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Groundswell · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: your line. Today's movie is ground Swell, which mirrored August
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Speaker 1: twenty first, twenty twenty two on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: isn't that interesting?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Hm and m Why do you think this movie
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Speaker 2: was on Homeworks movies and mysteries?
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Speaker 1: You know, I've given up trying to guess. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I think they just share the wealth.
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Speaker 2: I was reading some comments today. I think it was
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Speaker 2: like a Parade dot com article. I was doing my
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Speaker 2: research for this movie and there was like twenty one
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Speaker 2: comments about this and it was like, what happened to
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Speaker 2: all the mysteries on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries more than one.
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Speaker 2: So I was like, oh, there's a there's a group
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Speaker 2: of people who are unhappy.
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Speaker 1: See we are relatively new Hallmark Movies and Mysteries watchers,
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Speaker 1: so I don't know what the previous balance was before.
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Speaker 1: I mean, right now, it just kind of seems like
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Speaker 1: Hallmark Channel two.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Right. Technically we are in the Fall into Love season
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Speaker 1: on Hallmark, which means that they're gonna put a little
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Speaker 1: leaf graphic at the bottom of the movies, but the
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Speaker 1: movies rarely have anything to do with fall. Maybe maybe
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Speaker 1: you'll get like a pumpkin spice mentioned that didn't happen
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Speaker 1: in this movie. They're just place holding.
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Speaker 2: It's such a miss to opportunity, I feel like, and
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Speaker 2: let me just explain why for a second. I get
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Speaker 2: that they want to start showing their countdown to Christmas
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Speaker 2: in October, but October and November is the fall season,
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Speaker 2: and so I feel like it misses the mark when
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Speaker 2: they're trying to show these fall movies which really aren't
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Speaker 2: themed fall in August.
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Speaker 1: I want to watch a fall movie. I do too,
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Speaker 1: and they've definitely made fall movies in the past. I
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Speaker 1: want to watch a movie with sweaters and boots and
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Speaker 1: jeans and candles and warm drinks and changing leaves. I
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Speaker 1: realize that's the real sticky point there is You're not like,
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Speaker 1: if you're filming a movie in April or August, it's
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Speaker 1: very hard to get that fall look. But we can
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Speaker 1: fake snow, we can fake the leaves. I agree. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I just.
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Speaker 2: I just want like a give me one Fall movie.
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Speaker 2: Last year, let me say last year Romance, Roadhouse, Roadhouse, Romance. Yep,
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Speaker 2: that was I think one fall movie that they had
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Speaker 2: that was like, look like it was fall and it
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Speaker 2: was great.
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Speaker 1: Agree, Yeah, give me give me one. And we're not
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Speaker 1: done yet, so we may get one. But so far
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Speaker 1: this movie is definitely not a Fall movie. Do you
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Speaker 1: have a synopsis for this movie? I sure do.
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Speaker 2: On the heels of a personal and professional setback, chef
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Speaker 2: Emma travels to Hawaii, where she meets Ben, a handsome,
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Speaker 2: reclusive surf instructor whose lessons help her to regain her
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Speaker 2: footing start Lacy Shaver and Ecdor Rivera.
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Speaker 1: As we jump into news and notes, I think it
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Speaker 1: is worth noting that October twenty second will be the
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Speaker 1: kickoff of Countdown to Christmas and it will kick off
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Speaker 1: with a Will Kemp movie set and filmed in England
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Speaker 1: titled Jolly Good Christmas. So I think that might be
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Speaker 1: even earlier than last year.
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Speaker 2: I think it is because I think they promoted last year.
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Speaker 2: It was like a funny, tongue in cheek kind of
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Speaker 2: commercial where they showed tricker treaters but they were watching.
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Speaker 1: Countdown to Christmas? Does that sound familiar? Yes? And wasn't
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Speaker 1: Halloween on a Sunday last year? And we joked that
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Speaker 1: maybe they had buried one of those movies like on
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Speaker 1: Halloween nobody? Yeah, yeah, yeah, So the countdown is on.
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Speaker 1: We are less than two months out from the official
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Speaker 1: Countdown to Christmas kickoff. But let's talk about this movie
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Speaker 1: a little bit. And my first news and note note
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Speaker 1: mm hmm. Actually I was alerted to buy the Facebook
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Speaker 1: group because I'm not sure that I would have guessed
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Speaker 1: that this was adapted from a book. Why you didn't
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Speaker 1: know that?
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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. I have so many thoughts on that,
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Speaker 2: but go ahead. I mean, I know now, yeah, I know,
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Speaker 2: but I have some things to talk about.
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Speaker 1: But I was a little surprised that it's written by
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Speaker 1: Katie Lee. What's her new last name?
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Speaker 2: We had this whole conversation. She'll always be Katie Lee
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Speaker 2: Joel to me.
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Speaker 1: Well, when I was introduced to Katie Lee, she was
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Speaker 1: a judge on a cooking competition. Was it Top Chef? Yes?
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Speaker 2: I didn't want she was pre Padma. She was Season
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Speaker 2: one okay host? Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's the first time I ever saw her,
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Speaker 1: and she was Katie Lee Joel. I met her as
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Speaker 1: Katie Lee Joel, and so in my mind she's Katie
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Speaker 1: Lee Joel. Is that fair to her because she's no
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Speaker 1: longer married to him? She wants to take away that
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Speaker 1: it's not really fair that I can't erase it, but
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Speaker 1: that's who she is to me anyway. It is written
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Speaker 1: by Katie Lee. And in my mind, I'm like, Katie
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Speaker 1: Lee writes books. Like Katie Lee's a food competition host judge,
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Speaker 1: so she's written cookbooks.
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Speaker 2: She has only written one novel, which is ground Swell,
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Speaker 2: and I had read an interview with her that said
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Speaker 2: she would love to write another novel, but she's too busy,
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Speaker 2: like being a mom to a toddler right now, and
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Speaker 2: doesn't have the brain capacity for it.
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Speaker 1: Huh, good for you. Katie Lee. It just was an
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Speaker 1: interesting tie in, and I discovered that after watching the
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Speaker 1: movie where she plays a judge, which I actually thought
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Speaker 1: that was apt, having known her as a cooking competition
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Speaker 1: judge that's where I first met her. I didn't think
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Speaker 1: that was odd. Some people thought it was odd because
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Speaker 1: she wrote the book and she was also an executive
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Speaker 1: producer on this movie as well. Katie Lee Beagle b
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Speaker 1: I E. G. E. L. And that is her name.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, let me talk a little bit more
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Speaker 2: about Katie Lee please. So I looked up her book
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Speaker 2: Groundswell on Amazon, and it seems like they only adapted
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Speaker 2: the character names and maybe the overall theme of the
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Speaker 2: healing powers of surfing, because in the novel, Emma is
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Speaker 2: like a PA.
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Speaker 1: She works in the TV business, and something.
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Speaker 2: Happens where she breaks up with her husband, who's also
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Speaker 2: in the business, and then she runs off to Mexico
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Speaker 2: and meets Ben.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So, as.
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Speaker 2: An author, are you offended or do you not care
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Speaker 2: that the screenwriter completely like obliterates your novel?
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Speaker 1: I mean, you sell the rights. You sell the rights,
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Speaker 1: and I guess they can do with it what they will.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just so weird to me.
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Speaker 2: It's like, Okay, well, if the novel took place in Mexico,
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Speaker 2: so why didn't the Hallmark.
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Speaker 1: Movie take place in Mexico. Well? What was interesting? And
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Speaker 1: now that you say that, you know they did a
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Speaker 1: lot of which I am aware that Puerto Rico is
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Speaker 1: not Mexico, but they did a lot of Latin influence
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Speaker 1: with the Puerto Rican tie in, So maybe that was
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Speaker 1: the nod to the book. I don't know. That was
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Speaker 1: so confusing to me.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know, like, why didn't you just completely change
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Speaker 2: it then and have like a Polynesian actor and a
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Speaker 2: Polynesian themed foods.
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Speaker 1: And I don't get it. I don't understand. Yeah, well
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Speaker 1: here's what I want. This is getting real deep. But
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Speaker 1: you know, Hawaii tourism is kind of under fire right now.
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Speaker 1: And if you ever have come across a video and
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Speaker 1: TikTok or Instagram or a post on Twitter from a
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Speaker 1: Hawaiian native, a lot of people are begging people not
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Speaker 1: to travel to Hawaii. And there's always this discourse in
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Speaker 1: the comments that are like, but Hawaii relies on tourism them,
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Speaker 1: And I think there's a big disconnect between the natives
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Speaker 1: of Hawaii and the government of Hawaii and their needs
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Speaker 1: and their wants, and so I wonder if adding this
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Speaker 1: Puerto Rican influence, if adding this like talking about the
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Speaker 1: influence of the food and the influence of the Puerto
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Speaker 1: Rican community in Hawaii, if that had something to do
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Speaker 1: with maybe distracting from the straight up Hawaiian tourism elements.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, that's too deep for me. I saw
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Speaker 1: a quote from Lacey who said she loved filming on Maui.
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Speaker 1: They filmed was not filmed in Maui.
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Speaker 2: Shut up, seriously, she said, I loved filming on Maui,
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Speaker 2: but it was actually filmed in Oahu.
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Speaker 1: This movie was filmed in o Wahu. So maybe the
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Speaker 1: quote was misappropriated. This possible, but maybe it was an
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Speaker 1: old quote. All I know is this movie was filmed
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Speaker 1: in Oahua.
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Speaker 2: Rant that is so funny. Where somebody's just picking up
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Speaker 2: some sort of tidbit of something she said somewhere somewhere sometime.
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Speaker 2: I don't have any other news and notes other than
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Speaker 2: it was filmed in late May and early June.
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Speaker 1: Pretty quick turnaround.
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Speaker 2: I remember when this is being filmed, and I thought
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Speaker 2: it was going to be a Christmas movie.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I remember we discussed it. We didn't have
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Speaker 1: a lot of details. Yeah, I have a couple of
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Speaker 1: the news and notes. I'm gonna save one of them
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Speaker 1: for a wish by proxy. Okay, okay. But Ector Rivera,
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Speaker 1: who plays Ben, is a baby actor. He has twelve
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Speaker 1: acting credits, which includes Sugarplum Twist, a Christmas movie that
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Speaker 1: was made specifically for the Hallmark Movies. Now, app that's
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Speaker 1: his only other Hallmark movie, and I believe it's that
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Speaker 1: was his first starring role credit. So Hallmark likes him
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Speaker 1: and I really enjoyed him. We'll talk a little bit
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Speaker 1: more about him. But the real baby actor in this movie,
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Speaker 1: and the really big surprise for me is that Omar Bustamante,
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Speaker 1: who place Frankie, has only seven acting credits. Oh wow,
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Speaker 1: He's like a brand new Sapling and he stole the
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Speaker 1: show for me. He was one of my favorites. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so I found that very interesting. So let's talk first impressions.
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Speaker 1: Mine is a solid welcome back to Hallmark movies.
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Speaker 2: Oh go ahead, No, I've liked other Lacy Shiverer movies better.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough. Let's talk about what we liked about grounds.
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Speaker 2: Well, Well, I really liked actor Rivera that he was
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Speaker 2: beautiful to look at, and I liked his acting.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was a good choice for Ben. He
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Speaker 1: has a lot of passion in his acting. Right he
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Speaker 1: found that letter from his wife, I was like, Wow,
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Speaker 1: I really believe that you're having a moment here. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: I agree in co Star News, as we said, I
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Speaker 1: adored Omar Bucevante. I hope he gets a starring role
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Speaker 1: on the Hallmark Channel. Quickly. I would watch a Christmas
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Speaker 1: movie with him in a heartbeat. I thought he brought
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Speaker 1: so much warmth and heart to this movie. I loved
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Speaker 1: his relationship with Lacey. I really really liked him. I
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Speaker 1: did too the entire time.
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Speaker 2: Though at the beginning, I was like, oh, is there
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Speaker 2: a love interest between these two? And then I quickly
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Speaker 2: found out that that was not the case. Yeah, I
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Speaker 2: really enjoyed him. I thought he had like funny jokes
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Speaker 2: and I just thought I thought he was great.
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Speaker 1: I also really liked Aunt June. She was played by
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Speaker 1: Tracy Yamamoto.
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Speaker 2: MDB does not have a photo of her though, which
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Speaker 2: I don't understand, but I thought she played a nice,
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Speaker 2: like grounding character, but also.
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Speaker 1: Try to stir things up. I guess I liked her
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Speaker 1: a lot too. So this is a place where the
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Speaker 1: Facebook group and I divide because one thing I really
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Speaker 1: liked about this movie, and I like in Hallmark movies
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Speaker 1: in general, is when there's kind of a lot going
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Speaker 1: on to move the story along, and not in a
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Speaker 1: it's Christmas, so we're going to decorate cookies and have
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Speaker 1: hot chocolate and build a gingerbread house way, But in
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Speaker 1: a we've got these other activities that are driving our story,
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Speaker 1: in this case, the surfing lessons and the cooking competition. Okay,
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Speaker 1: the home. The Facebook group thought the cooking competition was
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Speaker 1: not well executed. I agree, Oh interesting, because I really
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Speaker 1: enjoyed that element of it.
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Speaker 2: I I let me hear, let me hear more from
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Speaker 2: you before I.
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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know that there is more. I just
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Speaker 1: I liked. The two things I liked about it were
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Speaker 1: first that it gave Frankie and Emma a chance to
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Speaker 1: develop their relationship both during the competition and in their
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Speaker 1: cooking scenes outside of the competition. And I liked that
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Speaker 1: it gave us this other setting for activities. There was
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Speaker 1: this subplot of this cooking competition. I have a did
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Speaker 1: you see that question about the competition there? I have
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Speaker 1: some questions, but overall, as an element in the movie,
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Speaker 1: I liked it. Tell me what you didn't like.
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Speaker 2: I just thought I was poorly executed. I thought the
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Speaker 2: food shots were not great. Of the food that they
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Speaker 2: were making, none of it sounded appetizing. I don't know,
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Speaker 2: you gotta like really sell me on the food if
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Speaker 2: you're having a food competition. And I thought there should
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Speaker 2: have been more tension around the cooking competition.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I just I.
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Speaker 2: Totally get your point that we needed that to like
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Speaker 2: move the story along.
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Speaker 1: I just didn't think it was well executed. I admit
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Speaker 1: I was not paying super close attention to the food
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Speaker 1: photography and hidiography in that. I just wanted like some
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Speaker 1: better food shots.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if you have Katie Lee formerly Joel, who
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Speaker 2: has several cookbooks is used to be non you know,
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Speaker 2: food competitions, like you would I think that there would
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Speaker 2: have been some input on that. Leanne Wong, who was
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Speaker 2: the other judge in the on the movie. In the movie,
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Speaker 2: she was a Season one Top Chef finalist. Oh and
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Speaker 2: they're like good friends in real life, so anyway, like
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Speaker 2: you would think like there would have been some sort
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Speaker 2: of like creative input in that way, but maybe like
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Speaker 2: there's just no budget for it or time or whatever.
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Speaker 1: So like, we got you all to Hawaii, what else
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Speaker 1: do you want from us? Exactly exactly.
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Speaker 2: I just wanted to like a you know, like a
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Speaker 2: yes chef and a you know, I don't know something
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Speaker 2: something better.
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Speaker 1: Is there anything else you liked about this movie?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: I feel like I need to say I have been
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Speaker 1: critical of Lazy Shabert in the past. I was not
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Speaker 1: her biggest fan, and I do agree with you that
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Speaker 1: this is not my favorite Lacey Shabert movie. It isn't
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Speaker 1: I did like it, and I am fully converted as
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Speaker 1: a Lazy Shabert fan. I enjoy her on screen very much.
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Speaker 1: I think she's very natural on camera. I agree with
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Speaker 1: that too.
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Speaker 2: I I just think coming off of The Wedding Veil,
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Speaker 2: I just really enjoyed that trilogy of movies, and I
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Speaker 2: felt like this.
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Speaker 1: Movie was like three steps back.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know something about something about and this
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Speaker 2: goes into my wish for so if we can move
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Speaker 2: into that. I think there needed to be better chemistry
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Speaker 2: between Ben and Emma. To me, their conversations were very like.
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Speaker 2: It didn't flow. Well, it was very acting. I say
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Speaker 2: a line, they say a line. I say a line,
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Speaker 2: they say a line.
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Speaker 1: You know, it.
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Speaker 2: Didn't like it didn't make me believe that they were
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Speaker 2: actually connecting.
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Speaker 1: Oh you didn't love that moment where they almost kiss
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Speaker 1: at that and then Darren interrupts them.
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Speaker 2: No, like, I just I didn't to me very much.
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Speaker 2: Felt like they need those characters needed each other to
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Speaker 2: move on in their lives, but they were not meant
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Speaker 2: for each other.
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Speaker 1: Huh.
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Speaker 2: You know, like she had to get over her chef
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Speaker 2: that screwed her over. He was trying to get over
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Speaker 2: his wife who passed.
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Speaker 1: You know, they were for a moment, but not forever. Yeah. Well,
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Speaker 1: I didn't have any wishes, but we did receive a
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Speaker 1: voice memo from a friend of the show who wanted
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Speaker 1: to remain anonymous, and I have decided to place the
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Speaker 1: context in my wish section. It's a wish by proxy,
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Speaker 1: and that is Lacy Shabert used a stunt double in
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Speaker 1: this movie. Her name was Emily Luke for her surfing scenes,
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Speaker 1: and I had wondered watching I was like, is she surfing?
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Speaker 1: I don't think so. And there was a photo that
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Speaker 1: I saw the two women standing next to each other,
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Speaker 1: and they look very similar, especially when you're wet and
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Speaker 1: in a wet suit. But this comment that we received
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Speaker 1: was frustrated because there was a movie about two weeks
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Speaker 1: earlier that was very body positive. The movie is Romance
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Speaker 1: in Style.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: We did not watch no review that movie. We were
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Speaker 1: on summer break. But she said this stunt double looked
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Speaker 1: similar to Lacey, but had a different body style. She
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Speaker 1: was slimmer than Lacey, had a different shape than Lacey.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I think when it comes down to it,
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Speaker 1: a we're dealing with a Hallmark movie. We're not dealing
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Speaker 1: with big budgets. We want to get as close as possible,
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Speaker 1: but the end of the dayf we're going to get
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Speaker 1: a brunette in a black wet suit. That's what we're
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Speaker 1: gonna go with. Mm hm. But she just felt like
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Speaker 1: it kind of went against the recent message of body
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Speaker 1: positivity by hiring this stunt double who was smaller and
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Speaker 1: slimmer than Lacey. Do you have any thoughts on that, Wendy.
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Speaker 2: Not really, other than like they needed a body double,
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Speaker 2: they needed a stunt double. They needed somebody to surf,
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Speaker 2: so like they took what they got. I don't think
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Speaker 2: it's like so far off. We're not dealing with like
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Speaker 2: someone like like an actor who who might be like
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Speaker 2: a plus size you know what I mean. We're not
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Speaker 2: like it's not obvious, it's not totally obvious.
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Speaker 1: I agree. So I agree. And I didn't even notice
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Speaker 1: it until it was brought up to me. I am
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Speaker 1: all for body positivity, and I will admit that this
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Speaker 1: doesn't rankle mem but that is the perspective that we received,
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Speaker 1: and I wanted to share it. Okay, did you wish
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Speaker 1: for anything else?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: Are you ready for did you see that? Sure? I
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Speaker 1: only have one go ahead. It was it was a
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Speaker 1: it was a.
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Speaker 2: Line in the movie and Ben's talking to Emma about
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Speaker 2: surfing and she goes, well, I've seen Blue Crush like
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Speaker 2: four times, and like I felt seen because I love
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Speaker 2: that movie, and it just made me happy that it
20:49
Speaker 2: was like a line in a movie that I'm watching now,
20:53
Speaker 2: you know. Yes, And speaking of Blue Crush, they had
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Speaker 2: they had like stunt doubles in that movie too, and
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Speaker 2: I have recently rewatched it and.
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Speaker 1: It's so bad.
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Speaker 2: They have like a photoshop of Oh, I can't even
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Speaker 2: remember that the girl's the actor, the blonde actress.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the one she has two different eye colors. Hi
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Speaker 1: friends Megan here. Note from the editor. The actress's name
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Speaker 1: is Kate Bosworth. Can't her name is? Right now? They
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Speaker 1: phototop her face on the body. Yes, it's so bad,
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Speaker 1: it's so bad.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, I was happy when I heard that line.
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Speaker 1: First of all, we have a real musical or in
21:32
Speaker 1: this movie. Ok, we have Avril Levine's head above water.
21:38
Speaker 2: Oh, that is so funny. I thought that was her singing.
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Speaker 1: I she zammed it as it was playing, because sometimes
21:45
Speaker 1: the information is hard to come by afterwards if you
21:47
Speaker 1: try and google it.
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Speaker 2: I wonder if it's new, because she she's kind of
21:53
Speaker 2: making a comeback, so I mean, yeah, she's real big
21:56
Speaker 2: on TikTok with the gen z crowd right now.
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Speaker 1: Well, and there was that whole like did Avril Levine die?
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Speaker 2: What?
22:04
Speaker 1: I didn't know that? And if she has like lyme
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Speaker 1: disease or something of it, why did she die? Who
22:08
Speaker 1: says she's dead? People say she was replaced by what
22:14
Speaker 1: like a duppelganger? Oh my goodness. Avril Levine replacement conspiracy theory.
22:19
Speaker 1: Why fans think Avril Levine died and was replaced by
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Speaker 1: a clone named Melissa. There's a whole thing. Oh my gosh,
22:27
Speaker 1: really it's the whole thing. She's too far, Yeah, too far, okay.
22:30
Speaker 1: And my second is a cooking competition question. We've got
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Speaker 1: Dickhead Garrett, who is ex boyfriend of Emma, who was
22:40
Speaker 1: such a jerk and so self absorbed, and I get
22:43
Speaker 1: that that's the character, but also he did a great
22:45
Speaker 1: job of playing this albumsorbed asshole. And in the competition
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Speaker 1: he gives a recipe em right away to one of
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Speaker 1: the other teams. How did he get away with that?
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Speaker 2: I don't know where he was like, don't make that,
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Speaker 2: don't make that recipe.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but how does this guy who's like, I didn't
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Speaker 1: even really get his role special guest on the Cooking
23:07
Speaker 1: Show apparently, how does he the host of a Cooking
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Speaker 1: Hob edition is like, here, use this recipe. It seems
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Speaker 1: like that wouldn't fly. They should be kicked out for you.
23:18
Speaker 2: Know, all I can think about is it was some
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Speaker 2: kind of sauce that was made with cashews, and I
23:23
Speaker 2: recently found out that I was allergic to cashews, and
23:26
Speaker 2: I was like, that would have killed me.
23:28
Speaker 1: There's no way.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: That's my takeaway from it. Did you rate this movie?
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Speaker 1: I did? What'd you give it? Two and a half stars?
23:37
Speaker 1: So rough? I gave it through. I didn't really like
23:41
Speaker 1: it that much. I'm sorry. Yeah. I think sometimes movies
23:46
Speaker 1: when we haven't watched a movie in a while, get
23:48
Speaker 1: a little bit of a bump from me because I
23:49
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that was fun. Yeah, I could see.
23:53
Speaker 2: That's probably the same for me. In terms of a
23:55
Speaker 2: Christmas movie, like the first one or two that come out,
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Speaker 2: I'll be Yeah, they'll get highly rated and and they'll yeah,
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Speaker 2: make sure more and more critical as the season goes on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. We are fully back with regular episodes, and
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Speaker 1: we will be back next week with our thoughts on
24:12
Speaker 1: unthinkably good things from the Mahogany line of movies, also
24:16
Speaker 1: on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. You can also catch our
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Speaker 1: regular Tuesday episodes of the podcast. This week we talked
24:23
Speaker 1: about our MVP's of summer, and next week is going
24:27
Speaker 1: to be a pop culture Club episode where we're talking
24:29
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24:33
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