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Mix Up in the Mediterranean · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode
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  Speaker 1: of Long Story short the podcast. I'm Megan, I am Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: Today we are discussing Mix Up in the Mediterranean, the
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  Speaker 1: third of four movies in Hallmark Channels Love Ever After series.
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  Speaker 1: And Wendy made a comment before we started recording this
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  Speaker 1: episode that leads me to believe I am wrong about
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  Speaker 1: her impression of this movie. But we would love to
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  Speaker 1: hear your impressions of the movie because often we disagree.
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  Speaker 1: So if you agree with us, if you totally disagree,
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  Speaker 1: if you think your way off face, let us know.
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  Speaker 1: And with that said, I believe Wendy has a synopsis for.
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  Speaker 2: This movie I do. This is mex Up, mex Up,
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  Speaker 2: my goodness mix up in the Mediterranean, a small town
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  Speaker 2: cook impersonates his big city chef twin to compete in
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  Speaker 2: a culinary content and falls for the woman in charge
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  Speaker 2: of the event who thinks he is the brother who
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  Speaker 2: is married. Stars Jeremy Jordan, all right, and Jessica. What
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  Speaker 2: are we going with Hair?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going with Loundes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going with Lowndes. I'm sorry, I don't know your name.
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  Speaker 2: I know she played Silver on the nine O two
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  Speaker 2: one oh.
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  Speaker 1: Series, so remay yes. And she's quite possibly the most
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  Speaker 1: beautiful human on the planet.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, those eyes are stunning. Right, It's like
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  Speaker 2: I hate you a little bit. She's gorgeous. Gorgeous hair,
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  Speaker 2: gorgeous eyes. Yeah, beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, speaking of beautiful, we need to jump straight into
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  Speaker 1: news and notes and talk about where this movie was filmed.
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  Speaker 1: A lovely Hallmark movie. Actors finally get to get out
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  Speaker 1: of Canada because they filmed on location in Malta.
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  Speaker 2: What.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Wow, this is a big budget movie. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you could tell that they were on location somewhere and
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  Speaker 1: they were supposed to be in Malta. That's where they
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  Speaker 1: had said they were going, but you know, often they
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  Speaker 1: are not there. But I did look it up and
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  Speaker 1: as well as went to the instagrams of both of
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  Speaker 1: the lead actors, and yes, they were in Malta. It
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  Speaker 1: was absolutely gorgeous. I thought they got really lucky in
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  Speaker 1: terms of where they got to film.
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  Speaker 2: Really, I know, I was watching the movie and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, hmm, where in Canada can this speeding? It's gorgeous,
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  Speaker 2: super awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And it was filmed in December twenty twenty, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the international travel restrictions were that allowed
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  Speaker 1: them to do this. But I'm very happy that they
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  Speaker 1: had the opportunity to get out of the Great White North.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cool. Any other news and notes?
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  Speaker 1: Well, So, Jeremy Jordan and Jessica Loundes maybe Loundes both,
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  Speaker 1: let's just call her Jessica have Instagram presences, which is
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  Speaker 1: not all the case for these actors. And they both
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  Speaker 1: sing in addition to acting, and while they were on location,
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  Speaker 1: they co wrote a song about their characters what and
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  Speaker 1: they recorded it. The song is called a Live and
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  Speaker 1: you can stream it on Spotify. You can buy it
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  Speaker 1: on iTunes. We will leave a link to it in
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  Speaker 1: our show notes. You can listen on their respective instagram,
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  Speaker 1: so we will also leave a link to that. I
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  Speaker 1: honestly thought it was sweet. What's it called alive?
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  Speaker 2: She's got a beautiful voice, trying to play the card.
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  Speaker 2: We cannot stop. Hey, he's got a nice voice too.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm feeling like country vibes from him.
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  Speaker 1: And there's I'm so pretty. I can't handle it looking
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  Speaker 1: at this video.
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  Speaker 2: I don't hate it.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm telling you, I know your initial reaction was
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  Speaker 1: a little concerned. It was a sweet little song. I
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna definitely watch their video or whatever they made
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  Speaker 2: for it.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, there's an Instagram TV video. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: worth giving it a watch, and to listen.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't sound bad to me.
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  Speaker 1: No, what were your first impressions of this movie? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, I'm so nervous.
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  Speaker 2: You're nervous. Yes, uh, I liked it. I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was very funny.
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  Speaker 1: I loved this movie. I really really did. And the
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  Speaker 1: whole time I was thinking, oh, man, Wendy pisses in
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  Speaker 1: my cheerios tomorrow because I'm sad.
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  Speaker 2: No, I really enjoyed it. I thought it was funny.
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  Speaker 2: And what I liked about it is it didn't fall
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  Speaker 2: into the like it wasn't a Valentine's Day movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just a love movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so they can like show this whole anytime. It's
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  Speaker 2: not just going to be in February. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed it quite a bit and thought it was quite funny.
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  Speaker 2: I did do.
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  Speaker 1: What did you like about it?
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  Speaker 2: I have a nice big list, actually good. I thought
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  Speaker 2: at first I didn't know their names, so I just
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  Speaker 2: put Chef bro keeps speaking in French, and I thought
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  Speaker 2: that was hilarious that he kept you know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: even know any French words, but he kept like saying
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  Speaker 2: French things, and he would be the other brother would
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  Speaker 2: be like, stop doing that. You're not French, You're from Alaska.
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  Speaker 1: So I love that. And I also thought, knowing absolutely
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  Speaker 1: nothing about a French accent, that he had a good
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  Speaker 1: French accent when he spoke in French.
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  Speaker 2: I saw. I thought that was good. What about you?
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, I loved Malta. It gave me the aspirational
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  Speaker 1: hotel and travel content that my travel starved heart desires.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, have you ever been to Malta?
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  Speaker 1: No? Have you?
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  Speaker 2: No? I'm not even quite sure where it's other than
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  Speaker 2: the Mediterranean. Well, I did write that the beautiful scenery,
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  Speaker 2: and I asked, where was this filmed? So I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: that you cleared that up for me. Okay, so I
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  Speaker 2: wrote down here, I like the banter between the brothers.
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  Speaker 2: Are these twins playing parts? Or bravo to the actor
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  Speaker 2: who is playing both parts?
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  Speaker 1: It's all Jeremy, and he did such a good job
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  Speaker 1: playing two parts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought, really, well, he did a good job
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  Speaker 2: because you know, like, I don't know how they filmed
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  Speaker 2: those twin scenes. Is he like talking with like another actor,
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  Speaker 2: like is he acting off of another actor who's not
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  Speaker 2: in the shot, and then they like superimpose the twin
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  Speaker 2: shot on top of that. I don't know how they
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  Speaker 2: do these things, but I thought he.
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  Speaker 1: Was great well, based on my extensive knowledge of how
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  Speaker 1: the show Live and Maddie was filmed. Typically, they use
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  Speaker 1: a stand in and then there are a couple scenes
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  Speaker 1: where they're hugg so you can see like the back
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  Speaker 1: of a stand in's head. You know, most of the
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  Speaker 1: time it's just the two scenes overlapping. I don't understand
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  Speaker 1: the technology for that, but I would assume they have
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  Speaker 1: to have a stand in so he knows where to talk,
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  Speaker 1: so he's talking to someone. But they definitely had obviously
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  Speaker 1: someone to play the back of his head.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Okay, do you like anything else? I still
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  Speaker 2: have a few more.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they were a well matched couple, even though
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  Speaker 1: I also thought they might be a candidate for the
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  Speaker 1: siblings or dating Instagram account. I thought they looked great
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  Speaker 1: together and I liked their chemistry.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote that too, I said there's a nice playful
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  Speaker 2: energy between Meg and Josh Josh as Julian. I have
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  Speaker 2: some thoughts about that later on but I thought there
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  Speaker 2: was some nice energy between the two of them. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I thought they played well off of each other. M hmm.
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  Speaker 2: I loved that the story was really more about Josh
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  Speaker 2: and Julian's relationship then it being about the relationship with
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  Speaker 2: like a love relationship with Meg that.
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  Speaker 1: Was frozen with dudes exactly.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what I wrote, Oh my gosh, that's so funny.
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  Speaker 1: I one of my favorite parts was at the end
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  Speaker 1: the final cooking scene, Josh asks if he can switch
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  Speaker 1: though chefs and Henry goes, oh uh a chew. I
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  Speaker 1: I honestly, some of these lines could have gone so
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  Speaker 1: cheesy so quickly, but I thought the humor was very
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  Speaker 1: well executed.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. I have so many like funny lines that
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  Speaker 2: I plan to share on our Girls Gone Homework account.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, and I loved their kiss at the end.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was I thought it was great. I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was good. I'd loved it.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a rap on what we liked?
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  Speaker 2: That's a rap on what we liked?
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  Speaker 1: Time for Oh, I have so many roadblocks placed in
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  Speaker 1: the way of a movie couple, but it was cilliar.
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  Speaker 1: Oh blocks in like the plot of the movie, but
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  Speaker 1: they all kind of play into the couple. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: of course we have first, Oh, Julian hurts his back.
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  Speaker 2: And then uh oh they're gonna lose the restaurant if
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  Speaker 2: they don't win the competition.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and actually what we first have is, Oh, Julian
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  Speaker 1: is rude to Meg at the restaurant, which to not
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  Speaker 1: like him. Oh Meg assumes Josh is Julian, and Josh
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  Speaker 1: gets the wristband.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, which is so funny because that just seems like
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  Speaker 2: a weird uh caveat to their competition, that you have
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  Speaker 2: to keep this wristband on the entire time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was really the only way to make Josh
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  Speaker 1: have to be Julian because Julian has like a minor recovery.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, they had to have some way to lock
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  Speaker 1: him into place.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, you got more.
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  Speaker 1: I have Oh Meg hate a liar.
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  Speaker 2: I have that too, X was a liar. This is
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  Speaker 2: a potential relationship built on a lie. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I also have oh pepe le pew titles on
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  Speaker 1: Josh and Julie.
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  Speaker 2: I could never understand his name when they were saying.
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  Speaker 1: Dan at the end, but I just he very much
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  Speaker 1: had Now if that is his actual accent. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: very sorry to that actor. I don't believe that it is.
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  Speaker 1: And he just had that very affected French accent, and
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  Speaker 1: to me, he was Pepe the Pew.
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  Speaker 2: French competitor. Earshot of conversation, he hears it. Here's a
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  Speaker 2: couple of other things. Dad minimizes Meg's career. Yes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he really wasn't into her being an event planner or
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  Speaker 2: whatever she really was, which I have problems with her
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  Speaker 2: job duties as an event planner for this cookie competition
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  Speaker 2: as well. Well.
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  Speaker 1: And when he does, he's like, fine, do that and
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  Speaker 1: let me give you money. I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what parent isn't like, hey, you want to make it
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  Speaker 1: on your own, that's amazing. Like, please take my money
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  Speaker 1: and let me help you be successful. Immediately.
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  Speaker 2: I want to build my own empire. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: an event planning empire. Guys, I mean, I guess they exist, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Mindy Weese, Mindy Wes.
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  Speaker 2: I know that's that's the one I thought of as
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  Speaker 2: soon as I said it.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I agree, there's probably not. There aren't many
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  Speaker 1: other names other than that. I have no more. Oh's
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  Speaker 1: do you have more?
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  Speaker 2: I got a couple. Uh uh truffles. Truffles didn't ship.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, and now like, how okay, this is what
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  Speaker 2: I wrote it down somewhere, but I don't see my
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  Speaker 2: note here are truffles from a certain region? Are they from? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: So she was expecting truffles from France? Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: And my entertaining is like they're hard to find, like
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  Speaker 1: they use like truffle sniffing dogs.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I know, yeah, something pigs, I think
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  Speaker 2: or something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Anyhow, so the their their friend. The other chef guy
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  Speaker 2: just happens to note have a hookup for some truffle hookup.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a black market truffle dealer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that. It was just funny. Oh and
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  Speaker 2: this was funny too. Uh oh. Somebody sabotage the fridge,
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  Speaker 2: the cook station and all their ingredients are bad. But
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  Speaker 2: then they're in the like hotel kitchen, going what do
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  Speaker 2: we have here? What can we put together? I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: this is a cooking competition at like a world class resort.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have access to extra ingredients.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, yeah, that was a little even if the
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  Speaker 1: cooking competition aside, you're at a beautiful resort. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to have a very well stocked kitchen. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to find whatever you need.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like she was looking through my refrigerator.
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  Speaker 1: There, and we started together with one piece of chicken
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  Speaker 1: and a slightly moldy piece of cheese.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly so. And finally, my final oh was
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  Speaker 2: at the end when they got busted, right when they
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  Speaker 2: find out that there are actual twins here, Meg gets
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  Speaker 2: fired or almost fired. Why would why would she have
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  Speaker 2: been fired? It was just made mad?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, moving on, we need to discuss that later.
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  Speaker 1: I have some thoughts about that. The lightest section for
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  Speaker 1: me is the what we wished for section?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely me as well.
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  Speaker 1: So I was taking notes and through the first like
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  Speaker 1: seventy five percent of the movie, what I was hoping
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  Speaker 1: is that rather than having Josh masquerade, is Julian the
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  Speaker 1: entire time, like when they're not in the competition, and
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  Speaker 1: we get an answer to this, but I was like,
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  Speaker 1: why can't he just be himself? Because they know the
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  Speaker 1: brother is there, And at one point, Julian goes out
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  Speaker 1: dressed as Josh, So I thought, if he wants to
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  Speaker 1: have this connection with this person, why can't he just
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  Speaker 1: switch back into his Josh persona and go hang out
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  Speaker 1: with her. Of course, we get an answer to that,
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  Speaker 1: and that is that she doesn't know that they're twins, which, okay,
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  Speaker 1: is odd to me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why they didn't do that. So
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  Speaker 2: you wish they would have fixed that in the story.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I thought, because my biggest what I didn't like
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  Speaker 1: is there are a couple like playful, cute, flirty scenes
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  Speaker 1: with Meg and with Josh as Julian. And there's one
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  Speaker 1: especially where they're like cooking at his station at night,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, this would be a really cute scene,
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  Speaker 1: except that the man that he is supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: right now is married. So it was hard for me
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  Speaker 1: to be like, even though I know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was an odd pairing, Like we're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be rooting for this couple even though she thinks
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  Speaker 1: he's married and he's pretending to be his brother who
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  Speaker 1: is married. I thought maybe I could root for them
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  Speaker 1: more as a couple, even though I did root for
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  Speaker 1: them as a couple in spite of being a little uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 1: if we had more of Josh being himself. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: we find out later on that she's not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: know their twins. She knows he has a brother, she
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  Speaker 1: knows the brother is there, but we don't know that
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  Speaker 1: it's twins. Right, so Etienne does know that they're twins. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was I don't know that. That's an unclosed loop
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  Speaker 1: for me.
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  Speaker 2: I got you. I do have some comments on that
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  Speaker 2: particular scene and in our digit see that section. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I only really have one note in the wished for area,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not quite sure how to say this delicately.
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  Speaker 2: So the actor playing Julian, his mannerisms were very much
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  Speaker 2: of a stereotypical like caricature, do you know what I mean? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: kind of feminine, a little bit flamboyant. And what I
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  Speaker 2: didn't like about that is that they were almost using
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  Speaker 2: it for laughs or like comedy, and because they were
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  Speaker 2: so different, the brothers were so different, right, So I
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  Speaker 2: just wish they didn't like play into this stereotype of
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  Speaker 2: like what a gay man would be. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I that I bumped on that too, and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: think you know, I know that they needed to differentiate
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  Speaker 1: the tube, but I think they could have done it
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  Speaker 1: in a different way. I think he did play up
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  Speaker 1: those mannerisms. And I agree that it was done for
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  Speaker 1: comedy and the movie was funny enough. We did not
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  Speaker 1: need and I didn't find that part of it funny,
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  Speaker 1: so I mean neither.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I just was like, why did they do that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I wonder if it was like a director
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  Speaker 2: choice or if it was an actor choice or how
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  Speaker 2: you know, how they made that decision. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: get why they why they did it, but I just
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  Speaker 2: wish they would have done something different.
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  Speaker 1: Right, it's time for did you see that? Questions? Plot
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  Speaker 1: holes and things we just need to discuss.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I have a couple. First of all, cook bro ow,
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  Speaker 2: I know that's Julian He No, No, not the cook Bro,
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  Speaker 2: that's not Julian Josh. He like gaffs at like the
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  Speaker 2: cost of truffles, Like he should know this, right, like
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  Speaker 2: he I don't cook, I know that truffles are very expensive,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Like I just like that's dumb. This don't make this
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: guy from this cook from Alaska be an idiot, Like
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I think they even said that he got a scholarship
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: to this culinary school so he would know something about
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: truffles or at least the cost of him anyway, now
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: you go.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: When Meg is discussing her two month rule, my brain
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: was like foreshadowing. I knew a return of that. I
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: knew exactly how it was going to play out. At
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: the end. You could already see the conflict, what was
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: going to happen, that she was going to need that
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: time to get over the betrayal in her mind.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I will say that was one of my favorite scenes.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: At the very end, when he was like, give me
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: my two months, I was like, I love it. Like
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: that was realistic to me. It wasn't like they were
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: just like, Okay, now I'm in love with you, let's
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: kiss and be happy ever after. Like yes, I loved it.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I love that part.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Okay. So Meg and Josh as Julian are having these
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: big life talks, like she's telling him about her relationship
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: with her dad and this and that and whatever, and
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: to me, it borderlines romantic and intimate. And I was like,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I it's like what you said earlier, like how am
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I rooting for this couple when she thinks that she's
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: talking to a married man, you know, Like I just
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: thought the scene was so weird because that's a conversation
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: between two people who are actually like getting to know
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: each other on a romantic intimate level, and like this
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: is just a friendship between the two of them from.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Her and we what she didn't have in this movie.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Meg's character didn't have a friend. She didn't have a
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: buddy to have these conversations with, so we never really
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: got to see her work through if she had any
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: feelings of conflict and her brain about Hey, I'm kind
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: of enjoying spending time with him, but hey, he's.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Married, right.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I don't think she ever acts inappropriately, but it's clear
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: that she's developing feelings for him, and I would have
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: liked to see kind of a discussion on her end,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: because we see it happen with the brothers. Julian says like, oh,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: you're you promised your girlfriend a spot on our restaurant.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: So Josh sees it happening, but it's also or Julian
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: sees it happening. But it's also odd that Julian doesn't say, Hey,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: you're playing me and I'm supposed to be married. Maybe
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: spending a lot of time with this woman isn't the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: greatest idea. Yeah, I laughed at the chef named Patrick
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: O'Shea from Ireland with red.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Hair, and when they called him as a finalist, they
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: show him go yes, and I was like, all right,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I have here. Why would the cooking competition be outside?
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I think we've seen that though, so I think I
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: think I've seen that on cooking shows. You're going to
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: use a beautiful outdoor, but then you're gonna get bugs,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and then you have to can't have temperature controlled space.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I get it, right, I mean I've watched a ton
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: of Top Chef and always when they have to cook outside,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: it's problematic. It's not like they're in a controlled space
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: like an industrial kitchen. You know.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's not as pretty.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I get it. I get it. Okay, let's talk about
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: that scene and you've already touched on it when Meg
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: and Josh are Josh as Julian are making a hamburger
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: or something outside again in the cook top where there's
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: competition is supposed to take place, like they're using it
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: to make dinner. Like it was just weird, a weird choice,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: but again, like it was clearly a romantic kind of
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: situation because you know they're like she's like pushing out
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: the hamburger bundo or whatever. It just was romantic and
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: kind of sensual. But she wasn't feeling romantic vibes because
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: or was she. But he's a married man, she was.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: That's the part of that scene that bothered me. And
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: he walks around and he puts his arms around her
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: that kind of yes. Yes. I was like, look, this
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: is a very cute scene. If this were Josh as
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Josh and Meg, I would have loved it. I was
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: totally buying into their chemistry. I just didn't like that
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: at that moment he was supposed to be his married brother,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: and that is I don't you know. I don't know
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: how you make the conflict work if you know all
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: along that there's twins, right, but we do know that
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: there's brothers. She knows he has a brother. They discussed
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the brother. One of the other chefs meets brother. We
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: all know all along that there's brothers, brothers, brothers, brothers, brothers.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I think we could have eliminated this slightly ichy factor
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: if when he's not himself, when he's not Julian, he
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: gets to be himself, and then they could be building
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: this relationship and you still have the lie, but.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: She's actually building a real relationship with the right man, Yes.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Because I get it. Sometimes I feel like the characters
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: in these movies when there's a betrayal and they get
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: very upset. Sometimes I feel that it's overblown. But in
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: this case, you know, I understand her feeling of betrayal
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: because you know, he was pretending to be a different
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: person all along, and I'm sure she felt conflicted about
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: developing feelings for this man who is married. He puts
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: her in an awkward position.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's when he put like got behind her
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: and like put his arms around her. Like I'm trying
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: to think of it as the perspective of me. If
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I was a single woman and this married man came
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: and like put his arms around me like that, I
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: would have had some sort of like pause or some
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: sort of reaction, right, And we never get into the
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: like what she's thinking about part of it. So it
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: was just weird. The whole thing made me uncomfortable.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Actually, I think she needed a friend, even someone back home,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: even someone she just talks to on the phone, because
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: we know that her boss is not someone who's kind
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: to her. She doesn't really have a friend other than
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Josh slash Julian in this movie. And I think she
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: needed that so we could get that dialogue that of
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: working through the thought process on it.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think she needed like an assistant or somebody
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: to be like, hey, this is weird, right or I
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: don't know, Uh, do you have any more?
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I have a small one. Chester, who is the former
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: winner of this competition, barges into Julian and Henry's room,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: which I mean, who would do that in a hotel?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: What if someone were changing? I mean he opens it
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: when he comes flying right in. You're in a hotel room.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Someone could be naked, or in their bathroom or walking
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: out of the shower. I know he needs to catch them,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: but I thought nobody does that.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Nobody does that. Okay, I have a couple couple minor ones. Okay.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Peaches, ice cream and raspberries is the final dish of
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: this competition, I know, I mean, come on, come on.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: And then of course they make a baked Alasta. I
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: mean I knew that was coming. They made They did
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: make it like bougieed it up with like their little
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: glass coverings and whatever.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: A beautiful baked Alaska.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: But yes, of course, also the event planner, which she was,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: she was reviewing the contract and found the loophole that
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: he could still participate in the competition. I just was like,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: how many hats is she wearing?
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Like well, and to your point earlier about her getting
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: fired because they lied, I thought, no, this is not
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: her fault. She didn't do anything wrong.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: They cheated and boozled her.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Yes, she didn't do anything wrong, and I disliked that.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And my last one, this was some conversation, some
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: dialogue between them. Josh says to her, what about us?
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: And she says there is no us, And I was like, duh.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: She thought she had a friendship or a potential working
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: relationship with Julian, not Josh, and Josh was the one
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: that was falling in love with her. That is just
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: that whole component of it was such a mess.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I do think that's where these movies were not meant
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to watch that closely, and we're just kind of supposed
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: to enjoy the chemistry and the beautiful scenery and don't
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: think too deeply about it and just enjoy the pretty
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: people in a pretty place and the kiss at the end.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I think that really played into that.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: What are you going to rate this movie?
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: This is a solid three star movie for me.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Wow, I gave it three and a half. I liked
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: it more than.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Bevere Oh where did I give Beverly Hills Wedding three stars?
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I thank you, Yeah, I find it on par with that.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I just there was just that one component of the story.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: If they had like worked that out with the writers
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: about Josh and Julian, fixing that whole situation between those two,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: and it would have been more for me. But three start.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. I would likely throw it on again
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: if it was on.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: So Hallmark has begun to tease their first movie outside
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: of the Love Ever After series, which is titled Fit
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: for a Prince. But I am not at this point
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: seeing a new series of movies, Like we don't have
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Spring Fling being named yet. I don't know if that's
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: what's coming. It's not in the Hallmark checklist app So
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: we are just gonna wait and see if that's the
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: standalone movie or if it's a part of a new series.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: But next week we have It Was Always You, featuring
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Aaron Krakau and Tyler Hines, who, by the way, friends
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: his fans use the hashtag Heini, which is so unfortunate
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: because he's such a pretty man, but I have a
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: feeling he often plays a character who's very grumpy in
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the beginning of his and I think that's the character
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: we're getting from the previews. But I enjoy him, so
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I'll work past it again. It was always you. The
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: final movie in the Love Ever After series next week,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: and you know we're going to be back fit for
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: a Prince. You know we're not going away. Even if
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: it's not part of a series. We would love it,
• 29:29
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• 29:30
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• 29:42
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• 29:43
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