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The Beach House · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: There was a scene I was like imagining someone's hand
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  Speaker 1: under that sand wiggling those turtles, or that we're like attached.
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  Speaker 2: To some sort of stick under.
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  Speaker 1: The sand, wiggling back and forth. Hey, everyone, welcome to
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  Speaker 1: Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Megan, I'm Wendy. This episode is part.
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  Speaker 1: Of the Girl's Gone Hallmark summer series where we're watching
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  Speaker 1: interviewing fan favorite movies. You can find the full line
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  Speaker 1: up of movies we're reviewing this summer in our show
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  Speaker 1: notes or at Megan and.
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  Speaker 2: Wendy dot com slash podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're discussing The Beach House, which originally aired on
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  Speaker 1: April twenty eighth, twenty eighteen. If you want to connect
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  Speaker 2: us an email Megan and Wendy at gmail dot com.
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  Speaker 2: It's here a synopsis for The Beach House. Sure Thing.
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  Speaker 2: When Kara finds her life spinning out of control, she
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  Speaker 2: returns to the scenic Low Country to visit her mother.
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  Speaker 2: Before long, the rhythms of the island open her heart
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  Speaker 2: in wonderful ways. As she repairs the family's beach house,
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  Speaker 2: becomes a bonafide turtle Lady and renews do I see
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  Speaker 2: Laughing Turtle Lady's funny and renews old acquaintances. Long Loss
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  Speaker 2: stars Mika Kelly, Andy McDowell, Chad McMurray, and Mackenzie Vega.
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  Speaker 2: How about Chad Michael Murray? What did I say to
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  Speaker 2: Jack McCray too much?
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  Speaker 1: Ye?
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  Speaker 2: Chad Michael Murray.
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  Speaker 1: This movie was adapted from a two thousand and two
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  Speaker 1: novel by Mary Alice Monroe. It's the first and a
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  Speaker 1: seven book series about the beach house and characters involved.
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  Speaker 2: Is this a book that you would read?
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  Speaker 1: It's not not a book I would read. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to get excited about it. But it's
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  Speaker 1: the kind of a thing that I would read if
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  Speaker 1: I needed something in ben to soothe me to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: Got it. Maria Nation is also credited as a writer.
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  Speaker 2: She has twenty four writing credits, including other book to
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  Speaker 2: movie adaptations like Karen Kingsbury's Maggie's Christmas Miracle, Wow These
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  Speaker 2: are hard to say Today and Debbie Mcover's Dashing Through
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  Speaker 2: the Snow and most recently Lifetime's Girl in Room thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: directed by Elizabeth Rahm and starring Anne.
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  Speaker 1: Hash Anna McDowell plays Lovey in this movie. She has
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  Speaker 1: eighty four acting credits. Of Course, we have Girls Gone.
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark know her for her most recent role as Dell
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  Speaker 1: in The Way Home. Other famous roles include movies like
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  Speaker 1: Four Weddings in a Funeral and Groundhog Day, but she
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  Speaker 1: also had a starring role in the Hallmark series from
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen. Cedar Coves watch that show. No, ma'am,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder what happened to it? Why did it have
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  Speaker 1: just such a short run?
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  Speaker 2: No idea? Okay? Mega Kelly plays daughter Kara's What's there
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  Speaker 2: other Koretta? Is that her name? Yes? Okay? And she
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  Speaker 2: has forty six acting credits, most recently four episodes of
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  Speaker 2: The Euphoria, a show that I watch on HBO. She
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  Speaker 2: is perhaps most well known for her role as Lilah
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  Speaker 2: Garrity on Friday Night Lights, and has also had recurring
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  Speaker 2: roles in the series Parenthood and Titans. And if I
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  Speaker 2: can add, I think Mega Kelly is one of the
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  Speaker 2: most beautiful women I've ever seen, Like I agree, right,
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  Speaker 2: And did you know she's your age?
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  Speaker 1: No, I would have assumed she's younger than me. Me.
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  Speaker 2: I thought so too. I just think this is I
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  Speaker 2: just thought she was in her thirties. Yes, I agree
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. She's just so pretty.
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  Speaker 1: She really, I agree she's she's beautiful like in a
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  Speaker 1: makes me envious in a way I'm not proud of way.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we're all you minut It's okay, Chad Muchamurray plays Brett.
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  Speaker 1: He has been in hits like Gilmore Girls, Dawson's Creek.
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  Speaker 2: And One Tree Hill.
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  Speaker 1: However, he made the move to Great American Family in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. He currently stars on CTV's Sullivan's Crusting,
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  Speaker 1: which features his Gilmore Girls co star Scott Patterson. What
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  Speaker 1: is CTV Canadian Canada TV?
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  Speaker 2: Oh so that's not anything we can get here?
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  Speaker 1: No, not without a VPN. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I wonder if that show's any good. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: asking a Facebook group. This movie was directed by Roger Spottiswood.
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  Speaker 2: He has thirty six directing credits, although this was towards
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  Speaker 2: the end of his career. Now full disclosure. Megan wrote
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  Speaker 2: these notes and I was like is he dead? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I don't want to know. I had to
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  Speaker 2: look it up. I didn't see anything about him being dead.
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  Speaker 2: He is quite older, so perhaps this was actually towards
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  Speaker 2: the end of his working career. He also directed movies
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  Speaker 2: like Turner and Hooch and the Band Played On, as
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  Speaker 2: well as Tomorrow Never Dies. Have you seen? He's like
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  Speaker 2: a real movie guy I played on. No, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what that is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's about the AIDS epidemic.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of yeah, watched it in high school. It's
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  Speaker 2: real sad. That does sound vaguely familiar. How did you
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  Speaker 2: watch that in high school? I feel that you would
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  Speaker 2: have watched like Philadelphia Story in high school.
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  Speaker 1: You're thinking of Philadelphia Philadelphia Story is a different movie.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Like we watched it at school? What? Yeah? Really?
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  Speaker 1: I think we were learning about the AIDS epidemic.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I know college, because I can't imagine that they
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  Speaker 2: showed that in public high school. I did take a
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  Speaker 2: film class in college. It's possible that I watched it there.
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  Speaker 2: I know I watched it for school of some sort.
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  Speaker 2: I have a note that's not on your list, and
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  Speaker 2: that is Donnie bo As plays Palmer and this dude work.
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  Speaker 2: He has one hundred ten acting.
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  Speaker 1: Credits, including two years of The Young and the Rest
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  Speaker 1: Liss with one hundred and ten episodes plus thirteen upcoming
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  Speaker 1: roles thirteen thirteen The Man is Busy.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: He also was on one episode of Friday Night Lights
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  Speaker 1: with Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's interesting. I'm also a note that is not
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  Speaker 2: listed here. Mckinziy Vega, who played Toy in this movie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she played the daughter on the Good Wife. I recognized
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  Speaker 2: her face, but I was like, I can't place her.
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  Speaker 2: I can't place her. Well, she was kind of a
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  Speaker 2: little bit younger.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, this was filmed on Tybee Island, just south of Savannah, Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: Is that somewhere you've been before. I've been to Savannah, Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: I have not been to Tybee Island. Okay, what's your
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  Speaker 2: first impression of the beach house? Give a girl a
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  Speaker 2: trigger warning?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sorry, I didn't watch this. Well, I did
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  Speaker 1: watch this before you. I didn't warn you.
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  Speaker 2: And yours.
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  Speaker 1: Palmer is an irredeemable trash bag.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I agree, chip off the old block. Huh hmm,
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  Speaker 2: All right, what did you like about this movie? This
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  Speaker 2: is not like an early Aughts tribute show in the
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  Speaker 2: best way possible. First of all, Annie mcdowald's a treasure.
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  Speaker 2: And I know this is not from the early yots.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying that's the vibe it gives me. Annie
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  Speaker 2: mcdoald's a treasure.
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  Speaker 1: I've always been aware of her, but I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciated how great she is until we watch
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  Speaker 1: The Way Home. I just love her when she's on screen.
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  Speaker 1: I just fight her mannerisms to be so enjoyable to watch.
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  Speaker 1: But like you said, I really love Minka Kelly on screen. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: she's beautiful, but I really enjoy the roles she plays.
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  Speaker 1: I loved her on Parenthood. I think she's not the
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  Speaker 1: most exciting role on Friday Night Lights for sure, but
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  Speaker 1: she plays that Lila Garrity role to perfection. I just
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  Speaker 1: really enjoy them. I don't love the other star of
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  Speaker 1: this movie, so I'm just gonna leave it alone. Who's
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  Speaker 1: cmm cmm. Yeah, that's interesting. You say that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: hate Chad Michael Murray in this role.
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  Speaker 2: I now agree with you. I haven't seen him in
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  Speaker 2: anything since One Tree Hill. I watched One Tree Hill,
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  Speaker 2: and I probably won't be watching him anything over on
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  Speaker 2: Great American Family. I'm not opposed to checking out Sullivan's crossing.
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  Speaker 2: Though I thought he was fine in this, I always
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  Speaker 2: remember him as like this douchey teenager, though you know
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  Speaker 2: he was terrible, as he wasn't terrible. His character Tristan
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  Speaker 2: was terrible on Gilmore Girls. He was a good character
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  Speaker 2: on One Tree Hill. He's not a bad actor. I
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  Speaker 2: just I don't love that he has an exclusive over
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  Speaker 2: with gaff I. Also, he was.
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  Speaker 1: Briefly married to Sophia Bush, and I don't think things
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  Speaker 1: went well.
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  Speaker 2: And no, he cheated on her with what Paris Hilton.
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  Speaker 2: Paris Hilton, Yeah, I have I have a note about
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  Speaker 2: that later on.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, okay, I just I do think people should be
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  Speaker 1: able to climb out from under their miss deeds, Like
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  Speaker 1: one bad instance of bad behavior shouldn't define you for
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  Speaker 1: your entire life.
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  Speaker 2: Plus, he was like twenty early twenties. We don't make
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  Speaker 2: great decisions in her early twenties. No, indeed, but.
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  Speaker 1: He's got the stigma right, he does, he does, and
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  Speaker 1: I maybe that's unfair. I would also be willing to
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  Speaker 1: watch Sullivan's crossing if anybody knows how we can get
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  Speaker 1: it here in South of Canada.
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  Speaker 2: Let us know, or if anybody has another Hallmark movie
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  Speaker 2: that he was in that was. I mean, he's been
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  Speaker 2: in a lot, but that's good, I know. But if
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  Speaker 2: somebody has one, like, oh my god, he was great
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  Speaker 2: in this movie, you have to watch it. Please email us,
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  Speaker 2: send us the DM, drop it in the Facebook group something.
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  Speaker 2: What else did you like? Well, I have to agree
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  Speaker 2: with you. I did like seeing Andy McDowell. I thought
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  Speaker 2: this was I like seeing her in a different role
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  Speaker 2: other than Dell. Like you said, I know of her,
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  Speaker 2: was not totally familiar with all of her work though,
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  Speaker 2: uh huh. I remember her specifically being like a cosmetic model.
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  Speaker 2: Oh uh huh. In the Night she worked for some
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  Speaker 2: sort of cosmetic brand. And I remember she had a
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  Speaker 2: super hot husband who she is now divorced from. But oh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember Groundhog's Day or I've seen that movie
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  Speaker 2: so many times, four weddings and a funeral, Like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember her in those movies. You know, Annie MacDell
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  Speaker 2: was a loreal model. I knew it was something good job.
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  Speaker 2: Can I tell you spoiler alert? I'm glad we didn't
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  Speaker 2: get a drawn out death scene. Oh yeah, I really
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  Speaker 2: liked it. We didn't even see her face on. We
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  Speaker 2: saw her from behind m barely.
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  Speaker 1: She just drops the card. Yeah, and it's done well
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  Speaker 1: to switch gears. I thought this was a gorgeous filming location.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it was nice. I'm glad to be out of Vancouver.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Vancouver's gorgeous. They find beautiful locations. But I
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  Speaker 1: liked this Southern Coastal Island summary vibe, even though it
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  Speaker 1: was filmed in the fall, probably the h but I
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  Speaker 1: liked it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's probably lots of bugs. And I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if I could deal with the threat of hurricane weather.
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  Speaker 2: Oh for sure not. I would not do what stresses
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  Speaker 2: me out. I mean, listeners out here. We live in
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  Speaker 2: southern California, where it's like land of earthquakes. Earthquakes don't
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  Speaker 2: scare me at all, but the threat of a hurricane
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  Speaker 2: really terrifies me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's nothing you can do about an earthquake,
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  Speaker 1: like it shows up and it's gone. There's no like,
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  Speaker 1: do I need to leave, Do I need to go?
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  Speaker 1: Should I stay? Should I write it? If it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: get you, it's gonna get you.
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  Speaker 2: God. Finally, for me, what I liked about this is I,
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  Speaker 2: Like I said at the beginning, give a girl a
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  Speaker 2: trigger warning. I do appreciate that they kept Lovy specific
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  Speaker 2: cancer diagnosis vague. Yeah, I like that's it in Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And the day she died, she was like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that was it.
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  Speaker 1: It was not the misery of Hallmark Mysteries. Yes, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is a fun fact that I like. This movie
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  Speaker 1: was brought to the executive producer Dan Wigatow by Anny
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  Speaker 1: McDowell herself.
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  Speaker 2: She had read the book and said, hey, we should
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  Speaker 2: make a movie about this, and he did, oh wow,
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  Speaker 2: really that's cool. Are you ready to move on to
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  Speaker 2: what you wished for? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean fake turtles hardwatch that.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with that.
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  Speaker 1: There was a scene I was like imagining someone's hand
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  Speaker 1: under that sand wiggling those turtles, or if they were
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  Speaker 1: like attached to some sort of stick under the sand,
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  Speaker 1: wiggling back and forth. They're not real, and the very
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  Speaker 1: little sea turtle research I read said there's zero chance
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  Speaker 1: that they would have been allowed anywhere near this happening
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  Speaker 1: because they're so protected. They're not going to let a
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  Speaker 1: camera crew set up there, so you know, they're not real.
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  Speaker 1: They did the best with what they could, but there
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  Speaker 1: were moments I was like, that is a gift shop
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  Speaker 1: turtle under that sand?
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  Speaker 2: Well, what about the one that was like the big
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  Speaker 2: female turtle that came out to layer eggs? Was that
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  Speaker 2: like a CGI situation? What was I looking at there?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's like the mechanical bowl and ride. You've got
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  Speaker 1: someone on the other side like rocking her back and
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  Speaker 1: forth to move. No, not a real turtle.
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  Speaker 2: And the whole scene where they're like, okay, it was
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  Speaker 2: a little corny. The whole scene where they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: they're going towards the light and there they were like
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  Speaker 2: making a wall. I mean people, so it was blocking
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  Speaker 2: the light.
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  Speaker 1: What well looks that's based in fact, like they say,
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  Speaker 1: if you are somewhere near these turtle hatcheries, don't use
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  Speaker 1: flashlights at night, don't use lights on the beach at night.
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  Speaker 1: These turtle rescue organizations will dig kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: little trench from their nest down to the ocean for
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  Speaker 1: them to follow. That is somewhat based in fact. The
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  Speaker 1: turtles do need to follow the light and not get distracted.
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  Speaker 1: But you're not gonna have people dropping down to their
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  Speaker 1: knees to form a human wall. Like in a soccer game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm suggesting. Was corny, not the natural
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  Speaker 2: habits of turtles, but that they were like, let's make
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  Speaker 2: a wall to block out the light. It just I
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  Speaker 2: thought this movie was incredibly slow. It littled me to
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  Speaker 2: sleep twice. Oh no, so it took Mega two days
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  Speaker 2: to watch it. It felt very natural to me, like
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  Speaker 2: this is what life on this island would feel like.
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  Speaker 2: Slow and sleepy, not a lot happening. It was kind
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  Speaker 2: of a hard watch for me. Furthermore, I wish for
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  Speaker 2: more dynamics from the characters. I felt everyone was sort
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: of like one note. So, for example, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: Andy mcdell acts her ass off as Dell, but in
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  Speaker 2: this movie as Levey, it was just very monotonous.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's Andy McDowell's natural state, this kind of
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  Speaker 1: soft spoken personality. I felt like that was more who
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  Speaker 1: she is, and I think this is who Minka Kelly is,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of her shows like she's a really
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  Speaker 1: mild mannered and they needed someone other than bad guy
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  Speaker 1: Palmer to be the dynamics in this movie.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, because when you have too many mild manner characters,
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  Speaker 2: like even Toy is.
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  Speaker 1: Too nice, like Toy needed to be chicking things up.
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  Speaker 1: We needed a little more drama here.
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  Speaker 2: Agree. Now, this is what I was wondering, like, is
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  Speaker 2: this a Southern thing that I don't fully understand? Like
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  Speaker 2: we have this. Dell was a submissive wife, right, that
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  Speaker 2: was a storyline that she was. She wouldn't stand up
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  Speaker 2: to her husband, whereas Kara would stand up to him.
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  Speaker 2: And then she is also the same way towards the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I wrote, Dell cannot stand up to any of
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  Speaker 1: the men in her life.
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  Speaker 2: Del yes, love Okay. I just wonder like, is it
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  Speaker 2: a Southern thing where you keep things close to the vest.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's Southern or if it's just
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  Speaker 1: her personality, but I wanted her to be stronger, Like
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  Speaker 1: there are moments where she gives me these like strong vibes,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm gonna be strong for my daughter and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna tell her what's going on with me, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna welcome her home. But meanwhile, it's
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  Speaker 1: just like, got to keep everybody happy. You had to
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  Speaker 1: keep my husban and happy, You have to keep Palmer happy.
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  Speaker 2: Don't rob the boat, yes, drop the boat, Like when
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  Speaker 2: she leans out Palmer is taking money from her. She's
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  Speaker 2: just like, yice, I would have flipped the us out.
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  Speaker 2: And then I found out that forgives him.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, like, Mom, I gotta sell your house and she's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: That's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, you need to tell him to get
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  Speaker 1: the hell out of your house because he's been stealing
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  Speaker 1: from you mortgage at your house and now he wants
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  Speaker 1: to sell the house that you live in.
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  Speaker 2: It's too much. I needed a bigger reaction from her.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Look when Richard, who's Kara's ex boyfriend, shows up,
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  Speaker 1: Brett get It said.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was trying to swing his big dick around. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And I was like why are you?
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  Speaker 1: And he acted mad at Kara and I was like,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: why are you mad at her? That this guy shows
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  Speaker 1: up out of the blue, Like she didn't invite him here?
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  Speaker 1: You know, she has an ex boyfriend back home he's
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  Speaker 1: coming back to like, I don't know claim what's his,
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  Speaker 1: but like, your anger is misplaced, her son.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely agree. I did totally catch us see and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, why are you reacting like you're some
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  Speaker 2: jealous boyfriend right now? Like she has unresolved life. Be cool, Yeah, dude,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: just be cool. What's the point of toy storyline here?
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Oh? Well, exactly what I was about to say is
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: I need more about Toy. I don't think it's developed enough.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: And I looked briefly at some of the future synopsies
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: for the other books in this Beach House series, and
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Toy does get her own book. And so I think
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: as a book, this is set up where you can
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: tell a whole story about Kara and her life, and
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: you can tell a whole story about Palmer and about Toy.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: And there's a book.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: That's actually about Lovey and her past love like it's
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: told from the past perspective in retrospect. So I think
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: as the first book in a series that works.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Fine.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: You've got this character you don't know a lot about,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: but she's gonna get her own book. As a standalone movie,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I think maybe we could cuff cut Toy out completely.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Do you think they were hoping to make this into
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: like a series of movies at one point?
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Maybe? And I think Toys really her only role in
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: this movie is to act as a vehicle for the
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: mom's diagnosis to that lea of you weer know she's
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: hiding something with the green smoothies and the going to
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: the doctor, because otherwise nobody knows. I think there's a
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: clever way around that in writing that we didn't need
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: toy for. But if they're gonna make a series of movies, well, okay,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: then you've got to set the character.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah did you see Ah? Yes, did you see that?
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Do you have any I have several me too?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Well? How to laugh out loud at the very casual
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: zoom in on the Hallmark card?
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Yes that your ass are gonna show a haul Ofmark
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: card on there.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, I think I've asked you this before. Have you
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: seen the original Wayne's World? I can't remember, it's been
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: many years. Gosh. There's a joke in that movie where
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: they do this like product placement scene and someone has
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a headache and they zoom in on Mike Myers with
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: like medicine in his hand. He goes nuprin little yellow.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Different and then he like takes it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: It's just like a play on product place in the movies.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: And every time I see like the lubriderm bottle on
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the corner of someone's desk that they casually zoom in
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: as they walk by in a Hallmark movie.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: It just makes me laugh out loud. So you say,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: nuprin little Yellow.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I just found out the other day my husband has
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: never seen Wayne's World, and I quote aligned from that
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: movie all the time, and I was like, you have
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: no idea what I'm talking about.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Our entire marriage.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: You don't know what I'm talking about. You just think
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I'm battling incoherently.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of shocked that you see Wayne's World and
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: are quoting from Wayne's World your.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Own movie A gun let alone many guns, which would
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: necessitate a gun rack.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I say it all the time. Yes, what would you
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: even say that in a reference to.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: It has its moments, But I okay, she gives his
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: girlfriend gives him a gun rack, and he's like, that's
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: a nice gift.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I don't even own a gun let alone many guns.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Anyway, it doesn't matter. I don't think I enjoyed that movie.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: At the same time, it has many memorable moments for me.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Trustine, Megan, you learned something new every single day. Wow,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: did you see that? Go for it? Chad Michael Murray
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: wears a tragic pair of tevas sandals in this movie. Cuzy, Look,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I have nothing personally. I guess these types of sandals.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I thought like maybe I could pull them off to
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: and I tried them on one time. I was like, Nope,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: not for me. Uh it was just an interesting wardrobe choice.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Uh huh. I mean maybe he's at the beach. I
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: guess he needs to wear sandals.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: It's fine, there wasn't a better choice. Wouldn't a flip
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: flop be better than these Beulco straps that he's wearing.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. Here's what there's a casting credit
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: in the opening, you know when they what's that called credits? Yes,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: casting credit by one Brooke Davis, which I thought was
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: really funny, and we mentioned it earlier because Chatmichael Murray
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: played opposite of a character named Brook Davis on One
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Tree Hill was played by Sophia Bush, who he was
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: married to for a hot second.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Wow, nice catch. I've never seen One Tree Hill wouldn't
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: have made that connection. In the beginning of this movie,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: she goes down to the dock to buy some shrimp,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and then after she buys some shrimp, she goes to
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: buy some shoes, and yeah, she's walking away. She's got
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: her shoes in her hand. She's got a purse, no shrimp, Like,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: is the shrimp.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: In her purse? Where did it go? It's not less.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: She throws away her high heels and the trash candid
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: it is. I was like, why would you do that?
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: So either the shrimp is in her car, it's in
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: her purse, or there's.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I need two pounds of shrimp place. I thought they
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: were going out for shrimp. I didn't know she was
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: going to buy some shrimp to make at home. Yeah.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: And when they first show him, I was like, Oh,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: he's got barbecue sauce ont of his shirt. I mean,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that they acknowledged it, but I thought that's weird.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Yet barbecue sauce. Yeah. That was to let us know
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: that you two know each other really well them.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, I have one last did you see that? Yeah?
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Chase Stokes plays young Russell in this movie, and we
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: barely see Russell rustles her like teenage gloves lazy. Yeah.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Chase Stokes plays JB on the Netflix hit Outer Banks.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I was sorry, oh, look at that.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I have two baby related did you see that one?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I mean she has a baby late at night and
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: first thing in the morning. She's driving home from the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: hospital A and B without a car seat. Like she
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: just gets out of the car with a baby in
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: her arms. She knew she was pregnant. They couldn't have said, like,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: could you bring the car seat to the hospital.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Weird.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: And second, the final scene is like a one year
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: later scene and the baby's there, and the baby is
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: still wrapped up like a newborn. Like she's like cradling
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: it like a new but there's no one year old
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: that's gonna let you carry it swaddled down the beach.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: And then when they're in front of the Turtles, the
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: baby like pops its head up out of the wrap,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: like it's maybe a one year old. But I was like,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: just leave the baby at home. At this point, this
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: is throwing me off. And then you'd be like, who's
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: watching the baby? I don't think I would be. Okay,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the swaddled baby that's one year old is a little
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: odd to me.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: It was weird. That whole scene was weird. They're all
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: wearing their matching Turtles shirts and Okay, where'd you rate
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: this movie? Three point two five stars? Oh? I gave
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: it three stars. So I feel like our listeners may
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: have let us down the wrong road here.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Oh you know, I this this is like a Hallmark
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame movie. I saw that and I feel
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: like that's like a throwback to Hallmark past.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Well. I did a little research on Hallmark Hall of
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Fame movies. They used to be aired on CBS. They
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: had a long standing relationship, and then it was CBS
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: said we're not doing that anymore, and I believe it
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: reruns to air. Yeah, right, so then I think they
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: were airing them on Hallmark. But it's been many years
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: since a movie has been deemed Hallmark Hall of Fame.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: This was actually one of like the last Huh, how.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Does it get the Hallmark Hall of Fame distinction?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I don't have done. I have no idea.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, all summer long, we are reviewing fan
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: favorite movies, so don't break it to come back next week.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Is it Christmas in July next week? Yes it is.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: That's exciting.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: We have four Christmas movies with reviews never before heard
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: on Girls Gone Hallmark.
• 24:51
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• 24:53
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• 25:02
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