Speaker 1: Welcome to But I'm a Lesbian, the podcast where we

serve all batty SaaS, queer film reviews, and everything in between.

Whether you're a baby gay.

Speaker 2: Or a queer elder, we're here, We're queer, and we're

diving deep into all things lesbian. We're your hosts, Caitlin

and Angelina. Get ready for some sapphi serotonin. On today's episode,

we're discussing the newest Sapphic Black Mirror episode. The episode

is called Hotel Reverie and it stars Issa Ray and

Emma Corn. If you'd like to watch it, it's available on

Netflix and it is season seven, episode three.

Speaker 1: Caitlin, are you a fan of the show.

Speaker 3: No, but well we'll get into the episode.

Speaker 2: I did like this episode, but I did not watch

the show really ever before because people kept talking about

it years ago, like when it first started in like

twenty eleven. And I watched the first episode because I

like to do things in order, even though it's in anthology.

So I watched episode one of season one and it

was like about a guy having to fuck a pig

and that was very disturbing.

Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so I stopped watching it. I'm never gonna

watch this.

Speaker 1: I recommended this.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, you.

Speaker 3: Guys are weird.

Speaker 2: And every time I've mentioned that to someone that's a fan,

they're like, oh, no, that's just the worst episode, like,

don't judge it off of that episode. But I'm like, okay,

but why would they make that the first episode ever

if they don't.

Speaker 1: Want to judge. Maybe they were trying to make a statement,

But what statement are you trying.

Speaker 2: To this statement when we go there? Yeah, this is

going to be shocking to watch this. Okay, well do

you watch it?

Speaker 1: No?

Speaker 2: Okay, I kind of felt like, you know, because you

seem surprised about the pig thing.

Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I have not. No, I have not watched it.

I did kind of have a similar experience to you.

I watched one episode, but it was like season it's

literally the one right before San Junipero, and oh okay,

it's a crazy one. It's pretty crazy, and so I

was like, oh, okay, interesting, But other than this one

and that one, no, I have not a big fan

of the show.

Speaker 3: Okay, well I do.

Speaker 2: I am glad that we listened to so many people's

requests in my life saying that we should watch this

one because I liked it, and in season in season one,

we are going to also discuss the other lesbian episode.

We're gonna talk about that. Yes, we're gonna talk about

that next episode.

Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2: I think we can go into hot takes on the episode.

Speaker 1: You're ready, Yeah, what is your hot take?

Speaker 3: Okay?

Speaker 2: I wouldn't have thought of this as a hot take

except that I saw so much I think rhetoric would

be the right word. I saw so much discussion on

TikTok about people saying that Issa Ray's performance was really

bad and that they could tell that she like wasn't

queer because she didn't seem like she loved the other girl.

Speaker 3: And I don't agree with that. I think she did

really good.

Speaker 2: So my hot take is that she did a really

good job and the acting in this is phenomenal and

people should just calm.

Speaker 3: Down about it. No offense if you didn't like it.

Speaker 2: But I'm not a fan of that idea that she

was bad. What do you think?

Speaker 3: Did you think she was bad?

Speaker 2: No?

Speaker 1: I feel like for the most part her acting, it's

gonna be a little like off because she's like the

only real person everyone else's AI, so she's trying to,

you know, get into character with that. And also I

feel like them saying like the chemistry. Maybe there wasn't

chemistry for them, but I feel like there was chemistry

between them.

Speaker 2: You know.

Speaker 1: Yeah, like who knows. We don't know if this is

her first experience like being with a woman. We don't

know any of that, so of course she's not going

to just be like I know everything, like I you

know what I mean.

Speaker 2: So it's like, but that makes me think of everyone

that's listening to this probably knows this, but I don't know.

On The L Word back in like two thousand and four,

bet well, yeah, what's Jennifer Bials, Yeah, accidentally outed Kate

minneg Shane my Love because she said that when she's

doing sex scenes, she will ask one of the gay

women on the show, like Lisha or Kate, oh what

would you do or how would you do this?

Speaker 3: So she accidentally outed her because of that.

Speaker 2: But anyway, that made me think of it because it

could have been like kind of awkward if she hasn't

done this before, but maybe she has and she just

feels awkward, because I think I would feel awkward doing it,

like any sort of like a sex scene on camera

on cam also not a professional actor, but point being, but.

Speaker 1: You're a professional lesbian.

Speaker 2: Yes I am. That's exactly so like maybe you would

be good at it, the lesbian part. Anyway, what was

your hot take?

Speaker 1: My hot take was okay, and spoilers, this isn't This

is a spoiler, So if you want to watch this,

go watch it and then come back for my hot take.

But I think that Brandy aka Alex could have stopped

them resetting the same and saving Dorothy. She was just

like no, because they were also having that conversation where

she was like do you love me because you love

me or because you were written to love Alex? So

she was she was unsure. So I feel like a

part of her was like I don't want to lose this,

but also I don't I'm not sure, so she was

like all right, let's like. I feel like she was

just like, okay, there she could have done more.

Speaker 2: No, she could have done And I thought that when

I was watching it, I was like, oh, okay, now

you're gonna say, oh no, not yeah, you could.

Speaker 1: Have been like hold on, like there could have been

so many things there she could have done, but she

was just like.

Speaker 2: No, Yeah, like they're gonna listen.

Speaker 1: They're like, girl, let's get on.

Speaker 3: With the movie.

Speaker 2: It was tu Yeah, I agree with you. So coming

up next we'll dive deeper into the recap. But now

it's time for a quick break, So grab your eye

lavender oat milk latte, and stay tuned.

Speaker 1: Welcome back to But I'm a Lesbian. This week, we're

discussing Hotel Reverie season seven, episode three of Netflix anthology

series Black Mirror.

Speaker 2: Yes, okay, so I'm gonna get into this. I'm gonna

try not to get too lost in the weeds because

with sci fi things, there's a I get really into

trying to describe it and make sure it makes sense.

But hopefully you've watched it.

Speaker 1: Or you can yea through I understand. Then just look

it up online.

Speaker 2: Rue. Yes, okay, so I'm gonna have to look at

my notes because there is a lot. So basically, it

opens on Aquafina, which I didn't know she was in

this because all I knew was that Issa Ray was

in it, and I heard that Emma Corn was in it,

but I didn't know who she was. I feel bad.

She does a really good job in this episode, but

I've never really heard of her before. Yeah, same, I

don't know, but I've heard of Aquafina and so I

was like, oh, Aquafina's in this.

Speaker 3: Her voice is so recognizable, so.

Speaker 1: I was like, oh, it's it is.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 2: And so she is an executive. She's I think, wearing

like a blazer. She's a very business woman and she

is talking about her company that she works for or

owns I'm not sure. Called Readdream, which I definitely thought

was red Reim when I read it, and I was like,

what does that mean?

Speaker 3: But that's just me.

Speaker 2: So she's talking to leadership from an older movie studio.

So it gives the vibe of, like, I don't know

if anybody has read Evelyn Hugo, uh, but this episode

makes me think a lot of that book. If you

haven't read it, read it. It's a surprise gay book.

Well maybe it's not a surprise to other people. But

I wasn't going to read it till I saw on

TikTok that it was a lesbian book and I was like, what, I'm.

Speaker 3: Definitely reading it now.

Speaker 2: You need to read it.

Speaker 3: If you haven't read it, to read it making a

movie out of it. So when they do.

Speaker 2: We will review it, Okay, But anyway, it gave the

vibe of that kind of time period, like the early

old Hollywood where actors would sign on with a movie

studio and it would be like they do a bunch

of movies with that studio. I don't think that's how

it is anymore. Like I said, I'm not a professional

professional actor. But so she is the head of this.

Her name is Harriet, and she I think her family like.

Speaker 1: Wait, her name is Judith.

Speaker 2: No, isn't it No?

Speaker 3: I thought it was Judith.

Speaker 1: No, the thing it is Judith. I swear it is Judith.

But her real name is Harriet, like the act.

Speaker 2: No, it's the opposite. You got yes, because on my

notes I crossed out Judith.

Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 2: Anyway, her name is Harriet, and she her family like

owned this, and so she said, like they're in debt,

they're struggling, And Kimmy's like, we should remake your classic

film Hotel Reverie. It's like black and white old Hollywood vibe.

I guess it's really famous. And she's like, no one

that's famous is gonna want to do this, Like we

don't have any money to pay them, and Kimmy's like, well,

what if I told you that I could get an

A list actor to do and you would only need

them for ninety six minutes, so you don't have to

pay them that much because you're only paying them for

an hour and a half. And she's like, Okay, I

don't know how that would work, but sure that would

be cool, right, And so then we kind of cut

from that scene and we see Issa Ray. Her character

is named Brandy Friday, which is such a like Hollywood

name it is, and she's like kind of looks like

she's being kind of sad in her mansion, and so

I think.

Speaker 1: I'm sad in her mind.

Speaker 2: Yes, I think it's like giving, like she's so lucky.

I don't know if I'm allowed to sing that, but

it's giving. Yeah, And so she is. I think we're

supposed to gather that she is an alest actor because

that's what they were talking about, and then they show

her and she's rich. So she gets a call from

her agent and he's like, do you want to be

in this film? But it would be a supporting role,

and she's like.

Speaker 1: No.

Speaker 2: Then she goes to a meeting with him and he

I think offers her a different supporting role, and she said, no,

I want to be the main guy.

Speaker 3: And I like that.

Speaker 2: She said the main guy because fuck gender norms. She's like,

I'm the leading man here. Yeah. And then he says, well,

they are remaking Hotel Reverie with some like fancy new technology,

maybe you could be They're only looking for the man

character though, and she's like, I want to be that.

I want to be that, and he kind of looks

at her like she's crazy, but he does let them know.

Let the.

Speaker 1: Should because she's whatever.

Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2: And so then we see Kimmy and Harriet on the

phone with a casting person and that casting person says,

Brandy Friday wants this job. She wants to be the

main guy whose name is Alex and is a doctor.

And they're like, okay, yeah, she's gonna be a male lead.

But we got a star for this, so this is great.

We're just gonna it's gonna be different. And that's very

twenty twenty five of them.

Speaker 1: They're gonna that is and either just like yes, yeah,

writing this for.

Speaker 3: Her, yes, So I'm like, okay, cool. So then.

Speaker 2: So Brandy, I think she finds out she got it,

or she doesn't know for sure that she got it,

but she's doing research before. So she's looking up audition

tapes from the main actress of Hotel Reverie, who is

the one that Emma Corn plays. Dorothy Chambers is her name,

and she sees a video, she sees some videos of

her auditioning, and then she sees some videos on the

side that say that she died from an overdose. So

now we know that she has kind of a tragic story,

the actress that played the female lead. So then Brandy

gets something in the mail and the carrier is like,

oh my god, are you still with your boyfriend who

I guess is someone else famous, And she's like no.

So now we know she's single, and we know that

she has dated men. That's what we've gathered. And also,

I guess we know she's kind of famous, but I

feel like we kind of already gathered. But yeah, And

so then her agent calls and it's like, oh my god,

you got the job. You're going to get something in

the mail and she's like, whoa, I literally already got it.

Speaker 3: So cool.

Speaker 2: And so then it says like in the materials that

come in there, like there's the DVD of the original movie,

and there's also a no or something saying that they're

going to go in for a test on Monday.

Speaker 3: And so she's like, okay.

Speaker 2: I'm going to watch this. I'm going to rewatch it

right now. So she puts the DVD in. She's watching it.

She keeps repeating I'll be yours forevermore, which is the

last line. So I think we can gather that this

is like a very famous line, very important in the film.

Speaker 3: So then the I guess it's Monday.

Speaker 2: Now we go to the studio and there's it's a

really small like studio room and there's only Harriet, Kimmy

and some other people at like computers, and Harriet is like,

oh my god, Brandy's late. We're gonna run out of time.

We only have the studio for a few hours, and

then Brandy shows up. Basically, Brandy missed something she was

supposed to get. She was supposed to get like a

flash drive right that explained how this whole technology worked,

and she didn't see that. So Brandy's like, well, okay,

I mean I'll just plug you in.

Speaker 3: Basically, she doesn't really explain.

Speaker 1: How she was like laid down.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 1: It was like, did you going way down?

Speaker 2: I'm gonna put these little things on your temple.

Speaker 1: She's like, just relad, Yeah, you know your lines?

Speaker 2: Bro? Oh yeah yeah, she was like you know your lines? Ryan,

She's like yeah. And so so then she lays down,

and then when she puts the little things on her temples,

all of a sudden, she's like in this kind of

like alternate like universe, and it's literally like kind of

building around her. It's building a scene. And then what

it builds you is literally the movie scene. So it's

like a black and white world and they're like at

the hotel, the hotel Reverie, and everybody is just moving

around like normal like in the movie. Yeah, And she's

like what And so Kimmy explains, like, the people here

are not real. Everything is basically AI.

Speaker 3: They were created.

Speaker 2: They only know the context of the film, like, and

so you are the only one that's acting here because

they are fake people and they only know this and

how it's supposed to go.

Speaker 3: And so it's a good thing she knows her lines because.

Speaker 2: She's just like, what, Yeah, it could be awkward, but

that's why they got an a lister. She knows what

she's doing and so so then we know that her

character is doctor Alex Palmer. I think Palmer is the

last name. Everyone will just accept that doctor Alex Palmer,

even though it's the forties is a black woman, not

a white man, so that is cool. And also the

character that i' is supposed to fall in love with

her is going to fall in love with her even

though she is not a man. Yeah, and so so

once Brandy's in place, all the people start moving, so

I guess they were kind of frozen when it was building. Sorry,

So anyway, so Clara walks in. Clara is the main character.

So a lot of times throughout this recap, I'm going

to say Clara slash Northy and Brandy slash Alex because

it's confusing at times, so I want to make sure

you know I'm talking about the same person. So Clara

walks in, She's all like fabulous and beautiful, and she

wants to sit down next to this old lady and

the old lady's like, no, this is for my dog.

It's my dog seat, and I'm like, okay. Same. Like

they act like that's crazy, and maybe that was crazy

for the time period. They're in like the forties, but

she loves Yeah, this is my spot for all. That's

my dogs and Sailor, but Sailor probably wouldn't. I mean,

she might sit on a chair, but she's like big

and so AnyWho, She's like, Okay, well, I guess I'll

go sit somewhere else. And so Brandy Slash Alex doctor

Alex Palmer sees her and calls her over and is like, here,

you have a seat. That's what's supposed to happen in

the movie.

Speaker 3: So then they.

Speaker 2: Start talking and making kind of like small talk, and

they ordered drinks.

Speaker 3: But Clara's drink is poisoned.

Speaker 2: We don't really know who's poisoning her yet, but I'm

going to tell you a secret.

Speaker 3: It's her husband.

Speaker 2: So so Brandy is supposed to save her from the

poisoned drink. But first she's supposed to play the piano,

and the girl Clara Slash Dorothy is supposed to be like,

oh my god, this music is so beautiful and kind

of like start to like like her, yeah, except that

she is actually doesn't know how.

Speaker 3: To play the piano.

Speaker 2: She thought somehow that the music was just gonna like

magically be good and it wasn't. So then she's embarrassed,

and I feel like, like embarrassed for her so uncomfortable.

Speaker 3: I was embarrassed watching.

Speaker 2: It, Like, so it's just it was just not good.

And so the I guess in the original, Clara slash

Dorothy like goes outside because she's so moved by the music,

and that's how she avoids drinking the drink. But because

she's just kind of staring at her embarrassing herself, that's

not what happened. And so Kimmy's like, hey, you have

to like stop her from drinking the drink. So Brandy

stops her. Brandy slash Alex stops her by like throwing

the drink into like a plant.

Speaker 1: Yeah, like a little like the dark thing.

Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2: And so she's like that was kind of rude, but

she did it like look over there and said she

saw a goose, which was such a random thing to say.

And then and then Clara gets mad because I think

she kind of thinks she's like making fun of her,

but she's not. And so then Clara slash Dorothy kind

of storms off a little bit because she's like she's

like I'm done. I don't like it. And so she

follows her. Brandy Slash Alex follows her, but she says Dorothy,

and then Clara Slash Dorothy kind of reacts like she

knows that name, but she can't place it, and so

that's weird because she's only supposed to know the context

of the movie that is filming, but hearing that name

brought something up in her, like she knew that was

something important, and so then she says, Oh, no, Dorothy's

just somebody that I used to know, and you remind

me of her. And so then Clara decides to give

her another chance and they start talking and Clara's like, oh, yeah,

my husband is like.

Speaker 3: He basically he doesn't love me.

Speaker 2: He only loves the business and he never wants to

hang out with me, and so that's really sad. And

Clara says that she is filled with such wretchedness sometimes,

and she does not say that in the original, and

that makes Harriet question, like, is she sentient?

Speaker 1: She's only ai?

Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And that's kind of makes sense that she

would be saying that because that's something Dorothy would say

in that Dorothy seemed to have some struggles in her

life from what we've seen with her death, her early death.

Speaker 3: And so.

Speaker 2: Basically what some of the tech people explain is that

Clara Slash Dorothy has grown a dimension because she heard

her name she is now and because the actress put

so much of herself into acting in this role that

that has now kind of become part of this AI's consciousness.

So she's kind of getting glimpses of who Dorothy was.

So that's kind of wild because I don't think anyone

knew that was gonna happen anyway, And so they are

kind of like chatting and it seems like they're connecting.

And then we find out that the dog drank the

poisoned drink because Brandy Alex threw it in dog reach,

you know, on the ground, and so that's really sad,

but that also messes up the entire flow and you know,

butterfly effect wise, like every little thing has to happen

or it's not gonna happen, right, And so since the

dog drank it instead of the old lady, because the

old lady's supposed to die, and then that brings a

detective there and then the and then doctor Brandy Slash

Alex will diagnose him with allergies to his cologne, his

own cologne, and then later at the very end, she

will almost get shot, but he will stop it because

he'll say, that's the doctor.

Speaker 3: I know that doctor.

Speaker 1: Stop.

Speaker 2: Yes, yes, fun, she diagnose me with allergies. And so

this little thing, I mean, it's not a little thing.

That dog died, which is really sad, but this like

small change really messed up everything and could result in

Brandy slash Alex dying like literally getting shot at the end.

Speaker 3: So that's crazy. So they have to like fix it.

Speaker 2: And so at the studio they're like, maybe we should

just pull Brandy out. But the one of the guys

that's working there, I think he's like the head tech guy. Yeah,

he's like, no, if we interrupt, Brandy will probably die,

like ninety eight percent chance she's gonna die. So they're

like no, no, no, no, no, we have to fix the

plot hole. So then one of the other tech people

is like, Okay, I'll try to figure out a way

to fix the plothole, but I better get writer's credit.

And I'm like, okay, I.

Speaker 3: Guess, like okay, past girl. And so she's working.

Speaker 2: It's giving it dream improv, which like that's kind of

my nightmare just for me though, but maybe.

Speaker 3: That's good for.

Speaker 2: Wow. So then Clara and Brandy they run into each

other in the lobby and Clara invites doctor Palmer Alex

left Brandy to go sight seeing, which I was like,

oh my god, so gay. But also, I guess in

the original she asked the man to go sight seeing,

which is also kind of crazy if she's married, but

I think it shows that their marriage was not like

that real.

Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm just thinking if.

Speaker 2: I asked, I don't know a person that I would

seemingly be attracted to.

Speaker 3: I don't know.

Speaker 2: It's different with the gays because I'm like, if I

invited a girl to go sightseeing, that would be normal

because it would just be my friend. But I would

think that I don't know, maybe I'm being heterophobic in

some way. I'm like, no, she can't anyway, So she

invites her. They go sightseeing, so cute. Then when they

get back, Clara slash Dorothy like trips up the stairs

and she like hurts her little ankle or her leg.

Speaker 1: Yeah, she shoots her ankle.

Speaker 2: Yeah, And so you know, doctor Palmer has to be

the hero and be like, I'm a doctor, I can

help you. So they go up to the room and

there's like a very sensual like leg and foot touching

vibe going on, and I was like, oh, I thought

she was gonna like suck her toes.

Speaker 1: I really do are you getting me?

Speaker 3: I was like, oh, my godot.

Speaker 2: I thought it looked like it.

Speaker 3: I don't know. Watch we rewatch it and it's not

even that dramatic.

Speaker 2: I really like the foot stuff was happening.

Speaker 3: I don't know, that's wild.

Speaker 1: Yeah, but you never know.

Speaker 3: I don't know.

Speaker 2: And so so then there's you know, it seems like

there's some meaningful looks and meaningful touching. I wrote, it

gets sexual ish. And then a second murder attempt happens.

The guy who the husband hired goes to the door

and he like brings them. Does he bring them like

he brings him like.

Speaker 1: Room service or he brings some room service.

Speaker 2: But there's a scorpion in there, and a scorpion is

supposed to sting.

Speaker 1: It's supposed to I was.

Speaker 2: Gonna say, bite, okay, the scorpion was going to sting

her and then she's gonna die, So Brandy Slash Alex

has to save her. She like puts a cover over

the scorpion, and that reminds me. Have you ever seen

a scorpion in person? Yes? I have really Yeah. Was

it scary?

Speaker 1: Well, I was away from it. It wasn't like you know,

it was it was just walking around. It wasn't like

I was there. And then it like came out and

I was like, oh my god. But like my dad

was bit by one. Yeah, did you have to go

to the hospital or something. Yeah, he did. But back

then they were just like put some milk on it

and you're okay. And he was like, okay in America, No,

this is he grew up. I was like, no, no, yeah, yeah.

They lived on like a ranch thing, and so he

was that's common for him.

Speaker 3: Okay.

Speaker 2: Also, your dad is kind of older then, yeah, even

my dad, I think.

Speaker 3: So it makes more sense too that it was.

Speaker 1: Like back then they were like that.

Speaker 3: I know, I'm like my dad's day.

Speaker 2: It was in the nineties, so I'm like they're doing that. Yeah. No,

I just I thought of a scorpion. I've never seen

a scorpion in real life. I was really scared to

move to the town that I live in now because

people kept telling me there were scorpions here, but I

haven't seen any knock on wood. But my wife saw

one in Mexico and when she was a kid and

she squished it and she for her and no, but

so sad and we're vegan. I would never do that. No,

I mean she she says that she remembers like the

feeling of like crushing it because it was so crunchy,

and I feel really sad.

Speaker 3: I think she still feels bad. No.

Speaker 2: I think she was like you know when people see

a spider and they're like, ah, and squish it.

Speaker 3: That's what she did with a scorpion.

Speaker 2: But she's like it was so gross because it has

like an exoskeleton, and I don't know. I think she

still feels bad about it. You should tell her it's okay.

Speaker 1: Later, I'll tell her that it was an accident, like

she wasn't planning it out or anything.

Speaker 2: She's got care.

Speaker 1: Yeah, she was just it's a reflex sometimes.

Speaker 2: So AnyWho, I.

Speaker 3: Just had to talk about the scorpion thing because I

think it's wild, but this is really important.

Speaker 2: They kiss, Clara Dorothy and Alex Brandy kiss.

Speaker 3: Oh my god.

Speaker 2: I was like what And then this creepy guy that

is like one of the tech guys was being a

creepy weirdo watching them kiss, and then he spilled his

coffee all over all this important high tech stuff and

it ruins everything.

Speaker 3: Basically, they lose.

Speaker 2: All connection to the studio and Brandy is like, can't

hear Kimmy anymore? And I don't think I mentioned this,

but she could hear Kimmy the whole time. Now she

can't hear Kimmy. She doesn't know what's going on. And

they look outside the door and the bad guy is

like crouched outside the door, literally frozen, and Clara Dorothy

is like, what that's weird? And Brandy starts freaking out.

She's like, Kimmy, Kimmy and Clara's like, who is Kimmy?

And then back at the studio, they're like, oh my god,

what's gonna happen? And they basically the tech guy says, Oh,

there's like a fifty fifty chance that Brandy's gonna die

if we don't fix this.

Speaker 1: Yeah, Like she's gonna be stuck there if we turn

it off, she's dead.

Speaker 2: So yeah, so they're like scrambling to fix it. They

do realize at some point back in the studio that

the movie Land is going like six to seven hours

per second.

Speaker 3: So they're like, it's kind of funny that it's.

Speaker 2: Like I'm like wow, because then they totally like fall

in love and it seems like it's really fast. I mean,

it still is really fast, but it's like less fast

than a few seconds that's happening in real time. But

so Clara's so confused. They go down to the lobby.

Everyone else is frozen. All the people are frozen except

for Clara, Clara, Dorothy, and Brandy Alex they're only not

frozen people. And Brandy is like, you need to understand,

like you're literally not real, Like you're not real. Everyone

here is fake. This is just a movie. And she's like,

what are you talking about? Yeah, and then she asks

her do you know what your dad looks?

Speaker 1: Like?

Speaker 2: Do you know anything about your dad except like these

random facts that you've been told, like that he owns

a business, And she can't think of anything. So then

she does start to question her existence, which imagine how

crazy that would be.

Speaker 3: Like you're sure that you're real?

Speaker 2: I think about this sometimes.

Speaker 1: We're like what if like someone tells you like it's

just not real. Or like I don't know, you can't

remember something, yes, or.

Speaker 2: Like are we in the sims and my SIM player

is like playing my life?

Speaker 1: Well, but whoever is playing our sims? Why aren't we

rich and famous and.

Speaker 2: Like, well someday, but they should make it happen now.

But at least they oh, my god, they should use

the mother load cheap. That's what I would always do

in sims. Oh, I'm like, you get I think it's

one hundred thousand simolians every time you type mother loads.

So every time I make a new sim family which

like mother love mother load, and then I get a

million dollars a million simolians, sorry, and then I have

them buy whatever house they want, and then they don't

really have to work. They just be getting all the

other sims pregnant. All my sims are girls that have

the ability to get other girls pregnant. And so I

shouldn't tell you that, Okay, So my sims are pretty

much all gay. It used to be back in the

back in the day. They were always like all like

pan people. But you couldn't make your female sim have

a baby with your other female sim. And I'm obsessed

with making babies in the sims, and so I would

have to turn it into a man and then have

them have sex, and then have it turned back into

a woman. But now you can say you want your

sim to be able to get others pregnant, and then

you set the other one to be able to get pregnant. Anyway,

point being, I mean, my sims have never had me.

My whoever's playing my sim character has never had me

get pregnant, which, thank goodness.

Speaker 3: I mean, I also don't have sex with men.

Speaker 2: But in the sims, I make them whatever point being,

I got off track, but I just want to say

I also put a note in here that I wrote,

Clara looks like May Martin. She does. I always met

another person in real life that looks like May Martin.

I told my wife about it. I showed a picture

of her, and she said she doesn't look like her.

So I think that I think every skinny white girl

with like big eyes looks like Martin.

Speaker 1: Okay, well I'm gonna need to see this picture.

Speaker 2: And then I'm like, oh, I don't know, maybe I'm

just attracted to May Martin, and I'm like every every

person like yeah, AnyWho, So Clara's freaking out because she's like,

oh my god, that's not real, that I'm not real.

And then at some point Clara like kind of like

runs away being dramatic, but then she kind of realizes

she should look into it. So she goes outside and

she goes to this like door across the street, and

she tries to open the door, but like her hand

goes through the.

Speaker 3: Door, and she's like what.

Speaker 2: So then she goes all the way there because she

is curious, and she sees just like black kind of

like what was happening when Brandy first came in. And

then she starts to see all of the memories of

Dorothy's life. So she sees the actress's life and she

sees that she was gay, and probably part of why

she had her drug issue or depression I think is

because she wasn't allowed to be kausing, which goes back

to Evelyn Hugo. No spoilers, but I told you it's

gay and it's celebrities set in like the forties, So

we realized that she was gay, and we're like, oh

my god, it's so perfect that Alex slash Brandy is

a woman. Now.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 2: Anyway, so now that she realizes that she goes back,

and she goes back out of that world, that black world,

and goes across the street and is like talking to Brandy.

She plays the piano for her. They're they're doing sex stuff.

Maybe they're sucking toes. I don't know. We don't know

that part, but it could be happening. And then like

days are passing and they're like in love and blah

blah blah blah. And then they say I love you

to each other. And then Brandy's like, but do you

love me for me or do you love me because

you were written to love Alex Palmer And she's like,

you're not Alex Palmer.

Speaker 1: Like she's like she ran valid point, honestly, Like, yeah,

she discovered all of this. It's not the same, and

she grew a dimension, so who's to say she didn't

grow more dimensions. And it's like, okay, I can have

the ability because even in the movie, she was like,

if it didn't hit the romance like part, then she

just wouldn't be attracted. Yeah, she's written to fall in love.

Speaker 3: Yeah yes.

Speaker 2: But then basically right after that, I think, yeah, right

after that is when the studio finally gets access back

and they're like, Okay, we're gonna have to Rea, we're back.

We're gonna have to restart at the scorpion scene and

Brandy is like, wait what because she can hear it

in her ear but Clara Dorothy can't hear it anyway.

They're like, okay, we're gonna reset at like I think

they count down from ten or countdown from five, and

this is back to what Angelina said earlier. She totally

could have stopped it. She like waited until they were

literally at like one and is like, no way, you

didn't really care that much, girl, And so then they're

back at the scorpion scene. Clara doesn't remember anything. She

feels bad because they kissed and she's married. She doesn't

realize her husband is the one that wants to kill her.

She doesn't remember that. She's not real like, she doesn't

remember any of this. And at some point Brandy like

kind of goes off on her own in the hallway

and asks Kimmy through the earpiece, thing like is there

a way that I could stay with Clara?

Speaker 3: And Kimmi's like, what are you talking about?

Speaker 2: And then she kind of like backs off, like she's like,

that's weird that was a weird question. And so then

at some point we see that the husband was planning

another murder attempt. He is going to try to get

Clara Dorothy up on the balcony thing and get her

to like fall off.

Speaker 1: Yeah, like basically yeah, fall off the rail.

Speaker 2: Like because I think they're loosening the rail something like that.

Speaker 3: And so.

Speaker 2: Basically Clara doesn't believe that her husband's trying to kill her.

Alex is trying to tell her like, no, it's him,

and do that. And so then the plan to fix

that plot hole is that Clara needs to tell Alex

slash Brandy that she doesn't want to see her ever again.

Speaker 3: Oh no, that's not it.

Speaker 2: To fix the plot hole, Alex slash Brandy must go

to the police station and report Claude's murder plan. And

when she goes to do that, the old lady is

there and she's like, someone killed my dog and they

don't really care about the time, we don't give a

po so sad, and so she tells the inspector about

the plot hole. Wait, she tells the inspector that he's

sneezing because his allergies are due to his own cologne.

So she still gets to diagnose him and that should

fix the plot hole and keep Brandy from getting shot.

And then while this is happening, Claude, the husband, takes

Clara to the roof and he's trying to make her

like fall off. He's even like at first he tries

to like make it look like an accident, and then

basically he's like, stand over, I'm gonna you're gonna fall

off of this on accident.

Speaker 3: And so then.

Speaker 2: Brandy slash Alex comes and interrupts. He holds the gun

at doctor Alex Palmer Slash Brandy and it goes off

in the air and Clara gets it and then she

kills Claude. So she kills her husband, which is good

because he's a bad person, but it's bad because they're like,

oh my gosh, the cops are going to come and

arrest you. And so Brandy's like, no, I'm gonna say

I did it. Brandy slash Alex is like, I'm going

to say it was me. And then they're arguing over

it and then they say I love you and they kiss,

and then the inspector person you know, they all come

up there because they heard the gunshot. The inspector person

is about to say that whole line that fixes it

by saying, oh no, that's the doctor that diagnose my allergies,

but Clara shoots him. She's trigger happy af she was like,

you don't know me, like I know my last episode,

and so then the cops shoot her and she's dying

in Brandy's arms and she says, don't cry for me,

remember me, And then Brandy says the final line while

her heart breaks. She says, I'll be yours forever more.

And then the credits roll and then she can be

brought back to reality. So it changed the outcome of

the movie, but it's still going to be a success.

I feel like they show, like the new movie being released,

Brandy's still popular, but she's like really sad because her

her love is gone, and it's basically her fault because

she could have stopped the whole thing from me.

Speaker 3: She could have started.

Speaker 1: She could stayed with her.

Speaker 2: I want to stay there other people, no offense, but

like if I'm there with my wife, awesome, yeah I'm

gonna leave. But anyway, whatever she did, and then she's

like still sad in her mansion, you know, and in

her like I think she's in a limo at one point. Yeah,

like she's again.

Speaker 3: Yeah, she's always a sad girl.

Speaker 2: And then she gets a package and she opens it

and it's a USB, so she connects it to like

her computer, and it connects to Dorothy's screen test like

audition think that she watched before and in that I

didn't tell you this before because it didn't seem important,

but it is. The phone rings in it, and Dorothy

is supposed to answer the phone. So at this point,

basically I think Redream did this for her at p

They made this fancy AI type of thing so that

she can call her so they can talk. So when

when Brandy calls her, you can see Dorothy on the

screen answering and they're talking to each other, so she

can still talk to her love, which is good, even

though it's not like the happiest ending because they're not

like together together, but at least she can like plug

in the USB and talk to her talk, so that's something.

Speaker 3: So that's how it ends.

Speaker 1: Yeah, it was cute.

Speaker 2: I don't know, it was a lot. I don't know

if cute is the best way to describe all of

the sci fi nouts, but it was cute.

Speaker 1: Yeah okay, yeah, yeah, well we'll get to where I

think of it on the ratings.

Speaker 2: But yeah, like actually, so I think before we do

the ratings, we will do.

Speaker 1: We'll do our version of Marya, which is munch, merge, murder.

So the options are Brandy, Kimmy, and Dorothy. Okay, what

are you me gonna do to them?

Speaker 2: Okay, so weird?

Speaker 3: But no, I wouldn't.

Speaker 2: I would tell you that I'm.

Speaker 3: Not you guys.

Speaker 1: Don't you hate You're so fixated on them now.

Speaker 2: I think I was like scared that was going to

happen and I was gonna be so weird. So AnyWho munch,

merge murder. I guess I would probably, I don't know.

I think I would. I guess I would munch. I

would munch Dorothy. I like that may Martin vibe. I

would merge with Brandy because she's really rich, and also

I liked that she was like wearing a suit. I'm

very into women in suits, even though that was the character.

And then I would I would kill Kimmy. I mean,

her character was fine, but I wasn't that into it.

Speaker 3: What about you?

Speaker 1: I feel the same way. I would murder Kimmy I

just don't like Aquafina. I think she's just annoying. Maybe

that was my bi like, you know, maybe a character. Yeah,

I do, but I think I would munch Brandy merge

with Dorothy.

Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, you would go back into movie land

and beware. Yeah, yeah it makes sense. So for your rating,

on a scale of one to five, cherries, what would

you rate this episode?

Speaker 1: I would say a four out of five because I

thought it was really good, but also I dislike sad endings.

I like a happy ending. I don't know, that's just me.

Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's I feel like I was to give

it the same rating.

Speaker 3: I was also going to say four out of five

because I like it. I liked that it was gay. Yeah,

I like that.

Speaker 2: It was like it was a cool idea. The whole

concept was interesting to me. I wish that she would

have stayed with her, but I do like that they

added a semi happy ending by being like, well she

can still talk to her. Yes, So it was better

than it could be. So four out of five. Let's see,

do we have a break? Did I make that up?

Speaker 1: Oh? No?

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Speaker 1: And now it's time for What's Up with the Heteros?

Speaker 2: I wonder that a lot no offense. I just don't

know what it's like to live. I do wonder what's up?

And there are a lot of great hetero people. The

people I'm going to talk about in this episode are

not great though, So just so you know, don't be

like these heteros, don't please don't. So I want to

talk about this because I know that we are going

to put this episode out during Pride Month, and I

think probably a lot of people have heard about this,

but I didn't hear. Apparently this is the second year

of this man in Idaho that owns a bar and has.

Speaker 3: A lot of kids.

Speaker 2: He has six children, which that's fine if you have

six children, but please don't raise them to like be homophobic,

which he is trying to do.

Speaker 3: So he I guess.

Speaker 2: Last year had like a heteropride month type of thing,

and he now this year is having hetero awesome fest.

So this is his response to Pride festivals, Boise Pride. Basically,

he's talked mad shit about Boise Pride on Facebook.

Speaker 3: He says, oh, you know, I don't have a problem.

Speaker 2: He's one of those people.

Speaker 3: I don't have a.

Speaker 2: Problem with the gays, but they're trying to do indecent

things and tell our children to cut their genitals off.

So he's like, I don't know, he's giving maga, he's

giving fake news, he's got brain warm.

Speaker 3: Yeah, bad stuff is going on.

Speaker 2: And he said he thought of the idea because one

of his many children's birthday is in June, and he

was like, oh my god, we couldn't go to Boise

because they were doing Pride. They were doing all this

moral stuff. So I wanted to have like a wholesome

festival that celebrates I don't remember his exact wording, but

basically like celebrates God's plan for for humans believing God.

Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm not trying to.

Speaker 2: Also, if there is a God, I'm pretty sure that

that being would not be homophobic and transphobic and sexist

and racist.

Speaker 1: I mean, is like, don't use it to be homophobicide exactly.

Speaker 3: And so He's having this awesome fest.

Speaker 2: He's having things at his bar, such as beers for breeders,

which is like a discount if you are straight or

maybe if you have kids.

Speaker 3: Do you have to actively be breath.

Speaker 2: In front of him?

Speaker 3: He's like, you get a breathing beer in front of me?

Speaker 2: Yes, because that's because yeah, bring.

Speaker 1: Your He's gonna bring his kids to the bar. He's

gonna see all the breeders. This is normal, is what

you need to do.

Speaker 2: Okay, like in butt them and cheerleader when they have

them like feel like and those like skin costumes.

Speaker 1: With like the enemies simulate to like.

Speaker 3: Pretend to have like straight sex. Anyway, He's weird.

Speaker 2: He also is having something that is like like a

Ladies' night type of thing, but it's only for straight women.

Straight women get deals that night, and it's like, okay,

but you.

Speaker 1: Prove that they're straight, you can just say and if

you like it, then get the fun.

Speaker 2: It's like, what is he going to judge. There's a

lot of women. I mean, I don't know, I never

been to Idaho, but I know there's a lot of

women in all kinds of different states when especially when

they get a little older and they cut their hair

off and there.

Speaker 1: They look at farm and I'm.

Speaker 2: Like, he's a lesbian or just like a middle aged

farm woman. So he how's he going to judge, How's

he gonna know if they're if they're straight.

Speaker 3: Anyway, that's ridiculous.

Speaker 2: In case you didn't know, I'm pretty sure you do

if you're listening to this podcast. There's no reason to

have a straight pride parade. There's no reason to have

a straight pride or a hetero awareness. Literally every day

is straight Pride day. They are in the majority of people.

They are the dominant demographic. We have pride because pride

is for those who have been oppressed because of their identities,

not for straight people. We love the allies to come

to pride and be supportive. That's fine, but straight pride ridiculous.

I remember I live in California. We live in California.

They had something like this in Modesto, like a few

years ago. We don't live in Modesto, but I heard

about it because it's in California, and I was like, Eh, anyway,

no good, don't go to that, Please don't support it.

Do you have anything else to ask?

Speaker 1: I feel like I think it is just so crazy

how they're they're just so obsessed with us.

Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, they hate because they want us.

Speaker 1: Yeah, they really want to be us, but they can

never be. We love straight people if you're cool, but

if you're ugly and shitty like that, then it's just

not for us.

Speaker 2: I'm sorry, ugly. Your ugliness on the inside goes to

your outside.

Speaker 1: Yeah, so therefore you are ugly?

Speaker 3: Yes, I agree?

Speaker 2: Okay, good, I'm like yeah, yeah, no, I just I

laugh because I think of like my wife, so you

know that too, But I think about my wife is

so sweet and like when she hears something bad about

a celebrity, even if they're really hot, she'll forever be

like they're so ugly.

Speaker 3: She's like ew, she's hideous.

Speaker 2: And I'm like, babe, like she's literally beautiful, and she's

like but.

Speaker 1: Her personality makes her make her Yeah.

Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, good, I'm glad that you think

that I have a beautiful personality then, because otherwise why

would you be with me. But I think that was

a really fun episode, even though we had to talk

about a terrible thing that's happening in Idaho. But thank

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Speaker 1: Make sure to tune in next week we will be

discussing san Juinnapero, episode four, Season three of Black Mirror.

See you next Tuesday, Next Tuesday, Yeah bye. Executive producers

for But I'm a Lesbian are Caitlin Beatty and Angelina Herrera.

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Speaker 2: Yeah