The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Single and Home This Weekend? You’ll Wanna Watch These!

Episode Date: October 10, 2026

Life isn’t always “happily ever after” - and sometimes it’s great to watch a movie or TV show that gets it! Our Bachelor Nation alums Bob, Joan, and DeAnna are telling you the BEST movie and TV show recommendations if you are single and looking for the perfect solo date at home this weekend! Email us at: [e-mail] or call us at 844-4-I Do Pod (844-443-6763)Follow I Do, Part 2 on Instagram and TikTokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Part two, I am your celebrity mentor, Bob Guinea, joined by two great fellow bachelor nation alums, Deana Pappas, who I always say her name correctly. And of course, Joan Vassos. So ladies, I do part two. We all have been through our own schick and our own stuff, but it's the weekend. It's a freaking weekend. And I know one of the best things to do on the...

the weekend for some of us would be to Netflix and chill which we know what that means uh and for the others would be the curl up on the couch pop some corn watch a good movie or a good TV show which we are going to talk about today so if you're in chapter two we wanted to take this time to recommend some things that we think you should be watching this weekend and uh you know we've had an opportunity to kind of talk through some things but before we get into our recommendations we have all we are all de forcés right we've all been through it we've all all had either divorce or loss. And we've become single at different stages in our lives than maybe the folks who get married right out of high school and stay together for 60 years.

Right. So when you were going through your time of loss for Joan and divorce for Deanna and myself, were there TV shows and movies that you were drawn to? If so, was a specific genre, you know, and then where there's some things you were avoiding at the same time and, you know, ladies take it away. I think you and I in like some of our little chats kind of feel the same way that I think I was avoiding feelings. So I was trying to watch a really mindless TV. I was so worried. I had all these things going playing through my head. My kids had just lost their father. They were grown, but still like it was a huge loss. It was a time in their lives where they still needed their father so much. Like I had boys that needed mentoring. I had girls that need their daddy.

You know, I had a brand new grandchild. And so I felt all this gifts. and I felt all these feelings. And so I was avoiding them as much as I could because they were in my head all the time. So kind of my time to watch TVs in the evenings when I kind of like retreat to my bedroom and just try to decompress. And the last thing I wanted was anything

that was going to remind me of the stuff. So I did stupid things like HGTV and like any like, you know, old sitcoms and like big bang theory. I think I've watched every episode of that like a thousand times just because I needed things that didn't remind me of like what I'd been doing all day. Yeah. I think that grief and, you know, we have all had this conversation. Bob, you and I had this conversation most recently. Grief comes in many different forms and different waves. And while I was not trying to avoid the feelings, I think I did an exceptional job of feeling

every last wave of grief, good and bad and sad and angry and all of the things. There were times, you know, where I just needed to just check out. And I love. a good binge session. I'm actually kid-free this weekend. So I'm so stoked that we're doing this because I am still finding my footing as a single mom. You know what I mean? And I use the word single, very clearly. I am a single woman. I am a single mom. And so when the kids leave, I'm still finding my footing in a sense of like, I'm not dating anyone. So it's not like I have someone to spend quality time with on the weekends. So when the kids leave, I am still, you know, wrestling with those feelings of like, okay, they're here for a week by the time they leave.

I am exhausted. I have cooked. I've cleaned. I've wiped butts. I've done all of the things for a week. And then it is that like inner torture you guys. Like the second they leave, I'm like, oh, I miss the kids. Where are they? You know what I mean? So I am still trying to figure it out and kind of gauge filling myself up when the kids are gone. And for me, that does look like the first day that they leave. I usually just isolate and lock myself in the house. And I find something really good to binge because I just need to check out. I just need to mentally check out. Yeah.

And I understand that. I mean, I think it's interesting, though, moms, moms, dads are wired a little bit differently. You know, like, you know, they always talk about mom guilt, right? And there's that thing where, you know, like you just said it, Deanna, like the whole week, you're doing, you're probably amped it up even more than when you, when you had a partner to, to, to, to, to, parent with, right? Like, you've probably taken it to the next level knowing you, where it's like, you know, where before you would just, you know, throw it, you know, I was watching your post the other day about your ramen noodles. They're so good, Bob. I was thinking about you, though, because you're so sweet. And it's like, you know, I bet, you know, it's become a thing now where you're

probably putting together gourmet meals for the kids, whereas before it wouldn't have been that way, right? Or it would have been, okay, chicken nuggets every night or something. But it's like, you know, now that you only have them, like for that week, you probably are putting on the, you know, it's putting on the reds type of thing. It's balls to the walls for seven days straight, and then the kids leave. And the other thing that I underestimated is like, I can describe many things about my marriage that I can take it or leave it, but there at least was a second set of hands. By the end of the day, you know, you're just tapped, right? We have these tiny humans that we're trying to raise and just make them good people.

That's what I want, good kind people. And I do, I put every ounce of me into that. So I underestimated when I got divorced and became a single mom, how over-stimulated I would be by the end of the day. And now my kids are a little bit older now, so they're a little bit more self-sufficient. But I just find that when they leave, I don't want to cook. I don't want to clean.

I don't want to take care of anyone else or anyone else's big feelings. I need to fill me up in that period of time so that when they do return in a week, I can go back to being a really exceptional mother, which I am. Yeah. No, I get that. I do. I mean, I didn't have kids when when I got divorced. So it was, you know, having children now later in life and post-sivorce is a totally different experience for me, right? But, but I do know, like, I go, I go host things on the weekends and stuff like that. And I don't, other than me missing them, I don't feel the mom guilt, right? So like, I go and I'm like, oh, I'm going to go have this really fun, you know. And then when I come back, I'll be even a more energized than excited dad or something. But I know my wife, I know Canyon would probably be feeling so much guilt, you know, going away and just doing the dumb stuff that I do. But, you know, when you said that, Joan, about what you were watching, I will tell you, I watched Friends reruns all the way through.

And it was because for me, it was funny. It was, I didn't have to think too much. It was very high level, right? So it wasn't like I was having to, you know, see something that's going to make me cry. You know, it was like, I'm going to stay happy. I'm going to stay light. And I found myself drawn to that. I did, however, find myself musically going down weird rabbit holes.

Like, that was when, oh, my gosh, the band, the script had just come out, you know, and it's like, you know, that's not, when your heart breaks and don't break even. I'm like, I know, right? You just never know which personality you're going to get fresh out of grief and divorce. Like, am I going to be a crazy person or am I going to be a sad person? Am I going to be a kind person? Well, I'll be joyful, happy, and free that day. I don't know.

I really avoided like love stories. And one of my top 10 favorite movies is the notebook. It's that like, it's that one for me that like every time it comes on TV, I will always watch it. Doesn't matter how many times I've seen it. I will always watch it. But I could not. And really, y'all, like I'm like almost like four or five years post like separation divorce was final three years ago. I'm just now to where like I can read like a love story or like sit and like tolerate like a love movie because I'm so like I don't know maybe I'm cynical and I'm jaded now I'm like oh it's bullshit that's not real there's no way they like each other that much there's no way they can stand it you know like I I'm jaded so like I have to like I went through my crime

crime docu-series time where like everybody was getting murdered oh there you go that's see I always worry like I tell a lot of my buddies I'm like you know you know you're in trouble when you come home and your wife's watching you know murder like this is what happens when you know, the wives who kill their husbands type shows, you're like... With antifreeze and their coffee. Yeah. A true psychotic would watch it right before bed, so. So I was kind of the opposite of you, Deanna.

I don't have a problem watching love stories because, like, I still have my love story. Like, he was my person. I lost him because he passed away. So I still love a love story, but I look at it through a different lens now. Like, I think, well, this ever happened to me again, not like I'm jaded. I know it can happen. And now I look at it and I go, like, did I have my one and only, you know, or, you know, am I, am I with the right person now?

Like I, you know, I, it's hard to have had the one and then try to find somebody else. Like, it's hard to like get those feelings back. It's impossible not to compare, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, it is. And I really try not to because it's not fair and you can't ever live. And you know what the other thing about when you lose somebody, you forget the bad parts. Yeah.

So it's been five. years for me and I only remember the great things about John and which is crazy because our our marriage wasn't perfect by any means. I mean, you know, we had lots of, lots of stuff that we went through. I mean, you know, we were always in love, but we went through some shit and everybody does. And I only remember the good stuff. Like I remember him like in like it's at such a level now that it's really unrealistic the way I remember him. So it's so not fair to compare. Man, I wish that was the case. I only remember the bad stuff, Bob. I only remember. I'm like, sorry, I have to rack my brain to be like, how did I end up with that person?

Yeah. Well, I mean, that was, and that's the difference, right? I mean, you know, in my divorce, too, what was interesting was we, we just grew apart, right? We were living on opposite coast. We never had like that, you know, that catastrophic moment or anything like that was more like a, wow, what a bummer when I were here, you know, and so it was never, like, I still speak fondly of her and I know she does of me. And so it's like, you know, that kind of situation is a little different than what you went through to, Deanna, obviously. But I was going to say, Joan, not to be flippant about what you were saying, but I remember saying to someone, they were dating someone who had lost their spouse, like they had passed away. And I remember saying this. We were talking one night. And I said, man, it's, it's really difficult. And again, I don't mean this. I hope this doesn't. You won't offend me. I was like, it's really difficult to compete with a ghost, right? And people say that. And I was like, you know, because when people pass away, and that, and that's, I think, the biggest difference between loss and divorce. There is that dividing line where, you know, when someone dies, it's like there's so all these things we didn't get to do yet, right? Whereas when you get divorced is all these things that I wish we hadn't done or whatever.

You know, it's like just differing angles of those feelings a lot of times. Or like death, you don't choose that. You don't choose like that kind of loss. And the thing is when somebody passes away, when somebody dies, your future kind of goes with them. So, like, I remember, like, all my future revolved around John and I being together and the things that we were going to do together. And our kids are growing up. And our last child was in college when he passed away, right, you know, he graduated right as John passed away. And so, like, all of the future kind of disappeared.

So it left in. Like, with him, like, my future looked like a black hole. I just have no concept of it. When you get divorced, I imagine, and I could be wrong, you guys can tell me that you see a future that's happier. Like, you're like, okay, it would be a way. from this thing that's been making me unhappy. Eventually. Yeah.

I just have to get to the next side and find that like happiness. So I still like, you know, I have a hard time seeing what the future looks like still. Because I think so many years with him. Like we were together for over 30 years. Yeah, that's a lifetime. It is. It is. Yeah.

It's interesting how you all have the same like grand scheme of the word in grief, but the different layers of what we have each experienced. We've walked a similar path. in the fact that it is this one thing. But there are so many different branches to it. You know what I mean? Yeah. No, it's so true.

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with some good binge watching, right, and some good movies and some good TV shows. And Joan, you mentioned one. Well, we have one in common. I know you have another one that you mentioned that you had watched, that you really enjoyed. And why don't we talk about that one first? Sure.

So it's a book club. And I think that it was kind of an iconic film just because the actors and actresses that are in it are like the elite Hollywood. So it stars Diane Keaton and Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steinbergin, Craig T. Nelson, Nielsen, Andy Garcia, and Don Johnson. Okay, so the men are all handsome and awesome. Well, not all handsome, but they're all, like, iconic. And the women are like kind of my generation, maybe a little bit older than me. Maybe not. I don't know.

I didn't look up their ages. I think Jane Fonda's a little older, but I hope to be her one day. And so the actors and actresses are iconic, but the theme of this movie is so good because it spans across so many, like, themes of love. So there are four women who met in college. And you see just a glimpse of that, like, who they married, what they did, career path, one becomes a judge, three of the four get married. and it shows them now 40 years later at their monthly book club event, which really is very little about books and way more about drinking wine and challenging each other about where they are in life and like what they're doing.

And one of the books they decide to read is 50 Shades of Grey. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Yeah, good book. Bob, did you read that? I just kept to know. Do men read that book? Men did not read. Well, I shouldn't say that. I didn't read that one or the vampire thing.

I didn't read that. Oh, I loved both of those, Bob. but gave women everywhere the gift of sexuality. It's just like it just put it right out there in the open. It's like the door is now open. So anyway, so they read 50 Shades of Gray, and it eventually has them all kind of questioning their own, like, intimacy and, like, what they're doing in life.

And so it takes you through, like, the journeys of almost all kind of loves except for somebody that has had just a normal, you know, lovely, easy marriage kind of thing. So starts out with one of the themes is a woman who was never married. Okay, so and of course, I know you can probably guess this is Jane Fonda. And so she had never been married and she finds, she happens to out in the wild meet a man that she had had a relationship with when she was much younger and him trying to rekindle that relationship. And her clearly had never been married was kind of a corporate woman, had this fear of commitment.

And even though you could see that there was a huge credit. connection. And she was allowing it to be physical, but wasn't really allowing the emotional part of it to happen and how she navigates that later in life. Like, this is her second chance and she figures it out at the end of this movie. I don't want to, like, spoil it for anybody. But it's just really interesting how she navigates it. And then there's Candace Bergen, who is, I bet you can guess, she's like the court, she's a federal judge. And she has been married, but they're divorced. And he is with a younger woman she discovers. And how, like, that is such a hurt on your ego. And, and And she decides, with these pushing of her friends, that she decides she's going to date online.

And it shows the funny online dates, which I know we've all had. And it should probably just be a podcast all by itself, people's bad dating stories. And she's right in the middle of those and how she meets the young new girlfriend, who they end up being engaged and all this. So then that's another thing. Then there's a theme that I really related to. So Diane Keaton plays a woman who recently lost her husband. and he's been gone for a year. She has two grown daughters, and her daughters are treating her like she's really old.

And they're saying, you should come live in Arizona with us, and they're trying to convince her of this. You don't feel like she's old. She feels she's funny and she's fit, and she's drinking wine with her friends, but hasn't gone down the path of dating again. And she's kind of allowing them to talk her into that she's, okay, getting old and that they're going to need to take care of her. And they convince her to come to Arizona to see the basement apartment they've made for her. and she meets a man on the plane. And so she meets him out in the wild. It's the dream to meet out in the wild.

Does it ever happen anymore? I just want to know. So she's on this plane. And I always picture it could happen on a plane, right? So she meets him on the plane and she really likes him. And she is making an effort without turning her daughters that she meets up with him. And they track her down during a date and like derail the whole thing. And she leaves the guy.

She's feeling immense guilt about dating after only being, after only being, you know, widowed for a year and about the, the daughter's making her feel guilty. Like, you've only been widowed for a year and how could you do this? And she's feeling these terrible guilt and leaves the love interest behind and how this all comes around to her now coming back to the fact that she's really not old. She does have a second chapter. She's entitled to it and she tells her daughter's that and, you know, she has her second chapter. And then lastly, we have the woman who's been married for the whole time. She's still married to the guy.

but they're going through like life changes like as you get older. So this is all about women getting older and about like the relationships and they're getting older and he's retiring and all of a sudden he is not interested in having sex anymore. And she thinks it's her and she's trying to dress up in sexy outfits and she's trying to recreate their connection and he isn't going for it because it's all in his head. She's even, she even sits him a Viagra in one part of it. And he's walking around, you know, with this thing happening down there and he's like pissed at her. He's not happy about it. He's not excited to have sex with her. He's mad at her. So it just goes through kind of all the themes and how they all come around. And you know what? The biggest thing for me in this thing is that

it's all about community. So they have each other to like bounce things off of and to challenge them. And it makes me think about my group of friends. And, you know, I have groups that I go out with, you know, at least once a month that, you know, we kind of check in with each other and we keep keep each other accountable, that we're not letting our lives just become boring and that we, you know, are still doing things in our second chapter of life that are meaningful and keep us involved and give our life meaning. And it seems like, like, of all the things, I loved all the love stories and the love connections and how they kind of all figured things out, but I loved their community and that they relied so much on each other and that they got each other to the place

they needed to be. That's nice. I like that. I did not get to read 50 Shades of Grey, nor did I want to. Bob, you should read it and give you in Canyon some ideas, man. Maybe they don't need it. Canyon Reddit. Oh, yeah. But you were happy. She loved it.

Here's volume two. Yeah, Bob, you reaped the benefits of that one. Let's be honest. It's not a bad idea to be the guy when now your wife comes home from that book club. Yeah. A couple of glasses of wine in. Look what I learned, honey. You want to try it?

Yeah. Paint in our room, red. A little tipsy and with a witsy. And with a whip, I don't know. Why do we have a red room? This is strange. But yeah, I think it's so funny, you know. I mean, it's interesting, too, because I love that Don Johnson's in that movie and then

his daughter is in 50 Shades of Grey. Yeah, I know, like, kind of a weird crossover. And I love that connection, too. But it's a good movie. And Don Johnson is hot as can be, even like the, like, salt and pepper beard and gray hair. He is still hot. And Andy Garcia, oh, I just, I don't think he's, like, super great looking, but he's so damn sexy.

Both still studs. He's great in Landman, too. I think Andy Garcia's great in Landman, too. He is so good. So I think that they, like, hit everything just right in this movie. It does a great job of, like, watching the parallels of different lives and not, you know, missing anything that we all kind of experience in, like, real life. You know what I mean?

I say that because we're not living a movie, but it really gives us the experience of real life. Yeah. And also the friendship, you know what I mean? the peace on friendship, the way that women bond when they're going through. And I'm sorry, not to discredit men, Bob, but the way that women bond and we walk alongside each other and lift each other up on days when we can't do it for ourselves, I love this movie. I think that was a great pick, Joan. It was really good.

I'm so glad I got to talk about it today. So maybe kind of bring it back. I think it came out in like 2018 or something. So maybe it'll bring it back to people's mind and people will stream it. You can stream it. I watched it on Prime last night. it was for like five bucks. Diana, you have one too that you had as a go-to, didn't you?

Yeah, I did. You know what? Okay, so I told you no kids this weekend, and I'm going to do all the things to fill me up, and that starts by being, you know, on my couch in one direction. Looks like a comfortable couch, by the way, if that's your couch behind you. Right? I love that couch. And there's room for Bob and I.

Bob, you're ready. You guys all come over a weekend. I can put one there and one vertical and then one, you know what I mean? What's fine? I'm a good share. I'm a good shareer, you guys. I'll bring apps. Yeah, there you go.

Yeah, I am always looking for the next good binge. And what I am turned on to right now is a show on HBO called Divorce. Okay. Apply named. I know. All right. I'm not so sure it would be something that I would have jumped on, but I am always looking for suggestions of good shows.

And I'll tell you what, I really liked it. I love Sarah Jessica Parker. She's one of the main characters. I am the girl who grew up. on Sex and the City, loved her, loved the show, loved these women. You know what I mean? I do struggle with seeing Sarah Jessica Parker in different shows and movies and not just seeing Carrie Bradshaw. You know what I mean? So Sarah Jessica Parker plays this woman, Francis, and she's married, but she's having this affair. She participates in her divorce and it kind of blows up. There's some really big names in this

show and I kind of love when they do that. Just give us one or two people that we know from several things and then build the rest of the characters. I have issues and I love to build relationships with the people that I am watching in a show. I need to feel attached, you guys. Like maybe it's because I'm old and single, who knows, but I need to like feel attached to these people. I struggle with infidelity storylines. And that is kind of what is taking. place on this show. It ran for three seasons from 2016 to 2019, so I had never heard of it before. But this is what I will be binging for the rest of the weekend, you guys. I loved the character dynamic between the friendships and as well as her and her husband. So I am the type of

person when I am binging a show, I need to be hooked by episode two, three tops. or I'm out. I can't finish it. I need to feel like I know somewhat of what is going on and feel attached to the show. And I will say I only got into the first episode. And they're quick. They're not long. Like maybe, I don't know, 30, 45 minutes, really easy to watch. But within the first episode, I got so much information, right, about herself, her marriage, her friendships. Like, everyone's lives seem to be falling apart. And they're at that stage of life. where they have been married for, you know, 20 or 30 years. The newness has worn off.

The opening scene is like her brushing her teeth and her husband comes in. And he's like, there's not a bathroom. And it's taking too long. And I had to poop in a Folgers coffee canister. And you can just see the complete, like, Sarah Jessica Parker is unbothered in this moment. But you also see her doing, you know,

she's like a normal woman. She is like looking at her eyes. She's, you know, pulling her skin back, seeing how she's just getting older, right? She lifts her shirt. She's looking at her boobs and those girls never hang like they used to. Listen, you know what I mean?

I'm almost 45. So I just like off the bat related to her and her character. And she's been married to this man who's obviously, you know, he's older, he's gained a little weight. The sex isn't as hot. You know what I mean? The things that happen in marriage and long-term marriages and stuff like that.

And then they go to their friend's house for dinner. And it's just straight chaos. It's her birthday. Everybody's really drunk and there's some dancing. And she's fighting with her husband, who she literally cannot stand. They cannot stand each other. He stands up and gives a speech and he's like,

this woman is the worst, but like happy 50th birthday, babe, I got you a dog. And she's like, what the, you know what I mean? So the friend accidentally shoots the husband. And that's where chaos ensues in this episode. And so from that moment, I was kind of hooked because for me, I believe it shared the reality of how challenging it can be in partnership.

And like, don't get me wrong, I believe in companionship and partnership. And I know we opened up this episode talking about that and some of those good memories. I'm not sure that I have ever experienced like a real loving, healthy relationship. So I don't know that I know how to do that. I don't know that I've ever had like my greatest love. I would like to hope that that happens for me. But I'm not so sure that I have experienced that yet. And so what I loved most is like you see these.

people experiencing, you know, what is real. Sarah Jessica Parker is having an affair with a guy who you wouldn't picture her with. He's not attractive. He's hairy. Like, he's kind of got a belly on him, but she's like getting down. She tells her husband, chaotically, she wants a divorce, and then she comes home and he finds out about the affair. And that's where the episode ends in episode one. He locks her out, change the locks on the house. She rolls up. The snow is falling. It looks very pretty. And he's like, hey, babe, I called your buddy and like, I know, cats out of the back. So you can go screw yourself. And he is like angry. And he was like, I'm going to tell the kids, they're going to hate you to have a good life. And that's where the

episode kind of ends. And like, I haven't been cheated on in a really long time. But I do unfortunately know what that pain and that betrayal feels like. And for me, I felt that coming off of him. Like he was like bitter, resentful, angry, and he is like letting her have it. And the episode ends right there. She kind of leaves. And I wanted her to kind of like bust through the door and break the glass and like come in like a heroin, but also she's not, right? She was having an affair on her husband and it's just straight chaos. And I guess I'm at a season in life where like my life is super peaceful right now. So if I can have some chaos vicariously through this of my television show, then sign me up, HBO, I'll do it.

I want to watch it now. Yeah, you totally hooked me, and I'm thinking, do I have any hours this weekend where I can put it into this? Because I'm a binge watcher. It sounds a little like you. I like to watch like five episodes. Me too. They're like, do you want the next episode?

I'm like, yes, next episode, yes, yes. Don't call me for the next six hours. I am busy. Do not disturb. I think we're all like that. Netflix is all monsters. I know. I know, but you know what?

you really can get like kind of like you're almost like part of the story like because you're watching so many hours and I'll look at my clock. I'm like oh god it's 2 a.m. Oh, I should brush my teeth. I got to go to bed. This is ridiculous. I did that last night actually. I know that last night, two nights ago. I got stuck watching something that is nothing along the lines of what we're talking about called mayor of mayor of Kingstown. Oh, I've heard of it. Is it good? I've watched one episode, I think. Yeah. I think it's why I couldn't even like I couldn't even get my thoughts together yesterday to do anything and watch anything. But yeah, it's really good. It's got Jeremy Renner in it. And it's like, it's based in Michigan, actually. And it's kind of crazy. And it's like a

crime thing, isn't it right? Yeah, it's kind of crimey. Yeah. I like crimey. Yep. I think all divorced women go through a little true crime saga. Just imagining things were different. Yeah. I say it outside the canyon whenever we're fighting. I'm like, you know, your parents know, your parents know that if I go down a flight of stairs, I didn't do it on my own. You didn't trip. I'm like, just put on a good trial. Like, that's all I need. Just a good trial to, like, watch someone. Bachelor pushed downstairs. It was a dark January night. We'll side with Canyon. It's fine. We're going to side with her anyway. I know you guys, well. But like, she's the great addition. Yeah, we love, we love your wife. So, sorry, Bob, you're out. It's so great how she's, like,

always included on all the events. Like, Bob comes, you know, because he has to be there. But, like, she gets to come and we all get to, like, be with her and have a good time. I'm the reason for the invite, but she's the reason why we're actually there. Yeah, we know that. The Hard Rock Bet Casino app is here, Ontario. And with a name like Hard Rock, you know you're in for an experience you can only get here.

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Yeah, it's reading. It's called reading. So we don't like to use that word anymore. Okay. A panel of New Yorker cartoonists. Have you guys done Terry Gross's Peloton class? No!

I've been dying too. I'm so sorry. I'm seeing a reading of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Audra McDonald's at the Wonderland Bookstore on 14th. That's crazy. I went to the Wonderland Bookstore yesterday, and I heard Nora Jones do a reading of Zero Dark 30. No way. You have to come to the last bookstore, though. Kim Cottrell is reading the guitar tabs of yesterday. A panel of Eurovision participants. And we do a little Halloween sometimes.

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five-star weekend. So this is one that I think is, I don't know. This is one that I got all the feels watching this one too. and I loved it because basically long and the short of it, it's on peacock, long and the short of it is, this is one that a woman's wife, or I'm sorry, husband dies unexpectedly. And she decides, kind of like what we were talking about earlier, Joan, where you were at when your husband passed, you're like, I don't want to sit here and go down these rabbit holes and be depressed, right? So she's like, I want to have the greatest weekend ever.

And she's become like this famous chef. type of baker and does all these awesome things. And so like she's making all this great food and her friends come in. And it's all these friends from different stages of life. One in particular who's from almost like a fan, right, who is very recently in her life. Yeah. Twist that we will address.

But there will be spoiler alerts, guys. So if you're going to want to watch Five Star Weekend. If we address that theme, yes. People know you need to go la la la la la la la. La La La La La La La. Yeah, we'll get there. We'll give you the la la la hand signs. But why don't you take it away, Joe? Tell us about this one. So she decides to host this weekend on her own. I think her daughter is going through some stuff.

She kind of kicks her daughter out of the house a little bit, but her daughter keeps returning. But she is like trying to heal. And again, like a sense of community. So it's all about like inviting some community back in. And for some reason, she decides that she's inviting people from different parts of her life. So from like childhood, college, professional life, and now this person that has been a fan of hers online. So she does a lot of her cooking videos online. Maybe all of them. I think maybe she's an online, like a blogger. Like, yeah.

An aspiring food person like myself. Yeah. Like she's doing these beautiful, like decorating the table kind of things. She really is good. It's fun to watch. And so she invites these people from the four. parts of her life, and they don't really get along very well. They're all kind of competing to be her best friend. And so, like, the high school one is nasty to the college one and da-da-da-da-da. And in the long run,

she's kind of fed up with them all. She's sick of them. And they're all in different bedrooms of the house. The house is gorgeous. She lives, I don't know, like on long, I know, like in the Hamptons or something. Is it worth that? I was going to say Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard. She's on a beautiful ocean on a clip, this gorgeous house. She has a great life, except for she's lost his husband that she was deeply in love with. and that story kind of unravels. And that becomes very interesting because they're learning that the story that she has in her head isn't the one that really existed out in the world. And they're kind of trying to help her through it. And things are just going bad.

And they all have their own stories. So they all have their background. One's having marital problems with a very domineering husband who keeps calling her and like, why aren't you answering your phone, you know, and like mean to her. And she's really subservient. And now she's coming out of her shell. she's blooming a little bit amongst this, like, great community of these other women. So it just is such, it was another one that I think I watched eight episodes in, I think, one night. I couldn't stop watching it because the way that the story unfolds, it unravels in a really good way that you have to watch the next one.

Like, you can't just leave it there. Okay, jotting this one down. Tell me the name of it again. Five-star weekend. Yeah, it's even a good one for guys. I mean, I want to hear that. Yeah, you know, I'm one of those guys. I love rom-coms.

Like, I'm that guy, right? So this, this like was one of those things that, you know, I don't think they necessarily make any of these types of shows for men specifically. I've never seen one anyway. No. But it's like, I actually like this kind of stuff because, you know, you're watching it. And I love the guy who, you know, never left the vineyard or Hamptons or wherever it is that they're at. Did you love him?

And he comes around to fix things. And he's like the one that got, she was the one that got away for him, right? And so he's there. And he's perfectly fine being by himself. He doesn't, he's not like, he's not like pining for her. But at the same time, you can tell he still loves her. And he's got this very special place in his heart for her. And, you know, so you're like watching all these relationships unfold.

And it's like, it's just, it's just very, I mean, I know it's still kind of, it's still a movie, but it's very real. Like, it's very relatable, you know. This is weird for me. But I will tell you guys honestly, like, if you were to tell me the, the spoiler right here, it would not ruin it for me. And I would still watch it. And in my mind. It doesn't ruin it for me ever. But we won't ruin anyone. We won't. We won't do a spoiler. But we'll just say this. There's a huge, there are several twists, but there is a huge twist that

occurs with one of the friends and that is there for the five-star weekend. And it is definitely worth the watch because it does catch you off guard. Like it kind of all of a sudden you're like, what? Where did this go? And you see it sneaking up throughout the episode. And then you're like, yeah. You're like, this can't be true. Okay. I'm going to watch it. You guys see you've sold. me. I will watch it. I will add it to my list after I finish divorce. I want you to text us and tell us what you think. Okay. Okay. I'm going to watch it this weekend in all of my free time. You know, I'll say this too. Jennifer Garner might very well be a younger Diane Keaton. Like Jennifer Garner plays herself. You're right. Doesn't she? Yeah. Always smiling, always positive. Like, okay,

we can do this. Even when things are going down the drain, she's still positive and we can do this. Yeah. She is so nice. I flew her once when I was pregnant and she rubbed my belly. She is the nicest person. Yeah. I know her. I know her through Greg Grunberg. I'm totally jealous right now of both of you. And she is such a sweet person and she gives of herself to her charity. She gives of herself to her community. I mean, you're right. Deanna, she's her children. Yep. She is like the epitome of like living her best divorce life. Yeah. Right? She provides a house and a home. She don't need no man. sister's thriving. But she's still there for her ex-husband when he needs her, even though he went off to marry Jennifer Lopez for a couple weeks.

Oh, no. And then undo that. Done with her now. Yeah. It's like unbelievable. But she's always still there for him too. Like they still have a friendship. It's like, you know, it's like the perfect, I don't know, it's a perfect storm, I guess.

Yeah, she's not bitter. I was going to tell you guys, so I know you mentioned the notebook earlier. And I have to tell you this story. So I had never watched the notebook. I have never watched it, by the way. Don't you guys have that movie when it's on TV? You will always watch it. Well, I have, I want you to know I have watched it now, and I want to tell you how this came to pass.

So I meet Jess, I meet Canyon, my wife, and at the time she was living in Vegas, because she was opening, she was the director of opening operations for this company, and they were doing, they were opening a casino, a new casino hotel property. And so she had a condo there. And I would come in on the weekends to see her, right? And so I come in one weekend and she's exhausted because she was like, up all night, like doing other things and she had to be there a certain time. So, uh, she puts it on. We lay, we lay down on her bed to watch this movie. I don't know what movie it's going to be.

She puts it on and then falls asleep with the remote like tucked in here. And I, I come to realize it's the notebook. And this was like a running joke with us. I'm like, I don't, I'm never watching that stupid movie, you know. So I start watching the movie and oh my God, I hyperventilate. I'm crying so hard. Like my, I'm like, oh, ha, ha, I'm like, let me. I wake her up, you know, and I am so, dear.

She's like, did someone die? Yes. And I'm like, yes, someone did die. Absolutely. And I'm like, if you're a bird, I'm a bird. Right. Who doesn't want that? I want to be a bird.

I want to be someone's bird. I get it. I totally get it. It touches all of those like toxic but yet passionate parts of what we dream of relationships being like they love each other endlessly to the death. and like the passion and the sex is amazing and they're doing it in a house with no, you know what I mean? It's like that that's the unhealthy version of what I dream relationships to be like that.

You know what I mean? But I'll watch it every single time. That's the kind of love that I want. Like it's a high bar, right? If you get to that point, I think. But no, but it's just like I'll never forget watching that. And it's one of the things we laugh about now is like, we were only dating at that time. And I'm like, oh, I'm like, why would you put this on?

You know? And I'm like dying. crying, I have something in my eye. And then they dated in real life. They won an MTV movie award where they mimic the scene where they kiss and it's all raining. Who does not want to be manhandled

like that in the rain? And they're making out and they're so hot. And then they mimicked it at the MTV. I think it was MTV Movie Awards years ago where she runs across the stage and he's so hot. You know what I mean? He picks her up. She's got the one leg up and they make out. It looks so dreamy.

Sell me that. I want that. That's what I want my second portion of my life to be like Bob. So introduce your girl to your friends. That's what I'm looking for. I don't have any friends like that. I can promise you that. But I wish I did. That's why I have to be very careful the shows that are movies that I get obsessed with

because it runs me down the rabbit hole of like what is not realistic. You know what I mean? Life comes in sessions and waves and it's, you know, always moving and changing. And relationships have to do that. And when you find a good partner, companion, hopefully, you're able to do that together. But that's what life kind of teaches us. Right? No two people are the same.

And when I watch movies like The Notebook, it gives me this unrealistic expectation of what I believe love to be and what I think I need in my life. And the truth of the matter is it ebbs and flows, right? Sometimes we're not on the same page. Sometimes the sex is not mind-blowing. Sometimes we are tired and exhausted trying to keep our children alive and make good humans. You know, life is always in session. And I have to be really careful, me personally, with stuff like that, especially as a single woman in the second part of my life. Because then they start idolizing that.

That's what I think that relationships need to match up to. Well, I feel like that's why you need to have like kind of mindless movies. Like my one that I will always watch, I have two that I will always watch. One of them is Mrs. Doubtfire. Okay, that is the, just, just, and it has like heartfelt moments and it has, like, great humor and has him loving his kids, but like, you know, willing to do anything for him. And it's just so, so, so funny. And I will also always watch elf. So those are right. Yeah. Like, you watch really good movies like the notebook. I watch Elf. Yeah. Leph is one of my favorite. Elf is like, elf is like, that's a great movie. It is a great movie. The kids and I watch that all the time at Christmas and then they think they're allowed to say bad words. And I'm like, well, no, no, no, no, no, no. My kids think I'm elf. They honestly think I am worried. I can see that.

I can see that. I bet you do. Oh, my God. I feel like where I catch up the most on, like, things that I'm missing on TV is when I'm flying. And I have a long place because I live in Maryland. So I go back to L.A., back and forth to L.A. a lot. And I most recently watched the entire, I think almost eight seasons of shrinking. I probably watch five of the eight season.

Have you guys seen shrinking? I love that show. I've never seen it. ever seen it. Oh my gosh. You have the watching of your next five weeks alone, like ready for you. You're done. You can just write it down, program it in the TV and just get a glass of wine and don't do it. But tell me a little bit, like, you heard me say I need to be like sold by like episode two, three. So like give me like a short synopsis of what I'm expecting here. Okay. It's three therapists who practice together. Harrison Ford is ahead of the practice.

Anyway, one of them who's kind of the main character in the beginning, has lost his wife. She's died. And he has a daughter who is angsty, very angsty. And he is very awkward around her because she's so angsty. And they have a neighbor that she's kind of flocked to, a woman who's kind of like been her replacement mom. And he also, Harrison Ford is now dealing suddenly that he has Parkinson's and he's becoming a little more disabled and a little more feeble. And him going through that. and him finding kind of love through his doctor.

And it's just really, I'm trying to describe, like, it's a comedy. It's definitely funny. It's a comedy. Yeah, it's a comedy, but it's got a lot of heartfelt moments. Yeah. You know, a lot of like, yeah. I wouldn't say it's a dromity either because it's not really a drama, but it is. It's not.

It's funny. Their next door neighbors are hilarious. I love them. Who's the woman? Who are they? I can't know. I don't know any names of any stars. ever. Okay, well, I'll try it. I feel like we didn't sell it well. I just keep a running note section in

my phone. I just need like good shows to watch. And so I like will keep it in my note section. I'll give it a shot. I'll try it. I so did not sell that well. It's really, really good. Bob, can you redo my sales for that one please? No, you were so good. I was so bad. I'm watching it. It really was. It was a watch one episode. I will watch it. I will give it a shot. I will give it an honest shot. If you tell me you liked it and you thought it was good, I will give it an honest try. I will buy you dinner if you don't like it. Joan, I love dinner. I love to eat. She's going to say she doesn't like it even if she loves it. It's a win-win for me. Yeah, there you go. Just try it. Okay, just try it.

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The only difference between me and her, frankly, was a little bit of luck, because by all rights, I should be dead. Cases that everyone else called closed. They can't convict her, right? Like, she has so much evidence. These stories all start in the same place, with a woman failed by a system that didn't believe her, that didn't protect her, that didn't see her.

No child should ever experience that. And we were babies. She did all of these brave things and came out and spoke about it, and he got a year. You never know who that devil is because he's wearing in disguise. Sometimes it's a police uniform. Listen to what happened to her on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Lisa, we should tell them about our new show.

Oh my God, Lexi. We have a new podcast. It's called Don't Lie to Me. I'm Lexi Youanu. We're two best friends, 22 years apart, but so close at heart. And I'm Lisa Di Giulio, the old one, which means we have wildly different references, occasionally different opinions. And at this point in my 50s, I've lived at all. I'm not going to get anyone fighting.

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Let's talk about some other great ones. You guys ready? All right, I got a couple here. Actually, I was going to say, Mr. Mom is one of my favorites. Oh, Bob, I love it. I love it. So good. Yeah, Michael Keaton.

I use lines from it all the time. Like I literally just said to Canyon the other day, I'm like, babe, if you need me, I'll be at the gym or the gun club. All you men have these stupid one. Do women two one liners? No. No. No. No. I'm bad with sayings and movie quotes and all of the things. Do not ask me what movie is from. It's not going to register. So Kenyon's pretty good. She's good. I've gotten her to match me line for line from like horrible bosses. The movie horrible bosses. I love that movie. Also good by the way. Yeah, I love it. So once they're about this kind of stuff though, we got, okay, this one came up earlier. How Stella got her groove back? Listen, listen, we got to have a whole sidebar right now. How did you get a group back, Deanna? We could have a sidebar.

Tell me, Bob. Tell how they got the group back. I don't know how Stella got her group back. I heard it was with a mountain back. I do. I know how Stella got her groove back. Do you think there's a lot of validity and getting your groove back? I think that, well, okay, I can only speak for myself, right?

I did not ask for divorce, so I came out of there, kind of really wounded. And I walked into marriage feeling really, really. independent and powerful. And listen, I don't think I'm an unattractive woman. I, you know, but like, I think that like I have a pretty good face. It took me some time after divorce to want to even be in the company of the opposite sex. I was not, I didn't have the emotional capacity to take on another grown man who needed me to hold his feelings and his stuff. I was just like, I needed to like just care for me for a really long time. So it took me some time.

And I would say that when I was ready to entertain someone of the opposite sex, but also not do commitment, I'm thinking of the best way to like say this right now. Were you on a whitewater rafting trip perhaps? Or maybe you were on a hiking trip. No, I was in a mountain town for work. And we spent like four or five days. And I was at this bar. met this cute like 30 year old.

And I spent a few days with this 30 year old man. And I understood. This is a standing notice. I understood how Stella got her groove back. Like once I left that mountain town, I got exactly what I needed. He was very kind. Thank God he didn't murder me and kidnap me and hang up my body parts to dry out in the woods. Yeah.

Yeah. I was safe. And I spent a few days with a young man who told me I was pretty. and had the most amazing sex. And I left there thinking, oh, I'm not dead inside. I learned how Stella got her groove back. There you go.

I love that. I mean, really, like, you needed a healing moment, and it just was kind of served up to you. And you, I mean, you had to do it. It wasn't your fault. I needed something at the time to just remind me of what a powerful, woman, I am, right? I am attractive, I am kind, I am loving, given the right situation. I am

loyal to a fault to myself. And I just needed, I just needed to get my mojo back, you guys. And it sounds like you did. I did. I did that I did. Now, I'm still single, mind you, but. There's no shame in that game. Doesn't mean you don't have your groove. Believe me, I am not shameful in it at all. I am living my best life. You know what? I don't come home and no one disrupts my peace. I don't have to do anyone else's dishes. And when the trash needs to go out, it goes, out because I do it. That's right. That's right. I like it. I like it a lot. A lot of freedom in that. Honestly, I don't even know how we talk about anything else other than, you know, now that we've touched on that. Because I wanted to hear about the mountain man and we got

to hear about the mountain man. So I can see what you're doing. You're trying to avoid Bob what we know about you. And I'm pretty sure you gave a few women their groove back too in your time. So like, don't play coy on me, Bob. Bob Guinea, do not play coy on me. I've said it many times. I heard it When I got into the Bachelor Mansion, when I was the Bachelorette, I asked everybody, who was the most naughty? And they were like, Bob Guinea. No, gosh, no, nope. Come on. Oh, Bob.

I am nothing. I am a gentleman. And although I did find it funny to say, I may have given a few Stella's their groove back over the time. Where your badge of honor, Bob? I can't unhear that now. Badge of honor. Although I will say this, you know, guys got to do it too, right? Like, you know, I don't know what the, you know, Stan had to get his groove back at one point, too, right?

You go through a period of time where you think, you know, the feelings are not mutually exclusive, right? Like a guy goes through a divorce too, and he's kind of like, well, what the hell's wrong with me? I got to figure out what's my vibe and who I am again because, you know, and I think everyone does it, right? Like you go through that transition in your life from whether it's losing your partner or divorce or whatever it might be, and you get to that point where it's like, okay, I got to figure out who I am moving forward. And maybe, maybe I am the dude who says if you're a bird, I'm a bird, right? Maybe I'm that guy.

Maybe I don't know. Maybe I'm a little more elf. Maybe I'm a little more, I don't know. I want to be a bird. I can be a pigeon. Do you know what I mean? There's a lot of birds out there. A blue jay.

I'll be a bird. Yeah, terradactyl. I mean, there's a bunch of different types of flying things. It doesn't do my arms justice. You know what I mean? I'm not trying to eat them afterwards. You do have lovely, I mean, yeah, you have the lovely wingspan. Lovely wingspan.

Well, I hope we gave everybody listening, you know, some good ideas as to what to do this weekend, what to watch this weekend, what to drink in. And especially if you've been going through some relationship stuff, you know, there's definitely a lot of good stuff out there that you can watch. It hopefully inspires you because it definitely inspired us to talk about it. I know I love both of you women so much. And I just think, oh, you know, I just saw one. Grace and Frankie. Did you guys ever watch that one? Oh, I love it.

I did watch that. That's a whole series, too, that I could watch like all weekend. I loved it. Your girl Jane Fonda, right there. Loved it, loved it, loved it. I think I had anything for Jane Fonda. This is disturbing.

That's what we were talking about earlier, right? It's like we love Jane Fonda. I love her. She's so good. Well, I know I've said this to both of you. I know I said it to Deanna when we were together in Tahoe too. It's like, you know, divorce isn't easy, even if you want it, right?

Divorce and loss are definitely not easy. And if you're wanting to date again, but you don't know where to start. Well, we want to help. So send us an email, leave us a voicemail, all the infos in the show notes. So make sure you follow us on the socials. It's I do part two,

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