Schitt with Money S1E7: Turkey Shoot

Peita: 00:00:05

What do you get when you mix Schitt's Creek? A financial advisor and an accountant. Well, a podcast, apparently.

We're Peter and Emma and together we're re watching Schitt's Creek, obsessing over its brilliance and sneaking in some unexpected money lessons. Welcome to shit with. Well, Emma, we've made it to episode seven and this one is another cracker. We've got David in camo.

Whoever would have thought that would happen? Alexis ordering a smoothie that's basically toxic waste. And Maura, well, I mean, the transformation is just wonderful, isn't it?

After going to Jocelyn's.

Emma: 00:00:48

Wonderful is one word correct.

Peita: 00:00:50

Wonderful for us. Wonderful for us. So this episode is called Turkey Shoot.

,: 2015

They really dance that line really beautifully in this episode. And we get our first real interaction between Alexis and Ted. So, you know, meet cute. Meet cute. And actually some quite emotional.

Emotional moment, surprisingly, from David, you know, in the mud there.

But it feels like, you know, the last few episodes I feel like we've had maybe a single character struggling, you know, like there might be somebody that's the main one that's sort of going through something emotional. But it feels like in this one almost everybody's out of their comfort zone.

Emma: 00:01:41

Yes.

Peita: 00:01:42

You know, it really felt like they're all just like, oh, my goodness, where am I? What am I doing? What is happening to me? Nobody's coasting here. Right? They're all just. This is a bit full on. What do you think?

Emma: 00:01:52

Yeah, no, I think everyone's kind of going through their own crisis. I think they will. And truly, I'll use the term, settled in Sishit's Creek. I don't think they'll ever settle in.

But they've, you know, accepted the fact that they are there and they're each kind of got their own storyline going now and they're. They're dealing with their own things within this episode.

Peita: 00:02:12

Yeah, for sure. So I feel like we've got to start with. With something just so beautiful, you know, where all great love stories begin.

Which is at the bottom of a suspicious. Smoothi and Alexis meet in the cafe and she's ordering a smoothie from Twyla.

And that interaction is just the deadpanness from the actress that plays Twilight is fabulous as she just keeps on Dancing around this was it. Meadow Harvest, I think it's called.

Emma: 00:02:39

So just strange.

Peita: 00:02:40

It is what it is, right? Correct. Just really odd. Right. She's got that offbeat, almost could be a serial killer vibe. She's really very much.

And then Ted sort of leans, he hears the conversation and he sort of quietly lets her know that there's some chance that smoothie could turn her insides into liquid. Just feel like I have to warn you, what you just ordered is going to run through you like Niagara Falls.

Emma: 00:03:05

And he's been, he's clearly had a crush on her, on Alexis. He's seen her around, he knew who she was and he just took the opportunity to kind of introduce himself to her.

Peita: 00:03:15

Exactly. And it's funny because there's nothing suave about it. Right. I mean, he talks about diarrhea basically. Right. But it is really sweet. He's so earnest.

Emma: 00:03:25

Yeah.

Peita: 00:03:26

You know, it's Ted and, and it's. It's got all that small town sort of romance vibe, you know, where it's. There's nothing mysterious about him, you know, and they talk about things.

It's too much information. But it's sort of awkward but really sincere, you know.

Emma: 00:03:42

Well, Alexis put it, you know, pretty clearly later when she said she was talking to David about it and she said he doesn't have a trust fund. So that's like a refreshing change of pace for me. You know, he's. He's not that kind of rich for rich family. He's, you know, self made almost.

Peita: 00:04:00

Yes.

Emma: 00:04:00

And that's a difference to the other kind of guys that she's dated in.

Peita: 00:04:04

The past and also I think on the way they look at her. So I'm.

I'm betting most of the guys she's interacted with previously in her life have seen her as a handbag, something to look good on the, on, on their arm. Right. And he. Yes, he thinks she's gorgeous.

He out and out says that, but he genuinely wants to get to know her, you know, So I think that's what threw her. There's a number of moments where she sort of blinks at his reaction to things and I think she's just never encountered that.

Emma: 00:04:32

Yeah. That genuine likeness.

Peita: 00:04:34

Yeah.

Emma: 00:04:34

But I just have to say, I don't know if you noticed this, but when she drank the smoothie that he warned her about, like she could have just backwashed it through the straw, but instead she wanted to like spit it out into the cup.

Peita: 00:04:47

I know, and it's one of those silly things with the, with the Little.

Emma: 00:04:51

Hole in the top, like, just backwash it through the straw. Like, why do we have to be this complicated? It was like, just the dramatics of. It was hilarious.

Peita: 00:05:00

I thought it was quite lovely that she's clearly grown, because she didn't just do that in front of Twyla. She turned it back and she quite quietly tried to do it. And I thought, you know what? I feel like that's a bit of growth.

Emma: 00:05:11

Yes.

Peita: 00:05:11

For Alexis. She doesn't want to hurt Twyla's feelings. And I thought, you know what? Not so bad. And I mean this. Well.

And look, I should share, actually, when I was doing some digging, digging into this, the. The cast actually called Alexis and Ted Texas. Right. So they had their. Yeah, they had their own cute name for them.

And I think there's this moment for Texas where Alexis, you know, so Johnny and Maura are actually sort of doing the tough parent thing, you know.

Emma: 00:05:42

Oh, yes. Come home. Don't you know you can't come in the morning and not on the first night.

Peita: 00:05:47

Exactly. These are the parents that didn't notice. She went to Thailand for however long when she was a teenager. You know, I thought that was just.

I mean, hysterical.

Emma: 00:05:57

Yeah.

Peita: 00:05:57

But sort of sketchy. And you can see it on her face, like, okay, yeah, you've never cared before. But. Yeah. So it was cute to see them starting. I mean, I've got a.

If I'm perfectly frank, Ted would give me a toothache.

Emma: 00:06:13

Yeah.

Peita: 00:06:14

Like, he's. He is lovely and he's clearly a good human, but. Yeah, yeah, he's. He's a little too. Too nice, I think. Yeah.

Emma: 00:06:25

Talking about Alexa, she's, like, just desperate for anything outside of that bloody motel.

Peita: 00:06:30

And you know what? For real attention, too. I'm not sure she's ever had proper attention.

Emma: 00:06:35

Yeah.

Peita: 00:06:36

It's always been for the wrong reasons, so it makes perfect sense. Now. We've got to talk about, actually, the thing that, you know, honors the title of this episode, Turkey Shoot, which is David and the Turkey.

Emma: 00:06:46

Oh, my God, it's so funny.

Peita: 00:06:48

He is so out of his depth. You know, he's wearing this camo that's that smelly he gets called scrimpy, which is a word I've never heard of before.

And I mean, you know, he's only said yes because of Stevie. Right. But what I actually hit me, actually, before we sort of dive into the detail that is this line. This line after, I think.

I think David and Stevie are in the motel and they're chasing this bug. Right. And he's trying to get it.

Emma: 00:07:13

And yes.

Peita: 00:07:13

And it was this full drama about catching the bug, but don't kill it and all that sort of stuff. And Stevie says, you know, sometimes I forget what life was like before I knew you.

Emma: 00:07:22

Bye, bye, bye.

Peita: 00:07:23

And I'm like, yeah, me too, Stevie. Me too. Like, how did we ever cope before we had.

Emma: 00:07:29

And where was her entertainment?

Peita: 00:07:30

Yes, right.

Emma: 00:07:32

Where was her entertainment before he came along? Like, how. How pouring her life would have been.

Peita: 00:07:36

Right. Life must have been so dull.

Emma: 00:07:38

I know. And so then she goes and challenges him to come, you know.

Peita: 00:07:42

Yeah.

Emma: 00:07:42

Hunting. And he says to her, is this.

Peita: 00:07:45

A tweed or a camo situation?

Emma: 00:07:49

Like, do I do it? What do I.

Peita: 00:07:51

Wait, can I retweet? Okay.

Emma: 00:07:53

I thought it was hilarious because that's.

Peita: 00:07:55

Have you not noticed where we are?

Emma: 00:07:56

I know the first thing you thought of was, what do I wear to this thing? Look.

Peita: 00:08:01

And he does go through with it, which actually, I remember thinking the first time I watched, I'm like, really? Yeah. And then horrifyingly shoots a turkey in the neck, which is just, you know, awful. And I've got to know, like, for us.

So would you actually survive through a turkey shoot or would you be off hiding in the bushes? What would you. If you went to somewhere like this and they asked you.

Emma: 00:08:23

I wouldn't be going somewhere like this. You wouldn't be able to get me to that national park or wherever they are. I'll be in the hotel, I reckon.

Peita: 00:08:33

Like, I'd be. I'd be out in nature. But the shooting things or shooting animals thing is not my deal.

Emma: 00:08:39

No, neither.

Peita: 00:08:40

I. I certainly don't get the point. And. And part of that's like the life we live, you know, in terms of the. The society we're in, but I just don't.

It doesn't do it for me. And I find the whole thing really strange. It stood out for me, actually. When you look at them all and they're out hunting. Right.

And for the listener, I'm using, you know, print. Yeah, exactly. But then they're all lined up behind one log in a row.

Emma: 00:09:04

I know.

Peita: 00:09:05

Shooting at the one animal that doesn't feel like hunting so much as like being at the fair and shooting into the game like this doesn't seem fair at all.

Emma: 00:09:14

No. Yeah, it didn't.

Peita: 00:09:15

It.

Emma: 00:09:15

It wasn't the traditional form. It was almost like a hobby.

Peita: 00:09:18

Yes.

Emma: 00:09:19

Than. It was about like that.

Peita: 00:09:21

Yeah.

Emma: 00:09:21

You know, masculine. That dangerous. I didn't have that feeling. I don't know what any of the cameo Was like, it was totally unnecessary. Like, they're all wearing.

Peita: 00:09:33

I'm like, but. But you're not hiding from anything.

Emma: 00:09:35

And. And what are the animals you're trying to, like, hide from? Like, it's just so. Just being. It was just so funny.

Peita: 00:09:44

There is a. There's. As they're all sort of peering over that log, you know, waiting with their guns up.

I'm, you know, like, you're looking at all these characters.

And actually, what stood out to me, I actually paused and I said to my husband, like, would you look at the actual diversity of character in all those faces? I loved it. Like, you look at them all, and there was, you know, Bob, but there's all of them. They're all so different.

I thought actually there was a moment there where I realized that's actually really unusual in tv, you know, when we look across the screen, like, these people are all. And I don't just mean in the most obvious ways of diversity. I just age all of it. You know, this is cool. You know, they've got this little club.

Emma: 00:10:19

Going of mutual interest.

Peita: 00:10:21

Really eclectic and. And interesting and different, which I thought was. Was fabulous, but just horrifying.

And as he says, when they come back, like, everything I'm wearing is smelling. Why would I want to do this? And I agree. Why would you want to get into somebody else's?

Emma: 00:10:37

The whole thing is gross. And what about even just waking up in. In, you know, in the dark to go there? Like, he really, like, why did he do this?

He really just wanted to prove a point to Stevie.

Peita: 00:10:48

Yeah. Oh, yes. This was all. This was all it is. He got. He got suckered into this.

And I had a flashback, I've got to admit, because there's a good mate of ours that years ago, much, much younger you, like, decades ago, he decided to go bungee jumping, and he baited me into it.

Emma: 00:11:05

Ah, and you did it.

Peita: 00:11:06

Really, what's the big deal? And I ended up budgie jumping. And there was a moment I'm watching this, I'm like, yeah, dude, happened to me, too.

Now, I was much younger than David when I agreed to do that, but, yeah, it's possible. And then you don't realize what you're doing until you're there standing on top of.

Emma: 00:11:21

Oh, my God, do you know what? Lucky you did it, because otherwise you would never have done it. So in a way, you're kind of glad you did it.

Peita: 00:11:28

Correct. Correct.

Emma: 00:11:29

So, you know, we've got to take that.

Peita: 00:11:30

And I still. Odd. Sometimes it gets to a lot as David does. He survives. Now, I think we could argue Maura maybe doesn't survive her particular adventure.

I reckon she's had her own little turkey shoot experience. It just happens in the salon instead of out in the bush.

Emma: 00:11:47

Yes.

Peita: 00:11:47

And ends up with her looking like Jocelyn.

Emma: 00:11:50

Carbon copy. Copy and paste, whoever's one hairdresser in town.

Peita: 00:11:55

Not only does she look like Jocelyn, but when she comes back from the salon and goes into the cafe and Johnny sees her, he. His first guess is that she looks like Tonya Harding. And I just roared with laughter. I'm like, can we get any worse?

Emma: 00:12:12

This is just hilarious.

Peita: 00:12:14

Fabulous. And it's what's interesting once again. Shit's Creek does this so well, don't they?

Where it's this super funny moment and when the two of them come out and you just for a moment, you can't tell who's who.

Emma: 00:12:27

Yeah, exactly.

Peita: 00:12:27

So similar. But it always, like, they end up in this quite emotional conversation in the end, you know, later down in the room.

And, you know, Maura sort of admits, you know, Jocelyn, you clearly know who you are and you know what you like and it suits you. And whereas Maura's saying, I don't know.

Emma: 00:12:45

Who I am from one moment to the next.

Peita: 00:12:48

And it was so poignant. And I thought, geez, they do that well, the depth. Right.

Emma: 00:12:52

Yeah. They go deep, but in a way that's still entertaining.

Peita: 00:12:55

Correct. And we're sort of all feeling emotional through our tears from laughter.

Emma: 00:13:00

Yeah, I know. And the. Because they threw in the Blouse Barn.

Peita: 00:13:04

Yes.

Emma: 00:13:05

You know, but if you ever, ever.

Peita: 00:13:08

Catch me shopping at the Blouse Barn.

Emma: 00:13:11

You must shoot me in the temple. And I know my son is with your husband. I know you've got guns. Yeah, Right.

Peita: 00:13:19

She's got a hard line.

Emma: 00:13:23

That's also a dig at Jocelyn, because Jocelyn shops there. I know. So it's just hilarious.

Peita: 00:13:28

But even Jocelyn's like, yeah, I get it.

Emma: 00:13:30

Yeah.

Peita: 00:13:31

Everybody has a line you've got to.

Emma: 00:13:32

Pick, you know, but what a great friendship.

Peita: 00:13:36

Right. And she's. Justin's so kind, really. I mean, she puts up with such a dismissive and.

And really, I mean, sort of arrogant or however, you know, you want to take more.

But she's so kind, really, to her, and particularly when she's hurt her feelings, you know, and she clearly has because she comes up to the door and the look on her face, she's just mortified and she's trying to sort of prepare. Maura, like, do you get. This is your reality. This isn't a blip. This is your reality. You know, I feel like it was.

Emma: 00:14:06

Quite a tender moment and also like an intervention almost. Yes, it was a confrontation in a very Jocelyn way. A very soft and caring way.

Peita: 00:14:16

Yeah, it did.

Emma: 00:14:17

And it did feel like she was a genuine, caring friend.

Peita: 00:14:20

Yes.

Emma: 00:14:20

I wanted to actually, you know, say, okay, I, I know what's going on here. I'm not silly.

Peita: 00:14:25

Yeah.

Emma: 00:14:26

But this is your reality.

Peita: 00:14:27

Yes.

Emma: 00:14:28

Get used to it type.

Peita: 00:14:29

Yes. I'm curious too whether, I mean, it could just be gender based but, you know, I felt quite sympathetic to Moira even though she was harsh.

I felt, you know, on Jocelyn with the hysterical new do, but you know, there's Johnny just trying not to laugh. Like he's just wetting himself and you know, my husband was the same. Like he just thought it was hysterical. I'm curious about your take.

Were you more. This is just funny or was it, wow, this is something a bit emotional and difficult for more funny.

Emma: 00:14:56

Yeah, it was hilarious at first. But then when the confrontation happened back in the room, I did definitely feel for more because it was definitely a realization.

And also her feelings are coming out.

Peita: 00:15:09

Yes.

Emma: 00:15:09

She's been dwelling on this, she's been feeling this and now she's voicing that. And. And the thing is that Moira can be quite open with her feelings. Yeah. But she can also keep a lot in.

Peita: 00:15:20

Yes, yes.

Emma: 00:15:21

You know, so the fact that she was actually like not keep it all in, but she's also conscious to not upset. She knows when she's hurting someone.

Peita: 00:15:28

Yes, she does. And I think most, I think they all do as a family actually. That's these. I think it's the saving grace. That's why the show works. Yeah.

It's because they actually do have heart and they're not completely soulless.

Emma: 00:15:40

They're just, you know, exactly right for Moira to actually come out and say it knowing that it could hurt.

Peita: 00:15:47

Yeah.

Emma: 00:15:47

It means she was definitely having strong feelings. That's how I felt.

Peita: 00:15:50

And look, you know, more as an actress, I think she's probably, you know, one disaster from screaming ahead off all the time. Like, I just think she is in a perpetual, you know, state of betwixt and between. So I completely understand.

But it's interesting to me, there was this through line with, with a number of these issues where, you know, each of them were doing things for show, you know, so sort of, you know, David agreed to the turkey shoot, you know, because of Stevie and definitely to. And I feel like there was an element of that early on with Moira. And you know, and Jocelyn and sometimes that can just get in our way. Can it?

When we think, oh we should just either just go along or I'm just going to put on a face, you know, a front and we'll just get through this, you know, and you can end up in a place you just don't want to be.

Emma: 00:16:38

Yeah.

Peita: 00:16:38

You know, and some of those decisions can end up hugely financial. You know, I mean I'm sure there's listeners out there who have had to make decisions say for a wedding that were just.

Well, we've just got to suck this up and put up with it because it's family and it's cost them thousands and thousands of dollars, you know.

Emma: 00:16:56

Oh it's everything, it's, it's holidays, it's.

Peita: 00:16:58

Right.

Emma: 00:16:59

Keeping up with the Joneses. Yeah. No it's. Of course I, I loved when Moira said to, to Johnny.

So now until I get in the shower I'm stuck looking like every other inmate in this God forsaken prison. Yeah. That's how she felt. She felt like she just looked like everyone else and she didn't want that.

Peita: 00:17:18

Yes.

Emma: 00:17:18

So I think, yeah, there definitely is in what you were talking about where they feel like they're kind of conforming.

Peita: 00:17:26

Yes.

And which is so, I mean in and of itself just fascinating because of all the people in that town, they're the last people that are conforming but to them it does feel restrictive.

Emma: 00:17:36

Yes.

Peita: 00:17:37

Right. Yeah.

But one, but interestingly too, like you bring that mindset yourself, nobody's actually stopping Laura from doing anything but she feels that in the environment they're in she's got a curtail herself. So isn't it like it's just all this baggage we bring.

Emma: 00:17:52

I know. And now that you mentioned that, I'm thinking the fact that, the fact that Jocelyn paid for the hairdresser.

Peita: 00:17:59

Yes.

Emma: 00:18:00

I wonder if that had an element of. I've just got to go with it.

Peita: 00:18:03

Because they're paying for it a hundred percent. 100%. You know, and you know, people do. I don't think Jocelyn is doing this. I don't think she's doing it as a power trip but. Oh, we'll.

But we'll pay for it. Can often be felt like somebody's trying to force the issue. Well what's the big deal? You're not paying so you should just do it.

Emma: 00:18:24

Yeah, exactly. Keep quiet. Into success.

Peita: 00:18:26

Right. And yeah, I think that's often the case in and in. Yeah. Differences of power in relationships and I don't Mean that in a really extreme way.

Just in a dynamic. So.

Yeah, but I mean, the other flip side to all of this though is, you know, there's also something really powerful here about leaning into new experiences and clearly, you know, getting out of your comfort zone. And David does get out of his comfort zone. Well, in many ways Moira does too. You know, this differing hair and sort of.

And going with the flow and I think. And even Alexis talking to a guy. Right.

Emma: 00:19:03

Not the normal guy.

Peita: 00:19:04

Not at all. And so for all of them, I feel like they, they did to their credit, new experience, lean in, let's see what happens.

Even if it's a bit messy, even if it's a bit weird. And I thought that's actually pretty cool.

Emma: 00:19:18

Yeah, definitely, definitely. With the Alexis situation, I definitely feel like it was an opportunity for her. And out.

Peita: 00:19:27

Yes.

Emma: 00:19:28

You know, Ted. Yeah. Is the out. It's an opportunity. It's almost like her knight in shining armor that's come to save her.

Peita: 00:19:35

Yes.

Emma: 00:19:36

And so you could almost see her eyes like light up. Doctor.

Peita: 00:19:39

Yes.

Emma: 00:19:40

Oh, you're a doctor and.

Peita: 00:19:41

Correct. Not a vet doctor.

Emma: 00:19:43

No. Yeah, same thing. You're still doctor. So, you know, she, she kind of got excited, the fact that she had a potential out from her situation.

Peita: 00:19:51

Yes. And look, it's, it's a. Oh, it's a topic fraught with danger, isn't it?

Because there's a long standing expression, you know, a man isn't a financial plan, he's for women. And I think most people say, oh, that's not what, that's not what I'm doing.

But it can, you know, in Alexis case, it's a default because she doesn't see any other alternative.

Emma: 00:20:12

Yeah, there's no other out.

Peita: 00:20:14

Right. And interestingly, you know, this is a young woman in the prime of life with great education.

Well, maybe if she turned up and you would argue had had every opportunity and she sees this as her only option. Imagine for women who haven't had all of that, you know, potentially they think, wow, this is the only way I can, I can make progress.

This is the only way I can go forward. So I get how it's a, well, almost an automatic assumption. This is what I'm gonna have to do.

Emma: 00:20:42

You would see this yourself, Peter.

I've got clients, you know, young, young girls who say, well, I can't buy a house until I find a partner because I just can't afford a property on a single income. You need two incomes.

Peita: 00:20:56

Yeah.

Emma: 00:20:56

So they again, feel they can't progress with their life financially. They can't financially progress with their life until they have. That's right. Until they find a partner.

And that's, you know, concerning because you just hope that they. They partner up with someone for the right reasons.

Peita: 00:21:12

Well, and also I think anytime we see something, oh, I can't do that until.

Emma: 00:21:16

Yeah.

Peita: 00:21:17

It's like it gives us license to just go nuts until then, you know, I think it gives us an out. Oh, well, I mean, I couldn't do it now anyway, so I'm just going to blow all that money, you know, even though I can't do it on my own.

Well, that gives me an out to not try to do anything at, you know, and that's human nature.

Emma: 00:21:35

Yeah.

Peita: 00:21:35

That's not a judgment for me. That is complete human nature. You know, and I think that 100% is the case. You know, it's, it's. And it is.

I mean, in this day and age right now, one of the things. And we're getting a bit serious here, folks. Apologies.

Emma: 00:21:48

It's getting deep again.

Peita: 00:21:50

Warning, warning.

But with how high rent is going up, one of the things that I just saw, I just got handed some information by somebody in this sort of game of homelessness for women and things like that. And what they're saying is one of the biggest concerns.

Concerns they have about rising rental cost is that women feel like they have to stay in a relationship because they can't afford to rent on their own.

Emma: 00:22:12

Yeah, it's really concerning.

Peita: 00:22:14

Right.

And so these decisions about, well, I've got to wait until I have a partner to begin financially can also mean we don't have a backup for should we need to get out, you know.

Emma: 00:22:25

Exactly.

Peita: 00:22:25

Right. Yeah.

So I think, you know, we, and, and, and Alexis has survived so many disasters historically, but it's like as I'm watching it make those choices in this episode, I'm like, oh, come on, you need to stand on your own two feet. I mean, enjoy Ted. Absolutely. But yeah, maybe. Yeah. And, and the pressure on him, like, the poor thing. Like it. Step up, man. Come on.

How are you going to provide for her where. Where one and a half dates in.

Emma: 00:22:54

Exactly. She's, she's. As far as she's concerned, they're married.

Peita: 00:22:58

Yes. You know, it's funnily enough, when he's the one that sort of says. I think he says something like, oh, this is where we'd have our kids.

Like, he says something really full on.

Emma: 00:23:11

Yeah.

Peita: 00:23:12

It's nearly bug out of her head. So it's like, well, she wants to be kept, but she doesn't want to be, you know, a wife.

I think, like, I think she has this distinct picture for herself. Looked after but not restrained.

Emma: 00:23:26

Yeah, yeah.

Peita: 00:23:30

What? What?

Emma: 00:23:31

I think that's a couple episodes where the dogs come in and.

Peita: 00:23:34

Yes.

Emma: 00:23:34

And he says, consider these, like, think of them as our kids.

Peita: 00:23:37

Yes.

Emma: 00:23:38

We're getting ahead of ourselves.

Peita: 00:23:40

We are, we are, we are. Apologies, Apologies, folks. You have to listen further forward now. There's a couple of other funny things that I just got to bring up.

So to me, the real jaw dropper of this episode has nothing to do with any actually of the characters. So it's not the wig, it's not the turkey shoot. It's David just dropping this awesome gem. Did you know Richard Gere's middle name is Tiffany?

Now, that prompted me to go and research said statement, which is 100% true. So Richard Gere's middle name really is Tiffany, and it turns out it's his mother's maiden name.

Emma: 00:24:16

Oh, wow.

Peita: 00:24:17

And it was so that. So it was a way of connecting both sides of, you know, his family or his parents in his name. And I'm like, how cool is that?

Emma: 00:24:26

Yes. So good.

Peita: 00:24:27

Right?

Emma: 00:24:28

So cool. Richard would have loved that line.

Peita: 00:24:31

Yes. I just. I just thought that was magic and. And random Richard Gear. Like, he's not actually the. He's not like a super cool, a Lister now person.

So the fact they dropped him in, I thought was pretty. Pretty funny. Yeah. But. And like you say, the other.

The other name drop was Elton John, because he's, like, you mentioned, oh, should I wear tweet or camo? But the connection to it all is because, well, Elton John used to have.

Emma: 00:24:55

An annual hunt at his place in.

Peita: 00:24:56

Windsor, but that was more about the lunch.

Emma: 00:24:59

Yeah.

Peita: 00:25:00

I don't think that's what's going on here, darling.

Emma: 00:25:03

That would have been a very glamorous hunt. Like an Easter egg hunt.

Peita: 00:25:08

Oh, yes, correct. Everybody would have been beautifully dressed. Nobody running around doing anything crazy. Look, that's his benchmark. I mean, bless, Right?

Emma: 00:25:16

Look, I won't lie. I did. When I saw those guns, I thought, there's going to be an incident here.

Peita: 00:25:22

I did, too, actually.

Emma: 00:25:23

How could they just hand him a loaded gun?

Peita: 00:25:25

For sure. And to be frank, there was a lot of moderately incompetent people in that lineup. And I'm totally Roland included.

Emma: 00:25:32

Can you imagine? I was like, this is a disaster waiting to happen. No wonder Johnny was so hesitant. Yes.

Peita: 00:25:39

For David to go, yes, I'm. I'm 100 with you. I was waiting for somebody to get shot in the butt. That's what I was thinking. It's gonna happen for sure now.

Is there anything else we've missed? Were there any other highlights? We've. We've skipped Covenant.

Emma: 00:25:54

The only. I mean, I just loved it when they went back and Moira says we need to have drinks to celebrate. And I'm thinking, yeah, who's buying these drinks?

Peita: 00:26:05

Yes.

Emma: 00:26:05

You know, who's buying. And even the fact that Alexis went into the cafe to buy a smoothie, like, where are they getting this money from?

Peita: 00:26:11

Yes. I. Yeah, I thought that too early on. I'm like, oh, there's actual cash flow.

Emma: 00:26:17

Yeah.

Peita: 00:26:17

Like, what is that?

Emma: 00:26:18

Yeah. How is this working? Like, how are you paying for things? Yeah, I thought things like smoothies, like, and. And drinks.

Things that are not necessary, you know, like, how is this happening?

Peita: 00:26:31

Yeah, yeah. Where is this money? Well, I wonder if it's the. Was it one of the first episodes where Moira had that diamond under a tongue? You know, where she.

Emma: 00:26:39

Oh, my God.

Peita: 00:26:41

Maybe they liquidated that and that's.

Emma: 00:26:43

Maybe that's funding the smoothies and. And drinks.

Peita: 00:26:47

Oh, exactly. Exactly. Well, look, we had mud, we had wigs, we had guns, we had crazy smoothies of questionable orange origin.

We had the origin story of Texas, which is lovely, but I think most of this episode is about being outside of your comfort zone. That might be socially or it might be emotionally, I guess.

But you know, be careful because either way you might end up with hair looking like Jocelyn, and I think that's a risk we should all be wary of.

Emma: 00:27:12

As always, we'd love to know what stood out to you. Leave us a voice Message over at speakpipe.com forward/shit with Money and we might feature it in an upcoming episode.

Peita: 00:27:23

And you can follow me on Instagram over at ampeterd and I'm at the accounting division. And next time we're diving into episode eight, Allevu, where we meet an MLM scheme and we'll talk about what they are.

And we watch Johnny try to convince the government he once had a real job. You're not going to want to miss this.

Emma: 00:27:43

See you then.

Peita: 00:27:45

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