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Aussie at Heart · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 1: On today's episode, we are discussing Aussie at Heart, which
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  Speaker 1: originally aired on the Hallmark Channel on August fifteenth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six. Follow us around the internet. We are Girls
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  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark everywhere Facebook, the Facebook community pops off. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about it all of a sudden. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know where it's coming from, but welcome. Glad to
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  Speaker 1: see your first impressions over there. But we're also on
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  Speaker 1: Instagram as Girls Gone Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Megan is referring to our first impression post last
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  Speaker 2: Saturday night for absolutely Devoted to You. There were over
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty comments. Yes, that's insanity.
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  Speaker 1: It really is, because those posts used to get like
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  Speaker 1: two well on Facebook.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what's happening, but great, it's great.
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  Speaker 2: Look our opinion isn't the only opinion, right? No, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that movie was pretty well liked though. Oh you
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  Speaker 1: think I mean I liked it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do think I did see some of the comments,
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  Speaker 2: but I also saw other ones. That were like, it
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  Speaker 2: didn't work for me, and I was like, that's too bad.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed it so much, so much that I listened
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  Speaker 2: to Hotter than July yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It's streaming on Spotify y'all, so if you would like
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  Speaker 1: to listen to the bop that is absolutely yeahs Hotter
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  Speaker 1: than July it is. I'm sure you noticed, sung by
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Metcalf. Yeah, there was some question about it in
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  Speaker 1: our episode.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I played it for my young adult daughter
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  Speaker 2: yesterday and what did she think? She was like, this
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  Speaker 2: sounds like a song that would be in a Disney movie.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well it was tall marks. Absolutely. Are you ready
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  Speaker 2: for synopsis for Azzi at Heart? Samara, a former lawyer
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  Speaker 2: now even planner, reunites with Nate, her ex coworker and rival,
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  Speaker 2: to plan a couple's anniversary in Queensland and begin to
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  Speaker 2: confront their past and fall for each other. Colin Budds
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  Speaker 2: directed this film.
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  Speaker 1: His other work for Hallmark includes a Melbourne Match from
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  Speaker 1: earlier twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Annsley Gordon and Sophie Tilson share story credit for Hallmark's
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  Speaker 2: Ossy at Heart. ANNs Lee recently wrote a royal setting
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  Speaker 2: and Melt My Heart this Christmas. Sophie has just a
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  Speaker 2: handful of writing credits, but tons of producing credits.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Rhann and Fish stars as Samara after a very
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  Speaker 1: busy twenty twenty five for Rihanna and this is her
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  Speaker 1: first project for Hallmark this year.
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  Speaker 2: And Daniel Listing stars as Nate. Hallmark fans last saw
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  Speaker 2: him in last year's single on the twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Wendy, what was your first impression of Ossie at Heart?
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  Speaker 2: I've watched too much below deck to overlook the complete
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  Speaker 2: lack of yacht staff.
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  Speaker 1: We were in Newport Harbor or the other day when
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  Speaker 1: on very small Duffy boat and a large yacht was
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  Speaker 1: nearby and they were cruising back to what I think
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  Speaker 1: was their slip. The guests on board the boat were
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  Speaker 1: all relaxing around a table, but there was a young
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  Speaker 1: woman in like a blue polo and a blue like
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  Speaker 1: athletic skirt, like running up and downstairs grabbing stuff. I'm like, look,
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  Speaker 1: that's les do that's the stew or the what do
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  Speaker 1: they call the people that work on the deck decies, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: or the boastin is like the head h yeah yeah, yeah, Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that is what I was envisioning anyway, I did, and
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  Speaker 1: I felt bad because I was like, the other people
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  Speaker 1: are just like sitting up there grabbing drinks, and she's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, frantically running up and down these steps as
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  Speaker 1: they're getting ready to bring the boat back in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: probably trying to get a tray of champagne and some hot,
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  Speaker 1: warm towels for these people.
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  Speaker 2: You know something.
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  Speaker 1: My first impression is this movie was beautiful. It was
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  Speaker 1: sunny and completely stakes free.
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  Speaker 2: I've ever been so relaxed.
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  Speaker 1: Well also being so bored.
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  Speaker 2: It was boring, right, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: A question for you, Yeah, do you think this was
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  Speaker 1: an acquisition? I don't think it was because Hallmark was
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  Speaker 1: promoting it as it was being made. Oh really Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because I noticed that the casting person wasn't the usual
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  Speaker 1: casting person on it, perhaps.
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  Speaker 2: Just because it has a largely Australian Yeah. True, there
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  Speaker 2: was something I don't know. Let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: What did you like?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 2: I liked that we got Daniel Listening as Australian Daniel
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  Speaker 2: Listening fame. I enjoyed him here. I like that we
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  Speaker 2: simply like we get to watch him be like who
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  Speaker 2: he is. Yeah, in terms of his native tongue. I
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  Speaker 2: guess I like Daniel Lessing a lot. Just give this
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  Speaker 2: man a better movie.
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  Speaker 1: Is when I was on the twenty fifth, I thought
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  Speaker 1: was great. Oh yeah, I didn't really love that movie.
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  Speaker 1: I remember not liking it that much. But I like
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  Speaker 1: him so much, you know, in his character, right.
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  Speaker 2: I found myself team Nate a lot in this movie. Huh,
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  Speaker 2: because Nate likes to follow the rules. Huh. And considering
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  Speaker 2: he's like this, like yacht captain or whatever. No, you
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  Speaker 2: can't just shoot fireworks off your yacht, like, because.
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  Speaker 1: You want Samarawuak captain to be a rule follower, keeping
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  Speaker 1: you alive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And so I didn't like that he was
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  Speaker 2: getting crapped on for being so buttoned up or being
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  Speaker 2: so like by the book, rules were made to be broken.
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  Speaker 2: No they really weren't. Yeah, I'm going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: that too. Tell me what you liked.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, the character the most actually was Nate's
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  Speaker 1: brother Billy. Oh, Billy spits truth in this movie. I
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  Speaker 1: mean right up top. He's like, Yo, you're good. You
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  Speaker 1: can go back, Like, thank you for coming home to
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  Speaker 1: help out with Dad, But we're good here.
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  Speaker 2: You're not needed.
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  Speaker 1: You can live your life like it's been great having you,
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  Speaker 1: but go live your own life. And I appreciated that
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  Speaker 1: because Tomorrow was not getting that same live your own
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  Speaker 1: life vibe from her own family members. But the other
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  Speaker 1: thing I liked is as supportive. As supportive as Billy was,
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  Speaker 1: he's also the one at the end who tells him
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  Speaker 1: to pull his head out of his you know what. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when he's like, look, you jumped to a conclusion, ruined
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  Speaker 1: this event for tomorrow, Like you need to go make
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  Speaker 1: it right now. Yeah, you made an assumption based on misinformation.
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  Speaker 2: Please go fix it. Yeah, vip Billy.
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  Speaker 1: Props to Billy, who I actually think was not around
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  Speaker 1: for quite a bit of the trip. They like every
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  Speaker 1: one while, I'm like, what's Nate doing everything? And then
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  Speaker 1: Billy would pop up every once in a while. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still telling you you can't run this yet, which
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  Speaker 1: is just these two people. Know who is making the beds? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Who's doing laundry? Right? Who's making food? I know they
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  Speaker 2: said at one point they're like the kitchen made this
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  Speaker 2: or these sandwiches or whatever, right, the uncast kitchen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about Rihann and fish. Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: thought She was much better in this movie than she
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  Speaker 2: has been in some of her recent Hallmark movies. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: her character is still bubbly and spontaneous, but I thought
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  Speaker 2: that Rhann and Fish played her with a little more maturity.
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  Speaker 2: What I found to be absent was that quirky and
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  Speaker 2: i'm gonna say it like that baby voice delivery we
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  Speaker 2: get from her sometimes. Oh she did it, Oh it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't hit me over the head every time, though
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  Speaker 1: in smaller, much much smaller doses.
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  Speaker 2: So I liked her performance as Samara.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she as Samara is a much more or sure
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  Speaker 1: of her self character than we often get. Right. The
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  Speaker 1: wit Sundays were stunningly beautiful. I would love to go there.
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  Speaker 1: It actually came up in a conversation with my husband
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  Speaker 1: and a neighbor of ours who have both been there,
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  Speaker 1: about what a nice vacation that would be. If it
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  Speaker 1: weren't one million hours of a flight away, I would
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  Speaker 1: have already planned a trip there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, if I were going to Australia, I
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  Speaker 2: would spend every single penny in my savings for like
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  Speaker 2: the most luxury travel because of how long it takes
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  Speaker 2: a skip.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely yes, sixteen hours on a plane, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to be comfortable. I did think it was stunningly beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: I do have some wishes about the location, but they
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  Speaker 1: were selling me. The Australian Tourism Board got every penny
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  Speaker 1: out of this movie that they should have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. At one point I saw the water, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's the bluest water I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: Right in your life. Yeah. I also really liked the
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  Speaker 2: characters of lives parents. Oh my gosh, that mom was
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  Speaker 2: the prettiest woman I've ever seen in my entire life.
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  Speaker 2: Truly stunning.
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  Speaker 1: And the man playing her father, who is not credited
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  Speaker 1: on IMDb as of this moment. The recording of this
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  Speaker 1: episode really was selling me on the emotion he felt
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  Speaker 1: for his wife during their vows. Yes, yeah, that's so
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  Speaker 1: true that I was like, wait a minute, are these
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  Speaker 1: two actually married?
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  Speaker 2: I wondered. I assume they're not.
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  Speaker 1: He's just a good actor, but I thought he really
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of emotion in his voice and his reactions.
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  Speaker 1: He was giving, like I marry my best friend, I'm
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  Speaker 1: living the dream. I really enjoyed them and we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to my wishes. But I do think they did a
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  Speaker 1: nice job of telling us bits and pieces about their
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  Speaker 1: love story and why we should care about celebrating the
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  Speaker 1: two of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree with you. I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about it my wishes, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And finally I'm glad that it's Nate who's doing the
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  Speaker 1: moving and not Samara.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure, for sure. I have one more
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  Speaker 2: like and it was just kind of you know, she's
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  Speaker 2: wearing that necklace that he had given her or whatever. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they do have this kind of intimate scene where he's like,
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  Speaker 2: oh the necklace if it felt pretty romantic, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Like we talk about these like nuanced scenes at Make
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  Speaker 2: of Yours, Phil, Like, I thought this was one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because he like he touches yes, and it's like
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  Speaker 1: a skin on skin moment.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right. It was very It was an
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  Speaker 1: intimate moment.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, their kiss at the end was pretty HoTT.
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  Speaker 1: I did think actually that I think that was a
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  Speaker 1: great kiss as well. And I thought the emotion she
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  Speaker 1: was showing in the conversation leading up to the kiss
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  Speaker 1: was very well.
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  Speaker 2: Done as well.
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  Speaker 1: And they kiss like a lot. It's not one kiss,
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  Speaker 1: like they keep going back for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it was as long as some of the excursions
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  Speaker 2: that they went on.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and come back to talk
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  Speaker 1: about our wishes, man, I.
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  Speaker 2: Got a long list of wishes.
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  Speaker 3: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hear first. I want to talk about why Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: chose this movie to top off their birthday celebration. I
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  Speaker 2: can't figure out why. I thought last week's movie with
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  Speaker 2: Kimberly Sestad and Jesse Metcalf was a home run. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: in comparison to the three movies we've gotten in this
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  Speaker 2: birthday celebration. That's why I asked you if this was
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  Speaker 2: an acquisition, if you thought it was. I thought this
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  Speaker 2: movie was fine. It was not terrible, but I think
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  Speaker 2: fine is such a disappointing way to end something that
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark is telling us is special.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think you're right that it's fine because it's
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  Speaker 1: pleasant to look at, and I think the acting is
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  Speaker 1: at a decent level here. The issue with me is
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  Speaker 1: that I have a lot of issues with the story.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, you're not paying attentions if you're just watching
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  Speaker 1: and it's on in the background, and every once in
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  Speaker 1: a while you see them like having a cute jet
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  Speaker 1: ski moment or finding a treasure or telling a cute story.
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  Speaker 1: It's great, but when you dig into it, I think
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  Speaker 1: my biggest problem with this movie is that there's so
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  Speaker 1: much of the story that lives in the past, yes,
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  Speaker 1: that we're told via exposition, the conflict between Samara and Nate,
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  Speaker 1: and all of the love story between Liv's parents and
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  Speaker 1: Liz has been trying to get pregnant.
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  Speaker 2: For a long time.
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  Speaker 1: All of this is told in exposition, and I just
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  Speaker 1: I don't care that much about it. And the big
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  Speaker 1: conflict is about we're watching this movie and I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 1: what's the problem here? And then I realized that the
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  Speaker 1: entire stakes upon which this movie is built is about
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  Speaker 1: are we going to get fireworks at the end? And
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  Speaker 1: it's just not enough for me to care. Part of
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  Speaker 1: it is if I'm Live's parents, and I am this
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  Speaker 1: genuinely happy that we're renewing our vows and celebrating our
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  Speaker 1: forty year relationship. And these two seem like each other's
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  Speaker 1: best friends and like they couldn't be happier to be
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  Speaker 1: here together. They don't give two Sahiit's about whether or
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  Speaker 1: not there's fireworks.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a nice touch?
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  Speaker 3: Sure?
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  Speaker 1: If it's not there, they care more about each other
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  Speaker 1: than about this event. Yeah, they never showed us that
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  Speaker 1: they would have flipped out if there were Live cared
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  Speaker 1: she was trying to create a fun event, a memorable
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  Speaker 1: event for her parents. But it's like thinking about people
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  Speaker 1: who care more about the wedding than the marriage. These
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  Speaker 1: people care more about their marriage and party.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they've showed us.
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  Speaker 1: So, Okay, Live might be disappointed. But first of all,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they don't even know that it's supposed to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Right, you know that saying like if you didn't know
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  Speaker 2: it was supposed to happen, then you never miss it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And I just think like Live gets all spun up,
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  Speaker 1: like the party starts and she's like, but what about
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  Speaker 1: the fireworks? Even way too hot at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: that party, was like, stand down, it's okay. I just
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  Speaker 1: didn't really care yeah about the fireworks.
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  Speaker 2: No, neither did I. Also, the other conflict between Nate
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  Speaker 2: and Samara being ex coworkers and they're falling out is
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  Speaker 2: incredibly thin. We have these two people who this I
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  Speaker 2: don't even understand, were lawyers at one time in this
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  Speaker 2: professional career. They have a bad case, so then they
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  Speaker 2: each he goes off to like help his family because
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  Speaker 2: his dad's sick. She quits her job as a lawyer
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  Speaker 2: to become an event planner, right yeah, And they blame
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  Speaker 2: each other for what went wrong in their case.
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  Speaker 1: And they still don't really seem to come to a
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  Speaker 1: resolution about it.
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  Speaker 2: And any resolution they did it was very quick. They'd
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  Speaker 2: been hanging onto all this baggage, and then she was like,
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  Speaker 2: we make a good team because we're opposites.
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  Speaker 1: And no, no, no, no no no no no no no, and
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  Speaker 1: it's insane. Look the resolution there is. Then the resolution
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  Speaker 1: while they're kissing doesn't land for me. Nate gives a
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  Speaker 1: heartfelt apology and Samara's like, I just don't know where
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  Speaker 1: to go from here. Seems like she doesn't still trust him.
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  Speaker 1: She's crying. It doesn't feel like she's telling me she
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  Speaker 1: has feelings for him. But then they have this very
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  Speaker 1: passionate kiss and she's like, alling, no, is this doesn't
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  Speaker 1: end here, which, on one hand, I appreciate. There's no
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  Speaker 1: I love you, there's no let's go back to Seattle
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  Speaker 1: and start our lives together. It's just to be continued.
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  Speaker 1: But I just thought, oh, we still have some issues
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  Speaker 1: here to resolve. Speaking of unresolved issues, we have the
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  Speaker 1: Samara's career conflict with her father.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is.
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  Speaker 1: Another thing that takes place off screen. The client up
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  Speaker 1: front tells us, Oh, your dad's wondering when you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: come back to law, and he sneakily signs her up
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  Speaker 1: for this interview.
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  Speaker 2: And none of it.
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  Speaker 1: Is strong enough for me to think that this is
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  Speaker 1: a real conflict that they're having.
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  Speaker 2: What I also don't understand is what was so compelling
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  Speaker 2: for her to have to walk away from her law career, Like,
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  Speaker 2: what was so debat saving what she didn't have any
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  Speaker 2: passion for it? Okay, fine, she has passion for event planning.
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  Speaker 2: She's also a wow in her thirties. At some point
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  Speaker 2: you tell your parents like, look, this is what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, bills are being paid, I'm taking care of myself.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. Are you If your parent have like a
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  Speaker 2: thirty year old adult, they have a job, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: are you pissed or no?
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  Speaker 1: Unless our job is hitman like professional puppy kicker.
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  Speaker 2: Right, they're in their bills, they have a job. Great,
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  Speaker 2: happy for you. There's nothing in you that's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: I paid for law school and now here you are
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  Speaker 2: hosting baby showers. I just think you can't.
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  Speaker 1: I can understand having to rewrite your vision of what
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  Speaker 1: your child's life is going to be, because I think
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  Speaker 1: the worst thing we can do as parents is like
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  Speaker 1: project that. But it's impossible not to I do it.
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  Speaker 1: I like think what their lives could be. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're gonna have to rewrite that vision in your head.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a you problem, not.
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  Speaker 2: Of them from it.
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  Speaker 1: Right, you were allowed to make your own choices. Now
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  Speaker 1: they need to be allowed to live their own damn life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you can't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay for you to school on the stipulation
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  Speaker 1: that you have a job that I approve of for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 2: Totally. Just no, that's not that's not gonna work. Agree. Agree.
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  Speaker 2: I needed Samara to dial way back on the rules
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: are made to be broken, like personality quirk that she has.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: She's a real pain in the ass compared to Nate.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: I feel like, well, she is.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: But then the thing that the end, he's like, you're
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: the kind of person that makes me want to break rules,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: but he doesn't break any I know, so do I buy?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I buy that.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: You know, I make me want to break rules, but
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I'm not actually gonna do that because that.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Goes against everything in me. I get that it's a
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: nice balance to have somebody who like pushes you a
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: little bit out of your comfort zone. Comfort zone both ways.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: But you know, come on, I just thought she was
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: so annoying.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I wish there had been like a better example of
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: rules were made to be broken. Then we're gonna shoot
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: fireworks off of this boat because this is dangerous?
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, she was making him come off like
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: captain no fun and he's just trying to make sure
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Like look, like I said, I have watched enough below deck,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: like there's all kinds of crazy like rules that you
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: have to follow a while at sea. So and he
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: needs to keep the people on his boat safe.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Well, the thing that doesn't make any sense to me
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: is she has a backup plan. The barge is gonna
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: shoot off the fireworks. Of course that falls through, But
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: why that wasn't the go to plan to begin with?
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Then we don't have to be fighting with him this
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: entire time, right, And I just have this thought while
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: you're saying that I can't really this movie the conflict
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: is about freaking fireworks. I get that there is a
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Hallmark viewer out there that love like the escapist, romantic,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: traditional Hallmark conflict. I get that I like movies like
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: that sometimes too, but come on, we need a better
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: script here. Look.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I would say that the series Paris is a good idea,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: is operating within the Hallmark confines, and is doing it well.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: So I just do not simply buy that it has
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to be. There's low stakes and then there's steaks that
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I just can't even get it up for. Let's talk
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: to you to see that I have white a few
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: do you white one? Like real one? And it's at
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the movie. Samara gets a voicemail from Sophie,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: a woman who has also sent her her resume. No
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: samaras based in Seattle. Sophie has an Australian accent because
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: this movie was filmed in Australia. So whatever supporting character
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: role this woman got, you know, I went to a
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: local Australian actor.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: I just thought it was funny. Well actually, well, actually
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: this is the part of Her name is Sophie Tilsen.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: She's the writer and producer on this movie. Look at
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: that her resume, said Sophie Tilsen. I don't know if
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: that was her actual picture that was on and I
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: was gonna look I forgot, but I don't know if
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: that's her voice that makes the voicemail, but her resume
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: that they show on screen. It says Sophie Tilsen. Yeah,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I love that. I love it. Look at that. The
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: boat was acting in this movie too. I don't know
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: if you heard it, but there were several dialogue scenes
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: and you could hear in the boat in the background,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: like the boat was squeaking so loudly. Had you noticed?
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I didn't, Oh, my god, Like at one point my
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: dog like looked up that sound so kind And then
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: in terms there was a lot of like transition scenes
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: that had like very loud music. I know the music
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: really bothers some people. It doesn't typically bother me, but
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: this movie, for some reason, there they would transition from
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: shot to shot where they're trying these big overhead shots
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: of like the yacht just like gamming through the water
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: with the like lights coming off of it and just
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: like headbanging rocker music behind it. I'm like, what is happening?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Is what's going on? At one point I think we
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: got some AI butterflies. Oh, yes, you saw that, right,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I did. I wondered also if they were AI CGI.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Anytime there's an animal on screen, I'm like, is that real?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I like, stop that. But didn't you think the exc
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: version were they were so long? Nate and Samara on
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: this jet ski for the longest time. It was filler. Yes,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: which goes back to please get better scripts like the.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Jet ski was fun, but yeah, I thought it could
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: have been half as long.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Totally. Two more little things. Nate is on a Zoom
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: interview and I loled because this is such a boat captain.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: He's brain shorts, but he also has like a shirt.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: It made me laugh. Made me laugh. And last day
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: talk about Lamington's, which are a Australian dessert. Did you
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: hear it? She shows him like she has a box
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: of like these desserts and he goes, oh, and he
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: says the name of it, you know, in his accent.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: It was hard so I had to like Google to
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: figure out exactly what they're called. And I'm probably not
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: saying it right, but this American accent is its lambingtones,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: but it is squares of bunge cake coated in chocolate
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: and rolled in coconut and sometimes filled with jam or cream.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: It sounds like a zinger to me, like a sounds
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: kind of good, you know. I was like, where can
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I get that in Orange County? Yeah? Were they like
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: packaged or like someone had made them? I don't remember.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: She just had like this weird box of like treats. Okay,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Shannon from Australia, we need to know. Can can we
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: get you to send us some of these? Oh my
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: gosh she just just saw Megan Space just light up,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Uncle Lambington. I would love that if those are like
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: a you know, a processed you know, dessert tree, like
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking like a hostess would make them. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: please send us an email, Shannon. Well, we'll give you an.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Address like a Tim Tam. Yeah, but we can get those.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: You can get those here? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: All I got. All Right, Well, what did you rate
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Aussie at Heart? Pretty to look at? Two point seven
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: five stars? I get it's two point five stars.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: So listening to this episode of A Girl's Gone Hallmark.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: We'll be back next time with more Hallmark reviews.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Goodbye bye, all right friends.
• 24:20
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