REACTION: 9021OMG Episode 13
Monday’s “9021OMG” podcast covered the 11th episode of “Beverly Hills, 90210.”
In “BYOB,” Brandon (Jason Priestley) and Brenda (Shannen Doherty) are introduced to partying and drinking at Donna’s (Tori Spelling) before throwing a party of their own while Jim (James Eckhouse) and Cindy (Carol Potter) are out of town. It all culminates in Brandon getting into a drunk-driving accident and being arrested. There are also subplots with exes Kelly (Jennie Garth) and Steve (Ian Ziering) hooking up while David (Brian Austin Green) continues to pine for her, and Jim and Cindy being hit on by a couple of swingers.
The hour was directed by Miles Watkins and written by Jordan Budde, whom I’ve mentioned before also worked on “90210.” So what did Garth and Spelling think of their roles in this episode? You know they had a lot to say… and most of it was actually on topic for a change.
9021OMG Episode 13, “Let’s Practice Kissing”
Jennie: “It’s another installment of your favorite podcast, everybody.”
Tori was said she couldn’t keep her eyes off Jennie’s sweatshirt... because she was wearing the new “9021OMG” merchandise. Of course, we couldn’t see that, though.
Tori: “We want to see you wearing us!” Jennie: “That would be fun — everybody wear our merch, that would be so fun!”
Sisanie: “There was a lot in this episode, ladies.”
Jennie: “This episode was like — so many ‘what the F’ moments for me.”
Jennie then wrongly said it was episode 12. I imagine someone gave her that incorrect info. It’s episode 11.
Sisanie: “The episode starts with peer pressure, just right out the gate.”
Jennie: “I love an episode where there’s a party, where there’s a big house party... I loved it.”
Tori said shooting such scenes were “fun,” because even though they were long days, they were on location. She further said she loved shooting at the home that served as the Martin residence.
Jennie: “Just watching this episode, I feel all the fun... like we were actually at a house party. It was so fun with so many background actors and all the drinks and the food. We really gussied up for a party back then.”
They marveled over how they were “dressed to the nines” for the party and also mocked Steve’s look a tad.
Tori: “Ian loves a good turtleneck.” Jennie: “We just have a problem with turtlenecks.” Cue a small tangent on turtlenecks.
Tori: “I think I have lint in my wine.”
Jennie: “I might go on record — it might change next week — I think this might be my favorite episode of season 1 because it was just so fun.”
Yep, drunk driving (while underage, no less), is TOTALLY fun.
Tori: “I’m in agreement with you so far. Because, you guys, as you know, we’re starting over just like everyone else. We’re watching this for the first time consecutively together. And I agree, this was totally my favorite episode so far. There was so much eye candy!”
Jennie named the episode’s writer, surprisingly, making that two weeks in a row.
Jennie asked where they’re watching the show. She and Tori are watching on Hulu, and Tori pointed out they’re eventually going to reach an episode that isn't on there. Sisanie is watching on Amazon Prime.
Jennie wanted to know because she’s sick of the commercials that interrupt her stream.
You just gotta upgrade, Jennie. I imagine you can afford it.
Sisanie suggested the episode numbers may also be off on Hulu because — as I pointed out above — this is actually episode 11, not 12. Jennie: “11, 12, who knows? It was the one with the party and the booze and the drunk driving.”
They brought up the “mysterious guy” Donna was with at the party and wondered where he came from.
Tori said when she watched the scene of her dancing with the dude, it took her back to the filming of it and she realized she had wrongly thought it took place later in the series.
Jennie liked the dude and thought he looked “comfortable and fit right in and looked like he belonged there.”
Jennie: “What was the story with that guy?” Tori: “I have no idea. No clue.”
Tori said she was eating in one of the scenes because she was in the middle of a “hot snack” break when she was called back to set.
Jennie, again: “I liked that guy. I liked the looks of him.”
Jennie: “Let’s just talk about the parents. The parents set it up so that they clearly think Brandon is the more responsible one because he’s the boy and he’s a minute older, whatever. And poor Brenda, she’s, you know, the over-dramatic, easily influenced, impressionable, quote, one. And then things change.” Tori: “A reversal of fortune.”
Jennie: “This basically tells me that I know jack about my kids.” Tori: “Do you know Jill, though?”
Jennie went on to say that as a parent, you trust your kids and think you know what’s going on, but alas, you don’t.
Tori called it “sad” and said she “felt bad” for Brandon at Donna’s party: “He made the wrong choice and that was sad because he had so much peer pressure.”
Jennie: “But he was kinda being a Debbie Downer, I gotta say, at Donna’s party.”
Tori suggested he was just “socially awkward,” but Jennie said he didn’t seem awkward to her, but was just “lurking in the shadows.”
Jennie: “But I really appreciated it when he does loosen up a little because old uncle Steve spikes his drink there. Who does that? Who gives the guy that says, ‘No, I’m good, I don’t wanna drink,’ who gives that guy some booze?”
Tori: “A dick. Steve Sanders. But Ian’s reaction, though, when it like hit him and he actually felt bad... but he still did it.”
They all liked Kelly saying, “My mother drinks, I sip.”
Jennie: “Brandon was dancing. Did you see it? I almost lost my you-know-what.”
Tori somehow missed that, but they all liked how it was consistent throughout the series that Brandon didn’t dance. Tori suspected it came from Jason personally not wanting to dance.
Tori: “I don’t think I’ve ever seen Jason dance, like even in real life.”
Jennie brought up the girl Brandon was dancing with and Tori loved the character’s name, Feena Farris.
Jennie: “That was one scene. She was just in one scene. This beautiful actress, one scene, made a lasting impression on all of us because I remember from that day forward the Feena Farris dance.”
Jennie apparently tried to demonstrate, comparing it to a chicken.
Tori: “Wait, stop it. That’s where the story came from? It was from this?”
Seems like this was some kind of inside joke the rest of us are just becoming privy to, one that even Tori didn’t know the origins of even though “consistently, everyone would talk about it for 10 years.”
Jennie: “You guys have to rewatch it now and watch her dancing with him. Just watch his face while she’s doing it. He really does not know what to do. It’s so good.”
They laughingly speculated this is what caused Jason to tell the producers he wouldn’t dance anymore. Jennie: “Feena Farris ruined him forever, for 10 seasons of no dancing.”
Guess they’re all in for a shock when Brandon dances later this season.
Sisanie was shocked that the party had slow dancing while Jennie was shocked by the fancy drinks and Tori was shocked that they were using real glassware.
Jennie: “I was really kind of disappointed in Kelly, though, I gotta say. She made a bad choice there.” She was referring to Kelly and Steve’s hookup.
Jennie said that was the scene for which Ian infamously made her “practice” beforehand.
Tori: “I think fans have heard about this notorious ‘practice kiss’ scene.” Indeed we have.
Tori noted how it was recreated in the unauthorized Lifetime biopic and Jennie had “no idea” it was included.
And despite Tori acknowledging that the story is already known, she nonetheless prodded Jennie to tell it.
Jennie said she wants to speak to Ian about it to see what he remembers.
This would’ve been a good time for them to plug their virtual event that Ian is taking part in, but they oddly didn’t.
And so Jennie told the “practice kissing” story for the umpteenth time. She said it was a “lovely kiss under the circumstances” and claimed not to remember if there was tongue, which Tori and Sisanie didn’t believe at all. But she said he was a good kisser.
Sisanie and Tori wanted to know if she felt “tingly” afterward or had butterflies. Jennie: “No, I’m sorry to say I didn’t. Only because he was already like a brother to me. I just loved him on such a different level, so it was just weird, weird, weird, weird.”
Tori gave “kudos” to Ian and called it “amazing” that he got this “young starlet that’s super young and hot and sexy, but of age, though,” to makeout with him.
At this point, Sisanie said, “We’ll have to get his version when we do the live podcast.” Jennie: “What if he doesn’t remember it at all?” Tori: “He does!”
Tori noted how he’ll be able to provide the “boy’s perspective.”
Tori went on to ask Jennie if she had a moment of wanting to say no when Ian asked to practice. Jennie: “Yes! I had a moment of like, ‘Where the fuck is Tori?! Why am I in here alone? Why is this happening?’”
That said, Jennie thinks their practice “paid off” because Kelly and Steve “looked familiar with each other” when they kissed in the actual scene.
Tori: “It was a two-second kiss!” Tori said she hadn’t remembered that it took place at Donna’s party or that it was so quick versus being a full scene. Sarcastically, she added, “But you’re right. It looked totally familiar from five minutes before that in the garage [where you practiced]. It was awesome.”
Jennie said she was “all hot and bothered now,” which Sisanie said was the “perfect time to take a break.”
After the break, Jennie said Brenda kissing Cindy goodnight after she had been drinking was a “freshman mistake.”
Tori said the mom waiting up with a book or a snack was what her own mom always did: “You always go straight up to your room. You never lean in for a kiss.”
Jennie said that it’s a rule for her daughters that when they come home, they are to come into her room and kiss her goodnight. Tori: “Really? I’m gonna have to take note of that for when my kids get older.”
They all had a laugh over Cindy and Jim’s matching tennis outfits, though Jennie actually liked them.
Jennie thought Brenda was “so sassy to them” even though she was the one getting busted and in the wrong.
Sisanie: “In her defense, she’s always being attacked and always being accused... she’s got to build up this wall against her parents, so that’s why she’s always so snappy.”
Sisanie pointed out that Brenda didn’t rat Brandon out, to which Jennie in turn pointed out that, at the same time, “he didn’t have her back.”
Jennie: “The whole thing was a sticky situation.” Tori: “Leading to an even stickier situation. Dun, dun, dun...” Jennie: “Which one?” Tori: “The house party.” Jennie: “The house party.” Tori: “At Casa Walsh!”
Jennie said she “recognized so many of the background extras” at that party and remembered them like they went to high school together.
Jennie said they should talk about Jim and Cindy’s trip before they dissect the house party.
Jennie thought Bob looked like Colonel Sanders and called him and Trudy “Mr. and Mrs. Colonel Sanders.”
Jennie: “They were real cute, though. I wanted them to be my neighbors.” Tori: “They’re swingers!” Jennie: “Yeah!” Sisanie: “We are finding [out] so much more about you now.” Tori: “We’ll be right over.”
They thought Brenda’s curls at the Casa Walsh party were very out of character, even though they looked good.
Jennie liked Scott’s line about the same people ignoring him at school ignoring him at the party.
Sisanie called it “huge” that David got to dance with Kelly and Jennie joked that Kelly used him and then “discarded him like a used tissue” when they returned to school.
Tori: “I guess I just was sloppy seconds then, right?” Jennie: “He just had goo-goo eyes for Kelly for a while and then all of a sudden he didn’t anymore.”
Jennie asked if they had names for drinks at their parties and asked Tori if she remembered “Purple Nurples,” which apparently was a combination of things that ultimately turned the liquid purple, at which point you drank it. She then said (joked??) that it might turn your nipples purple, which is why they called it a “Purple Nurple.”
Superfan Sisanie wanted to know if they ever drank on set and seemed to be surprised when they said no, the drinks did not actually contain alcohol. Sisanie: “I always wondered that with actors. Is there ever a little bit?”
Jennie said there would be “booze flowing in the dressing rooms,” with Tori saying it would happen on night shoots with the Peach Pit After Dark.
Tori said it didn’t happen until they were all legal, which prompted Jennie to exclaim, “I was 19!”
Jennie said Tori was afraid of getting in trouble and urged her to “tell the people the truth. We were loaded!”
Tori said this reminded her of sneaking wine in the trailers during “BH90210” and feeling like they were going to get caught.
Jennie insisted, “We were doing our jobs still. It didn’t get in the way of anybody’s ability.” Tori: “It never got like that. You never got wasted. We would have a cup of wine or a cup of beer.” Jennie: “Get you a little loosey and have a little fun.” Sisanie: “Just like this this podcast from time to time.”
Tori said the “boys would be into tequila shots,” and then asked, “Are we gonna get in trouble?” Jennie: “You’re definitely gonna get in trouble. I’m not gonna get in trouble... give them my number, I’ll take care of it.”
Jennie brought up the hot tub scene with Jim and Cindy and declared, “I love men with hairy chests in real life and now I know why!... Maybe it was Jim’s fault. Did you see that hair sweater he was wearing in the jacuzzi?”
Tori: “James Eckhouse is never going to guest-star on our show.” Jennie: “He should be proud of that!”
Tori compared it to the iconic photo of Burt Reynolds (who cameoed on “Beverly Hills, 90210,” but of course they didn’t mention that) posing naked on the animal rug.
Tori: “Good for him that he could grow that! I’m sure men everywhere wish they could grow hair like that.” Jennie: “You could like braid that!”
Despite her love of Jim’s chest hair, Jennie said she wouldn’t want to get in the hot tub with him because it “probably fell off” in the tub. Tori: “And you said I go one step too far.” Which Tori then did by bringing up “ball hair.” Yeah, that happened.
Sisanie liked Trudy saying, “I’ve been waiting all weekend to go around the goosey-goosey, ducky-ducky with you.”
Jennie loved Trudy and wondered what the actress is up to now. Tori said she felt like she’s seen her in a “million things.”
Jennie: “I thought Dylan was exceptionally strong in this episode... His character was really strong in this, as far as being who he was and not giving into the peer pressure that everyone was giving into but still supporting his girlfriend and his friend. He just felt like a really good guy in this episode.”
Sisanie called it a “180 from last episode” for Dylan.
Sisanie said kids have it “easy these days” if they run out of booze, because they just Postmates it. Tori thought this was a good thing, because it keeps them safely at home... as opposed to going out on a drunken booze run like Brandon did.
Tori: “There’s the boozy lining.” Jennie: “But Brandon didn’t have that luxury. He had to get in Mondale for the last time.”
That’s not the last time we see Mondale…
Jennie on the accident: “That was a fun little stunt sequence... I felt it was really realistic.”
Jennie on Brenda’s call to Jim and Cindy: “I don’t want to get that call when I’m in Palm Springs.” Tori: “That’s gonna ruin a swinger situation.” Jennie: “Yeah, that’s a buzzkill.”
Jennie said Brandon seemed really “remorseful, though” and thought the bruise on his face was very “realistic” — “Whoever did that makeup, good job.”
I’m half-surprised superfan Sisanie didn’t ask if the bruise was real.
Tori said seeing Jason in this kind of scene is “hard” now given that he almost died in a real-life race car accident.
I remember that day well. My dad called to tell me the news. I was at the mall and sat down on the dirty floor and cried.
Jennie was glad Brandon was arrested, but couldn’t believe he only lost his license for three weeks.
Tori was confused about Jim saying the legal drinking age was 18, apparently not realizing that it was, in fact, 18 before being changed to 21 in the mid-1980s.
Sisanie googled this and announced it to a surprised Jennie and Tori, the latter of whom was still a bit confused.
Tori made reference to their “notes” and I still wonder who is compiling them each week. I’d bet no one was the first few weeks.
Jennie: “This episode was heavy on the themes, though. Peer pressure, drunk driving, trust issues with parents. We had it all going on.”
There was a tangent about getting your driver’s license and whether it’s still exciting or not in the age of Uber.
Jennie said she taught her older daughters to drive and likes that they have a way to get home. She also believes they haven’t abused the privilege at all... but did wonder if she’s naive like Cindy.
Tori: “Can we talk about Brandon and Andrea kissing?” Sisanie: “We forgot about that!”
Jennie said that prior to watching, she didn’t know that happened in this episode and called it a “quickie.”
They said Andrea “didn’t hate it”... but she actually did. Still, Sisanie said the “sexual tension was so strong.” Jennie liked Andrea pushing him away.
Sisanie gave Andrea props for essentially asking Brandon out and Jennie gave her props for showing up to the party by herself, which all of them said they never did themselves. Tori: “That’s brave.” Jennie: “I still don’t go anywhere by myself. Is that weird? I hate being by myself out in the world.”
Jennie thought it was weird that the AA meeting was in a classroom and wondered if such meetings are actually held in high schools or if it was a “time and set saver” to reuse the school set as the meeting’s location.
Sisanie and Tori were stumped, but Tori compared it to the school having the help line: “I guess we have everything. We offer everything. Full service.” Sisanie: “Bev Hills.”
Jennie: “Donna, I thought, was a goody-goody. In season 1, Donna likes to party.” Tori: “Define ‘party.’” Jennie: “I just felt like first-season Donna was different. Did you?” Tori: “I’m sensing it a little bit after I’m watching this episode. I felt like they didn’t know what her character was, so they were still in the lane of the Beverly Hills party girls, popular party girls with Kelly and Donna.” Jennie: “That makes sense.”
Tori then joked that Donna started taking after her because she’s “such a sweet girl.” Jennie: “Such a little angel.” They then joked, “If they only knew.” Tori: “I've been hiding behind that character for 30 years. Let me out!” Jennie: “Don’t let her out. Please, I’ve seen it.” Tori: “It’s not pretty... but it’s fun!”
Pretty sure Tori was let out a longgggggg time ago.
Jennie and Tori referenced Tori’s “alter ego,” named “Teri,” prompting Sisanie to say, “Ooh, tell us more.”
Jennie asked Sisanie if she has an alter ego and she didn’t seem to.
Tori said Jennie’s “rarely comes out” and called her “so in control,” which Jennie downplayed as just being able to handle her alcohol, but did call it a skill she’s developed over the years that she’s “very proud” of.
Tori asked Jennie what her alter ego’s name would be and she said “Jinger.” Tori: “Teri and Jinger hit the town! A special episode of 9021OMG!”
Jennie: “Who are you gonna be, Sis, when we get loaded?”
Sisanie said she gets “sassy and loud” when she’s drunk, prompting Jennie to quip that her alter ego would be “Sasinie.”
Tori wanted something different, though, and Sisanie offered up “Sophia,” which met Tori’s approval.
Getting back to the episode, Jennie said, “At the end, though, when Jim hugs Brandon, I got all choked up... That hug just got me.”
Sisanie thought Jim and Cindy had an “interesting approach” by not really “reacting” when they picked Brandon up from jail.
Sisanie asked Jennie and Tori what they’d do in this situation. Jennie: “Now that I’ve seen this episode, I would try to act more like Jim and Cindy because I think that was the right way to handle it.”
Jennie said for the first time, she recently handled a situation “right” and took time to process instead of flying off the handle, and she wants to keep taking this approach going forward.
Jennie added, “I mean, I hope I never have to pick my kids up from jail, but you never know.” Tori: “I hope I never have to pick you up from jail... It’d be more like the other way around.”
Jennie: “I would probably call you if I got arrested.” Tori: “You know I don’t answer my phone.” Jennie: “What am I gonna do then?” Tori: “You better hope they give you a text too.” Jennie: “You don’t get one text when you go to jail.” Tori then joked that times are changing and you get one Instagram, one tweet, and one DM.
After a break, Jennie said the episode was “chock-full of meaningful [fashion] moments.”
They didn’t like Brenda’s crocheted top.
Tori was shocked by Donna’s bra top: “I have to be honest. If I had had my boobs done at this point, that outfit would be unacceptable. It was a little saving grace that it was like the small titty committee.” Jennie: “That was not your committee, by the way. You had boobs then.” Tori: “Look at them in this episode. You can see them. Because I’m wearing them at school in the hallway at my lockers on a full display.”
Jennie wondered what she and Shannen thought of Tori’s top at the time. Tori asked if they would’ve been judging her, but Jennie thought they would’ve been jealous.
Jennie commented on Tori’s tan stomach and Tori said the tanning salon was a weekly visit for her back then. Jennie: “You are going to regret that.”
Tori, still marveling over her outfit: “I think I was feeling pretty confident there.” Jennie said she had to be to wear that.
Tori: “There were a lot of buns in this episode. You and Brenda were kind of twinning in a lot of ways in many scenes. You both wore your hair up...”
Sisanie: “For some reason, Dylan and Brandon’s sideburns really stood out to me this episode. They were just so long and defined.”
Jennie said she hadn’t noticed while watching, but noted that their sideburns were a “thing” and “famous” back then, joking they “had their own fan club.”
Tori wondered what made the show’s hairstylists focus on their sideburns.
Tori and Sisanie said they always think of Dylan when it comes to sideburns, but Jennie said it seemed like a competition with him and Jason / Brandon, along with whose hair was higher.
Another line Jennie liked was Brandon saying, “Okay, don’t have a cow!”
Tori liked Brandon declaring, “All women want is sex. It’s disgusting.” She also liked Donna saying “hot and heavy.”
Tori also brought up Kelly saying to change the sheets in the guest house and Jennie wasn’t sure if girls actually talk like that: “Jordan, might’ve been a miss on the dialogue there.”
Tori said Kelly stopped with that kind of dialogue “once her character was more defined.”
Superfan Sisanie wanted to know how many times they had to do those scenes. Jennie: “A lot.” Sisanie: “Oh, really?”
Jennie and Tori explained “walk and talks” to her and the way it would be shot.
Tori said those hallway scenes were especially “hard” for her in the beginning because felt like she was working with two “alphas” and had to figure out how to be in the shot.
Tori: “Sorry, that was in my head from 30 years ago and now I just said it.” Jennie: “I’m glad you let it out.”
Sisanie: “Well, you guys have to let out a little bit more. We have two DMs we need to get to. This one’s from Frank.” Jennie: “Frank slid into our DMs.”
Frank wanted to know how they would’ve “handled social media if it was around when the show was at the height of its popularity.”
Jennie: “It would’ve gotten a little nuts, probably.” Tori: “Because we were so young, I feel like we wouldn’t have known what was appropriate, what wasn’t.”
Jennie: “Even doing interviews back then, they would give us kind of training on what to say and how to say if they felt like we needed it. And thank goodness. I think they probably set us up for doing well in that environment for the rest of our careers.”
Jennie: “We could’ve gone off the rails if we had the internet back then.” Tori: “Oh my gosh. Imagine the Instagram Stories that would’ve been posted.” Sisanie: “The selfies!”
I feel compelled to remind you all again that the internet DID exist back then...
Jennie: “Imagine how much the reach would’ve been for the show, how many more people we could’ve had watching it.” Tori: “Yeah, you guys, remember, we did this without social media. So we made a pretty lasting impression. No nothing, all on our own.”
That is a fair point: “Beverly Hills, 90210” was wildly successful without all the social media tools TV stars have these days to drum up viewership.
Superfan Sisanie: “And it took a while, right? Season 1 wasn’t necessarily, like, put you guys on the map right away. It wasn’t until, I think, summer of the following year when you guys started to do fresh shows during the summer when everyone else was doing reruns.”
Well, it was the summer of the following year in that it was summer 1991 and the show premiered in fall of 1990. But it wasn’t “summer of the following year” AFTER the year season 1 aired... that would be summer 1992 and season 3. Season 2 started that same year, summer of 1991. But maybe I’m splitting hairs.
The second fan DM, from Kristen, asked, “Have you ever had a celebrity tell you they are a fan of the show and it really surprised you?”
Jennie: “I would love to be able to remember who it was, but I can definitely remember being in that situation of being like, ‘Wait, you watch the show?’ Or having someone say, ‘Oh my god, I used to be so in love with Brandon and Dylan. I loved that show so much. I watched it every week with my friends.’ That doesn’t just come from fans of the show. We hear that across the board, whether they’re famous or not.”
Sisanie pushed them to name names and Jennie punted, saying, “Tor, you're better at this.”
Tori said the “only one” she could remember was Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Stiller eyeing her in Las Vegas and thinking Gwyneth hated her and that they were laughing at her... until Gwyneth came over and said they were playing a scavenger hunt and had to take a picture with a celebrity and Gwyneth said she was a “big fan” and asked for a picture.
Tori: “I still don’t know if they were laughing at me. But whatever. I’m assuming no because they’re both super-nice.”
Jennie said she couldn’t remember specific names, but said when she’s gone on talk shows and the hosts recognize her or are super-friendly, she realizes they probably watched the show.
I kind of feel like hosts are supposed to recognize their guests and be super-friendly…
Sisanie: “Had you guys met Bill Clinton — I don't know if you did or you didn’t — and he told you ladies, ‘I’m a huge fan of the show.’” Tori: ‘I want you in a blue dress.’ We would’ve been like, ‘Okay!’ What?!”
Jennie said she was supposed to meet him once at the White House, but she was late and when they arrived, they were told the president had to leave and so instead she met... his cat.
Tori: “You’re such a lucky girl.” Jennie: “I think that was more fulfilling for me. I love animals.” Tori: “You got to meet Bill Clinton’s pussy.” Sisanie: “Okay! I think that’s a wrap, ladies!”
Of course none of them mentioned that a fake “Bill Clinton” was on the show.
At the end, they got distracted again by Jennie wearing the merch because apparently the way it fit her made it look like her nipples were poking out. Since we couldn’t see, obviously, Sisanie described what was going on. Thanks for that, Sis.
Sisanie told everyone to watch the next episode.
Tori: “You guys, I think we should mention that our live virtual event is coming up and there’s still tickets available so get ‘em before they sell out, you guys. Our VIP event after is totally sold out. But we still have tickets available to watch the virtual live.”
...I still need to get my ticket...
Tori: “It’s our version of Galentine’s Day, but boys [are] welcome.” Jennie: “Just come. Come hang out with us.”
Tori said Ian will be their “special guest star,” as was announced last week, and Sisanie said they have “many questions for him.”
About 30 minutes in, right before they got to Brandon’s drunk-driving accident, I thought, “Wow. They’ve really stayed on topic. What the heck are they going to talk about for the next 30 minutes?” They moved through the episode’s storylines at a swift pace that didn’t feel too fast and wasn’t bogged down by ridiculous tangents. If they could stay this tight every week, the podcast could be an enjoyable 30-45-minute listen.
Of course they then got more off track in the second half, but all in all, this installment felt a lot more focused and streamlined. I want to say this is a step in the right direction and all that, but there’s been another week or two in the past where it felt like there was an improvement only for things to go off the rails again. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… well, time will tell.
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