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Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh that's funny. Yeah, I'm constable. Welcome to Girls
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Speaker 2: Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm
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Speaker 2: a longtime Hallmark movie fan. I'm Wendy and I'm your
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Speaker 2: former Hallmark hater. I almost forgot what I had to
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Speaker 2: say there about myself. So reformed you are, we'll see.
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Speaker 2: Today we're discussing Mystery Island from Hallmark Movies and Mysteries
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Speaker 2: Do you have any Hallmark news and notes to share
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Speaker 2: with the class? I have a few. Sadly, it's been
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Speaker 2: reported that the driver that killed Treat Williams in June
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three has been charged with gross negligence. Oh no,
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Speaker 2: and a weird twist I was reading about this. Apparently
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Speaker 2: the driver and Williams knew of each other. I guess
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Speaker 2: they lived in Vermont and happened in Vermont, and there's
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Speaker 2: a small but very connected theater community there and they
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Speaker 2: both have worked there, so they knew each other, which
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Speaker 2: is kind of like weird. Ryan Costs, the driver that
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Speaker 2: allegedly turned left in front of Williams like his movie
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Speaker 2: Motorcycle Right. He faces up to fifteen years in prison
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Speaker 2: if convicted. Do we know what caused that gross negligence charge.
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Speaker 2: He just that's just what happens when you're driving and
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Speaker 2: you make a big mistake. I guess he was not
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Speaker 2: under the influence. He just turned in front of him apparently.
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Speaker 2: I guess there was This is weird too. There was
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Speaker 2: a witness who was behind him, behind the driver. H
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Speaker 2: It happens to be his partner, so like they were
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Speaker 2: going somewhere and he saw it happening. It just is
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Speaker 2: a big old mess. Yeah. It's bad. Yeah, that's heartbreaking
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Speaker 2: all around. It's yeah, it's terrible, terrible. I just sometimes
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Speaker 2: I think just accidents happened. People make mistakes. Yeah. In lighterdews,
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Speaker 2: Christmas con has announced the Hallmark stars who will be
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Speaker 2: in attendance during the fan convention taking place on December
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Speaker 2: eight through tenth in New Jersey. Mm hmm. Names included
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Speaker 2: Hallmark Pikies like Tyler Andrew Lacy, Jonathan Bennett, Paul Campbell,
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Speaker 2: Kimberly Systead, and more. They also made another announcement that
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Speaker 2: is that they will no longer be a traveling convention,
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Speaker 2: so they will stick to New Jersey. Yeah. That was
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Speaker 2: met with some disappointment from their fans. You is that
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Speaker 2: the convention that was here in Pasadena it was at
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Speaker 2: one point. Sure, that makes it harder for me to go,
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Speaker 2: But I'm not going to publicly shame a company for
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Speaker 2: making a decision that's in their best business interests. But
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Speaker 2: there were many people who were vocally like, well, that
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Speaker 2: means I'll never be there, and that people understand that
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Speaker 2: that is a risk that they knew that they were
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Speaker 2: taking that by stay in one place, they know that
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Speaker 2: there are going to be people who never travel. However,
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Speaker 2: this is a convention that sells out every single time.
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Speaker 2: I think they were comfortable making that decision. Sure, So,
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Speaker 2: I mean, of course there are fans. I probably were
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Speaker 2: vocal on what Facebook, Facebook Group, Instagram, Instagram, And that's
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Speaker 2: just where it's nobody's ever gonna be like yay, I'm
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Speaker 2: so glad it's all met with. The Internet has turned
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Speaker 2: into a place where if you're not serving my needs,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you know that this doesn't work for me. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: someone posts a recipe and they're like, oh, I'm dairy free.
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Speaker 2: I can't eat that. Like I'm dairy free and I'm
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Speaker 2: not going to go on someone's cheese born recipe like,
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Speaker 2: I can't make this. Just keep scrolling right. Not everything
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Speaker 2: is for you, It's okay, I know, moving on to
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Speaker 2: correction corner. Oh gosh, I'm so embarrassed with so Kurtz.
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Speaker 2: Let's give some backstory here and last week's review of Haunted,
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Speaker 2: Harmony Mysteries, Murder and G Major, Megan and I reported
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Speaker 2: that the writer of this film was one Arthur Vandalay.
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Speaker 2: I mean it sounds legit right. It was on IMDb.
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Speaker 2: What am I supposed to do? I know, well, someone
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Speaker 2: has the jokes because Longtime Girls Gone. Hallmark listener and
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Speaker 2: co host of Hallmark Cafe Michael Killen let us know
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Speaker 2: that the IMDb credit is incorrect. Yes, a big joke.
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Speaker 2: In fact, the name Arthur Vandalai is a fictional name
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Speaker 2: made up by Seinfeld character George Costanza. The real screenwriter
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Speaker 2: of Murder in G Major is Craig Weinman. Nanina, I
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Speaker 2: don't know. Do you think someone was doing that on purpose?
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Speaker 2: Like Craig was like, I don't want the writer's credit
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Speaker 2: during a writer's stroke. I think the speculation is that
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Speaker 2: the alias was due to the writer's strike. But I
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Speaker 2: looked yesterday it was still there. And my understanding is
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Speaker 2: that everything that Hallmark has made, like Hallmark got waivers
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Speaker 2: to make a number of movies because they were willing
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Speaker 2: to meet the Writer's Guild and the SAG after demands.
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Speaker 2: So Hallmark's in compliance. But maybe Craig Wyman didn't want
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Speaker 2: the Drew Barrymore treatment, so he was like, I'm just
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Speaker 2: gonna put this alias in there for now. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: It makes me laugh, it makes me feel really stupid
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Speaker 2: with me too. As soon as I saw I had
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Speaker 2: to click out of Facebook, I was like, I can't,
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Speaker 2: I can't engage with this. I'm embarrassed. So I was like, ah, Cort,
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Speaker 2: It's not like we don't do our due diligence because
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Speaker 2: way back in the day, I don't think we put
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Speaker 2: as much effort into researching like the news and no
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Speaker 2: sec correct exactly, and so we do spend a lot
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Speaker 2: of time like putting all that, but we look at
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Speaker 2: the we look at IMDb, we look at other articles
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Speaker 2: that were written. Yeah, and Hallmark has locked down their
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Speaker 2: press releases. Yeah, we don't have any access. We don't
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Speaker 2: have access to that. So sometimes it is I do
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Speaker 2: rely on IMDb, but jokes on us, Yeah, Let's hear
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Speaker 2: a synopsis from Mystery Island. Sure Thing, Doctor Amelia Priestley,
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Speaker 2: in need of a relaxing vacation, goes to Mystery Island,
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Speaker 2: an immersive murder mystery themed resort. As the game begins,
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Speaker 2: tragedy strikes. The resort's reclusive founder is murdered. Done Dune, dull.
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Speaker 2: Let's hear some news and notes? All right? This movie
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Speaker 2: was filmed in Panama. According to an interview given by
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Speaker 2: director Nicholas Humphries, the mansion used throughout the film is
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Speaker 2: known as Villa Bonita, Panama, and apparently the Obamas have
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Speaker 2: stayed there. I saw that it was beautiful. I'm kinda
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Speaker 2: put a link in our show notes if I guess
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Speaker 2: you can rent a room there, Yeah, but you rent
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Speaker 2: the entire villa. Yeah, you gotta call for rates. So
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Speaker 2: it's funny. It's not just it's not on Hotel Stom.
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Speaker 2: You can't just bookot Nope. Mystery Island was written by
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Speaker 2: John Christian Plumber, who has written the Mystery one on
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Speaker 2: one series Curious Cater Dying for Chocolate and Grilling Season,
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Speaker 2: as well as a Francesca Quinn p i Elizabeth Henstridge Sarzez,
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Speaker 2: doctor Emilia Priestley. You know Priestley's close to my heart. Yea.
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Speaker 2: She was in twenty nineteen's Christmas at the Plaza. Megan's
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Speaker 2: Lee's favorite movie ever, And I thought you hated that movie.
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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't love it, but it's not my
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Speaker 2: least favorite. There are worse. I feel like you kind
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Speaker 2: of like every time you hear it. Yeah, I don't
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Speaker 2: know what it is about that movie. My husband did
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Speaker 2: watch the other day and I was like, maybe I've
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Speaker 2: been too hard on it, but it does definitely have
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Speaker 2: one of those like she's in a relationship the entire
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Speaker 2: time and then runs away to be with Ryan Pavey
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Speaker 2: at the end. Your least favorite storyline, my least favorite storyline. Yes,
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Speaker 2: So she was in Christmas at the Plaza as well
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Speaker 2: as one hundred and thirty six episodes as Jima Simmons
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Speaker 2: on Agents of Shield And actually I've never I'm not
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Speaker 2: familiar with that show. It's a Marvel adjacent That's why
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Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with it. And the title is Agents
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Speaker 2: of s Hi ray Ld, but they call it Agents
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Speaker 2: of Chreldry. So I have another note about Elizabeth Henstridge.
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Speaker 2: Her partner is a man named Zachary berr Abel. Do
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Speaker 2: you know who that is?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 2: I saw an Instagram post of hers featuring him, and
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Speaker 2: I thought he looks familiar, so I clicked through. He
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Speaker 2: is big on TikTok. He's like a travel hacker, so
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Speaker 2: he posts all these like how to effectively use your
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Speaker 2: points and get me the point sky. He's not the
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Speaker 2: points guy, but I think if you've spent any time
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Speaker 2: on TikTok and you've ever been served, like we were
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Speaker 2: able to fly Emirates first class by only spending twelve dollars,
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Speaker 2: and here's how we do it. I'm making him sound goofy.
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Speaker 2: He's not like he's full of information, but I just
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Speaker 2: it was a funny world's colliding moment for Charlie Weber
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Speaker 2: plays Jason Trent. He has forty one acting credits on IMDb.
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Speaker 2: Who knows if they're all true, including last year's Christmas
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Speaker 2: Bedtime Stories and ninety episodes of How to Get Away
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Speaker 2: with Murder. It's a show I never watched. It's a
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Speaker 2: Shonda Rhime show. Mm it' Kezie Burrows place friend and
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Speaker 2: five percent investor Lady Jane Alcott She has thirty nine
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Speaker 2: acting credits, but this does appear to be her first
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Speaker 2: movie for Hallmark. What's your first impression of Mystery Island?
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Speaker 2: There are some really not so great reviews of Mystery
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Speaker 2: Island on IMDb, and I'm going to disagree. We did
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Speaker 2: discuss this movie at all. I can't wait to talk
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Speaker 2: about it. My first impresion is I just need to
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Speaker 2: give up on trying to solve mysteries. Were you completely wrong?
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Speaker 2: I just had no guesses because as we as you're
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Speaker 2: watching a movie and as they're exploring suspects, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's never the person they're exploring. So I'm like, well,
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Speaker 2: I've got no other ideas. And it's not the writing,
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Speaker 2: because when you come back to the end, you're like, oh,
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Speaker 2: they did lay hints, you know, like we've got the
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Speaker 2: remote control for the drone, which I had forgotten about
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Speaker 2: until they brought it back in, and oh he was sick.
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Speaker 2: All of these things come back in. But I wasn't
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Speaker 2: putting those pieces together. I'm not good at it. I'm
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Speaker 2: not good at it. I need to stop. Did you
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Speaker 2: even see like the quick flash as they're sitting down
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Speaker 2: for dinner, there was a one waiter with a terrible
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Speaker 2: beard standing there. It was millisecond. I honestly didn't until
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Speaker 2: they when they showed it at the end, I was like,
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Speaker 2: oh that, like this tickling my brain, like I vaguely
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Speaker 2: remember it, but I didn't even bump on that person
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Speaker 2: in the original scene. And then they show it to
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Speaker 2: you again because when they show him murdered, right, they
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Speaker 2: like peel off the beards and like, this nose looks
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Speaker 2: like it could be fake. And I literally have in
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Speaker 2: my digity that since we're there, I wrote his.
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Speaker 4: Nose might be fake, but you could see the full
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Speaker 4: outline of it in that moment, and I, okay, maybe,
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Speaker 4: and I took I just want to say that after
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Speaker 4: our last mystery, I was like, I need to focus
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Speaker 4: because there's so many characters, right, and I took so
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Speaker 4: many notes about who those people were, but I completely
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Speaker 4: missed that waiter at the beginning.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, let's move on to what we liked. Okay,
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Speaker 2: I thought this story I did was quite intriguing. So
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Speaker 2: there's this all encompassing like murder mystery resort. It sounds
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Speaker 2: pretty cool, yes, And I was like, would I ever
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Speaker 2: go if I had guaranteed that I was gonna be
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Speaker 2: safe there because obviously I don't want to, Like, I
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Speaker 2: don't want to track down a real life murderer. Sure,
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Speaker 2: but can I track down a pretend one and I
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Speaker 2: know that I'm in no harm? Yeah? That sounds fun.
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Speaker 2: I can imagine a place would be like this if
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Speaker 2: it was real, would be popular. Sure if you had
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Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars a night to spend. Did you hear
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Speaker 2: them say like it's a ten thousand dollars a night
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Speaker 2: like game right? I was like, that's ridiculous. Anyway, I
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Speaker 2: liked how the plot takes this like unexpected turn. Call
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Speaker 2: me naive, but I I don't really know what to expect.
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Speaker 2: I was like, I know they're going to this this
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Speaker 2: place to play this game, Like what's going to happen?
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Speaker 2: I assume that, like the whole beginning scene where what's
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Speaker 2: her name? Oh yeah, Amiliare is with that murder and
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Speaker 2: he like threatens her or whatever. I kind of thought
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Speaker 2: that was going to come into play. Yes, So I
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Speaker 2: didn't even like see that think that there would be
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Speaker 2: like a real murder there. Anyway, I like the twist.
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Speaker 2: I liked it. I like I like the whole concept
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Speaker 2: was cool. To me. Yeah, I was trying to decide
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Speaker 2: as I was watching our are they gonna is it
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Speaker 2: just gonna be a murder mystery play game or is
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Speaker 2: there going to be an actual murder. I allowed for
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Speaker 2: both being a possibility, but I really liked this goofy
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Speaker 2: clue like setup, and I thought the characters leaned in
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Speaker 2: hard to their characters, and that's kind of the point
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Speaker 2: of a movie, like they're supposed to be playing very
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Speaker 2: specific roles, right, And like you said, there were some
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Speaker 2: negative reviews, and I think people expected this to be
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Speaker 2: more serious than it was, and I think it leaned
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Speaker 2: into the fact that it was very unserious and very silly.
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Speaker 2: And I really enjoyed it and was surprised that so
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Speaker 2: many of the reviews were so negative. Me too. There's
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Speaker 2: not a single at the moment of this recording positive
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Speaker 2: review on imdbas that's awful, nothing over five out of ten. Wow.
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Speaker 2: So I expected it for I expected for it to
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Speaker 2: be a little tongue in cheek. It is a little
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Speaker 2: bit of a Hallmark departure too, in terms of their
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Speaker 2: classes mystery formula, and I like that we don't just
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Speaker 2: have the standard like non detective solving crimes element. Yes,
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Speaker 2: because sure the doctor isn't specifically a detective, but I
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Speaker 2: felt like her actual expertise made sense that she was
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Speaker 2: participating in solving the crime here. It wasn't just like
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Speaker 2: I'm a caterer who there happened to be a murder
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Speaker 2: in my vicinity, and I'm gonna make a murder board,
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Speaker 2: right right, Goldie. Yes, Yes, I loved how they set
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Speaker 2: it up for future potential episodes. It makes sense They're
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Speaker 2: not gonna just do the same thing over again. Now
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Speaker 2: we have the doctor and the investigator collaborating, consulting on
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Speaker 2: like future stories, and I mean sure there's probably gonna
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Speaker 2: I mean, really, is there gonna be a murder? And
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Speaker 2: every single how's that's I wondered that are because I said,
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Speaker 2: are they always going to have a real murder? Because
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Speaker 2: that could end up being pretty bad for business. Yes, seriously,
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Speaker 2: you're like, I'm not going to play two thousand dollars
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Speaker 2: a night, Anna might get killed. Nope. I liked Elizabeth
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Speaker 2: Heinstridge as Doctor Priestley. I loved Kezia Burrows, as did you.
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Speaker 2: I thought she was like cooky, like enough cookiness, eccentric,
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Speaker 2: like she was all in and like solving the mysteries,
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Speaker 2: Like you could believe her as this super wealthy woman
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Speaker 2: of leisure, uh huh, who is fully committed to being
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Speaker 2: able to finally solve one of these westeries. And I
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Speaker 2: thought she wore really cute dresses too. Moving on to
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Speaker 2: what she wished for, girlfriend needs some meta stalking through
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Speaker 2: the jungle clothes. Okay, I know there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: commentary about her, like platform espratrials that she wore right
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Speaker 2: in her bright shirt. Now, granted she didn't plan to
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Speaker 2: be sneaking after people, but there was multiple running through
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Speaker 2: the jungle moments, and you'd think after the first one
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Speaker 2: she'd be like, I need some better footwear. And there's
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Speaker 2: no way that Carlos is going to run past her
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Speaker 2: and not see her bright blue shirt through the leaves.
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Speaker 2: I hear you. I don't think it was actually Carlos
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Speaker 2: who ran past her. It was Riley who ran past her.
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Speaker 2: The travel website writer. I hear you, I hear you
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Speaker 2: all of that. But she only brought what she brought.
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Speaker 2: I know, I know. The funny thing was like I'm
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Speaker 2: imagining myself in this role, like trying to run through
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Speaker 2: the jungle in these shoes. There's no way, like she no,
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Speaker 2: I had a broken ankle one hundred percent, I would
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Speaker 2: have fallen down a million times. There's no way I'm
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Speaker 2: out running. But I did tell you, like, do you
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Speaker 2: ever have like those dreams or thoughts where you're like
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Speaker 2: so close to getting something? She's like, help me. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: she's so close, Like it felt very real to me.
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Speaker 2: I think I just have a recurring nightmare about that
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Speaker 2: kind of stuff, like you're running, you can't get there
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Speaker 2: fast enough. Yes, my only other wish. I kind of
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Speaker 2: wanted can the opening murder to feature in a little
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Speaker 2: bit more. There is a call back to him where
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Speaker 2: she talks about how like he's not being made to
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Speaker 2: feel small, like this isn't the right fit because he's
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Speaker 2: not being made to feel small. It doesn't work out.
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Speaker 2: Maybe that's enough, but I was so intrigued by the
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Speaker 2: intensity of his I have people on the outside, you know,
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Speaker 2: you and your family and I you know. She was like,
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Speaker 2: maybe I need to step away from police work. And
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Speaker 2: then ultimately she's like, no, I don't need to at
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Speaker 2: the end, and I thought, well, follow that through more,
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Speaker 2: like is that just a threat, right? And maybe that's
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Speaker 2: something we'll see in future movies. But I kind of
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Speaker 2: wanted that to be like looming over her head a
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Speaker 2: little bit more. Agree. Yeah, I hope that wasn't just
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Speaker 2: like a throwaway scene just to get her from working
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Speaker 2: to vacation. Yes, okay, here are a couple of my wishes. One,
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Speaker 2: there are so many characters I need in my own
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Speaker 2: murder board. Yes, I was writing them down, but I
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Speaker 2: did love that each room of their hotel a murder
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Speaker 2: board for them. So funny, It was really funny. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: there were just a lot of characters and a lot
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Speaker 2: of names that I did not get, and so when
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Speaker 2: they were talking about like who in this, and then
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Speaker 2: that's when I like tap out a little bit. Well,
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Speaker 2: So we discussed this during our last mystery movie, Murder
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Speaker 2: and g Major, and I went in ready to take
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Speaker 2: notes because I knew there would be a lot of characters,
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Speaker 2: and so I have them all here. I have like
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Speaker 2: John murtog iq and eighty son of a mystery writer,
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Speaker 2: Carlos Delfwego and Morgan Medicteddents of Dogford Phoenix Green on
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Speaker 2: her workout videos. I mean, I had I had to
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Speaker 2: take notes. You were gonna solve it Huh. It was
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Speaker 2: less that I wanted to solve it and more, like
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Speaker 2: you said, as they start referencing these people and they're
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Speaker 2: off screen, I needed to know who they are because
19:44
Speaker 2: I'm not good with the names. If I meet you,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to immediately forget your name, right. And it's
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Speaker 2: not because I don't care, It's because my brain does
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Speaker 2: not focus long enough for me to commit that to memory.
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Speaker 2: So Sam goes for movies, I immediately forget the characters' names.
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Speaker 2: I had to write them down. Who the hell's Riley Good?
20:01
Speaker 2: I'm glad I wasn't alone in that. Did it also
20:03
Speaker 2: get a little muddy for you in terms of the
20:05
Speaker 2: who done it?
20:06
Speaker 3: Like?
20:06
Speaker 2: There was a lot of like motives and pointing fingers
20:08
Speaker 2: at other people within their like group. I was like,
20:12
Speaker 2: what what? And that's I think where I need to
20:15
Speaker 2: let it go, because, like I said, I need to
20:17
Speaker 2: stop trying to solve the mystery, just go along for
20:19
Speaker 2: the ride. Yeah, I feel like they're purposely trying to
20:21
Speaker 2: do that to like a thousand percent one more thing.
20:25
Speaker 2: I You know me, I've watched a ton of murdery things,
20:29
Speaker 2: police procedurals, all kinds of stuff like that. And here
20:33
Speaker 2: are my thoughts. Why would the detectives keep all the
20:37
Speaker 2: suspects in the mansion. Why wouldn't they be rounded up
20:42
Speaker 2: and taken to like the police station, separated? Questioned, there's
20:48
Speaker 2: too much like opportunity for like people to talk, and
20:52
Speaker 2: like I'm doing this with my you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
20:58
Speaker 2: let's get our story straight. Let's get our story. She
21:00
Speaker 2: let's corroborate like where we were at. I don't know.
21:05
Speaker 2: But can you do that if someone's not actually a suspect,
21:08
Speaker 2: if they were just a witness? How long? I get that?
21:11
Speaker 2: But how long can you keep them? And I don't
21:14
Speaker 2: believe for a hot second that doctor Priestley would have
21:18
Speaker 2: been privy to any of the case details. Sure, he's
21:22
Speaker 2: telling her way too much. Also, she's like stalking around
21:25
Speaker 2: listening to conversations and like how is all that stuff happening?
21:29
Speaker 2: Like it just was like a mess. Finally, and I
21:32
Speaker 2: feel good because there are some commenters on IMDb who
21:37
Speaker 2: also saw this, but a lot of ungloved collection of evidence.
21:40
Speaker 2: Oh yes, they find that envelope that has the second
21:44
Speaker 2: record in it, and he just takes the envelope out
21:47
Speaker 2: and pulls the record out and I thought, yeah, what, Yeah,
21:50
Speaker 2: it just you know, but like I've said before, you
21:53
Speaker 2: just kind of have to let those like details slide. Sure,
21:56
Speaker 2: and that's probably a director choice. I'm guessing like there's
22:00
Speaker 2: not enough time to set up for her to put
22:02
Speaker 2: the gloves on or whatever. Yeah. Is that a choice
22:06
Speaker 2: or is it an oversight? I don't know. I just
22:08
Speaker 2: feel like someone should have paid attention to those details. Yes,
22:14
Speaker 2: if you really want to sell it to me, like
22:16
Speaker 2: at least grab a Kleenex and take it out with
22:17
Speaker 2: a clean Yeah, exactly, all right, Moving on to did
22:21
Speaker 2: just see that? I have a couple Actually, my biggest
22:26
Speaker 2: one was the nose, just the nose. It's so fas
22:29
Speaker 2: just such a funny line. This nose might be fake.
22:32
Speaker 2: They're like, rip it off. It's always like good on
22:35
Speaker 2: that actor to lay there and not flinch at all?
22:39
Speaker 2: Is this like plastic? They pulled the beard and the
22:43
Speaker 2: nose off, and he's like, oh that hurts. I would
22:47
Speaker 2: love to see the take where he's like, oh, you
22:52
Speaker 2: got a nose hair with that one. Okay. So Emilia
22:57
Speaker 2: and Jane arrived to the island and they are carrying
23:02
Speaker 2: their rolling suitcases. Now the only reason I noticed that
23:05
Speaker 2: they're rolling suitcases because they see Detective Trent. Yeah, they
23:09
Speaker 2: talk to him like on the dock or whatever, and
23:11
Speaker 2: they're standing there and the handles are extended while they're
23:14
Speaker 2: standing there, and then the next thing they start to
23:17
Speaker 2: go again and they're like they're like literally holding them
23:20
Speaker 2: up high so they're in the frame almost oh weird. Yeah,
23:24
Speaker 2: And I was like, why can't they roll them? Maybe
23:26
Speaker 2: they made too much noise. Oh, I bet that probably
23:30
Speaker 2: was it. And you know they're empty, yeah, and they're
23:33
Speaker 2: like over the dock, Okay, thanks, but they didn't want
23:38
Speaker 2: to have to go back in eighty R that scene,
23:40
Speaker 2: so they're like, ladies carry your suitcases. That's great insight, Megan.
23:44
Speaker 2: After the group's first dinner, they've all gathered in like
23:47
Speaker 2: a lounge or a bar or something like in the
23:50
Speaker 2: on the property right, and people are kind of peeling
23:53
Speaker 2: off at Amelia is sitting there. She's like watching people
23:55
Speaker 2: like leave and do this thing. And you hear soon
23:58
Speaker 2: go we'll b RB And I was like, did it
24:01
Speaker 2: say BRB? So I rewound it because I watched in
24:04
Speaker 2: subtitles me too, it did say BRB will b RB?
24:08
Speaker 2: Who talks like that?
24:10
Speaker 3: I do out loud, yes, maybe not like in a group.
24:18
Speaker 2: Full of adults, but like to your husband, you'd be like, BRB, Yeah,
24:23
Speaker 2: that's funny, Yeah, because I'm casual. Do you say lol
24:28
Speaker 2: out loud? Yes, I have the vocabulary of a teenager.
24:38
Speaker 2: Teenagers don't say lol anymore, only fifty year old women.
24:43
Speaker 2: Oh boy? Okay. Last one, Detective Jason and Amelia go
24:48
Speaker 2: on a walk on the beach. When they leave the mansion,
24:53
Speaker 2: it is dark out is dark. I can see like
24:57
Speaker 2: the skyline or whatever isn't the right, But then they're
25:01
Speaker 2: walking on the beach and it's it's only like just
25:05
Speaker 2: dusk at this point, like it was dark. Then they
25:08
Speaker 2: go for a walk and it's not dark anymore. Obviously
25:10
Speaker 2: they needed to shoot the scene so they could see
25:13
Speaker 2: them on the beach. I know exactly what scene you're
25:16
Speaker 2: talking about, and I think that was sunrise based on
25:19
Speaker 2: the light, like really, yeah, it was kind of like
25:22
Speaker 2: a bluish lighting, yes, And I was like, I think
25:25
Speaker 2: that's sunrise, Like I think this is happening as the
25:28
Speaker 2: sun is about to come up early in the morning.
25:31
Speaker 2: What was funny too, is this is the same scene
25:33
Speaker 2: where they find Lucia Lucia in the dead in the water, yes,
25:38
Speaker 2: Kicker and roller over, Yes, Okay, you could tell like
25:43
Speaker 2: they had like bright spotlights out could you tell that?
25:46
Speaker 4: No?
25:46
Speaker 2: I didn't artificial lighting like of the scene. No, it's
25:50
Speaker 2: just you know, these are just things I noticed. Yes,
25:53
Speaker 2: ma'am hit me with a rating. I gave it four stars, oh,
25:58
Speaker 2: three point seven five. I like this idea for a mystery.
26:02
Speaker 2: I'm interested to watch more. Me too. Some of the
26:06
Speaker 2: negative comments were like, the acting was bad, but who
26:09
Speaker 2: was bad? I didn't think the acting was bad. I
26:12
Speaker 2: think to me, it felt like people the actors were
26:17
Speaker 2: leaning in on their characters in a way that really
26:19
Speaker 2: made sense for a movie like this, because what they
26:23
Speaker 2: are are people going to play a murder mystery game,
26:26
Speaker 2: but what they become are witnesses to a murder. And
26:29
Speaker 2: I feel like when you look at movies like Clue
26:33
Speaker 2: or Knives Out, all of the people there are playing
26:36
Speaker 2: very specific roles. It's not full of housewives. It's full
26:39
Speaker 2: of very specific people. And these people leaned in hard
26:45
Speaker 2: for a reason, because that's the kind of movie this is. Yeah,
26:47
Speaker 2: I agree, I liked it. I liked it too. If
26:51
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26:55
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