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Baby, It’s Cold Inside · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode
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  Speaker 1: from Long Story short the podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're going to discuss Baby It's Cold Inside, a
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  Speaker 1: stand alone original Hallmark movie that must have been bumped
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  Speaker 1: from Winterfest or New Year New Movies, because why else
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  Speaker 1: would we be getting an ice movie in may you think?
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  Speaker 1: This movie Baby It's Cold Inside. Wendy, do you have
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  Speaker 1: a synopsis?
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  Speaker 2: I do about baby, it's cold inside. When a travel
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  Speaker 2: agent up for a promotion is directed to forego her
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  Speaker 2: tropical vacation to instead visit the world famous Iso Hotel,
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  Speaker 2: she discovers her sacrifices are more than compensated. Compensated goodness.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's do news and notes. Okay, So this
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  Speaker 1: movie was filmed in Quebec, Canada at the Hotel dig
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  Speaker 1: Lasa in January, which is North America's only isotel.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, so was filmed in January twenty twenty one, twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty one. I'm stuck in some sort of like time vortex. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. So yeah, I could have easily been
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  Speaker 2: one of like a New Year, New movie or what
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  Speaker 2: was the other one you said, Winterfest?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Winterfest is the old that's name.
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  Speaker 2: It just.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the filming. I didn't find anything about filming
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  Speaker 1: being delayed because January is perhaps a bit late. They
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  Speaker 1: do a quick turnaround. Is it possible they could have
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  Speaker 1: filmed in early January and put it out at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the month. Yes, but that is a pretty
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  Speaker 1: tight turnaround, even for Hallmark. I don't I didn't find
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  Speaker 1: any information about why this movie was released when it
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  Speaker 1: was if you have information about that, we'd love to
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  Speaker 1: hear it because it just felt odd.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of odd, I want to talk to you about
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  Speaker 2: this only ice hotel in North America. What's again, Hotel Glace,
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  Speaker 2: the Hotel de Glass would be my g okay, the
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  Speaker 2: only ice hotel in North America. I mean, there's got
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  Speaker 2: to be a reason for that, right, here's mine because
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  Speaker 2: who wants to go to an ice hotel?
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  Speaker 1: So what I was reading more information about this particular
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  Speaker 1: hotel and they had said, obviously it's very cold inside.
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  Speaker 1: The lead actor in this movie, whose name is Steve Lund.
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  Speaker 2: Said.
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  Speaker 1: It was the coldest I've ever been to my core.
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  Speaker 1: He had to wear electric socks and undergarments and run
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  Speaker 1: somewhere for extra warmth between takes. This was also used
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  Speaker 1: in a previous Hallmark movie, Winter Castle, which was a
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen movie, and there are no toilets in the
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  Speaker 1: hotel room. There's spa with heated restrooms, so it says
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  Speaker 1: guests are encouraged to plan their bathroom outing so they
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  Speaker 1: don't have to use the restroom in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night. You guys, wait, that stresses me out, Like
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  Speaker 1: sometimes I have to pee in the middle of the night,
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  Speaker 1: whether I've planned well or not.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I am confus us because I thought I
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  Speaker 2: read that they rebuild this structure every year. It's only
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  Speaker 2: open for like a certain number of the coldest months, right, correct.
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  Speaker 2: So of course there's not going to be indoor plumbing.
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  Speaker 2: But isn't there like some sort there's a spa in
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  Speaker 2: the ice hotel.
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  Speaker 1: They have to I mean, they have a bar, so
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  Speaker 1: they have to have some sort of plumbing access, whether
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  Speaker 1: that's from you know, it's not underground pipes obviously. Even
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  Speaker 1: the glasses in the bar are made out of ice. Look.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of weeks ago, you had mentioned here on
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  Speaker 2: the podcast that you have a fear of ice hotels,
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  Speaker 2: like you would not stay at one, right, So, and
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was kind of funny. But now that
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  Speaker 2: I was reading on this stuff yesterday and hearing that
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  Speaker 2: you can't pee in the middle of the night because
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  Speaker 2: there is no toilet, I would never stay in an
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  Speaker 2: ice hotel. Never.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't e either. It doesn't sound fun. There's no
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  Speaker 1: part of the adventure that I would enjoy.
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  Speaker 2: I have to.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine that people It's not like they go and stay
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  Speaker 1: for a week, right, you're going and staying for a
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  Speaker 1: night just to say you've done it, and then you
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  Speaker 1: go somewhere that has heat and indoor plumbing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Steve Lund was certainly not selling it in his
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  Speaker 2: interview that he did how he was like, it was
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  Speaker 2: cold to the bone, and you have to wear electric socks,
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  Speaker 2: which I didn't even know where a thing agree.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's all I have in news and notes.
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  Speaker 1: It stars Jocelyn Houdon and Steve Lund as Hannah and
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  Speaker 1: Ben and Steve Lund. His most notable role that stood
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  Speaker 1: out to me is he played Jacon Schritz Creek for
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  Speaker 1: four years. I have not seen most of that show,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't know who that is. I know the show,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know who that character is. But that
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  Speaker 1: was his biggest standout role. But they both have pretty
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  Speaker 1: extensive acting histories.
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  Speaker 2: I know, Shit's Creek.
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  Speaker 1: No, I know, but the vast majority of what they've
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  Speaker 1: been in.
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  Speaker 2: Is stuff that I would never watch.
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  Speaker 1: Probably.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, all right, let's move on.
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  Speaker 1: Because it was your first impression of this movie, Wendy.
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  Speaker 2: I hated it so much so I forgot to record
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  Speaker 2: it the night that it premiered, so I flipped on
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark Channel the next day and it was plain So
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  Speaker 2: I was fifteen minutes late, and I was like, eh,
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  Speaker 2: I'll start. What am I gonna miss in fifteen minutes? Right?
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you that I did go back and
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  Speaker 2: watched the first fifteen minutes on the friendly app, so
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  Speaker 2: I have a yeah, thank you, But disclosure, I did
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  Speaker 2: not finish this movie. After forty five minutes, I tapped out.
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  Speaker 1: Wendy has placed the version of reviewing this movie squarely
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  Speaker 1: into my lap. I had to finish this movie because
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  Speaker 1: one of us had to.
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  Speaker 2: I have notes, and I have a lot to say
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  Speaker 2: about it, especially one part. But let me guess. She
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  Speaker 2: gets a job at the Ice Hotell doing I don't
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  Speaker 2: know whatever hotel management, because she wanted to do that,
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  Speaker 2: but she was a klutz and got fired from her
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  Speaker 2: other job. Whatever, she gets a job, am I right?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Well, let's let's let's finish this segment, which is
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  Speaker 1: first impressions, because I would like to say my piece
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  Speaker 1: since I had to watch all two hours.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: My impression is something just felt off about this movie.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the lack of chemistry,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that this is an ice hotel in May,
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  Speaker 1: and I can't really wrap my head around this being
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  Speaker 1: a new movie. I had relatively little interest in either
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  Speaker 1: of the main characters lives. I really didn't care about
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  Speaker 1: Phoebe and Sean's rekindled relationship. I just didn't care good.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna say opposite, and I was like, look,
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  Speaker 2: we're quitting. We're quitting this Hallmark podcast. If you said
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  Speaker 2: you were gonna like this movie.
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  Speaker 1: One of our friends sent us a message and she
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  Speaker 1: was like, I love this movie. This was a three
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  Speaker 1: point two five stars for me and Michelle. We still
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  Speaker 1: like you, but I was I went into it with
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  Speaker 1: high hopes. Wendy had told me she hated it. Michelle
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  Speaker 1: said she loved it. I'm thinking, Okay, this movie is redeemable.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say that it was not for me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so you have to throw my opinions out the
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  Speaker 2: window because I hate everything for the most part. Also,
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  Speaker 2: I had low expectations for this movie because standalone movies
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  Speaker 2: are a red flag to me. They say this isn't
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  Speaker 2: good enough to put into a promoted lineup. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: bury it here somewhere on the schedule and hopefully people
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  Speaker 2: don't watch.
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  Speaker 1: It, and this movie has the disadvantage. I'll say it again.
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  Speaker 1: This icy ice hotel movie screams left over.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and I see another low expectation. I do not
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  Speaker 2: want to watch a wintery theme movie in mid spring.
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  Speaker 2: I need summer. I need flowers, I need warm days. Something.
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  Speaker 2: I'm beyond parkas and seeing somebody's cold breath. Over it,
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  Speaker 2: over it, over it.
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  Speaker 1: I one hundred percent agree. In spite of the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I prefer winter to summer. Summer does not excite me.
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  Speaker 1: I am excited for summer movies. I'm excited for I
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  Speaker 1: like the idea of summer. I don't like being out
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  Speaker 1: in the actual summer, but I love the idea of it,
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  Speaker 1: and like the feeling the warmth on your skin and
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  Speaker 1: pretty cute summer dresses and ice cold drinks and tropical locations.
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  Speaker 1: I like all of that in my mind. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what I want to watch right now. I want to
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  Speaker 1: watch you on an island. I want to watch you
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  Speaker 1: at a lake on a boat. Let's get there. Let's
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  Speaker 1: have a grill. Okay, show me the grill. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: so funny. Now did you like anything about this movie?
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  Speaker 2: Zero things? Zero? Both things? I hated, like the stupid
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  Speaker 2: twinkly lights and the like it looked like Elsa's Castle.
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  Speaker 2: You know, That's what I felt like. I was watching
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  Speaker 2: a Disney real life Disney movie Elsa's Castle. Like they
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  Speaker 2: had those like carvings on the wall or whatever nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that would be kind of cool in person,
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  Speaker 2: I guess to see, but not inside a nice castle.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not staying there, Like that's like looking at a
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  Speaker 2: sand castle, you know what I mean, Like, Oh, that
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  Speaker 2: looks cool, but it would be neat to see. But no,
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  Speaker 2: I hate.
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  Speaker 1: I hated everything about it. Sorry, everything I liked. Did
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  Speaker 1: you see the glass blowing? Probably not, that's too late
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  Speaker 1: in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: It was on. I don't care. There's a local like
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  Speaker 2: craft fair that happens here every summer that they do
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  Speaker 2: glass blowing. I've seen it in person. I don't care
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  Speaker 2: about watch.
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  Speaker 1: She recommend the Netflix show Blown Away, which I'm a
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  Speaker 1: big fan of, and so I enjoyed that little bit
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  Speaker 1: of glass blowing. I find it fascinating. So I liked
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  Speaker 1: that little glass blowing montage. I thought Hannah was real cute.
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  Speaker 2: I thought she was super boring, and I actually thought
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  Speaker 2: she was the girl who played a fit for a prince.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the one that made the dresses or whatever. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was her, but it's not. But the
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  Speaker 2: other girl that worked at the Ice Hotel. Was she
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  Speaker 2: in fit for a prince? Was she one of the stepsisters?
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  Speaker 1: Don't know, don't know, and don't even care enough to
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  Speaker 1: look it up exactly?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: I think Wendy in this category. I think you are
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  Speaker 1: just wishing for those forty five minutes of your life back. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: is there anything else you wished for? No, I want
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  Speaker 1: to watch a better movie.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm gonna invest an hour and forty five minutes,
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  Speaker 2: that's like the time without commercials. I wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: at least entertaining and good. I'm just so tired of
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  Speaker 2: like the same format, the same thing. Girl gets a promotion, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: she might lose her job, or I'm I'm not made
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  Speaker 2: for homework.
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  Speaker 1: I hear you well. In terms of what I wished for,
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  Speaker 1: I think that we've seen movies like as Luck Would
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  Speaker 1: have It and Mix Up in the Mediterranean, where the
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  Speaker 1: location furthers our enjoyment contributes to our enjoyment of the movie. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: but they were not relying on those locations to carry
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  Speaker 1: the movie. There were other factors that were enjoyable, and
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  Speaker 1: I wish they hadn't put so much weight on this
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  Speaker 1: Ice Hotel to carry the entire movie, because it is
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  Speaker 1: a frozen box and it cannot make me interested in
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  Speaker 1: this movie. Unfortunately.
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  Speaker 2: I have a question for you. So this was the
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  Speaker 2: same hotel It was featured in Winter's Castle from twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember that movie? Did you ever watch that movie?
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  Speaker 1: Did watch that movie?
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  Speaker 2: Did they have a similar storyline?
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, it was not so ice hotel focused. I think
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  Speaker 1: there was a wedding happening there. I don't. Honestly, this
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  Speaker 1: movie was about the Ice Hotel. This was like a
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  Speaker 1: promotional movie about ice hotels and the Ice Hotel and
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  Speaker 1: owning an ice hotel. And no that movie, the Ice
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  Speaker 1: Hotel was the backdrop, but not the plot.
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  Speaker 2: Got it? Got it?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Are you ready for digitsing that?
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  Speaker 2: Because I have a whole bunch of them. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: say I have a whole bunch of my forty five
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  Speaker 2: minutes that I watched. All right? First of all, if
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  Speaker 2: I can stop start, please, So what's his name? His
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  Speaker 2: name is Ben? Right? Correct, he's showing Hannah like the rooms.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, he's like, oh, your bed blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 2: it's made of ice. And then he says like, but
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  Speaker 2: you'll have a super like warm sleeping bag. Nobody wants
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  Speaker 2: to sleep on a block of ice, like for real,
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  Speaker 2: that's awful. And then she's like, oh, the fireplace is
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  Speaker 2: so cozy. I was like, the fireplace is likely melting
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  Speaker 2: the roof above your head, so like that I would
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  Speaker 2: be nervous all night long. No, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, there's a scene later in the movie, toward the
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  Speaker 1: end where the other hotel worker woman, Yeah, she plays
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  Speaker 1: the key role in the movie. Actually later and I
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  Speaker 1: can't think of her name, but she goes into the
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  Speaker 1: room with Hannah, and Hannah's about to adjustifier and she's like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: we don't let guests touch it because it could release
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  Speaker 1: too much heat into the room and then that would
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  Speaker 1: cause the ice to begin to melt. And I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: this is way too stressful, thinking about balancing the level
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  Speaker 1: of heat that this is giving off so that it
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  Speaker 1: warms the room but not enough to melt the ice.
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  Speaker 2: No, thank you, yeah, no, thank you? Agree, Okay, what
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  Speaker 2: about you? Did you see that? I still have lots
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  Speaker 2: more so, well, let's stick with the bed because she
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: wakes up and she's completely surrounded by candles. Yeah, how
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  Speaker 2: is that not emitting some sort of warmth?
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  Speaker 1: That's not my concern. She's literally on a bed surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by candles. You're not gonna like accidentally roll over into
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  Speaker 1: the candles and light your cozy sleeping bag on fire.
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  Speaker 1: Your hair is not gonna fly, and you're gonna have No,
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  Speaker 1: we don't put candles on our bed. Can we agree
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  Speaker 1: not to put candles on our bed even if it
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  Speaker 1: is made of ice?
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  Speaker 2: Is this supposed to be romantic? Or was that the
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  Speaker 2: light that she had in the room because I am
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  Speaker 2: guessing the Iso hotel doesn't have electricity.
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  Speaker 1: Sure they could have provided light with a candle that
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  Speaker 1: was not directly on her sleeping surface.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it is very dangerous to have.
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  Speaker 1: A lit candle on your bed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, on your bed in your bedroom, yes, totally in
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  Speaker 2: your bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: Is one thing on your bed? No, ma'am?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I want to know, did you notice that
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  Speaker 2: the badge of the worker woman since we don't know
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  Speaker 2: her name, you know, it's like she's wearing like a
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  Speaker 2: jacket from the hotel and it's just called Ice Hotel,
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  Speaker 2: Ice Hotel. It doesn't have a name, just Ice Hotel.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, can could the props department come up with
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  Speaker 2: something better than the megapatch something? Geez so dumb? Okay, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: another thing, this is about the hotel specifically, Ben and
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  Speaker 2: Hannah are like, walking through the hallways, did you notice
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  Speaker 2: that each room is only partitioned off by a hanging curtain?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and in fact, that is how it is in
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  Speaker 1: the hotel. They said, the hotel is quite secure, but
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  Speaker 1: there is only a curtain in your doorway.
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  Speaker 2: Nope, nope, no, totally. Well, first of all, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: even like that feels very unsafe for me, Like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't like that at all. But what if sounds from
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  Speaker 2: other rooms?
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  Speaker 1: It's a hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Partitioned with curtains, It felt like a dressing room. Like no, no, no, nope, nope, nope.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously can't build doors out of ice. I
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  Speaker 2: see the problem here, But curtains, Now, this feels more
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  Speaker 2: like camping than a luxury hotel experience. Well, there's glamping
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  Speaker 2: that's more luxurious than this hotel in my opinion. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: When her mom facetimes her from their cruise, the horrible
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: green screen tropical scene. Behind her, there's a little steel
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  Speaker 1: drum playing. She's holding a fruity drink. That was so bad.
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  Speaker 1: So everything about the staging of that was embarrassing.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. I agree back to the top of the movie,
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  Speaker 2: and I have this as a later note because I
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: went back and watched it. But did I hear correctly
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: that Hannah's boss asks her to forego her planned vacation
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  Speaker 2: to check out the new Ice Hotel instead, Like, wouldn't
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: that be like a review trip paid for by the company.
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  Speaker 2: She's not foregoing like her vacation days to go look
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  Speaker 2: at this hotel, and then a promotion hinges on it.
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  Speaker 2: It's such stupidity. Whoever wrote this movie, I hate it.
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  Speaker 1: You heard that correctly, and that is one of my
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  Speaker 1: notes as well. She has a planned vacation with her family,
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  Speaker 1: so you assume that she has requested this week off.
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  Speaker 1: She's going on a cruise with her family and a
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  Speaker 1: friend's family as well, and her boss goes, actually, we
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: need you to take this other trip, excuse me, and
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: she just goes, oh, okay, I mean like she pushes
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: back the briefest moment, but then she just goes on
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: the trip as if it's no big deal that she's
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: had to, as you said, forego her planned vacation for
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: a work trip. Yeah, and money that she has lost
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: on that.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: King seriously, so dumb. And then she's like, well, I
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: didn't want to tell you, but you could be up
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: for the manager position for wintery vacations. I would be
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: like GTFO, going on my vacation and then we will,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: you know, work on that when I get back.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: No, the Ice Hotel will hopefully not have melted in
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the next year.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Okay, Well, I get if there's some urgency that
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: the hotel is only open between certain dates and they
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: need her to go right away, but these are but.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: They figure that out, you need to go tomorrow. There's
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: no other advanced planning in this. They've just exactly, oh,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: we're gonna open this Icy Vacations and we got to
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: get there before the ice melts. I mean send someone else, lady.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, seriously, seriously.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I rolled very hard at Phoebe's comment when she decides
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: to come to the Ice Hotel with Hannah and she goes,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: what am I thinking, I'm a fitness instructor. I can't
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: go to the all you can eat buffet on the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: cruise ship GTFO Live a little.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: I'm a fitness instructor. I certainly need to deprive myself
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: of yummy things because I haven't image got shut up.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: You know she's holding the candy and she's like, what
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: am I doing?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I can't have this bar? Yeah, A man wrote this. Absolutely,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I wrote this right. I'm gonna have to look I'm
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: gonna have to look it up. Okay, I have a
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: page and a half of notes about the Nordic dessert.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Do you want me to go for it? Because I
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: have no thoughts on the Nordic dessert. Wendy, give the
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: backstory on why you notice the Nordic dessert please.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Okay, my husband family is Danish and we have a
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: lot of Danish desserts which are under an umbrella of
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Scandinavian desserts, which then would fall with Norway under a
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Nordic dessert. Anyway, Okay, go ahead.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Are they supposed to be in Norway? Did they ever
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: say that? I kept they mentioned Nordic desserts.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: They definitely say Nordic, but I don't know if they're
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: supposed to be in Norway. Or not. Okay, I don't
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: know anyway, So there's this other guy there, right, I
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: don't know what his name is, but he's a hotel reviewer,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing, and yeah, right, okay, and Ben has promised
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: him a traditional Nordic dessert, and so they arrange for
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: acronza cake, which is a if I okay, let me
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: explain it. Acronza cake translates to a wreath cake, a
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: tall tower of delicate cookie rings. They take this cake
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: out of the back of the van and set it
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: on the table. It's straight up a stack of pancakes. Pancakes, yes,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: and then she knocks it down and and I was like,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: it's definitely pancakes because they're they're pancakes. They're shaped like
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: they're not a round delicate cookie ring. And I know
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: this cake. It was at my wedding. So we've had
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: this cake many many times, Christmas, Easter. It's like, I
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: know what this cake is. Okay. So then Hannah says,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: you know, I can make able skimers, which is it's
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: a hard word to say, and I'm may be singing
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: it wrong, but essentially, these are round pancakes, like like
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: a ball, right. It requires a special pan, Like you
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: just don't make these, like you have to have this a.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Cake pop pan.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: She uses egg cake. First of all, they're not baked.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: They're they're like I'm gonna call them fried, but they're like,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: you know, they're made in a special round pan. And
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: you guys, you know what, I'm gonna put a picture
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: on our show notes because I have one here at
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: my house. Of course I do.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Megan and Wendy dot com slash podcast.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, anyway, you can't make these in a cake pan
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: or a cake poppan Like that was so stupid. Like
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I actually rewound it and showed my husband and he
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: laughed at it. My final note able screwers say, I
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: call them able screwers, able skimers. I don't there's I'm
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: not Danish, but when they present it to him, they
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: roll it out in this like tall town, which looks
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: like the classic French dessert known as a croken busch exactly,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: And I was like, that's not how you eat able skewers,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? They come in like when
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: wherever we make them or buy them from somewhere, they
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: come in like a little three and you put powdered
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: sugar on them, and you eat them with like raspberry
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: jelly or whatever. That's how they're presented. You do not
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: put them in this Christmas tree, croke and bush tower.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I was so pissed.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: And that's what I gotta say about Nordic desserts. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: appreciate the deep dive.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I obviously did not have the same attachment, but I
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: did bump on the croken Busch stylely because I have
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: watched many a food competition in which a crocabouche has
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: been made. They are quite complicated, and I found it
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: hard to believe that this was intended to look the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: same way. And if I am saying that incorrectly.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I apologize, right, I apologize too. Please don't send your
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: emails saying that I'm saying things wrong. But when she
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: rolls up and then hits the cake with her skis
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: or whatever it was, those were straight up pancakes cakes.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: All right, so this is a scene that you wouldn't
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: have noticed. But Ben says to worker woman at one point,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I wish Hannah would believe in herself. She had an
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: unfortunate incident in her previous hotel job and she doesn't
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: have the confidence to get another job doing that. Well.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Workerwoman is a big fan of Ben. She wants to
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: be with Ben. She says, I'd follow you anywhere because
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: he's hoping this new hotel. She tries to invite him
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to dinner. He doesn't go because he has plans with Hannah.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: She's very unsubtly throwing herself at him. I do not
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: ever like these like scorned woman storylines that we get
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: often in these Hallmark movies. It's always their coworker. It's
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: not necessary. She then finds out that Ben's going to
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: offer her a job, or has offered her a job,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: and she's going to take it. And then worker Woman
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: goes in and she's gonna cut the knees right out
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: from under. And the first thing she does you did
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: not see this is she googles New York Hotel incident.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, did she was it?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: The top was the number one hit yea, and directly
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: next to it is a cringing photo of Hannah.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: So stupid.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, Now, if you were to google New York Hotel incident,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: now it's all about the number one hit is about
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: some I did not click on any of them. I
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: was just curious. It's like there were some racial insensitivity issues.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you, a flood in a hotel, unless
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: it wipes out the entire hotel is not going to
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: rank on New York Hotel Incidents run since the Manhattan
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Island correct unless it's at the and Elouie's herself is
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: slowed it out. Okay, So then she goes into Hannah's
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: room and she's like, it requires it intense amount of
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: focus to run an ice hotel. And then of course
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Hannah tells Ben that she can't take the job. She says,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I'm just more of a tropical kind of lady. She leaves,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: She goes home, she gets offered the promotion. There's this
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: other bit with like the hotel reviewer brings her the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: blown Glass Ice Hotel, and she's like, I gotta go
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: back to Ben. She goes back to Ben. Worker woman
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: at that moment is having a conversation and she's like,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I think I should stay here in this hotel. I'll
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: go if you need me to, but I think you
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: should go get Hannah and take her with you, like
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: she's atoning for her issues a fine. Ben and Hannah
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: get together, don't really care she is now going to
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: work in this ice hotel with him. Why they have
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: to now work together so they can be together. I
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: don't fully understand.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: That hotel is only open three months a year. Right, well,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: I guess that's not technically like said on the movie.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: So yeah, they have to rebuild it. I mean, I
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: can't imagine it's cold enough in the summer months, even
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: in these northern low coales to keep it frozen.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: In the north Pole wherever this hotel is at.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: But I would imagine that since it has to be
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: rebuilt and redesigned every year, that there's a fair amount
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: of work beyond when it's open. I will grant them
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: that that it could in theory be a full time job,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: especially if they're gonna have two locations. But look, I.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Don't like that he is her job savior, right right right?
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I don't like it, and now he's her boss and
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: her boyfriend. Mmm, did you see the ice carving incident? No,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: So they he's gonna carve some ice.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: So they can have it on display because it's a
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: nice hotel. So they're gonna have like a carved ice display.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: And she's like, why don't you make a seashell. Ugh.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: So he's showing her. He's like, well, you just want
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to sketch on the ice the outline of what you're
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: gonna draw. She sketches the jankiest seashell I've ever seen
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: in my life. There's no way that anybody carving a
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: seashell could follow that sketch. And then the next scene
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: they wheel out this like beautifully carved open clamshell. By
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the way, if you didn't see the movie, you don't
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: know that. She says, I think our Ice hotel should
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: be tropical themed.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: God, she's a moron. I'm telling you a dude wrote this.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna it's not I just looked at up. It's
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: really a woman. Oh bad, God, but she hates women.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, people are not coming to your Ice hotel for
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: tropical scenes.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: That would be the not It would be oh, I'm
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: out of words. You know, like when you go to
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: the Madonna the Madonna in right, like you're there for
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: like a themed experience. Or if you know, you take
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: a trip to the Christmas Hotel wherever that's at, that
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: is a themed experience. You're not gonna go to an
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Ice hotel for a tropical experience. It is not happening.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Hey, Hannah, the beauty of working at an ice hotel
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: is that summer is not your high season, so you
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: can take your hot tropical vacations all summer long. Lady,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: pull your head out of your ass.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I cannot. I hated this movie. Can you tell
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: anything else? M zero things?
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Should I even ask what you rated this movie?
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get it at zero. I mean I
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: didn't even watch the whole thing, like, I give it
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: one and a half. Wow? So bad? It was so bad.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: I want to know from our listeners who did watch
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: this movie aside from Michelle, what did you guys think
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: of it? Was it terrible like I think it was?
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah? How did this rank? Were you able to put
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: yourself in like a winter moment and enjoy it? Because
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: you know, Hallwark does Christmas in July. They re air
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of their better Christmas movies and bly and
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I can you know, kind of get into that in
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the moment. I just could not get into that right now?
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, where is the Mother's Day themed movie? Right?
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: It was? What a missed opportunit? All right? I got
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: enough said? What's up for next week?
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Next week is Sweet Carolina featuring Lacey Shubert and get.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Ready Heine's Tyler Hines. His hair is just so weird
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: to me. I already saw a preview for it. What
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: is happening there?
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I wasn't noticing his hair.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Somebody please talk to me about his hair. Please? Looks
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: like Dracula.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Oh no, he has a pretty pronounced widow's peak. I
• 30:27
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• 30:41
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• 30:45
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• 30:47
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• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Goodbye, bye, guys,