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South Beach Love · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to Girls Gone Hamewark, a bonus episode
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  Speaker 1: of Long Story Short the podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: and today we're discussing South Beach Love, the fifth of
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  Speaker 1: six Fall Harvest movies from the Hallmark Channel for twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. Go ahead, well, actually, let me, in spirit
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  Speaker 1: bonus Girls Gone Hallmark reviews. And with that said, Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: do you have a synopsis of this movie? Man?
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  Speaker 2: No, of course, I don't. Hold on. Okay, here it
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  Speaker 2: is South Beach Love, a story about rival Kincinadas, Glorious
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  Speaker 2: Cuban Cooking, Friendship, family ties, and romance.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's do news and notes. I have a few
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  Speaker 1: news and notes here. First, this was based on a book. Yes, bye,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna butcher this. I apologize, Carrie dad Pineto.
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  Speaker 1: I think that was great.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, Yes, partter.
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  Speaker 1: Of Hallmark's publishing line.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't realize that.
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  Speaker 1: I have to wonder if you'll recall that we thought
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  Speaker 1: because a man in a Christmas sweater was a real stinker,
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  Speaker 1: people swear the books better. I downloaded, read about ten
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  Speaker 1: pages and then got distracted, so I can't answer that.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm very curious to know if the book is
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  Speaker 1: better slash different than the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think anybody read it?
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  Speaker 1: There are the tiniest number of reviews on Amazon?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, are they good?
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  Speaker 1: The ones I read were actually okay?
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, William Levy, who plays Tony in this movie is Cuban. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and he owns two restaurants in Miami. Hey, I have
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  Speaker 1: that note too.
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually surprised that you saw that.
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  Speaker 1: I well, I appreciated that I liked that tie in
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  Speaker 1: that it was like almost true to life. For him
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  Speaker 1: A right, Yeah, did you know that he was on
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  Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars, did not? Season fourteen? He danced
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  Speaker 1: with pro Cheryl Burke. He came in third. So who
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  Speaker 1: why you're looking four star prior to this?
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  Speaker 2: He's a tella novella. He's been acting for twenty plus
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  Speaker 2: years and I looked up his net worth eighteen million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness, I know.
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  Speaker 2: So like he he's been in a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: He's acted in a lot of stuff. So I think
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  Speaker 2: he came on Dancing with the Stars as like this
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  Speaker 2: big like telenovella star.
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  Speaker 1: I'm into it. Look he's handsome, I'll give him that.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's super handsome. I don't know about those
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  Speaker 2: blonde highlights he had going on in this movie, but
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  Speaker 2: I've seen him look a lot better. Apparently there's some
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  Speaker 2: naked pictures of him on the internet too, because he
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  Speaker 2: once modeled. So whatever. Anyway, this movie was set in Miami,
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  Speaker 2: but was actually filmed not in Canada, guys. It was
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  Speaker 2: filmed in Saint Petersburg, which is on the Florida's Gulf Coast,
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  Speaker 2: which is about two hundred and seventy miles from Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Well that was gonna be my question. Good good research there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, have you ever been to Miami? Like I know
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  Speaker 2: you've been flown into Miami. Have you ever like stayed
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  Speaker 2: in like South Beach.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever flown into Miami. No, I've
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  Speaker 1: never been to Miami. I thought for some reason. No,
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  Speaker 1: never been to Orlando, but never Miami.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Cole plays what's her lead name in this?
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  Speaker 1: Is it Sarah?
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  Speaker 2: Sarah? You know it's either Maggie or Sarah or you
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  Speaker 2: know one of those. Anyway, she's the lead and we
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  Speaker 2: mostly recently saw her in one winter wedding. I think
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  Speaker 2: she has the most beautiful skin on the planet.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful, very pretty. I enjoyed her so lots more to say,
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  Speaker 1: but I would like to see more of her.
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  Speaker 2: During this movie. Hallmark promode an upcoming Christmas movie with
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Cole called Making Spirits Bright. Now I looked on
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  Speaker 2: the Hallmark app and I don't see aim Making Spirits
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  Speaker 2: Bright on there yet.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there are a number of movies that they
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  Speaker 1: have announced that have not been given an actual release
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  Speaker 1: date yet, and the app is very slow to update,
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  Speaker 1: so that does not surprise me at all.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us when it's going to be on I don't
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  Speaker 2: even think. I think it just said like coming right,
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  Speaker 2: coming to count down to Christmas, making spirits bright with
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Cole. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure that the Hallmark app beyond Movie
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  Speaker 1: ten only names one movie, and that's A Kiss before Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: But there are far more named movies that they have
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  Speaker 1: announced and just not They have not given release dates too,
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  Speaker 1: So gotcha. I think they're not totally sure about their
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  Speaker 1: ability to complete these forty one They want to leave
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  Speaker 1: their options open.
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  Speaker 2: Very interesting to watch it play out here. Do you
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  Speaker 2: have any more news and notes? No?
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  Speaker 1: But I do have a first impression. Okay, this was
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  Speaker 1: the worst movie of twenty twenty one, and I cannot
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  Speaker 1: be convinced otherwise.
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  Speaker 2: Lies.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't hate it. I don't how of the year
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  Speaker 1: the way. Nothing you can say to change my mind.
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  Speaker 2: There were far worse steakers. This was no one of them.
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  Speaker 1: No, I would rather watch Chasing Waterfalls in this no way.
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  Speaker 1: Why did you think of a such garbage journey of
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  Speaker 1: my heart? No? No, Oh my gosh, the conversation was
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  Speaker 1: so stilted. Oht no, what will we do? Who is
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  Speaker 1: going to get the magazine cover? This is so freaking boring.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. It had such potential dueling kingsigiaes, I
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  Speaker 1: just couldn't sell me on it. I'm telling you, Sarah
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  Speaker 1: and Tony had the chemistry of two rocks, which doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mist because they are both beautiful people. I enjoyed them
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  Speaker 1: both separately, but no, there was no chemistry in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't buy any of their conversations. The only part
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  Speaker 1: of the movie that I did enjoy was when it
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  Speaker 1: was set to music and nobody was talking. My god, wow, wow.
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  Speaker 2: I have to disagree with most of that. So tell
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  Speaker 2: me your first impression. Well I have. I didn't hate it,
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  Speaker 2: but it got super cheesy at the end. Okay, that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't notice the cadence and how they talked. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't realize any of that. I did think like the
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  Speaker 2: chef storyline. The dueling chef storyline was kind of stupid,
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  Speaker 2: and the magazine cover part of it was dumb and
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  Speaker 2: like not necessary. But I really liked like the dueling
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  Speaker 2: families and the Kinsineta show off.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about what we did like. Look, I
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  Speaker 1: loved the King Signetta scenes. I thought they did a
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  Speaker 1: great job of making that look like a real party.
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  Speaker 1: It looked you know, sometimes they don't necessarily follow these throughs.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was great. I thought the dresses the
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  Speaker 1: girls wore were beautiful. They did a good job staging
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  Speaker 1: the dance. They brought in a lot of traditional kingsanra
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  Speaker 1: details like the shoes and the dolls. I really did
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  Speaker 1: love the party.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let me ask. I've never been to a King Sinata.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea what the dolls and the shoes
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  Speaker 2: that's a traditional variance or.
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  Speaker 1: What I looked it up, because I haven't either, so
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  Speaker 1: that both are you know. The idea of king signa
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  Speaker 1: is they're becoming a woman, and so those are symbolic gestures.
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  Speaker 1: Although what I read is typically it's the dad that
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  Speaker 1: changes the shoes, although I think I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that was either incorrect or just that the moms were
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  Speaker 1: such bigger players in this movie that they gave them
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  Speaker 1: that role and it kind of signifies their change from
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  Speaker 1: child to women as they changed from flat shoes to heels.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing with a doll. They're moving away from their childhood,
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  Speaker 1: they're moving into adulthood, and often they give a doll
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  Speaker 1: to a younger family member, so I liked that attention
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  Speaker 1: to detail. Obviously they had done their research, although I
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  Speaker 1: assume that perhaps the people involved in the production of
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  Speaker 1: this movie have also participated in king Signora. So I
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed much of that.
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  Speaker 2: So when I was in high school, I became friends
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  Speaker 2: with a gal who was Cuban. We were really good friends,
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  Speaker 2: but it was after we became friends, after her fifteenth birthday,
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  Speaker 2: so I didn't get to go to her quin siata,
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  Speaker 2: which she had, and I just remember her telling me, like,
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  Speaker 2: what a huge party it was, and then she's like,
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  Speaker 2: it was like a ballroom of Cubans dancing all night
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  Speaker 2: long to Miami sound machine. Swear to god, she said
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  Speaker 2: it was the best party ever, like all her you know, family, friends, friends, parents, friends,
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  Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah whatever. She said, it was one
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  Speaker 2: of the best things she ever experienced. And I was like, damn,
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  Speaker 2: I wish I would have known you last year and
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  Speaker 2: I d have gone. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I liked their cooking montage that was set to music.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was fun and playful, and I enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: watching them cook together, Sarah and Tony.
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  Speaker 2: I have thoughts on that scene.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I enjoyed the salsa dancing scene. I thought that
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  Speaker 1: the dance floor was decently full. It looked realistic, and
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  Speaker 1: I loved the dress Sarah was wearing the salsa dance.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed that scene. Do you have something to say
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  Speaker 1: about that?
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  Speaker 2: Also, I'm gonna have some words on that scene as well.
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  Speaker 2: I do have a note here that Taylor Cole's wardrobe
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  Speaker 2: was super cute. A lot of the dresses that she
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  Speaker 2: wore were really adorable, really really adorable. I liked Tony's family.
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  Speaker 2: I really liked his sister. I thought she was super
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  Speaker 2: authentic and like just spoke the lines with the ease
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  Speaker 2: and was kind of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I enjoyed her as well.
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  Speaker 2: I just and I liked like his family was very
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  Speaker 2: much part of the storyline. I don't I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't like all right, and so this is where
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  Speaker 2: we might disagree. I wrote down both lead actors. Thought
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  Speaker 2: they had good chemistry, both very pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're both very pretty.
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  Speaker 2: I thought they had decent chemistry. There were times when, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: when they were cooking in her kitchen, she was so
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  Speaker 2: close to him like her her. They were almost chest
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  Speaker 2: to chess.
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  Speaker 1: They were so close.
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  Speaker 2: I get that they're like shooting the scene, but like,
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  Speaker 2: I felt some like vibes there, and then I thought
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  Speaker 2: that they had some nice chemistry when they were kissing
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  Speaker 2: and when they were dancing at the Floridian Dance Club.
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  Speaker 2: You don't really, you don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they're dancing, they had chemistry. I thought when
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  Speaker 1: they were cooking they had chemistry. Again, they were not
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  Speaker 1: speaking in any of those scenes. I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: the dialogue between the two of them felt so stilted
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  Speaker 1: to me. I agree Tony's sister of the conversation he
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  Speaker 1: had with her. I thought that that felt natural. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it for me though, as a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting. Well, I actually thought that he was much better
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  Speaker 2: in this role than she was. Maybe kind of a miscast.
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  Speaker 2: I think she's beautiful, and I think she's a good actress,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't maybe I don't. I kind of agree
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  Speaker 2: that they are kind of an opposite pairing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that they're an opposite pairing. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that seeing them separately, I would have thought that
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  Speaker 1: they didn't work together. I don't know. It didn't work
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  Speaker 1: for me. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I thought he was natural, I thought he was
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  Speaker 2: great did you like William Levy at all?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I wish he wouldn't mumble, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: My god, that's my number one wish for At times,
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  Speaker 2: William Levey was hard to understand.
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  Speaker 1: I had to turn on the captions and don't come
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  Speaker 1: for me and say it's because of his accent, and
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: I'm a jerk, because no, it is not. There were
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  Speaker 1: plenty of accents in this movie. I can understand an accent.
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  Speaker 1: He needs to open his mouth. He mumbled many many times.
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  Speaker 1: I think he speaks quickly and he doesn't enunciate. That
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  Speaker 1: made him hard to understand.
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  Speaker 2: I agree he was kind of hard to understand, yes.
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  Speaker 1: But other than that, I do love him. I think
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  Speaker 1: he has kind of that like sexy smoldering thing going.
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  Speaker 1: He's like a little bit like kind of a laid
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  Speaker 1: back dude, like doesn't get too worked up about anything.
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  Speaker 1: I think women probably kind of around him because he
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  Speaker 1: just kind of has that like I make everybody around
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  Speaker 1: me feel special just by like the way I look
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  Speaker 1: at them, like obviously I'm so hot. So when I
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  Speaker 1: look at you and extend my gift on next to you,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I just I understand the appeal. I
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  Speaker 1: understand why he's a star. I like Taylor Cole too. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I liked the idea of this movie as well. Somethings
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  Speaker 1: just didn't work for me.
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  Speaker 2: All right, is there anything you wish for? Well? I
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  Speaker 2: thought there could have been better dancing scenes from the
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  Speaker 2: dude that got perfect scores on Dancing the Stars.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Taylor Cole held him back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking she might have, because more than once, I
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  Speaker 2: think three times, like he dipped her and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: that's it. We're not gonna get any like latin. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know salsa dancing anything anything, And there was some
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  Speaker 2: good dancing going on around them, but they were just
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  Speaker 2: like he'd just give her this big dip and that
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  Speaker 2: was it and turn her around.
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  Speaker 1: And I did like the dancing going on on the
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  Speaker 1: dance floor, though, I did feel like everyone else really
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  Speaker 1: knew what they were doing, and like when they panned back,
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  Speaker 1: you can see her body dancing. I enjoyed that. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I wish the actresses that played Teresa and Lola were
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  Speaker 1: more believable as fifteen year old no.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, we yeah yeah, Lola Sa she was
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  Speaker 2: she's got to be twenty two, right. I tried to
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  Speaker 2: find her age online and I could not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think Lola is definitely older than fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: but she has a much younger face, like she just
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  Speaker 1: has kind of baby faced features. Yea, So she was believable,
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  Speaker 1: but Teresa beautiful girl, not believable as a fifteen year old.
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  Speaker 2: I know. So I try to look it up and
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't find anything. And I was like, I wonder
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  Speaker 2: if that's on purpose because they want her to play
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  Speaker 2: younger roles, you know. I couldn't find anything. And then
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  Speaker 2: I looked at her Instagram too, and I think in
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  Speaker 2: her instagm grand profile said like I write songs in
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  Speaker 2: my bedroom, which okay, so maybe she is younger. I
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  Speaker 2: don't I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. She was not believable as a fifteen
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  Speaker 1: year old to me.
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  Speaker 2: But I liked both of those actresses I did too
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  Speaker 2: cute and fun and yeah, I liked it. And one
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  Speaker 2: of them had really cute hair. I think it was Lola.
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  Speaker 2: She had this really cute hairstyle at one point it
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  Speaker 2: was like twisted in the front.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh uh.
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  Speaker 2: It was so super cute. I was like, I wonder
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  Speaker 2: if my teenager would let me try to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Another thing I wished for is that much of this
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  Speaker 1: story hadn't been told in exposition. So much of the
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: basis of this story is based on things that have
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: happened in the past, and we get the tales told
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  Speaker 1: via conversations with other people. We get Sarah talking to
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  Speaker 1: her restaurants dude, yeah, yes, about why things didn't work
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  Speaker 1: out with Tony, and we get them talking to their
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  Speaker 1: families about why you know this is the dueling restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: We get the fallout of the relationship between the mothers
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  Speaker 1: via a conversation. Like, there's just so much backstory, like
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  Speaker 1: Sarah and Tony had a relationship that didn't work out
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  Speaker 1: because of reasons X, Y and Z and the mothers
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  Speaker 1: used to be very close, but now they're not, and
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  Speaker 1: nobody knows why. I think this movie tried to do
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  Speaker 1: too much, and I think they could have really dug
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  Speaker 1: in deeper on the Dueling King signieta side of things
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  Speaker 1: and left out a lot of everything else. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of this would have worked in a book because you
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  Speaker 1: don't have the time constraints of an hour and forty
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  Speaker 1: minute movie, and because you can do maybe flashback scenes
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  Speaker 1: in a book that are harder to do in a
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  Speaker 1: movie because it's harder to visually make that work. I,
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  Speaker 1: having not read the book, my assumption is they tried
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  Speaker 1: to take too much of the book and put it
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  Speaker 1: into this movie, and they could have dug in on
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  Speaker 1: some details and made this a better, more fun movie.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, I wish they had less dueling chefs,
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  Speaker 2: like I don't care, like I like the whole magazine thing,
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  Speaker 2: and her trying to get another like restaurant space and
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  Speaker 2: like bean out bit. I don't care about any of
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  Speaker 2: that stuff, none of it same. You could have cut
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: all of that again, dig in on the dueling parties, vibe. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: here's the last thing I wished for. More Cuban food.
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  Speaker 2: Where was the melanessa? Where were the black beans? Where
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: were the fried planting planteens? Well, I told you one
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  Speaker 2: of my best friends was Cuban. I was in her
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  Speaker 2: house a lot, and we ate a lot of Cuban
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  Speaker 2: food and it's delicious. And all they had was the
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: like ropa vieha or whatever whatever that's called, which is
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  Speaker 2: just like a stew or something. But anyway, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: show me more, make it more.
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  Speaker 1: Believable food scenes and even when they're doing the photo shoot,
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  Speaker 1: they're like playing with frosting, and I was like, no,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: what are we doing? I know, like what a cupcake?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Stupid giy Cuban.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah totally. Did you have.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Anything else you wished for?
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Nope, okay, I have several did you see that?
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: And it's mostly just commentary, it's not like funny things
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: or anything. But Taylor Cole and her damn bike. There
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: was one scene she was like riding like to the
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: market on her bike and it has this huge bike
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: helmet on, which is great, great wear a helmet. She
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: looked ridiculous. And then she's like leaving her house walking
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: her bike, rolling up to Tony's on her bike. I
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: was like, do you not have a car? Like? Which
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: is fine, she's environmentally friendly, but this stupid bike. I
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: felt like it was a character in this movie.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I did not clock the bike at all. That was
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: so funny.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: What did you see?
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I swear in one of the early scenes I saw
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: someone wearing a mask on the streets as they are
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: walking by.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Oh stop, really, Oh I bet there.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Was might have been like a fever dream, but I was.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I'm almost positive I saw it.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I mean in Florida. Oh god, I'm surprised.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: But right, I didn't rewind to go see if I
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: had actually seen it.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: But if they're like shooting in an outdoor open space
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: and there's like just the random person in the background
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: where it could be where Yeah, sure, sure, I already
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: mentioned William Levey's bad highlights in this movie. My husband
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: wanted me to definitely note that on the podcast he
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: caught like the last fifteen minutes with me.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: My husband was not into this movie. He was like,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: where's the fall?
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: I'm out, Well, yes, that's another thing.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: No fall in this movie, not even a little bit.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what is happening to Hallmark right now.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I'm annoyed by it, to be quite honest.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's not even a case to be made.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Like there's one point where Sarah and Toni are sitting
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: in a restaurant and like you can't even pretend like
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: they're First of all, they're in Miami. It's hot, it's
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: not a fall vibe. But she's in like a bright
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: pink sleeveless dress, very cute. But that's a summer not
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: a fall vibe.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Right there, right exactly the dance scene at Ta King
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Sinetta when the kids are dancing, like I don't know
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: if that's like a thing they have, like a court
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: of other kids who like dance in unison or whatever.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: My husband says, I could have choreograph this, and he's
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: not a dancer, so he just thought it was terrible.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I didn't think it was terrible. I thought it was
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: kind of sweet and cute. I don't know.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: The scene when Lola and her court are practicing their
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: dance at her house. All the boys are wearing collared
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: shirts and chinos with their shirts tucked in, Like, make
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: me believe these are fifteen year old boys, please, as
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the have a of a fourteen year old boy in
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: my house? No, no, right, okay.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: The fallout between the two friends the two moms. Yeah,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you caught it. Finally at the
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: end when they're like talking it out of like why
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: they had a falling out. Yes, Lola's mom was mad
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: that the other lady did not take their offer on
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the house when they were selling it, that she took
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: the higher bid GTFO. Of course she's gonna take the
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: higher bid. This is the stupidest storyline.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: You knew how much we loved your house. Yes, and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the idea that they would have been best friends, that
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: one would have been selling their house, the other would
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: have made an offer, the other would have taken a
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: different offer, and then they never discussed it again, and
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: then the end of their friendship is not believable. Of
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: course you say to your friend, look, I would love
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: you to have this house, but we're gonna.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Go show me the money for yeah, And.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Then years long conflict was solved by we're gonna find
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: you the perfect house. That could have been the discussion
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: they had back when this house was sold. It was
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: like they couldn't even come up with made up taken
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: out of context. And Tony and his sister are looking
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: at it, and Teresa walks by and she goes, WHOA
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: that has a lot of light? A good conflict for
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: these two to have.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so stupid.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: So there's a scene where the magazine posts a teaser
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: online with these two pull quotes that are made up,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: taken out of context, and Tony and his sister are
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: looking at it, and Teresa walks by and she goes,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: WHOA that has a lot of likes. So I rewound
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: it and I looked at the scene and it's literally
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: a web page, like at the top it has like links.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: It's like there's like their Facebook and Twitter and Instagram
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: icons to link to it. There's no it's a web page.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: There are no likes. And then she goes, oh, I'm
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: gonna reshare this, and I was like, what is happening here?
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Like it's a web page.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I'm just wondering if because the demographic who watches these
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: movies maybe wouldn't have caught that detail yet.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: But it wasn't even necessary. It was such a or
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the people writing it don't really understand how this works.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but it was poorly done.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, I have one word for you. Are you ready
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: for it? No? Cubish? Uh? Are you really naming a
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: restaurant Cubish? It does sounds so unappetizing to me. It
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: doesn't tell me it's a restaurant. It sounds like, I
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: don't office supplies or something. I don't know.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: So dumb, but in your intern to make you a
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: better fake logo for this restaurant?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Either that too? Terrible, terrible, terrible.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not convinced there's a market for Cuban Irish cuisine. Like,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: just dig in, go all in on Cuban. You're good.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Well, so I did google this and there I'm not
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: even going to pretend I understand what it is, but
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: there was a lot of Google information about Cuban Irish history.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: So I don't know what it is, but maybe there
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: is something out there. Affusion of Cuban and Irish food.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: You're telling me in Miami there's a big Irish population.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know out I don't know. Okay, So in
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: the scene where they're in her kitchen and she's making
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: a ropa vieha whatever, it's apparently the national dish of Cuba.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: It's like a stew, like a meaty stew, and she's like, hey,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I have an idea.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Let's fuse the two dishes together.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Like they didn't have that idea ten years ago when
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: they were together. The only Irish element to this was
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: a pie crest. They put that meaty stew inside of
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: a pie, right, Yes, I mean it's not totally groundbreaking
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: because I did look up ropa vieha pie and tons
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: of recipes on there. Just like it's like a pot
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: pie basically, or an impanada, like meaty stuff surrounded by
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: doe yumminess. You know what I mean?
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I mean anyway for that. But once again, I did
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: not care about the chef's side of this story.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: It neither. I hated it. I hated it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: So what did you rank this movie that you did
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: not think was the worst movie of the year.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I gave it three stars.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's a one house to watch.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, that is so funny. I don't know
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: why I didn't hate it. I've hated a ton of
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: movies this year. This was not bad worst.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Of the year.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: No, not worse. No, no, not worse than New Year's
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Day or New Year's Resolution or whatever that movie was
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: called way back in January.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I don't recall hating that movie.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: You didn't hate it, are You're right?
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I thought that was cute where she like runs that
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: rope's course, and yeah, no, it's terrible.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: It was terrible Julie Taylor. Anyway, Yeah, I'm sorry. I
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: gave it three stars, and maybe if I did a
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: rewatch and compared it to something else, I might give
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: it less.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: But one star. By the way, I didn't hate it.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: What's IMDb give this movie? I don't know? All right,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the reviews were not bad on IMDb, so then I
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: had to click out of it. I was like, you
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: people are wrong.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Oh you were looking for somebody to side with you.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Huh, Yeah, that was bad. Does Advice to Love By
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: have any fall vibes in it at all?
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Is that the last movie in the lineup?
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I'm hoping that kind of. They have a book nd
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: situation where the Roadhouse Romance was the first one and
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: then this one too. But I don't see any false
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: stuff with it like in the commercials.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: No, not at all. It's when a love advice author
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: crosses paths with a dating columnist and attraction begins to
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: blossom into more. They could very easily set this into fall,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: very easily. Do I believe they will?
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: No, I do not fool me once they fooled you
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: four times already, I know.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I keep holding out hope. So we will be back
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: next Thursday discussing Advice to Love By the final Fall
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Harvest movie. And I'm gonna be biting my tongue about
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: a month from now, when we are knee deep in
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Christmas movies and I have had enough eggnog and ugly
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Christmas watter scenes I know it. I'm gonna be begging
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: for anything but Christmas, but for now, all I want
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: is a Christmas movie. That's all I want. October twenty second,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: It's coming. If you haven't listened to our Hallmark Christmas
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Movie Preview episode, that episode is available for you to
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: download and take a listen and give us your thoughts
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: on the movies you're looking forward to. And guys will
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: be back next Tuesday with another brand new episode of
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Long Story Short the Podcast. Until then, have a great week.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Goodbye bye,