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Love in the Maldives · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Which is worse.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I think the underwater is worse because I feel
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  Speaker 2: like death would be imminent if there's a leak. Hey Beddy,
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to a Girl's Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Megan and I'm a lifelong Hallmark movie fan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Wendy and I've seen Josh three. This hotel is
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  Speaker 1: a hard pass for me. Have you seen jos three?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm talking about? I won't watch
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  Speaker 1: a Jaws movie, Thank you very Listen. They're like in
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  Speaker 1: sea World and they're in some sort of like underwater
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  Speaker 1: like tunnel and Jaws breaks through the tunnel. There's no
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  Speaker 1: way I'm staying in this hotel. Absolutely freakin' not.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait, do we get to my first impression? Today
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  Speaker 2: we're discussing Love in Them All D's, which originally aired
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday, April first on the Hallmark Channel. If you
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so welcome to all the new listeners.
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  Speaker 1: You want to talk to some Hallmark news and notes.
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  Speaker 2: Do I have some ratings information from last weekend?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: The Way Home finale episode episode ten had one point
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  Speaker 2: seven million viewers, making it the third most watched cable
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  Speaker 2: program after only sports and The Ride premiere did very
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  Speaker 2: well with one point three million viewers. It was the
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  Speaker 2: seventh most watched cable program. I think placing it directly
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  Speaker 2: after The Way Home was a great idea.
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  Speaker 1: It was a good lead in. Yeah. But you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you that some feedback I've gotten
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  Speaker 1: on Ride not about the show, but like a general
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  Speaker 1: interest or is that people are not really into like
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  Speaker 1: what I've been told westerns. This is not a Western obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but like they're not drawn to the premise of the show.
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  Speaker 2: I have heard that too, and I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: very specific vibe. I mean, I would it has a
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  Speaker 2: Western vibe, but it's not like a West Western movie,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not like a boom boom, you know, when
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  Speaker 2: I'm to shoot them up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like saloon doors open. Yeah, like that's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, Yeah, I think it's a specific vibe. I would
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  Speaker 2: say that I might not have turned it on myself.
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  Speaker 2: I'm enjoying it, honestly. I really like it. But I
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  Speaker 2: kind of want to watch Yellowstone, but I feel like
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  Speaker 2: it's going to stress me out because it's like violent
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  Speaker 2: and stressful. So I'm like, oh, this is this is
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  Speaker 2: right of mind.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if Yellowstone is for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of don't think it is, so I
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  Speaker 2: need to watch the Hallmark version.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And for those who don't know, we do recap
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  Speaker 1: ride that comes out on Wednesdays, so it's a The
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  Speaker 1: format's a little bit different than the movie reviews we do.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a straight up scene by scene recap.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am. What else do you have for news and notes?
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  Speaker 1: One thing you didn't mention in ratings. Did you see
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  Speaker 1: the numbers for a picture of her.
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  Speaker 2: No, I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have the specific numbers. All I know I
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  Speaker 1: saw on the Hallmark Channel press release that it was
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  Speaker 1: the number one most watched program of the week.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, most watched entertainment program of.
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  Speaker 1: All The headline said it was Hallmark Channel Delivers number
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  Speaker 1: one most watched program of the week with a picture
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  Speaker 1: of her. Look, I hear you googling. Are you gonna
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  Speaker 1: pull me a number?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I was gonna try and pull a number. I
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  Speaker 2: just I think it's pretty easy to like manipulate the
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  Speaker 2: numbers to make yourself number one in one category or another.
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  Speaker 1: Right, because there's like sports and news above you. So hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're number one, Right, we're the number one Tyler Hines
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  Speaker 1: movie of all week.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, exactly my point. It did have one point seven
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  Speaker 2: million viewers.
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  Speaker 1: That's the same as The Way Home.
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  Speaker 2: It was blown out of the water by Basketball in
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  Speaker 2: terms of viewership, but it was the most watched for Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: at least after basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Right. One last final Hallmark News. Yes, the Connecticut Patch.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know the Patch is like a local online
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  Speaker 1: newspaper website. Right. It has reported that two sites in
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  Speaker 1: southeastern Connecticut are filming back to back Hallmark Movies there.
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  Speaker 1: And this is according to an article release in The
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  Speaker 1: London Day, which is some sort of news website too,
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  Speaker 1: but it had a paywall and I couldn't access it,
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  Speaker 1: so I have no information other than two movies are
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  Speaker 1: being filmed there. I don't know what the titles are
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  Speaker 1: and who might be starring in them. In them, no idea.
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  Speaker 2: One of those is Michael Rady's movie.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, how do we know that?
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  Speaker 2: How do we know anything?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, the internet? Oh that's right. Oh, and he's starring
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  Speaker 1: opposite of that gorgeous blonde who was in that really
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  Speaker 1: great Crisps movie, not the Avalanche movie, the one where,
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  Speaker 1: like you know what I'm talking about, people are screaming.
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  Speaker 1: It had the dude from Family Matters and they were
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  Speaker 1: dead and then they went back in time.
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  Speaker 2: Ghosts of Christmas Past. I didn't even make that connection.
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  Speaker 1: Ghost of Christmas Always, I think is what it was called.
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  Speaker 1: But she is the actress who I think is starring
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  Speaker 1: opposite Michael Rady in this movie they're filming, right, Kim Metula.
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  Speaker 1: Yes that's her name. Thank you for finally getting there.
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  Speaker 1: She's gorge I'm so excited to see her in another movie.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good pairing. A quick interruption, This is Megan here,
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  Speaker 2: coming to you from the editing bay. Wanted to let
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  Speaker 2: you know that we were so off base here. Kim
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  Speaker 2: Metula is currently filming a movie with Kevin McGary in Colowna,
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  Speaker 2: British Columbia. Michael Rady will star alongside another beautiful actress
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  Speaker 2: in his movie, currently filming in Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the show.
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  Speaker 2: Let's move on to a synopsis of Loving the Maldines.
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  Speaker 1: All right, a travel writer goes to the Maldives. Maldives?
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  Speaker 1: Did I say, let me start over? A travel writer
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  Speaker 1: goes to the Maldives and hears about a legendary shipwreck.
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  Speaker 1: With the help of her underwater resort guide guess experience expert,
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  Speaker 1: she might discover love instead of a buried treasure. Woof,
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  Speaker 1: I hate that synopsis.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this movie was actually filmed in the Maldives, which
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  Speaker 2: thrills me. Marada Hotel is actually the Morocca Hotel, which
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  Speaker 2: is a Hilton fancy hotel, and that underwater room is
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  Speaker 2: that real? We'll run you fifteen thousand dollars a night
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  Speaker 2: should you decide to stay there.
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  Speaker 1: It is real, No way, man, it is real. Can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine laying there with all that ton of water
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  Speaker 1: above your head?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, it's for my first impression, but no, it
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  Speaker 1: truly gives me anxiety just to even think about it,
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  Speaker 1: worse than the ice hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you've taken the words right out of
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  Speaker 2: my mouth. I will not tell you anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, did I ruin your first impression?
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  Speaker 2: So I'm still using it. We'll get there.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, do you know that shipwreck in this movie is
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  Speaker 1: actually real?
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  Speaker 2: I learned that and was shocked.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sure you have the note written down because
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to even attempt to. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's Vavu.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it goes by another name too, But
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  Speaker 1: if you look up the Vavu shipwreck, it comes up.
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  Speaker 1: It is thought to be an Indonesian ship that capsize
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  Speaker 1: and washed ashore.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, lucky for them, that worked out really well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like that's interesting, good point. Megan came first? Which
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  Speaker 1: came first?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think the writers were like, Oh, there's this
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  Speaker 1: really cool shipwreck out there, and let's write this story
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  Speaker 1: around it. But then how do you get your production
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  Speaker 1: crew to like okay on that? Like oubees for all
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  Speaker 1: that I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know, but I will tell you no expense was
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  Speaker 2: spared on the location budget for this movie.
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  Speaker 1: For real. Did you know that the two leads are
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  Speaker 1: married in real life?
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  Speaker 2: I did because I wrote about it on our website. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they eloped twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Yet Jocelyn is it Hoodon mm hmmm and Jake Manly
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  Speaker 1: are married. They met in twenty sixteen, they married in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. They've been in a bunch of movies together.
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  Speaker 1: Not anything I've seen before, except actually, I take that back,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen this. They're in a show called The
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  Speaker 1: Order on Netflix.
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  Speaker 2: This is relevant to a point I'm going to make
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  Speaker 2: in a future In addition, Josslyn Houdon previously starred in
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  Speaker 2: Baby It's Cold Inside. Just just pin that information in
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  Speaker 2: your brain for a moment. She's also a certified scuba diver,
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  Speaker 2: which worked out well for the plot of this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a question about that a little bit
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  Speaker 1: later on cool I'll ask you. Deborah is played by
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  Speaker 1: Lucy Newman Williams, and I gotta say I very much
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  Speaker 1: felt kismet to Deborah.
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  Speaker 2: I loved her. YEP.
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  Speaker 1: I like Deborah a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we can definitely. I related way more to her
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  Speaker 2: than I did to Young Ray.
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  Speaker 1: This is why you and I are friends.
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  Speaker 2: This movie was directed by Colin Thas, who also co
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  Speaker 2: wrote this movie. He has twenty one directing credits, including
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  Speaker 2: Christmas at Pemberley Manor starring one Michael Rady.
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  Speaker 1: The other writers were Juliana Wimble's and if he didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: she also played Jewels, the hotel manager.
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  Speaker 2: Lady oh nice, catch.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and Malcolm Wilkins, who doesn't have any other work
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  Speaker 1: credited on IMDb.
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  Speaker 2: Now he does. All right, let's hear those first impressions.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to go first?
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  Speaker 2: I'm never sleeping in an ice hotel and I'm never
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  Speaker 2: sleeping underwater.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, which is worse?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I think the underwater is worse because I feel
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  Speaker 2: like death would be imminent if there's a leak. But
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  Speaker 2: if the ice hotel seems like it might be a
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  Speaker 2: slower deterior should because my problem with the ice hotel is, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's uncomfortable, but be like, what if it melts and
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  Speaker 2: then you're in big trouble. I feel like you'd have
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a warning if it were you
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  Speaker 2: can escape if it's melting potentially, but if you spring
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  Speaker 2: a leak underwater, it's goodbye George. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look how fast a Titanic went down. There's
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  Speaker 1: no freaking way like even if it was like a
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  Speaker 1: small leak, the pressure alone from the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so claustrophobic and the like claustrophobic underwater. And have
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  Speaker 2: you ever seen on like the Travel Channel they have
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  Speaker 2: those hotel rooms that you have to swim up underneath into. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not doing that either, and there's like somehow they've
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  Speaker 2: managed to like keep air inside absolutely nut.
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  Speaker 1: I could never do it.
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  Speaker 2: I am not a solow adventure traveler.
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  Speaker 1: No, okay, are you ready for my first impression?
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  Speaker 2: I am? Uh oh?
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  Speaker 1: Is this another movie where I have to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the leads?
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  Speaker 2: Hair? Uh oh?
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  Speaker 1: I'm making that emoji face like that?
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  Speaker 2: Is that all we're gonna say about that? By the way,
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  Speaker 2: did you hear that there was an article that came
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  Speaker 2: out where Christopher Plaha said that was an intentional choice
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  Speaker 2: because he wanted to look kind of like rumpled and
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  Speaker 2: like he didn't have his s together.
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  Speaker 1: Listen. I didn't read the article, but the Polaha fans
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  Speaker 1: sure gave it to me In the DMS, so I
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  Speaker 1: will never talk about mister Palaha's hair ever again, even
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  Speaker 1: if it was a style choice for a movie role.
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  Speaker 2: What did we like about this movie?
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  Speaker 1: I'll go first, please. I thought the two leads Jocelyn
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  Speaker 1: and Jake. Those are their real names, not there, but
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  Speaker 1: they're what are there? Ray and Jared right correct. I
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  Speaker 1: thought they had undeniable chemistry totally. It wasn't seen like
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  Speaker 1: last week's Tyler Hines Rihanna Fish movie. But I thought
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  Speaker 1: that they seemed incredibly comfortable with each other and were
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  Speaker 1: having fun.
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  Speaker 2: I comfortable is exactly the word I used to And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a good point because about them not
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  Speaker 2: having like that hot, hot, steamy chemistry like we felt
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  Speaker 2: in last week's movie, because some people were like, they
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  Speaker 2: don't have chemistry, but it comes in different forms, and
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  Speaker 2: I agree, they felt very comfortable. I like the way
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  Speaker 2: they looked at each other when they kiss on the
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  Speaker 2: beach and she just grabs him. I was like, that's
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  Speaker 2: the kiss of people who are super comfortable. That was
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  Speaker 2: like a.
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  Speaker 1: Real kiss between the two people. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't hate the mall deaves, I'll tell you
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  Speaker 2: that was. I enjoyed it normally I'm not like the
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  Speaker 2: scenery made the movie, and the scenery didn't make the
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  Speaker 2: movie for me. But given that we have accidentally moved
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  Speaker 2: to the Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 1: Here and I.
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  Speaker 2: Am like cautiously optimistic about summer, I thought I enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: the filming location in spite of the fact that I'm
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  Speaker 2: never swimming with sharks.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Well, let me give you a weather updated. It is
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  Speaker 1: now raining in my backyard. I see, so it might
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  Speaker 1: be raining here too. This earlier that I really liked
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  Speaker 1: Deborah the Widow, but I really enjoyed the relationship between
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  Speaker 1: Ray and Deborah, and I liked what they taught each other.
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  Speaker 1: For me, those are the parts of the movie that
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  Speaker 1: when I extract it, that's what I like about it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the kind of messaging that I get, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's personal to me instead of just being like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it was this cute, like romantic movie, Like, I really
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  Speaker 1: liked that we have this older widow connecting with this
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  Speaker 1: younger single gal and they have something to teach each other.
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  Speaker 1: I just enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: I like their interaction a lot too. It felt very real,
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable to me. I also liked at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the movie Jared's declaration that he was ready to travel
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  Speaker 2: the world with Ray. Contrary to last week's movie where
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  Speaker 2: I felt like, what's the actual future that these two
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  Speaker 2: people have, they really didn't make that clear, like how
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  Speaker 2: they're going to make their lives together. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: we finally have two people whose lives work well together
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  Speaker 2: in terms of his dreams and her dreams. And I
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  Speaker 2: thought they complimented each other.
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  Speaker 1: No one's giving up something for the other. Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 1: they're like going on an adventure together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in a way that makes sense to me.
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  Speaker 1: M yeah, I hear you. I hear you well, and
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  Speaker 1: I will say at the end. I like that they
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  Speaker 1: weren't like I love you, I love you too. It
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  Speaker 1: was just like I'm falling for you, Like, yes, let's
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  Speaker 1: be realistic. She's here for like a week. And I
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  Speaker 1: know people don't want reality in their Hallmark movies. They
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  Speaker 1: want a happy ending. But I liked that they just
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  Speaker 1: kept it real, like not super cheesy romantic. I really
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  Speaker 1: liked the cinematography when they were swimming under well, they
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  Speaker 1: were swimming in the ocean, like doing the diving around
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  Speaker 1: the like ship wreckage and all that stuff, but they
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  Speaker 1: were like snorkeling, and I don't know if the one
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  Speaker 1: time that I've ever snorkeled like my little tube like
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  Speaker 1: stayed up above the water. So I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: how you hold your breath for so long when you
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  Speaker 1: dive under with a snorkel gear on.
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  Speaker 2: I had the same thought, and I thought, with the
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  Speaker 2: snorkel in my mouth, would I accidentally take a breath
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  Speaker 2: and end up swallowing a lung full of water? But again,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how free diving works, and if you're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to keep the snorkel in your mouth just so
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  Speaker 2: you it's not flopping all around your head.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, dude, how do you hold your breath
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  Speaker 1: for so long?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Well, I'm old and they're young and have greater
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: lung capacity than I do. Yeah.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Well, I just thought that scene was really cool, and
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I wondered if that was really them. Now I know
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: that you said that Joscelyn Houdon dives. She's like a
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: certified diver, so maybe it was her, But I have
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: no idea.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: I thought it looked like her. I was trying. I
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: really thought it looked like her.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: I gotta say, and this is a personal note, like
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I would never want anybody filming me swimming underwater in
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: a really cute bathing suit because it would just be like, no,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: it just would be it's not a good look. I
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: thought those scenes were really well done.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Agree, I liked all that underwater filming as well.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: She just made it like beautiful, Like I would just
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: look like a struggling for air. I do know what email,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I just kid in my face, you look crazy like
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: there's just no.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Way, racing for the surface to get a breast totally.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Did you have anything else you liked? Ooh, that's a
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: bad sign. It's not okay what you wish for.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: This movie was overall pretty enjoyable to me. However, it
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: had one glaring problem and I saw it coming from
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: across the sea, and I wish it hadn't taken the
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: exact same conflict that we saw in movies like Chasing
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Waterfalls and Journey of My Heart, where the conflict is
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: created because the main character forgets how the internet works.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: When they took the selfie in front of the shipwreck,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, there you go, relationships over because
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: it's gonna accidentally go to the editor and this is
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: gonna be the story you want. Yeah.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I was like, really, we're doing this again. But if
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I could also point out that like back to back
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: movies with an accidental photo, because it got shared to
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the editor like on accident, Right, it wasn't like a
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: geotag situation like those two movies that you mentioned.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not a geotag situation. Was just in their shared drive.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Right, and that's same. That's what happened last week too,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: And I was like, really, side I back to back
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: movies with an accidental photo that got sent and then whoa,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: everybody's world gets turned upside down, like shut up, yeah
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: what I oh, okay this. I'm not being overly critical here,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: but I enjoyed Jocelyn. I have a really hard time
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: saying that name. Jocelyn Hoodon better than her counterpart. I
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: thought she out acted him in every scene.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I didn't think he was a bad actor, and obviously
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: he's not. He does a lot of work. But I
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: think she's better of the two. Like I found her
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: far more believable. Mm hmmm. That's my opinion. We have
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: always been truthful in our reviews, right, and we're not
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: coming for anybody. I'm not trying to tell everybody that
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: they're terrible. I'm just saying I thought she was a
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: better actor.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I think she's clearly the star of this movie for me,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: And in terms of the people who I was invested in,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: it was Ray than Deborah than Jared.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, I'm not buying the story that he wants
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to create this like mindful workshop internationally. I'm like, any
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Yahoo can do that on the internet.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's a good point. Does he need to
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: be implementing it himself?
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Sell an ebook, dude?
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah sure, Okay, one small note, I'm gonna mention the hair.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I think it was a real choice for this movie. Now.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I did my research hair and I looked at tons
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: of photos of the sky.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I just gonna look and see what he looks like
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: in other photos.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: He does not have awful hair. He has a range
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: of like short hair and long hair and blonde and
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: dark and all over the place. And so perhaps I
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: don't know it just the real blonde tips were not
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: doing it for me here.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. They were trying to make him like the beach dude,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: like the yoga beach dude. Yeah, with that blonde hair.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just found it to be a little distracting.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: I don't think you need to be blonde to be
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: on the beach. You ready for Did you see that? Yes?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Did you notice that you got your Homer Simpson backing
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: into the bushes moment that you we mentioned in a
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: previous episode. Oh, it was the way home.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, it's triggering some memories because I think when
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I watched this, I thought about that, but I can't
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: remember the exact scene. What happened.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: The scene is he's hiking through the jungle, I guess,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: and she accidentally bursts out onto the beach where he's
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: there doing his breathwork class, and she does not want
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: to be there, and she kind of like, I'm just
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: gonna keep hiking again, and she do do do do
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: backs right into the jungle. And there was nothing remarkable
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: about it except that it triggered that moment where we
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: talked about Cat kind of disappearing into she wanted her to. Yeah,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: that's all you know.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: That seems kind of funny, Like when she comes out,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: her hair's all tossled and she's like a mess. It
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: was pretty funny. I gotta say that was pretty funny.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Humidity got her.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when Ray arrives at the hotel and she's like
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: greeted with like a flower lay, and then she's the
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: hotel manager lady is like, which one's your bag? Let
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: us get your bag. Ray like throws down the lay
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: like josses it to the ground and grabs her bag.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: And I was like, oh she does, yes, And I
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: was like, that would be so rude to your in
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: a foreign country. You would never like be so disrespectful.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I don't think, No, keep l on until you get
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: to your room, especially as this girl's like this world traveler.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: You know she would never That's bizarre. Also, her bag
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: was entirely too empty. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, too empty.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: And I think it was even mentioned in our Facebook
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: groups like where was she carrying all the dresses and
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: the heels of.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Everything for her?
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Did you notice that the silent disco dance that they
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: held was in Ray's hotel room?
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Cool?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Weird out the furniture, it's the same room. I would
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: steak very little on it, but I'm pretty sure that
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: it's the same hotel room.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't notice. What I did notice is that they
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: used like air pods for that. Yeah, like everyone I've
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: ever seen, they wear like the big huge like headphones.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: They were like, crew, bring your AirPods to.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Set right totally. And the other thing that I thought
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: was so funny is like they were talking to each other.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I was like, how are you? I don't know. Now.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Do I think I would have fun at a silent disco? Yes?
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I do think I would. Would you could you like
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: let those inhibitions go and just like you down?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: You know? So I've never been to one, but I
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: know people who've done it for high school dances. Oh,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: and you know that. I don't know if this is
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: how every silent disco works, but there's different music you
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: can choose from. Oh interesting, So not everybody's dancing to
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: the same music.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: That's gotta be wild to watch, right ife, Yeah, like
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: you got like some people dancing to like emo music
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: or punk music, hip hop music. Whoa totally crazy.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Have you ever seen the behind the scenes of a
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: TV show where they're filming a dancing scene and you
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: realize there's no actual music playing, so those actors are
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: just dancing and it's silent, and all you hear is
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: like their feet Like always.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I always noticed that in movies, especially like the movies
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: of the early two thousands, where they're like high school movies.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Kids at parties and they're like dancing in the back
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and they're like, what are you dancing too? Not the
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: music that's playing through the TV right now.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: So I feel like that's what it would look like
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: like if someone took their headphones off, everyone would just
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: look like a boso. So that's my that's my beer,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: because everyone in this case kind of did look like
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: a bozo. And I thought, like, I hope they marked
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: their AirPods because I don't want someone else's AirPods somebody.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Oh gross, I hope so too.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: They just didn't have the budget for giant island disco headphones.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because they're in them freaking Maldives. That's why are
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: we gonna talk about the turtle?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Oh? I mean, what are you gonna do?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I would imagine there's real turtles around there somewhere. Somebody
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: couldn't get a b roll shot of a real turtle
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: and said they have like some cgi turtle. Am I
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: watching a Disney movie? It was awful?
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Oh. I was checking because I wanted to make sure
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: that sea turtles actually were in the Maldives. It is
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: home to five of the seven species of sea turtles. Yeah,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I thought the baby sea Turtle release, I thought that
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: was b role, like all of the scenes of the
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: sea turtle not actually in their hands. I was like,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: that's got to be like b roll because it was
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: pretty perfect. Yeah, you're right, surely they've got some turtle
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: swimming close to the surface b roll. It honestly didn't
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: bother me a lot, my gosh. I just was like, yeah,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: they needed a turtle in that moment. What did a
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: post do you?
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: What do you think about it? When they were like
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: playing in the water and it was like that bioluminescence
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: is that what it's called?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: It is?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Do you think that was real?
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I wondered, I mean, I've seen have you ever seen
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: the bioluminescence here.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty it was like a big deal when
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: we were like in lockdown and we had went out
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to the beach at night and looked at it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen it. I was trying to dredge up
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: a memory of what it looks like. I thought that
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: was pretty bright for bioluminis I don't think it's that
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: like light your faces with an underglow?
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Oh no, oh oh no no.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: So that might have been a little bit of an
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: edit there too. Yeah, I wonder what did you rate
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Love in them Aldis.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I came in thinking I was really gonna hate this movie.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I didn't. I gave it Thre're gonna have stars.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I gave it three.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I will say, how did I give it a better
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: rating than you? I don't understand.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, three is a good rating for me.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I was not looking to forward to this movie as well.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: We actually got some messages not hosted in the group
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: that were like, I'm really sorry you have to review
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: this movie. There was some negativity about this movie in
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: the group, which is fine. I was surprised actually by
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: this movie, pleasantly surprised. Do you feel like it was
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: a typical Hallmark movie? I don't feel like it wasn't,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: but I feel like you feel like it was not.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: No, I feel like it was. Yeah. I've sometimes I
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: feel like I wonder if writers like present these movies
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: to Hallmark and then Hallmarks sometimes like puts their homewarks
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: smart on him. Yeah, hallmarks them up. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: some of these I feel like, whoah, I see lots
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: of perfect potential and then it just like falls back
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: into like okay, that's what I expected.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I guess I don't disagree. Like when we go back
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: to I think sometimes they hallmark up the conflict, Like again,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: we get this conflict that's very similar to your right.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: It's an amalgam of a picture of her and chasing waterfalls.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: I don't think we needed that. We had enough conflict
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: with Ray trying to figure out like who am I
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: as a writer? Now? Am I like the the solo traveler?
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Or do I need to evolve? And Deborah learning how
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: to be solo and all these other things. They just
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: feel like they need this big, like Caple conflict.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Sometimes we don't. Sometimes it can be softer than that.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow will be back with an recap of Rye episode two.
• 28:55
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• 29:11
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