.

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_04]: May knew about the MS.

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_04]: May didn't know about the MS, and also didn't know that her old TV show isn't doing so well until she gets a phone call inviting her to come back and co-host Sparkle.

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_04]: They need her.

[00:10:57] [SPEAKER_04]: They want her back, and the network is going to pay big bucks.

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_04]: And it's at this point that May tells Gus, and Gus tells her that she's proud of her.

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Just then, Frankie comes in and shows Gus and Nancy the letter that she found about the story at the beginning of the movie, and Nancy's like, I can't believe that someone would lie about having an affair.

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_04]: And Gus is like, that's crazy.

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_04]: No way.

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_04]: And then she's like, thank God I kept all that stuff.

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Maybe hoarding is good.

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_04]: And then they go into a little joke, a little fun.

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you could have missed out on this.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Whatever.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_04]: It's time for the competition.

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Do you remember the TV show?

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_04]: The Kitchen Clash.

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Kitchen Clash.

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, sometimes I stumble over my words there.

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_04]: To start, the final, Frank Jr. shows up, and he's immediately up to his nonsense.

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_04]: He goes and basically admits to Sergio about calling the Department of Health, and Sergio goes to punch him.

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_04]: But Frank Jr. swerves.

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_04]: It's called the swerve?

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_04]: The old bob and weave.

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_04]: It's called the weave.

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_04]: And Sergio hits a wall and breaks his hand.

[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_04]: And so he can't cook fried chicken.

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Can't do that.

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Amanda comes to her senses and realizes that Frank Jr. and all of the men in this family have been doing this type of nonsense forever.

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_04]: And so she goes and she joins Team Mimi's.

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_04]: And so does Nancy.

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Mama Nancy.

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_04]: What?

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Seems pretty clear that they're going to win.

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Except, uh-oh.

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_04]: This is her house.

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_04]: She knows where all the boards are squeaking and whatnot, so you're not allowed to stay here.

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm staying.

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_04]: He just kind of mopes around for a while until Nancy goes and tells him that she thinks that they should split the money with Mimi's.

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_04]: And maybe, you know, like, join forces or something.

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_04]: And he opens up about how he didn't want a son to begin with.

[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_04]: And that's why he got the vasectomy.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_04]: And all the men in this family are just giant disappointments.

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Womp, womp, womp.

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Amanda tells Sergio that she doesn't want to jump into anything.

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_04]: And he doesn't handle that very well.

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Gus decides that she is going to sell Mimi's because she doesn't have any money.

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_04]: She was relying on that $100,000 to come in.

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_04]: And as they're packing up, Shauna comes in.

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Great Shauna.

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_04]: And says, we know her name now.

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't expect her to be a character that really mattered, but she really does.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_04]: She comes in and she says that she wants to invest in the Chicken Sisters.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_04]: A new restaurant.

[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_04]: These two restaurants combined into one.

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll call it the Chicken Sisters.

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Mae is like, we need a lot of money.

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Shauna pulls up her bank account and shows that she's filthy rich.

[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Shauna says, it's not every day that you get to come in on the ground floor of a franchise.

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_04]: We're starting off with two locations.

[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Franny and Mimi's will both be called the Chicken Sisters.

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_04]: And it'll be wonderful.

[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Nancy tells Gus that she wants her to come and stay with her.

[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Gus says that she'll think about it.

[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_04]: But, you know, she does end up moving in there.

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Everybody sits down for a nice meal except for Frank Jr.

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Where is Frank Jr., you might be wondering.

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Frank Jr. is with Mr. Chicken and they're going to start their own restaurant, Boys Against Girls.

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_04]: And that, my friends, was the Chicken Sisters.

[00:14:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Season 1, Episode 8.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_04]: The best chicken in town, y'all.

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_04]: We did it.

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's take a quick break.

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_04]: We will come back and we'll break this episode down here on Deck the Hallmark.

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Man, I can't believe there's sirens in New York City.

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_03]: That's crazy.

[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_03]: It's unbelievable.

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Is Jack's recording outside?

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I had it muted when Bran was giving his lovely synopsis.

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And then as soon as I took it off, it's, guys, it's tough here.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I got to move to Greenville.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Hallmark heard somebody was.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you never have these problems.

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Somebody was treating, never mind, I'll stop.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_03]: No, please don't stop.

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_03]: You get it.

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_03]: You get it.

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_03]: You understand what I was going to say?

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I do know.

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm right there with you.

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_04]: We hate to be brought into a lawsuit.

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what you're talking about.

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a three.

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm talking about the chicken sisters.

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Same.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Same, same.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_04]: I am, too.

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, everybody is.

[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_04]: A quick reminder, everybody.

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_04]: We're about to head into the weekend.

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_04]: New movies all weekend long.

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_04]: And you can watch them all on Philo.

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Philo.tv.dth.

[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_04]: And then all of our reviews next week will be available, the video version of the show,

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_04]: exclusively on Philo.

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_04]: So come join us.

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_04]: How about tv slash dth?

[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_04]: Come join us.

[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_04]: It's going to be a lot of fun.

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_04]: And we only got to open up the dumb Hallmark Plus app one more time.

[00:16:09] [SPEAKER_04]: That's it.

[00:16:09] [SPEAKER_04]: That's it.

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Until, well, there's T-Guard, Unholidays, Unwrapped, Cherry Lane.

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_03]: So what you said is just not true.

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_01]: But I think it'll be Christmas themed.

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Did you say we're also going to cover celebrations?

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Celebrate good times.

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Come on.

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think we're going to cover.

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_04]: I think it's going to be Dan exclusive.

[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_04]: It's Dan exclusive.

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a watch along.

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_04]: He watches Lacey.

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_03]: I watched an episode while we ate wings or something pizza in here.

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_03]: And you don't listen.

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_03]: I do my best to bring joy and to give an honest opinion without hurting anybody's feelings.

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_03]: You don't want any part of me doing celebrations.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, it was shit.

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_04]: You were watching and you kept saying, she's too old for this.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_04]: She's too old for this.

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_04]: And I was like, hey, man.

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, man.

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Back off.

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_04]: That's too much.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Still not as bad as you calling me Frank Jr.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_03]: But also.

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_03]: I guess.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, boy.

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_03]: We're having fun, aren't we?

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_04]: We are.

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_03]: It's Kindness Club, Brandon.

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_03]: That's right.

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Kindness Club.

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to understand it.

[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_03]: 7 a.m., five-year-olds learn to be kind to each other.

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_03]: You'd love to see it.

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Here's a joke.

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's get to the Chicken Sisters, the season finale.

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_04]: It's been a fun time.

[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_04]: It's been a crazy road.

[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_04]: A road we didn't expect to go down and enjoy it as much as we have.

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_04]: But how did the season finale do it for us?

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Are we excited for more?

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Are we asking for more?

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_04]: That's all that we're going to discuss here on the hot take.

[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_04]: And I'll kick it over.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_03]: This is so much better than we are.

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_03]: What are you doing?

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_03]: That was excellent.

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_03]: That was like such a great tease.

[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Like we're doing a promo on a radio.

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Like what in the world's happening right now?

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it felt like it was written down, but it was a very natural.

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Normally you just kick it over, but that was like, boy.

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Jax, Jax, go.

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Boy, howdy.

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so I always knew Shauna was going to be a star of the show.

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_01]: But you guys didn't remember her name.

[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, guys, Shauna.

[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, I was really excited about lots of things in this episode.

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_01]: There were a couple things I weren't excited about.

[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll touch on those quickly.

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Is Sergio punching the wall?

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Like I know it has to happen so that everything unfolds, but I hated it.

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I hated that he punched the wall.

[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_01]: He looks like a buffoon.

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_01]: The fact that he would do that, it actually does seem out of character.

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_01]: I hated it.

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_03]: This man carries around a blanket and a pillow in his truck.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_03]: All of us born.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_03]: I just think maybe Sergio is that volatile, prone to expressions of big emotion that we

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_03]: don't want him to be.

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_03]: And maybe he's also a dude she shouldn't be with.

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, when you put it like that, when you put it like that, the second thing that

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_01]: really, okay, you know what?

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I thought I just had a Frank Jr. problem.

[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_01]: I think I have a Sergio problem.

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I hated his reaction to her being like, I'm not ready to marry right now.

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_03]: I've been with the same dude for forever.

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe it's a no for me right now.

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Sergio doesn't look great in this episode.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't look great at all.

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he looks great.

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_04]: I think we can all agree.

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_04]: He looks great, but he doesn't look great.

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_01]: But he doesn't look great.

[00:19:10] [SPEAKER_01]: But I will say so much of this episode that I absolutely loved.

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, there's these really heartfelt moments where we really get to see Amanda express to

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Mama Nancy how much she loves her and relies on her when she calls her to tell her that

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Mama Gus has MS.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_01]: When she says like, I wasn't staying for him.

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I haven't liked being his wife for a long time.

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I love you.

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Like all these emotional moments.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And then look how much fun when we get to see our four leading ladies all on the same

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_01]: side together having fun, being funny, getting along.

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_01]: It's gosh darn adorable.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_01]: And then, of course, like I love teenage love.

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm excited about this little romance that might be happening between Frankie and

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Lindsay.

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Wait, did I make that up?

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_04]: No, I picked up on that.

[00:20:02] [SPEAKER_04]: Dan looked to me like he's...

[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_04]: 100%.

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_04]: I think maybe you weren't paying attention during a scene because it was pretty clear the way

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_04]: that Frankie responded.

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_04]: And they shook hands.

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, but then the narration over top of it explains heartbreak and the lump in her

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_04]: throats.

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I know.

[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_01]: I know the problem.

[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_01]: The reason it resonated with me is because it talked about the monologue that she had

[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_01]: been doing, the Chekhov monologue, and how she finally understood what it meant.

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_01]: And I think Dan probably wasn't invested in this monologue.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_03]: I probably wasn't.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_03]: I know.

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_03]: I definitely wasn't invested in the monologue, but still should have probably picked up

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_03]: on that.

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_03]: So my bad.

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_03]: You good?

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_03]: That's Jack's axe.

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm good.

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_03]: That's what you need to say.

[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_01]: I have a couple sessions still left if anyone wants to book in.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_04]: So a wonderful season of television.

[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_04]: I felt like this series could have used 10 episodes in a season.

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_04]: I felt like this episode was trying to do a whole lot and wrap up a lot of storylines

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_04]: because you never know if you're going to get a second season.

[00:21:03] [SPEAKER_04]: And so we got to do all these things.

[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_04]: So like introducing MS, do it a lot.

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Like, just like, here's the competition.

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Here's the end of Sabrina's arc.

[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_04]: She did it.

[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_04]: She's really come.

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_04]: I just felt like they were really trying hard to wrap up everything.

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_04]: And I don't really think that they needed to do that.

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Or they could have just used a couple more episodes because I felt like they were just

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_04]: trying to do so much in eight episodes.

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, I've been trying the best that I can to be like, hey, this whole like hoarding

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_04]: storyline is not bothering me as much as everybody else because I do feel like-

[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Are you coming on over?

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I feel like everybody's different and everybody's unique.

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_04]: And so just because she's maybe not responding exactly how a class action lawsuit or whatever

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_04]: it is, a class B or C or whatever.

[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Level three or four.

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Level three.

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Doesn't mean that it's not like everybody's a little bit different.

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_04]: And so she seemed so good in this episode.

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Like, not bothered at all about the fact that she lost all of her things in a fire.

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_04]: And actually, the fire isn't even what caused the fainting to begin with.

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_04]: It was the MS, which I actually just recently, I read a lawsuit and I learned that that is

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_04]: something that could happen with MS is like balance loss or fainting.

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_04]: So people say don't read lawsuits.

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_04]: I say you can actually learn a lot from them.

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_04]: And so I learned that that is something that can happen.

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_04]: But they just like, it just felt like, yep, that's good.

[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Like, she's even like joking about-

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Like all of her stuff.

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_03]: It's embarrassing for everyone involved.

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_04]: So that was unfortunate.

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_04]: But, you know, and then the competition, I just felt like was such an afterthought in

[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_04]: the show.

[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_04]: And I kept forgetting that it was actually the crux of the show to begin with.

[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Like, was that there was this competition and the competition was so bad.

[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_04]: So bad.

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Like they said, we're going to-

[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Would have been a 30 minute special on Food Network.

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_04]: We're going to have the town votes and a blind taste test to see which chicken they

[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_04]: really like more.

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_04]: And I was like, yes, that's a great idea.

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_04]: But then Sabrina goes, but the only vote that really matters is Mr. Chicken.

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_04]: And I was like, for what reason?

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_04]: You're taking all the way it was here in your hot take brand.

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_04]: But because this is what, this is, it was tough because there's these things that

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_04]: happen in this episode that make it to where it just seemed like, hey, if we just

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_04]: had a little bit more time, we could have made this a lot better.

[00:23:35] [SPEAKER_04]: So I just felt like it was a bit of a overstuffed, rushed season finale, unfortunately.

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_04]: But I'm still here for season two.

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_04]: And overall, I thought the season was really solid.

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Dano?

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Definitely had a classic.

[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_03]: We want to hedge our bets and we want to create a season finale that could serve as

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_03]: a series finale if it needs to, but also leave you with a cliffhanger.

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_03]: And they're caught in betwixt in between there.

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_03]: And that was unfortunate.

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Here's what I'll say.

[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_03]: The good news is, is that I should have.

[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't, on my best day, think that when we started the Chicken Sisters, the overarching

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_03]: theme was going to be a dismantling of the patriarchy.

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_03]: And it was.

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_03]: It was more important than anything.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_03]: It was more important than Southern culture.

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_03]: It was more important than family dynamics or drama or mental health issues or anything

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_03]: else.

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_03]: The number one agenda of this season of television was talking about women helping women, women

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_03]: defying preconceived and pre-described and prescribed gender roles, doing all the things

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_03]: that they are capable to do because they're human beings.

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_03]: And that was awesome.

[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_03]: For that reason, you're out.

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, it was awesome.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_04]: That was awesome.

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_03]: That was amazing.

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to steal my good friend Alonzo Duraldi's words when he talked about Barbie

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_03]: and said, well, it's feminism 101, but unfortunately we need feminism 101.

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_03]: That's what this show was.

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_03]: And if you couldn't read the subtext of literally everyone abandoning Frank Jr.

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_03]: And in my opinion, also Sergio, because every dude on this show is, is terrible because he

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_03]: is representative of something bigger at play here.

[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_03]: And I thought that the show nailed that.

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Having said that, everything Bran said, I agree with.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_03]: The fact that we just forget about the hoarding plot line altogether was laughably embarrassing.

[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_03]: That, that we just all of a sudden have a show where this woman was, had a clear mental

[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_03]: illness and then now she doesn't, she's moved on to MS.

[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_03]: I, I, I, I couldn't, if wind calls the heart had done that, I would have spent 20 minutes

[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_03]: talking about how bad the show was.

[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_03]: So I can't let chicken sister slide on that when they did the same thing.

[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, best case scenario next season starts with, uh, Gus opening up her door in the room

[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_04]: that she has in Nancy's house and it's just full of stuff.

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Maybe.

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_04]: And you see that, you know, just lighting your house on fire is not, I still hate that, but

[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_03]: I guess that is the best case scenario for that particular plot line.

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_04]: I've always said the best case scenario is that still sucks.

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Is that your mental illness never goes away.

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_04]: That's a, that's what, not what I'm saying here.

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_04]: I was just saying for the show.

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, correct.

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_03]: And also I, I hated, um, there's a couple of things within there that I hated that I'll,

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_03]: I'll leave for the wait.

[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_03]: What?

[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, but I, I hated the fact that we got rid of that storyline and then I hated kitchen

[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_03]: clash by the end of the show.

[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_03]: And I, I, I can't believe I'm saying this out loud.

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_03]: I just, Rekia Bernard's character was the character I didn't want to watch the most,

[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_03]: uh, of the characters that I was pulling for.

[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_03]: She was the one that I just felt like I love that she quit at the end of this, but it was

[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_03]: fairly unrealistic.

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_03]: And also I just was like, let's get the reality crew out of here.

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's get them out of here right now.

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Having said that, I started to really love May by the end of this.

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_03]: I think Jay is, is a very redeemable, uh, uh, partner in this, in this episode and in

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_03]: this television program.

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's a good guy.

[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Jay is a great guy in this.

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_03]: We're looking for good boys.

[00:26:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:26:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I also believe that the town coming together, someone that's trying to hide the fact that

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_03]: she has an ailment that gives her a disability and the town coming together and making sure

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_03]: that that disability and her accessibility didn't change.

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_03]: They didn't blink about it.

[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_03]: You don't hear anyone talk about the wheelchair after they say, you got to go in a wheelchair.

[00:27:14] [SPEAKER_03]: You don't hear it.

[00:27:14] [SPEAKER_03]: She's in a wheelchair and all these scenes.

[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Nobody says a word.

[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_03]: They just do it because accessibility helps everyone.

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_03]: It helps everyone.

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Accessibility for people that need it get helped accessibility for people that don't need it

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_03]: also get helped.

[00:27:27] [SPEAKER_03]: And the way that they handled that in this show is something that I would like to see

[00:27:32] [SPEAKER_03]: reflected in real life.

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Bring it back to you.

[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks, Dan.

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, it's time for all the feels is where we talk about what in this episode gave us feels

[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Jax.

[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Guys, here we are again, where, where your hot takes gave me feels.

[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, thank you both.

[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, okay.

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to, I'm going to start with a gross feels.

[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Lance a boil with a pocket knife.

[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Is that something people do?

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_03]: My friends, I have, uh, had a giant blister when I was eight years old, lanced with a

[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_03]: pocket knife before.

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, so there was plus involved.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.

[00:28:08] [SPEAKER_03]: You asked me, I'm telling you.

[00:28:09] [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no.

[00:28:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I genuinely want to know.

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Like boys love pocket.

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_03]: It was people in the South.

[00:28:15] [SPEAKER_03]: They love it.

[00:28:15] [SPEAKER_03]: I still to this day in my, in my Chevy blazer, Evie keep a leather man.

[00:28:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Like I keep a thing.

[00:28:22] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know why.

[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think I've ever had use for it.

[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_03]: But if you were like, I need something to open a bottle of wine or lance a boil, I have

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_03]: something in my car that, and I used to carry it on my person at all times.

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm embarrassed to say that out loud.

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_03]: So there you go.

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_01]: No, no.

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you, it might come to that because I, while I haven't had a boil, um, I had

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_01]: a wart that I removed before I came down to Greenville next time.

[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Who knows?

[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_01]: They grow back.

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_01]: I might need you to lance that off for me.

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_03]: I have wart freezer in my blazer.

[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm just kidding.

[00:28:50] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't have one.

[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Can you imagine?

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_03]: If I had compound W in my blazer, it was like, I got it.

[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Don't worry about it.

[00:28:56] No problem.

[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_03]: That's something that you would have in your pickup truck, but not in your electric vehicle.

[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:29:01] [SPEAKER_03]: I've got to, I've got to make room there.

[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_04]: Everyone knows you lost your man card when you switched from your truck to your EV.

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_04]: I miss my truck.

[00:29:07] [SPEAKER_04]: What the Southern gentleman do you think you are?

[00:29:09] [SPEAKER_03]: I love my EV.

[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_03]: It is what it is, guys.

[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_03]: I am who I am.

[00:29:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Sorry.

[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_01]: You got to start carrying that wart freezer for me.

[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Loved when Gus tells May that she's proud of her.

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_01]: It was a beautiful moment.

[00:29:22] [SPEAKER_01]: And then punctuated by the little funny thing that she was like, looks like those fan incident

[00:29:26] [SPEAKER_01]: checks are going to keep rolling in.

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Like they can't stay in that for too long, which I really, really loved.

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And then, you know, I had super turned on feels when Shauna goes up and says, Mr. Chicken,

[00:29:36] [SPEAKER_01]: my name is Shauna Beth Faye, self-proclaimed Forbes 30 over 30.

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And then they had this electric chemistry.

[00:29:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Love that moment.

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And fine.

[00:29:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, two more.

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Two more.

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Because I thought it was so good.

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Leah Thompson, we are always talking about what your daddy would do.

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe we should have thought about what your mama would do.

[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Get it.

[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Patriarchy.

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And then finally, okay.

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_01]: When Mr. Chicken was saying about Frank Jr., nevertheless, he persisted.

[00:30:02] [SPEAKER_01]: It was a quick cut to Lindsay and the look on her face.

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't overdone at all.

[00:30:07] [SPEAKER_01]: It was just kind of like, are you kidding me?

[00:30:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Really well played by that actor.

[00:30:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:30:12] [SPEAKER_01]: So I really, lots of fun feels this episode.

[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm really excited for hopefully this season too that I really, really hope that we get.

[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:30:21] [SPEAKER_04]: You nailed a lot of them.

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_04]: I did really like the moment at the end.

[00:30:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Jackson isn't going to take your weight what, but I'll be danged if she's not going to take

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_03]: your all the feels.

[00:30:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[00:30:30] [SPEAKER_03]: That's right.

[00:30:30] [SPEAKER_03]: He just rifled through a half dozen.

[00:30:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:30:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Sorry.

[00:30:36] [SPEAKER_04]: No, no.

[00:30:36] [SPEAKER_04]: They were all, they were all really good.

[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_04]: I really liked the moment at the end where they all sat down at the table and Frank Jr.

[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_04]: was noticeably missing.

[00:30:45] [SPEAKER_04]: And I thought that the song was really nice.

[00:30:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Crowded table by the high women.

[00:30:49] [SPEAKER_04]: I thought it was a perfect song choice for that moment and that montage at the end.

[00:30:53] [SPEAKER_04]: I thought it really worked.

[00:30:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Dan?

[00:30:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:30:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Two of mine.

[00:30:55] [SPEAKER_03]: One of mine was taken by Jax, but I will repeat the line because it's the hardest I've

[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_03]: laughed all season.

[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, Shauna says she introduces herself and says self-proclaimed Forbes 30 over 30, which

[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_03]: is fantastic that the, just the line delivery, everything about that is perfect.

[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_03]: It's a perfect line delivery by perfect character.

[00:31:16] [SPEAKER_03]: And I laughed really, really hard.

[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_03]: And then my favorite scene was Nancy insisting that Gus live with her, um, actual chills.

[00:31:24] [SPEAKER_03]: A lot of people, uh, like to run, uh, with the out of context verse, love your neighbor

[00:31:31] [SPEAKER_03]: as to what they think it means.

[00:31:33] [SPEAKER_03]: That's your mortal enemy.

[00:31:34] [SPEAKER_03]: And you're like, no, I'm going to, I'm going to, you need to live at my house.

[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_03]: That was awesome.

[00:31:40] [SPEAKER_03]: I got actual chills from that moment.

[00:31:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, do I have some qualms with how we got Gus to that moment?

[00:31:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Sure.

[00:31:46] [SPEAKER_03]: But that moment was awesome.

[00:31:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Great moment of television.

[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_03]: And it really worked for me.

[00:31:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Dan, I have to say when, when, when Gus said that she's never had that before and mama Nancy

[00:31:57] [SPEAKER_01]: doesn't get all sentimental.

[00:31:59] [SPEAKER_01]: She's like, well, it's about time you do.

[00:32:00] [SPEAKER_01]: And I was, that's, that's when it got me.

[00:32:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_03]: It's about time you do.

[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:32:05] [SPEAKER_03]: It's just the right thing to do.

[00:32:07] [SPEAKER_03]: It's not anything else.

[00:32:08] [SPEAKER_03]: It's just, this is what needs to be done because it's the right thing to do.

[00:32:11] [SPEAKER_03]: It's not about me.

[00:32:12] [SPEAKER_03]: It's not about anything else.

[00:32:13] [SPEAKER_03]: It's just, I have the ability to help someone in need.

[00:32:17] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to do it.

[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll wait until next season when Gus is fully reliant on Nancy for everything.

[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_04]: We're going to take a quick break.

[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll be right back here on Deck the Home.

[00:32:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Everybody, Chicken Sisters episode.

[00:32:36] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm Bran.

[00:32:38] [SPEAKER_04]: That's Dan.

[00:32:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Jax is here.

[00:32:39] [SPEAKER_04]: We're having a lot of fun.

[00:32:40] [SPEAKER_04]: It's time for the Wait What?

[00:32:41] [SPEAKER_04]: This is where we're talking about what in this episode made us go Wait What?

[00:32:44] [SPEAKER_04]: I'll kick it over to you, Jax.

[00:32:46] [SPEAKER_01]: I only have one and Dan's right.

[00:32:48] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm never going to take anyone's Wait What?

[00:32:51] [SPEAKER_01]: My Wait What for this and I actually was like angry about it.

[00:32:54] [SPEAKER_01]: But we see Frankie Jr.

[00:32:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Frankie.

[00:32:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Frankie Jr.

[00:33:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Frankie J.

[00:33:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Frankie J.

[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Doing her audition for Juilliard or NYU or Yale.

[00:33:07] [SPEAKER_01]: I forget which famous school she's auditioning for.

[00:33:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Do you guys remember?

[00:33:12] [SPEAKER_04]: No.

[00:33:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Juilliard.

[00:33:13] [SPEAKER_01]: One of the big Juilliard.

[00:33:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:33:15] [SPEAKER_01]: And.

[00:33:15] [SPEAKER_04]: No.

[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_04]: NYU.

[00:33:17] [SPEAKER_01]: NYU.

[00:33:18] [SPEAKER_04]: I would have remembered Juilliard.

[00:33:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Thought it through.

[00:33:20] [SPEAKER_04]: It's NYU.

[00:33:20] [SPEAKER_04]: NYU.

[00:33:22] [SPEAKER_01]: And it cuts to her mama and Lindsay in the audience being proud of her.

[00:33:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, was that a great moment?

[00:33:28] [SPEAKER_01]: And did they act very well?

[00:33:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

[00:33:31] [SPEAKER_01]: This is an audition.

[00:33:32] [SPEAKER_03]: You cannot do that.

[00:33:33] [SPEAKER_01]: You cannot do that.

[00:33:35] [SPEAKER_01]: And I was a little bit like.

[00:33:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I would have loved to have that moment of like either like the audition.

[00:33:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Then she comes out and she like just gives a nod.

[00:33:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Not even like I got in, but like I did a good job and they hug her or something.

[00:33:45] [SPEAKER_01]: But that was, I was just, they did such a good job of her actually being a good actress

[00:33:51] [SPEAKER_01]: when it comes to that monologue.

[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Picking a lovely monologue and then ruining it with them being in the audition.

[00:33:58] [SPEAKER_01]: No, thank you.

[00:33:59] [SPEAKER_04]: The NYU people would have been like, who's that?

[00:34:02] [SPEAKER_04]: What's going on?

[00:34:03] [SPEAKER_04]: This is not open.

[00:34:04] [SPEAKER_04]: What's happening?

[00:34:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Is this a closed?

[00:34:06] [SPEAKER_03]: It's not a closed audition?

[00:34:07] [SPEAKER_03]: It's not a closed audition.

[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_03]: What if it was just a, everyone was in there.

[00:34:10] [SPEAKER_03]: It was packed.

[00:34:11] Yeah.

[00:34:12] [SPEAKER_03]: And that makes more sense at least.

[00:34:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Actually, no, that actually wouldn't make more sense to me because they do these things

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_01]: for grad school auditions called Erdas where actually a bunch of people watched our audition.

[00:34:21] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's like, I could have gone with that, but just seeing the two of them in there,

[00:34:24] [SPEAKER_01]: like this precious little thing, I was like, look, I expect this from Hallmark linear,

[00:34:29] [SPEAKER_01]: but not Hallmark class.

[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Classic Hallmark linear.

[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:34:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Classic.

[00:34:33] [SPEAKER_04]: You all can show up and you can share as long as you want to.

[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_04]: But at the end of the day, Mr.

[00:34:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Chicken's going to be the one that decides if you're in or not.

[00:34:39] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:34:39] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[00:34:44] [SPEAKER_04]: No.

[00:34:44] [SPEAKER_04]: It's been like your syntax.

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_04]: He judges everything.

[00:34:47] [SPEAKER_04]: I've got a few.

[00:34:49] [SPEAKER_04]: One, Sabrina finally gets fed up and she's ready to speak her truth and tell everybody

[00:34:54] [SPEAKER_04]: that she quits and all this stuff.

[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_04]: But she delivers most of this after she takes off her microphone.

[00:35:05] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:35:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:35:06] [SPEAKER_03]: That's tough.

[00:35:07] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, that's tough for the folks at home.

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_04]: They're like, what's she saying?

[00:35:10] [SPEAKER_04]: You had an opportunity there.

[00:35:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Something about her daughter?

[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Just maybe leave the microphone on until you've done burying it all out there.

[00:35:22] [SPEAKER_04]: The worst part of this, though, was her trying to convince us that kitchen clash is hard to say.

[00:35:30] [SPEAKER_04]: It's fundamentally not hard to say.

[00:35:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Listen, I have a real hard time talking.

[00:35:34] [SPEAKER_04]: What?

[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_04]: And I think everybody knows that.

[00:35:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Kitchen clash is not hard to say.

[00:35:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Right, Jax?

[00:35:40] [SPEAKER_01]: What about when you throw on ultimate kitchen clash?

[00:35:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Ultimate kitchen clash.

[00:35:45] [SPEAKER_01]: No, still easy to say.

[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of hard consonants there.

[00:35:48] [SPEAKER_03]: It's not.

[00:35:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Kitchen clash.

[00:35:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Kitchen clash.

[00:35:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're right.

[00:35:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Ultimate kitchen clash.

[00:35:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Easy.

[00:35:52] [SPEAKER_03]: It's one of the easy.

[00:35:53] [SPEAKER_03]: It's easier than diners, drivers, and dives.

[00:35:57] [SPEAKER_03]: It's pretty easy.

[00:35:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:35:58] [SPEAKER_03]: You know.

[00:35:59] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[00:36:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Next Food Network star.

[00:36:02] [SPEAKER_03]: These are all easy things to say.

[00:36:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Great British Bake Off.

[00:36:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Great British Bake Off is harder to say than ultimate kitchen clash.

[00:36:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Great British Bake Off.

[00:36:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:36:09] [SPEAKER_01]: But more fun.

[00:36:10] [SPEAKER_01]: It is more fun to say.

[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_04]: And just a more fun show.

[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Lastly, they tease this for just a second.

[00:36:17] [SPEAKER_04]: And I guess we'll see if they do anything with this.

[00:36:19] [SPEAKER_04]: But Amanda ends this episode by casually drawing a comic of chickens.

[00:36:25] [SPEAKER_04]: And I don't know if we're going to do anything with that next year.

[00:36:28] [SPEAKER_04]: If she's going to be like put out her zine and it ends with a comic about chickens.

[00:36:32] [SPEAKER_04]: She's doing a comic strip about chickens.

[00:36:34] [SPEAKER_04]: It's just a full chicken comic.

[00:36:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Is that going to be her new thing?

[00:36:38] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_04]: But they don't.

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Erin.

[00:36:40] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm excited.

[00:36:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[00:36:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Hi, Erin.

[00:36:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Her drawing chickens is a huge part of the book.

[00:36:44] [SPEAKER_00]: So it is.

[00:36:44] [SPEAKER_04]: She does draw chickens.

[00:36:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:36:46] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a part of this.

[00:36:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it'll come back.

[00:36:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, great.

[00:36:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Comic strip?

[00:36:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Does she do chicken comic?

[00:36:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Because she draws a lot of chickens throughout the season.

[00:36:54] [SPEAKER_03]: But in this.

[00:36:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:36:54] [SPEAKER_00]: No, she's drawing like a book.

[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay.

[00:36:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:36:57] [SPEAKER_03]: That's what happens at the end of the episode.

[00:36:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this was like a chicken with like a speech bubble, which I thought was reserved

[00:37:04] [SPEAKER_04]: for chicken of the week.

[00:37:05] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, her son Gus, who doesn't exist in the show, sends her her drawings off to art

[00:37:09] [SPEAKER_00]: school for her.

[00:37:10] [SPEAKER_04]: How about that?

[00:37:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Good to know.

[00:37:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:37:13] [SPEAKER_04]: There you go.

[00:37:14] [SPEAKER_04]: She gets in NYU.

[00:37:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:37:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Wouldn't that be funny?

[00:37:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:37:18] [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't make it, but maybe you can get it.

[00:37:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Dan.

[00:37:20] [SPEAKER_03]: They do this thing where Jay, May's fiance or boyfriend, I don't remember which, is starting

[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_03]: to love Maranac and which is hilarious in general.

[00:37:31] [SPEAKER_03]: I just, the idea, this is my, maybe the least favorite part of the show is as grown

[00:37:35] [SPEAKER_03]: up in these small towns, my whole life.

[00:37:38] [SPEAKER_03]: The idea that this like 35 year old Middle Eastern man comes to this town of just all white

[00:37:45] [SPEAKER_03]: people and he's like, I've never felt like I fit in anywhere more in my life is really,

[00:37:49] [SPEAKER_03]: really funny to me in general, even if they're, they may be wonderful people, but that idea

[00:37:53] [SPEAKER_03]: where literally no one looks like you or talks like you or anything.

[00:37:56] [SPEAKER_03]: And you just are like, this is my, these are my people.

[00:37:59] [SPEAKER_03]: This is my place.

[00:38:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Really funny.

[00:38:01] [SPEAKER_03]: But in the, in part of his journey where he finds out white small town is where he belongs,

[00:38:06] [SPEAKER_03]: there's a scene where he skips rocks and you need to go watch this scene because he

[00:38:10] [SPEAKER_03]: is standing with his back facing the water.

[00:38:14] [SPEAKER_03]: And then he continues to like contort his back around to skip the rocks.

[00:38:19] [SPEAKER_03]: And I've seen and been a part of a lot of rock skipping.

[00:38:23] [SPEAKER_03]: You pretty much always face the water.

[00:38:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Like it's, you're not, it's not a survivor endurance challenge.

[00:38:30] [SPEAKER_03]: You're just skipping rocks.

[00:38:31] [SPEAKER_03]: So it's weird that he's facing away from the water to skip rocks.

[00:38:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Like they wanted a certain camera angle or something, but it was, and maybe it brand

[00:38:41] [SPEAKER_03]: didn't even blink at it.

[00:38:42] [SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, this is the weirdest scene of this episode is this guy twisting his upper

[00:38:47] [SPEAKER_03]: body to skip rocks instead of just turning around and facing the water.

[00:38:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Jax, did you notice that at all?

[00:38:52] [SPEAKER_01]: So I've never skipped rocks, but I was like, why does he look like he's throwing a shot

[00:38:55] [SPEAKER_01]: put?

[00:38:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:38:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:38:57] [SPEAKER_01]: It looked weird to me.

[00:38:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, somebody who in the early days of COVID, when there was no sports and ESPN

[00:39:02] [SPEAKER_04]: switched to playing weird stuff, they play, I got sucked into a rock throwing competition,

[00:39:09] [SPEAKER_04]: a rock skipping competition.

[00:39:10] [SPEAKER_04]: And there was lots of different techniques there.

[00:39:13] [SPEAKER_04]: I learned a lot.

[00:39:14] [SPEAKER_04]: That was actually a really enjoyable program.

[00:39:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

[00:39:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Would watch again.

[00:39:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Would watch again.

[00:39:19] [SPEAKER_03]: And then my last one, Brian talked about his hot take, but the end of this food network

[00:39:24] [SPEAKER_03]: season of television, ultimate kitchen clash is crazy.

[00:39:29] [SPEAKER_03]: How'd you say that?

[00:39:30] [SPEAKER_03]: I know it's tough.

[00:39:31] [SPEAKER_03]: I've been working on it.

[00:39:31] [SPEAKER_03]: I have a dialect coach, you know, that I've been working with ultimate, ultimate kitchen

[00:39:38] [SPEAKER_03]: clash.

[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Wow.

[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_03]: What helps is they all in with hard consonants is really, you know, pretty easy.

[00:39:43] [SPEAKER_01]: You're doing really well down on all our hard work together.

[00:39:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.

[00:39:47] [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't want to say my dialect coach was Jack's, but it's Jack's.

[00:39:50] [SPEAKER_03]: It's okay.

[00:39:50] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't mind.

[00:39:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Jack's axe.

[00:39:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:39:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Jack's axe.

[00:39:54] [SPEAKER_03]: This show, which I have, my wife and I used to watch Next Food Network Star every year

[00:39:59] [SPEAKER_03]: in the early 2010s.

[00:40:01] [SPEAKER_03]: And what I, and an occasional chopped, an occasional, you know, a show here or there for a food network.

[00:40:08] [SPEAKER_03]: What I know about cooking competition shows is you never have one judge.

[00:40:12] [SPEAKER_03]: You never have just one judge.

[00:40:13] [SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of reasons that you never have one judge, but the judge, but the main reason

[00:40:17] [SPEAKER_03]: that you never have one judge is so they can't do exactly what happens in the, this episode,

[00:40:22] [SPEAKER_03]: which is this tastes better, but they earned it.

[00:40:26] [SPEAKER_03]: This group of people in my estimation earned it.

[00:40:30] [SPEAKER_03]: And so even though they had the better food, I'm going to give it to the person who got

[00:40:35] [SPEAKER_03]: abandoned by everybody because he's a terrible human being.

[00:40:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, a show would never end with this.

[00:40:41] [SPEAKER_03]: And they promise us a town-wide blind taste test.

[00:40:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Talk about, I talk about a punt.

[00:40:48] [SPEAKER_03]: I would have loved.

[00:40:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Can you imagine getting to see the townsfolk try both fried chicken restaurants without knowing

[00:40:55] [SPEAKER_03]: which is which and having to give an honest vote over which is better and hearing the results

[00:41:00] [SPEAKER_03]: of that?

[00:41:01] [SPEAKER_03]: That's good television.

[00:41:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Instead, we got, that's happening off screen.

[00:41:04] [SPEAKER_03]: We have one judge who's going to decide independently who to give the entire grand prize to.

[00:41:11] [SPEAKER_03]: And I hated that.

[00:41:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Could have ended in a tie.

[00:41:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's what I thought they were going to do.

[00:41:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Turns out that they have been using the same recipe all these years.

[00:41:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Same exact chicken.

[00:41:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Chicken is the exact same.

[00:41:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Same chicken.

[00:41:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:41:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Same chicken.

[00:41:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's combine it.

[00:41:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's get to the chicken or fried.

[00:41:26] [SPEAKER_04]: That's where we talk about what in this episode is giving us, making us chicken or fried for

[00:41:30] [SPEAKER_04]: next season of the chicken sisters.

[00:41:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Jax?

[00:41:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm chicken and fried both.

[00:41:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Am I allowed to be both?

[00:41:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I think we should help.

[00:41:40] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm chicken and fried.

[00:41:42] [SPEAKER_01]: About whatever this budding romance between these two lovely young ladies, is it going

[00:41:46] [SPEAKER_01]: to be something?

[00:41:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Like what is it going to be?

[00:41:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm very interested to see where that goes.

[00:41:51] [SPEAKER_04]: It is homework plus so it has a chance.

[00:41:53] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:41:53] [SPEAKER_01]: It's got a chance.

[00:41:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Although I will say there's, I know that they're, these two actresses are, I'm sure they're

[00:41:59] [SPEAKER_01]: actually like adults.

[00:42:00] [SPEAKER_01]: There's always something with thinking of people as kids and thinking about them kissing that

[00:42:07] [SPEAKER_01]: always feels like, uh, to me.

[00:42:09] [SPEAKER_01]: But I think that, you know, they'll be in college, so I think it's fine.

[00:42:13] [SPEAKER_01]: So good luck and Godspeed.

[00:42:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I want to see the romance happen.

[00:42:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Or not.

[00:42:17] [SPEAKER_01]: I love heartbreak too.

[00:42:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Unrequited love is the second best kind of love.

[00:42:20] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[00:42:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Jax is going to make lemonade.

[00:42:23] [SPEAKER_03]: You need to know that.

[00:42:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I will.

[00:42:26] [SPEAKER_03]: She's going to make lemonade.

[00:42:28] [SPEAKER_03]: That's what's going to happen.

[00:42:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:42:30] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, I'm, uh, I'm a little bit chicken.

[00:42:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, that next season might not be good.

[00:42:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[00:42:39] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm in the same boat with you, Brian.

[00:42:41] [SPEAKER_04]: There's some stuff, you know, they, they did a lot in this episode.

[00:42:46] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, you know, the last season of the way home, if you remember Dan, it felt like

[00:42:50] [SPEAKER_04]: they didn't do anything.

[00:42:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:42:51] [SPEAKER_04]: I do remember that.

[00:42:52] [SPEAKER_04]: I do recall that.

[00:42:52] [SPEAKER_04]: This show did the opposite.

[00:42:54] [SPEAKER_04]: And I think we could maybe meet in the middle.

[00:42:56] [SPEAKER_04]: We could have pulled, you know, drug out some of these storylines a little bit, give it

[00:42:59] [SPEAKER_04]: a little bit more, a little more meat, a little more sauce, a little more, uh, chicken

[00:43:05] [SPEAKER_04]: skin.

[00:43:06] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[00:43:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I think we could, there's some story that could have been told next season that was

[00:43:11] [SPEAKER_04]: rushed through this season.

[00:43:13] [SPEAKER_04]: And so now I'm worried that next season won't be much, but if everybody's, if everybody's

[00:43:17] [SPEAKER_04]: coming to town, are we going to get to see Sabrina and hot, uh, hot handyman getting

[00:43:23] [SPEAKER_04]: together?

[00:43:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Maybe she's sticking around.

[00:43:24] [SPEAKER_04]: There's things that we could do.

[00:43:25] [SPEAKER_04]: And I'm intrigued by the characters enough to where I have hope.

[00:43:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but we'll see what happens.

[00:43:30] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm cautiously optimistic.

[00:43:33] [SPEAKER_04]: So I'm like chicken that was thrown in the fry, pull out real quick.

[00:43:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Flash fried.

[00:43:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Flash fried.

[00:43:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:43:39] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm pure chicken for next year and I can't be Mimi's or Franny's cause they don't exist

[00:43:43] [SPEAKER_03]: anymore.

[00:43:43] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm pure chicken for season two.

[00:43:46] [SPEAKER_03]: The beauty of this show was that Mimi's and Franny's both had characters that were sympathetic

[00:43:51] [SPEAKER_03]: that you pulled for and both had characters that you were, that were either terrible or

[00:43:56] [SPEAKER_03]: at the very least not, not being good to other people.

[00:44:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Now we have a clear good guys, bad guys situation or good girls, bad guys, more, more like it.

[00:44:05] [SPEAKER_03]: But I don't think there's nearly as much drama there.

[00:44:09] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm sure they will work up something, but I don't know how I'm supposed to find it as

[00:44:14] [SPEAKER_03]: interesting or as credible.

[00:44:16] [SPEAKER_03]: And so I'm very, very, very concerned about a season.

[00:44:20] [SPEAKER_03]: I would almost prefer not to have a season two of chicken sisters if I'm being honest.

[00:44:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, but you always want shows to end after season one.

[00:44:29] [SPEAKER_03]: That's not true.

[00:44:30] [SPEAKER_03]: But I think you think it is.

[00:44:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Cause I say it about your favorite shows.

[00:44:32] [SPEAKER_03]: You say it a lot about a lot of things.

[00:44:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Stranger Things.

[00:44:34] [SPEAKER_03]: If it's one season and 11 is just dead at the end, I think it's like one of the best

[00:44:38] [SPEAKER_03]: pure pop entertainment, you know, things we've had.

[00:44:41] [SPEAKER_03]: And instead it's, we get the same show every year and I watch it.

[00:44:44] [SPEAKER_03]: I watch it every year and I love it.

[00:44:45] [SPEAKER_03]: But, but like, you know, there's, there's some diminishing returns there.

[00:44:49] [SPEAKER_04]: And I, you know, and I just want to say this one thing that I am fried for is more Shauna

[00:44:54] [SPEAKER_04]: next season.

[00:44:56] [SPEAKER_04]: And I think what's interesting is Shauna was clearly, uh, her and Mr. Chicken clearly had

[00:45:03] [SPEAKER_04]: some tension as mentioned by Jax and next season.

[00:45:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Mr. Chicken's terrible.

[00:45:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Mr.

[00:45:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[00:45:09] [SPEAKER_04]: So Mr.

[00:45:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Terrible.

[00:45:11] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry.

[00:45:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Mr.

[00:45:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Chicken.

[00:45:12] [SPEAKER_01]: But she can change it.

[00:45:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh boy.

[00:45:14] [SPEAKER_04]: But, but.

[00:45:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Now we're, now we're in competition.

[00:45:17] [SPEAKER_04]: She's now invested in the chicken sisters.

[00:45:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Mr.

[00:45:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Chicken is now invested in Frank Jr.

[00:45:22] [SPEAKER_04]: How are, are those two.

[00:45:23] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to live in a world where Shauna's going for Mr.

[00:45:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Chicken.

[00:45:25] [SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?

[00:45:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Like I love Shauna and I hate Mr.

[00:45:28] [SPEAKER_03]: Chicken.

[00:45:29] [SPEAKER_03]: It's fair.

[00:45:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, speaking of Mr.

[00:45:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Chicken, let's get to chicken of the week.

[00:45:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[00:45:33] [SPEAKER_04]: It's where we dive deep into the life of a chicken that has been emailed in, uh, to helloattackthehomework.com.

[00:45:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I guess you should say nominated.

[00:45:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Nominated.

[00:45:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[00:45:42] [SPEAKER_04]: It is election season.

[00:45:43] [SPEAKER_03]: We choose the best of the best.

[00:45:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Erin does.

[00:45:44] [SPEAKER_03]: She just sends them to me.

[00:45:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Obviously.

[00:45:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[00:45:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Obviously.

[00:45:46] [SPEAKER_03]: This is Kieber?

[00:45:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Kieber.

[00:45:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Kieber.

[00:45:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[00:45:48] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know anything else.

[00:45:50] [SPEAKER_03]: It's, it's just says Kieber, Kieber, chicken feet eater is all it says.

[00:45:54] [SPEAKER_03]: It says Kieber, Kieber, chicken feet eater?

[00:45:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Chicken feed eater.

[00:45:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, chicken feet eater.

[00:45:58] [SPEAKER_03]: It's not a chicken eating her own feet.

[00:46:00] [SPEAKER_03]: That would be a different.

[00:46:01] [SPEAKER_02]: That'd be ridiculous.

[00:46:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, Kieber, do we have Kieber on the line?

[00:46:06] [SPEAKER_02]: It's me.

[00:46:07] [SPEAKER_02]: It's Kieber.

[00:46:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Kieber.

[00:46:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Kieber in the house.

[00:46:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:46:11] [SPEAKER_03]: So normally we talk to the farmer, but it sounds like you can talk.

[00:46:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[00:46:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[00:46:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Kieber, what is Kieber, Kieber chicken feet eater mean?

[00:46:20] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's a couple of things.

[00:46:22] [SPEAKER_02]: When I was in high school, no, it was middle school.

[00:46:24] [SPEAKER_02]: When I was in middle school, I was picked on.

[00:46:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[00:46:27] [SPEAKER_02]: I had a lot of acne.

[00:46:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Chickens go to middle school?

[00:46:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:46:31] [SPEAKER_02]: We go to middle school.

[00:46:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:46:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Read a book.

[00:46:33] [SPEAKER_02]: So I had a lot of acne and I was, you know, people made fun of me a lot.

[00:46:37] [SPEAKER_02]: And so one day I decide I'm going to show you.

[00:46:41] [SPEAKER_02]: And I did a lot of things.

[00:46:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Chickens get acne?

[00:46:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[00:46:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Read a book.

[00:46:46] [SPEAKER_02]: So what I did was I ran around in circles.

[00:46:52] [SPEAKER_02]: People saw me.

[00:46:52] [SPEAKER_02]: They said, look at those circles.

[00:46:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And then everybody started running around in circles too.

[00:46:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And I stopped running around in circles.

[00:46:59] [SPEAKER_02]: And I said, look at you guys.

[00:47:01] [SPEAKER_02]: You guys are so silly.

[00:47:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Where do we get to the chicken feet?

[00:47:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Or can we just wrap and make that long story a short one?

[00:47:06] [SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[00:47:06] [SPEAKER_02]: So I started to say it to them and then they said it back.

[00:47:09] [SPEAKER_02]: It became like a chant.

[00:47:11] [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, kind of like it's a small world.

[00:47:13] [SPEAKER_03]: No.

[00:47:14] [SPEAKER_02]: So you know when you're on the ride?

[00:47:16] [SPEAKER_02]: No.

[00:47:16] [SPEAKER_02]: I've been to Disney.

[00:47:18] [SPEAKER_02]: So you know when you've been on It's a Small World?

[00:47:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Kieber, this is more than I bargained for.

[00:47:22] [SPEAKER_03]: And I want out.

[00:47:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, don't ask the questions, D.

[00:47:25] [SPEAKER_03]: I want out.

[00:47:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I call you D.

[00:47:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I can tell.

[00:47:28] [SPEAKER_03]: That's what I call you.

[00:47:28] [SPEAKER_03]: Went to middle school, had acne the whole thing.

[00:47:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[00:47:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Would prefer you didn't.

[00:47:34] [SPEAKER_02]: All that to say, it's a small world.

[00:47:36] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a song and it keeps going out of loop.

[00:47:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, Kieb, can you call us back later?

[00:47:43] [SPEAKER_02]: No, my minutes are up.

[00:47:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Great.

[00:47:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Awesome.

[00:47:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Minutes are up and there are no rollover minutes.

[00:47:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Great.

[00:47:48] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, actually.

[00:47:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Kieber is our fine Kieber of the week.

[00:47:50] [SPEAKER_03]: God bless, everybody.

[00:47:51] [SPEAKER_03]: God bless.

[00:47:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.

[00:47:52] [SPEAKER_01]: That was so cute.

[00:47:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Kieber's cute.

[00:47:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Did you know that?

[00:47:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Did you know that?

[00:47:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Kid, did you know that about Kieber?

[00:47:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Kieber, did you know that chickens can have acne?

[00:48:01] [SPEAKER_04]: I did.

[00:48:02] [SPEAKER_04]: Went to middle school?

[00:48:02] [SPEAKER_04]: You didn't.

[00:48:02] [SPEAKER_04]: I did.

[00:48:03] [SPEAKER_04]: You read the book.

[00:48:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:48:04] [SPEAKER_01]: The vulnerability was really sweet.

[00:48:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Kieber's got a good spirit about it.

[00:48:08] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't.

[00:48:09] [SPEAKER_04]: I just disagree with everything you guys were saying about Kieber.

[00:48:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Agree to disagree.

[00:48:13] [SPEAKER_04]: We did it, everybody.

[00:48:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Chicken Sisters in the books.

[00:48:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Jax, you're going to be back with us all holiday season long, talking about some Netflix,

[00:48:19] [SPEAKER_04]: some Hot Frosty, et cetera.

[00:48:21] [SPEAKER_04]: It's going to be a lot of fun.

[00:48:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Hopefully, everybody has a wonderful weekend.

[00:48:25] [SPEAKER_04]: We're going to be back next week with a full slate of fun.

[00:48:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Fun stuff.

[00:48:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Until then, we were the first to wish you a Merry Christmas.

[00:48:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Deck the Hallmark is a Bramble Jam podcast.

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[00:49:02] [SPEAKER_04]: It's really up to you at this point.

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