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Hallmark's The Chicken Sisters S2 E3 - Daddy's Home Ya'll

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Join Garry and Amy on this episode of Pour the Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time as they recap episode 3 of The Chicken Sisters season 2: Daddy’s Home, Y’all. Clayton’s back in Merinac, stirring up old flames and family secrets. Gus is hoarding feelings (and everything else), Nancy’s mission trip hits a patriarchal pothole, Frank Jr. dumps the frozen stuff for real chicken, and Amanda’s date tanks until Sergio brings the sizzle. Love’s messy, drama’s deep-fried, and nothing stays buried in Merinac.


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Amy:

Welcome to Pour the Wine. It's rom-com time where we'll sip some wine and review all things rom-com on the Hallmark Channel. I'm Amy.

Garry:

And I'm Gary and I'm pouring.

Amy:

It's time to pour the wine yes, it is Pour the cab into the glasses so I can have a sip-sip.

Garry:

Yes, a sip-sip.

Amy:

It's been a long day. Yes, it has.

Garry:

But we're through it.

Amy:

We're through it Almost.

Garry:

Yes, we are.

Amy:

All right. Today we're going to be recapping and reviewing the third episode of Season 2 of the Chicken Sisters Daddy's Home Y'all. It aired on the Hallmark Channel on Sunday, august 24th 2025, and is streaming right now on Hallmark Plus.

Garry:

Yes, it is, and we would love it if you would click that follow button on your favorite podcast platform so you don't miss an episode If you listen on Apple or Spotify. You can also leave us a review, and hopefully it's a positive review. Yes, yes there was that pause like yes it's a positive review, hopefully. You can also find us on YouTube and all the social media platforms.

Amy:

Or you can send us an email to pourthewineisromcometimeatgmailcom and let us know what you think about this season of the Chicken Sisters, or maybe the first season of. The Chicken Sisters or anything Hallmark-y related.

Garry:

We are here for it.

Amy:

We are here for all of it and we're about to get ready to go into the holiday season.

Garry:

Oh, I can't wait it's exciting.

Amy:

Yeah, we've turned the corner. Cooler weather a little bit.

Garry:

We're about to be busy.

Amy:

We're about to be busy.

Garry:

Yes, so tell us who's in this one.

Amy:

Well, I don't think we had any new faces in this one, but if you would like to hear more in-depth information about the actors who are in the Chicken Sisters, we do do a deeper dive at the beginning of Episode 1 and the beginning of episode two of season two and season one, if you want to go back and listen. We did at the top of a lot of the episodes as new faces appeared.

Garry:

So yeah, so I think we're good as far as that goes. Well, let's get to who directed this particular episode, and that was Norman Buckley. This is his directorial debut for Hallmark. He directs this episode and the next one.

Amy:

Oh, that's interesting, right. So episode three and episode four, yeah.

Garry:

Yeah, some of his other director credits include 18. Director.

Amy:

I like the way you say it.

Garry:

Director.

Amy:

Director.

Garry:

Includes 18 episodes of Sweet Magnolias, which we love.

Amy:

Yes, that is a great series.

Garry:

Yes, it is. I do like that. Two episodes of NCIS Hawaii we never watched that, Nope and episode of Once Upon a Time which we love that.

Amy:

We did watch that. Yeah, we love that.

Garry:

And 12 episodes of Gossip Girl.

Amy:

There you go.

Garry:

Never heard of that one. I've heard of it, but I've never watched it.

Amy:

Yeah, I don't think we watched it, yeah.

Garry:

And it was written by Addison Clark, which I tried to find some information about him on.

Amy:

Or her or her. Addison could be a girl's name.

Garry:

That's true.

Amy:

We're not sure.

Garry:

On social media and I couldn't find anything, so I apologize, or if you know anything, let us know. Yeah, if you know anything, let us know.

Amy:

Yeah, we did try to do a little digging right on IMDb and it was a little difficult to find. But if we do find it, we will talk about it at the beginning of our review of episode number four.

Garry:

Yes, we will Sound good. We don't want to cheat somebody out of their due Out of their credits.

Amy:

Out of their credits, but we just couldn't. That was a hard one to find, yeah it was, it was.

Garry:

So, is it time to drop the synopsis?

Amy:

It's time to drop the synopsis.

Garry:

Okay.

Amy:

Mae's dad, clayton, is back in Maranac and back in Gus's life. Amanda tries to start fresh by going out on a practice date, but is she ready?

Garry:

Ding, ding ding.

Amy:

I guess we're gonna find out a practice date? Is that what we call that?

Garry:

yeah, I guess I don't know you're good enough to go out with, but not good enough to be with getting back on the bike, trying to ride the bike again, I guess I don't know. Well, it's okay yeah, yeah, you gotta do it, you gotta do it. So what, what do you think?

Amy:

well, I think that I I thought it was a good episode. I didn't think it was a great episode I thought it was an episode. That was definitely. You know, we always say there are kind of episodes that are just sort of a means to an end, to get to the next episode so we got a lot of information. Yeah, you know a lot of you know you do kind of learn more about Gus and Clayton, and we do find out some more about Nancy and the pastor and you know we're kind of we're diving into May, so there was information and I thought it was good.

Amy:

I enjoyed it. Was it my favorite episode so far? No, probably not, but I thought it was pretty good. What about you?

Garry:

I agree I thought a lot of the past came forward. Yes, with Gus, with Nancy. Yeah, I thought that was really cool. I did like how they did that. I also liked the relationship with Kenzie or Lindsay Lindsay.

Amy:

Kenzie, you just make it up names now, or is that her? Is that the actress's name?

Garry:

Yeah, I like how that's starting to develop, because you're not sure if they like each other or what's going on.

Amy:

No, what's that actress's name? Do you have her name?

Garry:

Lindsay Lindsay's yes, it's Kelsey.

Amy:

It's Kelsey, so you kind of combined her actual name.

Garry:

I do Lindsay, lindsay's.

Amy:

Yes, it's Kelsey, it's Kelsey, so you kind of combined her actual name.

Garry:

I do that all the time. I thought it was Kelsey.

Amy:

I wasn't sure it was Kenzie, but okay, I just want to make sure. So that actress's name is Kelsey.

Garry:

Moima.

Amy:

Okay. And then she plays Lindsay.

Garry:

Lindsay Okay, and I do that all the time.

Amy:

I'll take the first letter of one name and put it with another one. Yeah, I just wanted to make sure we cleared that up. I must have dyslexia or something, I don't know. It's all right For poor Kelsey, all right, yeah.

Garry:

And I thought this one was more serious than the rest of the, even most of the episodes in one and two, because I felt like it was just all like drama. Serious, yes, and Shauna.

Amy:

She only cracked a couple of jokes and I'm like she was only in it briefly. Yeah, yeah, but that's all right.

Garry:

I felt like this was a filler episode, you know we're not going to Well.

Amy:

I wouldn't call it a filler episode. I would just say it was, you know, sort of like I said, a means to a net where it's information, that Information that's necessary to get to the next point in the series, so I thought it was good.

Amy:

Like you said, it was more serious. We didn't have. I mean, the narrator had some wise cracks, but not really too many in this one. They were more serious than the narration was this time and I still love the narration in there, which we'll talk about. But yeah, all right, so do you want to get into it? Yeah, let's do it.

Garry:

Let's do it, let's dive.

Amy:

I'm going to take a sip first. All right, how are we going to do this? Take a sip, take a sip, enjoy, sit back, relax. Hopefully you've grabbed your favorite drink too. And are enjoying your favorite drink while you're listening to us.

Garry:

Well, let's start at the beginning.

Amy:

All right. So we see Gus with her mom when she was younger. You kind of see it briefly and it's just her and her mom. And then her mom dies and she's all alone until Clayton shows up at Mimi's and they develop a romance. But he's a Franny's boy, she's a Mimi's girl, so they can't really be seen out in public. And then we see him. He's getting in the car with his parents once she becomes pregnant and he leaves. So they make him leave.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Because they don't want him to be committed, and he's going to be a superstar athlete, I presume.

Garry:

Right, they don't want him to ruin his life.

Amy:

So we kind of get that as the overview, and I think we forgot to mention the spoiler alert.

Garry:

Oh, yes, we did so. Spoiler alert If you haven't seen this episode, hit pause. Go watch the episode on TV, come back, hit play and tell us what you think when it's done.

Amy:

Yeah, perfect, there's the spoiler alert, Because we're going to talk about the episode and we don't want to give anything away, but we will give something away.

Garry:

Yes, we will.

Amy:

So this is your fair warning.

Garry:

Yeah, all right, so should we talk about Gus first.

Amy:

Do you want to talk about Gus's evolution during this episode?

Garry:

Yes, let's do that, let's do that.

Amy:

So I liked when the narrator said at the beginning she's like you. You know, men might have broken gus's heart but her children mended it. So we see this like tough exterior but you know, deep down her children really did help her get through that time, even though she's got this like wall right, you can't blame her.

Amy:

I mean dude left her pregnant well, that's, true in the kitchen pretty much that is true barefoot so and then we see, you know, kind of picks up at the end of the last one, right where she's in Mimi's with Clayton.

Garry:

Yeah, and I just love he calls her Gussie Gussie.

Amy:

I love that he calls her Gussie and he's smirking and you know he still kind of gives her the flowers and she's basically like you're here to see May and that's it basically, like you're here to see may, and that's it that's it. We're my ground rules. This is what you need to do. We're gonna follow on by and he's just kind of smirking like yeah, right, you know, which I thought was kind of cool yeah, because makes you think that you know they.

Garry:

This is where I was like maybe there's a different story going on here from what we've been seeing in episode season one, so I was really excited about seeing the rest of this transpire between these two.

Amy:

Right, you mean in terms of what the real story is Right.

Garry:

Because you don't see her like screaming and yelling at him. You know she's, she's happy to see him because she's kind of got that little smile. And then when he handers that bouquet of yellow flowers, but she's still hurt. She's still hurt. It's a lot of.

Amy:

It's a lot of hurt that he left and yeah, and you can kind of see that, so that is really good yeah. I mean, wendy Malick is great oh my gosh she's so good in this. I love her, love her so then, you see, you know, continuing on with Gus, she's, you know, we see her back at home and she's living with Nancy and Nancy realizes she's been, finds out she's been hoarding again. And it's confined to a closet.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

And it's kind of what we talked about last season is hoarding is a serious thing, right. It afflicts a lot of people and well, there's things underneath of it that reasons why they do it. And here you see, nancy is doing it as a coping mechanism because Clayton is back and she still has those feelings, right, right, I don't know the hurt she still loves him and he's still handsome. You know, he didn't grow up to be really ugly or anything, which might have helped a little bit.

Garry:

And she's wondering why he never came back or tried to get in contact with her.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, she doesn't know Right. All she knows is he just left, yeah, and never. She never heard from him again, and I love how Nancy, too, kind of hears her out and she's like what happened?

Garry:

right, because she knows something happened to trigger the hoarding again. So I just I kind of I did really love those moments between nancy and gus and they were really in this. Yeah, I, I really enjoyed that, those scenes, because nancy didn't understand why she was hoarding again and she was like oh, oh, my goodness, and there were some other underlying things that caused, I guess, gus to fall back into that.

Amy:

But Well, mainly it's Clayton being in town, mainly it's Clayton. Yeah, it's Clayton, because she you know Nancy's, like you were doing so good. I know you know what happened, and I think it's cool too, because you do see. Gus's growth because she admits that she's a mess, because Clayton is in town, right, you know. She admits that May's dad is here and I love you know Nancy gives her a hug you know which I thought was kind of cool.

Amy:

And you know Gus is so, you know, kind of stiff and has that wall, but she wants it, you know. So it's it's. It's really it's cool to see their relationship develop, much to Gus's dismay, right.

Garry:

Right and go ahead. Well, I was going to say that leads into her finding Nancy's photo book, which I thought was interesting, oh, in the closet, but that's when is that?

Amy:

when they start cleaning it out?

Garry:

Right, that's when they start cleaning it out.

Amy:

So Nancy helps Gus clean out the closet and then Right.

Garry:

That's when they start cleaning it out. So Nancy helps Gus clean out the closet and then Then that's when she. It's kind of funny because they're pulling things out and there's a little story behind each one. But that's when she comes across the book and Gus is like you know, she's really, you know, genuine about.

Amy:

oh, you're very pretty in these and it's when Nancy is younger, yeah, and she's in like the pageants and stuff.

Garry:

Right and Nancy starts to talk about how she should have, could have, would have type things going on and she had a trip but she didn't get to go because you know she had. I guess she got married to Frank.

Amy:

Yeah, did she not go? Because he didn't want her to go.

Garry:

He didn't want her to go.

Amy:

Yeah, that's what I okay. Yeah, yeah, want her to go or was.

Garry:

Yeah, that's what I okay, yeah, yeah. And then she kind of uh mentioned the trip, and then she talks about the trip with beau which then pastor yeah nancy kind of asked her a bunch of questions and she tells, nancy tells a man, um amanda gus, that it's going to be probably two months and you could just see the devastation. Yeah, you really could.

Amy:

I mean Gus, she's kind of like well, how long is he taking? Sounds like a kidnapping you know, or whatever, which is kind of funny, because it's her way of trying to deal with the fact that she's really enjoyed her friendship growth with Nancy.

Garry:

She won't say it that way.

Amy:

Instead she kind of makes a joke when nancy says you know she's gonna be gone for two months for two months. Um, yeah, I thought that that was really. That's really telling too. Yeah, and then go ahead no go ahead and then guess guess admits to nancy that clayton is may's dad because that's part of the photo album.

Garry:

Yes, because she sees the two brothers, Frank Sr so was that his brother or a family member?

Amy:

Am I? Because she said Franny?

Garry:

boys.

Amy:

Well, he could have been a cousin. Yeah, he could have been a cousin.

Garry:

But yeah, and it was funny because Gus tells Nancy that they were dating, that he was his boyfriend. Yeah, and she said that he was his boyfriend, his girlfriend.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

And she said if you were his girlfriend, then my mother was the queen of England or something like that, yeah, yeah, because she didn't believe it.

Amy:

At first she's kind of like yeah, right, she's, you know. And then Gus is like well, what would you have said if he would have been going out with a Franny's girl?

Garry:

And.

Amy:

Nancy's like it wouldn't have been good Right, it would not have gone well.

Garry:

So I thought that that was.

Amy:

And then I think that's when.

Garry:

Nancy or a May girl, if a May girl was going out with a Franny boy.

Amy:

Or Mimi Right, a Mimi's girl May.

Garry:

I'm getting my names all mixed up, we're just making up names tonight.

Amy:

We don't know, may Mimi.

Garry:

Mimi girl was going out with Franny's boy and she was like it would not have been good, it would not, no.

Amy:

And then I do think it's funny when Nancy's kind of like so how is Clayton? Did he, you know? Did he not age well?

Garry:

Did he not? You know, she's just kind of asking him, is he?

Amy:

you know, ugly Did he grow into.

Garry:

you know, does he have hair like a chinchilla, gus?

Amy:

is kind of like no, he's even more handsome, if that's possible.

Garry:

I know Because she reluctantly admits it. I mean you know.

Amy:

Yeah, and you can kind of tell the flame never really dies right?

Garry:

No, she still has a thing for him.

Amy:

Yeah, oh.

Garry:

That was a good.

Amy:

Yeah, so that was kind of a good Exchange Exchange between the two of a good Exchange Exchange between the two of them. I really like that, that scene of them, although it was kind of, you know, it was that scene and some other scene then back to them. Then you know, we kind of put it all together but, right, it worked. It worked, yeah. And then do you want to save the very last part?

Garry:

Yeah, we'll save the last part.

Amy:

Okay, so who do you want to go to next?

Garry:

Well, let's go to when May meets Clayton.

Amy:

Because I guess we kind of cover Nancy except there's a few more things when May meets Clayton yeah, all right.

Garry:

Sure At Mimi's, or was it Franny's? It was Franny's.

Amy:

It was Franny's.

Garry:

Yeah, so you have. You know, May's working at Franny's and in comes Clayton Right and he kind of tries to introduce himself and finally gets the nerve to do it and says you know, Well, he's so like awkward at first. Right, he's like hey. Because you never know how a kid's going to react.

Amy:

Well, and he doesn't. He's nervous too? Yeah, not, we're working here. A kid's going to react, well, and he doesn't. He's nervous too yeah, not just because of how she's going to react. He doesn't know. I think that was more about his awkward like he didn't, and maybe it was because he didn't know how she was going to react.

Garry:

Well, no, because you don't know what Gus told them. Yeah, that's true, you know, because there are things in real life that you know Things happen. But he introduces himself as Clayton Briggs and she's like oh. And he says your dad, I'm your daddy, I'm your daddy. And the look on her face was like what?

Amy:

I mean, I thought it was interesting the way they played that out, because he's seeing her for the first time as an adult, right. Because, he admits, the last time he saw her she was like two.

Amy:

That's later in the episode, but I don't know, it was just she's, I guess she's just. I like that. They made him a nice guy so far. I mean, we don't know his history, no, but I sort of like that. You know, it seems like he is nice. It seems like he is genuinely trying to get to know her. Now. Whether that's a ruse for something else down the road, we don't know, I hope not I. Oh, that was our dog she dropped a bone or something she dropped a toy, crazy girl. Um.

Garry:

I sound like a boom, that thumb thumb yeah um, yeah, but she, I think he's a good guy.

Amy:

Yeah, I mean it seems that way. It seems that way and I, like you know the narrator's like Mae didn't know what it felt like to win the lottery but she felt like she hit the jackpot because she's just been so desperate to find out who her dad is and you know, and find out things about him and his family, because she knows nothing and especially now that she's getting married she wants that connection. So that was pretty cool. And then I love when she finds out that he calls her Gussie. He refers to her mom and she's like Gussie and he goes yeah, because she used to get gussed up and she's like what you know? Like what do you? You mean and it's so foreign to kids sometimes you know to think their parents were different than what they know.

Amy:

You know they don't, they can't picture them as young and of course, gus, you can't, you know she's, so you know overalls and you know it doesn't care about getting dressed up and doesn't give a hoot about anything fancy, and so she's just totally, you know, flabbergasted by that, which I thought was kind of cute.

Garry:

It was cute, I liked her. But then this move on to oh, and the funny thing is is their mannerisms. They both had the same.

Amy:

Had the same manner. They made the yeah.

Garry:

Right, and she was just so in awe of her dad. Yeah, and I thought that that was, and the hug she gave him in the end yes, at the end when he was leaving.

Amy:

She's just squeezing him, and that was pretty cute yeah it was Yep, yep, yep.

Garry:

It was heartfelt.

Amy:

It was heartfelt.

Garry:

So let's talk about Nancy and the pastor.

Amy:

Nancy and the pastor.

Garry:

Interesting couple right.

Amy:

Right. So the pastor has plane tickets for him and Nancy to go do this. I want to say charity, but that's not the right.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

I can't. What's the word, what's the word we're looking for, where you go on like a mission kind of thing yeah, and you help build houses, but we don't know where. Right, we don't know where it's going to be and you can kind of tell Nancy sort of like, okay, that's great, I, you know, I really want to go. And this is the episode where you see her kind of struggle with she always wanted to get out, she wanted to go places, but she was sort of held back by her husband, you know by choice somewhat, but you know you can.

Amy:

you know, see the dilemma. She wants to go, but she doesn't want to go. She's nervous about it, and so you can't really tell where she is in her head space.

Garry:

Right. I mean, she's the type of lady that she's loyal but she wants kind of her freedom. Yes for sure. When her and the pastor were having dinner she's kind of nervous about the trip and he tells her well, you know, you're there to do support for me and I was like oh my god, so here we go. Yeah, that was and he's like and be your charming self yeah and um. You know she is his secret weapons.

Amy:

Yeah, I was like and I I almost think. I wonder too, though, if he meant it like to ease her nerves, like if you felt like she was nervous, like hey, you don't have to worry about anything.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

You just kind of go to support, you know. So I don't know if he really meant it.

Garry:

Right, I'll do all the talking. I don't know yeah.

Amy:

You can just lay back, don't worry about it.

Garry:

Well, she does come off as being shy and nervous.

Amy:

Right, right. But then she says I want to be useful, I want to make a difference, I don't want to just go and be your. Because that kind of triggered for her it seemed like Frank Sr Probably things that he held her back from doing. It was just kind of like be in the shadows. You don't make any decisions. You know, spoke when spoken to kind of thought process. But you know, I hope the pastor didn't really mean it that way, but maybe he did.

Garry:

Yeah, because I was kind of taken aback about it.

Amy:

I was like, oh no, I know, I was a little surprised when he said all you got to do is support me and I was like okay.

Garry:

But that sends Nancy into her rant in the railroad arm. And the mayor?

Amy:

Well, the mayor had apologized to her, which we had talked about during the review of the last episode, Because, remember I was like God, he's so mean to her.

Garry:

Yeah, you did.

Amy:

You picked that out? Is there a background, Like what's going on? So he comes up to her and he apologizes, and it's just like you know, sometimes I just get tired of dealing with people and she's like, isn't that? Your job as the mayor, which I thought was funny. I mean, come on.

Garry:

And then he says if she can get signature.

Amy:

You know, if she can get a petition of 300 signatures, then maybe they can get it fixed or whatever.

Garry:

So then, at the dinner with the pastor, she tells him you know, this is my mission now and you're going to be the first one to sign the petition, right?

Amy:

So I thought that was good for her yeah, yeah, that was good. So I think she's going to have that as her mission and I'm guessing she's not going to go on the trip with the pastor.

Garry:

But yeah, we'll have to wait and see, because he's leaving pretty soon, right like it seems like it's coming up within the next episode or two we'll see what happens. And then we have Frank Jr.

Amy:

Frank Jr.

Garry:

My man, Frank, that I love and hate. I know.

Amy:

So he causes a scene at church. He's like oh, look at all you people. You know, whatever he causes this big scene, which is really obnoxious.

Garry:

Yeah, why don't you all get dressed up and go down to JCPenney's?

Amy:

and take a photo. Take a photo, yeah, a family photo.

Garry:

I thought that was so funny.

Amy:

And then we kind of, you know, fast forward and he's in his restaurant. He's giving a speech to no one because he's still well one worker.

Garry:

Was it Jeremiah or no?

Amy:

Is that?

Garry:

Jethro, is that the name of?

Amy:

the co-worker, or whatever.

Garry:

The only worker.

Amy:

But what's interesting is he kind of comes to a realization too, that the frozen chicken isn't good.

Garry:

No, it's not going to sell.

Amy:

They need the fresh stuff. Sauce or no sauce, because he has eaten the chicken his mom has brought to him as an apology, even though he didn't accept the apology, but he took the chicken.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Right, which is their recipe, their family recipe, which? Can we talk about that for a minute?

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

There was a point where May said when Clayton first comes into the restaurant and she's talking, before she knows it's her dad and she's talking about the chicken recipes and she's like, well, it used to be Mimi's and Franny's and you know they did their own thing, but it was the same recipe and I was like I never thought about that.

Garry:

Nope.

Amy:

Because Mimi and Franny were together, and then they split up and they still use they each use the same recipe, but people would choose one restaurant over another, but it's the same recipe for the chicken. Yeah, I just caught that. This time I was like, oh my gosh.

Garry:

That was a good one, right.

Amy:

Boy, am I dumb? I never even thought about that. Like duh no you're good. So no, no.

Garry:

But it was funny, it just you know over my head.

Amy:

So, anywho, all right.

Garry:

getting back to Frank Jr, so yeah, so he tries to convince Christian, mr Chicken.

Amy:

Mr Chicken, yeah.

Garry:

That he gives him his mom's chicken, which is a day old, and he bites into it. And you can see that Christian likes the he likes the taste of the chicken. He likes it. Yeah, but he's not in it for that. He's in it to save money and make money.

Amy:

Well, he's did you say Frankie's made it. He didn't use the frozen chicken. He didn't use the sauces. He didn't use any of their ingredients. He used all fresh and what he knows.

Garry:

Right, well, that's what he did afterwards.

Amy:

Oh, after. Oh, you're right, you're right, sorry, sorry, sorry, because he gave him his mom's day old chicken he.

Garry:

He loved it but said, nope, you signed the franchise agreement.

Amy:

Yes, that's right and we're sticking with that.

Garry:

And then later on, frankie decides. You know what I'm going to make my own. Yeah, and that's when he goes into, you know, his own recipe, throws away all the frozen and the sauces and all that and he makes his own chicken.

Amy:

Well, and you kind of think, finally he's doing something, he's standing up for himself, he's you know, he's not being a total ass you know, in this moment I mean it'll come back. He was at the beginning and that's when the I had to look up the song Bad man by. Zach Bryan. That was the song that played during that, I thought that was cool.

Garry:

The music's good. Very fitting for that scene. This year I said this year this.

Amy:

I said this year, this season.

Garry:

So it's going to be interesting how he pulls that off with Kristen, Christian Christian yeah not Kristen, I'll call him Mr Chicken.

Amy:

You call him whatever you want. That name gets me all the time Apparently. You're just naming people, I know.

Garry:

I'm just naming people, whatever. I feel like it.

Amy:

Right, so he's come to that. Yeah, that was sort of his arc in this episode.

Garry:

In this episode yeah. So let's move on to Amanda.

Amy:

Amanda Ooh.

Garry:

And Eddie.

Amy:

Amanda, Amanda. So she goes out on her practice date with Eddie. Well, first she's getting ready, she gets ready, and-.

Garry:

Frankie comes in, she makes sure.

Amy:

Frankie's okay with it and Frankie helps her get dressed. So then she goes on this date and all she can do is talk about Frankie yes, her little baby, her little baby and things she did. And Eddie just wants to leave, doesn't want to be there because she doesn't let him get a word in and he gets that little.

Garry:

What is it? A buzzer or a vibration on his phone and he's like, oh what, Captain, we got an emergency.

Amy:

Yeah, and it's funny because he's been wanting to go out with her and then he was like bye.

Garry:

He's having nothing to do with it. What did he say when he left? He's like give me fist bump. And then he's like send me a Venmo or something. Send me a.

Amy:

Venmo, which I didn't like.

Garry:

I don't know, did he buy her a drink Did?

Amy:

he mean send him the Venmo to pay for it, Like you know how you send the QR code or whatever to people. I have no idea. I don't know. I wasn't sure what he meant by that.

Garry:

No I know.

Amy:

I mean, we know what Venmo is but we just weren't sure. We know what I mean the way he phrased it was kind of weird, yeah, yeah. So then she of course is sitting there, he leaves, and then who walks in? My man, sergio, yes, rico Suave.

Garry:

Rico Suave. Yes, he was Walks. A man walks into the bar. A man walks into the bar and that was such a great scene Because she was like, and the way he was talking about, I'm here to get my food, but if I don't leave it's going to get cold. And you know, he just is kind of rambling and she's like won't you have a seat? I'll buy you a drink. And that was so cute.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

And the way they look. Tell each other, but they hug each other and then they go their separate ways, and that's when the narrator kicks in and talks about things.

Amy:

Well, it's like they have different. They say goodnight, they almost kiss, but they hug.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

And then they kind of, when they're pulling apart, they almost kiss again, but then they do part ways and the narrator says nothing like a scrimmage to get you ready for the real game.

Garry:

I know right.

Amy:

And I'm like, okay, all right, so is she talking about? Was she talking about eddie?

Garry:

was the scrimmage. Okay, well, I don't, even, I don't know I don't know if he was even the scrimmage, but oh, we did. We forgot about the nicknames that, uh, well, yeah because sergio had asked why eddie is called fast eddie and she tells him that it's he. He was slow and, you know, never finished a race.

Amy:

And hers was Booger. It was like a 32-minute. Yeah, what was it? 32-minute mile, it was like a three-mile thing.

Garry:

Yeah, he did like a 30-something-minute mile. Yeah, I thought that was cute.

Amy:

Yeah, that was funny, and then he didn't know her nickname.

Garry:

Right. So then she tells him yeah, yeah, but she never did say why she got it or how she got it.

Amy:

What's her nickname? Booger Booger. Yeah, but she doesn't say yeah, she doesn't give the story behind it.

Garry:

Yeah, she doesn't explain where it came from or why, or they cut it out. We don't know. Or maybe it'll be in the next episode.

Amy:

Maybe, maybe, all right, maybe that'll come back. You can tell there's more, there's still a spark there you know, and now, she's separated, not divorced yet, but she is separated now from Frank Jr.

Garry:

So and then we have Frankie and Lindsay.

Amy:

Frankie and Lindsay.

Garry:

And I thought it was pretty cool because they were in Lindsay's room and she was she showed, or they were in Frankie's room and she was showing Lindsay, her mom showing Lindsay what she did with her mom's drawings of the chickens?

Amy:

Oh, yes, yes, she put them on social media. She put them on social media and she was like, oh, you're her little influencer. And she was like, yes, but Amanda doesn't know.

Garry:

No, Amanda doesn't know which I think is going to come back at some point. Yeah, and hopefully it's a good point. I hope so but we don't know. No, we do not. And then they have their little conversation and Frankie kind of talks about Dudley, how they haven't kissed yet, and then Lindsay's like oh, we're going to have to get you kissed.

Amy:

So they go over to Dudley's house. Lindsay's very progressive. Yes, she is, she's from New York. She's from New York right. Progressive yes, she is, she's from New York. She's from New York right.

Garry:

And so they go to Dudley's house and she rings the doorbell and Lindsay runs off the porch and goes and hides and Dudley comes out and Frankie's all like you know, we need to kiss, We've dated a long time and blah, blah, blah and he just kind of pulls her in and kisses her and she was like oh, okay.

Amy:

It's kind of cool, pulls her in and kisses her and she was like, oh, okay, it's kind of cool. Yeah, because she's like what's it? How do you know when you want to kiss somebody, right, and she, so that was, that was kind of cute. But you know, does she still have a thing for? Lindsey is the question. That's what we're gonna find out and lindsey kind of lightened up too. I guess she's just going with the fact that frankie has a boyfriend, because she was upset about it in the last episode and even at the beginning of this one.

Amy:

Yeah, so now I guess we're gonna see where that goes, yeah I think so, yeah, yeah so so then we get towards the end and we'll go back to may and amanda, right may, goes to see gus and thanks her for calling clayton and gus is like, well, you're getting married, you should be able to have whoever you want there. But you know, you know it's killing gus. But and then may goes to hug Gus and you can just see she's like, okay, she's not a hugger, but she loves it.

Garry:

She wasn't expecting it. Yeah, because you can see the look on her face. Yeah, so that was pretty. She kind of melted some of that wall kind of color.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, because Mae's like, thank you, no-transcript from keeping her daddy from her. It has been taken off the list. That was when she was talking to her dad. I thought that was really funny.

Garry:

That was a really funny one. I really enjoyed that one.

Amy:

And then you have the, you know the last scene where Clayton goes to Gus Gus, I would say Gus's house, I guess it's Nancy's house.

Garry:

Clayton goes to the house and he apologizes. Oh my gosh.

Amy:

And she just can't even really speak, right Like she's so taken aback by the apology. And she's like you know you could have called and he's like I tried to call but your phone was disconnected.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

You know, and these are the days before cell phones people. So you know you couldn't just call somebody. They had to, you know, have a phone and have it connected and you know, in their house and they had to be home to get the call.

Garry:

And you know what was interesting, they had mentioned that in the first season. Remember Mae had talked about that to Amanda when they were playing hide-go-seek, and how things were shut off and the phone was disconnected and this, yeah, kind of came back to see that and you realize he was right right.

Amy:

And then he admits that he did come back for them and he saw her. May was about two, but she was pregnant and she was with Amanda's daddy we don't know who that is?

Garry:

We have no idea.

Amy:

Okay. So he thought she was happy, you know, because here, she is with another man. She's pregnant again, so he doesn't want to interfere and I loved when he told the story about May and how May didn't. They were getting ready to cross the street and she was holding Gus's hand, and May didn't look both ways.

Garry:

She was just looking at her mom Right, and he's like you're all. What did he say? You're all she ever needed, or something. Yeah, that was I mean. How can you hate this guy, I know, and now I'm like I don't even know what to think about him.

Amy:

But it's like you know, we always talk about that. You feel like you know it's never too late, you can always go back and everything. And I mean true, I mean he missed her whole. And he says it's the biggest regret of his life, right, not going back, not seeing Mae grow up, and everything, and you've. But you think you just sort of get stuck, you're like, no, I don't want to interrupt, no, and you can see, and you know how quickly time passes, right, and before you know it you know she's an adult and I mean, yeah, should he have still tried to contact her? But you know, originally he was a kid too, she was 18. He was going to college and his parents forced him away and then he said they sent him even further away so he wouldn't come back to her, and you know.

Amy:

So I don't know, I doesn't excuse it, no, but it's never when you get older, you realize how fast time goes and then you get stuck and you know he tried and then he didn't try again. So I don't know. And you can see that Gus is very deeply affected by his.

Garry:

He apologizes a couple times during that, and then he's like well, I've been, I can't remember the word he used rambling or whatever. Yeah, he says something like that, yeah, and he leaves and Gus closes the door and Nancy comes down the stairs and asks if she's okay. And she's like she's like, oh my God, I love this man again. It seems like that's what she did to look on her face, right.

Amy:

I just hope he ends up being the nice guy that he comes across as. Yeah, he ends up being the nice guy that he comes across as.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

Even though I guess you could argue he didn't come back, you know, to meet or know his kids.

Garry:

So it's a nice guy. I hope he's just not apologizing to apologize. Or because May was famous you know, on TV there's that too, you know, so we'll find out. Yeah, so is that a wrap? Or how many drumsticks would you give this one?

Amy:

I would probably give this one, three and a half. What about you?

Garry:

I was going to do three and three quarters.

Amy:

Three and three quarters. Okay, not three and a half, yes, quarters, quarters. Quarters. Okay, three and three quarters, get it Quarter to quarter.

Garry:

Okay, I got you All right Cool. So is that a wrap?

Amy:

That's a wrap.

Garry:

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Amy:

We need to get off of this podcast. You need to drink some wine and just chill. Get your words straight.

Garry:

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