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Speaker 1:
[00:00] Surviving Reality contains explicit content full of snark and sarcasm that may not be suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

Speaker 2:
[00:14] Hello and welcome to Surviving Reality.

Speaker 1:
[00:16] I'm Corey.

Speaker 2:
[00:17] And I'm Carly, and we're back with Welcome to Plathville, season eight, episode four, That Dog Won't Hunt.

Speaker 1:
[00:26] Sure won't. Sure won't. I don't, I inadvertently sounded like Ethan Plath, didn't mean to kick things off like that. Oh no, that's scary. On such a somber note, losing all control now.

Speaker 2:
[00:39] You're starting to just permanently speak in that voice.

Speaker 3:
[00:42] That must be it.

Speaker 1:
[00:43] I was trying to work on a KK. Ken voice too while I was watching. There's not enough of a sample size for me to get a read.

Speaker 3:
[00:50] Not enough material.

Speaker 1:
[00:51] No. Yeah, because it's just, it is very straightforward and kind of mumbled a little bit.

Speaker 2:
[00:59] That's pretty good.

Speaker 1:
[01:00] That's pretty good for what we have to work with.

Speaker 2:
[01:02] You're only going to have to say two or three words at a time.

Speaker 1:
[01:05] Yeah, it's just very short sentences, very small. It's a lot of asking for clarification on things. It gets very confused very easily.

Speaker 2:
[01:14] What did you say?

Speaker 1:
[01:15] Oh, what? There's a lot of mumbling. That's where I'm at right now with it, but it's a work in progress, yeah.

Speaker 2:
[01:23] This is kind of a weird episode. No Lydia, no Zach, no Micah, no Moriah. What are we supposed to do?

Speaker 1:
[01:31] Honestly, I thought it was gonna be a little bit rougher to get through, but this was still a really good episode. We learned a lot. A lot of information, a lot of things happened that were definitely Mama Plath scripted, though. Like this is a writing credit needs to be given here.

Speaker 2:
[01:52] Kim's in the writing room.

Speaker 1:
[01:54] Oh yeah, she's in the writing room, she's in the editing bay, she's got everything worked out here. Yeah, top to bottom, start to finish.

Speaker 2:
[02:02] She's heavily influencing the storylines this episode.

Speaker 1:
[02:05] That's what's going on.

Speaker 2:
[02:07] Well, let's start off with a little Barry. This is a very heavy episode.

Speaker 1:
[02:13] There's a lot of Barry. Yeah, well, it's been a lot of Ethan this season. This episode was a lot of Barry though.

Speaker 2:
[02:19] They're like, we got to pad it with some other personalities.

Speaker 3:
[02:23] Bring up the mood with Barry Plath, Plath Daddy.

Speaker 1:
[02:28] No, no, no, Plath Daddy is for next week. Please don't, let's not start that any sooner than we have to. Oh God.

Speaker 2:
[02:36] So Barry's at the farm yet again. He seems to stop by on almost a daily basis.

Speaker 1:
[02:42] He must have stopped off at, you know, Tractor Supply Company or wherever he was at.

Speaker 2:
[02:48] He's got his oats.

Speaker 1:
[02:49] He's here with the oats. He's gonna sow his wild oats. Interesting, right?

Speaker 2:
[02:56] He already did that, been there, done that.

Speaker 1:
[02:58] It's for the horses and the cows.

Speaker 2:
[03:02] There was a weird pause after the horses and he was like, and the cows.

Speaker 3:
[03:08] And he had like a little smirk.

Speaker 1:
[03:10] He was legally obligated to mention the cows, I guess. That was at the best.

Speaker 2:
[03:15] I thought maybe there's a cow on the property that he was referencing.

Speaker 1:
[03:21] Oh.

Speaker 2:
[03:22] I won't say any more about that.

Speaker 1:
[03:23] Okay, okay.

Speaker 2:
[03:25] I just felt like it had a little sass. And I was like, where's that coming from?

Speaker 1:
[03:28] Barry's sass is...

Speaker 2:
[03:30] You never know.

Speaker 1:
[03:31] Incredibly veiled. Yeah, that is under the radar sass. You don't know what direction it's coming from. You can't, it's really tough to clock.

Speaker 2:
[03:42] He's like barely got the truck in park.

Speaker 1:
[03:45] Barely.

Speaker 3:
[03:47] And KK. Ken is already run out there to greet him.

Speaker 1:
[03:51] He's like nose pressed up against the window, waiting for Barry's arrival, sort of a thing.

Speaker 2:
[03:59] He's the family dog now.

Speaker 1:
[04:00] I guess that's kind of what he is. Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[04:02] KK.

Speaker 1:
[04:03] Ken's like a pet, a Kim pet.

Speaker 4:
[04:06] Yes.

Speaker 1:
[04:07] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[04:07] I do have a theory here. I don't think that Ken is just trying to be friendly. I feel that it's likely that Kim has put him to work. And part of his job is to guard the farm. And so when Barry shows up, he has to go see what Barry's doing because it seems like he takes some things with him when he leaves.

Speaker 1:
[04:29] Oh, okay.

Speaker 2:
[04:30] Like this is an ongoing problem.

Speaker 1:
[04:32] I was gonna say, yeah, KK. Ken's doing ocular pat downs, but similar to the racial profiling paper of like the skin color grades of Family Guy.

Speaker 3:
[04:45] Oh, the Family Guy meme.

Speaker 1:
[04:47] Where it was just how you can gauge if someone's a terrorist or not.

Speaker 2:
[04:51] Except Barry is very high on the list here.

Speaker 1:
[04:54] Barry is transparent white, so you're allowed. You're free range.

Speaker 2:
[04:58] He's allowed on the property, but I think that Kim has a most wanted list posted inside. And Barry's at the top.

Speaker 1:
[05:05] I don't think Ken got that memo. Not today. Because, okay, well, they start off with it's, it's all a lot of oats conversation at first. And where Barry's like, where do you want me to put this?

Speaker 2:
[05:15] Ken's like, I don't know.

Speaker 1:
[05:17] I don't really do stuff with the animals.

Speaker 2:
[05:18] When it comes to the animals, I'm kind of lost.

Speaker 1:
[05:20] I'm not allowed to help with that stuff, because I just mess it up.

Speaker 2:
[05:24] Come on. Not allowed.

Speaker 1:
[05:25] Weaponized incompetence?

Speaker 2:
[05:27] It feels like nothing has really changed here, where we're making the kids do all the work.

Speaker 1:
[05:32] Here's what I was going to say, was where it's not that Kim doesn't allow Ken to do the work. She expects him to help out around the farm, but he fucks stuff up so much that Mercy, Grace and Faith are like, no, don't try to assist us.

Speaker 2:
[05:49] Don't touch our things.

Speaker 1:
[05:50] Yeah, you're going to mess it up.

Speaker 2:
[05:52] Don't touch our animals.

Speaker 1:
[05:52] And don't do that. Don't do that, please. So Ken's clueless, but then he's feigning assistance here, where it's like.

Speaker 2:
[06:02] He's got to help Barry carry the bag of wild oats.

Speaker 1:
[06:05] It's like a 50 pound bag. From the truck. It's a huge bag of oats. And Barry just throws it up over his shoulder. He's like, yeah, tell me where you want me to put this thing. And it's like, what are we watching? What is going on?

Speaker 3:
[06:19] I did a corn start and we didn't know.

Speaker 1:
[06:22] Yeah. Is this something that Micah is going to guest appear in? We already confirmed he doesn't make an appearance.

Speaker 3:
[06:28] That's why he's not here. He's busy filming this. Barry got the script. He got confused with what Kim wrote in the writer's room.

Speaker 1:
[06:34] Too tempting. Yeah. Did somebody order a pizza with extra sausage? That's what Micah's line would be.

Speaker 2:
[06:43] Oh, God.

Speaker 3:
[06:44] I liked the oats better.

Speaker 1:
[06:45] The oats are better.

Speaker 2:
[06:49] So they're trying to make small talk with each other, but they have nothing in common.

Speaker 1:
[06:53] No.

Speaker 2:
[06:53] So there's not a lot of topics that they feel comfortable talking to one another about.

Speaker 1:
[06:58] Um, yeah, I mean, unless you're going to talk about how the south arise again or something like, I don't know what else they would speak on at this point. What other talking points?

Speaker 2:
[07:09] Barry's like, so how are you enjoying my old home?

Speaker 4:
[07:12] You settling in, okay?

Speaker 1:
[07:15] Enjoy my wife?

Speaker 3:
[07:19] Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1:
[07:20] A little bit of that.

Speaker 2:
[07:22] They're talking about dating. Is Barry got a new lady yet? I think, is Ken threatened? Is he worried that Barry might come back?

Speaker 1:
[07:29] Ken's an informant. Ken's trying, he's digging for dirt for Ken. So that Ken can know what's happening.

Speaker 2:
[07:38] She wanted to laugh at him. He's like, tell me, so Barry's still not dating, right?

Speaker 1:
[07:43] Of course not, because Barry's perfect, and he has to do everything by the book where we had to be officially divorced or whatever before he would start dating. It's making me look bad.

Speaker 2:
[07:55] I really just wish he would find some trashy girlfriend that all the kids hate.

Speaker 3:
[07:59] That'd be so much better for me.

Speaker 1:
[08:01] It would work out better in Kim's favor there, but yeah, they're just kind of muddling through this conversation. It's, this is where Barry's like, I don't know, he's asking me about my dating experience. Should I ask him, does he need any advice about Kim? Here's some stuff to look out for.

Speaker 2:
[08:19] I think Ken would take him up on that offer.

Speaker 1:
[08:21] I think Ken's willing to hear him out.

Speaker 2:
[08:23] Kim gets very mad at me.

Speaker 1:
[08:26] Kim?

Speaker 2:
[08:27] I'm surprised that came out of me.

Speaker 1:
[08:28] Kim? Kim's, she can tend to get a little, if she has a bottle, then it can get very upsetting very quickly.

Speaker 2:
[08:42] Now we find out the real motive for Barry being here, which is he wants the juicer that Kim used to love so much.

Speaker 1:
[08:49] Why, why does, when Barry's talking about juicing, why does it sound like a euphemism for something? He was like, oh, when me and Kim first got married, she was big into juicing, like-

Speaker 2:
[09:02] That's how she kept up her energy. They had nine children, 10 children originally.

Speaker 1:
[09:09] She's got to keep her strength.

Speaker 2:
[09:10] Never forget.

Speaker 1:
[09:11] Oh man.

Speaker 2:
[09:12] As you say, remember that appliance that Kim really looked forward to using every morning? I'm here to steal it.

Speaker 1:
[09:21] I'm here to claim that, yeah.

Speaker 2:
[09:23] I didn't get it in the divorce and it was rightfully mine.

Speaker 3:
[09:25] I bought it for her as a gift.

Speaker 1:
[09:27] But then also, Ken's like, oh yeah, that's been in the closet since we moved. I haven't touched that since we put that box on the shelf.

Speaker 2:
[09:35] In a cardboard box that says Juicer on it.

Speaker 1:
[09:38] Juicer. Yeah. Well, they have to go looking around for it in the kitchen, in the house.

Speaker 2:
[09:45] Good luck finding it.

Speaker 1:
[09:47] So you invited Barry in too.

Speaker 2:
[09:49] Did you see as they panned around like a vampire? You invited him in. That was the wrong thing to do.

Speaker 1:
[09:54] Oh, careful. Maybe say, I'll go take a look for it. You wait out here.

Speaker 2:
[09:59] It looks like a bomb went off inside the house.

Speaker 3:
[10:02] Well, there's just junk everywhere.

Speaker 1:
[10:05] It's Benegans, it's Applebee's. Well, yeah, Barry's asking Ken, how are you settling in? And he's like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. How are you, are you enjoying the estate? I don't know how else to ask this to clarify.

Speaker 2:
[10:20] The plantation, you mean?

Speaker 1:
[10:21] The, yeah, I mean, we're still looking for, you know, I'm trying to get all my stuff in here and settle in. How much more stuff does this guy have to get settled in?

Speaker 2:
[10:31] Oh, all of the racist figurines, Ken wouldn't let him put out.

Speaker 1:
[10:36] It's a lot of folk art.

Speaker 3:
[10:37] They're in storage somewhere.

Speaker 2:
[10:39] You know they exist though.

Speaker 1:
[10:40] That is going to be a really awkward unit to sell on Storage Wars. The way you just stumble upon, it's just a whole bunch of racist memorabilia inside of this thing.

Speaker 2:
[10:52] So Barry's got the juicer under his arm. He's like, you know what? Play me out. Play a song for me on the jukebox.

Speaker 1:
[10:58] I'm done here. My work is done. Yeah. But what do you got? Oh, some Neil Diamond. Didn't expect Barry to be a Neil Diamond fan.

Speaker 2:
[11:07] No, no.

Speaker 1:
[11:07] No, didn't clock that.

Speaker 2:
[11:09] Yeah. They resist the urge to dance together though.

Speaker 1:
[11:11] Well, it wasn't working at first. It took a couple of tries and then it was like, oh, now it's working.

Speaker 2:
[11:16] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[11:17] But they couldn't play, they couldn't pay for the rights for a Neil Diamond song. Are you crazy? No.

Speaker 2:
[11:22] Oh, so you actually looked and saw what they turned it to?

Speaker 1:
[11:25] No, he said Neil Diamond. He was like impressed. He called out. He said, oh, you got Neil Diamond. So I think that's what he was trying to play. I don't know what song, but probably Sweet Caroline.

Speaker 4:
[11:34] Yeah, that's not the song we got.

Speaker 3:
[11:36] They're just standing there listening to Sweet Caroline.

Speaker 4:
[11:39] Bomp, bomp, bomp.

Speaker 1:
[11:43] Guess this juicer will be mine.

Speaker 4:
[11:47] So good.

Speaker 3:
[11:50] All right, we leave them there.

Speaker 1:
[11:52] Yeah, get out of here.

Speaker 2:
[11:53] Ethan's back.

Speaker 1:
[11:54] Oh no, but he's leaving Cairo for good this time.

Speaker 2:
[11:58] Okay, did you notice there's been just change in his mood instantly?

Speaker 1:
[12:03] Really? I didn't pick up on that. Didn't clock that.

Speaker 2:
[12:06] I feel like the anger that was simmering under the surface has kind of settled down a bit.

Speaker 1:
[12:10] Yeah, because he has a plan now.

Speaker 2:
[12:11] He has a plan for the future.

Speaker 1:
[12:13] But is it going to work? Is it going to be successful? Time will tell. Time will tell on that.

Speaker 2:
[12:20] So we're at Russell's Military Vehicles, which...

Speaker 1:
[12:24] Russell.

Speaker 2:
[12:25] Feels Russell, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[12:26] Yeah, well like...

Speaker 2:
[12:27] Feels very on the nose for a place for Ethan to work.

Speaker 1:
[12:31] And Russell is quite the character who we met because we haven't seen him on the show before.

Speaker 2:
[12:36] No, no, no.

Speaker 1:
[12:37] So this is a new introduction.

Speaker 3:
[12:38] This is a temporary job for Ethan.

Speaker 2:
[12:40] One that he won't report to the IRS.

Speaker 1:
[12:42] He is... Yeah, he's very loosey goosey with the employment. His 1099 status. Yeah, he's usually trying not to get on the books anywhere. And then Russell is basically finding out that, yes, this is his retirement plan at this point, is Ethan Plath. Ethan Plath knows a thing or two about fixing up old cars and old vehicles. So this is the only person in Cairo with the possibility of him handing this business over to this person so that Russell can retire. Like that is his only goal at this point.

Speaker 2:
[13:19] I don't think that he wants to give him the business or even sell the business to him. I think he wants Ethan to continue to run it so that he could take the majority of the profits and then not show up to work anymore.

Speaker 1:
[13:32] Yes, that's the golden parachute.

Speaker 2:
[13:35] Still not compromise on the quality of craftsmanship that takes place.

Speaker 1:
[13:39] You're the only person in this state who has the same standard and quality of work as me. And so you're the only person I would trust with my business at this point. But Ethan's just like, ah, I don't know. I'm chasing down a pair of opportunities here.

Speaker 2:
[14:01] The cowboy pillows are in Wisconsin.

Speaker 3:
[14:04] And so we're traveling up there. He's got his heart set.

Speaker 1:
[14:07] We gotta take this dog and pony show on the road. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[14:10] He wants to be with Teegan now. He's decided.

Speaker 1:
[14:13] He has decided. It's true. Yes. Even though they haven't stayed in touch, he doesn't really know how she's doing or what she feels about him. But he decided that he wants to be with her. So he's gonna go and show up in Wisconsin and just be with her because that's what normal, sane people do.

Speaker 3:
[14:36] It's such a crazy plan.

Speaker 1:
[14:37] This is insane.

Speaker 2:
[14:40] Like, it's deluded in a way that made me very uncomfortable because it implies that she has no choice in this.

Speaker 1:
[14:48] Correct. Yes. We were talking about this on the Discord a little bit, too, is just the way that these Plath boys will throw away and discard their partners along the way and then just decide, because it's the same thing that Isaac's doing right now, too. Broke up with Kaylynn. Oh, I think I made a mistake. I'm feeling bad about that. Guess I'll just take her back. Okay, that's not really how that works. You don't just get to unilaterally decide that you're going to be back together now. This is a big problem.

Speaker 2:
[15:20] I think that's Ethan's plan.

Speaker 1:
[15:22] That is the plan. He's relying solely on that this is his decision, and once he shows up, that ought to do it, because the whole reason we broke up, in his mind, the entire reason that they broke up was because he kept saying he was going to move to Wisconsin, but then he never did. So, because of what you have done. But like...

Speaker 3:
[15:43] I have a feeling that wasn't the only reason.

Speaker 1:
[15:45] I get the feeling that that's what it kind of boiled down to and what she was able to express to him. I'm sure there were a couple other things on the list of reasons why maybe we're not a great fit.

Speaker 2:
[15:58] After the Behavior last season, could have been some red flags.

Speaker 1:
[16:02] Could have been a couple things. Couple other things, some character type flaws, blind spots.

Speaker 2:
[16:08] Another red flag is that he still has a receipt from one of their dates in his wallet. He just carries it around so that he can look at it.

Speaker 1:
[16:16] Well, I mean...

Speaker 2:
[16:17] Russell was like, why do you have this? And he was like, sometimes I take it out and I'll look at it.

Speaker 1:
[16:22] To remember how much I've invested in her.

Speaker 2:
[16:25] But they've been broken up.

Speaker 1:
[16:26] Yeah. Well, I mean, like they have photos. He had some photos.

Speaker 2:
[16:30] The $32 he spent at Applebee's. The real Applebee's, not KK. Ken's house.

Speaker 1:
[16:35] I don't know, maybe they accidentally did. It's a mama plath. Kim just put down a square card reader on the table, and sometimes people swipe their debit cards and it clears.

Speaker 2:
[16:48] Non-refundable.

Speaker 1:
[16:49] Yeah. I don't know. That's where it goes.

Speaker 4:
[16:51] We charge for the drinks here.

Speaker 1:
[16:53] It drops and we are recharged by the bottle.

Speaker 2:
[16:55] There's no happy hour either.

Speaker 1:
[16:56] It's the only option.

Speaker 2:
[16:57] I mean, it's always happy hour, but there's no discounted drinks.

Speaker 1:
[17:00] Yes, right.

Speaker 2:
[17:01] Of course.

Speaker 1:
[17:02] Exactly, definitely. I mean, I'm not as worried about that so much as the just randomly showing up several states away popping up. That's not really like a surprise sort of thing to do. Not a good surprise for an ex to just show up a couple of states.

Speaker 2:
[17:20] Another great example of things that Olivia complained about in her marriage, where that's a conversation that two people have together, right? That's communication in a relationship.

Speaker 3:
[17:32] Somebody faces.

Speaker 2:
[17:34] We're not doing that.

Speaker 1:
[17:35] We don't like that. We don't like that. Don't like the sound of that. Sounds like a whole bunch of uncomfortable stuff. Don't want to be talking about it. I don't want to be expressing my feelings and all that and just, you know, now that I'm thinking about it too, I don't want to tell my family that I'm moving either because I don't want anybody to try and change my mind. So I'm just going to tell Russell and just give that as my reason of why I can't take over his business currently.

Speaker 2:
[18:01] He's only telling Russell because he has to let him know he's not going to show up to work.

Speaker 1:
[18:04] Right. Yeah. And Russell's like, so you're moving to Wisconsin for a girl and she doesn't know you're moving up there, huh? Yeah, that's correct. That's the plan. And Russell's like, I'll see you in a couple months. And like, I'll be here when you get back. You just let me know.

Speaker 2:
[18:22] Although I've got a lot of potential buyers lined up who might buy the business from right out under you while you're gone.

Speaker 1:
[18:27] No, he's been turning away business at this point. That's what he's been making very clear, is that, yeah, it's actually so lucrative right now. It's the best time to get in. But he's just going to have to wait until Ethan breaks his own heart. And then, yeah, we're going to give it some time to have him settle back down in Cairo, because it doesn't really seem like this guy's got a plan. I think Russell is able to get that read on Ethan pretty quick.

Speaker 2:
[18:53] And he'll have to wait until after this commercial break.

Speaker 4:
[18:58] Matchmaker, matchmaker, find me, make me a match.

Speaker 2:
[19:03] I got excited.

Speaker 1:
[19:04] Oh, man.

Speaker 2:
[19:05] And then I got nervous a little bit, because I was singing.

Speaker 1:
[19:07] Oh, OK.

Speaker 2:
[19:07] And that's really not my best.

Speaker 1:
[19:09] Some stage fright there.

Speaker 2:
[19:09] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[19:10] Yeah, kicks in.

Speaker 2:
[19:11] I'm although better than the wig last week.

Speaker 1:
[19:13] Oh, OK, yeah, I guess so.

Speaker 2:
[19:16] Still embarrassed.

Speaker 1:
[19:17] It's always right after the ad breaks, too. It's how that happens.

Speaker 2:
[19:20] It was so bad. Like it was sliding back on my head for so long. Thank you for waiting until it was about to go over the other side, to tell me.

Speaker 1:
[19:32] We got there, eventually. Yeah, it happened.

Speaker 2:
[19:36] So Barry is struggling to join a video call with Renee, which is matchmaker, matchmaker, match me a Plath, maybe.

Speaker 1:
[19:43] Oh, there you go. But don't do that. But yeah, this is going to be this is Renee. She's a professional at this. I don't know if anybody who nobody can be prepared to interact with Barry Plath for an extended period of time.

Speaker 2:
[19:58] No, he's like he's always pretending to be a human.

Speaker 1:
[20:03] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[20:03] Doesn't he have alien energy?

Speaker 1:
[20:05] He's so close to getting caught, too. Like he's always on the verge of being found out or he has to like retract everything.

Speaker 3:
[20:12] I feel like we're watching Third Rock from the Sun. The big giant head is going to be reporting.

Speaker 1:
[20:20] Oh, my God. Yes, that makes so much sense now. Incoming message from the big giant head.

Speaker 3:
[20:29] You had to wait to join the call a few minutes until that was over. That transmission ended.

Speaker 2:
[20:35] So he's on a five on the scale of where are you in terms of looking for a committed relationship?

Speaker 1:
[20:43] The scale was one to 10. It wasn't like out of 100 or anything.

Speaker 2:
[20:46] You're like in the middle.

Speaker 1:
[20:47] He's in the middle.

Speaker 2:
[20:48] It feels like maybe we're not ready to pay a matchmaking service.

Speaker 1:
[20:53] No, I think this is, he's looking for like dating experience is what Barry's trying to get, but he didn't know how to say that. I think he was trying to say, I just got out of a divorce, we were married for such a long time. Barry hasn't really dated, so I don't think he wants to jump in right to committed relationship at this point.

Speaker 2:
[21:13] Like he makes all of his children do?

Speaker 1:
[21:15] Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:
[21:16] Okay, we're not going down that route.

Speaker 1:
[21:18] No, no, no, no. He's in a different-

Speaker 2:
[21:19] Rules for thee, not for me.

Speaker 1:
[21:20] A different phase of life for Barry Plath. Yes, this is very different. But don't start picking at the, what happened with that divorce? Like how did that marriage come to an end?

Speaker 2:
[21:32] How did most of this turn into event session for Barry to talk about how terrible Kim was? He's supposed to be talking about his ideal partner and the future.

Speaker 1:
[21:44] Which you learn-

Speaker 2:
[21:46] Is not Kim.

Speaker 1:
[21:46] Kim was not an ideal partner. So examples being, here's not the great stuff. I'm trying to go for like the opposite of these things. Someone who's like more nurturing, maybe not so like-

Speaker 2:
[22:02] Alpha. No more alpha females for me.

Speaker 1:
[22:05] Alpha females.

Speaker 2:
[22:07] Did that, not into it.

Speaker 1:
[22:09] Not into it, yeah.

Speaker 2:
[22:10] He's looking for a Lydia. Sweet, nurturing, will take care of my kids and the animals on the farm.

Speaker 1:
[22:16] A mama. Baby Barry needs a mama. Cause as much as he wants to be known as Plath Daddy next week, he sounds like a baby this week, where it's like, what are we needing? You need nurturing? You need to be nurtured, sir?

Speaker 2:
[22:36] I'd really like to be breastfed again. But with kombucha.

Speaker 1:
[22:41] Like father, like son.

Speaker 2:
[22:46] So he is reflecting though on why his marriage failed. And Kim gave him some feedback. She felt like she didn't really have a voice in her relationship with him, which is confusing because he's also saying, I want someone who's not overly controlling.

Speaker 1:
[23:04] Yeah. Manipulative. I'm not into that anymore. Not attracted to that anymore.

Speaker 2:
[23:10] I'm exceptionally put off by manipulation now.

Speaker 1:
[23:14] Now. Not then. Not when I was raising a family and having all these children and stuff. No, I was kind of into manipulation at that point.

Speaker 2:
[23:24] Yeah. It was titillating at the time.

Speaker 1:
[23:26] I've changed my mind now. I've changed my ways, so to speak. Yeah. Looking for something else.

Speaker 2:
[23:32] I am excited to see the rules that Barry will have in the house once he has a new person in here.

Speaker 1:
[23:40] You mean an olive skinned Sandra Bullock? Is the description. Specifically from Speed era.

Speaker 2:
[23:48] So early 90s.

Speaker 1:
[23:50] She's done so many other things since Speed. Barry's still on Speed, Sandra Bullock? Was that, that was like, oh, well that, was that before or after Sleepless in Seattle?

Speaker 2:
[24:04] I have a feeling that was some spank bank material.

Speaker 1:
[24:06] Oh no.

Speaker 3:
[24:07] For Barry Plath.

Speaker 1:
[24:08] There was an awakening that happened when Barry went to, snuck in to see Speed in the movie theater in Tallahassee and didn't tell anybody he was going. He just went on one of his business trips while he was in Florida and just snuck in to a movie and that's what he watched.

Speaker 2:
[24:25] The matchmaker literally laughed at him when he said Sandra Bullock.

Speaker 1:
[24:30] Sandra Bullocks.

Speaker 2:
[24:31] Sandra Bullocks.

Speaker 1:
[24:32] You mean? Yes, of course. Definitely.

Speaker 2:
[24:35] That's an inside joke. So she's going to need to win all nine of his kid's hearts, be the nurturing mother he never had.

Speaker 1:
[24:48] Yeah, that's what he's looking at. He's asking for this.

Speaker 2:
[24:51] And make him jealous because she is everything, him is not.

Speaker 1:
[24:54] And if we can go a little bit more, yeah, specifically like Olive Skin to make KK Ken uncomfortable too.

Speaker 3:
[25:02] So like that's the real win.

Speaker 1:
[25:04] That's how we're going to get this to to really set the tone. I think that's what he's going for here is to just make everybody uncomfortable in ways that no one wants to say.

Speaker 2:
[25:15] Did he think there was an Olive Skinned Sandra Bullock in Montana?

Speaker 1:
[25:20] I guess. That's what, yeah, he was going to try that out, I suppose. I don't know how many speed scenarios you're going to run into in Montana, though, where you have to keep the bus over 50 miles an hour type of things. Yeah, I don't think you're going to run into that too often.

Speaker 2:
[25:37] They've only got to do that in the bedroom.

Speaker 1:
[25:39] I guess. Yeah, you got to.

Speaker 2:
[25:40] Not on the real streets.

Speaker 1:
[25:41] Don't stop.

Speaker 2:
[25:47] Barry, Plath Daddy in the Sheets, Speed in the Streets? No.

Speaker 1:
[25:51] No.

Speaker 2:
[25:51] OK, let's move on to Kim.

Speaker 1:
[25:53] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[25:54] OK.

Speaker 3:
[25:54] She's very uncomfortable.

Speaker 2:
[25:56] Kim is hanging out with Isaac because she's got to get Kaylynn back in the picture.

Speaker 1:
[26:02] At first, we didn't know what was happening, though, because we're just.

Speaker 3:
[26:04] There's a lot of grunting.

Speaker 1:
[26:06] There's a lot. I wasn't sure if this was like. You know, we kind of went into like nature documentary mode, where it was like bears coming out of hibernation, where there's just like trees shaking and there's a lot of grunting and groaning. And I didn't know. I didn't know what was going on. We didn't have a good idea yet, but then then the scene takes shape here. It's Kim and Isaac. They're out in the woods just pushing over dead trees. That's one of Kim's pastimes on the property here. She enjoys doing that because...

Speaker 2:
[26:41] It's a good way to get out all your rage.

Speaker 1:
[26:43] Okay, yeah.

Speaker 2:
[26:44] Something she could have sent Ethan to do during the wedding.

Speaker 1:
[26:46] Oh, but yeah, no.

Speaker 2:
[26:49] It's satisfying to feel this dead hunk of hard wood fall on the ground.

Speaker 1:
[26:58] It's unsettling. It's unsettling. The attraction to death that both Kim and Barry have.

Speaker 2:
[27:05] I think that's what drew them together originally.

Speaker 1:
[27:07] Yeah, but then it's like, I don't like where this is going. I don't like what we're learning from this. It's just, there's a darkness to it and I'm scared.

Speaker 2:
[27:18] There's more to this story about the whole breakup because Kim was kind of a witness to it in a way, because Kaylynn, I guess Isaac invited her over to Barry's house and then broke up with her there. And as Kaylynn was leaving, Kim was coming in to drop off the girls' and she saw her crying and they had a little exchange and she called her afterwards and they spent hours on the phone confiding in one another, talking to each other.

Speaker 1:
[27:47] Barry probably told her, hey, Kaylynn's like an emotional mess and I know you eat that shit up, so you better get over here quick.

Speaker 2:
[27:56] Kim saw an opportunity.

Speaker 1:
[27:57] And Kim was like, savoring it.

Speaker 2:
[28:01] I'm gonna suck the life force out of her.

Speaker 1:
[28:04] Oh no, did Isaac break up with you? That's so terrible. Why don't you call me and tell me everything that happened, every excruciating detail.

Speaker 2:
[28:14] Why would she do that and mention it on the show? Because both Olivia and Veronica have talked about how Kim used to do things like that with them.

Speaker 1:
[28:23] Yes, this should be a red flag for Kaylynn.

Speaker 2:
[28:25] They thought, what a great relationship I have with Kim, until she eventually turned on them.

Speaker 1:
[28:31] Right. Well, and then here's the reasoning from that, is through that conversation that she had with Kaylynn, Kaylynn's main thing was just, oh, make sure Isaac's okay. And Kim's like, that's a great woman right there, who's just zero concern.

Speaker 2:
[28:46] I won't do that.

Speaker 1:
[28:47] Zero concern about her own well-being, and just the man who just did something terrible to her, she's more worried about how he's doing instead.

Speaker 2:
[28:57] She waited like a week to talk to Isaac about it.

Speaker 1:
[29:02] So it's like.

Speaker 2:
[29:02] He's been distraught. He's questioning whether he made the right decision or not. He's thinking she's never gonna get back with him again. He just ended a relationship that could have been his lifelong love.

Speaker 1:
[29:11] Yeah, because Kim's like, oh yes, are you suffering, Isaac? Are you in distress right now? Why don't you come push some trees with me?

Speaker 3:
[29:21] Just take a walk with me through the woods with your despair.

Speaker 1:
[29:25] Maybe, maybe something will, you know, will knock something loose here and we'll make an emotional breakthrough.

Speaker 2:
[29:31] I found it really disturbing that Kim thought that that was such a great thing, that Kaylynn was able to put her own feelings aside and be primarily concerned for the feelings of Isaac, who just broke her heart and hurt her.

Speaker 1:
[29:48] Yes.

Speaker 3:
[29:48] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[29:49] Yucky. Don't like that.

Speaker 2:
[29:51] I think that's great.

Speaker 1:
[29:52] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[29:52] I think it's great that she will always put your feelings above her own.

Speaker 1:
[29:56] Yes.

Speaker 2:
[29:57] That's the woman you should marry.

Speaker 1:
[29:58] Especially when you're the one fucking up, too.

Speaker 2:
[30:01] Right.

Speaker 1:
[30:01] That was the main...

Speaker 2:
[30:02] You hurt her and then she says, please do more.

Speaker 1:
[30:06] Oh, that's okay. That's okay. I hope you're okay because I'm okay. Right. I'm glad we have it documented now on camera that Kim's a big fan of Kaylynn because I'm sure there's going to come a point where she's not going to be a fan of Kaylynn. Now we get to see that she's real on board and that this is a good idea. I think, Isaac, I think you made a mistake. Maybe you should work to rectify that in some way, shape, or form. This is where Kim starts letting us know a bunch of relationship advice that she has now too.

Speaker 2:
[30:44] She's changed her perspective on a lot of things when it comes to dating and the kids.

Speaker 1:
[30:48] She's really on board with a lot of stuff that you wouldn't suspect that she would based on season one. Season one, Kim Plath, I don't think she'd be part of this conversation.

Speaker 2:
[30:58] Well, she's having sex before marriage now, so now it's okay for the kids to have sex before marriage.

Speaker 1:
[31:02] It's okay. That's okay now.

Speaker 2:
[31:04] Also, she ended up with Olivia and Zach that way, so.

Speaker 1:
[31:07] She didn't like how that ended up. Yeah, because then that was something where it was, it was a disconnect that she had with Lydia and Zach, and that's not something that we can agree upon here. So I think it's okay if you guys are banging before marriage. Barry's not going to be happy about that, but I'm cool with it.

Speaker 3:
[31:24] That's an extra plus, though.

Speaker 1:
[31:25] Yes, yes. She's using this to her advantage.

Speaker 3:
[31:27] I'm the cool mom.

Speaker 1:
[31:28] She knows that Barry would not sign off on this, so she's trying to sign off on this as soon as possible.

Speaker 2:
[31:35] Also, I think that she's trying to connect this back to the reason why Isaac broke up with Kaylynn, which is that he was just having an entire conversation in his own head, where he thought that because she's like two and a half years older than him or something, that she wanted to get married soon, even though she never said that.

Speaker 1:
[31:53] Yeah, there was no pressure that was being applied, but Isaac felt like it was passive aggressive and manipulative and controlling. I wonder where he got all of that from, where it was just.

Speaker 2:
[32:07] Why he'd view women that way?

Speaker 1:
[32:09] Yeah, and just by her saying something that she would like to work towards. Yeah, work towards in the relationship and seeing that as a destination that they could work towards together in their relationship and how things were going and what she's excited about and those types of positive things. And then he took that as she is just weighing me down, she is holding me back from spreading my wild oats about town, which again, I think Isaac kind of realized, because Kim kind of talks about this whole with the grass is always greener advice that Kim goes into her whole spiel where it's like, sometimes you got to make that mistake where you got to say that you thought that the grass is greener on the other side, then you go look and then maybe it's not so good. And then you got to come back.

Speaker 2:
[33:05] You end up with a KK. Ken and you lose a lot of your assets.

Speaker 1:
[33:10] I think that this was Kim soft launching a breakup with. She's talking herself through the process of like, yeah, sometimes you think being married to Barry, it's miserable, it's terrible, life can't get any worse. And then you start dating KK. Ken and then you think.

Speaker 4:
[33:28] And you got all these jukeboxes hanging around.

Speaker 1:
[33:31] He comes with a lot of knickknacks, this guy, okay? So.

Speaker 2:
[33:35] And he's kind of useless, which I think she likes in a way, because it's like she can boss him around, but he's not as useful as Barry is.

Speaker 1:
[33:43] Right, yeah, it's, there is a mindless obedience that is a quality that Kim can appreciate in.

Speaker 2:
[33:56] Smaller doses?

Speaker 1:
[33:57] Yeah, like it needs to be maybe not as abundant as what Ken is willing to.

Speaker 2:
[34:04] It's like she's playing the Sims, and she's like, okay, you need to like have a little bit of will of your own.

Speaker 1:
[34:10] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[34:11] I mean, I can't tell you literally everything that you do all day long. You can't just stand in the corner of the living room and wait for my direction.

Speaker 1:
[34:20] Maybe. Maybe. Maybe he's good.

Speaker 2:
[34:24] We'll see if that happens after this commercial break. We're still back to dating because Barry finished that conversation with the matchmaker and part of it was his homework and he has to go back to the girls and tell them that he's going to date, got a soft launch, his dating life, and then find out what they're looking for in a new mommy.

Speaker 1:
[34:47] Oh, okay. Yeah. Maybe. I don't know. Like, is that what we should have talked about before? Like when he was doing the whole questionnaire thing? I guess, whatever.

Speaker 2:
[34:55] What the kids need is secondary.

Speaker 1:
[34:58] True. Okay. So, Live, Laugh, and Love are knitting on the couch as Barry is choking in with them.

Speaker 4:
[35:04] Can we find a creepier thing for them to do?

Speaker 2:
[35:07] First, we had them singing for all those seasons. Now, they're knitting?

Speaker 1:
[35:11] They were singing last week. Yeah. Just in the last episode.

Speaker 2:
[35:15] They're keeping those knitting needles close by because they're going to use them as weapons.

Speaker 1:
[35:19] They're sharpening them secretly. Just in case.

Speaker 2:
[35:23] Just in case KK Ken gets any ideas.

Speaker 1:
[35:26] Gets a little handsy, a little frisky, sort of breaches a perimeter here. He's going to end up with a needle in his eye. They're ready to go. Yeah. That's what's going to happen.

Speaker 2:
[35:35] So they're doing that. Then he's talking to them about how he's working with a dating service, which they're confused because what's that?

Speaker 4:
[35:43] You mean an app?

Speaker 1:
[35:44] Yeah. It's what is this? He's like, no, no, no. It's a professional matchmaker. It's a person.

Speaker 2:
[35:52] It's an elite dating service.

Speaker 1:
[35:53] It's a human experience that I'm paying for. That's what's happening.

Speaker 2:
[35:57] I don't know if you've ever seen Millionaire Matchmaker, but it's kind of like that.

Speaker 1:
[36:03] It's nothing like that. What apps would Barry be on though if he were going to be on one of the many Garak Merrifield big Brazilian butted women? All of those. Probably those. Yeah, probably. You think so? Is that the type? Maybe.

Speaker 2:
[36:25] I could see him accidentally getting on a polydating app and not knowing.

Speaker 1:
[36:29] Oh, well, that could be interesting. That'd be a crossover that we're not ready for. I guess we'll have to see who he's talking to at CrossFit next week, and then we'll see.

Speaker 2:
[36:38] There's a lot of willing people there. A lot of women raising their hands to be like, I will be your olive skinned Sandra Bullock.

Speaker 1:
[36:48] No, no, not good, not good. So Barry's type that he's looking for is inconsequential at this point. We're asking Live, Laugh and Love, what do you want in Barry's partner?

Speaker 2:
[37:02] I like how this started off with the girls saying things that were their own interests that they want to see in another person, and then it devolved into them just complaining about Ken, basically.

Speaker 1:
[37:15] Well, they've learned that that's an appropriate topic, appropriate segment of conversation that you can, a safe part of the conversation that you can go in.

Speaker 2:
[37:23] So olive skinned Sandra Bullock needs to like 80s music and country music. She has to have a good sense of humor, like water activities, be good at math because they have a lot of math homework and no one else in the house is good at that, I assume. And then she has to be a good communicator with a motherly side to her and no coffee breath.

Speaker 1:
[37:45] That'd be like dream team, I think. That's like a dream scenario that would happen.

Speaker 2:
[37:51] A motherly side to her.

Speaker 1:
[37:53] A motherly side.

Speaker 2:
[37:54] We don't need her to be motherly all of the time. Like Lydia was too much, she smothered us.

Speaker 1:
[37:58] Oh, right. Yeah. Not smother, mother. Yeah. That's what we're looking for here.

Speaker 2:
[38:03] Maybe Barry will end up on smothered.

Speaker 3:
[38:07] It's a crossover we need.

Speaker 1:
[38:10] So I think Barry's looking for someone to smother.

Speaker 2:
[38:15] Him. To be smothered by him.

Speaker 1:
[38:18] Eventually.

Speaker 2:
[38:19] I think he's into it going both ways.

Speaker 1:
[38:20] Yeah. Yeah. I think that's what's happening. I think that's what we're slowly getting. We're getting closer to that. Reaching that point in the case, I suppose. That's what's gonna happen next.

Speaker 2:
[38:34] Kim is working on her revenge body. Because she's starting a weight loss journey.

Speaker 1:
[38:41] Right.

Speaker 2:
[38:43] This entire scene was scripted. You agree?

Speaker 1:
[38:46] Yeah. I was just worried when she started drawing on that chalkboard that we were gonna get another foot.

Speaker 2:
[38:51] I was glad to see it was a checklist.

Speaker 1:
[38:56] It was like a weekly schedule checklist.

Speaker 2:
[38:59] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[39:00] Checking off the box of what-

Speaker 2:
[39:02] Making sure she's getting her physical activity in.

Speaker 1:
[39:05] What movements have been done for the day, I suppose, is what she was going with there.

Speaker 2:
[39:12] Now we get to see her bounce on a tiny trampoline, which I guess is called a rebounder because that was on her list.

Speaker 1:
[39:18] Oh. Okay.

Speaker 2:
[39:20] And then she swings the kettlebell around a little bit and remembers what it was like to have a ballet bar in the house.

Speaker 1:
[39:27] Yeah. TBD, because Barry made me a ballet bar. Remember the dance studio a couple of seasons back? Right.

Speaker 2:
[39:34] Remember when she said that he made her a ballet bar for the house, but then forgot the whole part when he bought her a whole dance studio. That she then lived above, I guess ran into the ground.

Speaker 1:
[39:44] Ran into the ground. Well, there was an apartment above it too, that that was like her first mum spring, a pad that she was crashing at there.

Speaker 2:
[39:51] Well, that's how she stole it to be part of her Airbnb empire. She just moved in and then listed it.

Speaker 1:
[39:57] Now pretends like it doesn't exist, because it's just dropped off the asset list. Barry forgot about it too, because he was just like, oh, yeah, I didn't even realize that that was still a thing.

Speaker 2:
[40:06] Well, there's no business underneath it anymore, so.

Speaker 1:
[40:08] Right, yeah. So it's going to be, you know, I'm sure KK Ken would be able to find a couple of studs in the wall. We can get that anchored pretty good.

Speaker 3:
[40:16] She seemed doubtful though, didn't she?

Speaker 2:
[40:19] She's like, this is why I let Barry come around to the farm still. He might have to hang the ballet bar up for me again.

Speaker 1:
[40:25] Because I certainly am not going to be doing that. So yeah, it's not going to happen on my watch. No, definitely not.

Speaker 2:
[40:34] And then she's sitting on the ground and she starts reminiscing about how much she used to love juicing. It was her passion. She loved making celery and ginger juice. You know what? Where's my juicer? I'm going to go get that. I'm going to get that out. I think we're going to use it. I'm going to get back into juicing.

Speaker 1:
[40:55] If you're, okay, if you're going for weight loss, juicing's not really the way to go, right? Because you're just drinking.

Speaker 2:
[41:03] You're just drinking all the sugar.

Speaker 1:
[41:05] Okay, I know, but you're just drinking all the sugar, but you're not getting like any of the fiber or the.

Speaker 2:
[41:09] No, I think if you put the skin in, you still are.

Speaker 1:
[41:12] But most of the time, the juicers, depending on the juicer, it like filters out all the pulp. It's juicing. It's just taking the juice out of the fruit.

Speaker 2:
[41:19] I don't want this to be our next red velvet cake.

Speaker 1:
[41:22] From my understanding, I've watched plenty. Okay, are you ready for my expertise on this? I've watched countless hours of the.

Speaker 4:
[41:32] You can't even say it.

Speaker 1:
[41:34] Of the Jack LaLanne Power Juicer infomercial, you guys. So yeah, if you're asking for credentials, you're welcome.

Speaker 3:
[41:43] Was that the juicer she had?

Speaker 1:
[41:45] Probably, I don't know. I didn't get a good look at it, because it was just in a crudely labeled box. So then that way it was just, yeah, Sharpie on a brown cardboard box. I don't know. I don't know what's going on in there.

Speaker 2:
[41:58] To be fair, I don't think that celery and ginger are really the worst things that you could put into a juicer.

Speaker 1:
[42:04] The mother of all juicers, though, is what it's referred to as. There's something.

Speaker 4:
[42:09] Okay, you're still on that.

Speaker 1:
[42:10] They're making it like a mythical sort of legendary artifact item that's here that they're now vying for control over who has access to the power of the juicer because that's why Barry got so stupid sexy over the past few seasons is, I think that's what Kim's theory is. And she's like, now I need the power of the juicer.

Speaker 2:
[42:33] It's my turn to get my glow up.

Speaker 1:
[42:36] Yeah, it's time for my revenge bod.

Speaker 2:
[42:38] So she starts rifling through the pantry and she's like, hmm, that's weird. It's a pretty big juicer. I feel like it should just jump out at me. It should be, I think it was on the shelf. It was right here. Ken, do you know what happened to my juicer?

Speaker 1:
[42:58] Oh, the juicer, yeah. Well, Barry came over and he asked about it and then he took it.

Speaker 2:
[43:06] He took it? Well, that's mine. It's not his? That's my juicer.

Speaker 1:
[43:13] I don't want to get involved.

Speaker 4:
[43:14] You let him take my juicer?

Speaker 1:
[43:16] I don't want to get involved because this is a thing. This is like a husband and wife thing, so I don't want to get in the middle of that.

Speaker 4:
[43:23] Great.

Speaker 2:
[43:24] I'm going to have to call him now. You go back in the living room.

Speaker 1:
[43:28] Okay.

Speaker 4:
[43:29] No, sorry.

Speaker 3:
[43:31] My favorite thing that they left in the episode.

Speaker 1:
[43:34] There was the long awkward pause where he's just shuffling around.

Speaker 2:
[43:37] He's like a sim. He's just turning in circles.

Speaker 1:
[43:40] He did. He got lost.

Speaker 2:
[43:41] He doesn't know what to do.

Speaker 1:
[43:43] He did. He was very confused. He doesn't know. He might pee his pants. You might have to remind him, Hey, do you need to go take care of something? Or like, what are you doing?

Speaker 2:
[43:52] She's like, Oh, I forgot to adjust the free will setting.

Speaker 1:
[43:55] Just go back to the living room. You can go back to the living room now.

Speaker 2:
[44:01] That's how I knew that it was scripted, because it was like he delivered his line, which was to tell her that Barry took the juicer while he was here.

Speaker 1:
[44:08] But he didn't clear the scene. So now we're just watching them interact, but there's no interaction that's happening. She doesn't want to...

Speaker 2:
[44:16] She has to jump in and direct.

Speaker 1:
[44:18] So yeah, you can go back to the living room. Oh, sorry. Then shuffles off, meanders off into, I'm sure go play with the jukebox a little bit more, or something else that's gonna happen. I don't know. Who knows?

Speaker 2:
[44:35] Ethan arrives in Wisconsin. He got on the road.

Speaker 4:
[44:40] Do you think he put a diaper on and he drove overnight?

Speaker 1:
[44:43] Two diapers, yeah. He stacked those bubbies up and spent about $18,000 in gasoline to get all the way up to Wisconsin, driving that fucking boat up the highway.

Speaker 2:
[44:59] Why did he take his creepiest of all cars?

Speaker 1:
[45:02] It's the Uncle Buck car, you guys.

Speaker 2:
[45:04] No, it's giving 70s serial killer.

Speaker 1:
[45:07] Yeah, he looked like he was cruising, if you know what I'm saying, in the John Wayne Gacy sort of way.

Speaker 2:
[45:14] Heading up North cruising for some victims.

Speaker 1:
[45:17] That's what's happening here. He's going to a different state just to kind of feel it out and yeah, see what's going on here.

Speaker 2:
[45:23] He's got a plan. He's gonna sleep in the parking lot of an abandoned mall in his car.

Speaker 1:
[45:30] In the back seat in December?

Speaker 2:
[45:34] In Wisconsin.

Speaker 1:
[45:34] In Wisconsin. So first of all.

Speaker 2:
[45:37] The whiskey will keep him warm.

Speaker 1:
[45:39] Yeah, that's the only thing that will keep him warm.

Speaker 2:
[45:41] He's gonna drink heavily.

Speaker 1:
[45:42] Okay, let's walk through the Ethan Plath train of logic here because this is giving homosexual, this is what.

Speaker 2:
[45:54] Like most of the Plath boys.

Speaker 1:
[45:55] This is what the Plaths kind of do.

Speaker 2:
[45:58] Okay, did you see that Veronica posted that she bought another house?

Speaker 1:
[46:03] No.

Speaker 2:
[46:03] And she like went out of her way to talk about how.

Speaker 1:
[46:07] Micah's not there.

Speaker 2:
[46:10] She's buying another house and Micah.

Speaker 1:
[46:12] Where's Micah?

Speaker 2:
[46:12] Still living on someone else's couch.

Speaker 1:
[46:14] Oh, there you go. Well, yeah, okay. So at least Micah sleeps indoors.

Speaker 2:
[46:21] True. That's an upgrade.

Speaker 1:
[46:23] We've made fun of Micah for being a homosexual. What is this? This is literally you are sleeping in the back seat of your car in an abandoned parking lot in Wisconsin. And this is your plan. This is how you have it written up. So this is where I get confused because Ethan's strategy here is that Teegan didn't believe him anymore when he said that he was going to move to Wisconsin. I don't think this counts as moving to Wisconsin if you don't live anywhere in Wisconsin. You're living in your car.

Speaker 2:
[47:04] But that's why she isn't finding out yet. He's not going to tell her until he's already signed a lease and he's committed to staying here for eight to 12 months.

Speaker 1:
[47:14] I think he is just expecting her to let him move in. To let him move in.

Speaker 2:
[47:21] I think you're right.

Speaker 1:
[47:22] Because Ethan can't read and he can't write and he can't sign a lease because he doesn't know what legal contract he's entering into.

Speaker 2:
[47:32] He has no proof of income. Apparently not enough savings to even get a hotel room.

Speaker 1:
[47:38] No. Well, you're just wasting money at that point.

Speaker 2:
[47:40] He needs it for the security deposit probably.

Speaker 1:
[47:42] Most likely. Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 2:
[47:45] No, I think you're right. He is going to eventually go over to her house and tell her that he's here and expect that she's going to think this is a grand romantic gesture and let him move in with her. I don't think he's willing to spend the money to live in another place when he's just going to spend most of his time with her.

Speaker 1:
[48:03] Okay, yeah. And then that just kind of goes into it too of like, if it's I came all this way and then you're not going to let me move in. That was like the whole reason that we broke up.

Speaker 2:
[48:14] You're not going to get back together with me? I mean, why did I move all the way up here?

Speaker 1:
[48:18] You didn't move. You drove. You are here. I will give you that.

Speaker 2:
[48:23] You took a road trip.

Speaker 1:
[48:25] You drove.

Speaker 2:
[48:26] If we're going to get technical about it.

Speaker 1:
[48:27] You drove. You do not live here.

Speaker 2:
[48:29] He didn't even take all his stuff. He brought his tools.

Speaker 1:
[48:32] He said he has like a duffel bag and a kill kit and a couple thousand dollars in cash, which don't go advertising that too much on TV here in your unidentifiable car, which clearly the producer's like, you're rolling around town here in Wisconsin near Teegan's neighborhood. This is not you're not driving around like a Toyota. That's just run of the mill model hit. This is a very distinct vehicle that you're driving around in. Do you think she's going to see you at some point or run into you or cross paths? Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[49:15] I mean, to be fair, I imagine that in Wisconsin, this is like 60% of the cars.

Speaker 1:
[49:22] Because you imagine everything as a Jeffrey Dahmer documentary.

Speaker 2:
[49:32] They're just stuck in time up there, frozen. Frozen in time.

Speaker 1:
[49:37] Right, right.

Speaker 2:
[49:40] So they end up, well, first he gets a call from Mama Plath.

Speaker 1:
[49:43] Yeah, because he's just idling in a park nearby, which this thing is just kicking out so much smoke. I mean, granted, it's cold. It's very cold in Wisconsin in the wintertime, and so that's a part of this, too. I think they are leaning into the Uncle Buck thing, though, because, like, I wanted this car to backfire a couple of times.

Speaker 2:
[50:05] A hubcap to fall off.

Speaker 1:
[50:08] Take a corner too short.

Speaker 2:
[50:09] Did you see how crooked he was parked in that spot? I couldn't stop looking at it.

Speaker 1:
[50:14] It's so wide. Yeah, it's hard to get the turning radius down on it.

Speaker 2:
[50:18] It's like, how many more things do you have to do to stick out to the police?

Speaker 1:
[50:21] Does it even have power steering? Yeah, he's probably just muscling this thing into the parking space.

Speaker 2:
[50:26] I don't know. I don't know how he's going to survive in that car overnight.

Speaker 1:
[50:30] Yeah, I mean, did it look like he already has... I think he slept in the backseat on the way up there.

Speaker 2:
[50:37] You see him, he's probably all curled up.

Speaker 1:
[50:39] Oh, there was a pillow and a blanket that was back there. Did the producer sleep back there too?

Speaker 2:
[50:46] Oh no, they got a hotel.

Speaker 1:
[50:48] Okay, yeah. Oh yeah, that's probably good to see.

Speaker 2:
[50:51] Yeah, there's no way. They weren't sleeping in his car with him.

Speaker 1:
[50:53] Yeah, I hope not. I hope not. Don't make him do that.

Speaker 2:
[50:57] Don't make him listen to him cry himself to sleep.

Speaker 1:
[51:03] So, yeah, the...

Speaker 2:
[51:04] Kim. So Kim's on the phone with him. I think it's kind of, it's weird that you didn't tell her that you were coming. Do you think that's weird? I mean, if it was me, I would think it was weird that you drove all the way up to Wisconsin where I lived and you didn't tell me that you were coming and then you're gonna be there for like a couple of weeks, maybe while you figure out your plans and then you just end up telling me you've been there the whole time? That's weird.

Speaker 1:
[51:27] You're not like driving past her house at two o'clock in the morning and stalking her or anything, are you? Well.

Speaker 2:
[51:36] Maybe. No. I only did that three to six times already today.

Speaker 1:
[51:42] And in that car, yeah, the Uncle Buck boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Backfiring, like no, yeah, this is not a stealth mobile.

Speaker 2:
[51:51] No, in his dreams, tomorrow morning, Teegan wakes up, comes down into the kitchen and he's making a giant pancake. It's, if you guys don't know the movie Uncle Buck, you're missing a lot of the jokes. So I guess he crosses driving past her house off the list of things to do today.

Speaker 1:
[52:19] Well, I love how he even said he's like, oh, it's just so weird being like so close to her neighborhood. Yeah, why are you down the street from her house?

Speaker 2:
[52:28] At least go to another town.

Speaker 1:
[52:29] You're too close.

Speaker 2:
[52:30] Like you literally don't have to sleep in your car in the exact same town that she lives in.

Speaker 1:
[52:34] No.

Speaker 4:
[52:36] You can drive five to 10 minutes to go wherever you're going to look at houses.

Speaker 1:
[52:41] Please. I don't think he has any plan to do that. Like that's the problem here, right? That's my concern is I don't think that is the plan. That's what he's telling people the plan is. I think he's expecting for this loving gesture to overwhelm Teegan with emotion and she's going to be ecstatic to invite him in.

Speaker 2:
[53:03] So they end up driving down the street and they're talking and then someone passes them by and Teegan, and it's Teegan.

Speaker 1:
[53:10] Well, yeah, Ethan.

Speaker 2:
[53:11] Ethan's like, that was her. Did you see the excitement that went over his face?

Speaker 1:
[53:17] As the producer is asking him like, don't you think that she's going to recognize your vehicle driving around town like this is, it's kind of hard to miss. Like she knows you have this car. How many people have this car?

Speaker 2:
[53:29] That's the point.

Speaker 1:
[53:30] Yeah, I think that's what he's going for. And he's like, it worked. She looked terrified.

Speaker 2:
[53:36] Well, I also still have her location on my phone. So I knew she was leaving the house and she was going to drive by.

Speaker 1:
[53:42] I finally felt the rush seeing the fear enter her eyes.

Speaker 2:
[53:47] And that's where we leave him this week.

Speaker 1:
[53:49] Cliffhanger.

Speaker 2:
[53:50] So in the next episode, we see Plath Daddy at the gym with all the ladies. Everybody's getting all the workout equipment wet.

Speaker 1:
[54:01] Oh no.

Speaker 2:
[54:02] And then Ethan calls Teegan and his big grand romantic gesture is to tell her that he has something for her, but she's going to have to come pick it up.

Speaker 1:
[54:13] So if you're calling, she called him, I think, and was like, hey, are you okay? That was how she started that conversation.

Speaker 2:
[54:21] Well, so he's going to have to explain away why he's here. So I guess it's because he has something to give her.

Speaker 1:
[54:25] I don't know, because then what he opens with over the phone here is, I have a surprise for you. That's not something to say to an ex that you've driven several states and popped up on. No.

Speaker 2:
[54:39] And hadn't talked to at all until now.

Speaker 1:
[54:42] I'm not going to meet you wherever you are. I'm staying away.

Speaker 2:
[54:45] Yeah, maybe the parking lot of a police station. If you have something that you must give to me.

Speaker 1:
[54:52] No, I'm not accepting anything, thank you.

Speaker 2:
[54:56] And then Kaylynn tells Isaac that she doesn't give second chances.

Speaker 1:
[55:00] Right before she's about to give him a second chance, I'm sure, willing to bet, it's probably going to happen. High probability there, because now she has leverage over him, because now that he's crawled back to her, because he dumped her, but now he crawled back.

Speaker 2:
[55:17] That's true, she's got the upper hand now.

Speaker 1:
[55:19] I think she's got the upper hand now.

Speaker 2:
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Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
[55:31] Yeah, help us grow the podcast.

Speaker 1:
[55:32] Get the word out. Otherwise, I'm going to be sleeping in my car in Wisconsin.

Speaker 3:
[55:38] It's very cold.

Speaker 2:
[55:40] It's true.

Speaker 1:
[55:41] It is.

Speaker 2:
[55:42] It is.

Speaker 4:
[55:43] It is.

Speaker 1:
[55:44] It is.

Speaker 2:
[55:45] Thanks for listening. See you next time.