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The Greek Aisle · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm
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Speaker 1: a former Hallmark hater. On today's episode, we're discussing The
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Speaker 1: Greek Isle, which originally aired on Hallmark on Saturday, June sixth,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, and is now streaming on Hallmark Plus.
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Speaker 1: You can keep up with us over on Instagram. Things
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Speaker 1: fell apart for about a week there, but we're getting
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Speaker 1: back on track. Come on, it's fine. I dropped the ball.
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Speaker 1: Life was life in around here, both kids' birthdays, last
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Speaker 1: week of school. It's a lot going on, so I
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Speaker 1: bet nobody really cares. They do not. But typically over
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Speaker 1: on Girls Gone Hallmark, you can find out our weekly
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Speaker 1: schedule and regular updates from us. Wendy shared some fun
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Speaker 1: Hamemark related news over there. Guys. That's like the first
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Speaker 1: time I've been over on our end. I was like,
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Speaker 1: who posted the Girls Gone Homewark Instagram weeks in weeks? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: life has been happening, So I was like, oh, look
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Speaker 1: at me sharing all this stuff. All of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: we are Girls' Gun Hallmark. Hey, I have not, It's
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Speaker 1: not breaking headline news. But I have some news I
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Speaker 1: learned over the weekend regarding one of the July Christmas movies.
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Speaker 1: Yes can we can we talk about it for a second? Sure,
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Speaker 1: jump into the Greek aisle. Okay, So, the movie premiering
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Speaker 1: on Saturday, July fourth is called Christmas Under Construction and
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Speaker 1: it stars Daniel Lissing and Jessica Lounds. However, dot dot
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Speaker 1: dot this movie previously premiered on Hulu in twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: four under a different name called Renovation Romance. Indeed, and
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Speaker 1: it's still currently available on Hulu on that name. Oh interesting.
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Speaker 1: I had an off Mike discussion with Megan about this,
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Speaker 1: and she said she read a reddit. I just googled
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Speaker 1: Renovation Romance and the first thing that came up was
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Speaker 1: a negative Reddit review. Yikes. I mean, am I surprised
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Speaker 1: at Homewark acquired this movie? Not really? Am I surprised
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Speaker 1: It's a Daniel list See movie. Kind of? Yeah, it
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Speaker 1: will be interesting. We will be doing our jually first impressions. I'm,
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Speaker 1: you know, trying to remain neutral and hope that maybe
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Speaker 1: it surprises me. But the reviews I'm seeing so far
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Speaker 1: not great. But I think a Homemark last year, did
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Speaker 1: know Christmas movies? It was just Christmas at Sea and
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Speaker 1: there were no new movies and so really is that accurate?
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Speaker 1: I can't remember. Yeah, there were no new Christmas movies
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Speaker 1: last year. So I think they felt like you know,
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Speaker 1: last year homework. If you look the number of weekends
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Speaker 1: without a new movie, it was news plus the number
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Speaker 1: of Hallmark plus reairrs we got last year. So I
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Speaker 1: think they've been trying to move away from that, and
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Speaker 1: so you know, I guess they gotta fill the space
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Speaker 1: with an acquisition now and then yay, let's talk about
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Speaker 1: the Greek Isle. Let's do it. Hit me with a synopsis.
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Speaker 1: When Georgia travels to the Greek island of Corfu to
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Speaker 1: finalize an inheritance she unexpected to lead, discovers that marrying
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Speaker 1: her handsome co inheritor is the only way to meet
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Speaker 1: the requirements. McLean Nelson directed The Greek Isle. His recent
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Speaker 1: Hallmark credits include Missing the Boat and A Keller Christmas Vacation.
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Speaker 1: The teleplay was written by Betsy Sollinger and McLean Nelson.
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Speaker 1: The story is by Betsy Sollinger, who previously wrote Hallmarks,
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Speaker 1: a novel Noel in twenty twenty four. Apostolis Totsikas stars
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Speaker 1: opposite Nikki di Looche as her unexpected co inheritor Alex.
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Speaker 1: Can you hear me laugh? Do you know why I
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Speaker 1: did that? Because you knew I would be like, I'm
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Speaker 1: not saying it. I'm not saying it. Thank you. Nikki
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Speaker 1: Deloch stars as Georgia. Up next, she will reprise her
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Speaker 1: role in the True Justice three movie Lost Love. Hey, Wendy,
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Speaker 1: what is your first impression of the Greek asle uh?
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Speaker 1: Cor Corfu looked beautiful, but those euros deserved to all billing. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I got a lot to say about the euros. Euro Yeah, euros, euros. Gee?
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Speaker 1: Why r s euros? I am saying it correctly, right, Well,
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Speaker 1: you're saying it like eu r os. I think it's euros,
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Speaker 1: like girl, Oh, what doesn't matter. My first impresson is
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna need to get married again so I can
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Speaker 1: wear Georgia's fake wedding dress. Oh my god, her wardrobe
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Speaker 1: was stunning. It's in my likes me too, me too.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk what we liked about this movie. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: be quite honest, Okay, I was not really looking forward
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Speaker 1: to this movie. Yes, one because I was like, mm,
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Speaker 1: typical Hallmark story, very traditional story of I'm inheriting something,
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Speaker 1: that I'm gonna marry somebody and we're gonna be friend
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Speaker 1: of me is to lovers and blah blah blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: That's what I assumed it was going to be. Right
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Speaker 1: then I learned, like the day of or day before
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Speaker 1: that McClain nelson was attached to this project, and I
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, that changes everything for me. I agree
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Speaker 1: with you one hundred percent. Because I learned also this
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Speaker 1: weekend that mclin was attached and because he was promoting
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Speaker 1: it over on his Instagram, and I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: well then I'm all in now. Yeah. I love him
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Speaker 1: as a director. And then he had a writing credit
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Speaker 1: as well, and if you one of my faves of
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Speaker 1: his is haul Out. The Halloween was so damn funny,
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Speaker 1: and so I was like, Okay, okay, I'm seated, I
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Speaker 1: will watch it. Well, then I start watching it and
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Speaker 1: I was like, Niki Deloch is having so much fun
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Speaker 1: as this character, as Georgia. She was doing something not
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Speaker 1: every Hallmark lead can do, and she doesn't always do
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Speaker 1: like she's sometimes is very like plays like a serious
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Speaker 1: sort of sure role or very straight. You know. She
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Speaker 1: was great with like very funny dialogue. There was multiple
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Speaker 1: times I laughed out loud because not but the line
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Speaker 1: itself was hilarious, but it was the way she delivered it.
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Speaker 1: There was more and we're talking about Cassandra. Yes, of course,
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Speaker 1: before she knew Cassandra was a cat. And then she
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Speaker 1: was like okay, and I just just like I felt
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Speaker 1: very natural. She felt like a real person, a little sarcastic,
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Speaker 1: super impulsive, chaotic, like I I loved Nikki in this role. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I love that Cassandra scene when Alex is like, oh,
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Speaker 1: the gotter, She's like no, no, like very very relatable,
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Speaker 1: when she's like hissing at him like no, it's not
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Speaker 1: the dime. Yeah, yeah, I thought I thought she was great.
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Speaker 1: And then in addition, I love that her character Georgia
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Speaker 1: is George is the problem. Georgia comes up with this
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Speaker 1: marriage plan, which we don't usually get our Hallmark leading
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Speaker 1: lady to be the one, like they are the ones
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Speaker 1: that are usually like reacting to all the things happening
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Speaker 1: around them. But like she goes in and she's like,
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Speaker 1: what if we get married completely unhinged? I loved it.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was great. Well, let me talk about
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Speaker 1: that marriage plot, because this movie had the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: be something very different, and it was different from what
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Speaker 1: I expected because I think they made some great storytelling
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Speaker 1: choices that allowed me to fully buy in to the story.
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Speaker 2: One.
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Speaker 1: I went into this thinking that somehow the inheritance required
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Speaker 1: them to be married, which doesn't make a lot of sense,
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Speaker 1: and I should have thought that through. But the reality
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Speaker 1: was that was her solution to their problem. That's going
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Speaker 1: to speed things along. We'll get married, all established residency,
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Speaker 1: all will be well. Great. The other thing they did,
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Speaker 1: which is really smart, is these two knew each other. Now, yes,
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Speaker 1: they had a loose connection from many, many many years ago,
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Speaker 1: but they did have a foundation that they were building on.
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Speaker 1: They had a youthful flirtation, and they both cared very
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Speaker 1: much about her aunt, and so I think those things.
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Speaker 1: You could have told the story without including those elements,
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Speaker 1: but it wouldn't have been as good. I agree. I
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Speaker 1: was really worried that it was going to be enemies
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Speaker 1: to lover situation, and I'm so glad it wasn't. And
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Speaker 1: that is exactly what I thought it would be. The
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Speaker 1: typical Hallmark formula where they hate each other for seventy
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Speaker 1: five minutes and then they kiss, right, I love you.
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Speaker 1: I like that, you know they basically liked each other
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Speaker 1: from the star. Yes. I do have a wish though,
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Speaker 1: and it's going to tie back to what I just
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Speaker 1: said and what you just said about them knowing each other.
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Speaker 1: But I like that the tension between them wasn't you
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Speaker 1: know they can't stop fighting? It was instead of like,
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Speaker 1: how how can we figure this out so everybody wins?
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Speaker 1: That's what I enjoyed about it. I thought it was
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Speaker 1: well played. In terms of the storytelling. There was some
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Speaker 1: incredible writing in this movie. I lloled at Secret Lives
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Speaker 1: of Grecian wise, Yep, that has McLean Nelson all over it,
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Speaker 1: isn't it. Yes? Yes, I thought so too, and my
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Speaker 1: little skinny Greek wedding. Great line. And I also loved
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Speaker 1: the possibly missed line where alex is telling Georgia that
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Speaker 1: she would make a terrible detective. Yes, I laughed out loud.
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Speaker 1: Nice little curious cater or Zinger right there. I just
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Speaker 1: thought there were so many lines like that that I
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Speaker 1: just thought were so clever. And we know that McLean
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Speaker 1: had a hand and Haul at the Halloween and I
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Speaker 1: just I like when we see his writing stamp on things,
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Speaker 1: just ha levels things up. Yeah, his writing, his choices
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Speaker 1: are very contemporary and they land for someone like me
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Speaker 1: who like is very familiar with like Bravo pop culture. Yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 1: exactly a couple of small little things corefew. I don't
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Speaker 1: I don't know where this place is at, but it's stunning.
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Speaker 1: I know. My notes say grease. Obviously, I'm like, take
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Speaker 1: me there. The water, the architecture, those little streets, like hmm,
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Speaker 1: the food. The food always looks good. I remember watching
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Speaker 1: The Groomsmen and they were in Greece and there was
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Speaker 1: like a feta salad and I remember feta salad in
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Speaker 1: this one too, and I'm like, can I get a
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Speaker 1: feta salad here in Orange County somewhere that has like
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Speaker 1: these big chunks of feti cheese and just like vegetables,
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Speaker 1: it looks amazing. Do you just want to take a
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Speaker 1: Greek Isles cruise? Because I think we should do that.
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Speaker 1: Let's do that. Yeah, I'm down, definitely put it on
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Speaker 1: the on the mood board, baby, because this is now
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Speaker 1: the third and like cruise, I think we want to
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Speaker 1: take together. I know a couple other little things. I
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Speaker 1: liked that there were just nice people in this movie.
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Speaker 1: So we have the whole detective interview right where they
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Speaker 1: have the dinner. They have the dinner and then Alex
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Speaker 1: goes with his future boss and they're talking about like
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Speaker 1: potentially working as a detective, and I just like that
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Speaker 1: Alex comes clean and tells the truth and he's like,
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Speaker 1: here's the situation. And then and then it kind of
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Speaker 1: leaves it on the cliffhanger. The boss is like, well,
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Speaker 1: let me tell you what now that I know the truth,
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Speaker 1: here is what it is. There's there's it would just
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Speaker 1: these are just like good people. There's no giant misunderstanding,
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Speaker 1: there's no fake conflict of that there. It just felt good.
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Speaker 1: And then to put a button on it. The land
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Speaker 1: Registry guy comes at the end and he's like the
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Speaker 1: nicest guy like I had the entire the entire movie.
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Speaker 1: They made him out as being like, oh, you got
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Speaker 1: to really fake it for this guy. He's he's he's
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Speaker 1: they are fine. He's the nicest man in Greece. I know,
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Speaker 1: you know. I'm reading a book, just finished a book.
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Speaker 1: It's also about a fake marriage and the entire time.
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Speaker 1: I'm waiting for the discovery, the blow up of people
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Speaker 1: finding out that they're faking it, and they eventually come
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Speaker 1: clean in the book and everyone reacts in these really
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Speaker 1: appropriate ways, and I was like, oh my gosh, that
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Speaker 1: didn't need to be the drama, Like, that's not where
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Speaker 1: the conflict was. I liked that that we didn't have
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Speaker 1: all this blow up of having to smooth all of
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Speaker 1: these feelings over. That's a really good point. Do you
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Speaker 1: think Hallmark leans too heavily on that being the meat
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Speaker 1: of their story is like the big blow up, the
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Speaker 1: miss villain and the misunderstanding. I think we've been leaning
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Speaker 1: a little bit more recently into real conflict, because the
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Speaker 1: real conflict in this movie doesn't come from discovering that
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Speaker 1: their marriage it's fake. It comes from we live on
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Speaker 1: different continents, we have different lives. How are we going
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Speaker 1: to make that work? And I do have some thoughts
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Speaker 1: on that, But I like when the conflict isn't some
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Speaker 1: silly misunderstanding, it's this is the reality of life. How
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Speaker 1: do we make our life work? And I do think
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Speaker 1: we've seen a little bit more of that in our
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Speaker 1: Hallmark movies recently. I hope that's a trend we keep right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and I know a lot of
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Speaker 1: listeners are like, I like the escapist mode, you know,
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Speaker 1: like give me all the escapist drama. Yeah, but this
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Speaker 1: is so escapists Like she she goes to this beautiful island,
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Speaker 1: meets a beautiful Greek man, they fall in love. He's
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Speaker 1: got a wonderful mother, And you know, I just thought
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Speaker 1: this is so escapist, Like look at her wardrobe. Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, the wardrobe. Is that on your likes? Yes?
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Speaker 1: Can I talk about Nicki? Yes? I love everything about
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Speaker 1: Nicki's look in this movie. First of all, the sleek bob.
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Speaker 1: She's rocking at the beginning. Her hair looked amazing, right, incredible,
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Speaker 1: and her hair softens into waves as she's falling in love,
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Speaker 1: as will often happen with our female characters. And I
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Speaker 1: liked that as well. But in the beginning, when she's
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Speaker 1: just got that really blunt, sleek bob, I loved it.
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Speaker 1: It's a look that I've never seen on her. She's
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Speaker 1: got incredible clothes. Her dresses throughout they're giving aspirational vacation
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Speaker 1: at every turn. Her wedding dress was stunning. I loved it.
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Speaker 1: The shoes she wore and she's rocking these Michelle Obama arms.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know if you remember, but in Christmas
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Speaker 1: at Sea, one of her scenes, like she runs into
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Speaker 1: I'm air quoting one of the couples that they're following
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Speaker 1: in season one in the gym, and I don't know why,
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Speaker 1: but's seeing her and all these sleeveless shirts with these
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Speaker 1: killer arms. I'm like, we need the workout routine. I
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Speaker 1: got to tell you, it's the number one thing on
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Speaker 1: my Did you see that? And since oh mentioned here,
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Speaker 1: I wrote, Nikki Delochio's arms are absolutely shredded. Yes, and
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Speaker 1: that's it. That's all I have is say, I'm like,
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Speaker 1: where did those arms come from? Has she been like
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Speaker 1: working on the yes? You know, we just spent an
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Speaker 1: hour on Patreon and I was talking about how I
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Speaker 1: need a real, like weightlifting routine. Maybe we need to
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Speaker 1: message Nicki and see if we can get her on
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Speaker 1: the podcast and just talk about what the arm routine is,
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Speaker 1: because gosh, damn, yeah, how do you prioritize that? Damn
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Speaker 1: looks great? I have one more like, Okay, it's I
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Speaker 1: loved Elena Alex's mom. I think she's overbearing, But in
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Speaker 1: a fun roll your eyes lovingly at her sort of way. Yeah. Like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: she is definitely like a little bit of the stereotypical
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Speaker 1: Greek mother perhaps, but you can't help but love her. No.
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Speaker 1: I thought she was wonderful. She was so loving and
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Speaker 1: like warm, Yeah, just down for the ride of it all.
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Speaker 1: I guess you know. It wasn't overbearing in a oh
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Speaker 1: my baby boy and you're stealing him a way sort
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Speaker 1: of way like she was, you know, in a love
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Speaker 1: multiplies kind of way. That's so nice. It was nice.
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Speaker 1: Do you have any more likes? That's it. Let's take
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Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll come right back to talk
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Speaker 1: about our wishes. All right, Wendy, what did you wish for?
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Speaker 1: I needed more proof that these two had history. M Yes,
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Speaker 1: we know that she spent a summer there or was
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Speaker 1: it a summer or was it longer? I can't, I
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Speaker 1: don't know. She just kept saying, like, studied abroad. Yeah right.
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Speaker 1: This movie keeps telling us that Georgia and Alex knew
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Speaker 1: each other from years ago, but I never really fully
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Speaker 1: bought into it, especially because there's this moment where his
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Speaker 1: mom says to her, like, oh, Alex, or she says
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Speaker 1: Alexandra or whatever his name is, I'm sorry, and you
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Speaker 1: see Georgia kind of go oh oh Alex, like she
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Speaker 1: didn't fully remember who he was, but Alex knew, like
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Speaker 1: Alice clearly remembered who Georgia was. So so what I
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Speaker 1: would have loved is maybe like a little flashback or
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Speaker 1: some old photos or a story something, because my interpretation
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Speaker 1: is that maybe there was a young Alex who was
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Speaker 1: maybe like a little bit awkward and like was a
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Speaker 1: love sick puppy for Georgia sure has been carrying it
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Speaker 1: for all this time, and Georgia didn't really know who
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Speaker 1: he was. That's the story I have built in my head. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: rather than like these two flirted her entire time that
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Speaker 1: people were there. I think your story might be more
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Speaker 1: accurate because when Alex is talking to Nico in the
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Speaker 1: beginningn go's like, oh, didn't you have a crush on her?
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Speaker 1: And He's like, I had a crush on every girl
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Speaker 1: who would even look my direction. So you know, you
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Speaker 1: get the impression that he was like a little bit
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Speaker 1: of an awkward, younger dude who kind of grew into himself. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So I just wish there was some something that we
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Speaker 1: could have seen that, Like I would love like a flashback,
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Speaker 1: but I know that's hard to execute. Yes, but yeah
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Speaker 1: when there's twenty years, yeah exactly. My other I have
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Speaker 1: two more wishes. The other one is I wish we
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Speaker 1: would have gotten a little bit more about Georgia's creative work.
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Speaker 1: I hadn't picked up that. Maybe so she has her
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Speaker 1: business partner, is it Rose? I can't remember her name,
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Speaker 1: but Rose kind of seems to like George is the
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Speaker 1: creative one, yes, and Rose is like the business one, right,
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Speaker 1: kind of like us Megan anyway, and you know, and
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Speaker 1: it seems to me maybe Georgia, I mean obviously she's
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Speaker 1: not opening her mail and like reading these books. Yes, yeah,
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Speaker 1: so I haven't now pegged her in my mind as
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Speaker 1: like oh, she's just like flighty creative one who can't
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Speaker 1: like be pinned down or whatever. But then like she
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Speaker 1: goes to Greece since she's trying to like come up
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Speaker 1: with a marketing pitch for this jewelry. Right, it's like
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Speaker 1: a whiff of a c storyline that we get at
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Speaker 1: the end, Georgia talks about like oh being here is
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Speaker 1: like inspired me again and stuff. It just was like
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Speaker 1: a weird storyline that didn't really come full Well, that
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Speaker 1: kind of speaks to one of my wishes if I
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Speaker 1: can piggyback on that really quickly. Yeah, And I think
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Speaker 1: it's that the message of her being flighty is very
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Speaker 1: mixed in this movie. Her parents called any decision that
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Speaker 1: they didn't like that wasn't the path that they envisioned
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Speaker 1: for her flighty. Right, if you're gonna pursue a creative path,
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Speaker 1: that's being flighty, Which that's inaccurate one. But she's clearly
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Speaker 1: a strong, capable woman. But she also ignored legal notices
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Speaker 1: for an entire year. When she hands out to her
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Speaker 1: business partner and she's like, decode this. Come on, it's
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Speaker 1: not written in a language that you cannot understand. I
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Speaker 1: was frustrated by that, and she ignored it for an
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Speaker 1: entire year with out expecting there to be consequences. But
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Speaker 1: when she arrives in Greece, she's very no nonsense, very like,
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Speaker 1: these are the steps we need to take to get
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Speaker 1: things done. And she takes the bull by the horns,
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Speaker 1: so to speak. I mean, she's moving forward, but we're
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Speaker 1: to believe, you know, she gets nervous. She's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: do you think I'm being flighty when she's talking to
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Speaker 1: her business partner, and I'm like, that's unfair that your
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Speaker 1: parents put that on you, because it's the wrong adjective,
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Speaker 1: like maybe you're not as driven by the business side
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Speaker 1: of things, but to suggest that the creative force is
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Speaker 1: flighty because she's not the one handling the spreadsheets is uneven.
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Speaker 1: I agree, absolutely agree. And there's one part when she's
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Speaker 1: telling Alex about like her parents were disappointed in her.
20:48
Speaker 1: I don't know how old this character, late thirties forties, right,
20:52
Speaker 1: If my parents were like, oh, I'm disappointed in you
20:55
Speaker 1: because you've left a big corporate and struck out on
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Speaker 1: your own. Yeah, And she was very clear about not
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Speaker 1: asking them for money because her business partners like, should
21:05
Speaker 1: we call your parents? And she's like, no, we're going
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Speaker 1: to figure this out. So what part of that is
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Speaker 1: disappointing to you? I yeah, as a parent, i'd be like, no,
21:13
Speaker 1: I'm not what right? What now? If my eighteen year
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Speaker 1: old was like, I'm not going to go to college
21:21
Speaker 1: and become an influencer, Okay, I might have some words
21:23
Speaker 1: about it, but not I'm not going to say anything
21:26
Speaker 1: to my thirty five year old plus child. I'm going
21:30
Speaker 1: to be supportive. I don't know, just I thought that
21:32
Speaker 1: was weird. That was weird. Okay, My last wish and
21:36
Speaker 1: I have a feeling you might have similar feelings, is
21:40
Speaker 1: how what's this look like going forward? What's happening here? Right?
21:45
Speaker 1: So I wrote, I might be mad if my business
21:48
Speaker 1: partner decided to move to another country and work remotely indefinitely.
21:53
Speaker 1: So don't go falling in love with a Greek dude, Wendy,
21:55
Speaker 1: because I think it is a little bit unfair to
21:58
Speaker 1: her business partner to make this big decision. Yeah, and
22:05
Speaker 1: what's she gonna say? Like, of course they're best friends,
22:07
Speaker 1: so of course she's gonna be like, Okay, well you know,
22:09
Speaker 1: choose you. But how are we gonna make this work.
22:12
Speaker 1: We're gonna zoom meeting every one of our and it's
22:15
Speaker 1: unclear because it doesn't seem like they have a plan.
22:17
Speaker 1: She's like, I just need more time to figure out
22:19
Speaker 1: how we're gonna make this work. But he's going to
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Speaker 1: be a Greek detective. He cannot relocate or even spend
22:27
Speaker 1: part of the year in the States. Mm hmm, yeah, Canada,
22:32
Speaker 1: maybe that is how they wrap this story up. They're
22:35
Speaker 1: like Okay, we don't actually need a fully fleshed out sure,
22:39
Speaker 1: we're just gonna say, like, you know, Georgia needs to
22:42
Speaker 1: figure it out, so she just needs more time to
22:44
Speaker 1: figure it out. Yeah, it is unfair to her business
22:47
Speaker 1: partner who they have, like a firm in the States
22:52
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I mean you and I we can
22:56
Speaker 1: do podcasting wherever. Yeah, but I wouldn't want to be
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Speaker 1: remote forever, you know what I mean? Yeah? Yeah, I
23:03
Speaker 1: mean obviously if you're like, I'm gonna have across the
23:04
Speaker 1: country to live where my kid lives. Yeah, okay, we
23:08
Speaker 1: could do it, but would you want to remotely? I
23:13
Speaker 1: don't know. I honestly thought about this. This is so
23:15
Speaker 1: funny that you bring it up. I thought about it.
23:17
Speaker 1: I was like, what if one of us moved, like
23:19
Speaker 1: to another country, we would have to find a time
23:22
Speaker 1: of day that oh yeah crossed over for the both
23:25
Speaker 1: of us, right, that we could do this, But I mean,
23:28
Speaker 1: there's no plans for that, so not yet. Oh okay
23:33
Speaker 1: for not moving to another country me neither. That's how
23:36
Speaker 1: I got for wishes. Let's talk did to see that one?
23:39
Speaker 1: I already talk about Nikki's arms. I want to talk
23:43
Speaker 1: about which I think was a body double situation. Oh
23:48
Speaker 1: when they went swimming and the swimsuit, this swimsuit was
23:53
Speaker 1: real cheeky, incredibly cheeky. It was like I saw it twice.
23:58
Speaker 1: I actually think it was like it looked like a song, yes, whatever,
24:02
Speaker 1: like I don't care, but I don't think that was
24:04
Speaker 1: Nicky swimming in those in those Nicky or the actor
24:08
Speaker 1: who played Alex swimming in that, because it was like
24:11
Speaker 1: a it looked like a drone scene basically, like well,
24:14
Speaker 1: and it was kind of rough, like they're super rough.
24:16
Speaker 1: Was like, I don't think I would want to swim
24:18
Speaker 1: through here. I'd be afraid I'd get smashed up against
24:20
Speaker 1: the side of the cave wall. Yeah, exactly. But yeah,
24:23
Speaker 1: that babie suit was real cheeky. And then when they
24:26
Speaker 1: showed Nikki out of the water, it was not. No,
24:28
Speaker 1: it was very very much not very Hallmark appropriate. Yes,
24:34
Speaker 1: we actually had a listener Michelle also DMS and say,
24:38
Speaker 1: did you see that baby suit body? Yeah, it was
24:41
Speaker 1: kind of surprising for Hallmark. Yeah, me too, because if
24:44
Speaker 1: you'll recall the finish line, do you remember Kim Mattula's
24:48
Speaker 1: tragic red bathing suit. Yes, but in Keith Nielsen's defense, Yeah,
24:53
Speaker 1: he had a hot one that was too sexy for TV,
24:56
Speaker 1: too sexy for Hallmark TV. Yeah. The food, I know,
25:00
Speaker 1: I talked a little bit about it, but also in
25:02
Speaker 1: my first impression the Eero, my senior, I don't know,
25:07
Speaker 1: I'm not Greek. I don't know what I'm talking about.
25:10
Speaker 1: I love I love me a euro but it had
25:14
Speaker 1: French fries, French fries in it. I was like, oh
25:18
Speaker 1: my god, that looked amazing, didn't it. They were just
25:22
Speaker 1: chowing down on them too, and I was like, damn, damn. Yeah,
25:26
Speaker 1: I gotta go to Greece, man, I mean, or to
25:29
Speaker 1: my local Nicks down the street, Nick the Greek. Yes,
25:34
Speaker 1: exactly did they put French fries in their Euros? I
25:37
Speaker 1: don't know, but I do know locally every summer there
25:41
Speaker 1: is the Laguna Sawdust Festival and they have a Greek
25:45
Speaker 1: stand there that they sell these Feta fries, French fries
25:50
Speaker 1: with crumbled feta cheese and lemon on it. They're so
25:54
Speaker 1: freaking good. Do you know that. I've never been to
25:56
Speaker 1: the sawdust Festival ever in my life, but you know
25:59
Speaker 1: who would love it but your daughter? Yeah, it's a
26:02
Speaker 1: nice vibe and then made a taker. It's very low key. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:06
Speaker 1: You just look at all the booths and then they
26:08
Speaker 1: have some like interactive stuff you can do and music
26:11
Speaker 1: and food. It's fun. My last did you see that?
26:14
Speaker 1: It goes back to Nikki's wardrobe. It was incredible that.
26:17
Speaker 1: But there was one scene that I noticed she had.
26:20
Speaker 1: She was wearing leggings under one of her Maxi dresses.
26:23
Speaker 1: I saw it out from the bottom of it. I thought, oh,
26:26
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I'm like, was it cold maybe when they
26:29
Speaker 1: were filming this maybe, I don't know. All right, when
26:33
Speaker 1: they get married, they put rings on the right hand,
26:35
Speaker 1: and I thought, I was like, really getting something there,
26:37
Speaker 1: and then Alex goes to put the ring on her
26:38
Speaker 1: right hand and he goes, it's the Greek way. And
26:41
Speaker 1: then I looked it up and it is, in fact
26:42
Speaker 1: Greek tradition to wear your wedding rings on your right hand.
26:45
Speaker 1: Thank you for clarification on that, because I noticed that too.
26:50
Speaker 1: Speaking of interesting clothing choices, in the final canal swim,
26:53
Speaker 1: they're both wearing water shoes, which I understand were necessary
26:56
Speaker 1: for the moment, but also they truly ruined their cue out,
27:00
Speaker 1: Like she's got this cute bathing suit and a sarong
27:02
Speaker 1: and these black and lime green water shoes. Yeah, and
27:08
Speaker 1: this final did to see that this is at least
27:11
Speaker 1: the second movie Nikki de Loche has started, where she
27:13
Speaker 1: has been required to split an inheritance Sweet Autumn, with
27:16
Speaker 1: Andrew Walker being the other that I know. Oh, good
27:19
Speaker 1: poll Megan. Yeah, I believe it's her aunt in that
27:22
Speaker 1: one leaves her the candy store. Oh we watched that,
27:26
Speaker 1: didn't we? Yes? And Nicky's character is so mean through
27:30
Speaker 1: most of the movie. Oh this is that's truly like
27:33
Speaker 1: Enemies Lover. Yeah, yep, yep. Nice? All right? What did
27:38
Speaker 1: you rate? I almost said Sweet Autum? What did you
27:40
Speaker 1: rate the Greek? Ayle? I gave it four stars? Just
27:43
Speaker 1: did I? Nice? Strong start for Summer of Love? Summer Loven?
27:49
Speaker 1: Is that what it's called? Summer Loven? What is it
27:51
Speaker 1: called summer lovin? Seems summer nights? Okay, less spicy? Hey,
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