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You’re Bacon Me Crazy · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallwark of You podcast.
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Speaker 1: I'm Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan. I'm Wendy.
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Speaker 1: I'm your former Hallmark heater. Today we're discussing You're Bacon
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Speaker 1: Me Crazy, which originally aired on the Hallmark Channel on
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Speaker 1: April fourth, twenty twenty. You can connect with us outside
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Speaker 1: of the podcast on Instagram. We have two accounts there
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Speaker 1: at Girls Gone Hallmark and at Megan and Wendy Jump
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Speaker 1: into our boom in Facebook group Girls Gone Hallmark. Currently,
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Speaker 1: we're just over there discussing the new movies coming in
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Speaker 1: January and February, and the Hallmark crewise and a whole
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Speaker 1: bunch of fun stuff. So come join us. That's right.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to add a quick note since this is
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Speaker 1: a throwback movie, we are doing several this season. You
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Speaker 1: can find the full January rundown in our show notes.
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Speaker 1: It was pointed out to me something I did not realize.
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Speaker 1: We watched these movies on Hallmark Movies Now the app.
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Speaker 1: A member of our Facebook group said that a lot
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Speaker 1: of them are available to rent through the Hoopla app,
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Speaker 1: which is a free app that you can log into
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Speaker 1: with your library card. Assuming your library has access. And
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Speaker 1: I did look and they had quite a few. I
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Speaker 1: didn't look at every single movie, but they had quite
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Speaker 1: a few of the movies that we have coming up.
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Speaker 1: So there is another option for you to watch older
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Speaker 1: Hallmark movies without adding another streaming service to your list.
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Speaker 1: I love it, Hot Tip, Hot Tips. See, we're not
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Speaker 1: just telling you to spend money. Here, tell me you
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Speaker 1: how to get it for free. Are you ready for
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Speaker 1: a synopsis? A synopsis for your bacon? Me crazy? It
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Speaker 1: is Cleo Morelli and aspiring Portland chef tries to win
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Speaker 1: a food competition while the competition tries to win her art. Sirs.
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Speaker 1: Natalie Hall and Michael Rady. As mentioned, This movie premiere
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Speaker 1: on Saturday, April fourth, twenty twenty, and filming took place
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Speaker 1: tight turnaround from February third, twenty twenty through February twenty first,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty in the town of Maple Ridge, which is
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Speaker 1: in the northeast region of Greater Vancouver. Some additional scenes
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Speaker 1: were shot on the main roads of Langley, where several
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Speaker 1: food tucks were rented and showcased on the busy street.
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Speaker 1: When I read those dates, I'm like instantly taken back
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Speaker 1: to like that time. Yes, you know, it's like on
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Speaker 1: the verge pre pandemic, right, I mean they're probably racing
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Speaker 1: to get through it at that point. Yeah, because there
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Speaker 1: was so much talk at that time of like, what's
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Speaker 1: gonna happen? Do you hear about this? Like virus? That's
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Speaker 1: you know, Uh. I don't want to revisit that time.
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Speaker 1: I'm at all. The date February twenty eighth is still
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Speaker 1: imprinted on my brain because that is the day I
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Speaker 1: went to Costco and it was busier than it ever is,
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Speaker 1: even during the holiday season, and people were leaving simply
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Speaker 1: with carts of toilet paper and bottled water and Clorox wipes,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, what the heck they were sold
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Speaker 1: out of toilet paper. I had to go to another store. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: We'll never forget that date, So yeah, I don't it
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Speaker 1: feels like a scar. The end was nigh at that point, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: for sure. This movie was based on a book called
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Speaker 1: You're Baking Me Crazy, a wish novel by Susanne Nelson.
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Speaker 1: This is a Scholastic book recommended for readers in grade
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Speaker 1: seven through nine, and our movie here has very little
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Speaker 1: similarities to the book. Did you read the first chapter
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Speaker 1: of this book. No where would I see the first
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Speaker 1: chapter of this book on Susanne Nelson's website and I
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Speaker 1: was looking at it. She did a ton of promo,
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Speaker 1: including publishing a bunch of bacon recipes up to the
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Speaker 1: release of this movie, and the first chapter is free.
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Speaker 1: The book is very different. It is told from the
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Speaker 1: perspective of niece Tessa, so it's her story, but it
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Speaker 1: is the story of her helping her aunt Cleo win
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Speaker 1: a food truck competition, so it is the same story
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Speaker 1: from a different perspectives. I feel like why, I would
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Speaker 1: love to know the process here. What is the process?
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Speaker 1: Does Hallmark look at Scholastic books and go, yeah, this
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Speaker 1: book written for middle school children, We're gonna rework it
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Speaker 1: just a little bit and make it into a Hallmark movie,
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Speaker 1: Like are we looking for those stories? Well? I was
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Speaker 1: gonna look and see who the executive producers of this
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Speaker 1: movie are because in an upcoming movie, The Irresistible Blueberry Farm,
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Speaker 1: that movie was made because Alie Sweeney read the book
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Speaker 1: that movie is based on and reached out to the
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Speaker 1: writer and said, I'd like to adapt this for a
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Speaker 1: Hallmark movie. I guess if someone read this book and
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Speaker 1: was like, let's do it, Let's make it happen. Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: Alan Harmon directed. He currently has forty other directing credits,
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Speaker 1: including Mystery on Mistletoe Lane and Fourth Down in Love,
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Speaker 1: both from twenty twenty three. Other previous Hallmark notables are
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Speaker 1: Never Kiss a Man in a Christmas Wetter, Jingle Bell Bride,
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Speaker 1: and Mingle All the Way. Just side note note the
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Speaker 1: choices Wendy made and pulling those movies, but there's no
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Speaker 1: way it was accidental. Outside of Hallmark, Harmon has directed
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Speaker 1: documentary dramas such as Untold Stories of the Er and
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Speaker 1: Sex Sent Me to the Er. Yeah, I thought it.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting that he's made Mingle All
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Speaker 1: the Way notoriously, I don't like that movie. That's the
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Speaker 1: backstory there, or Never Kiss a Man in a Christmas
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Speaker 1: Wetter or Jingle Bell Bride. I didn't hate Jingle Bell Bride.
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Speaker 1: It was our first movie we reviewed. Never Kiss a
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Speaker 1: Man in a Sweater was also like up there, like
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Speaker 1: one of the first three that were reviewed. It was
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Speaker 1: the time where I was like, what am I doing
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Speaker 1: watching these Hallmark movies? I hate these Hallmark movies, so
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Speaker 1: they stick out to me, That's all. That's all. A
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Speaker 1: writer Christopher Say is credited for the screenplay. Say wrote
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Speaker 1: Haul Out the Holly Lit Up from twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 1: Natalie Hall stars as Cleo. Natalie currently has forty acting credits.
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Speaker 1: Her last film for Hallmark was Nowel next Door from
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Break Out Your Bingo Cards Because Natalie
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Speaker 1: also appeared in eight episodes of Unreal as Candy Coco
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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, as well as Pretty Little Liars, Dropped
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Speaker 1: a Diva, and All My Children. Michael Rady stars as Gabe.
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Speaker 1: Rady has fifty five acting credits. His first movie for
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Speaker 1: Hallmark was Christmas in Homestead in twenty sixteen. Outside of Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: Rady was in ten episodes of Unreal, Lots of Crossover,
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Speaker 1: Lots of Unreal Happening Lately. He was also in Jane
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Speaker 1: the Virgin, the reboot of Melrose Place Greek, and of course,
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Speaker 1: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Rhiann and Fish played friend Laura.
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Speaker 1: This appears to be Rhanna's first Hallmark movie. She has
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Speaker 1: since gone on to star in several movies for the network,
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Speaker 1: including last year's A Picture of Her and My Norwegian
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Speaker 1: Holiday Question Was it gratifying for you? It was a
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Speaker 1: surprise appearance for me to see her in this movie.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't anticipating it. Was it gratifying for you to
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Speaker 1: see her as a guest star, knowing that she's now
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Speaker 1: gone on to star in future movies? Where did that
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Speaker 1: a fine? I'll wait till my first impression, okay to
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Speaker 1: answer that. Olivia Steele Falconer plays niece Tessa. She has
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Speaker 1: thirty one acting credits and was most recently in Hearts
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Speaker 1: in the Game from twenty twenty three. Familiar Hallmark face
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Speaker 1: Adel Zati plays quote Man. He's another who needs a
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Speaker 1: more prominent role in Hallmark going forward. We've seen him
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Speaker 1: in Fourth Down, in Love, The Wedding Contract, and A
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Speaker 1: Winning Team just in twenty twenty three. Yeah, he's one
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Speaker 1: of the I mean, I don't know if he's lead
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Speaker 1: role yet, but man, he's in a lot of Hallmark movies.
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Speaker 1: He could absolutely be in a lead role. Okay. So
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Speaker 1: I have a little news additional news and note here
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Speaker 1: it's about the Portland food truck scene. Are you interested?
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Speaker 1: I am. In twenty twenty three, Portland was voted best
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Speaker 1: food trek city in America by Food and Wine magazine.
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Speaker 1: Fun fact, trucks are commonly called carts in Portland, So
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Speaker 1: I thought I called them food carts. Yeah, food carts.
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Speaker 1: Huh that didn't That didn't translate to the movie, now,
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Speaker 1: did it? They called them trucks. Portland's biggest subculture is
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Speaker 1: food carts and saltan Straw ice cream started out as
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Speaker 1: a food cart. Hey, I don't know if saltan Straw
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Speaker 1: is nationwide. I doubt it first started in organ. We
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Speaker 1: have one here in southern California, one or two here
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Speaker 1: in southern California. Uh, yeah, started as a food cart.
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Speaker 1: Many of Portland's food carts survived or even thrived throughout
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Speaker 1: the course of the pandemic, but in recent years, the
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Speaker 1: city's food cart scene has struggled a little bit as
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Speaker 1: the city development deals have pushed out food carts. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna link an article in our show notes from pdxeater
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Speaker 1: dot com if you're interested in finding out about the
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Speaker 1: food truck industry. I am. Hey, thanks for sharing all
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Speaker 1: of that. That leads into something, So let's do first impressions.
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Speaker 1: Does it lead into your first impression? No, it's a
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Speaker 1: like it's gonna be a pause. Okay, So here's my
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Speaker 1: first impression. I know it says that Rihanna and Fish
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Speaker 1: was in this movie, but that does not look like
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Speaker 1: rhan and fish. What all right? Well, my first impression
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Speaker 1: is I have no idea what a percimon tastes like.
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Speaker 1: H and do I want to eat it on a sandwich? No?
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Speaker 1: I do not. Well, is in my mind a personmon
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Speaker 1: is like something you'd put in a simmer pot. I
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Speaker 1: know that's wrong. I'm picturing it like in the Cinnamon
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Speaker 1: Family Again. I know, it's just the way that the
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Speaker 1: sound of the name is like registering in my brain.
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Speaker 1: But it looks like a tomato. Yeah. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if I've ever come across a personmon in the wild, like,
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Speaker 1: never on my plate. I mean I may have seen
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Speaker 1: them at the grocery store, but uh, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know either. Couldn't even tell you what it
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Speaker 1: tasted like. Well, can we stay on the food truck theme, yes,
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Speaker 1: and talk likes for a minute. So I liked the
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Speaker 1: food truck setting. I think it was very much a
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Speaker 1: touchstone of the time. I mean, food trucks still exists,
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Speaker 1: but they definitely like kind of hit critical mass, like
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Speaker 1: right around this time. They were everywhere. We see characters
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Speaker 1: visiting food truck every now and then in these movies,
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Speaker 1: but I liked them kind of being central to the story. Yea.
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Speaker 1: And in addition to that, I think social media was
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Speaker 1: used well in this movie. Not perfectly, but maybe the
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Speaker 1: best example of social media used to further a plot
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Speaker 1: that we've seen in a Hallmark movie. And it was
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Speaker 1: interesting to me having watched this movie and then discovering
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Speaker 1: that it was based on a middle grade novel where
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Speaker 1: Tessa's the main character. I would be kind of interested
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Speaker 1: to I'm not going to, but to read the story
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Speaker 1: from her perspective to see how much like her social
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Speaker 1: media usage plays into the furthering of the story and
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Speaker 1: the success of her aunt's food truck. I think it
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Speaker 1: makes sense. I think it's well thought out, and I
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Speaker 1: think it makes sense to me that the writer of
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Speaker 1: the story was writing middle grade novels and understands that
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Speaker 1: age and their desire to use social media and how
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Speaker 1: social media influences things. I thought about this a lot,
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Speaker 1: and I also wonder if this would have been a
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Speaker 1: better movie told from Tessa's perspective. It wouldn't make a
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Speaker 1: Hallmark movie, but like a Netflix young adult movie. Sure
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Speaker 1: told from her perspective, that got my wheels turning as well?
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Speaker 1: What else did you like? When I go back and
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Speaker 1: talk about Rihanna and Fish a minute, please, I know
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Speaker 1: you said you've thought a lot about this book and
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Speaker 1: how it could be like a YA show. I've thought
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Speaker 1: a lot about rihann and Fish, and I did a
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Speaker 1: deep dive, looked at some picture before and after pictures. Look,
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Speaker 1: there is no shade here. I think she did a
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Speaker 1: lip flip. That's the difference. Hmm, okay, that's all. I
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Speaker 1: want a lip flip. You think her lips are fuller
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Speaker 1: in her newer works, yes, I do. I do, beautiful woman.
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Speaker 1: I just thought she was a little more thin lipped
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Speaker 1: in this movie, and I was like, it is her,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't look like her. What's different. I think
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Speaker 1: it's just a little lip flip, that's all. That's all.
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Speaker 1: I think she's a stunning woman and a good actress,
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Speaker 1: and I was excited to see her in this as
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Speaker 1: like a as a I think you said guest star.
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Speaker 1: I think like she's a very has a very small role,
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Speaker 1: but it's nice to supporting actor. I don't know why
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Speaker 1: I would have said guest star, it's nice to see
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Speaker 1: her have gone on to be leads. Yeah, and are
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Speaker 1: from her supporting role. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like
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Speaker 1: this movie overall, I thought it was enjoyable. I think
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Speaker 1: this movie first came on our radar to me when
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Speaker 1: we reviewed for the first time New Year's Resolution, because
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Speaker 1: our guest Callie Younger, at that time had said, oh,
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Speaker 1: you need to watch Michael Rady and you're baking me crazy.
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Speaker 1: So it has always stuck out to me since then.
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Speaker 1: Wow deep cut. Yeah, So I'm glad that I finally
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Speaker 1: watched it. I did enjoy it. It did confirm that
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Speaker 1: I do really like Michael Rady. And what I liked
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Speaker 1: most about the movie you kind of touched on is
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Speaker 1: I like how it explored the Portland food scene. I
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Speaker 1: thought that was kind of fun and different. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: that's the right setting for a food truck movie for sure.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if they would have like a food truck,
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Speaker 1: you know movie in Wisconsin, I don't know if that
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Speaker 1: yeah tracks, but I mean maybe Wisconsin does have a
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Speaker 1: booming food truck scene. I don't know. Speaking of the
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Speaker 1: food truck and your comment earlier about the timing of
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Speaker 1: this movie, I found a little bit of cognitive dissonance
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Speaker 1: between knowing. I wondered if watching this in real time
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Speaker 1: in April twenty twenty were like three weeks into quarantine, lockdown,
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Speaker 1: stay at home nonsense, if watching this knowing none of
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Speaker 1: that's happening. And then a lot of the notes for
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Speaker 1: this movie comment that the contest takes place in May
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, when they're wouldn't have been a gathering like that.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting that you said that food
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Speaker 1: trucks held up through the pandemic, which I guess makes
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Speaker 1: sense because it's a to go situation. Yes, so especially
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Speaker 1: a city like Portland, which is if you live in
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Speaker 1: downtown Portland, I would imagine very walkable, so you can,
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Speaker 1: you know, find where your favorite food trucks are, get
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Speaker 1: them to go. It actually makes me really happy to
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Speaker 1: know that they survived that, yeah situation. Yeah, the article
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Speaker 1: I read said that, like because the way that the
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Speaker 1: food trucks work, they work in like pods. So you know,
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Speaker 1: like in the movie how she had her spot and
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Speaker 1: like he came into it, well, there would be like
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Speaker 1: ten trucks there in that spot. They work in pods,
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Speaker 1: And what I had read is that the food truck situation,
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Speaker 1: like they totally pivoted because people aren't gathering there, so
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Speaker 1: they stuff went to go. You know, it worked. It worked,
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Speaker 1: honestly makes me happy. Anything else you liked, Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: have a couple. I thought it was really funny how
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Speaker 1: when Gabe would like roll up in his Mo bacon
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Speaker 1: truck and like the rock music is like blaring from it.
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Speaker 1: It's like a full contrast to like Cleo's like spring
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Speaker 1: Flowers and Farmer's market aesthetic. Right. Yeah, I just kind
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Speaker 1: of loved it, even though like Michael Rady doesn't really
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Speaker 1: like fit that sort of like hard rock guy. Mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: I thought or his character didn't either. His character, yes, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of his character Gabe, I love that, Like Gabe
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Speaker 1: was like super easy going, like he doesn't ever like
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Speaker 1: get Bin out of shape when she like orders all
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Speaker 1: that food and she's being a real jerk at that point,
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Speaker 1: like I'm going to order all this food, Like he's
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Speaker 1: out a ton of money, right, yes to make all
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Speaker 1: this food. And then when she poaches like his b
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Speaker 1: LP sandwich idea, and there was a little back and
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Speaker 1: forth about it, but he was like he was like
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Speaker 1: wasn't upset about it. Yet it did not become a
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Speaker 1: long drawn out that was not our main source of
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Speaker 1: conflict exactly. But if I could slide a wish into here, yaues,
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Speaker 1: I think it. I wish that these two chefs were
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Speaker 1: like more intense. They're very like, no, I want you
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Speaker 1: to win, No, I want you to win. Look, we
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Speaker 1: have all seen a cooking show and cooking competitions, like
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Speaker 1: chefs are hardcore. These two were not hardcore. No, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. She just wanted her food. She
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Speaker 1: didn't even like have bigger dreams for herself in the beginning.
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Speaker 1: She just wanted her little food truck to be successful,
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Speaker 1: right right, Okay, I have two more little likes. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I appreciated that the skies were gray and cloudy. I
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Speaker 1: was like, Portland check, Like, yeah, there were some sunny scenes,
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Speaker 1: but most most of the time it was kind of
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Speaker 1: like overcast, and I was like, that's great. And then
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the movie, they had all these
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Speaker 1: like sweeping scenes of actual Portland and its landmarks. So like,
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Speaker 1: when I was watching the movie, we go to Portland
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Speaker 1: quite a bit because we have some family that lived there.
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Speaker 1: So when I was watching the movie, I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I this is all familiar. I didn't know it was
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Speaker 1: gonna take place in Portland. Now it makes sense. It's
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Speaker 1: a food truck blah blah blah blah. You know. I
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Speaker 1: like that it all tied together. And lastly, I thought
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Speaker 1: there were some really great food shots in this movie,
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Speaker 1: like oh oh that was being prepared. Huh? Do you
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Speaker 1: disagree or you didn't notice? I didn't think there was enough.
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Speaker 1: That's fair. That's fair, that's fair. All right, let's talk
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Speaker 1: about what we wished for. Well, my first wish just
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Speaker 1: to piggyback on that, I just wanted more food. There's
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Speaker 1: lots of food talk and not enough for me food visuals. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: show me the food, right, Yeah? And the one like
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Speaker 1: they talk about like, oh, he's bacon fried rice and
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Speaker 1: is bacon this that? And I was like, could I
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Speaker 1: please get a bacon food truck now? I would love that.
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Speaker 1: There was a lot of visual of her pasta with
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Speaker 1: her special sauce, and I'm sorry, nobody wants your dry
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Speaker 1: ass pasta. You need more sauce on there. It made
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Speaker 1: me so angry. Oh I don't care that it's fresh,
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Speaker 1: that's random. Who wants a drizzle of sauce on their pasta.
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Speaker 1: Nobody you want that thing swimming in it? Right? Yes?
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Speaker 1: And yes? Okay, kind of controversial here. I think I
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Speaker 1: liked Michael Rady and his character, but I didn't love
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Speaker 1: Natalie Hall's character, oh one hundred percent. She was like entitled, territorial,
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Speaker 1: and especially when like Gabe tells her that he's going
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Speaker 1: to drop out of the competition, she gets so offended
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Speaker 1: and she like just goes in on him about his
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Speaker 1: ego and like he never showed us an ego, Like
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Speaker 1: that was not part of his care character at all.
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Speaker 1: I thought, no, no, and he just doesn't want he
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Speaker 1: doesn't care about winning, and he doesn't want the votes. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and like I thought he was like showing support of
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Speaker 1: her to pursue for dreams. I don't know. I just
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Speaker 1: hated that character. What's her name, clean Cleo. I did
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Speaker 1: not like her well. I thought she was all over
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Speaker 1: the place. She's kind of an old soul with her
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Speaker 1: connection to her grandfather and his cooking, but in some
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Speaker 1: moments she acts very young and immature, particularly with her
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Speaker 1: fake order prank. I thought, that's not cool. You're a
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Speaker 1: small business owner yourself. It's not like you're calling Domino's
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Speaker 1: Pizza and fake ordering ten pizzas. Like this guy's a
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Speaker 1: one man show working out of a food truck and
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Speaker 1: you're gonna order half the food on his truck and
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Speaker 1: not pay for it. It's not funny. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: don't find mean spirited pranks like that to be funny. Right,
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Speaker 1: I agree? So I thought he was the bigger person
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Speaker 1: and I was rooting for him his success more than hers. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I absolutely agree. Now, what did you think of these
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Speaker 1: two as a couple? Well, I think so. I really
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Speaker 1: like Natalie Hall, and I think she is like the
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Speaker 1: one redeeming part of her character is the actress of
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Speaker 1: her But their characters, I thought I had a hard
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Speaker 1: time rooting for them as a couple because while I
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Speaker 1: thought they had some cute moments during their cooking montage
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Speaker 1: when they're preparing for the brother's party that was fun,
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Speaker 1: I didn't fully buy it, though I agree. I thought,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, what does Gabe like about Cleo and vice versa? Like, well,
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Speaker 1: there's nothing not to like about Gabe, Like he's super
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Speaker 1: likable and he's kind of charming, but he's like that
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Speaker 1: with everybody. Mm hmmm. To the point that you're like,
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Speaker 1: can I trust that you're actually this nice? Okay, that's fair,
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Speaker 1: not that it. I don't think he's not that. I
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Speaker 1: think he disingenuous. But I think it would be easy
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Speaker 1: with a person like Gabe to think, like, oh, you're
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Speaker 1: this nice to everybody, is there anything actually special about me?
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Speaker 1: Or you're just a good guy who makes people feel
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Speaker 1: good when he's around them, right, right? I thought they
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Speaker 1: were such a miss as a couple, Like he was
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Speaker 1: obviously more mature than her, even though he was like,
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Speaker 1: can't put down roots, gotta keep moving. Yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who are like that, right,
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Speaker 1: who can't stay in one place, and that's not who
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Speaker 1: I am. But like, whatever you do, you like, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I didn't think that makes him immature. No, I agree,
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Speaker 1: And I think we going back to Mystic Christmas, a
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Speaker 1: movie we've referenced a lot. That movie is one of
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Speaker 1: the first that kind of deconstructs the idea that people
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Speaker 1: who physically move around a lot don't have roots or
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Speaker 1: connections to people. And this movie, he stays, and I
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Speaker 1: think it tells a story like in order to build relationships,
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Speaker 1: you have to commit to staying in one place for
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Speaker 1: a long time, and I kind of like that. We
23:11
Speaker 1: started to push back on that, like it's okay to
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Speaker 1: be a person who wants change and wants to keep Sorry. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I could live in this house with the rest of
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Speaker 1: my life and be happy, but I understand that not
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Speaker 1: everybody wants the same things. Got it? Okay, here's the
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Speaker 1: last thing I wished for. I hated how Cleo would
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Speaker 1: say certain Italian words and she'd be like, du bar sauce.
23:41
Speaker 1: I wanted to read my head off like it was
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Speaker 1: throughout the whole movie, and it was only like she
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Speaker 1: would go into this like terrible Italian accent when she
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Speaker 1: was like talking about the food nothing else. Did it
23:55
Speaker 1: remind you of some local newscasters we have who have
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Speaker 1: no accent acceptance saying their own last name. Oh yes, yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: okay you ready for did you see that? I am?
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Speaker 1: How can she afford that? How she's living in she
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Speaker 1: own the single food truck. It was a beautiful Portland home. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's no way. Yeah. In the backyard was huge shoe
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Speaker 1: and she's like, Oh, I'm just like growing my own
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Speaker 1: vegetables out here in my huge ass backyard. Yes, twice
24:30
Speaker 1: they show Cleo sitting outside of her grandfather's old store,
24:34
Speaker 1: and she's like sketching or coloring, like what the I
24:38
Speaker 1: was like, what does this have to do? Like they
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Speaker 1: shed these like rudimentary like colorings of like what the
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Speaker 1: store used to look like when she was a child.
24:47
Speaker 1: I was like, why, why, why why? I wondered that too,
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Speaker 1: And I almost wondered if like her brain hadn't caught
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Speaker 1: up with her heart in terms of what she wanted
24:56
Speaker 1: out of her business, because she was like, no, I'm
24:59
Speaker 1: content to have my food truck. Maybe I'll have a
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Speaker 1: second one. But what she really wanted was like to
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Speaker 1: open a restaurant like her grandfather. I don't know. The
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Speaker 1: weirdest thing about that to me was like, you're just
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Speaker 1: letting this empty space with prime Portland real estate sit
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Speaker 1: here and you can afford to do that. I don't
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Speaker 1: who owns this? Well? That was I had that note too.
25:17
Speaker 1: I'm like, how long has Matao's been closed? It's just
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Speaker 1: an empty space sitting there forever that she could go
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Speaker 1: sit on the patio like, no, that doesn't happen. I
25:26
Speaker 1: mean maybe now in twenty twenty three, there's empty like
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Speaker 1: empty retail spots, but yeah, it was weird. I agree
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Speaker 1: it was super weird. Maybe her real estate mother has
25:40
Speaker 1: something to do with why they own that and have
25:42
Speaker 1: not re rented it out because be making a fortune,
25:45
Speaker 1: right there are people they're just holding onto memories. They
25:47
Speaker 1: don't care about dollars coming in. I guess it kind
25:51
Speaker 1: of bothered me. But Cleo has this beautiful long hair
25:54
Speaker 1: and she's like prepping food and making her sandwiches. Not
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Speaker 1: always sometimes it was pulled back, but sometimes it was
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Speaker 1: just like hanging there. Yes, I don't like that on
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Speaker 1: her truck. The website Cleomkitchen dot com is visible in
26:08
Speaker 1: several shots. I checked. It does not exist. However, there
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Speaker 1: is a brand called Cleo's Kitchen. I did not investigate
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Speaker 1: at all what they do, and that is not their website,
26:19
Speaker 1: but they have a Facebook presence, and so I wondered
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Speaker 1: if just to differentiate themselves, they threw in an M
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Speaker 1: instead of the S to make it like they weren't
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Speaker 1: directing to an actual website. Or yes, possibly that's funny.
26:32
Speaker 1: That's really funny. I have one more. Did you see
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Speaker 1: that Gabe and his brother on an outdoor hike and
26:37
Speaker 1: there's a sign that says mount Hood, and I'm like,
26:39
Speaker 1: mount Hood is ours from Portland and you don't drive
26:42
Speaker 1: out there for a walk? Tell us they just like
26:45
Speaker 1: PLoP the sign down as some Vancouver trail. Yes, like
26:51
Speaker 1: some they're on some local trail of like is it ours? Yeah,
26:56
Speaker 1: Multnoma Falls would have been a better poll because that's
26:59
Speaker 1: quickly dable. I mean the sign was small. They couldn't
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Speaker 1: put that whole name on the little sign the falls.
27:07
Speaker 1: My final note is that do chefs wear their chef
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Speaker 1: coats outside of the kitchen, because this chick haster's on
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Speaker 1: all the time. She's like walking around town picking up flowers,
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Speaker 1: talking to friends, hanging out, chef coat always on. I
27:18
Speaker 1: don't think so. I mean I think they might wear
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Speaker 1: those chef pants and like crocs or something like that,
27:24
Speaker 1: or clogs or whatever, but not the coat. I think
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Speaker 1: the coat is like when you're making the food, it's
27:30
Speaker 1: like wearing an apron walking around town. It's just like
27:34
Speaker 1: I'm in my chef costume. Notice that I am a
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Speaker 1: chef please. Yeah, yeah, that's a good question. I mean
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Speaker 1: he never wore one, right ever, I don't think no, never, never,
27:45
Speaker 1: And I still think about that bacon fried Rice. Since
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Speaker 1: this I know, is there a bacon food truck around here?
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Speaker 1: There's gotta be. I don't know. I mean, Orange County
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Speaker 1: was not voted number one in the food truck scene,
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Speaker 1: so I don't know. Hey, would you rate your bacon? Me? Crazy?
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Speaker 1: I gave it three stars? I did too, thought it
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Speaker 1: was enjoyable. Perhaps a bit forgettable, but enjoyably would Shay?
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