Episode 13

S3E13 - "The Hurt Locket"

This week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve are back at it, diving headfirst into the deliciously tangled web of relationships in Gossip Girl Season 3, Episode 13, "The Hurt Locket." Buckle up, because secrets are popping out like popcorn at a movie premiere, and the stakes are higher than a pair of stilettos on the Upper East Side! Serena and Nate are wrestling with their feelings like it’s an Olympic sport, all while trying to dodge the drama thrown their way by the mysterious and oh-so-smooth Damien. And let’s not forget Chuck, who’s on a truth-seeking mission regarding his mother that leads to some jaw-dropping revelations that could flip the entire Gossip Girl universe upside down!

Join Leif and Steve as they navigate the chaotic dynamics of the Upper East Side, filled with questionable decisions (hey there, Jenny and your drug escapades!), and the rollercoaster ride of Rufus and Lily’s marriage. Expect a hearty dose of laughs, sharp commentary, and a few eye-rolls as our dynamic duo breaks down the episode’s most unforgettable moments. From Blair's relentless ambition to the ever-watchful eye of Gossip Girl herself, this episode is packed with the kind of scandal and secrets that keep you hooked like a guilty pleasure you just can’t quit. So, grab your favorite breakfast treat—be it waffle, a smoothie, or maybe just a good ol’ cup of coffee—and settle in for another scrumptious episode filled with all the drama you crave!

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Edited and mixed by Leif Capicola.

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Transcript
Steve:

Dear the letter. Dear Serena, I banged your

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mom. I don't love you.

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Xoxo, your dad also,

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I'm Gossip Girl.

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He's been making her life a living hell for the

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past two years.

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Her dad's actually Gossip Girl.

Leif:

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

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there you just tuned into the non judging breakfast

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pod where the coffee is strong, the

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waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than

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

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Girl veteran.

Steve:

And I'm Steve, the newbie, the

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greenhorn, the. I don't know, Leif. What, um, am I

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now that we're in season three?

Leif:

I don't know, but I have more important things to do than search

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for another member of the Bar Bass fan club.

Steve:

Yeah, but Leif, what if that's my mother?

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So here's the deal, folks. Leif has

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been watching since the beginning and I am

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tuning in for the very first time. Together,

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we are going to bring you all the drama,

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the romance, and sometimes questionable

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fashion choices of this iconic

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2007 series.

Leif:

Bring your magnifying glasses, because each week we're

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dissecting every juicy detail of the show. We

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

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uncover those sneaky little Easter eggs, and of course,

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serve up some piping hot behind the scenes tea.

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And expect some iconic fandom moments too,

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because what's a deep dive without a little drama?

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And since we are all about inclusivity here at the

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non judging breakfast pod, there is always room for

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you at the non judging breakfast table. So go ahead

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and grab a mimosa, a cup of coffee, or

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roll up something from Chuck's stash and let's go

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ahead and get into this.

Leif:

But before we get into the episode, we got another

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comment from, uh, Nostalgic Edit.

Leif:

She Posted on episode

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310. They shoot Humphreys. Uh, or no, that was the

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last. The last days of the disco stick. And her

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comment was this episode is all

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over the place. Lol. But very

Leif:

Layla Gerstein. I don't think you guys have discussed the

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fact that she created Heart of Dixie. I find she's great

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at writing towards Blair and Layton and. And Summer Rachel

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comedic silly sides, which I love. Oh,

Leif:

yeah, I did that. She was the

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showrunner for that show.

Steve:

Yeah, me neither.

Leif:

Never really got into that one.

Steve:

Yeah, I didn't. I. I've never seen it. I

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will say that I do agree with the fact

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that she really captured those

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pieces of the characters really well though. I

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mean, yeah.

Leif:

And, uh, the Other thing I want to mention is I was watching a behind

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the scenes video of, uh, Pam Badgley for,

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uh, the. You final in, and

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he pointed out that the soundstage

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that is now or probably no longer is, but it

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was for a couple years there.

Steve:

The cage was.

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Was in the Waldorf

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apartment.

Leif:

Yes.

Steve:

And the loft. And the loft was the.

Leif:

Was the bookstore.

Steve:

Was the bookstore, yes. Yeah, I thought that was

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really interesting. I actually also saw.

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I saw, uh, Chase Crawford doing an interview,

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and I typically flip right past a lot

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of these things because I'm worried they're going to say something.

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Uh, I, uh, saw Blake Lively one

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time mentioned that she was going to marry her or be

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stepbrother with her boyfriend when.

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That. Right before Rufus and Lily got married, things

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like that.

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This.

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It was Chase very specifically talking about

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when he and Ed first

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joined the cast, and they had just shot the

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pilot episode and how

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the two of them were brand new to New York.

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This guy from England, this guy from Texas. And they're

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like, well, should we just room together? And they're like, sure.

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And so they only knew each other.

Leif:

Ah, Chase's dad actually put up the money for,

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like, down the deposit.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Because they didn't have any money because they were

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just out of college and just

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starting their careers. And

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they went out to this concert, and they were already

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recognized before the show

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was released. They had shot the pilot, but it wasn't out

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yet. And then Chase talked about

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how surreal it was to then

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go from being this. I don't want

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to say poor, but this kid who was just

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starting out to then

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kind of living the Nate Archibald

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life and then being

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Nate Archibald in the city where Nate

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Archibald is famous.

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So it was. And for him and

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Ed to just kind of become those

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roles in the very beginning, which also kind

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of explains at least a little bit about Ed.

Leif:

And then the interview you saw, uh, was, uh,

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from the call your daddy podcast. But actually that's something

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that Chase has been saying for years. He's kind of been

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pretty open. They roomed together for at least, like, two

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years, I think.

Steve:

Yeah. The.

Leif:

Those two and Jessica Zor, who plays

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Vanessa.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Were kind of like a trio.

Steve:

Oh, okay. I didn't realize that kind of makes

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sense. I could see that. Uh,

Steve:

it's always funny. We talked a little bit last week

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about Topher Grace and how he had

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nothing, wanted nothing to do with the rest of

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that 70s show cast. And it is funny when

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you learn about these clicks that go on

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inside M and outside of it. You know, we have These best

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friends of Serena and Blair. But as we've said,

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Blake and Leon are completely different people.

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They're. They're. They come from completely different places,

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completely different backgrounds. So

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it's.

Leif:

While the show is running, you kind of had Ed Chase

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and Jessica hanging out. You had

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Connor and Taylor Momson were

Leif:

hanging out.

Steve:

That. That tracks. The kids he

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had. Is. Is Connor. Was Connor age

Steve:

appropriate like Jenny? That's. He's. I mean, he looks it.

Leif:

Yeah. I think he's like a year or two older, but he's still

Leif:

in school at the start of the show.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And then Pen and Blake were.

Steve:

They.

Leif:

Neither of them really drink and they just kind of were in their

Leif:

own love bubble for the first three seasons.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. So they're still together now

Steve:

on the show, right?

Leif:

Yeah, it's pretty close. I think they're getting pretty close

Leif:

to the breakup.

Steve:

Okay.

Leif:

Uh, I'll look up when that

Leif:

exactly happened because I know it's coming up soon, I think.

Leif:

And then Layton was.

Leif:

I guess something's just kind of like a homebody. Yeah,

Leif:

she liked to read.

Steve:

That makes sense. It really makes sense that she likes

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to read too. She plays smart characters

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and I feel like that's something that she looks for

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in roles.

Leif:

Well, let's get into this episode.

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Season 3 Episode 13 the

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Hurt Locket Original Air Date was March

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8, 2010 just over three months

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since the last episode.

Steve:

Right.

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Which is a long break.

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It's a long break and it

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doesn't feel like it was shot three months

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later. And it doesn't feel like we're supposed to believe it

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was a three month break. Like it feels like

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it picks up a week or two

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later.

Leif:

Trying to think, could it have been like Winter

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Olympics or something? I don't

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know. What. We made that long delay in

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2009-2010.

Steve:

Yeah, I mean, Winter Olympics is one thing.

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There wasn't another strike or anything like

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that. I wonder if some. Maybe something was going

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on at the cw. Maybe they like

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brought in a new show that. A, um, mid season

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show that they wanted to ramp up for a bit. But

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it was a weird break.

Leif:

And uh, of course the title is based on the Hurt

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Locker, which I was shocked to find out was almost.

Leif:

It's almost 20 years old that movies in

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2008.

Steve:

When that. When I saw that that was

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the title of the episode, I felt

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so fucking old. It was

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how is the hurt locker?

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20 years old. Like, like blew

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my mind.

Leif:

But of course, yeah, if you haven't seen it, it was directed by Catherine

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Bigelow A little bit of an adventures

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reunion cast featuring Anthony Mackie,

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Jeremy Renner and Evangeline Lilly.

Steve:

It's. Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Along with Guy Pierce, David Morris and Ralph Phineas.

Steve:

It's a tense movie. I. Have you seen it?

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, it's. It's a tense movie.

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Good movie. I think Kathryn Bigelow is

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a really good director. She's done some other really

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great films too.

Leif:

And David Morse is ah. A. Is a local.

Leif:

Oh, I actually one time I saw him at

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the sushi restaurant I was at.

Steve:

No kidding.

Leif:

Got you. I can.

Steve:

Yeah. I didn't realize that.

Leif:

This episode was written by Sarah

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Goodman, one of the executive producers of the

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show. This is her second of three episodes this season.

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Previous episode was 307.

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How to Succeed in Bassness.

Steve:

How did we feel about that one?

Leif:

I think we like that one.

Steve:

Felt like the writing in this

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one.

Leif:

Yeah. This was not a good episode.

Steve:

I didn't think. No.

Leif:

Uh, this episode was directed by Tony

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Warmby. Uh, back in the chair for the seventh

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and final episode of the series

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O but he previously did Victor

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Victrola, School Lies, Woman on the Verge,

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Chuck in Real Life, and the R of the Basses and most

Leif:

recently the Last Days of Disco Stick. Yeah, uh,

Leif:

yeah, the last two episodes. Not, not. Not that

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great, man. Not.

Steve:

I like Disco Stick enough.

Leif:

It was funny.

Steve:

Yeah, it was a fun episode. I really liked Blair and

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Nate in that episode. I.

Steve:

Yeah, not surprised. This was the

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last.

Leif:

Why don't you give us that vulture recap?

Steve:

Ok. Everybody needs

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to play games. Blair Waldorf, the scheming queen

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of the Upper east side, says early on in the

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first episode of the new spring season

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of Gossip Girl. If only by

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that she meant sexual role playing games

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involving characters from Tolstoy.

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Alas, the New Yorkers on Gossip Girl, like

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New Yorkers in real life, choose to play

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games that are far less satisfying.

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Serena, feeling rejected by Nate after

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he tries to heed her dictum M to go

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slow, tries to make him jealous by flirting

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with international drug dealer and ambassador

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son Damian. Rufus, feeling

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rejected by Lily after her off screen make

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out session with Keith Van Der Woodsen,

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turns to conveniently available neighbor

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lady in hopes that she will, er,

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lick his wounds.

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Meanwhile, his daughter Jenny takes her

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lauded Humphrey Boggle skills and

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applies them to masterminding a

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complicated drug transaction.

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Lily is coy about the exact nature of her

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interaction with Serena's father and the

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mysterious Elizabeth Fisher plays dumb

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about her relationship with Bart Bass. Only

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Dan remains uninterested in deception

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and in pursuit of the similarly earnest

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Vanessa forlornly spends the

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episode reading how to turn friends into

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Lovers. He'll end up in

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clogs. Sorry for the

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messed up reading. I dropped my phone

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and shattered the screen last weekend,

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and it is the

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in, like, the entire screen, and it's a pain

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in my ass.

Leif:

I have her a new phone.

Steve:

Yeah, and it already was, but I was just

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putting it off, and then that happened, and so it's

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like.

Leif:

Okay, well, let's get into

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the episode. Act one begins with

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Gossip Girl monologue.

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It was the best of times. It was the worst of

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times. Seems Dickens do something about life on

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the Upper east side where the only one thing

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you can count on is times. Changes everything.

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Word has it s. Gave up politics to focus

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on issues closer to her heart.

Steve:

Gave up politics.

Steve:

Gave up politic.

Leif:

That's fired. We open

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with a phone conversation between Serena and Blair.

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Serena is excited for Nate to come home, but Blaire

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advises her to take things slow. As they hang

Leif:

up, Blair finds the locket from last episode.

Steve:

Yeah, I chuckled at that Serena gave

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up politics thing. She was never in politics.

Steve:

Politics were in her.

Leif:

She sort of was. She was officially

Leif:

hired by the campaign.

Steve:

Okay, okay. She was.

Steve:

I repeat, the politics were in her

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more than she was in politics.

Leif:

Hey, we don't know what Trip is into.

Steve:

No, that's also true.

Steve:

Does he have a fish thing?

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Why, I oughta. Blair also

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knows Nate. The

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conversation with Serena. Now,

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the friends all give terrible advice here, but

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it comes from this place that they really do know these

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people. Blair knows Nate better than

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probably anyone else. Which is funny,

Steve:

because I don't think Blair. Nate knows Blair as well as Blair

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knows Nate, which I think is a huge thing

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that we've picked up from their relationship all along.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Whereas Chuck knows Blair

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better than anyone.

Leif:

Serena bumps into Damien and we learn they went to

Leif:

boarding school together.

Steve:

Of course they did.

Leif:

I think Serena was just being friendly when she says

Leif:

she will see Damien at the dinner party tomorrow, but

Leif:

I think Damien is getting other ideas.

Steve:

Yes, of course they remember each other from the school

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she attended for five minutes,

Steve:

which the later references to this. Was

Steve:

she there for a year? Yeah.

Leif:

When they come back, she's been gone a year.

Steve:

Oh, right. I don't know why I was

Steve:

thinking it was just the summer, but, yes, you're right. She was

Steve:

gone one year without her friend. Okay,

Steve:

I forgot that. I don't know why I was

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thinking she was gone for a summer that she went to

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boarding school. In

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my head, watching this, it

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was. She went to Boarding school in

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September. Eric tried to kill himself. She came

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right home.

Leif:

She was there for a year, but. What? I flagged up the scene.

Leif:

She tells him to text her his number.

Leif:

She's just assuming that he has her number.

Steve:

I'm sure you stalked me at some.

Leif:

Point, but then again, Serena just does.

Leif:

Just throw her phone away.

Steve:

She does. She does. Well.

Leif:

And man, this is pre cloud.

Steve:

She's. She's such a narcissist.

Steve:

Of course you have my number.

Steve:

Just make sure when you text me, I know it's you, because

Steve:

I do throw away phones.

Leif:

Blair asks Chuck about the locket. Chuck is

Leif:

dismissive and lets us know that one of his

Leif:

father's quote unquote concubines had Bart's

Leif:

names tattooed on her ass. Blair asks

Leif:

for help getting an introduction to the rumored president

Leif:

of Tabla Alitaire, which Blair is still

Leif:

obsessed with despite acting like he doesn't care about

Leif:

the necklace. As Blair leaves, we see Chuck

Leif:

with a text from Andrew Tyler, who has found the

Leif:

jeweler.

Steve:

Ooh. Ah, secret, uh, society.

Steve:

Ooh. Ah, secret

Steve:

society. Is this a new secret society or have we seen this

Steve:

one?

Leif:

This is the same one that, uh, Georgina tricked her with

Leif:

about earlier.

Steve:

Okay, right, right, right. With the, with the painting, with

Steve:

the art. With the photograph.

Leif:

Yes, Correct.

Steve:

Okay.

Leif:

We see Lily helping Jenny unpack.

Leif:

We find out that Jenny spent some time with Allison and Hudson,

Leif:

and Rufus has been away with Lincoln Hawk and Telluride.

Leif:

Damien interrupts with a welcome back gift for Jenny.

Leif:

Lily is concerned about leaving Jenny alone in her room with

Leif:

Damien, but Jenny brushes it off. Also, it

Leif:

seems like Lily and Rufus haven't been talking over the long break.

Steve:

Yeah, fucking, of course, Rufus. Of course,

Steve:

Rufus. Oh, I get this letter. Instead of finding out

Steve:

anything about it, I'm just going to run away. I'm going to go to

Steve:

Telluride and ski because I'm so mad at my

Steve:

wife. So I'm just going to take her credit card and go to

Steve:

Telluride with my band and I'm going to

Steve:

go play a show and Telluride and not

Steve:

take my wife.

Leif:

I just get Rufus, like, keep his band in a

Leif:

closet because they don't seem to have any other

Leif:

lines. Whenever he's ready to go on tour, they're there. He

Leif:

wants to go off for a, uh, ski trip. They're there.

Steve:

They've all taken their every

Steve:

time money and, like, banked it,

Steve:

and they've all just got huge, huge

Steve:

stock portfolios. They do nothing but just sit around.

Steve:

Uh, they probably have their own band. Like the band.

Steve:

Like, we.

Steve:

We don't realize they're actually Maroon 5.

Leif:

Yeah. They're just such NPCs.

Steve:

They are. They just. They're always ready to.

Leif:

Uh. We quickly find out Jenny was, in fact, telling the truth

Leif:

about her relationship with Damian not being romantic. Turns

Leif:

out Damien has a puzzle involving drugs that he

Leif:

needs Jenny's help solving.

Steve:

I liked that. I did like, you

Steve:

know, the. You're a good puzzle solver.

Steve:

And I do like it. The Humphrey gaming

Steve:

thing. And it is one of those.

Steve:

Being a gamer. Uh, you and I both know this as

Steve:

gamers. It makes us. It

Steve:

does have that problem solving

Steve:

component to it, you know? And

Steve:

so I do love that that was kind of

Steve:

showcased. Also, I want to dial back just a

Steve:

second to the conversation between Lily and Jenny

Steve:

where Lily's like, hey, your dad and I

Steve:

haven't discussed this.

Steve:

I don't know what to do in this situation. And

Steve:

Jenny's like, if we wanted to have sex, we'd go to a

Steve:

hotel. We're just gonna go in there and talk. If anything changes, I'll open

Steve:

the door. We're cool. And

Steve:

I feel like there's a part of me that would be like, fuck,

Steve:

that the door stays open. But there's

Steve:

a bigger part of me that's like, she's got a

Steve:

point. Like, she's got a point.

Leif:

They could just grab a hotel.

Steve:

Uh, yeah.

Leif:

Hell, Damien probably is living in a hotel.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Rufus comes home to the loft rather than the penthouse

Leif:

and immediately ignores a call from Lily.

Leif:

Short scene, but, yeah, he just beat a dish.

Steve:

Like, fuck you, Rufus.

Leif:

God, that's a child.

Steve:

I cannot fucking.

Leif:

I mean, they're both children.

Steve:

They are. They are Lily. I have, uh,

Steve:

written down here somewhere much later that Lily

Steve:

is the reason Serena is a narcissist,

Steve:

because Lily is just as big of a narcissist.

Steve:

It's just that Lily also can

Steve:

manage her shit a lot better and can brush

Steve:

her shit off so much more. Honestly, if

Steve:

Rufus right now at the end of this episode, if

Steve:

Rufus really was like, okay, Lily, we're done. Lily.

Steve:

Okay, okay, I'll. I'll find number

Steve:

six.

Leif:

Chuck is at the jeweler and finds out that Bart is

Leif:

the one who bought the locket. And a woman matching the description

Leif:

of the one from the graveyard brought the necklace in about a

Leif:

month ago for a repair. Chuck bribes

Leif:

the jeweler into giving him the name of the woman

Leif:

and the hotel she is staying at. The

Leif:

name is Elizabeth Fisher.

Steve:

This locket is all that I have left of my dad.

Steve:

And the billion dollars that I, you know, spent on this hotel

Steve:

and the billions of dollars he left me that I then

Steve:

squandered to buy another hotel instead of

Steve:

running a hotel chain.

Leif:

Gossip Girl begins the next scene

Leif:

with enough time we all find what we're looking

Leif:

for.

Leif:

Serena gets off the elevator to find Nate waiting for

Leif:

her a day early. They both agree to take things

Leif:

slow. But before immediately

Leif:

making out with each other, things continue getting hotter. And

Leif:

Gossip Girl continues.

Leif:

And when time slows and suddenly

Leif:

every moment count, all you want is

Leif:

for the time to last forever.

Steve:

Nate, don't you have a driver waiting for you?

Steve:

Weren't you just a second ago? Like. Well, I should get going. There's a guy

Steve:

down there waiting to take me back to my house.

Leif:

I mean he's paid to drive.

Steve:

Just circle the block or just park illegally

Steve:

and he'll pay the just parked in front of you.

Leif:

But we really needed derota to just follow these two around with a water

Leif:

bottle up.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

Stop being horny.

Steve:

Stop being horny. Newspaper

Steve:

pops out of the. Pops out of the coats. Between

Steve:

the coats

Steve:

in the coat room.

Leif:

Yes. We get into act two.

Leif:

We, uh, get some more Nate and Dan. Bro time at the

Leif:

cafe. Sounds like Vanessa has been ghosting Dan. All

Leif:

break. Causing him to read at least five self help

Leif:

blogs on how to turn friends to lovers.

Steve:

Dan. So fucking pathetic.

Steve:

And then that is. It's kind

Steve:

of stalking almost. It's stalker

Steve:

adjacent. I'd say to

Steve:

obsess this way.

Leif:

Yeah. Yeah. He definitely came on way

Leif:

too strong. You don't go from friends to I

Leif:

love you.

Steve:

Yeah. Ah. And also get over it. Like

Steve:

Vanessa was very clear. This

Steve:

isn't happening. She shut that shit down. She

Steve:

got up, she walked away. I've never

Steve:

loved Vanessa more than in that

Steve:

moment. And Dan, you're.

Steve:

You're kind of sad at this point.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Because you don't really love her. You just saw her naked

Steve:

and you kind of think, maybe I want to see her naked again.

Steve:

Which.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Ah. Which I. I don't blame you.

Leif:

But. Yeah. So the conversation. You don't go right from

Leif:

friends to I love you. You say we

Leif:

had sex and I'm. My feelings might be changing.

Leif:

Let's grab some dinner and see what happens.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Hey. Somebody. Something.

Steve:

I realized something

Steve:

from that experience. Can we give

Steve:

this a shot? I love you.

Steve:

No. Dan and

Steve:

Vanessa's I love you back was so appropriate.

Steve:

Okay. We already talked about. About that.

Leif:

Blair and Serena meet for lunch. And Blair

Leif:

immediately smells the sex on, um. Serena.

Leif:

The scene keeps switching Back and forth from BNS to

Leif:

Dan and Nate. Dan and Blair are both giving

Leif:

horrible advice to Nate and Serena, respectively.

Steve:

I love that she sees the JBF hair

Steve:

and Serena, like, she just looks at

Steve:

her face and she's glowing.

Leif:

She's.

Steve:

Yeah, she is. She is. Oh, and her hair was a mess too.

Steve:

But just that. I just love that Blair

Steve:

knows her so well to be like, oh, uh, that didn't last.

Steve:

I. And of course, they're both giving.

Steve:

They're both giving terrible advice. The thing

Steve:

is, they're both speaking

Steve:

from experience with these

Steve:

people, so nothing they're saying is

Steve:

necessarily wrong.

Steve:

It is their experience with Nate and

Steve:

Serena, respectively. Dan

Steve:

needs to just not be such a

Steve:

douche about Serena, because

Steve:

this is the second time he's kind of blocked

Steve:

Serena. There was that other time that he was talking

Steve:

to somebody who liked, uh, her. That. Who, who was

Steve:

it? Was it Aaron?

Leif:

I think so.

Steve:

Uh, yeah. But there's been. Yeah, there's just

Steve:

been a few times that he lets things out about

Steve:

Serena from his experience. He's

Steve:

not lying, he's not wrong. But Dan, just shut the fuck

Steve:

up and stop being jaded about.

Steve:

I feel like a lot of it comes from Dan

Steve:

was in love with this person from afar

Steve:

and then realized that everybody. Is

Steve:

that what she. What he saw wasn't

Steve:

what he was in love with. Yeah, I still think they'll

Steve:

end up back together at some point, but, yeah, Giving terrible

Steve:

advice to two golden retrievers.

Leif:

Jenny and Damon are trying to figure out how to

Leif:

smuggle the drugs into a state dinner to sell to the

Leif:

ambassador's daughter. Jenny comes up with the

Leif:

idea to use her fashion skills to sew the pills into

Leif:

decorative packets on a jacket.

Steve:

I like it. I, I, I thought, I thought it was

Steve:

really clever. I love Jenny's problem solving.

Steve:

I loved her explaining it

Steve:

to Damien, who was like, what?

Steve:

We're gonna, we're gonna put it in the

Steve:

pills, in the pockets. They're not

Steve:

gonna be empty.

Leif:

Dan returns home to the loft to find Lily waiting

Leif:

outside looking for Rufus. Dan is

Leif:

surprised to see Rufus's ski gear in the loft, but

Leif:

Rufus is nowhere to be found.

Steve:

Yeah, and Dan does not cover

Steve:

for his dad at all. Like, nope, he's been here.

Steve:

And, and I love it because Dan doesn't

Steve:

put up with bullshit like that.

Steve:

He, Dan doesn't like the games. And as he

Steve:

shows us later, nope, my dad's home

Steve:

somewhere. You can keep trying.

Leif:

Blair is wearing lingerie and an ushanka.

Leif:

Uh, and calls Chuck in a Russian accent, asking him

Leif:

when he'll be back. Chuck is evasive and Blair

Leif:

immediately starts snooping and finds the file on the

Leif:

locket.

Steve:

I thought Blair was supposed to go to lunch with Chuck

Steve:

and that guy for the introduction,

Steve:

and that's not proper lunch attire

Steve:

is all.

Leif:

But also, why did Chuck leave those

Leif:

documents out? Knowing Blair and knowing that

Leif:

she has access to his suite, did he

Leif:

subconsciously or consciously want

Leif:

her to get involved?

Steve:

Probably a little of column A and a little of column B.

Steve:

Probably A. I should put this away

Steve:

because Blair might find it. But it's okay.

Steve:

I'm just gonna leave it out anyway.

Leif:

Chuck has been waiting outside a little Elizabeth's

Leif:

hotel for four hours. However, when Chuck

Leif:

complains to the doorman, he is informed that Elizabeth

Leif:

immediately checked out of the hotel when she got Chuck's

Leif:

message. Yeah,

Leif:

yeah, the other shitty parent.

Steve:

Yep.

Leif:

She fits right in.

Leif:

An awkward. Blair passes a bemused Nate as

Leif:

she is leaving Chuck's suite, still dressed as Anna Karenina.

Steve:

I loved this interaction. It

Steve:

was so quick. It was this.

Steve:

It's from Anna Karenina. You haven't read it?

Steve:

Don't worry about it. I never do.

Steve:

Which. Which you realize. How

Steve:

many times has Blair made

Steve:

Nate roleplay characters

Steve:

from Aubrey Hepburn movies and

Steve:

her favorite books that Nate

Steve:

would never fucking watch or read? He

Steve:

probably sat through the movies because at least they were talking

Steve:

pictures, but he wasn't.

Steve:

There's no way he's read any of these

Steve:

books. But how many times did he put

Steve:

on his fucking.

Steve:

Whatever costume Blair wanted

Steve:

for the role play of, um, all of

Steve:

these scenarios? It just made me really. When his

Steve:

response to I never do,

Steve:

it's like, yep, he's been here.

Leif:

Rufus is standing outside of Billy's building trying

Leif:

to decide if he wants to know the truth or if he wants to be in

Leif:

denial. However, he is interrupted by Holland,

Leif:

who is out walking her dogs. Holland invites him

Leif:

to grab a cup of coffee and Rufus agrees.

Steve:

Here, why don't we just walk arm in arm

Steve:

together while I'm trying to figure out

Steve:

about my wife, you dumb fucking asshole.

Leif:

Well, like, she had the umbrella, but it wasn't raining.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Like, I think they wanted the scene to be raining, but maybe it

Leif:

just, like, stopped raining. Yeah, yeah, they just couldn't

Leif:

get it done.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. Super fucking.

Leif:

But yeah, she. Well,

Leif:

there's like, been almost zero characterization of this

Leif:

woman other than she thinks Rufus is hot.

Steve:

Yeah, other than she thinks Rufus is hot enough to

Steve:

steal him away from his wife

Steve:

or just bang him behind his wife's.

Leif:

She is presumably married too. I Think.

Steve:

Yeah, I mean, we know she was cheated on,

Steve:

and so. But she referred to. She never said

Steve:

ex husband. Yeah, right.

Leif:

And she sounded like she just kind of living with it.

Steve:

Yeah, it sounds like she just.

Steve:

That they just allow each other to do

Steve:

whatever. Or she knows what he's doing,

Steve:

and so now she's gonna do it too

Steve:

unhealthy. No matter. No matter what.

Leif:

Which, of course, is what Rufus is doing as well.

Steve:

Yes, which is exactly what Rufus is doing. You're all

Steve:

dumb teenagers.

Leif:

Serena shows up to the Empire suite looking to get

Leif:

busy with Nate. However, while it appears Serena

Leif:

knows well enough to avoid Blair's bad advice, Nate seems to be

Leif:

following. Dan's being rebuffed by Nate causes

Leif:

Serena to spiral and go against her instinct to ignore Blair.

Leif:

She calls Damien and invites him to be her date for the state

Leif:

dinner. Gossip Girl brings us to the break with

Leif:

Ora, uh, ora lot. No matter

Leif:

what language you say it in. Looks like S just

Leif:

started the clock on a ticking time bomb.

Steve:

Nate, you dumb fuck. And of course,

Steve:

Serena responds by being a fucking

Steve:

narcissist. What? He doesn't want

Steve:

to go now? Okay, then I'm gonna call that other guy that's

Steve:

clearly fucking into me and go with

Steve:

him.

Leif:

Uh, yeah, just. Just use this person.

Steve:

Yeah, I'm gonna use this person to play games

Steve:

with the dude that I actually want to be with.

Leif:

And we move into Act 3. Dan

Leif:

and Rufus are waking up under the same roof for the

Leif:

first time in a while, and things are a bit awkward.

Leif:

Rufus is evasive on whatever is going on

Leif:

between him and Lily. He does, however, admit to

Leif:

wanting to stay in denial a little longer.

Steve:

Dan has no tolerance for this

Steve:

at all. I fucking loved how he

Steve:

was just like, shut that shit down. Like, okay, you don't want

Steve:

to talk to me? Make your own damn waffles. I'm out.

Leif:

Well, he's probably pissed he has to share the loft again.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. Like. Like. Like I have this place to

Steve:

myself. And now my dad can't work things out with his

Steve:

fucking wife because he's acting like a fucking child

Steve:

and will do his own advice.

Leif:

Damien is at the penthouse to pick up the jacket that

Leif:

Jenny has created. He then tells her that he's taking

Leif:

Serena to dinner instead of and she will wear the

Leif:

jacket. Jenny gets a little jealous and threatens to

Leif:

sell Serena about the drugs in the jacket. Damian puts

Leif:

her in a stalemate when he says he will then be forced

Leif:

to tell Serena, uh, of how Jenny knew about the drugs.

Steve:

Damian, you're such a bad Business person. Like, you're

Steve:

choosing the girl over the business.

Steve:

Yeah. Which. That's really bad

Steve:

for business. And as we see

Steve:

tonight.

Leif:

Yes. As Jenny points out later.

Steve:

Yeah. Just a fucking idiot.

Leif:

Blair comes back to the Empire suite to find

Leif:

Chuck is blowing her off again. They argue over

Leif:

which is more important. Chuck looking up some

Leif:

random woman or Blair's social climbing

Leif:

agenda.

Steve:

Yeah. And at this point, Blair knows she's not some random

Steve:

woman. And so is Blair

Steve:

really this callous and really

Steve:

this, uh, stop doing that and worry about this.

Steve:

Or is she trying to push. Push Chuck into

Steve:

saying who she is? Does

Steve:

Blair know at this point she has already seen

Steve:

the file? Yeah.

Leif:

That she had a locket of part.

Steve:

But later on, when Chuck picks her up,

Steve:

he said, you saw the file. You

Steve:

know, she's more than some random woman.

Steve:

So I kind of got wonder if Blair

Steve:

here is already

Steve:

Put that together and just kind of.

Leif:

I didn't get that at all.

Steve:

I'm actually just kind of thinking of it now in

Steve:

hindsight, because of that later scene.

Steve:

Because later on, Chuck says, you saw the

Steve:

file. You know, that she's more than some random person.

Leif:

Yeah, she. I mean, she dated his dad.

Steve:

Right.

Leif:

But Blair doesn't know about the flowers. Doesn't know

Leif:

about. Yeah, she. She doesn't know all the

Leif:

details.

Steve:

She doesn't know all the details. I'm just saying

Steve:

I feel like on one end, it could just be Blair

Steve:

being Blair and, like, come do my thing. Your thing

Steve:

is stupid. I feel like there could also be an angle to

Steve:

this where Blair is, like, I'm gonna call your thing

Steve:

stupid until you admit that it's not. Yeah.

Leif:

I just don't think Blair would treat it like that if she thought

Leif:

it was his mom.

Steve:

I get that. I guess I just felt like this

Steve:

was a little out of character for her, a

Steve:

little more un. Understanding

Steve:

for Chuck, because as soon as.

Leif:

He did tell her that she thought it might be her mom, that's

Leif:

when she completely dropped Monsieur dirty thing.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And went with him.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Outside the ball, Nate sees Serena arrive arm in

Leif:

arm with Damien. Jenny tells him all about

Leif:

Damien and that he probably hooked up with Serena in

Leif:

boarding school. Jenny begs Nate to allow her

Leif:

to rescue him for once.

Steve:

Sure you are, Jenny. I. I dug it. I.

Steve:

I thought Jenny was clever. Uh, which

Steve:

Jenny is clever. I liked her

Steve:

showing up with Nate, Showing up for Nate and going in with Nate.

Steve:

I don't think Serena was with this guy

Steve:

back then. I think because the guy said, what happened to that

Steve:

girl I wanted.

Leif:

Yeah, but Jenny was Just pushing buttons.

Steve:

But she was pushing buttons. Yeah. Well done, Jenny.

Steve:

Well played, I should say.

Leif:

And, uh, she never says. He definitely did. She says, I think.

Steve:

I think. Yeah.

Leif:

Plausible deniability. She learned from Blair.

Steve:

She learned from Blair. Mhm.

Leif:

Nate and Jenny meet M. Serena and Damien at the coat

Leif:

check. Nate and Serena question their respective

Leif:

partners, and Jenny and Damien verbally spar.

Leif:

Serena declines to check the jacket.

Leif:

Gossip Girl closes the act with.

Leif:

So much for diplomacy. Let the international

Leif:

games begin.

Steve:

You know, Serena and Nate just being dumb at each other

Steve:

when they first walk in, but then when she

Steve:

doesn't check the coat.

Steve:

I don't know. I didn't see that coming. And

Steve:

I knew that her wearing the coat was

Steve:

gonna backfire. I didn't even

Steve:

think of just the. Oh, no, I love this coat. I'm gonna wear it.

Steve:

Like, don't. You fucking idiot.

Steve:

If you took the person who planned this,

Steve:

you'd be fine right now.

Leif:

Yep. Yep. We move into Act

Leif:

4 at the ball. Blair introduces herself

Leif:

to Damien, who quickly excuses himself.

Leif:

Blair commends Serena for following

Leif:

her advice. Blair also immediately pegs

Leif:

Jenny. Being with Nate being her own doing and not

Leif:

Nate's. Serena wishes Blair bonne

Leif:

chance with Monsieur Derry.

Steve:

I love this little best friend check in.

Steve:

And the. Oh, come on, Blair. Anyone

Steve:

would know that you're an elitist snob who's

Steve:

perfect for running a secret society.

Steve:

When Serena at the end of the conference.

Steve:

Aw.

Leif:

But yeah, I like the Blair nose. Nate

Leif:

would not think of bringing Jenny on his own.

Steve:

Yeah. Oh, yes. Yes. That she instantly

Steve:

clocks Jenny as. No, no, no, no.

Steve:

She. She's up to something.

Leif:

She's behind this.

Steve:

Yes, she is behind this. Nate might

Steve:

think he brought Jenny to get back

Steve:

at you, but it's only because Jenny wants him to

Steve:

think that. Oh, Nate.

Leif:

Damien is having problems with his customer because

Leif:

Serena didn't check the jacket as was planned. Jenny

Leif:

continues to mock Damien, but he remains confident he

Leif:

can the plan. And Serena's close.

Steve:

Yeah. I love Jenny just

Steve:

owning him.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

This whole time. But also, like,

Steve:

Damian just totally overestimates

Steve:

himself and his

Steve:

relationship with Serena.

Steve:

Obviously, this is a kid who's never been told. No.

Steve:

Or at least has never listened to.

Steve:

No. And I just. I love

Steve:

how confident he is.

Leif:

And he only knows the old Serena quote,

Leif:

unquote.

Steve:

Yes, exactly. Which even

Steve:

there, I always got the impression that she went

Steve:

to boarding school to. To change.

Steve:

Right. That she slept with Nate and was like,

Steve:

I can't do this anymore and ran

Steve:

away to boarding school. So I kind of

Steve:

got the impression that that's where the drinking stopped

Steve:

and the wild party Serena

Steve:

stopped. But this is indicating otherwise.

Leif:

Yeah, I don't think that's the case. I think she. She

Leif:

left because she didn't want to deal with the fallout with Blair.

Steve:

I guess coming back, I guess it was more the

Steve:

Dan stuff that got her out of the

Steve:

arty lifestyle and whatnot.

Leif:

Uh, Nate and Serena continue to accuse each other

Leif:

of playing games. However, Damian interrupts and

Leif:

pulls Serena away to meet some people.

Leif:

As they are walking away, Damian looks back and whispers at

Leif:

Nate, thanking him for keeping his date company.

Leif:

Such a sleazeball.

Steve:

He's such a sleazeball. And he just. And he thinks

Steve:

he's just got this, and he's so

Steve:

dumb. And also, Nate and Serena

Steve:

are just. They're this close to just talking, and

Steve:

it's just. Nope, gotta be dumb.

Leif:

When Damian serena about Nate, she

Leif:

admits she was using Damien to make Nate jealous.

Leif:

Damian suggests they fully commit to the bit and starts

Leif:

trying to take the jacket off and then tries to lean in for the

Leif:

kiss. Serena rebuffs him and apologizes again for

Leif:

leading him on. That's when Damian goes from

Leif:

sleazy to creepy, grabbing her arm and slut

Leif:

shaming her.

Steve:

There's a lot to take in in this little bit here because

Steve:

there's. First of all, there's Serena just super

Steve:

casually. Oh, yeah, totally, totally.

Steve:

Brought here just to make him jealous. Yeah, he's probably gonna be my

Steve:

boyfriend. I totally brought you here to make you jealous. Sorry

Steve:

about that. And he's like, oh, well,

Steve:

okay, then, uh, we should fuck. And she's

Steve:

like, uh, no, no, I

Steve:

just told you I like that guy. Like, I'm not

Steve:

into you. No, no, no. But I used to really want to

Steve:

have sex with you. So, like, what happened

Steve:

to her? It's like, well,

Steve:

that's not who I am now. But also,

Steve:

I didn't sleep with you. Then why would I

Steve:

now like you, you, uh,

Steve:

creep. Yeah, it's just disgusting. Yeah.

Leif:

Blair approaches Monsieur Durie, who is outside

Leif:

smoking a cigarette, but seems perturbed that she wasn't

Leif:

given a formal introduction. Blair is then

Leif:

distracted by the arrival of Chuck, who confesses that he

Leif:

believes Elizabeth is his mother.

Steve:

So he finally admits it out loud.

Steve:

And you're right that this is where

Steve:

Blair does change her demeanor

Steve:

and goes with him.

Leif:

Jenny finds Nate wallowing with a drink.

Leif:

Jenny encourages him to not let Serena get away

Leif:

this time, but also mocks him for following the romantic

Leif:

advice from someone who has a Cabbage patch doll.

Steve:

Yeah, first, I loved

Steve:

this Scene, the Nate and Jenny talking

Steve:

to each other, getting that advice.

Steve:

I also love the Cedric shout out

Steve:

that we haven't had one yet this season, so that was

Steve:

fun too.

Leif:

And again, like, you know, they're clearly setting

Leif:

up Dan and Vanessa right now. And Chuck and Blair

Leif:

are still strong, but the writers keep

Leif:

dropping hints of Dan and Blair because they both have

Leif:

cabbage passionate dolls. They both give the bad advice this episode,

Leif:

which is like they're dropping hints.

Steve:

Yes. Which I'm. I'm waiting. I'm all

Steve:

for that. I'm all for that

Steve:

matchup because I

Steve:

love. Whenever they're on screen together,

Steve:

Chuck and.

Leif:

Blair are debating on if Elizabeth could be

Leif:

his mother. At the end of the conversation, Blair tells

Leif:

Chuck that no matter what the outcome, she will be

Leif:

there for him. In this, Gossip Girl

Leif:

says,

Leif:

sometimes, despite the risk, the only thing to

Leif:

do is seize the moment. Then we see

Leif:

Serena being pulled into the goat room

Leif:

or whatever else you can grab. Gossip

Leif:

Girl quips as we go to break.

Steve:

Now this is another secret society. Blair is

Steve:

turning her back on for Chuck.

Leif:

Same one.

Steve:

Yes. I thought there was also one last

Steve:

season that the Colonial.

Steve:

The Colonial Colony Club. There

Steve:

was. When Blair walked out, there was the thing where

Steve:

they were trashing Chuck.

Leif:

They're also trashing Serena, too.

Steve:

Uh, they were. They were trashing Serena and Chuck. You're right.

Steve:

Then I'll. I'll go. Choosing her friends over

Steve:

the secret society is interesting,

Steve:

especially because I, um, haven't seen Chuck

Steve:

choose Blair over anything.

Leif:

No.

Steve:

Like, I see. I see Blair choosing Chuck

Steve:

for a lot of stuff. I see Chuck doing stuff

Steve:

for Blair and choosing Blair

Steve:

after the fact, but I don't see him

Steve:

sacrificing for Blair the way Blair

Steve:

sacrifices for Chuck.

Leif:

Will you have to make a choice between his mother and Blair?

Steve:

That'd be a weird choice to have to make.

Leif:

We move into Act 5. We find out

Leif:

it was Nate who grabbed Serena this time. The

Leif:

pair start getting hot and heavy, and clothing, including

Leif:

the drug jackets, start to come off.

Steve:

Banging in a coat closet.

Steve:

Banging at the coat check.

Leif:

Yep.

Steve:

All right, guys. At least there's a couch.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

Yeah. This is not the high school dressing room.

Leif:

Rufus finally comes home to the penthouse and confronts

Leif:

her about her night with Dr. Daddy.

Steve:

Yeah, again, Lily

Steve:

is the reason Serena is a narcissist.

Steve:

Lily's a narcissist. I. Lily

Steve:

owns it. Lily knows who she is, but

Steve:

Lily's a fucking narcissist.

Leif:

Somehow the Koch woman doesn't see Nate and

Leif:

Serena getting some heavy petting on the couch.

Leif:

We, as the Audience also see the drug jacket on the floor,

Leif:

and it looks like one of the packets was broken open.

Steve:

Yeah. Oh, the pills are exposed.

Leif:

That never comes up, though.

Steve:

Yeah. Why are you showing me this? It felt like they

Steve:

had something written for it to be

Steve:

more. And then in, like, reshoots, they were like, okay, I'm

Steve:

gonna scrap that.

Leif:

Jenny gloats to a humble Damien a bit. Because of the

Leif:

botched job, Damien has to run back to Europe.

Leif:

However, Jenny, always quick on her feet,

Leif:

spots the jacket on the floor and makes sure the ambassador's

Leif:

daughter will get it.

Steve:

Yeah. Once again, they pick up the

Steve:

jacket. No one sees the pills. It's like,

Steve:

oh, well, okay. But Jenny saves the

Steve:

day, and I.

Leif:

Feel like she kind of planned this because she told

Leif:

Nate to go after Serena.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And, uh, she just knows that the ads are just gonna burn.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

She'll take off the jacket eventually.

Steve:

Yeah, I know those two.

Leif:

Chuck, with Blair standing behind him for backup,

Leif:

corners Elizabeth. However, Elizabeth plays dumb

Leif:

and downplays her relationship with Bart. Chuck

Leif:

continues to dig, but Elizabeth continues to deny and

Leif:

finally tells him goodbye. Blair consoles Chuck

Leif:

and excuses herself to the ladies room while Chuck gets the

Leif:

car.

Steve:

I, uh, hate it. I hate it.

Steve:

I hate this. I hate this scene.

Steve:

I hate this plotline. It was

Steve:

so. It didn't go anywhere. It

Steve:

was nothing. This entire episode

Steve:

felt like a filler episode. It felt like it

Steve:

was here's some stuff to set up stuff later on.

Steve:

But it felt like they needed an hour episode

Steve:

to fill to show Jenny make a

Steve:

drug deal. And then they just filled all of this stuff in

Steve:

around it that's like, oh, well, Nate and Serena need to get together,

Steve:

and we have this thing now with Chuck and his

Steve:

mom. But, like, we need to definitely make sure that

Steve:

lasts at least three to six

Steve:

episodes. So we just need this one of them

Steve:

to just confront each other and just. It

Steve:

was nothing. It was so

Steve:

nothing.

Leif:

This kind of retroactively makes Bart an even

Leif:

worse father. Yeah, because the whole reason supposedly

Leif:

that he hated Chuck was because he killed his mom.

Steve:

But he didn't. Yeah.

Leif:

So he just hated Chuck.

Steve:

Yeah, so he just hated Chuck because. Well.

Steve:

Well, to be fair, Chuck was pretty hateable back

Steve:

then. But then you're about to, uh, confront.

Steve:

Blair's about to confront her. Right. Okay. Yeah.

Leif:

So Blair, instead of going to the restroom, she gets

Leif:

Elizabeth alone and calls her out on her lies. And

Leif:

Gossip Girl leads us to the final

Leif:

break. Uh,

Leif:

could there be a secret even Bea can't crack?

Leif:

Only time will tell.

Steve:

Here's the thing. We've seen

Steve:

this Blair technique before.

Steve:

Can you give me a second? I'm going to run to the restroom. Can

Steve:

you give Catherine and I a second? Can you give.

Steve:

When Blair will excuse herself alone with the

Steve:

woman who she's about to tear down. She

Steve:

doesn't have anything. You don't have any leverage.

Steve:

You're just some fucking kid who's there with

Steve:

her. Maybe son who's like,

Steve:

what you're doing is wrong. So again, it was just

Steve:

nothing. Blair always has this power

Steve:

and they made her have this power here of

Steve:

like moved her enough for the later call.

Steve:

Right. So Blair comes in and

Steve:

intimidates this woman, but she doesn't have anything.

Steve:

There's nothing to intimidate her with. There's nothing

Steve:

but her own conscience. Which if

Steve:

her own conscience hasn't bothered her for 18 years,

Steve:

why does Blair now

Steve:

make that happen? I hated it.

Leif:

We move into the epilogue at the

Leif:

penthouse. Lilius Trickle truth thing. Rufus.

Leif:

She missed the kissing doctor daddy but denies

Leif:

sleeping with him. Rufus storms off after stating

Leif:

that he needs time away from Lily to figure this

Leif:

out.

Steve:

His reaction of we were engaged,

Steve:

Rufus. The last time

Steve:

Lily was married, the day before.

Steve:

What were you doing? That's

Steve:

right, Lily. Yep.

Leif:

You know the old saying, if she'll cheat with you, she'll probably cheat on

Leif:

you.

Steve:

Yeah. So how are you so

Steve:

blown away that she kissed this dude? She didn't

Steve:

sleep with him. She kissed her ex husband. She

Steve:

banged her ex boyfriend the day before her

Steve:

wedding. So yeah, this is kind of her

Steve:

M.O. she'll probably now leave you for

Steve:

him. That's. It's a cycle, Rufus.

Steve:

But don't worry because if this is really the pattern,

Steve:

you could be number nine also. Or ten.

Steve:

You could be number ten also. Just go right back through.

Leif:

It's funny because you were earlier comparing Serena

Leif:

and Lily and how Serena is just like Lily

Leif:

so much so this really reminded me of scene from

Leif:

2 episode, uh, episode 11 where

Leif:

Serena was telling Blair it was just one

Leif:

kiss with Trip.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Well, yeah, it became much more than just one

Leif:

kiss.

Steve:

Yeah. Yes.

Steve:

And Rufus being so mad

Steve:

about it. And I get being mad, but his

Steve:

reaction, like you, first of all, you should have had this conversation

Steve:

a long time ago. But also when he's like,

Steve:

I need to figure this out away from you.

Steve:

And it's the super

Steve:

dramatic terrible acting by

Steve:

Matt. Like I, I, he's

Steve:

only good like 25% of the time

Steve:

anymore. He can't do angry, he can't do

Steve:

shocked. He can't do, he can barely do

Steve:

funny. He can only do like pining for Lily.

Steve:

And that's the. His best. Pining for Lily.

Steve:

Parenting Dan. That's his best

Steve:

acting. And you're trying to work things

Steve:

out with your wife away from her. Do

Steve:

you hear that? That's not how you do things. That's not

Steve:

what you would tell your kids. Fucking

Steve:

idiot. I hate Rufus.

Leif:

Indeed, Dan is leaving an awkward

Leif:

voicemail for Vanessa, this time asking for a friend to

Leif:

talk about the issues with Rufus and Lily.

Steve:

This is when I realized it was a Vanessa free episode.

Steve:

I was like, wow, we have this whole episode

Steve:

and didn't once have to deal with Vanessa. That's pretty

Steve:

sick.

Leif:

Rufus is staring at the numbers on the elevator going down

Leif:

and at the last moment decides to stop on Holland's

Leif:

floor. He knocks on her door, and she gives

Leif:

a sly little smile before silently

Leif:

inviting him in.

Steve:

You fucking dumbass. Like, what an

Steve:

asshole. I'm gonna

Steve:

get even. Yeah, I know what I'm gonna do. I'm

Steve:

gonna go visit another woman and probably do stuff with

Steve:

her. Just kiss her.

Leif:

Child. Child.

Steve:

He is. He's a fucking teenager.

Leif:

Nate and Serena are post coitus in the courtroom. They

Leif:

decide to stop pushing their luck and start cleaning themselves up.

Leif:

However, Serena's jacket is nowhere to be found.

Steve:

Ah, her jacket's nowhere to be found. Her dress

Steve:

I thought was still there on the ground, but her jacket's

Steve:

nowhere to be found. The jacket that covered her shoulders.

Steve:

Okay, guess she definitely needs another one to leave

Steve:

in.

Leif:

Well, depending on, uh, the episode

Leif:

aired on March. In March. I don't. I don't know exactly what

Leif:

time they're saying it is in the universe.

Leif:

So if it's in New York in February or January,

Leif:

you're right.

Steve:

Except for the fact that that's not what she came in with in the

Steve:

first place. Like. Like she was ready to leave with this jacket

Steve:

that just covered her shoulders. She wouldn't have stolen the other

Steve:

thing, which, again, to me is a writing

Steve:

thing. Uh, a, uh, mix between the writing and the

Steve:

design staff that it's. She walks in

Steve:

with this coat, and the writer is

Steve:

imagining a coat and

Steve:

leaves with this other coat. And then you have the

Steve:

designer like, oh, I know how I can make something with these buttons and

Steve:

stuff like that. That would look really cool.

Leif:

It's a shawl. It's a shawl.

Leif:

Speaking of the jacket, Damon and Jenny are admiring it,

Leif:

as is now being worn by the ambassador's daughter who's leaving

Leif:

the party. Damien tries to link arms with

Leif:

Jenny, who scoffs at him and tells him

Leif:

this wasn't a date. If you want one, you'll have to ask.

Leif:

Damian is left tongue tied, and Gossip Girl begins her

Leif:

closing monologue. With enough time,

Leif:

eventually we see what was right in front of

Leif:

us.

Steve:

Jenny, you're so much better than this dude. This dude is such a.

Steve:

Huh? Do not flirt with him. You are so

Steve:

much better than him.

Leif:

But he's cute and exciting and he's.

Steve:

Rich and he's a diplomat's son and all that.

Leif:

Danger. Danger. He's a danger jockey.

Steve:

Yeah, danger. Uh, Jenny Humphrey. Danger.

Leif:

Nate and Serena are giggling as they tip the coat check woman

Leif:

for her great service. And we see some random

Leif:

complaining that Serena took her coat. Nate subtly

Leif:

brags about his stamina. Uh. And Gossip Girl

Leif:

continues. And realize no matter how

Leif:

long it took, it was worth the wait.

Steve:

Yeah. Again, compared to the coat you

Steve:

came in with, you didn't really need another coat to leave,

Steve:

but.

Leif:

Or you could have just borrowed dates for the.

Steve:

Or you could have borrowed Nates to get to the limo. Yeah,

Steve:

right.

Leif:

But Serena's a narcissist.

Steve:

Yes, she's a narcissist.

Leif:

Definitely has main character syndrome.

Steve:

Yes. Yeah. Whoever made her a main

Steve:

character really did her a disservice.

Leif:

Chuck and Blair, uh, are back at the suite, and Chuck says he

Leif:

will never have a real mother. Blair counters

Leif:

with, that doesn't mean you're alone. I love

Leif:

you, Chuck, and I always be your family.

Leif:

Blair then gets up and walks away.

Steve:

Yeah, Deuces.

Steve:

This whole plot is so fucking weak.

Leif:

As Chuck stares at the locket, Gossip Girl continues.

Leif:

But for some, that time never comes.

Leif:

We see Elizabeth dialing a number, and then Chuck's

Leif:

phone vibrating on the table. Instead of healing old

Leif:

wounds, the waitress opens new ones

Leif:

time after time. Xo. Xo

Leif:

concludes Gossip Girl as we see

Leif:

Elizabeth holding the other half of the locket,

Leif:

which contains a picture of herself holding

Leif:

a baby.

Steve:

Yeah, why all the lies, lady? Which, of

Steve:

course, there's probably going to be. Whatever the explanation

Steve:

is, it's going to suck. Let's go back

Steve:

to what we've always said, that these writers would be great writing

Steve:

teachers, but when they actually have to fill in a

Steve:

plot hole like this m.

Steve:

It's gonna be weak. I can't imagine

Steve:

it being like, uh, oh, that's a valid reason to

Steve:

do all. To ignore your kid and to let him go through all of

Steve:

this his whole life. I'm not going to be

Steve:

satisfied with this.

Leif:

The writers are all set up at no payoff.

Steve:

Yes. Yes.

Leif:

Just like. So we got that. The previous scene where Blair

Leif:

Says I'll always be your family. And then immediately gets

Leif:

up. Mm, yeah, that's gotta come into

Leif:

play.

Steve:

Yes, well, and we're telling all these

Steve:

lies. Also reflected. I started laughing when

Steve:

you were reading it. Cause I was thinking back to the scene where Chuck

Steve:

confronts her and he pulls out the lock. And she's like, oh,

Steve:

you can keep that, motherfucker. I am keeping

Steve:

it.

Steve:

You left it behind.

Leif:

The full closing monologue for Gossip Girl

Leif:

is,

Leif:

with enough time, eventually we all see what was

Leif:

right in front of us and realize no matter how long

Leif:

it took, it was worth the wait. But for some,

Leif:

that time never comes. Instead of healing old

Leif:

wounds, the wait just opens new ones

Leif:

time after time. Xo XO

Leif:

Gossip Girl. And that is

Leif:

our episode. So what's coming next?

Steve:

I think we've got a. We've got a little run of Nate and

Steve:

Serena. There's all their. They're gonna

Steve:

have drama in there because they're both gonna

Steve:

constantly be drawn away by

Steve:

whatever shiny objects are put in front of them. Whoever

Steve:

says they love I love you to Serena Next.

Steve:

I do see this

Steve:

Blair, Dan, and maybe even

Steve:

Chuck Jenny thing I kind of see,

Steve:

like, uh. Because nothing would

Steve:

hurt the other more, right?

Steve:

For Chuck to cheat with Jenny

Steve:

would be the worst for Blair,

Steve:

maybe Serena. But still, Jenny would be such a

Steve:

terrible one. And for Blair to

Steve:

cheat with Dan would be really

Steve:

horrible to Chuck. Uh, because

Steve:

they hate each other for the most part.

Steve:

I guess they've kind of come around at this point.

Steve:

But Dan doesn't have any love lost for Chuck,

Steve:

man. Nor should he, nor should he, nor should he,

Steve:

nor should we. But they've done such a great job of this.

Steve:

Glow up. If the writers can do one

Steve:

thing, they can make a. A predator look good.

Steve:

They can really turn a predator around.

Steve:

The other big prediction at this point, I kind

Steve:

of hope Lily and Rufus just end it.

Steve:

I don't want them to have drama. I

Steve:

want them to just be parents. Why

Steve:

are the showrunners so insistent on

Steve:

making Lilly and Rufus have drama?

Steve:

It's a kids show. Let the show be

Steve:

about the kids and let the parents just be fucking

Steve:

parents so they can be half

Steve:

decent parents sometimes.

Steve:

Let Lilly be a parent to anyone but

Steve:

her kids. And let Rufence be a parent

Steve:

to pretty much everyone but Jenny. And then let

Steve:

that be their roles. Stop having them

Steve:

get this. I hate it.

Leif:

Any. Anything else?

Steve:

Uh, Rufus is totally going to bang that chick.

Leif:

Who do we think this woman is?

Steve:

The head of the, uh, hoa you mean? Yeah,

Steve:

I mean, that's as Far as I've gotten with it is

Steve:

head of the hoa. I mean, does she have something out for Lily? I

Steve:

mean, Lily probably pisses off the

Steve:

ho. Lily. I think they've actually

Steve:

established that Lily is pissed off the HOA

Steve:

and if not, she seems like someone that would.

Steve:

So I could see that being a thing. But maybe she's

Steve:

something else. Wait a second. What's her

Steve:

husband? Her husband is a, uh, something.

Steve:

Wonder if her husband bang Lily. I wonder if her

Steve:

husband wonder if her husband

Steve:

cheated on her with Lily.

Steve:

That would scan Wonder if her husband is

Steve:

Serena's dad.

Leif:

You would think they would mention that plot twist.

Steve:

He lives in the building, Serena. He lives

Steve:

downstairs. He just.

Steve:

He doesn't have penthouse money anymore.

Leif:

He doesn't care about you at all. He cares that

Leif:

little about that much.

Steve:

Dear Delete letter. Dear Serena, I banged your

Steve:

mom. I don't love you.

Steve:

Xoxo your dad

Steve:

also, I'm Gossip Girl.

Steve:

He's been making her life a living hell for the

Steve:

past two years.

Steve:

Her dad's actually Gossip Girl.

Leif:

Well, on that note, let's get into some segments.

Leif:

So the Wayback Machine, a little, little creaky. Uh,

Leif:

this week couldn't find either tells you without

Leif:

pity or fan forum. So I did see find

Leif:

a Reddit post from six months ago. Someone was watching this

Leif:

episode for the first time.

Steve:

That's really weird. I wonder if it's a matter of. There

Steve:

was that three month hiatus and no one was looking for Gossip

Steve:

Girl.

Leif:

Because yes,

Leif:

in the case of the Taliban without pity. Those are all

Leif:

on archive.com. so they. They're not. No, they

Leif:

no longer exist. And you can.

Leif:

Sometimes the link is there, but when I click on it just says

Leif:

no, we did. We didn't archive this page.

Steve:

Oh, okay.

Leif:

Fan forum. I don't know what was up because they did have

Leif:

specific episodes. I don't know if you're familiar with fan forum,

Leif:

but they have like a million boards as

Leif:

there's boards for the individual

Leif:

actors. So there's gay Jenny

Leif:

episode 513 discussion thread. Wow, there's

Leif:

a very specific 513 episode thread.

Leif:

There's a. Even a Vanessa one and she's not even in the

Leif:

episode. But

Leif:

this, this uh, this one poster, she had the same complaint

Leif:

about this me about Serena asking Damian to text her number.

Leif:

And does Nate even go to college?

Leif:

Yeah, I mean, Columbia's supposed to be pretty

Leif:

competitive. I've heard. Why didn't they just make

Leif:

Nate go to some sports college?

Steve:

Yeah, why was Columbia his? Because this is the one that

Steve:

he wanted to go to. Right?

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

I mean, grandfather wanted him to go to Yale

Steve:

and he wanted to go to Columbia, but just so he could.

Leif:

Prove that he could get him himself.

Steve:

Yes. Which he did. But also.

Steve:

Did he. Because. Because did

Steve:

you really graduate St. Jude's by yourself?

Leif:

And they're also confused on how Chuck's mom is still

Leif:

alive.

Steve:

Yeah. Why is Chuck's mom

Steve:

still alive?

Leif:

Bad plot.

Steve:

It's terrible.

Leif:

Speaking of which, let's go ahead and get into some episode

Leif:

grades.

Leif:

I went first last week, so you can go first this time.

Steve:

C minus. And I

Steve:

feel like I'm being

Steve:

generous. I feel like as I thought about

Steve:

it the first time when I first wrote it down a grade, I was.

Steve:

The directing is okay. The

Steve:

episode is terrible. The writing,

Steve:

the writing, the plot,

Steve:

the show running

Steve:

I would even say is terrible here. I feel

Steve:

like they had some good scenes with

Steve:

besties. They had cute

Steve:

Blair Serena scenes. They had some cute

Steve:

Dan and Nate stuff. And

Steve:

Blair of course is always fantastic

Steve:

on screen. Jenny was probably

Steve:

the only person who I thought really had

Steve:

a good episode. And all of the

Steve:

plot lines are just fucking dumb.

Steve:

Except the Jenny dealing drugs. I think

Steve:

that she's dumb for doing it. I don't think it's

Steve:

out of character. I don't think it's a bad storyline.

Steve:

All the other storylines were terrible.

Leif:

Yeah, I, I actually have the same exact grade. C minus.

Leif:

And for most of the same reasons. Like I really like the

Leif:

Jenny storyline. The Jenny. Even though

Leif:

Damien is a creepy sleaze ball,

Leif:

but he was well written character. And

Leif:

Kevin size scars does a great job acting the

Leif:

character.

Steve:

Yeah. And, and I like

Steve:

Jenny with the sleaze ball because Jenny can has the

Steve:

cajones to deal with a sleaze ball.

Steve:

Serena when she's with a sleaze ball. It's.

Leif:

Oh, I'm, um, so in love.

Steve:

Oh, I'm so in love with how sleazy you are,

Steve:

sir. I can't wait to go to your.

Steve:

To your high school reunion. Your 10th high

Steve:

school reunion next year. Next week.

Leif:

Five years ago.

Steve:

Five years ago.

Leif:

Yes, I like the Jenny, uh, Damon

Leif:

stuff. I like the storylines. I like the name Serena

Leif:

storyline. It was funny. They were being stupid at the beginning, but they

Leif:

worked it out at the end. And Dan and

Leif:

Blair giving the simultaneous bad advice.

Steve:

Yeah, it was all cute. I didn't hate the.

Steve:

I wasn't even thinking about the Nate and

Steve:

Serena stuff. I didn't hate that stuff. It was very in

Steve:

line with them and who they are. They

Steve:

were idiots, but they're Idiots.

Leif:

Yeah, it was really the Rufus and Lily

Leif:

and the Chuck's mom stuff that just brought the

Leif:

episode down to C minus.

Steve:

Terrible.

Leif:

Moving over to stock watch, who do you have going up?

Steve:

Nate and Serena getting their shit together.

Steve:

Uh, Lil, Jenny's stock

Steve:

definitely went up. The neighbor

Steve:

homewrecker Holland. Her stock is

Steve:

going up. And that's who I

Steve:

have.

Leif:

So I had those four. Nate, Serena, uh,

Leif:

Jenny and Blair for the. Or. Sorry, Holland. For the same reasons.

Leif:

Uh, but also I had Blair because she was a good

Leif:

girlfriend. Yeah, she was there and she

Leif:

stood by him. She was a little snoopy at the

Leif:

beginning, but she didn't push it too hard. So

Leif:

I gave her an up. Who do you have going down?

Steve:

So I'll start with Blair. So I gave

Steve:

Blair down because she gave up another

Steve:

secret society for Chuck who isn't going to

Steve:

repay that favor. So I saw her as

Steve:

giving something up.

Leif:

Was she really giving it up though? She didn't seem like she was getting

Leif:

anywhere. Anyways.

Steve:

I feel like had she pivoted and gone

Steve:

for it, I think she could have uh, the way that

Steve:

I felt like that was what we were supposed to believe that

Steve:

when she went out there that she could have

Steve:

worked her way in to that conversation.

Steve:

So I did have her as going down. And, and

Steve:

also I'm going to reiterate that a lot of that is.

Steve:

I don't think Chuck would do this for her. And so I

Steve:

think that she is pouring her resources

Steve:

into something that is not going to net gains for

Steve:

her.

Leif:

Fair enough.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Um.

Steve:

I had Chuck going down because

Steve:

your. Your own mom doesn't even want to talk to

Steve:

you. Your mom. Your mom. You

Steve:

think your dad hates you. Your mom faked her

Steve:

own death to never see you again and

Steve:

then lied to you about it. She'll visit your

Steve:

dad's grave and put flowers on it,

Steve:

but doesn't want to see you.

Steve:

Damn Chuck. I also had Rufus and Lily going

Steve:

down because they suck. Mhm.

Steve:

I have Damien going down because he's a

Steve:

idiot in the sleaze ball. I have Dan going

Steve:

down for pining over

Steve:

Vanessa. And also,

Steve:

also I feel like at the end of that episode, if you ask Dan,

Steve:

Dan would say his stock was down. He would.

Steve:

Not only is he pining for Vanessa, he really is kind of

Steve:

going through family stuff and needs a best

Steve:

friend right now. But he kind of fucked that up.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

So that's my going down.

Leif:

For me, I had Rufus and Lily

Leif:

because they were horrible and children.

Leif:

Damien because he's a sleazeball creep.

Leif:

Chuck because he's. Yeah. His mom doesn't want him.

Leif:

Elizabeth, because she's a horrible mother.

Steve:

Oh, I'm sorry. I meant to put Elizabeth. Dan.

Leif:

I also have because. Yeah, he was just a sad sack

Leif:

and gave bad advice. And then I

Leif:

also had Bart because he was mentioned and he

Leif:

retroactively became a worse father.

Steve:

Okay, yeah, go ahead. You can go ahead and add Bart for me

Steve:

too, because that is true. But

Steve:

here's the best outfits from the last

Steve:

episode we've seen.

Leif:

Moving on. Uh, to best outfit. Who do you got?

Steve:

So in the beginning of the episode, the first time

Steve:

that Blair goes to Chuck to talk about

Steve:

how she wants the lunch, she was wearing this black.

Steve:

I think it was a dress with a zipper on it and

Steve:

very slight shoulder pad kind of thing. And I dug it.

Steve:

And that was mine. I didn't really think that a lot of the

Steve:

fashion stood out for me as much. I'll shout out

Steve:

Blair's later dress that she wore to

Steve:

the.

Leif:

I thought all three of the ladies dresses for

Leif:

the ball were good. Uh, Blair with her Victoria

Leif:

Beckham, Jenny with the Andrew Gian,

Leif:

and Serena with the Versace

Leif:

ultimately landed on

Leif:

Serena's dress, uh, outfit from earlier.

Leif:

Just the whole look. She had the sweater dress

Leif:

from Blue Girl, the plaid stockings, the thigh

Leif:

high boots and the white jacket with the brass buttons and the

Leif:

cashmere gloves.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. I also really wanted to shout out Jenny's,

Steve:

uh, that, that like spider web dress thing.

Leif:

I also really like Jenny's makeup.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

Which she also was very different from her normal style.

Steve:

Yes. She did not look like a raccoon, uh,

Steve:

burglar.

Leif:

Yes. She, she still had the black

Leif:

mascara, but then she had the pink eyeshadow and

Leif:

matching cotton candy pink lipstick.

Steve:

Yes.

Leif:

Yeah, that is it for

Leif:

segments. Is there anything you would like to plug this week?

Steve:

I'm going to mention that I was actually

Steve:

cast in a film. Friend

Steve:

of our, our friend Colin from Turtle Ridge

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has been in a few short films that he and a friend of his are

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making, uh, have made. And now they're doing their first

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feature length film and I will be playing

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Colin's dad in it. That'll be, we'll be shooting

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sometime in the fall, so. But we're going to start

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putting out promotional fundraiser

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stuff soon too. So going to start putting that

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on people's radars. And if you want to follow

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me, you'll find all kinds of stuff about it as I

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start working on this. You can follow me at

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TikTok. Steve Marshon

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M A R C H I O N that's

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TikTok and Instagram. You can also find

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me on Blue sky at

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the Weed Wizard. So go ahead and follow me

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there. And that's what I've got going on right now.

Leif:

Nothing for me to plug right now. But if you want to follow me,

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you can find me on Instagram and threads and

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bluesky at, uh, hot Capicola.

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That's hot. C A P

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I C O L A. You

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can follow the podcast at non judging

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Breakfast Pod on Instagram, Threads and

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TikTok. You can also find links to our

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subreddit, Patreon and discord servers

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on our website

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nonjudgingbreakfastpod.com

Leif:

and if you'd like to.

Steve:

Get in touch with us, we'd love to hear what you have to say.

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Please send us an

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email@nonjudgingbreakfastpodmail.com

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we'd love to hear your thoughts and read them here

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on the podcast along with any comments

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you may leave as we did earlier today. And

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while I'm mentioning it, please go ahead and hit that

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like button. Hit the subscribe, hit the follow,

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at it, while you're out there, let people know what you're

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listening to and maybe you can make us your water

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cooler talk.

Leif:

We will be back next week to talk about

Leif:

season three, episode 14,

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the Lady Vanished.

Leif:

The episode description reads, rufus

Leif:

and Lily grow suspect of Jenny's relationship with

Leif:

Damien. Chuck learns about the woman who may

Leif:

or may not be his mother. And Dan and Vanessa

Leif:

struggle through the awkwardness of dating other people.

Steve:

People. So Dan. Jesus. Okay,

Steve:

so that means that we're gonna see Dan.

Steve:

Oh, my God, it's gonna be Willa. Dan's gonna be getting

Steve:

sexually assaulted by Willa, uh, while trying to

Steve:

sleep with Vanessa, who's banging Paul.

Steve:

Got it.

Leif:

Well, until next time.

Steve:

Xoxo.

Leif:

You're a little fast there.

Steve:

Xoxo.

Leif:

Yeah, I didn't finish my sentence.

Steve:

Oh, my bad.

Leif:

Until next time. You know you love us.

Steve:

Xoxo.

Steve:

Little premature.

Leif:

Uh, click on the draw there, Steve. You need to take some

Leif:

lessons from the Nate.

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

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piece of me with you there.

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

Steve:

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:

oh, it seems I'm.

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Walking right to your door

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my heart's.

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Still resting m looking for something more

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are you ever gonna see everything you mean to

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me I'm trying really hard to believe

Steve:

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

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of me with you there uh

Steve:

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

Steve:

of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

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never feels right when I'm out here on

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my.

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Own.

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I left last night and it feels like

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way too long m

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Are you ever gonna see everything you mean.

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To me I'm trying really hard to believe.

Steve:

Every time you walk away run away you take a piece

Steve:

of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

uh.

Steve:

Come back to me.

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Smile and you'll make my life

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complete

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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 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 take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

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

Steve:

of me with you there

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

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piece of me with you there.

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