Episode 8

S3E08 - "The Grandfather: Part II"

This week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve are back to unravel the tangled web of Gossip Girl Season 3, Episode 8, titled "The Grandfather: Part II." As political ambitions rise and friendships falter, our favorite Upper East Siders find themselves navigating a landscape filled with betrayal, scandal, and unexpected alliances.

Join Leif and Steve as they dissect the fiery showdown between Blair and Serena, which escalates to cake-throwing proportions! Meanwhile, Nate grapples with loyalty and ambition as he takes the fall for a scheme gone awry, and Chuck steps up as the unlikely voice of reason amidst the chaos. With a new congressman in town and a high-class call girl stirring the pot, the stakes have never been higher.

Expect plenty of laughs, insights, and a sprinkle of nostalgia as our dynamic duo serves up the latest gossip from the show that defined a generation. So pour yourself a mimosa, grab a slice of cake (if you dare), and settle in for another deliciously dramatic episode that you won't want to miss!

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Edited and mixed by Leif Capicola.

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Transcript
Leif:

Congressman, why are you hoarding drinks for this miner?

Steve:

Now that I am in. Now that I am in

Steve:

office, I will make my first

Steve:

move.

Steve:

And so, uh, the stuff immediately becomes like a

Steve:

Kennedy creeper the second he wins the election.

Steve:

Hide that blondie.

Leif:

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

Leif:

there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast

Leif:

pod where the coffee is strong, the

Leif:

waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than

Leif:

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

Leif:

Girl veteran.

Steve:

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

Steve:

greenhorn, the, uh, I don't know, leaf. What are we calling

Steve:

me now in season three?

Leif:

I don't know, but I need a friend, stat.

Steve:

Oh, I'm your friend.

Leif:

Please. I'm not friends with staff.

Steve:

Um, so here's the

Steve:

deal, folks. Leif has been watching Gossip Girl

Steve:

since it first started, and I'm diving in for the

Steve:

first time. And together, we're your dynamic duo,

Steve:

bringing you all the drama, romance, and

Steve:

sometimes questionable fashion choices of this

Steve:

iconic 2007 series.

Leif:

Bring your magnifying glasses because each week we're

Leif:

discussing every juicy detail of the show one

Leif:

episode at a time. We'll connect the dots,

Leif:

uncover those sneaky little Easter eggs, and of course, serve up

Leif:

some piping hot behind the scenes tea. And expect

Leif:

some iconic fandom moments too, because what's a

Leif:

deep dive without a little drama?

Steve:

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

Steve:

judging breakfast pod, there's always room for you at the

Steve:

non judging breakfast table. So go ahead and grab

Steve:

a coffee and grab your mimosa or

Steve:

go talk to Chuck's dealer and let's go ahead and get this thing

Steve:

started.

Leif:

Let's do it. As of this recording, the

Leif:

good cop, bad cop season is over.

Steve:

Okay, so that was the season finale. I

Steve:

just watched it for one an eight episode

Steve:

season on a network I thought was interesting. Is

Steve:

CW doing that regularly?

Leif:

I think everyone's doing that now, uh, at this point.

Steve:

Yeah, I guess so. It

Steve:

just felt like it's funny.

Steve:

Last a couple days ago, we talked before the

Steve:

show about how you're kind, you're. You're

Steve:

off that you're not really

Steve:

liking it that much anymore.

Leif:

Yeah, it's not really bad, but just nothing

Leif:

new. And yeah, for an eight episode

Leif:

season, there's a bit, quite a bit of filler it felt

Leif:

like.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

And it was written like a 22 episode show.

Steve:

Yes, exactly. And

Steve:

the last episode just kind of

Steve:

tried to wrap everything up, but then leave

Steve:

this Cliffhanger that kind of takes the

Steve:

whole show in a new sort of

Steve:

direction.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

So I was. I did find the

Steve:

most recent episode to be a little more. What the fuck. I

Steve:

was enjoying it because like I said last time,

Steve:

shows like Psych and Burn

Steve:

Notice, those sort of

Steve:

similar vein shows, I really enjoy

Steve:

them. This last episode really kind

Steve:

of was a turn. A weird

Steve:

turn.

Leif:

Yeah, uh, it was just kind of boring. The last two episodes

Leif:

I took more than one sitting to watch.

Steve:

Yeah, you had mentioned that, but.

Leif:

So we haven't seen it yet. But as of this, when you

Leif:

guys are listening to this, the final season

Leif:

of Yule have been released. So some of

Leif:

you uh, have already binged the complete

Leif:

season by now, which.

Steve:

I'm waiting to watch you until we're

Steve:

done. This because I'm gonna operate under the

Steve:

headcanon of Dan

Steve:

Humphrey post. Gossip Girl

Steve:

going crazy.

Leif:

Yeah, I know a lot of people subscribe to that.

Leif:

I'm not a big fan of that, Harry.

Steve:

I'm just going into it with that headcanon.

Steve:

I also, I wanted uh, to take a second.

Steve:

This past week we lost uh, a friend

Steve:

of ours, Nolan Garner, he

Steve:

plays in the band. He played in the band Turtle

Steve:

Ridge for a while. A really good friend of

Steve:

ours. And we just really wanted

Steve:

to make mention and give

Steve:

a. Our moment of memorial

Steve:

to Nolan. Super sad. Um,

Steve:

died in a parachuting accident.

Leif:

Definitely sad. And ah, definitely thoughts out to his

Leif:

family.

Steve:

Yes. And his family and his friends. One

Steve:

thing that I always say about him is that I didn't

Steve:

know the guy super well. I knew him

Steve:

more through these friends of mine. But anytime you

Steve:

would talk to Nolan, he would treat you like your best friend.

Leif:

Yeah, he was the nicest guy in the world.

Steve:

Yeah. And it's funny because our friend

Steve:

Colin said to me, you know, people

Steve:

always say that they're such a great guy when someone dies.

Steve:

But with Nolan, it's the God's honest

Steve:

truth that he really was just

Steve:

this shining. And he always

Steve:

made you feel like he was your biggest fan.

Leif:

I mhm.

Steve:

Would get done playing and he would just

Steve:

pick through everything I did and all the bright

Steve:

spots and so great loss to the

Steve:

Philadelphia music community and

Steve:

to music in general.

Leif:

Indeed.

Steve:

And our thoughts with the families and

Steve:

friends.

Leif:

On a more positive note, we are here to talk

Leif:

about Gossip Girls Season 3 Episode

Leif:

8 the Grandfather Part

Leif:

Do.

Steve:

Part 2 Part Du Part D

Steve:

Part 2 yes.

Leif:

Original air date was November 2,

Leif:

2009 the Deuce. Yes, and of

Leif:

course it was based on The Godfather Part 2.

Steve:

Right.

Leif:

No explanation necessary. I Think.

Steve:

No.

Leif:

Ah. So this episode was written by Len K.

Leif:

Rosenfeld, who did two episodes in season

Leif:

two, episode seven, Chuck in Real

Leif:

Life, and episode 17, Carnal

Leif:

Knowledge. So, uh, one good episode and one not so good

Leif:

episode.

Steve:

Which one was the not so good one? The Carnal Knowledge.

Leif:

Yeah, that was right in the middle of the Miss Car plotline.

Steve:

Yeah. Right. Yes.

Steve:

Yes. And then.

Leif:

And yeah, Chuck and not the good

Leif:

episode. We got Blair and Dan fighting in

Leif:

the carriage.

Steve:

Right?

Leif:

Yeah, it was the first episode. It was not good at all.

Steve:

Right. Yes. When. When she first

Steve:

gets fired and.

Leif:

But then Chuck in real life was the episode

Leif:

where Dan and Chuck go out on their

Leif:

little play date.

Steve:

Yes. Uh, the Charlie Trout. Yes.

Steve:

Dinner. Yes.

Leif:

Uh, this episode was directed by Mark Pisnarski's

Leif:

Back Again pilot maker.

Leif:

Uh, last episode he directed. Is this the second episode of

Leif:

season three already? Uh, he did a 304. Dan de

Leif:

Floret.

Steve:

Okay, all right. It was

Steve:

fine.

Leif:

Why don't you give us that vulture recap?

Steve:

All right, let's go. Serena and Blair

Steve:

are at each other's throats in a way they haven't been since

Steve:

the first season. Why? We

Steve:

don't actually remember, but that's fine. Whatever it

Steve:

is was a, uh, red herring. The hatred

Steve:

these two feel for one another is so passionate it

Steve:

nearly resembles love, as evidenced by the way

Steve:

Serena spontaneously pushes Blair

Steve:

face first into a cake. And the

Steve:

powerful shot at the end wherein Blair comes

Steve:

out of the hotel for no other reason

Steve:

than to make meaningful eye contact with

Steve:

Serena before turning on her heel

Steve:

and storming away in a gesture that's

Steve:

meant to signify how far they've grown

Steve:

apart. Their other friends are growing

Steve:

and changing too. Nate has become

Steve:

cold and politically calculating, but

Steve:

not so cold and calculating that he pushes Vanessa

Steve:

into the Hudson river when she threatens to thwart

Steve:

his cousin's campaign for Congress.

Steve:

Chuck, oddly, has developed into

Steve:

a compassionate, bridge building adult. And

Steve:

Dan Humphrey has come to enjoy dating a rich,

Steve:

famous person. Although other than

Steve:

that, he's still pretty much

Steve:

an awkward dork.

Leif:

Poor bathroom boy.

Steve:

Yeah, poor bathroom boy.

Steve:

We'll get to that. I

Steve:

have thoughts.

Leif:

Let's go ahead and get into it then. Uh, act one begins

Leif:

with a little montage and a Gossip Girl

Leif:

monologue. In

Leif:

Manhattan, some parties are VIP

Leif:

only. Others are strictly private. But

Leif:

some parties are political. And those

Leif:

lines are drawn by the most established of

Leif:

establishment. And once those lines are drawn,

Leif:

they can never be crossed.

Steve:

I felt like the Gossip Girl monologue was

Steve:

sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. This was one of those

Steve:

forced ones where it's like. But some parties

Steve:

are m. Political.

Steve:

We've got to fit this in.

Leif:

That's the ticket, you know, like the political

Leif:

ticket.

Steve:

Like the political one.

Leif:

So, uh, we get the opening montage of

Leif:

happy couples sleeping in and Blair snapping at

Leif:

bellboys. We start the episode with Serena having a

Leif:

phone conversation with KC Serena needs to

Leif:

get Patrick into the Vanderbilt party or else she's

Leif:

fired. At this point, Casey's one

Leif:

redeeming quality is she hasn't fucked any of these teenagers

Leif:

yet. Facts.

Steve:

It's funny because Casey threatens to fire people

Steve:

like the Dread Pirate Roberts.

Steve:

Good work, Serena.

Leif:

Sleep well.

Steve:

I'll probably fire you in the morning.

Leif:

Yes.

Leif:

Dan and Olivia wake up in the dorm room.

Leif:

I smell trouble brewing because Olivia clearly doesn't

Leif:

want Dan to see her interview on Kimmel. As Dan is

Leif:

walking to the bathroom to brush his teeth, a random student

Leif:

refers to a confused Dan as bathroom

Leif:

boy.

Steve:

Fallon, you got your jimmies backwards in

Steve:

the write up.

Leif:

Oh, uh, yeah.

Leif:

Yep. I said Kimmel, didn't I? Yeah, it's Fallon.

Steve:

But.

Leif:

But they're the same thing.

Steve:

They're not too different. But yes,

Steve:

it was.

Leif:

Kimmel's a lot more ashamed of his past.

Steve:

Yes. Facts.

Steve:

Uh, oi, oi, oi.

Leif:

He really likes to hide his time on the man show.

Steve:

Meanwhile, Adam Crolla is like, what?

Steve:

Yeah. Olivia clearly doesn't want him seeing

Steve:

this. And it is already

Steve:

just silliness.

Leif:

And, uh, normally I wouldn't necessarily bring this up, but it's.

Leif:

It's such. It was so noticeable.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

That we have, uh, you know, the last couple. I feel like there's.

Leif:

There was a note from the network. You got to diversify the

Leif:

casting here. You get Horace last

Leif:

episode, and then you have. You actually had two

Leif:

African, uh, Americans speaking parts of this episode.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

The random student and also the woman from the

Leif:

TV network.

Steve:

Yeah. Yes.

Leif:

Uh, good for them.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Finally. But it was just so noticeable.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Because it's normally just so white.

Steve:

Yes. Yes. With a couple with the

Steve:

occasional Vanessa thrown in.

Leif:

Yeah, maybe.

Leif:

Looks like the Vanderbilt victory party will be the

Leif:

first hosted. In the ballroom of the Empire

Leif:

Hotel, Chuck is meeting with Nate, the

Leif:

grandfather, Trip and Maureen to discuss the

Leif:

details. It looks like Vanessa is parlaying

Leif:

her connections with Nate to get some great footage of Trip's

Leif:

campaign. However, thanks to Serena blowing up their

Leif:

plans to defraud the Buckleys, trip is an

Leif:

extreme long shot to win.

Steve:

Oh, Vanessa is in this episode

Steve:

at the beginning, uh,

Steve:

when Dan and Olivia are in bed and they're

Steve:

like, wow. Well, we keep getting the room to ourselves. Vanessa's never

Steve:

around because she's doing this thing with Trip. And I was like,

Steve:

sweet. No Vanessa for another episode. And then

Steve:

no. Yeah. Um, they teased us.

Steve:

She is here. Well,

Steve:

I doubt she does anything to ruin anything.

Leif:

I don't blame her.

Steve:

I don't blame her. This is not a.

Steve:

Vanessa did the wrong thing.

Leif:

Serena comes to the dorm to deliver a DVD of

Leif:

the Fallon interview. Before the two women can

Leif:

reveal, uh, to us what was said in the interview,

Leif:

Dan gets back from the bathroom and points out the

Leif:

awkward and incestuous nature of the three of them standing and

Leif:

talking together.

Steve:

And again, the terrible lies.

Steve:

The. Oh, Serena, what are you doing here? Oh, she

Steve:

came over to tell us how much she likes this guy

Steve:

that.

Leif:

I used to date.

Steve:

That I used to date. She came

Steve:

down to NYU from the Upper east

Steve:

side just to tell us

Steve:

that she likes my ex boyfriend a

Steve:

lot.

Leif:

Well, uh, you know, Serena is the new Vanessa.

Steve:

Yes. Also, I. And I. I

Steve:

hate going backwards, but I meant to bring this up with the

Steve:

previous scene. The look that grandfather gives

Steve:

to Nate when he basically is

Steve:

like, I don't know if he is going to win. And he gives Nate

Steve:

this knowing look, but Nate doesn't

Steve:

know stuff. I just feel like throwing

Steve:

knowing looks at Nate is a really

Steve:

confusing thing. Nate gives a look back of like,

Steve:

oh, I'm nodding to grandpa,

Steve:

yes, I.

Leif:

Will eat lunch today.

Steve:

There is gas in the car.

Leif:

As she's leaving the dorm, Serena bumps into

Leif:

Blair. The two trade barbs. And as Serena

Leif:

leaves, Blair tells Amalia she needs to find some friends

Leif:

before the party tonight.

Steve:

Yeah. These two butting heads

Steve:

and being on the outs again. It

Steve:

was sort of. Sort of like the vulture report

Steve:

said. Their argument last

Steve:

week was so surface

Steve:

level.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

That them still bickering was a little

Steve:

strange. Although the look on

Steve:

Amalia's face when Blair's like, I'm

Steve:

not friends with staff.

Steve:

When Amalia realizes she's staff.

Leif:

Yeah, that's gonna.

Steve:

Yeah, it's gotta hurt. Hey,

Steve:

yeah.

Leif:

Nate is walking with Trip on a pier and ignores a call

Leif:

from Serena. Trip is explaining that he doesn't want the

Leif:

grandfather's dirty favors. When someone calls for help.

Leif:

A man appears to be drowning, and Trip heroically jumps

Leif:

in to save him. Vanessa catches everything

Leif:

on her camcorder, and Gossip Girl has this to say.

Leif:

It looks like Trip's prayers have been answered with another

Leif:

miracle on the Hudson. Are the Vanderbilts bl

Leif:

blessed with good luck or good timing?

Steve:

On. On the rewatch you can

Steve:

see him climb in. Yeah, you.

Leif:

You.

Steve:

You see. Which kudos to them to

Steve:

not hide it from us

Steve:

that they showed us the first. The. The first

Steve:

time that it. Because it feels fake,

Steve:

right?

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

It feels like, oh, this is so staged that

Steve:

he can rescue someone, but they tell

Steve:

you. Gossip Girl.

Steve:

The.

Steve:

The director tells you it's

Steve:

staged if you can catch it. And I really

Steve:

appreciated that little Easter egg to.

Leif:

But in fairness to Trip, he. He did not know.

Steve:

No, Trip clearly didn't know.

Leif:

That was an impressive move there.

Steve:

He.

Leif:

He dived over the fence. That was like a foot or

Leif:

a foot and a half away from the edge.

Steve:

Yeah. And you. You never

Steve:

go. Is the last one reach. Throw,

Steve:

row, go. That's to help a drowning

Steve:

person. You're supposed to reach first, then throw

Steve:

something. If you can't reach them, then row for them.

Steve:

Go. Shouldn't be the first thing. Then two people drown. But

Steve:

good job, Tripp. You did it. You saved the guy who

Steve:

was pretending to drown. But yeah, again,

Steve:

he did it without thinking, too. And it was a

Steve:

heroic. Yeah.

Leif:

We move into Act 2. We come back

Leif:

to the Vanderbilt campaign headquarters, and the news story

Leif:

about trips heroics is already making the

Leif:

rounds. However, not everyone there seems to

Leif:

be happy about the big turn events. Nate is

Leif:

highly suspicious of the grandfather.

Steve:

The news interview where someone off camera

Steve:

said, now give your best New York accent

Steve:

to the guy that was drowning. So

Steve:

I fell into the water there, and, uh,

Steve:

hey, I was walking there.

Leif:

Serena shows up at the headquarters and says hello to Vanessa,

Leif:

whose footage is going to be on the news tonight.

Leif:

Serena is still begging Nate for a party invite.

Leif:

Nate is just about to turn her down when an unaware Trip

Leif:

walks up and casually invites Serena.

Steve:

It was twice in this scene. You see Serena

Steve:

interact with Triple, and you kind of

Steve:

realize they have history, that

Steve:

they at least that familial. They

Steve:

all know each other. They've all grown up together.

Leif:

They run in the same circle.

Steve:

Yeah. So. So clearly they know

Steve:

each other, which. Well, we'll get to that

Steve:

later. I wonder if he'll need a publicist after all of

Steve:

this.

Leif:

Well, she's not a publicist anymore.

Steve:

Yeah, well, I mean, unless she branches out on her own.

Steve:

Was because you know her.

Steve:

Go getteredness.

Leif:

Blair is at a restaurant holding court with her

Leif:

minions. One minion suggests that

Leif:

Vanessa Garl as a potential friend. Blair

Leif:

claims she has never heard that name before in her life and dismisses

Leif:

the minion who suggested it. However,

Leif:

not all is lost because Blair spots a pretty blonde

Leif:

woman with good fashion sense and Invites her to

Leif:

the party.

Steve:

Brandeis is not a real name.

Steve:

You should have known it. Brandeis. What, uh, you are

Steve:

getting into Blair?

Leif:

It's the name of a college. Is it at

Leif:

Brandeis College?

Steve:

Yeah. So again, even more so Blair.

Steve:

Okay, when your supername is your college and

Steve:

the street you grew up on.

Leif:

Dan and Olivia are at the penthouse

Leif:

helping Lily and Rufus entertain a sick Jenny with a

Leif:

competitive game of scrabble. Jenny tips off

Leif:

Olivia. Uh, off an incoming Gossip

Leif:

Girl blast about Dan's bathroom boy antics, and

Leif:

Olivia, quiet. Quickly deletes the message from Dan's

Leif:

phone.

Steve:

My first thing here is, is

Steve:

Jenny sick, or is she

Steve:

faking to stop going to school because

Steve:

of how bad she feels about what happened with

Steve:

Eric?

Leif:

Uh, I think she's faking, but I don't think has anything to do with

Leif:

Eric.

Steve:

Yeah, I. I think she's faking because she doesn't. She.

Steve:

The. After the end of last episode, she really hated

Steve:

where. Uh, maybe not, but I feel

Steve:

like she's faking it to not go to school.

Steve:

It's tough to be queen.

Leif:

Yeah, but I. I definitely wouldn't want to play

Leif:

scrabble. And I'm sick.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. That's too

Steve:

much thinking and reading.

Leif:

Yeah. Vanessa is reviewing

Leif:

interview footage from earlier, and the. And in the background,

Leif:

sees the man that tripped. Supposedly saved.

Leif:

Really jumped into the water intentionally.

Steve:

Dude, you couldn't sell the fall.

Steve:

Like, it could have just been really easy to just. Whoa.

Steve:

Whoa. But no, you just

Steve:

climbed in foot.

Leif:

By foot, and then he, like, took a couple strokes, so he's

Leif:

further away. Yeah, like, perfect

Leif:

swimmer.

Steve:

Yeah, he, like, swam out.

Leif:

Serena goes to Patrick's hotel room to pick him up

Leif:

for the. For the party. Patrick is a bit

Leif:

belligerent and fixing to get more so as he begins

Leif:

downing a bottle of Jack.

Steve:

Yeah, this guy's a train wreck. We

Steve:

knew at the end of last week that he was going to be.

Steve:

And it's also one of those.

Steve:

Casey, maybe it's better if this

Steve:

guy's career just goes away. Like,

Steve:

maybe.

Leif:

Well, she's evil, so she doesn't. She doesn't care about moral. She just

Leif:

wants to get more money.

Steve:

Yeah. Facts.

Leif:

Vanessa, uh, gets Nate to meet in a private. In

Leif:

private so she can reveal the truth about the events at the Hudson.

Leif:

This morning, Vanessa is going to show her footage to the

Leif:

producers on at channel one, but she wanted Trip to

Leif:

get a heads up first. However, Nate has other plans.

Leif:

As Vanessa walks away, he calls the producer at

Leif:

channel one. Gossip Girl brings us to the act

Leif:

break with

Leif:

this election may be too close to call.

Leif:

What? It's his family's honor or his own.

Leif:

Um, Nate Archbold has the number on speed

Leif:

dial.

Steve:

Good for Vanessa for going to Nate first.

Steve:

I. Honestly, Vanessa did nothing wrong

Steve:

here. She found. Yeah.

Leif:

Except for the slightly hypocritical nature of, you know,

Leif:

taking advantage of her rich friends connections.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, but that's

Steve:

the whole premise of her documentary.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Is doing that.

Leif:

And we move into Actual 3.

Leif:

Patrick is still ignoring Serena's attempts to

Leif:

steer him towards the political thriller. Blair's

Leif:

new friend is extremely popular with the politicians.

Leif:

Blair slut shame Serena. And then sees

Leif:

Patrick taking a piss on a potted plant on the side of the

Leif:

party.

Steve:

Patrick is that new person playing

Steve:

a bard that you don't want to play with after the first

Steve:

game that you play D and D with them, that they're

Steve:

just the most obnoxious person

Steve:

and do absolutely everything to

Steve:

ruin the entire game from

Steve:

session one. That's Patrick.

Leif:

Yeah. At the penthouse, Dan is

Leif:

looking for a dictionary. In another room, he goes for the

Leif:

laptop, which is conveniently left open to Olivia's

Leif:

Fallon interview.

Steve:

Yeah, she's cute.

Steve:

I loved that.

Leif:

That he was like, oh, she's so pleased with himself.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

At the campaign headquarters, Vanessa discovers that

Leif:

Nate set her up and she sold her footage to the fake

Leif:

Caroline Low.

Steve:

Vanessa, why did you go to that party?

Steve:

Why did you go to the party when you thought you

Steve:

just sold them out and then you went to the.

Leif:

Party Anyway, so this scene

Leif:

opens where they, like, zoom in on Chuck's

Leif:

creepy artwork. And at this point,

Leif:

I thought, why are they having the campaign headquarters in his

Leif:

personal suite? He has a whole hotel.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. That is funny, because

Steve:

they've done that before. Remember when

Steve:

Serena had to stay in his penthouse instead

Steve:

of any number of rooms?

Leif:

Dan awkwardly exits family board game night.

Leif:

Jenny and Olivia quickly realize the jig is up and

Leif:

Rufus is an adorable doofus.

Steve:

This is how I want to see you

Steve:

use Willy and Rufus now.

Leif:

Yeah. That was perfect.

Steve:

This is. Yeah. This is a perfect way to use Lily and

Steve:

Rufus. Let them just be the

Steve:

parents and let them just.

Leif:

And of course, Lily knew so

Leif:

immediately.

Steve:

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Of course.

Leif:

Takes takes Rufus five hours to figure it out.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Blair finds Serena and tells her that she did what

Leif:

she had to in order to protect Chuck and Nate. She

Leif:

had Patrick escorted back to his suite for being a drunk

Leif:

ass. Blair also reveals she knows that Patrick

Leif:

is just Serena's fake boyfriend for

Leif:

work.

Steve:

Shots fired at Paula Abdul to

Steve:

m. More Hammered than Paula Abdul during

Steve:

Hollywood week. Damn.

Steve:

I mean, you're not wrong, but. Shots

Steve:

fired.

Leif:

We finally get the story behind bathroom boy as

Leif:

Jenny and Olivia rewatch the video. All in all, pretty

Leif:

same story. Olivia leaves an apology

Leif:

voicemail for Dan.

Steve:

Yeah, not that deep. She. She's

Steve:

freaking out over this thing where

Steve:

his shirt was on inside out.

Steve:

Cute. Uh, it's a cute story.

Steve:

You're freaking out. It's not like he. Like

Steve:

himself.

Leif:

Serena finds Patrick passed out in his room and

Leif:

splashes him with liquid to wake him up.

Steve:

Patrick, did you have to write liquid?

Leif:

Well, I didn't know what it was. It could have been. It could have

Leif:

been. It looked like an alcohol glass.

Steve:

It did look like. Yes, it could have been, but

Steve:

just. Just the ambiguous use of

Steve:

liquid.

Leif:

I. I put some thought into that.

Steve:

I could tell. That's why I. That's why I mentioned

Steve:

it.

Leif:

Patrick reveals that Blair's new friend is a,

Leif:

quote, high class call girl.

Steve:

Uh, fantastic. The

Steve:

needle drop. The needle drop here. When he

Steve:

calls her the, uh, high

Steve:

priced call girl.

Steve:

Beautiful.

Leif:

It was just at, uh,

Leif:

the campaign headquarters. Vanessa confronts

Leif:

Nate about setting her up. Nate counters that

Leif:

Vanessa was just out for herself. Vanessa points

Leif:

to the TV that is conveniently just now playing the story that

Leif:

the rescue was a setup. Gossip Girl brings us to

Leif:

the end of the act with

Leif:

the polls are closed and Gossip Girl is calling

Leif:

this election dirty

Leif:

again.

Steve:

Why are you there, Vanessa? Uh,

Steve:

Nate sucks throughout this, but,

Steve:

Vanessa, why are you still at the party

Steve:

like you sold them out? And

Steve:

again, I'm not blaming her for selling them out.

Steve:

I feel like she did the right thing selling them out. They

Steve:

should have been sold out. I wouldn't go to the

Steve:

party of the person I just sold out.

Leif:

Well, if she didn't go, she would never have, uh, been out.

Leif:

Meet Carol, the real Caroline Low, right?

Steve:

True, true.

Leif:

They go into Act 4. The news is

Leif:

still speculating on who orchestrated the setup, when Nate

Leif:

calls for the room to be cleared so he, Trip, and the

Leif:

grandfather can discuss it. Nate and Trip

Leif:

accuse the grandfather, who categorically denies

Leif:

it. Tripp says he's going to go to talk to Maureen

Leif:

before withdrawing from the race.

Leif:

Uh, Trip is a really. He's a good guy, Trip.

Steve:

Yeah, Trip has been

Steve:

demonstrably good

Steve:

this whole time. It is.

Steve:

Especially the way that Gossip Girl

Steve:

tells you how to believe about

Steve:

people. Dan's a great writer. Jenny's

Steve:

a great designer. Tripp is a great guy.

Leif:

He's the most honest guy in the family.

Steve:

He is the most honest guy in the family.

Leif:

I'M sure that's going to last.

Steve:

I'm sure that bar is really high

Steve:

and is going to last for a long time.

Leif:

I'm sure his marriage is just perfectly safe.

Steve:

It seems that way to me. Uh, it seems like he

Steve:

has someone that really looks out for him and watches his

Steve:

back and there's no one.

Leif:

He could possibly cheat with.

Steve:

No, no, no. I think that he is

Steve:

definitely a one woman guy

Steve:

with blinders on to any

Steve:

other young blondes.

Leif:

Vanessa calls a petulant Nate out for losing

Leif:

his moral compass.

Steve:

Why are you there?

Steve:

You're still there.

Leif:

Cuz, uh, she's fucking Blair. She is Blair.

Leif:

They're the same person.

Steve:

And, and she, and, and Blair.

Steve:

More to the point, she's Vanessa and is always at the

Steve:

party she doesn't belong at.

Steve:

We're back into season two form.

Steve:

Vanessa.

Leif:

Serena finds her and confirms Patrick's story

Leif:

about Brandeis being a working girl.

Steve:

Trapped. Trapped her.

Leif:

It was five hours. Two bloods. Make a right.

Steve:

Yeah, well done, Serena.

Steve:

But that was. And it was just so

Steve:

the Serena est way to do it too.

Steve:

Oh, I can totally pretend like I want to sleep with that guy

Steve:

for money.

Leif:

Chuck is being interviewed about the hotel

Leif:

and expertly diverts the reporter's attention from a

Leif:

pantsless Patrick walking around on the overlooking

Leif:

balcony.

Steve:

Yeah, fucking mess.

Steve:

It's so, so over the top.

Steve:

The whole Patrick thing of him being that

Steve:

wasted at this party and walking around with his

Steve:

pants off. It's just so over the

Steve:

top.

Leif:

Serena lets Blair know that she had her friend

Leif:

escorted out of the hotel. Chuck tries to get in

Leif:

between their bickering but Blair fires back and points out that

Leif:

the only prostitute here is actually Serena.

Leif:

Serena has had enough at this point and pushes

Leif:

Blaire's face into a cake. Gossip Girl

Leif:

quips

Leif:

Blair and Serena are at war again.

Leif:

Yummy.

Steve:

Uh, yeah. We see

Steve:

Chuck throughout this episode

Steve:

and this season so far. Being the grown

Steve:

up and I uh, loved

Steve:

when he walks up. She had my friend

Steve:

kicked out of here. The prostitute. Yeah. She

Steve:

can't be here. I love how Chuck is like,

Steve:

yeah, obviously I'm kicking out the high priced call

Steve:

girl.

Leif:

Act 5 begins at the party. Nate

Leif:

takes the fall and says he is the one who planned the

Leif:

setup.

Steve:

Yeah, trying to bail out Trip

Steve:

and grandfather. Really? He feels

Steve:

grandfather isn't going to step up and take the heat so

Steve:

he's going to do it for him

Steve:

and take one for the team.

Steve:

Which of course won't be great for Nate's

Steve:

political prospects. If anyone

Steve:

remembers four years later, it's not like people

Steve:

really remember four years later the

Steve:

horrible things that somebody does while

Steve:

they're in office. They often forget four

Steve:

years later.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Chuck chases down Serena and warns her that if she

Leif:

isn't careful, she is going to lose Blair

Leif:

forever.

Steve:

Again, Chuck being the grown up, why.

Leif:

Is he blaming Serena?

Steve:

I didn't think that. I didn't take it that

Steve:

way. I took it the way of,

Steve:

you know, Blair. You know that this is just

Steve:

what she goes through. I didn't really feel like he was

Steve:

blaming her, but he's putting on her.

Leif:

To make it right.

Steve:

Uh, yes. And I feel like he was putting

Steve:

it on her because Blair isn't going

Steve:

to. Which I'm not saying that's the

Steve:

right thing either.

Leif:

Maybe they just shouldn't be friends.

Steve:

Maybe they just shouldn't be friends. Too bad. Blair's

Steve:

in love with her.

Leif:

Olivia goes to the loft to apologize to Dan.

Leif:

However, Dan apologizes and reveals he wasn't mad about the

Leif:

story, which wasn't exactly true. He just

Leif:

came home to set up a last

Leif:

minute one month anniversary date.

Steve:

Sweet. Yeah, it was cute. The resolution

Steve:

to this whole thing was cute, but it was also a kind

Steve:

of a dumb storyline in

Steve:

general.

Leif:

It's just because unlike Jenny and

Leif:

Eric, they can't go an episode without having Dan with the

Leif:

storyline. Yeah, he's too high on the call sheet.

Steve:

Yeah. And they have to

Steve:

keep this relationship going and

Steve:

they're not shaking it up quite

Steve:

yet. It's nice that Hillary Duff

Steve:

got this much time on the show too.

Steve:

I mean, a lot of the

Steve:

extra relationships

Steve:

are usually around three episodes.

Steve:

Maybe four in some cases. I think. Like, I think

Steve:

Aaron had four maybe,

Steve:

but it's often around three.

Leif:

Feels like. Feels like 50, but, uh, feels felt

Leif:

like 50.

Steve:

No, I'm talking about the number of episodes, not his

Steve:

age.

Leif:

Trip. Thanks Nate for taking the fall. And it appears

Leif:

it worked. In another timely news broadcast that it's announced

Leif:

that Tripp has won his bid for a congressional seat.

Leif:

Nate congratulates Trip and tells him he's the only

Leif:

honest one in the family. Uh, what a

Leif:

jinx.

Steve:

Good old Nate. Good old Nate. Just be

Steve:

the best representative that district has

Steve:

ever seen. Trip.

Leif:

Serena offers Blair the olive branch of a towel

Leif:

to clean her face. However, Blair calls her out

Leif:

for drifting. While everyone else is building a future,

Leif:

Blair declares the friendship over and walks away.

Leif:

Gossip Girl closes the act with.

Steve:

Who.

Leif:

Would have thought that S&P's friendship had a term

Leif:

limit? Sorry, ladies. Party's over.

Steve:

Blair isn't wrong, but she's

Steve:

also lying to Herself about

Steve:

herself. She's right that Serena is

Steve:

kind of in this weird

Steve:

spiral thing, but so is Blair.

Steve:

Blair doesn't have any friends.

Steve:

Blair thinks she has one M friend who is using

Steve:

her to get clients.

Leif:

So we move into the epilogue. Blair

Leif:

apologizes to Brandeis for Serena trying to get her kicked

Leif:

out. However, Brandeis admits that she is, in fact,

Leif:

a prostitute. Blair is grossed out at first, but

Leif:

then seems to come around to the idea of having her as a friend.

Steve:

Her mixed reactions throughout

Steve:

this when she's horrified and she

Steve:

goes, well, yeah, um, are you even a

Steve:

student? Well, yeah, this is how I pay.

Leif:

For college in Kotor. And

Leif:

Blair's like, huh, I'll talk to

Leif:

my people about it.

Steve:

Yeah, I'll talk to my people about it.

Leif:

Maybe we can still shop together.

Steve:

She's like, sure, but I need to go work

Steve:

now. And then that's when Blair really

Steve:

realizes, uh, she's been

Steve:

played.

Leif:

Serena finally realizes that what Blair said

Leif:

while mean was ultimately correct. She

Leif:

stuffs a handsy Patrick into a limo with a

Leif:

resignation letter written on his pocket

Leif:

square. Blair and Serena stare

Leif:

longingly at each other from across the street.

Steve:

Power. Move to quit that way.

Leif:

Yeah, uh, it was, it was a.

Steve:

It'S I, I, I. First time I watched,

Steve:

I thought she wrote it on his shirt, which I thought would have been

Steve:

even cooler. Like, right across the shirt. Get

Steve:

in the car, Take him to her house.

Leif:

But now Serena is jobless and

Leif:

homeless because she was living at

Leif:

Blair's.

Steve:

Oh, yeah, she was.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

I'll see. Maybe she get a good job as an

Leif:

intern, uh, for her

Leif:

politician.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Maureen and the grandfather are having a private drink,

Leif:

and Maureen reveals she is the evil genius

Leif:

that planned everything.

Steve:

So Robin called the wife, doing

Steve:

it way early, way early in the

Steve:

episode when Vanessa was first. I, uh,

Steve:

think it was when Vanessa confronted Nate. Robin had

Steve:

the. I wonder if the wife did it. And

Steve:

when Nate and Trip are

Steve:

having the conversation and Trip wins and they're just having

Steve:

a casual conversation, and you see the

Steve:

wife step down into the shot

Steve:

at the end. Uh, that's when I turned to her. I said, you're

Steve:

right. That shot in the previous scene with

Steve:

them like, that red dress.

Steve:

Yeah. And then here she sits down with

Steve:

grandfather and fucking

Steve:

power move.

Leif:

Power. Yeah.

Steve:

Uh, and how all that time you thought

Steve:

that blah, blah, blah. Honestly, I didn't

Steve:

think of you much at all.

Leif:

Yeah, like, he skipped the beat for a second, but then he was right back

Leif:

on.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I, I can, man.

Steve:

Now that I know what I'm dealing With. I can handle

Steve:

this.

Leif:

I didn't think of much of you at all, darling.

Leif:

Chuck comes back to his suite and finds

Leif:

Blair. Chuck comforts and cuddles with Blair.

Steve:

The only person she has. Yeah. The only

Steve:

person she has in this world. Hang on

Steve:

to him, Blair. Hang on to him, because

Steve:

you need him a lot more than

Steve:

he needs you right now.

Leif:

Vanessa is looking at her name being

Leif:

attached to the news story about Trip. Gossip Girl

Leif:

begins her end of episode monologue.

Leif:

Sometimes it's hard to see the lines we've drawn

Leif:

until we cross them. She just look at her on

Leif:

their name in the. On the website.

Steve:

Did she. Did she smile? I forget.

Leif:

Yeah, she does.

Steve:

Yeah. Does feel good, Vanessa.

Leif:

Dan and Olivia are, uh, watching Olivia's second appearance

Leif:

on Fallon. Olivia made Fallon apologize to

Leif:

Dan, and Gossip Girl continues. That's when we

Leif:

rely on the ones we love to pull us back and give

Leif:

us something to hold on to.

Steve:

Yeah, that was cute, too. Like, why are you so worried about this?

Steve:

Olivia? Chill. Like, I. I hate when they

Steve:

write the tension just for tension, when there doesn't need

Steve:

to be. Give them. Have her say something

Steve:

that was actually insulting.

Leif:

Well, uh, it wasn't even her. I mean, Jimmy

Leif:

Fallon was the one. Yeah, like, insulting.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Caught him like a creep or something.

Steve:

Like. Yeah. The red flags. Check, please.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

We transition to Chuck and Blair asleep and

Leif:

spooning. Oh, and

Leif:

in the final scene of the episode, Trip finds

Leif:

Serena sitting alone at the bar. The

Leif:

two flirt and order more drinks.

Leif:

Gossip Girl opines, then

Leif:

there are clearly marked lines. The

Leif:

ones that, if you dare cross, you may

Leif:

never find your way back. Xo.

Leif:

XO Gossip Girl.

Steve:

And, uh, Serena's licking a martini glass.

Steve:

Fantastic.

Leif:

Why are you. Congressman, why are you ordering drinks for this

Leif:

minor?

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Now that I am in. Now that I am in

Steve:

office, I will make my first

Steve:

move.

Steve:

And. Ah, so the fifth immediately becomes like a

Steve:

Kennedy creeper the second he wins the election.

Steve:

Hide their blondie.

Leif:

So the full. The full, uh, end of the episode

Leif:

is.

Leif:

Sometimes it's hard to see the lines we've drawn until

Leif:

we cross them. That's when we rely on the ones we

Leif:

love to pull us back and give us something to hold on

Leif:

to. Then there are clearly marked

Leif:

lines. The ones that if you dare

Leif:

cross, you may never find your way back.

Leif:

X.O.X.O. gossip

Leif:

Girl. And that is our episode.

Leif:

What's coming next?

Steve:

I do wonder. I did have the thought of,

Steve:

although Serena's not a publicist for KC

Steve:

Anymore, that there'd be a job open

Steve:

for Trip for someone in her Position.

Steve:

I do believe there's something going on with her and

Steve:

Trip. Uh, that's set

Steve:

up. Pretty obvious, pretty obviously.

Steve:

I wonder what that then leaves

Steve:

for Trip's wife. I forget her name.

Leif:

Maureen.

Steve:

Maureen. I forget where that leaves M. I don't know where that

Steve:

leaves Maureen. I don't know where that leaves

Steve:

Grandfather. I feel like Grandfather is going to get back on

Steve:

top and get his reigns back around

Steve:

Trip and Nate. Uh, I don't.

Steve:

Grandfather doesn't seem like the type to lose

Steve:

for long. For good.

Steve:

I, uh, foresee some tension coming.

Steve:

There's gotta be some real tension with Dan and Olivia

Steve:

eventually. Unless she's just

Steve:

going to be around for a while. I just. I

Steve:

don't see how that's really sustainable. Or maybe

Steve:

I also. I really like Hilary

Steve:

Duff. I really like her a lot. I

Steve:

don't think she's a very good actor.

Steve:

I think it's sort of like she's charismatic. Yes,

Steve:

she's charismatic. I think it's sort of how

Steve:

I feel about Eliza Dushku. Eliza Dushku

Steve:

is Faith and played Faith and Was. And

Steve:

that's.

Leif:

They got that Riz.

Steve:

Uh, yeah, but, like, I don't think she's a

Steve:

good actor, and I don't think that Hilary

Steve:

Duff is a really good actor. I think that

Steve:

she plays a cute girlfriend for Dan

Steve:

on the show, but I have a hard time

Steve:

often seeing her not as just Lizzie

Steve:

McGuire.

Leif:

Well, uh, she's, uh, basically playing a version of

Leif:

herself.

Steve:

Yeah, she really is. And. And

Steve:

I guess I'm also. Because she had that How I Met yout

Steve:

Father show where she also kind of

Steve:

played this character.

Steve:

And I just feel like she does just kind of

Steve:

play herself. And I feel like she is one of

Steve:

those actors who has the luxury of doing

Steve:

that because she was a successful child

Steve:

star who isn't a complete train

Steve:

wreck child star who has grown

Steve:

into now having a,

Steve:

I would say, successful career as an

Steve:

adult. You know, she's working, and

Steve:

I don't think that she's someone that needs to be

Steve:

a good actor to get work.

Leif:

So let's go ahead and get. Or, uh, do you have any more

Leif:

predictions? Anything on Chuck and Blair?

Steve:

Mostly it's more and more evident that Chuck

Steve:

needs Blair needs Chuck,

Steve:

and Chuck doesn't need Blair. Chuck, uh,

Steve:

loves Blair. I believe that. And Chuck likes this.

Steve:

But I also feel that we often see Chuck getting tired with

Steve:

the high school shit.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

So I think that is going to start boiling

Steve:

over more that Blair

Steve:

or could Chuck.

Leif:

He's been pretty healthy

Leif:

this season.

Steve:

He's been a grownup like he has been.

Leif:

Can that last? Could something come and shake that

Leif:

up? And then maybe he does need

Leif:

Blair.

Steve:

Yeah, I. I could see that, you

Steve:

know, Jack could come back. Some other

Steve:

relative.

Leif:

We just had a mention of him last episode.

Steve:

Yeah, we had a mention of him two episodes ago. So there's

Steve:

definitely things that could do that to

Steve:

Chuck. And it could also. I.

Steve:

I could see Blair not rising

Steve:

to the occasion when Chuck needs him. Chuck

Steve:

has, in their own creepy, weird

Steve:

way, risen to the occasion for Blair.

Steve:

There was the one time when she used him and he said,

Steve:

I can't. So it could be that

Steve:

Blair won't rise to the occasion when Chuck needs her.

Steve:

Needs him. Needs her.

Leif:

Let's go ahead and get into some segments.

Leif:

This week in fandom, we jumped into the

Leif:

Wayback Machine to travel to the fan forums of

Leif:

2009. Hello

Leif:

there, Peabody here. And this is the

Leif:

Wayback Machine. We're traveling through time. And this is

Leif:

my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman.

Steve:

Hello.

Leif:

Good boy. Not a very.

Leif:

Not a lot of chatter this week. Overall, uh,

Leif:

opinion was the episode is kind of weak.

Leif:

Several people, like, apparently a lot of people are

Leif:

New Yorkers watching this show because several people thought they actually

Leif:

turned to New York Shadow one.

Leif:

Apparently, that's what it actually looks like.

Steve:

Oh, it's funny.

Leif:

Tripp is hot.

Steve:

Is he? I mean, he's not. I. I don't

Steve:

see him as being any hotter than anyone else.

Steve:

I don't see him as a standout. I guess

Steve:

the fans disagree when you have

Steve:

Chase Crawford on the screen. Ow.

Leif:

For once more, people are team Serena over team

Leif:

Blair. I agree.

Steve:

I do, too. But I'm just surprised because usually the

Steve:

loyalists to, uh, queen bee,

Steve:

I started calling my cat. We have a new cat,

Steve:

Parissa Tomei. And I started calling her queen

Steve:

Bee.

Leif:

And finally, like the vulture recap, they were

Leif:

definitely kind of confused on why Blair and Serena are

Leif:

fighting.

Steve:

Yeah, it was a dumb fight to begin with.

Leif:

Moving over to episode grades, you went

Leif:

first last time, so I'm going to go first this time.

Leif:

Yeah. Like the fan forum people, I did

Leif:

not think this episode was that great. The writing was kind of

Leif:

boring. Nothing really

Leif:

happened. The directing was good,

Leif:

but overall, I gave it a C minus.

Steve:

Yeah, I'm going a C.

Steve:

I was in the B range at first.

Steve:

But it's, uh, funny because sometimes when we're here

Steve:

and we're going through it and we're actually talking about it,

Steve:

the grade will take a hit. And

Steve:

things like the Olivia

Steve:

storyline being weak,

Steve:

the tension between

Steve:

Blair and Serena though the tension

Steve:

itself wasn't weak. The

Steve:

story behind it, again, was weak.

Leif:

Yeah, the directing and the acting was fine. The writing

Leif:

was weak.

Steve:

The writing was definitely weak. And

Steve:

it seemed like the episode went somewhere, but

Steve:

nowhere necessary. Like there

Steve:

was a huge win for a minor, uh,

Steve:

character.

Leif:

I mean that, uh. Yeah, the one big setup

Leif:

is you got Serena and Tripp.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. The congressman. The

Steve:

congressman and the teenager.

Leif:

Yes. They did actually state his age, which.

Steve:

Is 26, so eight years older

Steve:

than Serena.

Leif:

On to Stockwatch

Leif:

going up. I had Dan and Olivia because

Leif:

they were just had your little silly storyline were

Leif:

cute at the end. Tripp because he's now

Leif:

a congressman. Maureen because

Leif:

she schemed out skeeved the

Leif:

grandfather. And then also

Leif:

Vanessa. I mean she did the right thing and she

Leif:

got her footage on the news and so good for

Leif:

her.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. I actually had all of them.

Steve:

Tripp, Dan, Olivia,

Steve:

Vanessa and Mrs. Trip. I

Steve:

also had Chuck going up. He threw

Steve:

this successful campaign event. His

Steve:

hotel is still doing well. I had

Steve:

Rufus and Lily going up for having a storyline that

Steve:

wasn't stupid. And I

Steve:

had Brandeis going up because she was working that

Steve:

party.

Leif:

Nice. I'm actually going to add Brandeis.

Steve:

She deserves it. I mean she

Steve:

out schemed Blair.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Ah, yeah.

Leif:

I had Chuck neutral also Rufus and Lily neutral

Leif:

because I didn't like the way Chuck treated Serena. So I

Leif:

kept him as neutral.

Steve:

That's fair. That's fair.

Leif:

Rufus and Lily were just there.

Steve:

I liked that Chuck was being the closest thing

Steve:

to a grown up of the non judging breakfast

Steve:

pod going down.

Leif:

I had Serena because she, like I

Leif:

said, is now jobless and potentially homeless.

Leif:

Uh, Blair because she still has

Leif:

no real friends. Just not much going for

Leif:

right now. Nate because he was a dick

Leif:

and still got fucked over. And uh, the

Leif:

grandfather because he got out positioned.

Steve:

I had all of the same. But I also had Patrick

Steve:

going down for just being a complete and

Steve:

total train wreck.

Leif:

Fair enough.

Steve:

But here's the best outfits from the.

Steve:

Last episode we've seen.

Leif:

So moving over to best outfit.

Leif:

I did not recognize her originally in the stock watch,

Leif:

but the woman who's getting paid to look good,

Leif:

I gave her the best outfit. Brandeis.

Steve:

Brandeis.

Leif:

Their turquoise dress.

Steve:

Fair. Yeah.

Leif:

Was not a great fashion upset.

Steve:

No, no, My outfit actually

Steve:

was when Blair met Brandeis, the.

Leif:

The gold.

Steve:

The gold and brown outfit she wore

Steve:

to court. Uh, that was my

Steve:

favorite outfit of the episode.

Leif:

That is it for segments

Leif:

for plugs this week. What do you got?

Steve:

First of all, I've been

Steve:

watching, I keep talking about the New Daredevil, which

Steve:

is awesome. I've been watching that.

Steve:

And outside of that, you can go ahead and

Steve:

follow me on Instagram or TikTok

Steve:

@Steve Marshon M A R

Steve:

C H I O N. I'm on threads as

Steve:

well so you could follow me there as well.

Steve:

And you can find me on bluesky

Steve:

Headwizard.

Steve:

And I'm pretty sure that's what I'm plugging

Steve:

as of right now.

Leif:

For me, I'm going to recommend checking out still

Leif:

the podcast. That's still

Leif:

the podcast. It's a couple of women who

Leif:

are uh, talking about issues that women

Leif:

identifying artists are still facing in Iowa

Leif:

today. And one of the co hosts is

Leif:

actually, uh, was involved in Gossip Girl.

Steve:

Oh nice.

Leif:

So check that out. And then if you want to follow me on

Leif:

social media, you can find me on bluesky

Leif:

and Instagram. Hotcappicola. That's

Leif:

hot. C A P I

Leif:

C O L A. You can follow the

Leif:

podcast on threads, TikTok and

Leif:

Instagramnjudgingbreakfastpod.

Leif:

And if you're interested in finding links to our uh,

Leif:

Discord server, Patreon, subreddit,

Leif:

et cetera, you can find them on our website

Leif:

nonjudgingbreakfastpod.com

Leif:

and if you would.

Steve:

Like to get in touch with us, we would love to hear what you have to say

Steve:

and maybe even read the email on

Steve:

the show here. Please send us an email

Steve:

to

Steve:

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Steve:

and we'd love to hear your thoughts. Also while

Steve:

you're listening, if you could go ahead and hit that like

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Steve:

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Steve:

at it, tell a friend what you're listening to,

Steve:

make us your water cooler talk and get

Steve:

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Steve:

breakfast pod. Fun for sure.

Leif:

And we will be back next week to discuss

Leif:

season three, episode nine. They

Leif:

shoot Humphreys, don't they?

Steve:

Damn.

Leif:

The Max episode description reads

Leif:

jenny wants to be the ultimate queen

Leif:

bee.

Steve:

Uh oh. I, I mean, oh,

Steve:

then is she going? She going for

Steve:

now.

Leif:

Well, there's more than one private school in New

Leif:

York.

Steve:

Yeah. Wow.

Leif:

And they all get together for something.

Steve:

What did they get together for before.

Leif:

Season one, episode ten.

Steve:

Oh man, I'm drawing a blank. But I

Steve:

remember it. I know that they all got together

Steve:

coming out.

Leif:

Debutante. Oh,

Leif:

cotillion.

Steve:

The cotillion. Oh,

Steve:

uh, uh, it's funny cause I wouldn't think of jenny.

Steve:

I would imagine her always wanting to but not

Steve:

really thinking she'd have the chance. But she's a bass now

Steve:

and she's a junior. Yeah, she's a junior and she's got that

Steve:

bass, cash. So, yeah.

Steve:

Also, our next episode will be recorded on my favorite

Steve:

holiday. No, not easter. It is

Steve:

4:20.

Leif:

But until, uh, next time, you know you love us.

Steve:

XOXO Every time you walk

Steve:

away run.

Steve:

Away you take a piece of me with you

Steve:

there Every time you walk

Steve:

away or run away you take a piece of me

Steve:

with you there Every

Steve:

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

Steve:

me with you there

Steve:

oh, it seems I'm walking.

Steve:

Right to your door

Steve:

my heart's still.

Steve:

Resting looking for something more.

Steve:

Are m.

Steve:

You ever gonna see everything you mean to me I'm

Steve:

trying really hard to believe

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of m me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

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Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

never feels right when I'm out here on

Steve:

my own

Steve:

I left last night and it feels like

Steve:

way too long

Steve:

are you ever gonna see everything you mean

Steve:

to me I'm trying really hard to believe

Steve:

every time you walk away run away you take a

Steve:

piece of meat with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

come back to me

Steve:

smile and you'll make my life

Steve:

complete

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

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Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

piece of me you with with you there

Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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Steve:

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