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Hallmark Movie Hot Take: All’s Fair in Love & Mahjong · Little House of Mahj

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  Hi everyone, welcome to this special edition of the Little
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  House of Mash podcast. We have hot news.
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  We got timely information to share with you.
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  We just watched the Hallmark movie.
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  What's what's? The name all's fair in love and
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  mahjong. Based on a true story.
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  Yes, and we thought. We just give just finished we.
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  Need to give the audience what they want and this is it so.
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  Hot take. So the movie, so this is it came
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  May. 9th came out. This is the evening of May 9th.
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  We just watched it. It just came out and we have
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  some thoughts. We have some thoughts now.
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  I want to preface this that this is the first ever Hallmark movie
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  any of us have watched. We've heard about them.
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  We've been. Curious.
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  Well, yes, we've been curious. Well, we sort of know knew.
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  What to expect about We need to be honest that we're not
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  Hallmark movie people, and some of you are, and that's fine.
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  That's. Great, but but Mahjong has
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  opened up our minds. And.
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  To give it a try. The Hallmark movie.
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  So, Amy, why don't you kick us off here?
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  I started off feeling a little nauseous and it continued
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  throughout throughout the movie, but.
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  The meat cute with the card table, Amy.
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  Could have been. More adorable?
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  The good news is I didn't puke. Well, OK, so that's wow.
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  She was dry heaving over there. I was sitting next to her on
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  this. Was tricky.
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  It was tricky there for a while. She looked a little green.
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  It met every expectation. I think that I.
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  Well, it's what we, it's what we, what we figured the Hallmark
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  movie would be. It was, it was, you know, sappy
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  and cheesy and it, it's what, it's what we all know Hallmark
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  movies are. But it did confirm what we
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  already knew, that mahjong brings people together and that
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  you've got to play the hand you're dealt in mahjong and in
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  life. So let's give just a quick
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  overview for those of you maybe who haven't seen it.
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  We don't. We have to be careful about, I
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  think. Everybody knows how there.
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  Are no. Spoilers in this movie because
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  you knew how it was going to end in the 1st 10 minutes.
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  Of a woman who was somewhat recently divorced, goes out on
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  her own, meets a fellow. You can only imagine what
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  happens. They may or may not end up
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  together, We're not going to say.
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  Yes, yeah. Now the the thing we can't talk
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  about is she becomes a mahjong teacher, which is where really
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  the scenes of mahjong come in It it was a little.
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  Mahjong opened a whole new world.
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  For her, yeah. So I want.
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  To change her. Life I want to talk about the
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  elephant in the room. Ronnie I want to talk about the
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  elephant in the room. The lipstick.
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  It was pink. It was a.
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  Terrible. Color pink at first the when it
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  was. Pink should not.
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  Have been wearing hot pick. This sounds so superficial but
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  man, it was distracting. It was the entire time, yeah.
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  It did change shades every now and then.
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  Yeah, it never quite went well with her completely.
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  Never. Well.
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  And the acting was what you'd expect from a homework, you
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  know, But so to get to the mahjong part of it, what kind of
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  took me, I mean, I've taught a little bit of mahjong, and it
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  just seemed completely unrealistic to me how quickly
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  these people learned how to play mahjong.
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  She went in there, 5 minutes later, they're playing mahjong,
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  which I guess, you know, it's a movie.
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  You have to suspend belief but. Two other things to note, wedges
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  are back in style as well as Henley's Henley.
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  Henley. And cuffed pants.
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  The man love some short cuffed pants.
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  I don't know if y'all noticed that but he was rocking them.
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  I don't feel like I'm plugged into the trend so well.
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  Now I know. Now you know, but.
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  Between the two of them, you could cut the sexual tension
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  with a knife. Am I right ladies?
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  I mean, they were just. We thought.
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  It took too long to get the kiss.
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  But I didn't know what to expect while we were watching it.
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  There might have been a few comments of take your shirt off.
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  It might have been inappropriate, but they it was
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  said it. It made it.
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  Will they? Aren't they?
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  Right it they could have made the movie about half as long,
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  let's face. It the other thing I thought was
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  distracting. Don't know if you ladies notice
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  this when they were playing mahjong in her house.
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  Couldn't take my eyes off the green tile fireplace.
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  Did any of you notice? That I didn't even notice.
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  That it was fabulous, yeah. Oh nice.
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  Well, that's what you want in your bathroom.
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  I know that's what I want in my bathroom, but I couldn't stop
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  looking at that. Yeah.
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  Well, you're on. You're on trend there.
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  Also, we realized Tina at the end, we didn't realize that this
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  was kind of a big commercial. For this.
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  Tile So Tina knew about this I. Know.
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  About this so it's funny because I immediately at the very
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  beginning was very disappointed when they were all started
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  playing matching. They were just playing with
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  these boring plain white tiles. And then at the end, of course
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  they break out the hallmark. I think it's the heirloom tiles
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  that they're selling now and they're really cute and pretty
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  and the whole. Thing was pretty much a
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  commercial. I was flabbergasted.
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  Well, yeah, the tiles came out and then the tiles got all you
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  know it was. Also it was.
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  A very. Cute set turn.
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  Around of her expertise as a as a mahjong teacher, they really
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  fast tracked her. Well, the whole thing.
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  Yeah, her. Teaching of Mahjong.
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  I'm glad they touched on the history of mahjong.
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  I thought that was a good nod to, I think it was important
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  that we they talked about the Chinese, the history.
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  Was that your favorite part? Maybe we should go around and
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  talk about our each of our favorite parts of the movie.
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  I love that. I'll start, OK?
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  I learned that it's important to be vulnerable and to let people
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  help you. It's hard to let people help you
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  sometimes. That's what I learned.
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  Did mahjong? Did mahjong.
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  Did you learn that tonight from the movie that never crossed
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  your mind until today? So this has changed your life,
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  Amy? You know, I, I will say on a not
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  so positive note, it kind of bothered me based on previous
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  episodes. We've talked about this.
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  It's like the retirement community, which I'm all for.
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  But again, mahjong, it's fresh stereotyping it it.
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  Is it's. Not a teenager scene they.
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  Had the teen and the Community College.
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  She was. She was.
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  She was. Working with the.
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  Community College. You're right.
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  I think that. You're right.
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  Mahjong is for. Everyone, everyone there.
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  Is no demographic that does not could not enjoy.
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  Tell you what I learned, OK? What do you like best?
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  It's. Really important to get your
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  colors done so that your makeup matches your luck and your
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  color. That's what I learned.
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  Very important. So for for Lisa, it was a makeup
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  lesson Jones to do. What about you was your
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  favorite? I had two thoughts.
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  The first thought was that made me feel good was they talk more
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  than I do while they're playing. They were just that is true live
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  long friends and my ultimate favorite part was the snack
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  buffet about 3/4 of the way through a movie The movie they
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  had a really sweet looking well they.
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  Had snacks. I have to say, the snack, Even
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  the opening scene when they're playing at the house, there's
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  some quality snacks. True, the snacks featured in the
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  movie I really enjoyed. That was my favorite.
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  Part and we can say that they're team 4.
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  Yes, they had cakes. They had kind of gooey bars and
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  things, you know, it looked delicious, though.
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  I don't know how messy they were.
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  It's hard to say, right? They look delicious.
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  And so I'm all in with that. I would not be surprised if
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  there's a sequel. I'm not joking.
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  Why? I'm seriously, I bet.
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  When Hallmark is going to bring them together even more, yes.
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  When Hallmark comes out with a new set of tiles, do I need
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  another one? That's all.
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  Need another movie I think. We do all know that this was
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  based on someone's actual real life so.
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  Which I know right about, yeah. Nothing about Ronnie.
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  Tell us about it, Tina. I don't really, I feel like I
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  don't really know, but I know it's Ronnie Rice and she's.
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  So that's her real name, this person who's real and she's.
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  A mahjong teacher and. Here's note to self that I took
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  away. Also, when we make our little
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  House of Maj. Movie.
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  I think we need to go another way.
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  Then you don't want What if Hallmark offers us $1,000,000
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  to. Do our story.
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  What if they make an old a tile set just for us?
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  Yeah. Well, and our faces.
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  Each our faces is like the. Jokers.
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  That would be terrifying. That would be hilarious.
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  That. OK, that would sway me.
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  Yeah. Hallmark, Collis.
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  So apparently there were some extras in the movie.
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  Miss Mahjong Founders, Anne Marie Garland, Betsy Farhop,
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  Morgan Sandifer. They were extras in the movie.
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  Oh, that's. So that's exciting.
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  Well, they should. Have featured them more well.
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  I think it's just. Maybe they were advisors to make
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  sure they were playing correctly.
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  So quality control, I think it was.
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  I think it's cool that they showcase mahjong in a movie.
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  I wasn't a giant fan of the movie per se.
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  It's good for starters. Right, right.
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  And I think we're, I think we're, again, we're not Hallmark
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  movie people. But I think it's a sign of the
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  times, let's face it, that mahjong is so popular right now
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  that it's prompted doing a movie about it.
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  I mean, that says something about what's going on with
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  mahjong in the country. Right now.
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  Yes, and who would have thought those two would have ended up
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  together? But.
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  That really. Shocked Twist and she.
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  Well, did anyone shed a tear when he brought out the section
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  of the wall? That was touched me.
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  I thought that was because I recently moved and I'm not
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  kidding. Oh, I have.
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  The same thing. There you go.
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  And we have literally. Cut it.
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  Out No, we have talked about that We have talked about and
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  what we're talking about is they had they wrote on the wall when
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  their kids, you know the the height of their kids as they
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  grew up on the. Wall and they were getting it
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  ready to sell and. Yes, they painted over it, but
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  little be known, unbeknownst to them, he cut it.
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  Spoiler alert, spoiler. Alert is a spoiler.
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  Spoiler alert. Anyway, that was called by one
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  of us, so. Yeah, there weren't a whole lot
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  of real spoilers. That's.
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  True, yeah. Foreshadowing was strong.
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  The foreshadowing was strong. You can.
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  See it coming a mile away. This is what I can promise our
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  audience. Our movie, based on a true story
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  of the Little House of Maj. will be raw.
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  It will be. Gritty.
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  Yep, I think. We get Quentin Tarantino to come
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  out of retirement for it. What do you think?
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  Yes, maybe he and Wes Anderson could do a collab.
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  Yep, that would get the colors right there that we need for
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  Maj. Wes Anderson.
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  Quentin Tarantino collab. I'm all in.
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  OK, we're going to make that happen.
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  OK, well, we just wanted to get this out to you.
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  Special edition, First ever Little House of Mars special
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  edition. Go watch the show.
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  What did you think? E-mail us.
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  E-mail us, let us know. I bet you have a lot of strong
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  feelings. I know.
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  I did enjoy the movie everyone. We'll see you next time everyone
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  is welcoming the little House of Mars.