The Long Talk

This feels like event TV for the first time in a long time. Maybe since “The Rehearsal”? Yeah, I think since “The Rehearsal.” Let’s see what good old Tim Robinson has for us this week:

• Jacki’s new hat!
• The weather
• 200 tulip bulbs
• Sunflowers
• We have a name now!!
• Logan’s tag
• Mandal
• The view at Union Assembly
• An update on the Youth
• Who’s Ron?!
• This episode had a red ball too
• Getting a freak out text
• Erabus
• Grace Reiter
• Logan doesn’t like the shouting
• Natalie’s emotional manipulation
• That guy reverse image searches
• 
  
• https://www.indiewire.com/features/commentary/tim-robinson-the-chair-company-fake-business-names-1235155192/
• Tara is named after her dad Terry
• Jacki is really into the word “loose” right now
• Ron hearing Jamie screaming in her car
• Why is Jamie trying so hard to follow so closely. 
• What it must be like to have Ron Trosper as a boss
• Jamie’s crashout was reasonable
• Jared Lindner the shirt guy (sounded kind of like he was trying to remember what Christopher Walken sounded like)
• Peeping Tom
• So many seagulls
• Jan’s Cafe is chaotic
• Is Ron good at talking to people?
• Wazey Waynes
• Anthony Fitzgerald and Conor O’Malley
• “making love with barbara in a soft bed”
• We need a montage of Terry and the Dog
• Ron’s sons backpack with the hat attached
• Event TV is fun

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Did Jacki continue to love Tim Robinson? Did Logan enjoy a whole Tim Robinson show at least a little bit? You’ll have to listen to find out. Here’s some stuff we/they (writing about yourself is so weird) talked about:

• Streamyard be tryin’ us today
• Franking
• Our experience with Tim Robinson
• Smiling Friends
• Comedy problems and youth problems
• Going into a show as blind as possible
• Open concept malls
• Logan’ secret relaxation theory
• Accidental upskirt
• Douglas and his bubble necklace
• Tim Robinson and Nathan Fielder working together?
• Grab Ass Parlour
• The wheelbarrow guy
• If a deviled egg shows up, poop is happening
• Elliot Smith

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This was a good movie:

Logan: 9/10 starz

Jacki: 8/10 starz

The Long Walk: Movie vs. Book (mostly babbling tho)

• Bocce Ball
• The Lincoln Factory: A+ Experience
• I get it now, Lazy Moon!
• ‘The Long Walk’ was more graphic than anticipated
• Slumber Party
• Belle Isle
• Better Made Butter Pretzels and Mushrooms are a great snack
• Luxury Lanes in Ferndale
• Best french fries of our entire life
• Logan’s relationship with McDonalds
• What’s your favorite nut?
• “Your Ad Here” Tattoo
• Kam Patterson on SNL
• Jeremy Culhane’s face very first thing on SNL
• Is the Long Walk ‘Speed’ but the opposite?
• The Hunger Games
• WHERE WERE THE CROWDS?!
• Judy Greer was incredible
• 50 Walkers vs 100 Walkers (Movie vs. Book)
• The Major
• Which end was better?
• Stephen King stories should be called Long Stories
• We missed the side of the road action
• Where was the betting?!

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• The Mandal Show: instagram.com/themandalman
• Jacki’s favorite comedy opening bit of all time
• The feature should match the headliner
• Cancelling Hulu
• Brockmire
• JImmy Kimmel
• Rapture content
• Logan’s spoiler was TINY
• Sydney smoking
• Oven jeans
• Carmy should write a cookbook
• How to become a Michelin star giver
• They are all the Bear
• Everyone should have a small percentage of equity in business
• Richie must have been so tore up when Mickey died
• The French Laundry
• Adult Time
• Would be fine if the show ended here
• Abby Elliot
• If Sam Reich comes out as a bad person, the world might end
• Jason Segel too
• Seth Rogen won so many Emmys
• Watch “The Studio” on AppleTV
• No Faks
• Tina getting her own Beef franchise
• The New Dexter universe
• The Long Walk
• Weapons
• What to watch on Dropout for newbies. 

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• Bear Market / Bull Market
• Chicago Financial - Sports Teams
• Logan discovers the crushing feeling that comes with being more emotionally intelligent than the majority of people around you
• Roommate laundry drama
• New Location Homecoming Fund @ Loreto (Venmo)
• Young Usernames
• Cisero — Ollie Platt
• Letterbox
• How do you talk to your parents?
• Your relationship with “Sorry”!
• Claire: Carmy’s Car — Caroy’s mom (Claire is to Caroy what Caroy is to his mom) for Retcon Caroy’s Mom, something like that
• Hit the Hoops
• Lucas — so hot!
• Spreading the beef
• Luca replacing Carmy
• Best New Chef
• And then there’s Bn Pete
• What about Riche?
• The Spoiler Mystery
• Screaming Females cover Shake It Off

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Logan looked weird

Logan apologizes

Nadga closes for a full week every holiday

Jacki’s yellow outfit panic

WhereLight.com (very good deal on cute glasses)(not a sponsor. I just like these glasses a lot)

Al Roker has one million pairs of glasses

Taheim Davis, optician

Logan’s broken glasses

Logan started working a real job

Logan looks forward to having nothing to report

The conversation has not happened yet and Logan is MAD

Watching shows week to week

spoilers

Jacki’s sound is messy, but then it isn’t?

the framing on this episode was who they wanna fuck

Richie and Jessica should have kissed

Another ‘Groundhog Day’ reference

‘Palm Springs’

Syd turns Shapiro down (woooooo)

Who is the main character, Syd or Carm?

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Face to face conversations

hot breath

Neither of us remember Carmy’s convo with Donna about pictures

Logan got “The Bear” confused with “The Good Doctor”

Logan does indeed take care of himself

(but don’t stop caring)

Luca prepping is visual asmr

Hops and Barley

Luca pep talking Tina

Will Tina stay in the BEar or join one of the Beef windows

Marcus not going in for coffee with  dad

Blindfolded wine taste test

Is Neil Fak gonna be a wine expert?

The BEar is phone sized

Syd searing meat

Richie is still at his first job

Neil training with Jessica

Microfranchising The Beef

Logan’s predictions for the penultimate episode

Is the house the same one Donna drove her car into?

Two Fak hot chocolate moments this season

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This was a good one, y’all. Here’s what we discussed:

• Jacki’s office upheaval
• Long ceramics project
• What is chemical X?
• Supercuts
• How was the Manitou comedy festival?! Logan tells us!
• The value of comedy festivals
• Geoffrey Asmus
• Jackie Kashian
• No fake friendships
• One of Logan’s favorite pieces of comedy merch
• WhiteComedian.com
• Logan changing his Joker Transplant show a bit
• Logan’s joke sticker
• Oregon Donor
• Conversation heart lollipops for Logan. What flavor should they be?
• Saffron lollipop - Richard Paulipop
• Jalebi!
• Maybe We’re Famous (youtube.com/@MaybeWereFamous)
• Maybe we’ll write a sketch for them?
• Festivals giving Logan confidence
• Comedy time is weird
• Best comedy cities
• Richie’s panic attack
• Is that really Brie Larson as Francie Fak?!
• Individual characters growth
• STOP SHIPPING CHARACTERS PLZ
• Feeling more romantic lately thanks to the Bear (especially Ted Fak)
• Going in on a painting together
• Wondering about Chester’s career path
• What is Chester’s Deal?!
• FRANCIE FAKKKKK!!!!!!
• How old is everyone supposed to be?
• Sometimes we go down tangents
• Ted Fak: <3 <3 <3
• Neil Fak and the hot chocolate
• Close talking
• Britta’s in this?
• Hot breath
• Syd and Donna’s conversation
• Ayo’s acting in the scene with Jamie Lee Curtis
• Is Lee living with Donna or no?
• Logan is mad for Carmy
• This episode was full of emotional moments
• Being proud of someone
• People read my blog? (Valleyofoh.com)
• Richie is the SAND
• Everyone hiding under the table
• Richie has grown so much (we say this every week)
• The selfie
• What is everyone afraid of?
• How to define a caper?
• Nathan Fielder has ruined child actors for Jacki
• Ted Fak fixed romance
• The Faks as chaos with peace
• Is Jacki a combination of Richie and Neil Fak?
• How many seasons of “The Bear” do we hope there are?
• Secret 11th episode of Game Changer soon? (yes, there was)
• Dropout is becoming more and more popular
• Crowd Control
• Eyebrows in tv and movies

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Notes

• Logan is getting a haircut
• Do you like getting your haircut? We do not
• Manitou Comedy Festival is over
• But this was recorded before it started
• Logan good bones
• Broken bones?
• Mouth bones are terrible. 
• Jacki’s Caroling Juggalos
• Are Juggalos just like mimes?
• https://www.patreon.com/ValleyofOh
• https://www.patreon.com/c/ReasonablyAfraid
• Syd at the hospital
• Iconic sound design
• Carmy breaking his promise immediately
• What the patient wants in the hospital
• Neil Fak and Sugar 
• Half a Fak
• FRANCIE IS A FAK!
• Claire and Sydney scene - you couldn’t get away from the emotion
• Sydney and Claire heal together
• Logan is a little mad at the show right now
• Why do people pat you on the back when you are in a spiral. 
• Touching people and being touched
• Nothing against Claire though
• Science part of being a doctor vs patient part of being a doctor
• Applause break for Claire
• No Pete this episode =(
• Tina and Sweeps
• Richie still trying to figure out his catch phrase
• Tina is wasting time… like about 8 seconds
• Portion control
• The Beef Boys!!!!
• The robot delivered a messy sandwich
• Tracks for a Fak
• Matty Matheson’s restaurant in Detroit
• Jessica and Richie talking about the bear (the stuffed bear)
• The beef between Carmy and Richie
• Richie has trouble accepting an apology from Carmy because he can’t accept an apology from MIkey
• Parents are humans too - A little bit late?
• Marcus is curious and creative
• Difference between cooking and emotional intelligence
• More Marcus story, please
• Marcus and Luca have a great working rhythm
• Syd’s dad is the only consistent thing in her life
• Richie’s emotional voicemail
• Voicemail technology - how does it work?!
• Did Tiff get the voicemail?
• Don’t do voicemails to us. 
• Logan’s confessions. 
• He got spoiled on TikTok
• Syd edits don’t spoil anything
• Shapiro’s calling
• The Faks smelling the baby
• What do babies smell like?
• Neil Fak “baby smells like” compilation
• We need a show: “Just the Faks”
• Sweeps was a baseball player
• Sugar is fueled by fear of resentment and guilt
• Just because you grow up in the same house witnessing the same trauma means the trauma is the same
• Shared vs. individual trauma
• Carmy agrees to go to the wedding
• Carmy is bad at holding the baby
• Every guest is family
• Olive Garden is gonna get mad
• 13 days left
• Is Carmy grooming Luca to stay at the Bear?
• Luca and Syd will be an unstoppable force
• Australian Survivor vs. The World
• The last Season with the best host ever Jonathan LaPaglia
• #GetJLPBack
• JLP needs to host something on Dropout
• The Match Game
• Press Your Luck
• Paul Walter Hauser
• Logan is bad at watching things
• Jacki is very good at watching things

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• Logan has a question right off the bat
• It is about TikTok and people making edits about things they like
• It is Edgar Wright related
• Baby Driver is a musical. 
• Jacki has a problem with the West Side Story remake
• Logan is secretly a huge West Side Story fan
• The Disney remake cycle
• Logan doesn’t know what Teddy Ruxpin is
• Manitou Comedy Festival!!!! https://www.manitoucomedy.com/
• Nina did Madison Comedy Week!
• Non-alcoholic comedy events
• Should we wipe EngErotics instagram?
• Michael Che’s Instagram
• Michigan is the wild west in a fun
• KATE BERLANT ON MY “THE BEAR”
• Logan does not know her
• This episode was very fuck vibey
• Camry’s reaction to the monologue at the beginning of the episode
• Frank LLoyd Wright house
• Compression and Release
• Lovely to see Carmy connecting with something other than stress
• Bautista from Dexter is in this episode as Tina’s hubby!
• Tina is making the kitchen her life
• Tina keeps leveling up
• The lamb dish will be Tina’s first dish on the menu
• The Teddy Bear and the White Squall poster
• Watching Richie struggle with no immediate solution is human
• Sweeps is still struggling
• Batting practice and basketball
• Syd calls her dad to ask about her “big knife”
• MARCUS’S ROOMMATE APPEARS!
• The parallels between the two house sale attempts this season
• Marcus thinks the only reason to sell a house is a bad reason
• Ebra and Albert mini-franchising the BEEEEEF
• Ebraheim deadpanning taglines from other restaurants
• Good advice: Think little.
• Carmy and Tina’s chill convo
• Carmy is the only one we didn’t see wake up at 6am
• The new dessert offering
• Luca’s back as a stage!!
• Is Will Poulter British?
• T-Pain knows how to use autotune correctly!
• Okay, but Syd and Luca are cute 
• Richie and Jessica is the only acceptable romance storyline
• The baby looking terrified of Marcus
• The Faks really want to hold the baby (especially Neil)
• We all love Matty Matheson
• Syd getting the news about her dad
• Francine!!!
• We are halfway through the season
• Syd needs to see something through even if it fails
• What will Richie’s catchphrase end up being? Or his big speech.
• Maybe TSwift or Maybe something from a movie - so many movie episode titles
• Who were the replicants this episode?
• No Pete this episode
• The Bear’s wifi password
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We’re back at it with another “Bear” recap!!

• Ceramics class gossip from Jacki
• Logan got booked for another show at the art gallery!
• Logan performing at a sold out show
• Manitou Comedy Festival - What is Logan most excited about?
• https://www.manitoucomedy.com/
• Only In Your State
• Logan has a problem with the term “The Midwest”
• How would you divide the country into four pieces?
• This episode was all Syd, written by Ayo Edibiri and Lionel Boyce and directed by Janicza Bravo of “Zola” fame
• Logan liked the episode but doesn’t like where it is leading
• It felt like a bottle episode
• Shapiro is creepy and perfomative
• Syd has Carmy on a pedastal
• Seeing patterns of goodness
• How big Shapiro’s restaurant was
• Open kitchens: do we like them?
• Do we trust Shapiro’s follow through?
• Shapiro is the Syd … like what Syd is to Carmy
• Logan has never worked at a Michelin-level restaurant
• Syd and TJ and the sleepover dilemma
• “Eddington”
• Carmy and The Bear have leveled up
• Pity invites
• You’re not going to be invited to a place where people don’t want you
• Stop being mean to show love. 
• Hamburger Helper
• Logan’s Hamburger Helper qualm
• Hamburger Helper vs. Unchewable meat
• Beef Stroganoff
• Catfish Campus
• Costa Rica 46
• Were Syd’s plans loose?
• Syd’s night out should be the long episode this season
• The pizza house and the stinky house
• “Energetically musty”
• Shapiro can go away with haste
• Watching one episode at a time is SO HARD
• The Beef feud
• The absence of a clock or timekeeping device
• Time did not exist in this episode
• When is the chaos coming?
• The Bear is a Calmedy this season
• Beef Slander
• Cicero is out of money
• Good Hair
• Has Syd even looked at The Bear’s contract?
• Excited to talk about the next episode at 2pm EST and 12pm MST https://twitch.com/valleyofoh

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