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A Melbourne Match · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: today's episode, we are discussing a Melbourne match, which originally
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  Speaker 1: aired on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, January tenth and
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a synopsis for a Melbourne match? I do. Georgie,
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  Speaker 1: a travel writer travels to Melbourne for an assignment where
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  Speaker 1: she meets Zack, an ex Australian footballer who agrees to
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  Speaker 1: be her tour guide and shows her that there's more
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  Speaker 1: to life than work.
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  Speaker 2: A Melbourn Match was directed by Colin Buds. He has
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  Speaker 2: more than fifty directing credits, including Hallmark style projects like
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Keepsake starring Daniel Lissing.
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  Speaker 1: This one's written by Mallory Jansen, who also stars as Georgie.
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  Speaker 1: According to her IMDb, it's her first writing credit. She
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  Speaker 1: has twenty six acting credits and we last saw her
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  Speaker 1: on Hallmark in The Royal Wei.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan core Co stars as Zach. He has fifty three
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  Speaker 2: acting credits and this marks his first appearance on Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: His previous work includes House of the Dragon and The
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  Speaker 2: Secrets She Keeps.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe is played by Elinta chinzi Oh sorry for the
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  Speaker 1: name pronunciation. She's an Australian actress, singer and songwriter with
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  Speaker 1: eight acting credits, and this marks her first time on Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Guison Grantly appears as Scott.
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  Speaker 2: He's an Australian actor, voice artist and theater performer with
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  Speaker 2: fifty nine acting credits, making his Hallmark debut here.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Clark plays Emma. She has eighteen acting credits, including
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  Speaker 1: appearances on the Australian series Neighbors and Home and Away.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Logo plays Daza. He's a New Zealand actor with
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  Speaker 2: twenty acting credits, and viewers might recognize him as Brett
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  Speaker 2: from Colin from account you watch that show?
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  Speaker 1: Right? I love that show? Did you recognize him? And
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean amazing. This movie was previously titled her
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  Speaker 1: Ozzy Romance.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a quick break and come back with our
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  Speaker 2: first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what was your first impression of
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  Speaker 2: a Melbourne match?
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  Speaker 1: I thought I was so clever. Oh no, here I
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  Speaker 1: am whipping up my notes, and my first impression is escapist, charming, elevated.
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  Speaker 1: And then I open Instagram and I see Instagram account
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  Speaker 1: Cozy romcom reviews and there says cozy cultural charming. So
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  Speaker 1: not super impressed with myself right now, but that is
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  Speaker 1: my first impression.
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  Speaker 2: Because you used three adjectives to describe something.
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  Speaker 1: I needed it to be like a tie back to
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  Speaker 1: the movie where Georgie used adjectives to describe this city. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that is real clever. Yeah, but I'm not the only
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  Speaker 1: one who thought of it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, My first impression is perhaps the best thing that
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  Speaker 2: this was. He did was make me want to book
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  Speaker 2: a very long flight to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I want to talk about that. Actually, that's my
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  Speaker 1: first Like, let's talk location, location, location. Yeah, loved it.
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  Speaker 1: This felt like a kind of a commercial absolutely for
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  Speaker 1: the beautiful country of Australia tourism promo. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't help, but like, watch it and go. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have guns there. Guns are not allowed there. Like I
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  Speaker 1: want to stroll along the bridge and eat some ice
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  Speaker 1: cream too and not have to worry about the world
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  Speaker 1: melting around me. It was beautiful. You know.
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  Speaker 2: My neighbor is a pilot for an airline and he
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  Speaker 2: the other day offered me a buddy pass on his
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  Speaker 2: airline because my son's going to be studying abroad next year.
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  Speaker 2: And they happened to fly directly to the city and
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  Speaker 2: he's like, you can use one of our buddy passes,
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  Speaker 2: and then he was naming all the other place is
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  Speaker 2: that they fly and La to Sydney is.
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  Speaker 1: One of the routes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, mused the buddy pass on and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: forget that. I'm going to Australia.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Really, I'm going to visit my kid. But I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I want to go to Sydney.
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  Speaker 2: And then he and my husband got into a whole
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  Speaker 2: conversation about Australia and the wit Sundays and where's that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a grouping of islands. Oh, there is an island there,
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  Speaker 2: I believe called Hamilton Island that they went absolutely bananas
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  Speaker 2: for and now when I go, I want to go
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  Speaker 2: all over.
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  Speaker 1: You know what is the turnoff for Australia for me
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  Speaker 1: is the length of time it takes to get.
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  Speaker 2: Me one hundred percent. I don't want to sit on
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  Speaker 2: an airplane for fourteen to sixteen hours.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I could do it. I might
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  Speaker 1: scratch my skin off, like I would need to be sedated.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know if I could do it. But
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  Speaker 1: this movie made me go, Okay, maybe I do want
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: to do that. I thought. I was thinking because I've
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: seen some criticism that people don't love this Hallmark theme,
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  Speaker 1: this winter escape theme. They want like snowy romances that
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: are not Christmas in January. Yeah, and I hear you,
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  Speaker 1: But I thought if Homework School was a true winter escape,
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  Speaker 1: I thought they nailed it with this movie. Well yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and it is summer in January in Australia. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking about that too, because we are also
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  Speaker 2: talking about the movie People we Meet on Vacation.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, later this week.
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  Speaker 2: There was some criticism about the timing of that release
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  Speaker 2: as well. Many people were like, why did Netflix not
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  Speaker 2: release this in the summer, And I was thinking back
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  Speaker 2: to our Hallmark series that we're in right now, And
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  Speaker 2: I can see the argument for both ways, Like you
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  Speaker 2: can create escapist content anytime of the year, but you
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  Speaker 2: can really only promote snowy content in the winter, Like
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  Speaker 2: nobody's watching that in June.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're not doing it now, you're not doing
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  Speaker 1: it at all. But I loved this.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was just adorable. I say, the number
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  Speaker 2: one adjective I used in my notes was cute.
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  Speaker 1: Who the what? Thing? Like the beach scene and they're
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  Speaker 1: splashing in the waves, yes, so cute. Yeah, the koala scene, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so cute. I was like, she got her face so
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  Speaker 1: close to that koala, which made me uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 2: But I was like, are they gonna let her hold
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  Speaker 2: the koala because I've seen photos of that.
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  Speaker 1: But did they not do that anymore? I don't that
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  Speaker 1: stress the koala out? I don't know. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was very respectful of the Koala that she just like
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  Speaker 1: existed in his space. I was like, how did she
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  Speaker 1: not pet him? The ice cream and bikes scene.
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  Speaker 2: Loved it adorable, Zach calling her Georgie girl, loved it
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  Speaker 2: so cute. I think I might have been sold on
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  Speaker 2: the romance in this movie more than Lost in Paradise.
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  Speaker 1: So that is so interesting. You bring that up because
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  Speaker 1: it has been discussed in our yeah Facebook, and I
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  Speaker 1: held off my discussion. People are asking what did you
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  Speaker 1: like better, Lost in Paradise or Melbourne Match, And to me,
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  Speaker 1: I really liked both. Yeah, me too. However, they are
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  Speaker 1: two totally different movies to me in tone, in storytelling,
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  Speaker 1: in the way it looks. Kind of enjoyed it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: I think I did see well, and I think the
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  Speaker 2: romance is a little more aspirational than Lost in Paradise.
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  Speaker 1: Like Lost and Paradise is like a plane crash, shipwreck
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  Speaker 1: trying to survive. This is a little more like I
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  Speaker 1: want to do this. Yes ss.
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  Speaker 2: That being said, I think Mallory and Ryan had a
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  Speaker 2: fantastic connection, same chemistry, just sparking right off the screen.
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  Speaker 2: And I really appreciate that they quickly moved past their
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  Speaker 2: initial friction over the driver misunderstanding yes, and she was like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, like just they just moved ba we're adults.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah. Was that seems so funny when she was
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  Speaker 1: like facetiming her sister and then her sister sees yes, Zach.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, oh, I see what's happening here. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed Ryan core I you know, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people said, like thought he
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  Speaker 1: was great too, and they're like, oh, more of him
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  Speaker 1: on Homewark. I don't think he'll become a reilar Hamewark guy.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: I think he could, but no, I don't think he will. Yeah,
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: because my understanding is I think this movie was I
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: don't know if it was like an actual acquisition, but
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: like it's made by completely totally different people. Malory Jansen
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  Speaker 1: as a writer on it. It had a different title before.
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  Speaker 1: I imagine he's I don't want to say, a regular actor,
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  Speaker 1: but he's not going to be like the next Hallmark guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know when I's doing other stuff, he's doing
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  Speaker 1: other stuff. Yes, But I really liked him. He doesn't
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: check the Mark checkbox for me, because truth be told,
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: I saw he kind of got the Hallmark makeover on
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: the movie poster, and I was like, yeah, who's this dude? Right,
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: He's not the only one this month? Oh oh yes,
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: we will talk about it eventually. Maybe maybe we won't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid anyway, I was like, who is this dude?
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: And then and then we see him and he's like
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: this rugged so hot. I'm I'm kind of into it, okay.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: I love the conversation where they're like, oh, I love
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: your American accent. She's like, why does everybody say I
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: have an accent? Now? That's like super eth no center
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: to be like, I don't have any you have an accent?
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: Yea, but as a person who doesn't recognize my own
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: voice as an accent because.
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  Speaker 1: I'm used to it. Look, the accents work for me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they do something for you. Please just call
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  Speaker 1: me Georgia girl. I'll change my name. It's a great
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: you know. I loved I will skip ahead. I love
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: the Australian specifics we get in this movie, like the
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  Speaker 1: nicknames and he explains it, the food, the customs, the stereotypes,
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  Speaker 1: the vegem might, all that, the tim tams. I liked
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: all of that stuff. Yeah. It layered in like an
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  Speaker 1: authentic we're not in Vancouver guys. Yes, yes, I enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 2: When the boys approach him, yeah, and they're like, you
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  Speaker 2: want to have a kick, And I was like, this
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  Speaker 2: is the cutest thing I've ever seen like he didn't
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: feel put out by that.
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  Speaker 1: He was just like so in his element. And I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking, like that really happened. That would just make
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: those boys, Oh dang, wouldn't it give an athletes like
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: let's just kick the ball. Yeah totally. Oh, I just
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: thought I just loved it. It's like DeMar Hamlin calling
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: you on FaceTime, right, yes, exactly. Let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: writing here. This is a Mallory Antsen project. I thought
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  Speaker 1: she was great. I was, to be honest, nervous, nervous
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  Speaker 1: seem I enjoyed the script a lot. I thought the
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  Speaker 1: dialogue felt modern and natural, people actually talking like people.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: I thought it was great. It stayed in the hallmark
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: like sandbox, but totally it was something different about it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't slightly elevated. I felt like the whole movie
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: was slightly elevated. I thought it was a true rom com. Yeah,
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: could have lifted this movie and dropped it on Netflix
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: one hundred thinking about it, maybe you would need to
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  Speaker 1: spice it up a tiny bit, you know, thrown a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of swearing and some light making out. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, but yeah, I thought writing wise and production
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  Speaker 1: value wise and their connection I thought it was great,
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: just a tiny like when she's on set at the
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: talk show they do a shot of the multiple camera angles. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've just loved it. Just felt like it added like
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of authentic. You're making a face. I'm
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: making a feast because I just realized that we didn't
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: include Danny Minogue, who is actually like a real person, right,
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: Danny Minogue appears as herself. Yes, but yeah, they do
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: a shot just showing you the four camera angles. Yeah,
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: like the video village of it all, yes.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: Which you know, not to making about us, but when
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: we were on set, mister Christmas, like they had that
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: wholes Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And we have a shot of us when we're up there.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like, hey, look at that.
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  Speaker 1: Felt very familiar. Yeah, it's from all my time on
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  Speaker 1: TV set. Speaking of familiar, I did find Georgie's career
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  Speaker 1: anxiety to be very relatable. Oh yeah, when she when
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: she confesses that she should be further along in her
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  Speaker 1: career by now, you know that kind of internal pressure
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  Speaker 1: I thought was very real. Yeah, I did all these
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  Speaker 1: other things before where I found the thing I was
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  Speaker 1: meant to do and now I'm behind Yeah mm hmm.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: That's it for me in my life mind too, let's
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: talk wishes. I have just a few. Yeah, same, I'm
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: curious if this is one of yours. At times, I
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Georgie felt a little too helpless mmmmm, specifically when her
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: car is not at the airport when she first gets
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: to the airport and she's like waiting around for it,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: an uber get in an uber Yeah. I'm like, you
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: know what, you're a travel writer.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like you have your itinerary, you know how to
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: get around. I understand your car is not there, and
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: that's annoying, but you have the means to get yourself there.
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  Speaker 1: Stuck there?
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: No, Yeah, I just that kind of stuff, was like yeah,
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: and calling your assistant in the States to be.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Like, can you fix this for me? Because yeah, come on, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, for someone who seems very capable, I
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: just thought she should have a little more agency over
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: herself in those moments. The other thing I had mentioned
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  Speaker 1: it in my likes about relating to Georgie's work stress,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: and I felt like it came way late in the
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: movie because there was all this conversation between Zach and
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: her about like he'd be like, why are you so rushed?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you have this so much? He didn't say structure,
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: but why is there all this urgency right to do
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: all these things? And he was gently like trying to,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: you know, tell her be present in the moment, right,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: But we never get a full understanding. I just think
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: it would have been better the understanding that she was
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: like feeling pressure to achieve more in her career if
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: it came a.
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  Speaker 2: Tiny bit earlier, because she just looks uptight the way
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: they have yes exactly checking her watch and exactly have
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: an understanding of why that is right.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: And what was interesting is I had the thought again
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: to make it all about me.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: When I'm on vacation, I sometimes feel like I'm the
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: taskmaster who's like, oh, we got to like stop what
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: we're doing here and get to the next thing, because
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: I'm the flow, right, And so I had that feeling
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: of like I understand where she's coming from. But then
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I thought, no, like, he's got it. You don't need
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: to be the flow, like he's offering to me. You
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: can let go a little bit because he's clearly has it.
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  Speaker 1: Hand, right. I hated that she got so mean when
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: she got stressed about appearing on Late Night television, and
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I hated it because I can relate to that, like
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I can get snappy too, sure, get stressed and frustrated.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I think that's a very human reaction, Yes, but it
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: just frustrated me that she was so mean to Zach
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: in that moment, like almost blaming him, when she was
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the one who had wanted to stay. She was the
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: one who had pushed for them.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she was so happy, right, and then this
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: wrench gets sot in her plans and she immediately.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Asked the blame elsewhere. Also kind of a stupid twist. God,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I hate Okay, it's my next Okay, I just do
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: not buy that Late night television is booking a travel
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: writer who is not Australian to talk about Melbourne.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: They know.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, first of all, I don't buy that they're booking
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: a travel writer ever, unless it's like Anthony Bourdain or
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: someone that even freaking Rachel Ray forty dollars a day,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: someone you know, But even if they were going to
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: book a travel writer or you know, she said, we
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: like to talk to the regular people. Side, you're going
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: to book an Australian travel writer who has gone places
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: who might have something interesting to tell you instead of
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: it's like me showing up and be like, hey, let's
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: talk about all the great things about Orange County.
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  Speaker 1: Wendy. Yeah. I mean obviously she should have She should
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: have put two and two together of like, what's the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: motivation of this late night show wanting me on? Yeah
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: and say no, yeah, if you're not comfortable doing that.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: She was so tied up. I'm like, oh, is this
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: going to get me the promotion that I needed?
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Let's talk?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Do you just see that? Look we talked about it
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: in our first impression and I'm going to say it here.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: The word is Melbourne? Is it not? I don't know.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I say it because you said that. I think that's
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: just the way they say it with their accent. So
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: they never correct her. They never corrected her, which drove
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: me crazy because here's the backstory on it. My daughter
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: had a soccer coach who went to play professional football
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: soccer in Australia and she made all these tiktoks about
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: how the locals schooled her on how she would call
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: it Melbourne. And they're like, that is not how it's pronounced.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: And so that is where I learned like, oh, it's
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: not pronounced Melbourne, and so it was like frustrating to
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: watch this.
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  Speaker 3: Movie and maybe that's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And I would love if anybody is out there and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: they're like, no, Wendy, you're a dummy. Megan's googling right now.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: She's gonna get like a I'm just curious. She wants
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: to gloat, she wants to be like, it's pronounced Melbourne.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: The AI overview is you pronounce Melbourne as Melbourne or
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: melboyn not Melbourne? So Melbourne melboyn not Melbourne. On Australia
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Reddit Western Australian here, I say Melbourne. I guess I
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: say it kind of slow. It really bothers me when
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: people say Born. You know, we have a listener from
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Australia named Shannon. I know she doesn't live in this
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: area because she emailed us after this movie, which she
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: was like so excited. She's never been to Melbourne herself.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: She's a Sydney gal, so I am dying to know,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: like she's from this country. How is it pronounced? Please?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, please call us if you can even
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: you can. And here's the thing.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: You have to also factor in the accent. Sure person
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: is saying I reckon mel Dash b u r N
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: as you wrote, it is bang on of course with
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: an Australian accident. The R is silent but still sounds
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: like burn or b RN or b U r N
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: without the R Melbourne Melbourne, but I think your rate
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: it's not Melbourne.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Right anyway, Shannon. If you want to call us, our
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: number is nine four nine three two nine eight zero
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: nine zero. This is just like a Google voice mail number.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: You can just call and leave a message. If that
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: number does not work for you, please send us like
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a voice note or memo and just dm us because
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I'm dying to now. Yes, Jan Moore, did you see
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: that just one the breakfast scene? They go out to breakfast. Yeah,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: breakfast arrives, she's absolutely scarfing it down. He tries to
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: get her to eat vegemite. He gets recognized and asks
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: for a photo. And then they bolt, Yeah, holy leaving
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: their breakfast and do not pay. Yes, you're right, they
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: don't pay.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: And in that scene, like as you said, he's like,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: you need to slow down and enjoy it, and then
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: they leave.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I was like, she didn't, you didn't. He didn't even
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: hear me anything like he he buttered and vegamited his
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: toe right. Yeah, I was like, you just loved all
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: that food. I mean, I understand them. He wanted to
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: get out of there because he was like getting recognized,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: But what what do you have?
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Georgie's co worker, his name is Eric. The actor's name
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: is Remy Ashton. In the beginning, he says something about
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: the nineties icon group Salt and Pepper. Yeah, he says
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: salt and pepper. Oh really, I was like, oh, he
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: he doesn't know who they are.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Honest, he's too young. He's too young.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: And I rewound it and listened and I heard he
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: says salt and pepper.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, Peppa, her name's Peppa. I laughed out loud
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: of the line, what do you call this look? Team's chic?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: When her sisters wearing loved it, laughed out loud on
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the bottom. So funny. And finally in the lobby of
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the hotel, I noticed it at the end when Zach
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: is waiting for Georgie after they've had their fight, but
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: he still shows up to take her to her late
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: night situation. There are giant what appear to be skincare
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: bottles as like art pieces in the hallway. Oh weird,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: it's bizarre. Some sort of art installation at the hotel.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Oh weird. What did you rate a Melbourne match? I
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: gave it four point two five stars? Can it four
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and a half stars? I really liked it? You know
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: it's solid start to January. Yep, I'm not looking forward
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: to this weekend though.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Speaking of acquisitions, Hey, thank you for listening to this
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: episode of Girls Gone Hamewark, a Bramble Jam podcast. If
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: you love this podcast, we still love your five star
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• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Y'all.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I really had a goal to hit by the end
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five. We got real close, so close,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: so there's still time. Why I want to hit that goal.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Let's give us to two hundred ratings on Apple podcasts.
• 24:04
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• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Goodbye bye.
• 24:31
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  Speaker 3: Bye USU.