Welcome to That Weewoo Show: a podcast where Bex, Alice and Ellen watch and discuss every episode of ABC’s TV show, 9-1-1.
In this episode we discuss episode 11 of the fifth season of 9-1-1, titled “Outside Looking In”.
The 118 “speed” to the rescue to save a family whose pick-up truck has been rigged with a pipe bomb. Eddie has a rough transition into his new job, Buck makes an impulsive relationship decision.
Content warnings for episode 5.11:
gore, cheating, depression, family at threat of a car accident/explosion, depictions of PTSD, self-isolation.
Mentioned in this episode:
- LAFD’s Robotic firefighter
- Kenny’s breakdancing (via tiktok)
- Hollanov fanfiction walking through windows by CorvidCordelia
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Episode Transcript
Maddie: [00:00:00] 9-1-1. What’s your emergency?
Ellen: Welcome back to That WeeWoo Show, a podcast where we watch and discuss episodes of the A B C show, 9-1-1. I’m Ellen.
Alice: I’m Alice.
Bex: And I’m Bex.
Ellen: Thanks to everyone who has been listening to our, um, season five episodes. Here we are at, in, in five B. We’re starting the second half.
Alice: Finally.
Ellen: Um, and we, we, we gotta say a big thank you to everyone who’s been commenting, um, on our episodes, including Pigeon. Hello. I hope that you’ve finished your work project and caught all the way up to this episode. Um, and congratulations when you get here. Uh, and we also have,
Alice: I’m hoping you can tell us apart by now, but you know, it’s not looking good.
Ellen: Yeah, no, I think we’ve cleared that up [00:01:00] now. Um, we’ve gotta say thank you also to Divyesh, who left a comment, um, saying that maybe Taylor Kelly is the future Flash because her backstory is quite similar to what they set up for Flash that like The Flash TV show. So, and we’ve decided that we would really like to see Taylor become the next superhero. Um
Bex: Oh yeah.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: 100% would watch that spinoff.
Alice: Yep. I would watch that more than Nashville, which I’ve watched three episodes of. So
Ellen: Taylor Kelly for the Flash. All right, so this week we are up to episode 11, but first, um, Alice, would you remind us what happened last week?
Alice: Last week on 9-1-1, the 118 celebrated Christmas and Eddie quit before a three month hiatus. That that was it
Ellen: Three months? Was it really three months? My god,
Alice: it was a three month hiatus.
Bex: Well, the Christmas episode aired in December and then this week’s episode aired the [00:02:00] 21st of March, so
Ellen: Oh God. Yeah. I feel like we did mention that last week, but I it’s been a long week gone.
Bex: I think, I think we said it was like a couple of weeks, but, but I guess it de depends on what your definition of a couple is.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Nine weeks?
Alice: Usually, you know, two to three,
Ellen: a couple 20.
Bex: Um, but we are, the show came back with a bang, um, because in this week’s episode, Athena, Bobby, and the 118 quote, “speed” to the rescue to save a family whose pickup truck has been rigged with a pipe bomb, which will detonate if the vehicle slows under 55 miles an hour, which is little under 90 kilometers an hour, for those of us who work in, you know, actual uh, scientific measurements.
Um, meanwhile, Eddie has a rough transition in his new job. Buck makes an impulsive relationship decision. I don’t know which decision that [00:03:00] one relates to, but both of them are pretty bad and Hen is reluctant to accept her new partner in Chimney’s absence. Um, our triggers for this episode include cheating, uh, gore, specifically bones very, very far out of where they’re supposed to be in a body.
Ellen: Oh yeah. Disgusting…
Bex: depictions… I just love that you’re watching the episode and the first thing we hear from you is, Ew. His knees.
Um, uh, we have depictions of depression. We have family at threat of a car accident slash explosion, uh, which is a depiction of the 1994 speed movie, uh, depictions of PTSD and self-isolation.
Alice: Um, I feel like more happened in the summary of this episode than did all last week’s episode, like the entire four.[00:04:00]
Ellen: Well, they actually explained like everything that happened in this episode, quite literally in that as well. Oh, except for the, the Buck storyline really. But, um, but none of the things in the, um, in the summary actually happen for a little while in this. Episode, episode because we start out with a party.
Bex: We do, we are starting out with a quinceanera, which is a, a 15th birthday party.
Ellen: It looks like loads of fun.
Alice: Yeah. I don’t remember my 15th birthday, but I’m sure it wasn’t this exciting.
Ellen: No,
Bex: it’s, um, I, I did do a quick deep dive, um, into what, uh, what exactly is the purpose behind a kin, uh, quinceanera?
Um, and the best that I can equate it is, it’s kind of like the way that like English society and [00:05:00] then sort of the waspy side of American society would have a debut where you would come out in society mm-hmm. And be ready for marriage. Um,
Ellen: They do that in Australia too. We, we used to, like, when I was in guides many years ago, um, they used to have like this deb debutante ball where, um, you would wear a white dress and go to this thing.
It’s like a, it’s very old fashioned country kind of thing. Yeah. Maybe it’s just the Queensland thing that we’ve held onto. I didn’t go, I didn’t ever go to one, but my, um, some of my guiding friends did. It was a lot of fun, by all accounts, but yeah, that’s the purpose of it. To come out into society and be part
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Um, there’s a little bit more behind it with the quinceanera as far as I could tell, which is like, yes, it was your, um, you’re now 15, you’re now sort of eligible for marriage. But it was also about marking the pro, the transition from being a [00:06:00] child to being a young woman. So they’d do little things like their quinceanera would wear flat shoes to start the ceremony and the reception.
And then at some point a, um, elder, a male family member would help her put on her first pair of heels. Uh, or there would be a tradition where she would pass on a doll to a younger, uh, family member. And like, this is the last doll that she’s ever going to play with, and she’s passing it on to another child.
Ellen: Aw, that’s sweet.
Bex: It’s very, it’s steeped. It’s also very steeped in, uh, Catholicism. So it starts with a religious ceremony, but the big thing is the reception, which is the massive party. Um, and it’s very much, I think people would try to outdo each other with how big the, the reception is, but like, equating it to almost like a wedding reception is how like big and bold and over the top people get with it.
Ellen: Right. Well, I did sort of get that impression from this [00:07:00] party.
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: Because they, not only do they have like a great big stage covered in balloons, but they have like a mariachi band of, of like. I don’t know, five or six players like
Bex: mm-hmm.
Ellen: Playing music in the background.
Bex: I do like the fake out that they have with this emergency as well, because
Alice: Oh, same.
Bex: That’s great. The, um, the, in the, the casino makes her, um, arrival at the party, um, in a throne lifted into the air with balloons. So like, the balloons that were part of the display on the stage was actually her balloons, and they, they lift her up into the air and she’s floating above the party, um, and it looks beautiful and she looks beautiful and everyone is clapping.
Um, and then a wind kicks up and so immediately you’re thinking that the emergency emergency is going to be this poor 15-year-old girl being swept away, uh, Up style, [00:08:00] um, in her chair lifted by balloons, because the only thing holding her there are these guys with ropes. Like she’s not secured in the, they haven’t, um, secured her into the ground or anything. It’s just these four guys with ropes and they’re trying their hardest.
Ellen: Her dad even says, like, the mom even says, oh, this is not safe. Like,
Bex: it’s not safe.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Um, but,
Ellen: but she’s fine.
Bex: Surprisingly, she’s fine. She is not the emergency.
Alice: No, she’s fine.
Bex: She’s actually discovers the emergency because while she’s got an elevated adv, um, elevated vantage point, um, she can see, uh, what looks to be like a giant tarp or a piece of material on a nearby building, sort of being flapped about in the wind.
Um, and that it flies off the roof of said building, revealing a guy like he look, he looks dead. He does not look good at all.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: And he is stuck through the roof of this building. [00:09:00]
Ellen: Um, yeah, it doesn’t look great. And you can sort of see that the material on there looks like a parachute, like it blows away to reveal this man.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: So,
Bex: so
Ellen: Cue the 118.
Bex: Lourdes has her phone with her, like she’s been taking selfies of herself up in her chair. So I just imagine she’s floating above all of this, um, calling 9-1-1 from her like balloon chair and it’s like, and her call is like, “It’s my birthday and I just saw a dead guy,” and I can’t tell if that’s a bad thing or a good thing because
Ellen: it’s definitely up there for our worst 9-1-1 calls of the season, I think.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: But I can’t tell if she thinks it’s a bad thing, like, oh my god, it’s my birthday and I just saw a dead guy and it’s just ruined my birthday completely. Or it’s like, oh my God, this is the best thing ever. It’s my birthday and I just saw a dead guy.
Ellen: If she was excited about it, she probably wouldn’t be calling 9-1-1.[00:10:00]
Bex: I mean, it’s a dead guy. She’s got to report it, right.
Alice: She’s responsible, she’s 15 now
Bex: and she like, dead guys come with bonus 118 arriving at her quinceanera.
Ellen: Right. Yeah. So happy about this.
Bex: She’s very excited about that.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: I would be too if, if that was the, um, the people that showed up.
Bex: Happy birthday. Here’s firefighters.
Ellen: Yeah. Except half of them aren’t there. Yeah. Half of them are people we don’t know.
Alice: Well yeah. But Buck’s looking good this episode. Um, I apologize in advance for my gushing about how
Ellen: thirsting?
Alice: good Buck looks this entire episode because Yeah,
Ellen: he looks great. Yeah,
Alice: he’s looking good.
Ellen: Yeah. So we’ve got Jonah
Bex: Monday.
Ellen: Is he the only new person? There’s other people as well who are there who we don’t know, but they don’t get named.
Bex: We, we get, we get told that Ericsson is there and then Ericsson just seems to vanish into thin air. I dunno where he goes.
Ellen: Okay.
Bex: Or if he was, that’s not important. [00:11:00] But as far as like people on screen talking, um, it’s just Monday.
Ellen: Yeah. Hen keeps calling him Monday and he is like, “why do you keep calling me Monday? My name’s Jonah.” And Hen is just like, so, um. Like cold to, she’s like,
Alice: she, she does not give a fuck.
Ellen: “There’s a new one of you every shift. To me you’re Monday,” and I’m like, damn, Hen, that’s, that’s kind of mean. Anyway.
Bex: Also, where is Bobby getting all of these new paramedics from? Yeah, if there’s literally a new one every shift,
Alice: I assume she, that he’s just either borrowing from different houses or like, do they have temporary firefighter? I don’t know. Yeah, he’s just a,
Bex: I could just
Ellen: person who floats around to different places.
Bex: In my mind, I know this isn’t how it works, but in my mind there’s like, um, the LAFD HR who’s responsible for staffing and like every day Bobby is calling going, I need you to send another one. She doesn’t like this one either.
Alice: [00:12:00] She doesn’t like this one
Bex: and they’re just like, Bobby, we’re running out of people we can send you.
Alice: I was just like, like obviously this can’t be, surely it can’t be how it works in the LAFD, but like I’m a casual at work and so like I got a message.
Bex: Casual firefighters?
Alice: Yeah, like I got a message yesterday going, “oh, can you do like shifts at a store that’s an hour away that desperately needs staff that know what they’re doing?” Um, and because I was a manager, I know what I’m doing. Um, and so they basically just send me where they need staff. Um, so I got like a list of dates for March that like, could you do this?
And I’m like, are there casual firefighters that like don’t, like they’ve got a, a house, but like they’re not on a shift or B shift. They’re like C shift?
Bex: Floaters.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: I don’t know if anybody knows how staffing at the LAFD works,
Alice: where are they finding these, these, um, these paramedics? ‘
Bex: cause you can imagine they do like, it’s what, 72? It’s like three days on, three days off. So he is gotta get like [00:13:00] three days in a three people in a row, then they get a break, then it’s another three, three people in a row. It’s just like logistically, that’s a lot of paramedics. If he’s literally getting a new one. Any, I don’t know why I’m so fixated on this, but I am.
Anyway, moving on. So, um, Jonah and Hen are ordered by Bobby to head up to the roof to check the patient.
Alice: Oh wait, I just gotta mention, um, when they get outta the ambulance and Hen’s like, have you got your med kit? And Jonah goes, not my first rodeo. I, I say that all the time and I don’t know why I love that saying so fucking much, but there’s a meme that’s like someone at their second rodeo.
It’s not my first rodeo. So dumb. But I love it so much.
Bex: That is pretty funny.
Ellen: Yes.
Bex: So Jonah, who is on his maybe third or fourth rodeo, we would hope, um, he’s going up to the roof, going up to the roof with him to check on the patient. Um, Buck is going to go with Bobby sort of [00:14:00] from inside up inside the roof, Ericsson, whoever the fuck that is, is going up top to insist we never see Ericsson.
Ellen: No.
Bex: There is never another person on the roof. It’s, I I don’t did it’s remember a couple of episodes ago we were, when they had the helicopter on the side of the hospital and we’re saying like the script said one thing and then the blocking was something completely different.
Ellen: Oh yeah.
Bex: I feel like some, they wrote in this big script for Bobby to be like ordering all of these people around and then they forgot to hire somebody to be Ericsson and they’re just like, oh, nobody will notice. I noticed!
Alice: Like, like where’s my background firefighters damn it.
Bex: Yes. Um, sorry. Hen and Jonah without Ericsson, um, go up and unfortunately for our parachuter, um, he’s still alive.
Ellen: Yeah. The funny thing is like, it’s, it’s probably not funny, but he kind of groans and lift his head a bit, and then Hen goes, “oh, I got [00:15:00] a pulse.” I’m like, he’s moving. Like, and lifting his head, did this not give it away?
Bex: I would hope that he’s got a pulse. Otherwise you have a zombie on your hands, which like,
Alice: the protocol is gonna
Bex: change completely.
Alice: The guy’s like, “Hey guys, how you doing? I’m on a roof.” And they’re like, I got a pulse.
Ellen: Like, I, I assume that she, like, he, he did that before she got a chance to say her line. So it didn’t actually make any sense in the end. But anyway, it was funny. It made me laugh.
Bex: It, it was funny. Um, so our, our poor, um, paraglider apparently, although I don’t know how Jonah got to paragliding, but that’s fine. Um, his name is, ‘
Alice: cause there was a, there was a parachute thing,
Bex: but I don’t even know what paragliding is. Hang on.
Ellen: It’s when you jump off something rather than jumping out of a plane.
Bex: Oh, it’s got the, the big, like you’re sitting in your little pod and then you’re under the
Alice: Yeah,
Bex: the big Oh, okay. [00:16:00] Uh, yeah. Okay.
Ellen: You jump, you jump off the top of a mountain and fly down. Yeah. Basically.
Bex: All right. So I’m gonna say that Jonah recognized the shape of the parachute.
Alice: Yeah. Maybe he’s a paraglider.
Bex: That’s. Slightly disturbing thought. Um, so anyway, uh, Lenny tells us that
Alice: it’s not his first paragliding incident.
Bex: Lenny tells us that, uh, or tells Jonah that the wind picked up. Um, he was trying to avoid some power lines and he lost control and ended up landing on the roof of, I think it’s a country club.
Alice: Sure. It’s somewhere with a roof. We don’t really care.
Bex: It’s, it’s a building with a roof that Lenny has gone through. Um, he’s in quite a bit.
Ellen: His legs are all the way through the roof.
Bex: Yeah. He’s just like, it’s just upper body that Hen and Jonah are dealing with. Yeah. Um, he can wiggle his fingers,
Alice: so Jonah, so he is Jonah pushes 10 of morphine, um, to stop Lenny feeling anything. And Lenny’s like, “yeah, I already can’t feel my legs.”
Ellen: Yeah. And they’re [00:17:00] like, um, okay.
Alice: Like, it could, could be your spine. It’s like, it’s fine. You, I’m sure you’ll be fine. Lenny’s like, “what if my legs are completely gone?” So then we cut to Bobby in the attic and Buck’s, like, “um, yeah, I, I don’t wanna be really insensitive, but do his legs look really short?”
Ellen: Oh, I was like, what? No. Is this something I wanna see? Because I’m like, did his legs actually get cut all the way off? And then it turned out to be a lot worse.
Bex: Bobby takes one look, Bobby takes one look at this guy’s legs and immediates, like “Hen get the fuck down here.” Um, yeah. And then that, yes, they decide that this is something that we actually need to see. Um,
Ellen: oh, it’s so disgusting.
Bex: It is a bilateral open knee dislocation where basically his feet hit the roof. Um, his lower leg stopped and his upper [00:18:00] leg kept going. And so his knees basically shot straight through the skin. And
Alice: yeah, I tried not to look at it too much because
Ellen: no, I didn’t either. It, I glanced at it and went, Ugh.
Bex: It was slightly fascinating because it was, because like, it was literally, it was, you know how like when you draw a bone and that stereotypical bone shape is like the two little knobs?
Alice: Yes.
Bex: It, it was literally, it was literally like that.
Ellen: That’s,
Bex: that’s fascinating
Ellen: what your femur looks like, I guess.
Bex: I know, but I’ve never seen like a femur that’s like actually like attached to a human before like that.
Ellen: And actually she, she’s like, “oh, he’s lost surprisingly little amount of blood.” And I’m like, how? Like his, his knees are open. How has he not lost much blood?
Alice: I just love that Ellen and I are like trying not to look too close. And Bex is there Googling like, oh, that’s interesting.
Ellen: Check this out, his knees. Yeah.
Bex: Um, Jonah asks whether they’re going to [00:19:00] try to reset the fractures in the sit in in the field. Hen looks at him like he’s grown three heads and she’s like, absolutely not. You know better than to do that in the field. He is like, yeah, but I’ve heard you do some crazy stuff in the field. She’s like, well, that that’s me. I, I do crazy stuff. You don’t do crazy stuff.
Alice: Yeah. Like I’m the adult here. You are a day of the week and the shittest day of the week in fact,
Bex: I’m okay with Mondays. I hate Wednesdays. I’d probably
Alice: Wow. What did Wednesdays ever do to you.
Bex: I don’t know when. I think it’s just, it’s that midweek,
Ellen: it’s hump day.
Bex: It’s hump day. It’s always, it’s always been a bad day for me. So Jonah is my Wednesday.
Alice: See,
Ellen: that’s fair.
Alice: Wednesday hasn’t been midweek for me in years, so can’t relate. Um, ’cause I do Sunday to, like, I was doing Sunday to Thursday for so long.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: But like Tuesday is my Wednesday.
Bex: There’s not really much left with this scene once we’ve [00:20:00] revealed the, uh, the state in which Lenny has found himself, they give back a chainsaw again. Um, so that he can cut Lenny free.
Alice: They do give him a chainsaw. That’s great.
Bex: And you’ve got poor Bobby’s just like draping a blanket over Lenny’s head. He’s like, you know, “Just stay calm. I promise you he does know what he’s doing, even though he is looking far too maniacally happy to have a chainsaw in his hands.”
Alice: For some reason Buck’s cackling and like waving it around. It’s, it’s fine, we promise,
Ellen: once you’ve seen the state of your legs, you’ll probably want them to be chopped off with a chainsaw.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Um, and after Buck has managed to extricate, uh, Lenny from the roof, he’s put onto a gurney, he’s pushed, uh, across the party to where they’ve left the ambulance. Um, the party guests, uh, sensing that the show is ended is applauding, showing their appreciation and the Mariachi band kicks in,
Alice: oh, the birthday girl is so happy. They, they’re like, oh, like, sorry, your party was ruined. She’s like, ruin. This is the best day of my life. Like, are you kidding me?
Bex: She’s filming [00:21:00] the entire thing.
Alice: She’s just filming it. Um, the mariachi band starts playing again and Buck’s like waving and like, he’s just like, thank you, thank you. And, and Bobby’s just like, tone it down. And he’s like, oh man. Oh, he’s so cute.
Ellen: Bobby just gives him the filthiest look. It’s great.
Alice: Bobby’s like, Eddie’s not here. Tone it down. Because, yes. Just in case you missed his absence, um, Eddie has joined him in not being there.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: At least he’s in the same state though.
Alice: Yep. True.
Ellen: Well, we don’t find out where he, what he’s up to until the end of this next scene, which is
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: Um, Bobby getting home, um, Athena is waiting for him to have dinner and they have a little chat about how Bobby had to, or how Harry’s there to, he’s asking about the meeting that Bobby had to go to, which made, made him home so late. [00:22:00] Um, and I don’t, there’s no real reason for this scene to be so long, but
Bex: except that it sets up that one of the questions that Bobby got asked is, um, why have you still not filled those empty slots in your company roster?
And he’s brought home, um, a stack of personnel files that he has to read through to pick, um, new people for his roster and he gets scolded because the family rule is no homework at the dinner table. So he has to take them and go put them in the bedroom. Um, he says he’ll read them that night and Athena is like, damn, I was hoping for some more kinky role play. Guess that’s not happening tonight,
Alice: literally. She’s like, oh man, I already had you turn out like ready, hung up. It’s fine, whatever
Bex: the actual line was, “well, so much for a relaxing bedtime.” And I’m like, man, but the way you said that line, what you were planning wasn’t gonna be relaxing either.
Alice: Not at all.
Bex: But
Ellen: the children definitely said that with a knot and a not and a wink, you know?[00:23:00]
Bex: Um, May comes home at this point and she’s rushing and she’s apologizing for being late and for missing dinner. And Bobby’s like, “no, no, no, you’re not late. I’m just gonna get changed. We sit down, I wanna hear all about your day at work.” She’s like, “Uhhuh, you just wanna know how Eddie’s doing.” Because apparently Eddie is now at dispatch.
Ellen: Somehow, I did not know already that Eddie was going to be a dispatcher. I don’t know.
Alice: I can’t believe you didn’t know that Eddie went to dispatch.
Ellen: Well, I’ve seen him in the uniform before, but I thought that was like a, just in that fic where he, you know, that fic where he was a dispatcher.
Bex: Do you remember,
Ellen: I didn’t know that this actually happened,
Bex: that fic where, um, where it was like the season one for the, anybody who’s listening, who doesn’t remember, we read a fic where it was a season one rewrite where instead of Abby being the dispatcher, it was Eddie,
Ellen: it was Eddie. Yeah.
Bex: And then somebody did a comic, um illustrating a couple of, using a couple of panels to illustrate some of the scenes. And there was, um, [00:24:00] Eddie in like dispatcher’s polo um shirt, which Ellen was like, damn, he looks good in that polo shirt. And I had to bite my tongue so hard.
Ellen: Thank . Thank you for not spoilingyou.
Bex: Wait. Just wait,
Alice: I can’t believe you for, wow. This is like, what? So whenever Bex and I have complained about season five, like, so just for our listeners, um, in case you haven’t like cottoned onto this, Bex and I have. A separate chat from Ellen. So Ellen, Bex and I have a chat where we discuss like podcast things, Bex and I then have a separate chat that’s literally called Spoiler Screaming, um, where we discuss stuff that’s coming up.
So like we’ll be discussing stuff on the podcast live and Bex and I’ll often be chatting to each other in the spoiler screaming chat about like what’s coming up and like what we are just waiting for. And
Bex: usually because Ellen will say something and then we’ll jump into spoiler chat and going Ha just wait, just wait till she finds out.
Alice: Exactly.
Ellen: Oh my God.
Alice: And so like [00:25:00] all of season five, we’ve been like, oh my fucking God, can Eddie just get to dispatch already? Like, we just want Eddie to be a dispatch this season drags on. How is he not at dispatch yet? Like how long does this take? Um, and so like we finally got there and last week we’re like, oh, thank God we’re finally there. So this week Bex and I
Ellen: Honestly I have no idea how I missed that.
Alice: And Ellen’s like “Do dee do dee Do…”. .
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Like blissfully ignorant about why we hated season five up to this point so much because we are like, we just want Eddie to get to dispatch.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Um,
Ellen: but he’s not even in dispatch. He’s a, a liaison, he’s for the fire department. So he’s doing
Alice: social media.
Ellen: He’s doing social media.
Bex: He’s got an actual title. It, he’s the public service officer for metro Dispatch. Um, but most of what we see him end up doing is just updating the Twitter. Um,
Alice: yeah, he, he updates the Twitter feed and occasionally answers a call and goes, yes, I’m a [00:26:00] firefighter,
Bex: but I mean, like, to do this scene justice, it does start off really like happy and really nice because Eddie is excited.
Alice: It does! We get like this happy montage.
Bex: He gets up in the, he gets up, he opens the curtains, the sun is streaming in. It’s a beautiful day. I thought for a second
Alice: He’s shirtless with gray sweats on.
Bex: I thought for a second that he was fully naked because the way he was like, he like ripped open the curtains and the way he had his fists planted on his hips and the camera like, cut him off mid waist. I’m like, that is such like a naked guy standing in the sun.
Ellen: Like this is like, Life of Brian, like opening the door and going, but here I am,
Bex: this is exactly, but no, he’s got gray sweats. So he’s, um,
Alice: this is the A B C. It’s not HBO. Um, we’re, we’re too used to Heated Rivalry at this point. Clearly, hey,
Ellen: no one does that in heated rival. Just
Alice: unfortunately, no, we shouldn’t. We see a lot of butts in Heated Rivalry, though
Bex: we do see a lot of butts in Heated Rivalry. Um, I’ve seen Ryan’s butt. It’s fine, but I would like to see it again. Um, [00:27:00]
Alice: it’s fine,
Ellen: but no, he does have clothes on.
Alice: It’s fine. Just like poor Shane trying to have sex with Rose. Like it’s, it’s okay. I guess it’s mid, it’s fine. Speaking of Heated Rivalry, um, it’s Hudson’s birthday today, I just need to just need to say happy birthday Hudson.
Bex: Yes. Because he definitely listens to this podcast.
Alice: He’s absolutely listening to this podcast. Uh, what else would he be doing? Do you think he’s busy, like, no, he’s listening to this podcast.
Ellen: He’s, he’s extremely busy. The poor guy. I mean, he’s loving obviously, but
Alice: Taylor’s still my number one. But like Hudson, if you’re listening, I know I’m a lot older than you, but it’s fine. Um, maybe I could teach you some things anyway. Um, so Eddie’s jogging on his treadmill
Ellen: on a more wholesome [00:28:00] note. He’s making Chris breakfast.
Alice: Look, if it worked for, um, Travis Kelce one day, I will get a significant other with this podcast.
Okay. It’s gonna happen. Taylor Swift may be already off the table, but
Ellen: keep believing
Alice: I’ll get there. It’s fine. Um,
Bex: I love that you have dreams, hun.
Alice: I gotta stay optimistic. Um, so yeah, Eddie is jogging on the treadmill in his bedroom. Has he always had a treadmill in his bedroom?
Bex: Nope.
Alice: Sure.
Bex: But he doesn’t have the, um, the workout equipment at the firehouse to use anymore.
Alice: Yep. True.
Ellen: Oh
Bex: yeah. So he is gotta bring the gym. I don’t know if dispatch has a gym, uh, but he’s got the gym sort of. I’m sure that he’d probably like to go jogging out around the streets, but it’s like super early in the morning and he can’t leave Chris.
Alice: Yeah, he has a child.
Bex: So he’s somehow procured a treadmill in his bedroom and he’s jogging and he looks like he’s having [00:29:00] a great time.
Um,
Alice: yeah, jogging.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Yeah, treadmills.
Bex: It’s, it’s kind of,
Alice: yeah, getting dressed.
Bex: It’s, it’s another version of that, um, montage we’ve got when Eddie first joined the 118 where we saw him and Chris getting ready, you know, where they’re, they’re shaving and he is watching Chris put the socks on and they’re doing his Superman exercises together.
Um, it’s just slightly the slightly more mature version. Um, ’cause
Alice: yeah.
Bex: We see, um, them having breakfast together, they’re having a great time. Eddie’s like really having, um, fun with Chris. They’re like tossing cereal catching it in their mouths. Um,
Alice: yeah. Chris is throwing food at him.
Bex: He does, he’s able to do school drop off. Like he literally takes Chris to school in the morning because he doesn’t have to start at the yard.
Alice: Yeah. Walks him in.
Bex: He doesn’t have to start at the ass crack of dawn. So he is able to take his kid to school. Um, and then he arrives at work and wherever he’s working, ’cause we still don’t know at this point ’cause he’s in his LAFD [00:30:00] duty uniform.
Um, and he’s parking in the spot that is reserved for LAFD. But when he exits the elevator and it’s a very famIlyar looking elevator, the first person he sees is May and we realize that he is on the dispatch floor.
Alice: Yep. Um, he’s also carrying a briefcase. What do we think is in Eddie’s briefcase?
Bex: He’s such a nerd. This is his first grownup job, right? Yeah. Because he’s never had to take a bag that’s not like a huge duffle with his uniform in it. So I can imagine him just like frantically asking, maybe he asked his like, abuela, you know, what do I like? What do I carry? And she’s bought him a briefcase. ’cause she thinks that’s what
Alice: She’s bought him a brief it. Yeah.
Bex: That’s what like, important people carry to the office.
Alice: Um, yeah. It just, it it’s like the scene in How I Met Your Mother where Marshall’s talking about their first day as like after they get hired as lawyers. And, um, they’re, they’re carrying briefcases and they’re like, what’s in yours? And Marshall’s like, [00:31:00] totally empty. Yours? And the other guy’s like candy bars.
Ellen: Well, I mean, in the days of, of, you know, having a computer for everything, briefcases have kind of lost their function.
Alice: Yeah. Now it’s a laptop bag.
Ellen: Most people just carry a laptop bag. Yeah.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: But anyway, when he, when he walks in, he says to May, I started talking about this next bit and then I remembered that I can’t actually pronounce this word. So someone else
Bex: absquatulate?
Ellen: There you go.
Bex: Yeah. Um, so yeah, he, we get, um, some interactions with May, who apparently has a word of the day calendar on her desk. Um, a previous word of the day was bumfuzzle. Apparently today’s is absquatulate, which means to leave somewhere abruptly. Um, and he also is getting cooking tips from Linda, which sets up that this is not his first day at dispatch.
He’s been here a while. He’s managed to build relationships [00:32:00] with these women. Um
Ellen: mm-hmm.
Bex: I really wanna know what he put fish sauce in.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Dinner.
Bex: Yes. But yes. But like, what was he cooking, obviously?
Alice: Yeah. But what dish.
Bex: Yeah. Yeah, because obviously, um, like if he was cooking something Thai or something Asian, then fish sauce would not be out of place. But he is like, “I never would’ve thought to put fish sauce in it.” So what was he cooking?
Ellen: Mm.
Bex: Um,
Ellen: like bolognese sauce or something?
Bex: I don’t know. I put soy sauce in my bolognese. I’m wondering if I just try maybe putting fish sauce in
Ellen: it would be really salty. Like, I mean, soy sauce is very salty as well, so,
Bex: well, that’s kind of,
Ellen: it’d be a different flavor.
Bex: Interesting.
Ellen: You’d have umami off the charts.
Bex: Well, would I? That would be the question. So maybe I will test it and, uh, and report back. Um,
Ellen: I was making, um, mince with, um, [00:33:00] like taco seasoning in it the other day.
Bex: Mm-hmm.
Ellen: And I picked out the wrong packet out of the cupboard because they were both like an orange color. And I put, uh, butter chicken, like spice mix
Bex: Ooh.
Ellen: In my mince. And I looked at it and went, that doesn’t look like it’s the right color. And then looked at the packet and went, oh fuck.
Bex: That would be an interesting flavor profile.
Ellen: I mean, it, it tastes like I added, like I looked and went, I don’t wanna throw this out because I don’t have any more mince to make more
Bex: butter mince?
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah. And, um, and so I just put some of the actual, um, taco seasoning in as well to see if it would like,
Bex: oh,
Ellen: override.
Bex: Butter tacos
Ellen: like flavors.
Alice: Sure.
Ellen: Yeah. And it was fine. It tasted fine. It was just, it just tasted slightly Indian, I guess it was a slightly different tech like flavor to it. But
Bex: there is, there, there is a Tex-Mex person and a British Indian person both rolling in their graves right now.
Ellen: Oh yeah, absolutely. But it was like, [00:34:00] like I said to my husband, like, are are we gonna try and eat this? Like, it’s not terrible. And he’s like, no, it’s fusion, it’s fine.
Bex: Oh God
Ellen: bless him.
It was alright. We ate it anyway.
Alice: Well, my, my sister-in-law’s Indian and I’m gonna have to tell her that story when I see her now just, well, butter chicken tacos.
Ellen: No, those, um, Mingle spice packets, like
Bex: mm-hmm.
Ellen: The taco one is orange and the other one is yellow. So I didn’t even look at the packet. I just pulled it out of the thing and put it in. I’m like, oh bugger. Anyway,
Bex: I wonder whether fish sauce would’ve given that a little bit more umami.
Ellen: Wow. Yeah. That would’ve been interesting.
Bex: Um, Josh interrupts the, uh, the cooking talk before we can find out exactly what Eddie was cooking because there is a five alarm fire on, uh, a cross street near the 118. He needs May and Linda to like actually go and do their job. Um, and [00:35:00] then says, “Eddie, you’re on it?” And then we find out what Eddie’s actual job is ’cause apparent.
’cause as we said, he’s not a dispatcher. He is. The public service officer, his job is to sit behind a desk and update the LAFD’s Twitter account to let people know about emergencies that are happening and also issue press releases about said emergencies.
Ellen: Yeah. It’s an interesting job to have to like have somewhere to sit at dispatch to do this job. It’s interesting.
Bex: I just think the irony of like the, the man who was absolutely petrified of social media and computers.
Ellen: Oh yeah.
Bex: And who I joke, uh, like put his phone in a Faraday cage so that it couldn’t like touch him is now doing social media.
Ellen: Yeah,
Alice: yeah. Typing with his two with two pointer fingers.
Ellen: Yep.
Bex: Also,
Alice: L
Ellen: he’s typing quite quickly
Alice: A. Where’s the F?
Bex: He’s isn’t the F, he’s doing pretty well, but can we talk about the [00:36:00] LAFD’s Twitter handle and how ridiculous it is?
Ellen: Oh, what is it?
Bex: It’s L asterisk. A asterisk. S asterisk D asterisk to separate LAFD. Underscore, Metro.
Alice: Yeah. Just in case you weren’t sure that it was LAF maybe LAFD_ metro was taken. And so they were like, oh fuck.
Bex: But it’s not a real Twitter account,
Alice: I don’t think. I don’t even think, that you can put asterisk in Twitter handles,
Bex: but it’s not like,
Alice: maybe it’s to get around copyright for some reason?
Bex: I dunno. But I don’t think that they, you know how when, um, they had “The French Mistake” in Supernatural? Yes. We’re back to Supernatural. Are you surprised? Um, and
Ellen: it’s been a while since we’ve really talked about
Bex: Misha was tweeting and so Misha was actually tweeting. Yeah. Um, at the same time as the episode was airing. I don’t think that that happened with this episode. Um, so I don’t think there really needed to be a real, or like a real Twitter handle, [00:37:00] if I’m wrong, if they were actually live tweeting as the character of Eddie was tweeting.
That’s hilarious. Please let us know. Um, but what’s great about this montage is that it just keeps going. So we see him typing the computer and then we see the day start again and it just keeps going over and over and over day after day after day. But as the montage progresses, as we see more and more days of Eddie working at dispatch, his mood drastically shifts.
Ellen: Oh, you is, watch him getting sad.
Bex: Breakfast is no longer this joyful, um, experience with Chris. He’s just like mechanically plating up food. The food is interesting though, ’cause it’s going from a bowl of cereal to like a full hot breakfast. Like he’s getting eggs and bacon for Chris. Um, but he’s also, he’s not sleeping.
We see him just lying in bed, staring up at the ceiling before he has to [00:38:00] open the curtains and start all over again.
Ellen: What is this picture of?
Bex: Oh, so, uh, you know that I love looking at what they, when somebody’s looking at something on a computer screen or they’re looking at a newspaper article, I always try to zoom in and, and read what they’ve written, which is how we got like the Taylor Kelly stuff.
So one of the press releases that Eddie is, um, writing was about a fire in a historical downtown warehouse. And in the, it’s all talking about, you know, um, fire in this place. This is how the fire started. Um, apparently it was too unsafe to send people in, so they sent in the robotic firefighter vehicle.
And I’m like, what the fuck is a robotic firefighting vehicle? Why have we never seen the robotic firefighting vehicle? This is the robotic firefighting vehicle that the LAFD in real life use. I think,
Alice: oh my god.
Bex: Think it’s amazing. I want to see, see it in an episode.
Alice: I want a robotic fire … Yeah.
Bex: Like, why?
Alice: I just want a pet one.
Ellen: It looks like a little tank with like a,
Bex: could [00:39:00] you imagine
Ellen: scoop on the
Bex: front,
could you imagine Buck being given the remote control for that thing?
Alice: Oh my god. Best it would be his best day ever.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: Wow. Fancy bit of kit.
Bex: Yeah, so that’s why that photo is in there, because I went looking for, what the hell is a robotic firefighting vehicle?
Ellen: Okay.
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: He’s also trying to clear a paper jam out of the printer. And while he’s doing that, he’s like narrating it like he would if he was
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: Treating a patient
Bex: or working in an emergency like it’s a bomb or something. And he is, he’s talking through every step so that everyone around him knows what’s going on.
But he’s the only one in the paper. In the printer room. Yeah. Um, and the, um, the whole montage ends with Eddie dictating a press release over the telephone to somebody about a, I think it was a, um, a small fire with no injuries or structural [00:40:00] damage reported. He signs off as firefighter Eddie Di Diaz public service officer, Metro Dispatch, and the person he’s dictating it to over the phone says, “Are you a real firefighter?”
And it’s just this look flashes over his face. And then he literally puts on his customer service smile, and he goes, “Yes, I am a real firefighter.”
Alice: Poor Eddie.
Ellen: Oh, Eddie.
Bex: Yeah. He’s, he is not doing well. Also the person who, um, was in charge of writing this has kind of no idea how social media works. Um, because at one point, Channel Eight News dms or posts a tweet tagging the LAFD dispatch metro, asking about the top speed of an LAFD firetruck and the way it comes up on Eddie’s phone makes absolutely no sense, like how it got through.
Also, why would the LA why would Channel Eight News [00:41:00] be DMing the social media manager from Metro about
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Fact checking about the LAFD. Why wouldn’t they, why did they just get Taylor to ask her boyfriend?
Alice: Yeah, she was off duty that day. It’s fine.
Bex: How fast does a ladder truck go? Hey, Taylor.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Can you ask your boyfriend? Uh, yes, because the montage ends at the Diaz residence where, um,
Alice: maybe Buck also didn’t know and he didn’t wanna, he’s like, I’ve asked Bobby too many questions today. Can someone else ask?
Bex: You know, that, um, either Buck would take the ladder truck out onto the freeway,
Alice: no. Hang on. Let me check
Bex: and just like let her rip to see how, like what’s the top speed that he can get the truck at, or he would Google it.[00:42:00]
Alice: Oh Jesus Christ.
Bex: Oh, that’s, that would be, that would, considering like the, the next part of this episode is, you know, the truck having to stay at 55 miles per hour, that would be absolutely hilarious if previously, um, but got in trouble for seeing whether he could get the truck faster than that. Um, although apparently
Alice: like, shit, this car has to go 55 miles? Buck’s like, “oh it’s fine. The ladder truck got up to 70 yesterday, so”
Bex: apparently the, um, yeah it’s around 65 miles an hour is top speed. But it depends on what equipment is on the truck. Um, for those of you who work in metric system, it’s about 105 kilometers an hour is as fast as it can go.
Alice: Oh really?
Ellen: So they can keep up,
Alice: it seems kinda slow
Bex: for a ladder truck. This is like the with the ladder and the little trailer.
Alice: Oh, the ladder truck.
Bex: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not the engine track, the ladder truck.
Alice: Yeah. Yeah, that’s fair.
Bex: Yeah. Um, but yes, montage ends with Buck and Taylor joining Eddie for [00:43:00] dinner or Eddie and Christopher for dinner.
Alice: Eddie and Chris. Yeah.
Bex: Um, and it’s so funny because Buck is
Ellen: it’s adorable.
Bex: Absolutely inhaling his food, making all of these appreciative noises. Um, Chris is, you know, eating as well. He’s fine. Eddie is fixated on Taylor who’s just pushing her food around her plate. Like she’s personally wronged him by not eating his food.
He is like, “What’s wrong with it? Why haven’t you eaten anything?” And she’s like, “it, it’s, it’s really good. I mean, I’m just not hungry.”
Alice: I mean, actually really good. And Eddie’s like, “Yeah, he told you to eat something before you came here, didn’t he?” She’s like, well, and Chris just cracks up laughing. Buck’s like, “I wasn’t gonna take any chances. You do not wanna meet a hangry Taylor, but this is actually really good.”
Bex: Like, to the point where he thinks that Carla cooked it and Carla has been, and just the, the optics of like having [00:44:00] a black woman in the kitchen slaving away at their dinner while the, the white people are
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Whoops.
Bex: And Eddie are in the, and the dining room eating, like, I don’t think they thought that through very far, but, um, no,
Ellen: but I mean, it makes sense. She’s the only one in that house who actually, uh, up until now was actually prepared edible food apparently.
Bex: Well, apparently all Eddie needed was some time to practice and he now has plenty of time to practice cooking and he’s getting very good at it.
Alice: Good for him.
Ellen: And everyone agrees.
Bex: Mm-hmm.
Ellen: And Buck’s like, “you gotta make this when you come back to the firehouse.” and Eddie just sort of looks at him and goes, “how about dessert?”
So Taylor sort of exchanges a look with Buck. And he’s like, okay, I’ll go talk to him. So he follows him into the kitchen.
Alice: Go fix your boyfriend. He’s looking sulky.
Ellen: Yeah. Ask him if he’s okay. You look tired. It’s like, man, you don’t say [00:45:00] that to people. It’s like the worst thing to say to someone if they’re, if they actually look tired, don’t tell them.
Bex: You can’t just ask them why they’re white.
Um, but he, after he insults Eddie’s looks, he then says that, um, Eddie doesn’t need to pretend around him because he remembers how badly he felt when he was being fire Marshal Buck and he was on the outside. Um, and Eddie’s like, but you know, this isn’t the same thing because
Alice: Eddie doesn’t even have a clipboard.
Bex: He doesn’t have a clipboard. But I think the difference for him is that Buck was forced into fire marshal Buck’s position, whereas Eddie has chosen his exile. Yeah. And he can’t really bitch and moan and complain about it because this is what he wanted. Even though he’s really struggling with it.
Ellen: And he says, “I like what I’m doing.” And he gives the most grimacing smile, like, yeah, I love it. And Buck’s like, “it’s not [00:46:00] what you are supposed to be doing. You are a firefighter.” And Eddie’s like, “I’m still a firefighter.” And then he goes, “Buck, you need to move on. I have.” And I’m like, have you met Buck? Like he does not do that.
Alice: He doesn’t know what moving on means.
Ellen: No, no, no.
Bex: Dog with a bone that kid
Alice: like Buck still won’t let anyone sit in Eddie’s spot at the dining table because he’s like, no, Eddie’s coming back.
Ellen: He’s coming back. Yeah, he’s coming. He’ll be back like soon.
Bex: Uh, which leads us into the next scene where after Hen and Jonah have a little bit of a confrontation where Jonah is like doing his job, um, because that’s what Cap told him to do, and Hen throws an absolute tantrum that he’s not allowed to call Bobby “Cap” because he’s not Jonah’s Cap. Um,
Alice: no cap?
Bex: No cap.
Alice: No cap. Oh, Ellen’s sigh.[00:47:00]
Oh God.
Bex: Um, so she stomps up to the, uh, the loft area where Bobby is doing paperwork at the table. Like he’s, he’s inviting being interrupted at this point. Dude, you’ve got an office, go in your office and do your paperwork.
Alice: Yeah,
Bex: but she like stomps over and says, um, you know, “I see that the new guy’s back. Well, I didn’t agree that he should come back today.”
Alice: Bobby is so over Hen you can tell because like Hen’s like new guys back and he is like, “Yep. I do remember typing his name into today’s roster.” And then Hen goes, “I didn’t agree to that.” And Bobby’s like, “And yet it happened anyway,”
Ellen: so snarky.
Bex: But before that they could talk about it any further, um, Buck hurries up and he is like, “Cap, can I talk to you?” And Hen whips around and says, “can it wait?” And Bobby’s just like, “is your name Cap?”
Alice: Bobby is so snarky. So he’s so sick of his children. Like you can tell [00:48:00] like Hen has just been shitting on all the medics. Um, Buck’s just been not letting anyone sit in Eddie’s seat or like using Eddie’s locker.
Like, he’s like, oh my God, you fucking children, um, Buck’s like, “did you know Eddie’s not coming back to the 118?” And Bobby’s like, “yeah, I suspected as much when he asked for a transfer.” Um, Buck’s just feel he, he’s got a bit of, um, separation anxiety. He is like, his rejection sensitivity is going off because he is like, “no, no, like it was supposed to be temporary like Chimney. They’re supposed to come back.”
Bex: Then the mention of Chimney sort of triggers Hen she’s like, “They are coming back.” He’s like, “I don’t know. I had dinner with Eddie last night and he seemed different.” Then we get to the best part of the episode, which is the 9-1-1 does Speed.
Ellen: It’s very exciting. Even though the whole thing is completely ridiculous.
Alice: It’s so dumb. But I love it so much.
Bex: Like, to be fair, I watched this and I like, uh, 10 outta 10 no notes. [00:49:00] I, um did not switch my brain on once. I was just happily, sitting back and watching.
Alice: I was like, I, I was just mind blank watching the, watching the pretty lights on the screen. Like
Bex: yeah,
Alice: I was full network TV viewer during this
Bex: general audience. We were general audience.
Alice: General audience, yeah.
Bex: And we enjoyed every minute of it.
Alice: ’cause again, we don’t care if it’s ridiculous as long as we’re having fun. And this was fun. Like, it was so dumb.
Bex: It was so much fun.
Alice: It was so fun. Yeah. We got to see like, you know, drones, Buck jumping on utes, hot ladies, it was all, all happening. It was great.
Bex: It was great. Uh,
Alice: children under threat, which you know, is always fun. Um,
Ellen: it’s fine ’cause they never die.
Alice: But it… never die. Um, it starts off a family. I think they’re coming back. Are they coming back from dinner with?
Bex: I don’t know
Alice: this family.
Bex: I dunno. But, um,
Alice: [00:50:00] but a shark, she’s like, the kids have tuned out. They’re just on their phones. Like
Bex: they’ve got their headphones on, they’ve got their tablets, they’ve completely zoned out. Um, the wife Erica is bitching about her mother-in-law. Every time they go and visit, it’s her versus his family. And, um, she’s sitting there like an outsider.
Like we can, we can look at the shot glass. We can’t actually take a shot ’cause that’s not the full episode title, but at least it’s a nod to being on the outside of a situation. Um, and she complains that her mother-in-law uses her as a personal punching bag. Um, but that’s not, that’s not the, the emergency that is going on.
Um, it’s just the, the setting, the scene of, um, these two. We’ve got Erica and Sasha. Um, Sasha then gets a phone call. It’s an unknown number. Um, he is definitely not a millennial because he answers the phone.
Alice: He answers the phone. I haven’t answered my phone,
Bex: especially [00:51:00] not for an online unknown caller. I see unknown caller and I’m tapping the Google screen button where it sends my
Alice: Yeah. My phone automatically screens everyone now. Yeah. Which is fine until your doctor calls to tell you that you have a heart condition and you miss the call because it is automatically screening.
Bex: Oh no, mine does. Mine does it like real time. And then when the person starts talking, I get a transcript. Um, and then I can choose to pick up the phone. I can pick up the phone and answer the call.
Ellen: Oh wow.
Bex: That I what it’s about.
Ellen: That is fancy.
Bex: That’s very fancy. Um, I’ve never done it because as soon as they hear the AI screening voice, they immediately hang up. So,
Alice: yeah, I like, mine does have like a, it’s got a thing that’s like, oh, what’s your reason for the call? Yeah. And then they start saying it, and then I answer, but most people just hear it and hang up. So
Bex: yeah, I’ve had one person do it because I could see that it was, they wanted to talk to me about my, um, my health insurance, and I’m just like, no, I’m gonna hang up on you.
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Bex: But yeah, but like millennial, I don’t answer my phone if I don’t know who it is. Um, so either this guy is not a millennial or a non-millennial wrote this scene, [00:52:00]
Ellen: well, this anyway, I mean, this emergency would’ve been over a lot faster if he didn’t answer the phone because they would’ve just slowed down.
Alice: I’ve died. Literally, I would’ve just died because I did not have answered the phone.
Ellen: Exactly.
Bex: Um, so the caller tells Sasha that he has placed, or they, ’cause they’ve got a voice distortion, it could be a female. The A bomb has been placed on their truck now that they have reached 55 miles an hour the device is armed. If they drop below 55, it will explode. And that’s, like I said, that’s about 90 kilometers an hour.
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Bex: Um, both Erica and Sasha brush it off as a joke. They think it’s one of their friends. Cosmo, like pulling a prank on them. Um,
Alice: that Cosmo Kramer, I tell you what guys,
Bex: it’s such a random name. Oh my God. And Sasha even says like, you know, yeah, we’ve, we’ve seen this movie before. I’ve seen this film before.
Alice: I think, I think that’s why I like this episode and like this thing because they.
Bex: Acknowledge?
Alice: Like they specifically call it [00:53:00] out.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Yeah. Like they’re not just like, oh, we’re doing a play on Speed. Ah, we’re clever. They’re actually like, yeah, no, we’ve seen this movie. Like everyone is like, yeah, we’ve seen this movie before. Yeah. Um, which, and that’s why I like it so much because they’re like,
Bex: they’re not trying to pretend like, oh my God, no, this is a real, real legitimate emergency that’s actually happened. Like, no, we know it’s a movie. We know it’s a movie. That’s why it’s funny. Um,
Alice: that’s it. And that’s why I’m having such a great time because everyone is just like, yeah, we’ve seen the movie and go to hang up.
Ellen: They don’t even jump over a broken bridge.
Alice: Yeah,
Bex: So in, um, trying to dismiss this caller and, and try to get them to say that it’s a prank. Um, Sasha says, you know, like, we’ve seen this movie before, it’s like almost 30 years ago. And the, the caller says, names the children said that would’ve been well before your children. And names them were born. So when Sasha got, starts to freak out because, you know, random person naming his children, that’s, that’s not cool and tries to hang up the phone.
The caller says, “Look in your arm rest.” And [00:54:00] there is circuitry. There’s device in there, which the caller says is a sensor that will sense their velocity. And if that is what’s going to sense if they drop behind, drop below 55 and will trigger the bomb. So Sasha does the only sensible thing you do on a show called 9-1-1, which is calls 9-1-1.
And uh, Linda’s immediately like, “Dude, it’s, it’s a crime to call in a fake nine one one call.” Once he explains the situation.
Ellen: I’ve seen this movie before.
Alice: I’ve seen this,
Bex: and I didn’t like the ending. I actually really did like the ending. Um,
Ellen: it was a happy ending, right? I don’t think many people died.
Alice: I don’t think, did anyone die?
Bex: I don’t think any, uh, I think the bad guy might have died.
Alice: I mean, the fuck the bad guy? No one cares. They don’t count.
Ellen: No, I, it’s been a long time since I saw it.
Bex: It has been a long time.
Ellen: So they eventually convince Linda that they’re actually telling the truth and she
Bex: Yes,
Ellen: she sends Athena. [00:55:00]
Bex: She sends Athena and not just Athena, she sends Athena who has picked up a member of the bomb squad who has also got his drone pilot license because he brings a fancy little drone to check
Ellen: He’s a precision, um, drone pilot.
Bex: Yes. ’cause they send that drone flying underneath the car while it is still moving to check for any devices.
Alice: Um, okay. So, so we had a, we had a long discussion about this, this prior to the episode.
Bex: Yeah. ’cause for once, I wasn’t the one picking it to pieces.
Alice: Ellen was like, how fast did drones go?
Ellen: Um, it was like, he, so it’s not just the speed, it’s like maneuvering a sm like that drone wasn’t one of the really tiny ones. It was like fairly large and underneath the car while it’s driving?
Bex: Should be fair. The car was going in a straight line. Look, the car was going in a straight line. It wasn’t moving that far backwards and forwards. It wasn’t like it was, you know, duking and, and, and [00:56:00] ducking and weaving.
Ellen: I mean, American pickup trucks are quite big, like off the ground. Yeah. There’s a bit of clearance there, so maybe that was enough.
Alice: Yeah, that’s fine.
Ellen: Like, I don’t know, I just watched it and went, that’s very precise.
Alice: I, um, I’ve been watching the downhill skiing for the Winter Olympics and I was like, well, drones can easily go a hundred kilometers an hour because they’re keeping up with the downhill skiers who are going like up to 120 something.
Bex: Yep.
Alice: Um, and this
Ellen: trucks doing as a side point that those, those drones are so fucking annoying when you’re watching like the noise of them while you’re watching. It’s so annoying. Anyway. Yeah.
Bex: But even like, even
Ellen: buzzing around your head the whole time,
Bex: there’s even like a couple of steps down, sort of not quite that level of drone, but still sort of professional drones. They’re still going over a hundred k. So,
Alice: yeah. Um, so anyway, we’ve decided that, um, that this bomb squad drone operator, um, moonlights, uh, [00:57:00] in like during the Winter Olympics as the Winter Olympics drone pilot because like the, the Winter Olympics drone pilots have to do something in their like years off.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: So he’s working for the bomb squad.
Ellen: The Winter Olympics only happens every in four years.
Alice: Exactly. Yeah. Like, what else is he doing? He’s working for the bomb squad.
Bex: Um, so yes, Athena pulls up, um, beside the car, so the drone squad, so the bomb squad guy can deploy the drone, um, that gets the kids’ attention in the car because, you know, police, car flashing lights, sirens, um, and they start to worry about like, what’s going on?
Um, why can’t we just like police, they’re probably thinking, you know, police, you gotta pull over, like, why aren’t you pulling over? And then dad’s like, “It’s fine, we’re just gonna keep driving. Um, we’re just gonna listen to whatever the police tell us to do.” Um, and the p the bomb squad guide does find a homemade device underneath the vehicle. Linda opens up a party line so that everybody can [00:58:00] hear everybody.
And Athena tells the tells Sasha, yes, we did find a bomb. Um, we can’t diffuse it while you are moving. So, um, the only thing we can do is I’m gonna call my husband. And he’s gonna bring, he’s got,
Ellen: yes. Somehow the truck, like the ladder truck, managed to catch up to them on the highway.
Bex: I’m, yeah, that’s fine. Because we dunno where, we don’t know where on the highway this guy is. We don’t know where station house 118 is. Like they might have been right down the end of the freeway. And so Bobby was just able to cut in on an exit and catch up with him really quickly.
Alice: We, yeah, it’s fine.
Bex: But it’s not just the 118 because it’s also the 1 47 has joined in. And the, uh, the plan is that they’re going to, um, the 1 47 and the 118 ladder [00:59:00] trucks are going to pull alongside the truck. Um, two members are going to jump into the truck and then they’re going to use the ladder truck to get the people out of the, um, pickup truck. Buck is going to be the representative from the 118 and
Alice: obviously,
Bex: obviously he is the only one left unless they let Ravi do it. I don’t think they’re gonna let Ravi do it. Um,
Ellen: well Ravi was sort of there as well, getting ready to
Bex: Ravi’s help. Ravi’s helping, but he’s not the primary.
Alice: Ravi is helping.
Bex: Um, and we meet the, um, the firefighter from the 1 47 who’s gonna do it, which is Lucy Donato and I love Lucy.
Ellen: I know a show about that.
Alice: That’s not TV show.
Bex: I love Lucy. I was so thrilled when, um, when they revealed that the member from the 1 47 was gonna be Lucy Donato. Like, yes. Kick ass female, firefighter. Excellent. She’s also, um, another alumnus from [01:00:00] Gilmore Girls coming on the show. Oh. So we had April, um, this is Lindsay, who was Dean’s wife in the show, as in Jared Padalecki’s character Dean’s wife.
Alice: So hang on. The one that, the one that Jared cheated on?
Bex: The one that
Alice: with
Bex: Yes.
Alice: With um, Rory.
Bex: Yes.
Alice: Huh. There you go.
Bex: She’s all grown up. Um, if you’re a Vampire Diaries fan, she was Lexi in Vampire Diaries. I never watched long enough to meet Lexi. I don’t think so. Um mm-hmm. But yeah, I was just, oh my God, it’s Arielle. That’s so cool. Um, and she,
Alice: oh God, she looks totally different.
Bex: I, well that’s what, you know, hitting your thirties does. ’cause I don’t know how old she was when she filmed Gilmore Girls. You probably work it out, but I can’t be bothered right now. So, while. Buck is trying to be really sort of sensible and, um, [01:01:00] careful about this whole plan.
Like he gets up onto the top of the moving ladder truck and he’s sort of judging the distances and the speeds and trying to, as he tells Ravi, he’s trying to work out the best way to do it, Lucy just jumps.
Alice: Lucy literally just jumps straight in and Ravi’s like, “like that I guess,”
Ellen: like this whole, uh, section of them doing this death defying, like jumping and climbing ladders and whatever. It reminded me of the, of the one where they’re driving along trying to rescue that guy on the plane, like, you know,
Bex: yes.
Ellen: He was stuck on the side of the plane.
Alice: Yeah. I have things to say, but I’ll wait till the end of the episode.
Bex: Mm-hmm.
Ellen: Okay. You don’t wanna say them now because
Bex: No.
Ellen: We have a history of saying we’re gonna talk about stuff and then not remembering to talk about
Alice: No, no, this, this we will talk about.
Bex: Yeah, we will talk about this. Don’t worry.
Ellen: Okay. So they manage to get the kids out first and they, um, put harnesses on them. Um, and then they climb [01:02:00] up, like they extend the ladder out over the top of the, the truck’s flatbed and they climb up the ladder basically to get out.
Alice: Yep.
Ellen: So that’s cool. They’re, the kids are safe. Well, arguably. They’re on a firetruck ladder that is driving at like a 60 miles an hour down the highway.
Ravi’s
Alice: got them. That’s fine.
Ellen: But they’re fine and then the, and then the man and the woman are having a fight about who’s gonna get out first and who’s gonna drive. Oh, not before they discover the next problem that they have to overcome.
Bex: Oh yeah. Because, um, Eddie is watching this, instead of doing his work, he’s in the break room, he’s watching the sun unfold on Channel Eight news and um, then races across dispatch floor and literally, literally rips Linda’s earpiece out of her ear. Um, and demands to be put through to the rescue team and tells them, do not move the driver because there might be a press pressure switch.
[01:03:00] And like I get that they’re doing that to keep Eddie involved in the emergency. But do you not think that the actual literal bomb squad guy wouldn’t have thought of that?
Alice: Apparently not. ’cause he hadn’t mentioned it.
Bex: No,
Alice: but yeah, they’re like, yeah, look under the gas pedal, look for wires. And they’re like, oh look, there’s a metal bar with springs under the gas pedal.
Bex: So Yes.
Alice: So yeah, they can’t take the foot off the, um, they can’t take their foot off the gas. Um, so yeah, so the wife and the husband are like. You go, no, you go. No, you go. No, you go.
Bex: Oh. It’s not even that. It’s, um, the wife is just immediately you go, because I cannot live in a world where you are dead and my mother-in-law teaches my children to hate me.
Alice: Literally. She’s like, I can’t deal with your mother, die in this situation, so I’ll die instead.
Bex: Either we both die because your mom will take the kids and they’ll be fine. Or I die and your mom helps you raise the kids and it’s fine. But you dying and me having to deal with her and raise the kids. No.
Athena’s [01:04:00] listening to this and she’s getting pissed off. She’s like, “somebody needs to get out of the truck.”
Alice: Yeah. Can you guys just fucking get outta the truck? Um, we’re a little short on time here.
Bex: And Erica,
Alice: Eric is like, “no, you don’t get it.” And Athena’s like, “no, I think I have a pretty good idea.” And Erica assumes it’s her mother-in-law. And Athena’s like, “No, no, it’s my mother.”
Bex: Meanwhile, Bobby’s listening to this entire conversation going, I, I’m, yes.
Alice: Furiously nodding. Yeah,
Bex: I have a pretty good idea. Um, yeah. Athena confesses on the open radio that everybody can hear, um, that her mother hated her husband until he like went to her hat in hand, tail between his legs and asked her for help.
And so she tells Erica, that’s what you need to do. You need to ask your mother-in-law for help that is not gonna help in this situation. Like it worked in Athena’s case. I’m gonna say there’s like an 85% chance of it definitely not working in Erica’s case, [01:05:00] but that’s fine.
Um, the issue though is that they’re rapidly running out of freeway. They’ve got like maybe an a mile left, um, before they’re that they’re gonna run out of road. So they need to move and they need to move now.
Ellen: Um, eventually they decide that Erica is actually going to get out.
Bex: Yeah. So the plan is that Sasha is gonna keep driving the truck, they’re gonna evacuate everybody else, and then they’re gonna fall back and bomb. Swat gonna work on the car with Sasha still driving. Um, so when Bobby tells ’em to evacuate the truck with the mum, um, Lucy’s like, hang on, I left something back in the truck.
And she grabs the Halligan tool, which Buck had taken onto the truck with them to prob open the back window so they could get everybody out. And she wedges that between the accelerator and the steering wheel so that there’s still pressure on the [01:06:00] accelerator so that Sasha can get out as well. And the Halligan is holding the steering wheel in place, so it’s not gonna start swerving sideways as much.
So then everybody can get off.
Ellen: Yeah, I mean, there’s, there’s no time to come up with any better plans, so it’s just so crazy it might work.
Alice: Yeah,
Bex: pretty much.
Alice: Then it’s fine.
Ellen: And it does, so it’s fine.
Bex: It, it does, there’s a little bit of tension because, um, the ladder truck is sort of, I think when Lucy wedges the halligan in, she might depress accelerator a little bit further than it was before.
So the truck speeds up and the ladder trucks falling back. There is a bigger gap between the bed of the truck and the end of the ladder, and Buck literally has to leap for it and just catches the final, the last rung of the ladder.
Alice: Because naturally,
Ellen: yeah, it’s very dramatic.
Bex: Um, and so he’s dangling like legs waving everywhere as Lucy’s kinda like grabbing his ass to try and pull him up onto the ladder onto the ladder a little bit more. [01:07:00] Um, the pickup goes through sort of the end of road, um, portion. So there’s like plastic bollards. There’s, um, which is hats saying, you know, do not come through here. There is no more road. Um, and then it hits the water bollards, and there’s this like, big splash with the water bollards exploding.
The car comes to a literal stop, and then everybody’s just,
Alice: and everyone’s just watching
Bex: waiting.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: It’s a literal, like, where’s the kaboom? There’s supposed to be an earth shattering, kaboom a moment, or like,
Alice: and so Buck’s like, “oh, so the bomb was fake?” And Athena’s like, ugh. And she starts to go forward and then
Ellen: Athena, wait for your bomb squad mate to go and have a look at it. Please.
Bex: Like what was she gonna go and like, kick the car a couple of times just Yeah. To get the explosion.
Ellen: I dunno what she was doing.
Bex: Um, but yes, the explosion finally goes off. Um, I also just kept thinking of that scene [01:08:00] in, um, the Batman movie with Heath Ledger, where he is like walking away from the hospital, um, trying to set the bomb off and he is pressing the button on the remote trigger and it’s not working.
He kind of stops and looks at the remote trigger and then turns around, looks at the hospital for a second and starts to walk back in and then it explodes on him and he sort of races off.
Ellen: Oh, right.
Bex: Which was apparent.
Alice: Did that, did it actually get clarified whether it was actually a mistake?
Bex: Um, yeah, apparently the pyrotechnics were delayed and so he, Heath just kept going. Um, and ad-libbed that part is allegedly the story. So yes, family, safe, bomb, detonated, nobody got hurt, no property was damaged except for, you know, some witches hats and a truck, um, all like happily ever after, uh, for everyone except Eddie. Um, because he’s about to get a dressing down from Josh.
Alice: Eddie’s in trouble.
Bex: Eddie’s in so much trouble. And I, I just love how like the way [01:09:00] Josh approaches this. So like Eddie’s in his office packing up, probably feeling pretty good about himself because he’s, you know, contributed to this death-defying emergency. Um, and he’s like, and Josh comes in, he’s like, “Oh, so you’re heading out. Got big plans tonight?”
Eddie’s like, “Oh, you know, just having a few drinks with friends.” Josh is like, “Oh, that sounds like fun. Unlike earlier with the bomb in the truck. That was, you know, that was pretty wild.” Um, like way to introduce the topic of your conversation, Josh.
Alice: It sure was.
Bex: Um, but basically he’s annoyed that Eddie broke protocol because Eddie is not a dispatcher. He should not be going on to 9-1-1 calls. He should not be giving orders. And if he had had concerns, he should have taken them to Josh first and then allowed.
Alice: Yeah. Eddie is like, “oh, it felt like time was of the essence.” And Josh goes, “Yep, around here. Times always of the essence. But you are an [01:10:00] LAFD lay at liaison, not a dispatcher. You’re a guest in this house. Act like it. Don’t ever hijack one of our calls again.”
Bex: And you can see Eddie just like the, the, the expression on his face and then he stops and puts on his customer service smile. He’s like, “I’m sorry, it won’t happen again.” Josh is like, “Great, then I’ll see you tomorrow.”
Alice: The girls are fighting.
Ellen: Poor Eddie. He looks like a kicked puppy.
Alice: Oh, it’s just like when Shane tried to chirp at Scott Hunter.Starting to sound like him. What did you say?
Ellen: Don’t start that again.
Bex: Um, so, yes. So the 118 are having, oh God. Um, the 118 are having drinks at a bar, which looks like, it’s [01:11:00] like a, a badge and ladder bar. Like the kind of bar the police officers and firefighters go to as their regular. And why is everybody wearing LAFD stuff?
Alice: Because they want the attention.
Bex: It was either,
Ellen: they’ve gotta show their team.
Bex: But like, that’s literally part of their uniform. They’re in civIlyan clothing. And then, then
Alice: so Buck is in a hoodie.
Bex: Yep.
Alice: Looking very cute. With the LAFD jacket over the top,
Bex: Hen’s got like a light blue knit jumper with an L-A-F-D vest over the top. The only other thing I could think of was that around this time, A, B, C must, um, no, it was still Fox.
Um, Fox might have launched a merch line and so they’re getting the actors, it’s like product placement for the merch.
Alice: I just figured they’re like, like they had a good save. So they went out and they’re like, oh look, we, because like even Lucy’s like, “that’s the second time they’ve run it this hour. We’re like the best action show on tv.”
Bex: Yeah. Yeah. ’cause they’re in the bar [01:12:00] and the bar is showing Channel eight news. And Channel eight news is continually reporting on this, um, the daring Freeway rescue.
Alice: Yeah. They wanna be like, Hey, look how cool we are. But also they wanna be like, we’re not cops. We’re LAFD. See the FD on our jackets? Please look at fd.
Bex: It’s just so weird. I’ve never seen them go out to a bar in previous episodes or subsequent episodes and them still wearing parts of their uniform.
Alice: Yeah. But Buck looks fucking good. So does, so I do not have any complaints
Bex: I do
Alice: with the hoodie jacket combo. Yes. Oh my God.
Bex: The hoodie jacket combo is such a good combo, but it looks really good on Oliver.
Alice: It’s such a, it’s just such a look. I love it. I’m great. I’m very happy about it.
Bex: So, yeah, so Lucy is drinking with Bobby and Buck and Hen and she’s, um, talking about the fact that, uh, the 118 or the 1 47 rescue is going to do wonders for Channel Eight News’s ratings. And Bobby is, um, complaining about the [01:13:00] fact that thinking about ratings is such a Californian firefighter thing to do.
Mm-hmm. And so Buck is like, “well, what did they care about in Minnesota, Cap? Cheese?” Like, no,
Alice: Bobby’s like, um, “Cheese. is Wisconsin. It was, thank you. Um, in Minnesota, we care about the official state grain of wild rice,” and they’re like, well that, yep. Cool. That
Bex: Rice. Rice. Okay.
Alice: Good job ca. Yep. Great.
Bex: And there’s a lot of talk about, um, how cold it must be down in Minnesota and, you know, Lucy could never handle being a firefighter in that kind of temperature.
Um, basically they’re having a great time. They’re poking fun at Bobby, Bobby’s letting them poke fun. Um, meanwhile, Eddie has walked into the bar, so I’m assuming that he is meant to be joining them for drinks, but he’s,
Alice: yeah, he’s been invited.
Bex: He sees Buck, literally like going ass over tea kettle, laughing at something that Lucy and Bobby [01:14:00] have said.
Ellen: Would you say he’s on the outside? Looking in?
Bex: Looking in?
Alice: Looking in?
Ellen: Looking in.
Bex: It’s fair. What’s that song from? Um, I think it’s the Evan Hansen musical where he is literally talking about being on the outside looking in. That’s, that’s Eddie at this point.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Um, and so he sees everyone having fun, uh, without him. He sees Buck having a great time without him. Um, so he leaves, he he sulks and he leaves
Ellen: He’s a bit sulky. Yeah.
Bex: Yes. So, uh, a little bit later Bobby leaves for the night. He’s had enough of watching everyone get drunk and, and being the, the sober dude. Um, he does say
Ellen: it’s like 10 minutes later.
Bex: Yeah. I’m surprised he doesn’t pass um, Eddie out in the carpark.
Alice: Yeah, I know, right? He’s still sulking in his truck.
Bex: He’s like, his parting words are, you guys did a great, like “Great work out there. Both of you.” [01:15:00] He’s talking to Buck and Lucy, “even though you did disobey an order, Lucy.” Um, and I love that they’re at this point that they’re setting Lucy up as like the female Buck and kind of specifically female Buck 1.0,
Ellen: right? Yeah.
Bex: Like she’s,
Alice: but I, but I also love that like they’ve. No, I’ll get to it at the end. It’s fine.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Keep going. Keep going. Yeah.
Bex: And then Lucy’s like, “Oh, come on. You know, I was, I was just passing the steering wheel on my way out, you know, it was no big deal.” Like, ma’am, you have to climb back into the truck to do that, but it’s fine.
Um, so Bobby leaves and Hen decides to waylay him for a private word before he goes. Um, and basically he tells her that she needs to give Jonah a chance and Jonah sees him talking to Bobby and immediately assumes that they’re talking about him. So decides to wander over and find out exactly what she and Bobby were saying [01:16:00] about him, which is slightly presumptuous and, you know, very, yeah.
Ellen: It’s kind of correct
Alice: though.
Bex: Very correct though. Yes.
Alice: I mean, like, it’s, it’s a crowded bar, but like Hen basically walked over and was like, Hey, I fucking hate Jonah. Can we just get rid of him? And Jonah’s like two people away and it’s just standing there like, what the fuck did I do to you?
Bex: I like this section though. ’cause I mean, I’m, I have conflicted feelings about Jonah, but at this point, um, he, we talk a lot about the background firefighters and the 118 about whether they want to step up and join the A team or whether they’re frantically drawing straws about who has to go, because none of them want to actually work with the members of the 118, um, because of the shit that that happens to them.
Um, and Jonah’s basically falling into the, um, the camp of, I was fucking nervous to work with you guys ’cause you are legends and [01:17:00] his, his, um, his perception is working with a 118 is the assignment that everybody wants.
Alice: Mm. But it’s also really intimidating.
Bex: Yes. Mm-hmm.
Alice: Meanwhile, Ravi’s like, someone get me outta this fucking nightmare. Jesus fucking, how did I get here? Why am I still here?
Bex: Can’t I,
Alice: I can’t.
Bex: Every week he’s going back to Bob and he is like, Bobby, please, can I just go back to B shift please? I’ll be good. I promise.
Alice: No Buck, Buck likes you. Sorry.
Bex: Fuck.
Alice: Stuck with it now. Um,
Ellen: I feel like he’s growing on it though. Like it’s growing on him.
Bex: Like a tumor?
Alice: I love Ravi so much, but Ravi maybe Ravi’s going back to the B shift every so often and he’s just like, I think Buck and Eddie got a divorce because Eddie’s now left, but they still have a kid together. And then like. Buck went to his house for dinner. So it must be amicable, but I dunno, man, the vibes are weird.
Ellen: They are weird though. [01:18:00] He’s not wrong.
Bex: He also lets Jonah know exactly why she’s being such a bitch to him. And it’s that, um, when Chim was her partner, it wasn’t work. She was just hanging out with her best friend, like around people who were bleeding profusely. Um, and she misses that. And, and Jonah’s like, cool. Yeah, I’m not gonna be your best friend.
Alice: Yeah, that’s cool. Good for you.
Bex: I I wanna work with you. I’m, I’m not gonna be your best friend. I’m not gonna help you bury the bodies.
Alice: Wasn’t even drinking with you. I was drinking with the background firefighters. Like I, yeah,
Bex: this is gonna be a strictly professional relationship here. Um, if you will let me. And it’s like, and Hen’s just kind of like, nah, I don’t know. Um, so Bobby has gone home and as per Athena’s rule, he’s doing his homework in the bedroom.
Uh, he’s going through the personnel files because he’s realized, um, that he can’t put off [01:19:00] finding new members for the team. Um, and he tells Athena that his reticence is not trying to find someone who is qualified enough. It’s trying to find someone who has the right chemistry. The, the, a good team has a certain rhythm.
He likes the rhythm of the 118. If he puts the wrong person in there, he’s going to destroy the chemistry and the comradery within the team.
Ellen: Yeah. I mean, he’s not wrong. It is, it is weirdly different when new people come along.
Bex: Yep. And he is, he’s reminiscing about when he first joined the 118, he’s like, “You know that team, when I first joined the 118, they were, that was magic.” the best team I ever worked with. And Thena is like, “The 118 was the island of misfit toys before you got there. And when you first got there,”
Alice: What the fuck are you talking about? Like you didn’t even like Buck when he like, that wasn’t even when you first got there. But like [01:20:00] Buck was awful. What the fuck are you talking about?
Bex: Bobby’s like, oh, there are one or two bad apples. And I’m like, Sal, Tommy.
Alice: Yeah. And Athena is literally like, yeah, that you tossed aside like
Bex: you didn’t,
Alice: and then Buck you fired like eight times before he finally shaped up. Like, what the fuck are you talking about? You didn’t find a magical special team, you built it.
Bex: Yeah. Like he, you hired Eddie to be like Buck’s best friend on the team and keep him out of your hair. Like
Alice: Yeah, you hired Eddie to keep Buck in line and instead Buck dragged Eddie right down to his level.
Bex: But long story short, you built the 118 and you can do it again.
Ellen: And I’m just sitting there going, but we don’t want him to do that. We just want Eddie and Chim back, please. I’m with Buck here. I miss them.
Alice: I know. I miss, I miss Chim. Eddie’s still around, so it’s fine. But I miss Chim.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Then we’re gonna go back to the bar for what is probably the most problematic scene [01:21:00] in, uh, in this episode and the scene that I hate in this episode.
Alice: Yeah. But Lucy’s got her tits out and Buck’s looking really good in that jacket and hoodie combo. Were they talking? I, I don’t know.
Ellen: I for thirsty purposes. You’re totally okay with this scene.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Look,
Alice: backstory
Bex: Arielle is
Alice: blah, blah, blah.
Bex: Gorgeous. She does look really good in this scene. Oliver. Yes. Very cute. Um, and I just looked up how old Arielle is. She’s like my age, so I feel completely okay with thirsting over her.
Alice: Oh, thank God. After, yeah, after binging Hudson content all day. Uh,
Bex: she was born in
Alice: what a relief.
Bex: She was born in 1985. So in this episode she’s like mid thirties.
Alice: Oh wow. She is like a fair bit older than
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Oliver then too. Yeah, because Oliver’s my age.
Bex: Yeah, I know.
Alice: He’s a 91 baby.
Bex: Um, so
Alice: Oh, she just been, sorry, I’ve got the scene because I was just talking about how good Buck looks. So I’ve got the scene open in the other tab and she [01:22:00] just bent over to hit the ball and I’m like, mm.
Bex: It was good. So while, while as, um, Alice ogles, um, yes. Um, Buck and Lucy.
Alice: Yeah. What are they talking about? You, you guys can fill in whatever the mouths are moving. They’re playing because all I hear is place name backstory.
Bex: Yeah, they’re playing pool. And um, Lucy is doing a little bit of, um, place name backstory. She’s sort of telling Buck a little bit about herself. Um, and there’s a little bit of a flirty vibe.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Which is interesting ’cause like Buck starts the flirting
Alice: Buck can’t help it Buck flirts with anything that sits still long enough.
Bex: Yes. So Luke,
Alice: like he was, he was flirting with a guy with a tape worm up his ass.
Bex: He was
Alice: the only thing he didn’t flirt with the second he saw it was Eddie and that was because he was jealous. So like,
Bex: but what’s, but what’s really interesting is that he starts the floating because they’re talking about, um, Lucy is a firefighter and a family full of cops. She’s like, I like to keep my family on my toes and [01:23:00] Buck’s like, and I, yeah, you know what keeps you on your toes?
And it’s like wink, like nudge, wink, wink. Um,
Ellen: you have a girlfriend. Stop that.
Bex: I, at around this point, um, Lucy’s apparently ordered margaritas and they get delivered to the pool table and um,
Ellen: and it’s basically a bucket of margarita.
Bex: It’s massive.
Ellen: They big glasses.
Bex: Um, and she has one to Buck and he’s sort of eyeing this drink and she’s like, “you know, we can like you Ubered to the bar, right? Maybe we can share an Uber later.” And Buck immediately starts backpedaling the flirting.
Alice: He’s like, oh, fuck, fuck. I flirt too hard. She’s flirting back. This isn’t a good idea.
Bex: Like, you started this and now you can’t finish it.
Alice: Buck’s like, “Oh, I’m, I’m the other way. I wouldn’t do that to you.” And Lucy’s like, “you don’t even know where I live.” um,
Bex: Buck’s like, “Right. No. Yeah. No, I’m, I’m just saying if…” and she’s like, you know, “relax, Buckley, I [01:24:00] just like watching you squirm.” And he’s like, “me squirm? No, I don’t, I don’t squirm. I’m not squirming.” Um, and at this point, she’s like moving in. She’s tugging at the little, um, toggles on his hoodie, and then she leans in and kisses him.
Ellen: Oh no.
Bex: And Buck pulls back, pulls back and sort of looks at her and then dives in for kiss number two and three and four, and probably many, many, many more. And I start screaming, not in like, oh my God, they’re kissing! It’s like, oh, oh my God. They’re kissing.
Alice: Oh, Buck’s. Yeah. Look, Buck’s a fucking idiot. I don’t blame Lucy at all. Like Lucy doesn’t know that he has a girlfriend. And also he looks real fucking cute and they’ve had a bit to drink. I’ve kissed, I’ve done worse when I’ve been a little bit tipsy.
Bex: I, I will
Ellen: also, Buck has been like a bit flirty, so
Bex: I’m going to reserve my soapbox for the end of the episode, but I will be pulling it out and getting up onto it. I’ve had [01:25:00] it decorated. It’s so pretty. Um, but I, I’ll be reserving it.
Alice: It’s bedazzled
Bex: to the end. Yes. Um, I bedazzled my soapbox.
Alice: But my favorite part of this, because like obviously I, I’m not, I don’t like the fact that Buck Kiss Lucy don’t, even though they’re pretty people, ki not, not happy about that. But we go to a commercial.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: And then we like close up to Buck in an Uber and he’s like, “oh, who should we have him drop off first, me or you?”
Bex: And he’s plastered,
Alice: he, it’s like so drunk. Fuck. Like he’s so drunk. Like he’s slurring. He’s fully like, doesn’t know what’s going on. And then it cuts to Hen going, “I ordered the Uber, Buck.” Um, so he did not go home with Lucy. It’s fine. He’s with Hen who is very much not drunk and it’s
Bex: like, okay, so, so,
Alice: okay, so what happened? Sorry, sorry, sorry. Um, Paul, lemme hang on. Hen’s texting. Um, oh my fucking God. What’s her wife’s name?
Bex: Karen?
Ellen: Karen.
Alice: Um, Hen’s texting Karen in her pocket, just like, oh [01:26:00] my God, babe. Guess the goss.
Bex: Okay, so what do we think happened?
Did Buck kiss Lucy? Freak the fuck out and then call Hen who was like his emergency contact and like, Hen you gotta come get me? Or was Hen still in the bar? She saw him kissing Lucy in the bar.
Alice: Saw it
Bex: ran,
Alice: was like, Hey, Buck
Bex: walked straight across him by the ear and dragged him out of the bar.
Ellen: Yeah, I’m guessing that was what happened.
Alice: Hey, Buck, maybe you should go home to your girlfriend Taylor now.
Bex: Either way. Yes.
Ellen: Well he did say that he ran away, like he said, no, I have a girlfriend.
Alice: He does say that he ran away. Ran away. Yeah.
Ellen: So maybe he was in control of his faculties at that point.
Alice: He is so cute when he says that too. He’s like I said, I have a girlfriend
Bex: and I ran away
Alice: and I ran away and Hen’s like, good job. Yep.
Bex: Yep. And then he is like, you know, it was, it’s just a misunderstanding. Yeah. You never meant for it to happen. No, but um,
Alice: no, she kissed me. It wasn’t my fault. I may have kissed her her [01:27:00] back.
Bex: I may have kissed her back
Alice: and Hen’s like, oh,
Ellen: like is Hen really the best person to be having this conversation with?
Bex: Because Buck is like literally, “what do I do now? I have to tell Taylor,” and I’m going, you’re asking the woman who cheated on her wife whether you should tell your girlfriend that you cheated on her? Yeah. And Hans immediately first response is no, don’t tell her. Like, did that really work out for you, the
Ellen: hang on? No, she said, doesn’t she say yes first? Like, yeah, yeah. You need to tell her. You have to be honest. Oh no, wait.
Alice: No, no. She says no first and then says yes and then says no, then says yes. Um, ’cause she’s like, no, like don’t tell her. But basically, oh no wait. She does say yes. She’s like, you have to be honest. Don’t tell her. It’ll only make her upset.
Bex: Regardless. Cheater McCheaterson,
Alice: unless you’re gonna kiss Lucy again.
Bex: is not the person that Buck should be taking advice from in this situation.
Ellen: Well, she doesn’t seem to know what to give him advice for anyway.
Alice: Hen eventually goes, “no, tell Taylor, Buck. You’re a terrible liar. She’s gonna figure it out anyway.” Um, [01:28:00] and then Buck’s like, “you’re making me nauseous. I need you to pick a side.” And he’s like, “Honesty, honesty is the best PO policy. It’s easier to remember. And Karen will kill me if I come home and say that I didn’t tell you to, like I told you to not tell her.”
Bex: I do love that. It’s not so much like honesty is the right thing to do, it’s just you are not gonna be able to fuck up honesty.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: You’re gonna, you’re gonna be able to remember honesty. Um, so yeah, that’s, um, like that’s not gonna end well no matter what.
Ellen: No, none of this is going to end well.
Bex: Um, but we’re gonna do a quick divert to the Diaz residence where, um, it’s some ungodly hour of night or morning. I’m not entirely sure what, um, Christopher wanders into the kitchen to find an undead looking zombie Eddie sitting at the table.
Alice: I laughed so hard at this scene. It’s not even that funny, but it makes, it made me laugh so much [01:29:00] because Chris, like Chris is clearly just waking up and he is like, what are you doing? And Eddie is just sitting there at the table, not moving, not speaking, yeah. Literally just staring into space.
And Eddie is just like, “I’m so sorry buddy. Did I wake you?” And Chris was like, I don’t. Think so. Like, no, I dunno, why are you awake? Like Chris probably just got up to pee and was like, why the fuck is dad just staring at nothing? Like,
Bex: um, and he tries to make some bullshit about, you know, his body not being used to, uh, nine to five hours. And, uh, Chris, Christopher rightly calls him on his bullshit.
Alice: I love Chris so much.
Bex: And Eddie’s like, “Okay, cool. What do you think is wrong with me?” And Chris is like, “You miss being a firefighter.” And Eddie’s like, “Well, yep, 100% Doc. You are correct.” And so Chris asked him, “Why did you stop?” And he said, “well, you wanted me to stop.”
Chris was like, “I, I never asked you to [01:30:00] stop”. And Eddie says, “But you know, you were having nightmares and you said that you had Christmas had to be perfect in case I died. Um, I thought that’s what you wanted.”
Alice: But you can see, you can see how I got to that logical conclusion, right?
Bex: Yeah. And Chris is like, “well, yeah, you know, your job is scary, but you’re brave and I can be brave too.” And like Edmundo, did you not talk to anybody before you made this decision?
Ellen: Yeah. Maybe you should’ve just checked with Chris. Is this gonna make you
Bex: 100%
Ellen: sleep better?
Bex: This is like, this is obviously an adult problem. And Christopher does not need to be given the burden of having to make a decision about what Eddie is gonna do for a career. But at just, at least sort of just checking in, like, Hey, I’m thinking maybe I switch jobs.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: You know, maybe you’ll feel a bit better if I’m not, you know, literally in the firing line every single day. Maybe if you talk to Carla or a therapist or Buck or anybody about this before unilaterally making this decision, which is apparently what he has done.[01:31:00]
Alice: Yeah. At a Christmas party surrounded by random children.
Bex: Yes.
Alice: Three months ago
Ellen: for the drama.
Bex: For the drama,
Ellen: he made that decision on his own.
Bex: Okay. This next scene is so stupid.
Ellen: Yes.
Alice: It’s so dumb. And it, it’s fine.
Bex: It completely ruins the flow of the episode. Like, I don’t think we actually need this next scene.
I think I would’ve been perfectly happy without this next scene having existed at all. Um,
Ellen: yeah. But at least we find out who planted the bomb.
Bex: But it’s so stupid and it doesn’t make sense.
Ellen: No, it doesn’t.
Bex: I think I, I would have been perfectly happy with, oh, there was a bomb in the truck. How’d it get there? I don’t know. But it was fun.
Ellen: Yeah. We’ve had plenty of emergencies where it was not explained afterwards.
Bex: Yes.
Alice: I kind of hoped it was the blackout hackers because like, I couldn’t remember what happens and I was just like, ah, maybe it’s the blackout hackers and this just never gets explained. But no,
Bex: I mean, that [01:32:00] would, that would make more sense.
That’s
Alice: fine.
Bex: Uh, but no, I mean. The actual explanation is that Sasha and Erica live on this nice tidy suburban street, and there is a hoarder that lives across the street from them. Um, and said, hoarder is bringing down property values to the point that Sasha and Erica are moving because they can’t stand looking at this guy’s house, um, every single day.
And for some reason, uh, one of the other neighbors are having an altercation with the hoarder dude, who we find out his name is Kurt, which necessitates Athena being called to the neighborhood. Um, and she notices that Erica and Sasha, um, from the speed emergency live across the street. So she goes over to talk to Erica, and, uh, she says that she also, they’re moving also because they [01:33:00] don’t like the idea of the person who put the bomb in the car knowing where they live.
Alice: Yeah, they’re moving after like a day, like
Bex: it’s,
Alice: everyone was just at the bar.
Bex: It’s, it’s very quick. Um, apparently they’ve had some altercations with Kurt across the street. They’ve offered to help him clean up his front yard. Um, they even, Sasha even filed a court order to force him to clean up. I don’t know how that works.
I don’t think that’s something you can do. Um, but funnily enough, um, the hearing was perhaps in the days surrounding the speed emergency and they never made it to court because this whole bombing thing happened. So they dropped the suit and Yeah.
Ellen: And Athena connects the dots.
Alice: They dropped the suit literally yesterday. ’cause the bombing happened yesterday. Yeah. But, you know.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Yeah. [01:34:00] And we do get to take a shot because when Eric is saying, you know, the bomber knew everything, our kids’ names, he knew what our husband did for a living. Athena’s like, like the bomber was right outside your house. Looking in,
Ellen: looking in.
Bex: He was outside looking in.
Ellen: He was watching.
Bex: Um, and that’s enough for her. I don’t know that that’s enough, a probable cause for her to go onto this guy’s property. Um, but we don’t care. She’s gonna do it anyway. She doesn’t care. Um,
Alice: Athena does what Athena wants. Let’s be real.
Bex: So she storms into Kurt’s house. It is a hoarder house. He’s stalking her through the hoarder house while she’s stalking him. Um, and she ends up knocking him out with his own pile of junk. And that’s the end of it. And it’s so stupid.
Ellen: And she says, “We need an RA unit. He may have sustained minor injuries. Bomber suspect is in custody.”
Bex: He’s not, he’s just lying on the floor. You haven’t even put him in cuffs yet. [01:35:00] I just, it’s so,
Ellen: she’s got him,
Bex: stupid, that like this massive emergency and this intricate bomb and all of this, um, technology because you’ve got a hoer house and somebody asked you to clean up your front yard.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: It’s such a let down the, like the, the scale of the emergency and the scale of the reveal of who caused the emergency are not the same.
And I wish that they were, or I wish they just hadn’t revealed it. Like we didn’t need to go back and find out. I was enjoying just watching the other explosions that were, you know, going on the interpersonal escalations.
Ellen: I mean, I would’ve, I probably would’ve preferred seeing this guy blow a few more things up rather than like, Jeffrey hanging around for as long as he did.
Alice: Oh my God. Literally.
Bex: But like, yeah, the other thing is that this guy does not look like he had the know-how to make that kind of technological, that that kind of bomb, that kind of sophisticated technology.
Alice: Maybe they’re making some sort of social commentary.
Ellen: I don’t know, he had [01:36:00] a, a whole bunch of like electrical bits and pieces in his front yard. Like
Bex: Yeah. ’cause he’s a hoarder
and he said
Ellen: that he didn’t wanna get rid of it because this thing had like electrical components in it that he uses for stuff.
Bex: Did he say that? He’s just like, it could be useful.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Yeah, he did. No, no. He was talking about electrical components.
Bex: No, hang on. Where is, now I’m going back up here. It’s not
Ellen: You don’t believe me?
Bex: It’s, it’s only junk. ’cause the, he fished. He fished the diodes outta the s
Ellen: Do you have idea how hard is to find diodes like these,
Bex: but is he actually using them or is he just hoarding them?
Ellen: I don’t fucking know, but it doesn’t matter.
Bex: And I don’t fucking care because
Alice: it, it doesn’t matter.
Bex: It literally does not matter it, but it just makes no sense that they spent all this time doing this scene when they didn’t need to, when we could go back and have a little bit more of Eddie, um, absolutely losing his shit on Bobby.
Ellen: Yeah,
Bex: which is hilarious.
Ellen: Meanwhile, Eddie is losing his shit on [01:37:00] Bobby. He turns up at Bobby and Athena’s house
Bex: before Bobby’s shift starts.
Ellen: Yeah,
Bex: so that’s like six, 7:00 AM If they’re doing 24 hours, they usually start, they,
Ellen: they don’t ever start later in the day?
Bex: Not if they’re doing 24. ’cause they usually come off around morning. ’cause then they go for breakfast. So that’s somewhere between six and nine. So they’d have to start somewhere between six and nine if they’re actually following sort of standard shifts.
But, you know, nobody in this writer’s room has any idea how the shifts actually work.
Alice: It’s fine. He Carla’s still on call. She’s there watching Chris. It’s, it’s all good.
Bex: Um, so yeah, so he come, he shows up on Bobby’s front doorstep. Bobby invites him in. And he asks Eddie, “what do you wanna talk about?” And Eddie brandishes this, uh, packet of papers at Bobby, and he is like, “It’s my request to transfer back to the 118.” like he’s doing Bobby, this massive favor.
Ellen: Oh. Like he looks so [01:38:00] happy about it though,
Bex: he’s so proud of himself. I know
Ellen: he’s coming home. That’s what he says.
Bex: But the other thing is that he sounds and looks so happy, but it’s his customer smile face.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Like, he’s still pretending. He’s just like, I made a mistake and I wanna fix it.
Alice: Yep. Jo, Josh yelled at me and I don’t wanna be there anymore.
Bex: Josh yelled at me and, and Bucks moved on without me, even though I told him he had to move on without me. And he is got a new best friend, um, that he kisses. And I, I wanna be the best friend that he kisses, so, um, I need to come back.
Ellen: That is absolutely what he is pouting about. You’re right.
Alice: Yeah, a hundred percent. Um, he saw that and Bobby’s like, “yeah, we, we, we talked about this before you left you, I know you have big feelings right now, but that’s, that’s why we had a talk before you left.” And Eddie’s like, “yeah, yeah. I know you tried to talk me out of it. You were right.”
Bobby’s like, “no, no. It’s, it’s not about being right. I want you to understand, I just wanna understand what’s changed. It [01:39:00] was three months ago you asked to transfer out and now you want back in.” Um, and Eddie’s like, “yeah, Christopher was struggling.” And Bobby’s like, “yep. He not, not just him. You said that I agreed to a transfer. We found you a spot. You don’t seem better. Are you sleeping?” Um,
Bex: at all.
Alice: Eddie and I at this point both look like Whitaker from
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: The Pitt with the dark circles under our eyes.
Bex: Yeah. Eddie is not looking good. I do like what Bobby says here ’cause he says that, um, he, he remembered when he first went on medical leave and that he suddenly all of the stuff, um, inside him that he’d been able to ignore when he was working, got super loud.
Um, that, that even he was perhaps using his job to, uh, block out his own thoughts and his own feelings. Um, so he understands that Eddie, who is very similar in that way, and [01:40:00] now that he doesn’t have the job to focus on all of those thoughts and feelings and voices inside his head and big feelings are like rising to the surface.
Alice: Who, who would use something to distract yourself from the real world?
Bex: Um, but basically
Alice: anyway, Heated Rivalry, uh,
Bex: but he’s basically saying to Eddie, like, you need to go and resolve those thoughts and feelings and issues. And
Ellen: please go to therapy.
Bex: Go to fucking therapy, get yourself sorted, and then you can come back. You cannot keep, um, pushing down the issues in your head with firefighting, it’s, it’s not gonna work. And you can’t drink. I don’t recommend drinking. You can’t go to illegal fight clubs because you nearly got arrested last time.
Ellen: Yeah. Please, please don’t punch people over this.
Bex: So just please go to therapy.
Alice: Can’t drink, can’t do illegal substances. Can’t do illegal fight clubs. Can’t do anything.
Bex: So Eddie’s just like, “Well, fine. Um, if, if I can’t come back to the 118, I’ll just go to another house.” And [01:41:00] Bobby’s like, “Well, I hope they don’t call me for a recommendation.” And then Eddie turns around and says, “You know when the brass were coming for you after they found out about the Minnesota fire, um, and they were trying to fire you. I had your back. I supported you. Why aren’t you supporting me?”
And Bobby’s like, “That’s not what is going on here.” And then Eddie can’t physically hit Bobby, so he decides to hit him in the feels and says, “You are gonna stand there with a hundred odd bodies on you and tell me that I am not fit for duty? Go to hell.”
Alice: Oh,
Bex: like Eddie
Alice: with a hundred something bodies on you? Like, Eddie!
Bex: Eddie is a messy bitch and hurt people hurt people.
Ellen: That is a low blow
Alice: Edmundo Diaz!
Bex: But he, he lashes out. We’ve seen this with Eddie. He can’t physically lash out in this, so he is gonna lash out in other ways. And I think it would probably have hurt Bobby less if Eddie had just punched him.
Ellen: Mm. Yep.
Bex: [01:42:00] This, this was so much worse than just a fist to the face. And he’s always fought dirty. We’ve seen him fight with Buck before. He’s just, he’s, he’s nasty when he fights.
Alice: Yep.
Bex: So, um, I don’t think we are getting Eddie back at, um, the 118 anytime soon.
Ellen: Oh, no. Not until these guys make, make it up though.
Alice: Not until Eddie sees a fucking therapist. Um,
Bex: yeah.
Alice: Oh, speaking of idiots, oh my
Bex: God.
Alice: We go to Buck’s apartment. So Taylor’s just working, typing away quite happily, DMing the LAFD Twitter account, asking how fast the ladder truck goes. Um, and Buck’s just like freaking the fuck out. He’s just like, “Hey, can we talk?”
And Taylor’s like, “yep, gimme a minute.”
Bex: And he’s like, “No, now.”
Alice: “No. Now. It’s, it, it’s, it’s important.” [01:43:00] Like, go. Yep. Okay. Is everything okay? You look like you’re about to throw up. Someone got some big feelings today,
Bex: but like, he, she literally just wanted to finish her email. That’s all she wanted to do.
Alice: Literally, she’s like, I have a line left. I’m just making sure that I put enough ex exclamation marks to P period rate. Like just making sure the ratio is okay.
Bex: Lemme put the full stop at the end of this sentence for God’s sake.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: But he’s like, no, I need to talk to you now.
Alice: Oh, okay, buddy. Yep. Um, and yeah, Buck starts just word vomiting.
Bex: Oh my God.
Alice: He’s like, “Things thi things have things have been great. Great. With us. Yep. Really great. Th this is the most functional relationship I’ve ever been in.”
Bex: Sure. Sweet talk.
Alice: And Taylor’s like. Good for you buddy. Uh, um, no, she goes “Careful with the sweet talk. It might go to my head.” Buck’s like, “I just wanna say I love you. I’d never intentionally do anything to hurt you,” and Taylor’s face like darkens.
Bex: Yeah. You can,
Alice: like, this is probably the most serious we’ve ever seen her with Buck.
Bex: She’s like, oh, [01:44:00] he fucked up. He’s done something bad.
Alice: What the fuck did you do? Like, spit it out Buckley. And he’s like, uh, uh, I think you should move in with me.
Bex: Oh, Buck.
Alice: What?
Ellen: He chickens out.
Alice: This, this will not be the first time this move appears in this series.
Bex: No, this is,
Alice: I just wanna point that out.
Bex: This is not chickening out. Like chickening out would be, um, just like changing the subject or walking away. He’s like double tripling, quadrupling down on Yeah. Whatever the fuck is happening here.
Alice: Yeah. Um, we immediately go to the 118 locker room where Hen just goes, “You did what?” Buck’s like, “I panicked. I was gonna tell her, but she looked so pre hurt, so I had to say something else.” Um, Hen’s like, “okay, what did she say?” “Um, she was surprised, but she said yes.” And [01:45:00] now the two of them are living together.
Um, but yeah, not for a few weeks. She’s gotta pack and get out of her lease,
Bex: pack up, up the couch,
Alice: Hen’s like, what the fuck is, pack up a couch. Um, Hen’s like, “What the fuck is wrong with you? You’re a fucking idiot.” Uh, Buck’s like, “It’s gonna be fine. Taylor and I already spend all our time together. What’s the difference?” Hen’s like “You kissed another girl two days, like literally a day ago.”
Bex: He did say a couple of episodes ago that he thought that they were living together anyway.
Alice: Yeah. Literally Taylor’s like, I’m going home. And he is like, you’re going where?
Bex: But as Hen points out, there’s living together when both of you have your own space and one of you, like Taylor can leave when she’s had enough of your bullshit and then there’s living together when neither of you have anywhere else to go.
Alice: Yeah. It always amuses me. So like, I’m pretty sure I brought it up when, um, Albert was hanging out with Buck, like the girl that Buck dated briefly for
Bex: Veronica.
Alice: Yeah. Where like, houses in [01:46:00] shows make no sense because like obviously they don’t wanna build another set. Yeah. And so they just like do the same thing.
So like in Friends for example, Friends is the biggest example and it does my absolute head in every time I fucking watch Friends. So when Monica and Richard are dating, Richard is a grown ass adult man with a grown ass adult house. Monica has been to his house, they built his house set because Monica catered at his house.
And then there’s like full episodes where like she, like he’s at her house and it’s annoying having to get through Ross and Ra, like deal with Ross and Rachel. Ross also has his own house. Why are they hanging out at the house where they have roommates when both of their boyfriends live alone? Why are they like, oh my fucking God, that like, yes, the apartment’s big for a New York apartment, but it’s not that fucking big.
Just go to the place where you have no other roommates or like, if you wanna be [01:47:00] home, just be like, oh, hey, like, are you gonna be home tonight, Rachel, because like, I wanna be home tonight. Like, can you go to Ross’s like it, I just don’t understand. When I had housemates, like we would go to whoever’s house was the quietest, like whoever’s roommates were out.
Like that’s where we’d go. I just, I don’t understand why. And then it’s, it’s brought this, it’s, it’s brought this back up in me lately because I’ve been watching, um, I’ve been watching Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist.
Ellen: Wait, wait wait, you’ve been watching something that’s not Heated Rivalry and not The Pitt?
Alice: I know.
Ellen: Amazing.
Alice: So it’s, it’s my, it’s one of my best friend’s favorite shows ever. And she’s been telling me, watch it for ages. But her introduction to the show was, oh my God, I just cried at Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist again. And I’m like. I don’t wanna watch the show. It sounds sad. And she’s like, yeah, it’s fucking sad, but it’s a good show.
And I’m like, I, I don’t have the emotional capacity for this. Um, anyway, so she refuses to watch any more shows. So she watched the entire 15 [01:48:00] fucking seasons of Supernatural,
Bex: ah,
Alice: which is not an easy watch. She watched the entire thing.
Bex: The least you can do is give Zoe a chance.
Alice: And I still hadn’t watched Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist.
And so obviously like Heated Rivalry. I was like, oh, like, you probably like it, rah. And she’s like, I’m not fucking watching any more of your shows until you watch Zoe’s. And so we are now watching Zoe’s together, and she’s like, you could just watch it at home. And I’m like, one, I don’t have time to watch it at home because I’m busy re-watching Heated Rivalry. Two, you wanted me to watch, I’m watching it with you.
Like you have to deal with this. Anyway, so watching Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist, and there’s a whole episode, a whole entire episode that has Zoe gets together with her best friend spoilers, and they are trying to have some alone time, but Zoe’s staying with her mom, um, because there’s like some family shit going on.
So she’s staying with her mom to give her mom support, and she’s not ready to go back home yet, but they’re trying to have some alone time, and there’s always people in her mom’s [01:49:00] house, including like her mother. Mm. And so they’re like tr they’re like, oh, like, okay, we’ll go back to Zoe’s place. And then Zoe’s like, okay, I’m not ready to be here.
Um, and they’re like, that’s okay. Like, and then her mom ends up just like going out for the night to leave, and I’m like, he’s homeless?
Bex: Oh, like why, why aren’t we going back to his place?
Alice: Like does he not have a house? He’s a 30-year-old man in the tech industry, which, where the fuck does he live?
Bex: If he’s a 30-year-old man in the tech industry, he probably has like a mattress on the floor
Alice: maybe. Maybe that’s the problem. But like he, they literally,
Bex: he has no furniture,
Alice: they were literally doing, they were literally doing the same job until like three months ago and she had her own apartment, like when they were doing the same job. So I’m like, he is homeless.
Bex: No, he’s just
Alice: Where’s his house.
Bex: He does not want her to see his house. ’cause he’s got no food in the fridge. He’s got no curtains on the windows. His mattress is on the floor.
Alice: Like just go home.
Bex: He doesn’t change his sheets,
Alice: buy a bed base. [01:50:00] Like, but he just had a girlfriend last season. Like, did they just always go to her house?
Bex: Yes.
Alice: I just don’t understand. I’m like, where do you live?
Bex: Either that,
Alice: where do you live?
Bex: He always went to his girlfriend’s house or she left him and took all the furniture with her because she was the one that made the apartment like, well, the house a home. And now he’s back to this sad little bachelor pad.
Alice: He has no couch.
Bex: He has no couch. Exactly.
Alice: But oh my God, it’s just, it drove me insane because it was a full episode and there was just no, like, no one in that writer’s room was like, we should maybe mention that.
Like his house is getting renovated or like. You know, he has noisy roommates too. Like something.
Bex: Yep.
Alice: But instead they were just like, oh, like we, we’ll just have to find somewhere, like, somewhere to get some alone time. And I’m like, where does he live? Why is he homeless? Oh my fucking good. Um, anyway, I don’t even remember why I started on this tangent. I’m just real mad about it.
Bex: Um, because I said about, um, they no longer have their own places to go to once Taylor [01:51:00] moves in because Taylor has given up her, um, lease for her place.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Um, the conversation ends. Um, so Hen’s point was that, and suddenly neither he nor Taylor will have their own place to run from.
Um, and Buck’s like, “I’m not running from everything, anything. Okay. I love Taylor,” and Hen’s like, “okay. And what about Lucy?” He’s like, “well, I don’t ever have to see her again. It’s fine.” Really Buck? Really, really Buck? Um, at this point, Bobby comes in sort of ringing his little bell, going, everybody upstairs, I’ve got announcements to make.
Um, so the rest of the, uh, 118 starts sort of trailing Bobby up to the kitchen, including Ravi, who kind of does a drive by of, um, Hen and Buck going, “Hey, what was up with Eddie last night? Um, or the other night because, you know, he was at the bar.” And Hen’s like, “I didn’t see him.” Yeah, [01:52:00] Buck.
Alice: Like I texted him,
Bex: he left me on read.
Alice: I was like, babe, get over here. Yeah.
Bex: Ravi’s like, “Well, I saw him in the parking lot and he kind of just blew me off, but you” Buck’s like, “He did what?” It’s like Ravi’s like, “No, not like that.”
Alice: He was like, that’s so weird. Normally that’s what he does with me. Why is he doing with you? I, I also didn’t see Ravi at the bar, but sure. Um, Ravi got his feelings hurt. It was like, wow, bye.
Bex: Um,
Alice: it was such a good night with Eddie. He was like, I, I’m good. I’m going home.
Bex: So
Alice: spent guys, I’m spent
Ellen: He was at the bar, he was drinking with the others. Not, not with Hen and,
Bex: was he?
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Well we didn’t see.
Alice: Oh, there you go.
Bex: Okay. I did not see Anirudh. I’m very sorry, Ravi. Yes, you were there. Um,
Alice: we love you, Ravi.
Bex: So
Alice: Just not the way that Eddie does.
Bex: Buck and Hannah eventually make their way up to the kitchen and they notice that Jonah is standing by the kitchen bench next to Bobby [01:53:00] and sort of, you know, um, front of the assembled members of the 118.
Um, and Hen’s like, “Why do I get the feeling that that guy is part of the announcements?” And it is, uh, Bobby is announcing the Jonah is going to be permanently joining the 118 as the new paramedic. And so Jonah starts making this big fucking speech. Um, and Buck is trying to Buck Hen up. He’s like, “You know, he’s probably gonna be a really good partner. He doesn’t seem so bad.”
And Hen’s like, “What the fuck are you doing right now?” And he’s like, “I’m, I’m trying to look on the bright side. I’m trying to be a better Buck.” And Hen’s just like, “Well, stop it.” Um, Ravi’s been taking notes and he’s like, “Well, that’s only one announcement cap. What’s the other announcement?”
Um, who’s the other person that’s gonna be joining the team? And Bobby says, “Someone you also know, just not as well.” And there’s a cut of footsteps running up the stairs, um, to the loft kitchen. And then he [01:54:00] very dramatically points at the stairs and goes, “Lucy Donato!” And everyone turns to see that Lucy is standing at the top of the stairs and Buck goes, “oh fuck.”
And Hen is like, “oh no,” actually Buck is like, oh no. And Hannah’s like, oh yes. Um, yeah. So Lucy is joining the 118.
Alice: I like, I laughed so hard the first time I saw this. Um, I literally, like, my notes are literally like, are they playing “Changes”? Yes. Oh my God. It’s gonna be Lucy. It’s definitely gonna be Lucy. Ha ha. It’s Lucy.
Bex: I am. So, because yeah, as um, they’re heading up to the kitchen, Bowie’s “Changes”, kicks in. I’m so surprised that they did not actually call this episode. Ch-ch-ch-changes.
Alice: Yeah,
Bex: because I remember like in the nineties and early two thousands, there was a really big trend of every TV show having an episode called Ch-ch-ch-changes.
Alice: Oh, pretty much. Um, okay, [01:55:00] now that we’re finally at the end of the episode, everyone, like, I have to mention the fact that they’re literally replacing Eddie with Lucy, with,
Ellen: with the girl that Buck has kissed.
Alice: With a boo and then Buck immediately kisses her.
Bex: To be fair, he didn’t know
Alice: my notes are,
Bex: to be fair, he didn’t know that she was going to be his replacement when he kissed her.
Alice: My notes are literally, so they replaced Eddie with a girl and then Buck kissed her.
Bex: Yeah. Yeah.
Alice: Like it, it drives me insane. Every time I think about this arc, it, it drives me insane.
Bex: It drives me insane for other reasons. I like, I’ve loved Lucy as a character and I love that they introduced Lucy. I hate the storyline that they gave her though, because, because like the 118 is such a sausage fest. Right? Um,
Ellen: yeah.
Bex: I mean, you’ve got Hen [01:56:00] there, but Hen is the paramedic, so she doesn’t do the death-defying amazing rescues. That’s Buck and that’s Eddie. And it’s like you don’t see Hen wrapping a fire hose around her waist anyeetingng herself off the side of a building. Um, she’s the sensible one. She does the, the saving of the people, not the rescuing of the people.
So I was really excited when they brought in a female firefighter who they were like the equivalent of Buck. So she’s doing the death defying rescues.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: But then they have her kiss Buck. And I am sure that nobody in the writer’s room thought of this implication, but doing that for me, it is the misogynistic stereotype of a woman in a male dominated field just does it to fuck the men. And it kind of reminds me
Alice: Oh yeah. Like I ha I hate like that side of it. Yeah. It just drives me insane that they literally replaced it because like
Bex: No, no, no.
Alice: [01:57:00] As Ellen said, it’s just like when they’re on top of the truck
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: With the, the plane, it’s a direct parallel.
Bex: Like, I get the parallels and I would’ve loved if they just kind of kept it at the parallels and they hadn’t actually progressed it. And I know why they did it. It’s because then we get the storyline. It’s, it’s like the, um, the sleeping with the guy at the bar, it’s like, it’s Meredith and McDreamy, right?
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: You, you sleep with someone you don’t know who you don’t have a relationship with them. Then the next morning you discover that, you know, he’s your boss. Like, so he’s kissing Lucy, thinking she’s just another firefighter. The next day he finds out that she, he’s actually, you know, gonna be working with her and oops, he’s actually got a girlfriend. So they’ve got the whole cheating scandal as well.
But I just hate that, like the, the only thing that Lucy can do be kissing a a fi, like why does she have to kiss Buck? Why can’t she just be a kickass firefighter? It just reminded me
Ellen: she’s Buck 1.0
Alice: cause she’s [01:58:00] Eddie’s because she’s Eddie’s re um, replacement.
Bex: I know. It just reminded me there was this a lot of discussion going around of, um, hockey, romance booktok a while ago. Um, about the seemingly, like lots of people kept writing stories where the female main character was a coach or on the coaching staff and or a trainer of the NH of the particular hockey team and then ends up fucking one or more of the players on the team.
And especially the latest one that had come out at that time seemed to be very directly based on an actual female coach of an NHL team. And it was,
Alice: oh Jesus,
Bex: it was she this, um, coach actually had to speak up and say like, I hate this book because it makes everyone seem like I only joined hockey to get hockey players. And it’s just like 100% the, or I’m pretty sure that the writer’s room didn’t even consider that [01:59:00] implication. They just wanted Lucy to be there and doing what she’s doing for the drama. It’s just unfortunate that that is the implication that I pick, that I see when I see Lucy doing this.
Ellen: Yeah. Fair.
Bex: So as much as I love the character, I hate the story arc that they gave her.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: I mean I only just met her and even though she’s very pretty, I didn’t like her immediately.
Alice: She’s so pretty. Is it ’cause she kissed Buck?
Ellen: Yeah. That’s why. She’s very like, she didn’t know you’re right. She didn’t know at the time that he had a girlfriend and he didn’t do anything to let her know that.
But yeah, I don’t know. She seemed very Buck 1.0.
Bex: But why is Buck one? And that’s the other thing that I hate about this storyline is that Buck isn’t a cheater. In fact, there was an entire episode in season one where everyone thought that he was cheating on Abby. And everyone just [02:00:00] assumed that because he was a whore, that he was unfaithful. Um, and
Alice: I know my poor Buck
Bex: and we had an entire, like, I’m pretty sure I got my soapbox out at that point and said, that’s a complete misunderstanding of Buck’s character. Yes, he sleeps around, but he sleeps around like one person at a time. And so yet we’re supposed to believe that in the four years since Abby when he’s been to therapy and we’re now up to Buck 4 point… 4.0, 5.0? Where are we on the Buck scale? What version are we up to?
Ellen: I know I lost track a long time ago,
Bex: but you’re trying to tell me that this new improved version of Buck, he’s been to therapy and is good at his feelings, has somehow lost his morals and is now okay with cheating?
Ellen: Well, no. He said no and he ran away.
Alice: No, he felt bad about it,
Bex: but he still kissed her again. Like why? Yeah, if this is Buck, who doesn’t cheat? And who was like absolutely outraged that everyone assumed that he would cheat. Why did he go in for the second kiss? And I [02:01:00] know it’s for the drama and I know it’s for the storyline
Alice: because he was drunk,
Bex: but was he drunk before he kissed her because he seemed,
Alice: yeah. Like they were already drinking and then she also gave him mar margaritas and then he immediately ran away.
Bex: He seemed okay when they were shooting the pool. Like he did not seem inebriated when he was talking to her. I don’t know. I just, again, they’re fundamentally a misunderstanding Buck for dramatic purposes.
And I just wanna wrap him and take him away from the writer’s room and like leave him, leave my blorbo alone. You don’t understand him. You are doing him a disservice. Give him to me. I will treat him right. Not like that. I will write him better storylines.
Ellen: Please, please do. And then let us read them. Well apart from
Bex: I’ll put my soapbox away,
Ellen: apart from one part of this episode. I thought this was a really great episode, actually.
Bex: Oh, I, yeah. I really like this [02:02:00] episode. Apart from that scene and those implications and the stupid hoarder, Unabomber, dude, everything else.
Ellen: The dialogue was good. Like the excitement in the emergencies were good.
Bex: Yeah, it’s a good episode. Yeah. I mean, we kept, we kept Alice awake, so, you know, had be good.
Alice: That’s it. I, I am day I, eight days, 12 hours off my meds and I was awake and excited about this episode.
Ellen: Hooray. Who wrote this one? Is this
Bex: uh, somebody, Bob, is it our old friend Bob? Yes. Who wrote “Breaking Point”, “Treasure Hunt” and “Home and Away”.
Ellen: Okay.
Bex: But once again, we don’t know what goes on the writer’s room and like how much of what ended up on screen, how much the, the decisions that were made about what went in this episode were group efforts and how much of it was Bob?
Like, did [02:03:00] somebody else do the work and Bob just put his name on it? Did he do the whole thing? Who knows? I dunno.
Ellen: Don’t know that.
Bex: No.
Ellen: Uh, all right, well, what is gonna happen next week then?
Bex: Next week,
Ellen: more fun times?
Bex: We get Maddie back.
Ellen: Yay!
Alice: Wow. Spoilers
Bex: The summary literally says Chimney is determined to find a missing Maddie amongst the chaos of St. Patrick’s day.
Ellen: Doesn’t say he finds Maddie.
Alice: Yeah. Determined to find her. But he doesn’t. Yeah, doesn’t say he finds Maddie.
Bex: Is he gonna spend like, okay. Yes. Fine. Apologies. Spoilers.
Alice: It’s an entire episode where he, where he’s looking. It’s fine’s.
Ellen: You can spoil that, that I’m assuming that Maddie is actually gonna be in it.
Bex: It’s like, Where’s Waldo? Except as, where’s Maddie? And it’s 40 minutes of Chimney just weaving through crowds and peering under giant shamrock hat, looking for Maddie. Um, so, so it’s literally Chimney and Maddie next week ’cause it’s [02:04:00] set in Boston.
Alice: Yay. What’s the name of the episode?
Bex: “Boston”.
Alice: Boston. Oh. Oh my God. Are they gonna go watch some hockey?
No.
Ellen: No, they’re gonna celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
Bex: Um, yes. So St. Patrick’s Day in Boston, Chimney trying to find Maddie. I mean, eventually, eventually we had to get Chimney and Maddie back. Um, there’s only so many episodes that they’re probably willing to credit them and at some point Jennifer’s gotta come back to work. She’s probably going stir crazy, being at home with the kids.
And she’s looking at Brian going, Brian, you take them please. I need to go back and talk to some adults.
Ellen: Yes.
Alice: I haven’t said, what’s your emergency in so long.
Bex: Um, triggers for next week’s episode includes, uh, an alcoholic character who relapses, um, depiction of alcohol use. It’s St. Patrick’s Day in Boston.
Draw your own conclusions. [02:05:00] Um, depression, discussions of drunk driving, flashbacks to a childhood threat, depictions of therapy. Um, depictions of hospital intake slash inpatient treatment for mental health reasons. Um, needles and blood, uh, postpartum depression, suicide attempt, suicidal ideation, and probably the most important one, vomit.
Ellen: Oh my God. It’s quite a list.
Bex: It’s, it’s not a fun episode next week, as in there’s like,
Alice: but Maddie and Chimney are back, so it’s fine.
Bex: It’s Maddie and Chimney are back, but it’s like, it’s emotionally heavy and obviously like there’s no trucks being driven at 55 miles an hour through the streets of Boston.
Ellen: Okay.
Bex: But we do get an entire episode with just Kenneth Choi. Yay.
Alice: Yay!
Ellen: Hooray. Oh, I’ve missed him. Been missing.
Alice: I know, I know. Poor Kenny. Like, um, Jennifer Love [02:06:00] Hewitt has a baby and he also gets written out of the show.
Ellen: Yeah, he got a bit of a holiday.
Bex: At least he’s still getting paid. ’cause I mean, he’s credited in every single episode. So he’s still like, cashing in the checks.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: But yeah, he’s just forced to sit on the sidelines for a little bit. Maybe he did some other projects during this time, or maybe he worked on his break dancing. I don’t know.
Ellen: He break dances?
Bex: He break dances. Yes.
Alice: He’s
Bex: good too. You,
Alice: you have to tell him. He is good. You have to tell him.
Ellen: I feel like I need to look this up.
Alice: Okay. Hang on. I’m finding it. I’m finding it
Ellen: send me the link.
Bex: Kenny has been known to, to break dance, but there was a trend on, did you see the trend on TikTok was like, my boyfriend is going to show you his, something like really boring or really niche and you have to like really listen and pay attention and tell him he’s really good at it.
Um, so Jennifer and Kenneth did that and she’s like, my onscreen husband is gonna show you his break dancing and [02:07:00] you’re gonna watch it and you’re gonna like it and you’re gonna tell him he’s really good. Okay? And then, so Kenneth does his break dancing. Well, Jennifer’s sort of standing in the background, glaring at the camera and pointing, going, it’d be good.
It was a whole trend. It was hilarious.
Ellen: Yeah. Tell us what you thought about this episode. We’d love to hear your thoughts on. Tell us about Buck kissing the girl instead of Eddie.
Alice: Yeah. Did you like that? Yeah, I had a great time. I got to see Lucy bending over, um, Taylor looking mad,
Bex: shirtless Eddie before he turned into the Walking Dead.
Ellen: Lots of attractions in this episode.
Bex: Something for everyone.
Ellen: Um, but yes, please leave us comments, um, on the post, on thatweewooshow.com or in Spotify or YouTube or on social media, wherever you would like to get in touch with us, you can do that. Um, and thank you for listening this week, and we will talk to you next time about episode 12, which [02:08:00] is called “Boston”.
See you then.
Bex: Bye.
Alice: Bye.
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[first outtake]
Ellen: Okay, ready?
Alice: Yep.
Ellen: Are you sure?
Alice: There’s been a lot of Hudson content today. Okay.
Ellen: Yeah. It’s his birthday, right?
Alice: Uh, only just, [02:09:00] he went out like the night before his birthday, but it’s now after midnight and he’s still out, I assume ’cause content’s still coming.
Ellen: Oh, bless him.
Bex: He’s a quarter of a century. He’s allowed to celebrate.
Alice: Oh my God. Stop.
Ellen: Yeah. Why not? Yeah, he’s just a baby.
Bex: Literally what I said.
Alice: I feel like Leonardo DiCaprio like, except that like, I haven’t ditched him just ’cause he turned 25, so it’s fine.
Bex: Yes.
[second outtake]
Alice: Oh my God. Hang on, hang on. You can cut this out. I’m just gonna a tangent again. ’cause I, I just read, literally I finished it last night. I just read a Heated Rivalry, Wedding Crashers fic where Shane’s getting married and Ilya is like, no, I have to go confess my undying love.
And basically like it starts, um, with the All Star game where Shane goes to like, say, it’s not like this is nothing, uh, this is something, right. And instead of like actually [02:10:00] talking about it like they do in the show, uh, in the book show, book, whatever, um, Ilya goes “No, we’re nothing,” and like kicks Shane out and so they break up.
Um, and so, ’cause I hate the Wedding Crashers ’cause it’s just like, oh now like. Has Shane just been like, settling, like, what’s the go? Um, but, and I’m like, why did Ilya not reach out beforehand? But Ilya was trying to reach out and Shane was just so mad that he was ignoring it.
Bex: Wait, wait. Who is he marrying?
Alice: Some guy named Julian that they made up.
Bex: Oh, okay.
Alice: And he is literally like, he’s like a five years younger than Shane. Um, he’s just like very gay. And Shane literally gets into the first relationship, like the meets the, the first gay guy that he meets after retiring from hockey, um, hits on him and he’s like, yeah, that, that’ll do.
Bex: Okay. Post hockey. Um, I’m going, wait, Shane went from like panicking when Ilya kissed him, like on the rooftop when no one could see them to marrying very publicly, a very [02:11:00] openly gay men.
Alice: Yeah. No, it’s after they’ve all retired, so they’re like 35 or 36 or something like that. It’s like, well after. Yeah.
Bex: Okay.
Alice: Um, but yeah, so like post-retirement, he literally, I think he hires someone to do social media for his, um, for the charity and they happen to be gay and hit on him, take him out and he’s just like, yeah, this’ll do.
Like, it’s literally the first guy and like the whole thing is like how they’re fine, but they’re not actually like, like a good fit. Um, anyway, so Ilya sees the, like wedding, like one of his, um, friends shows him the wedding invite and was just like, oh, I didn’t even know that Shane, like Shane Hollander was gay and Ilya’s like, he’s fucking getting married.
What the fuck? And spirals and literally flies to the wedding. Um, anyway, the reason that I bring this up,
Bex: I’m waiting for the, the link. Yeah.
Alice: The reason I bring this up is because the night of the, so like he is there for like the pre-drinks, like the wedding rehearsal thing, and Shane’s just like, I should just tell him to leave.
Right? And Rose’s like, yeah, probably. Um, and then instead [02:12:00] somehow Hayden invites him to the bachelor party and they go to Shane’s cottage for the bachelor party.
Bex: What?
Alice: And the ride, like the, oh
Bex: Lord.
Alice: Yeah. They, um, and the bachelor party, it’s literally just them sitting around having barbecue. So like his fiance’s like going clubbing and like, you know, with all his gay friends and having this good time and Shane’s like, I just wanna go home and have a barbecue with Shane.
Uh, with Hayden and my friends. Um, and so Hayden invites Ilya and Shane’s like, what the fuck are you doing? And Hayden’s like, oh, Rose told me to. And she’s like, what the fuck? Like, why? And he’s like, it’s okay. Like Rose will be there. She’ll be able to stop me and Rose, because Svetlana comes with Ilya and um, Rose is like, oh, Sveta and I are gonna go out.
Um, so we’re not coming to the thing. And they just leave. And Shane’s like, oh fuck. Um, and so the entire time like Ilya gets there, he’s looking around the cottage because Shane’s totally ignoring him. Um, so he is looking around the cottage. He walks into Shane’s room. Hayden goes and yells at him, [02:13:00] and he spills his beer all over himself.
And so he takes off his shirt and starts like mopping it up and Shane walks in and just stares at him. And Hayden’s just like,
okay, then I’m just gonna leave. Um, then like some other stuff happens. They end up like going out in one of Shane’s boat, like in Shane’s little boat. On the lake.
Ellen: Okay. Wait, wait, wait.
Alice: The the loon call happens.
Ellen: Don’t get, don’t give it anything else away. Just throw us the link because I kind of wanna read it now and I don’t want spoilers,
Bex: I’m still waiting to see how you got from,
Alice: okay. So at the, so like, like Ilya falls in the lake, um, because he hears the loon and panics and falls in the lake. And so Shane’s like, go have a shower, I’ll leave you some clothes. Um, and so Ilya is in Shane’s clothes and he is just like, oh my God, this is the best. And Shane’s like, you need to fucking leave. And instead Ilya blows him, which is why I was like talking about it.
But the funniest thing is he like blows him downstairs and everyone else is just [02:14:00] upstairs. And then once Shane’s done, he gets post-nut clarity and is like, you need to fucking go. Like, what the fuck are you doing here? And like, loses it. So Ilya runs upstairs and everyone is just sitting around completely silently looking at Ilya like, yep. Heard all that.
Ellen: Oh no,
Alice: this is great. And they just all like, leave. They drive Ilya back to his hotel and all leave, and Shane comes upstairs and everyone’s gone. He is like, well, shit. Um, anyway, it was fucking funny
Bex: At no point during this tangent did I have any, any idea where that was going.
Alice: The best part is though, is that, um, ’cause the, the whole reason that I read it was because of this scene, because they were talking about it in the develop home, um, server, and they were just talking about how the ride, like the drive back would’ve been so fucking awkward because like, what do you like, like [02:15:00] what, what the fuck?
What, what do you do? Right. Um, and like they would’ve all just been sitting there. But the, the funniest part was that Ilya, um, like came when he was blowing Shane and then Shane kicked him the fuck out and so he’s literally like in the car with like holding his towel over his Yeah. With holding his towel over his lap.
And all of them are just like, Hm. Yep.
Ellen: This is super awkward.
Alice: This is, we’re just not gonna talk about it at all. Like, Nope, this is fine.
Ellen: Oh my God.
Alice: Oh, okay. I just found the, oh, fucking, I have to log in because it’s fucking logged me out. Um, but yeah, it was just, it was so funny. So yeah, totally un like you can cut all of that out because none of it’s relevant, but it just made me laugh so much. And I was reading it last night,
Ellen: that’s why I was trying to get the name of the fic so I can just chuck up the end of the episode, but actually tell people what the name of the fic is.
Alice: [02:16:00] Imagining, like Scott Hunter and, um, Kip and like Hayden and Jackie waking up the morning of the wedding. Like, is it happening? Are we going, do we just like,
Ellen: yeah.
Alice: What the fuck just happened?
Ellen: All right. If anyone’s looking for this fic, it’s called walking through windows. I’ll put a link in the thing. All right, back to the, back to what we were talking about before.
Bex: Back to the 118. Um,
Alice: back to Ravi, having been blown off, um, downstairs to the cottage. So, um,
Ellen: Oh that’s what we were talking about.
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