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Love on the Amazon · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls on Homemark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 2: On today's episode, we are discussing Love on the Amazon,
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  Speaker 2: which originally premiered on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, January seventeenth,
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  Speaker 2: and is currently available to stream on Hallmark Plus. Keep
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  Speaker 2: That's right, let's hear a synopsis of Love on the Amazon.
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  Speaker 3: Claire travels to Brazil and hires Danny, a riverboat captain,
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  Speaker 3: to help her deliver an important message to her sister Emilia,
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  Speaker 3: a marine biologist studying pink dolphins on the Amazon River.
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  Speaker 2: Colin Thays directed Love on the Amazon and if you're
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  Speaker 2: thinking this guy knows a destination movie, you are right.
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  Speaker 2: His resume includes a Machu Piachu proposal, Polar Opposites, a
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  Speaker 2: Costa Rican wedding, and a Greek recipe for romance pattern
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  Speaker 2: very much established.
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  Speaker 3: The screenplay comes from Julianna Wimbles, who longtime Hallmark viewers
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  Speaker 3: will recognize as Lisa from the Hannah Swinson Mysteries. Writing wise,
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  Speaker 3: this marks her ninth credit, with previous projects including A
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  Speaker 3: Machu Pichu Proposal This Time Each Year and Love in
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  Speaker 3: the Maldives. J C.
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  Speaker 2: Elliot stars as Clare, while she has just eight acting credits,
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  Speaker 2: including Hallmark titles like My Southern Family, Christmas and Joya
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  Speaker 2: No Well. She is best known for her role as
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  Speaker 2: doctor Terren Helm on Grey's Anatomy, where she's appeared in
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  Speaker 2: nearly one hundred episodes. Man, I did not make that connection.
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  Speaker 3: Wait do you watch that show? Still? No? But I
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  Speaker 3: know exactly who she.
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  Speaker 2: Is and I have seen the seasons in which she
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  Speaker 2: is in and.
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  Speaker 3: Or clips on TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe a little bit about.
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  Speaker 3: Raphael D. La Fuente plays Danny. He has fifteen acting
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  Speaker 3: credits and previously appeared on Hallmark in Letters to Santa
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three. Outside of Hallmarky has had a
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  Speaker 3: long run as Sam Jones on Dynasty, as well as
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  Speaker 3: appearing on Fire Country.
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  Speaker 2: Persephone Bartera Redman plays sister Amelia. This is her one
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  Speaker 2: and only acting credit.
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  Speaker 3: When I was putting these notes together, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: is she a friend of somebody? Like? How do you
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  Speaker 3: have one and nothing else?
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  Speaker 2: She's been busy in the Amazon.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe she's a real person. Maybe maybe Race's Xavier plays Millie.
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  Speaker 3: This is her thirteenth acting credit, and she did appear
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  Speaker 3: in last year's Polar Opposites.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna take a quick break and come right back
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  Speaker 2: with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what was your first
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  Speaker 2: impression of love on the Amazon?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, go with me here. Okay, Hi, folks, welcome aboard.
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  Speaker 3: Please keep your arms and legs inside the boat at
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  Speaker 3: all times. We are now entering the most dangerous part
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  Speaker 3: of the Amazon. Don't worry. This script says, We'll be
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  Speaker 3: just fine. Now, is it giving jungle groops?
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say for those of you who are
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  Speaker 2: not Southern Californian eighties, Look, I love the Junkle Cruise.
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  Speaker 2: And I also feel so bad.
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  Speaker 3: For the people who work on the Junkle Cruise because
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  Speaker 3: they just have to like read that script of puns
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  Speaker 3: the entirety.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think they like living in Dad Joe Gland
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  Speaker 2: their entire workday?
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  Speaker 3: I think there is a person perfect for that job,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like the kid who was like the theater
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  Speaker 3: kid at school who just you know, like they're playing
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  Speaker 3: a part. Yeah, I think they don't cringe about it.
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  Speaker 2: The backside of water. Look, I like it. It works
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  Speaker 2: for me much less creative over here. My first impression
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  Speaker 2: is what an email and a docu sign have solved
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  Speaker 2: all of this?
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  Speaker 3: That is something I had not thought of. I do
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  Speaker 3: have some thoughts about, like, this woman is out in
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  Speaker 3: the Amazon. She needs to be you know, like contacted.
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  Speaker 3: There has to be some sort of communication available.
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  Speaker 2: Claire had a satellite device. Amelia couldn't have had one.
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  Speaker 2: Of course she does, of course she does. She needs
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  Speaker 2: two for emergencies.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, I know, I know, I know, but yes,
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  Speaker 3: you're right, a docu sign would have easily taken care
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  Speaker 3: of this, let's talk what we liked, Okay, if I
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  Speaker 3: can start. Yeah, Raphael de la Fuente as Danny Welcome
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  Speaker 3: to Hallmark. Welcome easily a standout for me. I thought
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  Speaker 3: he was charming, warm, easy to watch, very believable as
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  Speaker 3: a riverboat captain, I thought, even though I don't know
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  Speaker 3: anything about riverboats. Oh yeah, boat captains, but it felt
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  Speaker 3: natural to me, like he knew what he was doing.
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  Speaker 3: And also, if I may add, and I do think
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  Speaker 3: this matters, I truly believe Hallmark needs more Latino leading men,
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  Speaker 3: and he would be a great addition. I would happily
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  Speaker 3: watch him in a movie again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I agree in several pieces of my notes
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  Speaker 2: here today, I'm going to take a little help from
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  Speaker 2: our friends because I was reading our Facebook group comments
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  Speaker 2: and several people said exactly what I was thinking in
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  Speaker 2: one of those moments. I would like to read a
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  Speaker 2: comment from Michelle who says this was not typical Hallmark,
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  Speaker 2: but I enjoyed the storyline. However, I may be biased
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  Speaker 2: because I'm all about conservation and this movie put a
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  Speaker 2: focus on research and conservation with the romance a subplot.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with that. I think the romance was a
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  Speaker 2: subplot in this movie. I think what this movie does
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  Speaker 2: differently is they are trying to shine a tiny little
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  Speaker 2: light on life in the Amazon and environmentalism and conservation.
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  Speaker 2: There's a little like peak at the schools, and I
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  Speaker 2: appreciate those bits and pieces that we're getting in the
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  Speaker 2: same vein that I feel like last week's Australia movie
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  Speaker 2: shined a light on Melbourne. Did you know? I have
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  Speaker 2: the most exciting news for you?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: Wait?
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  Speaker 2: You don't know? For the listeners, I've been sick. My
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  Speaker 2: brain is not fully here. But I had big plans
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  Speaker 2: to surprise you with this at the top of this episode,
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  Speaker 2: and then they didn't pan out. Well, hold on, we
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  Speaker 2: got a message about Melbourne.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I'm excited. Oh
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  Speaker 3: I'm scared too. Who is it from. It's from Shannon, Hi, ladies.
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  Speaker 4: I thought i'd send you a quick note about a
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  Speaker 4: Melbourne match. I'm from New South Wales, where Sydney is,
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  Speaker 4: and we say Melbourne. And I double checked with a
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  Speaker 4: friend who lives in Victoria, which is where Melbourne is,
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  Speaker 4: and she also says Melbourne.
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  Speaker 3: So for Ossie's I guess the general consensus is Melbourne,
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  Speaker 3: not Melbourne or Melbourne.
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  Speaker 4: And as for holding the koala, in certain states, it's
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  Speaker 4: illegal for conservation laws. I know in New South Wales,
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  Speaker 4: where my sister used to work at a zoo, you
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  Speaker 4: aren't allowed to hold them there, but you can pat
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  Speaker 4: them or have a photo taken with them. We went
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  Speaker 4: on our honeymoon in Queensland, which is up north, and
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  Speaker 4: I am going to attach a photo my husband actually
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  Speaker 4: held a koala. I made him do it because I
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  Speaker 4: was too scared it was going to pay on me.
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  Speaker 4: But you are allowed to in certain states, but some
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  Speaker 4: you're not. Anyway, I have a great day.
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  Speaker 5: I love it. That's so exciting, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Shannon. I feel like vindicated. Right,
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  Speaker 3: Nobody told me that's not how it's pronounced, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm just feel happy to be right, that's all. Well.
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  Speaker 2: Also, I was like, she really is Australian.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, where that she has an accent? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, Look, I think I liked this peak into the Amazon.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about life on the Amazon. My
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  Speaker 2: point was, I think that's what some of these movies
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  Speaker 2: have done for us. A tiny hallmarkified peak into Life
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  Speaker 2: on the Amazon with potentially cgi jaguars walking down the banks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I wore like a bull jaguar maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, go look at that there he is. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you. I think this setting here does
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  Speaker 3: a lot of heavy lifting because it's somewhere we've never been,
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  Speaker 3: and it is kind of like cool to be like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: look at that. I know that sounds like the more,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but I just thought like the movie did
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  Speaker 3: benefit from its location. It was filmed on location in Equitos, Peru.
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  Speaker 3: According to IMDb. It's not the Brazil Amazon, but it's
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  Speaker 3: still the Amazon, right, so it's kind of cool to
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  Speaker 3: like get a peek into that. I agree, And I
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  Speaker 3: did think like the river shots were like genuinely interesting
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  Speaker 3: to look at. I think it was cool that they
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  Speaker 3: were on an actual river, you know, not green screen.
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  Speaker 3: We've been talking about green you know, like boats on
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  Speaker 3: water the last couple of months, so I appreciated that
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  Speaker 3: those shots were actually genuine Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's a little it's it's mildly eye opening.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, look at that. This is interesting. This
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  Speaker 2: is something I know nothing about Life on the Amazon,
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  Speaker 2: about the Amazon River. It did have a mild jungle
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  Speaker 2: cruise vibe to it in that moment when the piranhas
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  Speaker 2: just like pop. But it kind of was like, yes,
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  Speaker 2: there are piranhas in the Amazon River. Yes there are
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  Speaker 2: howler monkeys living in the Amazon. It was just notice
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  Speaker 2: these things, be aware of them, open your eyes beyond
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  Speaker 2: travel in your typical bubbles.
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  Speaker 3: Fair, Now, let me ask you about this. This was
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  Speaker 3: an acquisition right for me. I did think it was.
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  Speaker 3: The story was better than I expected going into it.
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  Speaker 3: I had super low expectations, honestly. Yeah. Well, with that said,
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  Speaker 3: I the plot wasn't groundbreaking, but if I did think
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  Speaker 3: it was watchable, so that alone earns a like from me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If I may steal a little help from a friend
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  Speaker 2: of ours, mailman Steve. He speaks to that and he says,
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  Speaker 2: if this movie was aired in twenty fourteen, twenty seventeen era,
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  Speaker 2: it would have been well received. Airing in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: six it is still very watchable. Your word as well,
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  Speaker 2: But over the last several years, Hallmark has raised the
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  Speaker 2: bar for movies of the week. I found myself constantly
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  Speaker 2: looking at the clock to see how much was left.
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  Speaker 2: Jac Elliott did as much as she could, but the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the production seemed to drag the movie down.
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  Speaker 2: A good film, not a great film, And I think
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  Speaker 2: that really captures my thoughts about this. It was better
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  Speaker 2: than I expected it to be. It didn't meet the
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  Speaker 2: level that had been established with the first two January
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  Speaker 2: movies for me, but I did also find it watchable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I personally think this is a sandwich movie. We
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  Speaker 3: got like two really good movies and we have this
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  Speaker 3: middle hair, and then I think we're going to get
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  Speaker 3: two pretty good movies to end January as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this movie costs less for them to acquire than
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  Speaker 2: they will make in advertising revenue while airing it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, They're like, man, January's got five Saturdays, we need
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  Speaker 3: to fill it with something. Yeah, right. Speaking of J. C. Elliott,
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  Speaker 3: I did enjoy Claire's connection with the kids, showing them
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  Speaker 3: the books and like speaking English with them, and her
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  Speaker 3: also having like a mutual exchange learning the language there
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  Speaker 3: as well. You know, I thought those were meaningful moments.
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  Speaker 3: It showed this character of Claire outside of this rigid,
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  Speaker 3: structured life she had back home.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with that, and I also I liked that
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  Speaker 2: they we finally got to a place within the boat
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  Speaker 2: crew of a We're all in this together or high
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  Speaker 2: school musical vibe. I didn't love the path we took
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  Speaker 2: to get there, like the manufactured drama prior to that,
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  Speaker 2: but I did like that we get to the point
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  Speaker 2: where they are working together to help each other out
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  Speaker 2: towards their own goals.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, are you ready to move on to wishes?
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  Speaker 2: Sure?
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  Speaker 3: Sadly, my wish list is longer than my likes scheme.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted a different romantic pairing here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, as I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Watching this movie, I truly thought the story was headed
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  Speaker 3: towards Danny having passed or unresolved feelings with Claire's sister. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: because it seemed like he spoke highly of her. There
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  Speaker 3: was obviously history. We didn't quite at this point where
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, is that what is what? Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: what's happening, Like we didn't know like he like bounced
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  Speaker 3: out on their research projects. You know, he had a
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  Speaker 3: family obligation. I think he didn't go about it the
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  Speaker 3: right way. But my point is I kind of thought, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I would like that better. I liked that idea better,
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  Speaker 3: that Danny and the sister had some sort of reconnection
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  Speaker 3: and then Claire meets somebody along the way because between
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  Speaker 3: Danny and Claire, ad did not see it. There was
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  Speaker 3: zero chemistry between these two.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, and I like the idea that if it
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  Speaker 2: were Danny and Amelia, that gives it time to build.
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  Speaker 2: It's not three days on the Amazon where these people
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  Speaker 2: are forming a relationship. It's over time and working together
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  Speaker 2: and forming our relationship. And it feels more believable than
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  Speaker 2: three days on a sweaty, buggy, humid boat where you
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  Speaker 2: don't even have.
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  Speaker 3: A place to sleep or sit down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for me as a person who doesn't like discomfort. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I'm never going to go camping. It's not for me,
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  Speaker 2: and this is a me thing. But I have a
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  Speaker 2: hard time finding the romance and the sexiness in a
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  Speaker 2: uncomfortable environment. I mean, I think they would admit life
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  Speaker 2: on the Amazon is not easy. This was not luxury travel.
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  Speaker 2: It was hot and humid and buggy. There was likely
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  Speaker 2: no running water on this boat, so there're certainly weren't
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  Speaker 2: showering regularly. I mean, maybe there was some sort of
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  Speaker 2: toilet situation. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, these are details I had not thought of, But
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  Speaker 3: I just.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to feel romantic when I feel sticky. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I hear you, and I'm swatting away the mosquitoes. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't bring it for me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Yeah, well, your point is valid because as
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  Speaker 3: a viewer the movie makers, I'm gonna trademark that the
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  Speaker 3: movie makers need to create an environment for the viewers
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  Speaker 3: to feel those feelings while watching, right, And if you're
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  Speaker 3: getting that's hot and sticky and buggy and I'm not
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  Speaker 3: into it, they haven't done their job to sell us
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  Speaker 3: on the romance. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Can I wish for more character development for Claire in
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  Speaker 2: the sense that she's clearly bright and capable. She's successful,
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  Speaker 2: she's got a good job, she can organize like the Dickens,
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  Speaker 2: but we're led to believe that she's this major disappointment
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  Speaker 2: to her family because why she bought flowers for her
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  Speaker 2: sister and somehow that her in traffic and made her
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  Speaker 2: late to the graduation. I didn't fully understand she felt
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  Speaker 2: like she had this big thing to prove to her sister,
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  Speaker 2: and it wasn't fully clear that that was who she was.
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  Speaker 2: She's a person who reads a lot, and somehow that
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  Speaker 2: makes her not dependable.
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  Speaker 3: I know, she's a vice principal at a school. I
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  Speaker 3: mean that's not an easy job. That job takes brains
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  Speaker 3: and management and all kinds of know how. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you're right. They did paint her as sort of this
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  Speaker 3: kind of incapable, which was like a huge pet peeve
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  Speaker 3: of mine. In last week's movie, Yes, when our lead
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  Speaker 3: was like, I can't how do I get out of
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  Speaker 3: the airport? You know, it's the same sort of thing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm helpless, But they are a paint They did paint
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  Speaker 3: Claire as kind of like, oh, she's smart, but she's
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  Speaker 3: also not like street savvy or I don't know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what it is exactly, but you're right, you're right.
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  Speaker 3: I did think it was a little bit unrealistic that
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  Speaker 3: she goes on this adventure. I don't think she intended
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  Speaker 3: it to be an adventure to find her sister to
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  Speaker 3: get these documents signed, but it turns into a low
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  Speaker 3: key adventure. M hmmm. That feels like exciting to her.
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  Speaker 3: So therefore she's like, I'm gonna walk away from my
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  Speaker 3: stable job and the life I've created for myself at
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  Speaker 3: home to live on the Amazon.
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  Speaker 2: They need teachers out here, oh, and there's just an
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  Speaker 2: abundance of teaching jobs available to her to support herself with.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, yeah, that does not feel realistic at all.
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  Speaker 2: And like Danny lives this very transient life, like he's
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: constantly on the move, So how is that going?
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  Speaker 3: You know, Danny.
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  Speaker 2: Delivers like he's got to be delivering, So how is
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  Speaker 2: that going to further your relationship?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I to me, it read as like she was
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  Speaker 3: going to do that with him, But then how is
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  Speaker 3: she going to teach kids too?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know she's gonna be a drop in teacher.
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  Speaker 2: Let me read you the story while he unloads the
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: boxes and then by.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what it sounds like. And if I may,
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  Speaker 3: I touch lightly on ed Venture and my last wish.
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  Speaker 3: But this movie to me, like there was no danger,
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  Speaker 3: make it exciting for me, as if you were like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: they have some rappids fine, And I could not help
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: but think like this is the Drake's passage of the
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  Speaker 3: Amazon here, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of like that scene where she's like
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  Speaker 2: rocking and rolling like she sold me.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I would be like, throw me over
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: this thing and put an end to my life. Tall
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: me to the Piranhas I could not. I get so
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: motion sick. There's no way, no way, but they.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Only do it once. But also, can that boat handle
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: if it's that many rapits, Like that boat's gonna capsize.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: On a rock. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: But like every obstacle just felt like inconvenience instead of
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: dangerous threat.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: It did feel like the jungle cruise of the Amazon.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: They're like they were not concerned enough about sleeping in
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: the open in the Amazon. Although I did appreciate Danny
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: was like bootstay on, but yeah, I did feel like
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: there could have been a little bit more danger. Every
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: problem is so mild and handled rather quickly.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Also, I do think she was entirely too confident in
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: her plan to find her sister deep in the Amazon.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: She arrives without much of a plan. She's found some
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: guy on the internet. I kind of assumed she had
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: made arrangements with him, and then all she had was
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: she just knew that he existed. She's like, oh, you're
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Danny delivers and he was like, yeah, I'm not delivering you.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: And then they had it. Just they kept talking like
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: all he needed to do was get her there and
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: then she's like, yeah, I'm just gonna stick around for
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: a week and then I'll head out on What do
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: you think there's just like regular boats passing through that
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: you can just hop on and traverse your way. There's
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: no plan, make a plan, yeah, logistically, like how how
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: are you getting there and.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Getting back exactly? Do you not have an airplane ticket
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: like waiting for you at some point to go home?
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's going to be real expensive to book a
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: same day plane ticket when you decided to go back. Yeah.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: I didn't. I don't understand it well. And even at
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: one point she says goodbye to Millie the chick on
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: the chick on the boat, the other chick on the boat, right,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: And I was like, wait, are they just dropping them
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: off here? Like they're like, how are they supposed to
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: get back?
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I know, I was like, aren't they gonna need the boat?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: I didn't understand that at all.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Not at all.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Like they had to teach her how to do everything
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: on the boat because the other guy had to get
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: off the other guy, right, but now Millie's just going
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: to handle the whole thing on her own by herself.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, no idea.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Let's talk to you to see that.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, I have just two. I know you're a reader,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: but do you bring a suitcase of books with you?
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: No to the Amazon. You don't have a kindle.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: He even said, he's like you ever heard of a
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: re reader?
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I think Chase stay charged for a while. She'd be, okay,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: something who brings.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: A book, like a suitcase full of books. Yeah, and
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: special books. Yeah. No, I don't get it. I don't
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: get it. I know. We talked about like dangerous scenes.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: The scene with the big snake. Yeah, okay. First of all,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: when I saw a sake, I'm like, nope, nope, Like
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: I have no desire to go anywhere that has big
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: snakes like that. Nope, especially when they're just out in nature.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: But this scene where they're.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Like, okay, you have to like don't engage.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: So Jimmy pasted it then wide old, say it's wide
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: old in space. She could walk the per like you know,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: like outside of its perimeter there, like to get to
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the boat.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Like I'm like, why are you shimmying? Has a snake?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: And I don't know, do snakes like that like jump
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: up mid air and like attack you if you're like
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: walking by I mean, I don't know. In my head,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: I think that's what they do, but I don't know.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I would be giving it a wider berth, and there
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: was space to do that the entire freaking Amazon. Yes
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: she could, yes, yes, Okay, that's all I got though. Well,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: writer Giuliana Wibbles does make a cameo in this movie
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: as one of the tourists on the Amazonian cruise. I'm
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: sure you noticed, but that was nice. I'm glad she
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: got to be there.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I have a question m these people. It didn't occur
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: to me until the end of the movie, but in
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: the beginning of the movie, we see Claire watering her
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: sister's plants. At the end of the movie, we see
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: her dad watering her sister's plants. No no, no, no, no no.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: If you're going to be gone for months and months
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: and months, we need to make a new arrangement for
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: these plants because I'm not coming to your house every
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: single day for months on end. I guess maybe they
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: only need to be watered once a week. I was like,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: if you have this full living jungle situation inside of
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: your house and then you're gonna leave, that's a big
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: commitment to agree to water those plants.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Talk to me about you plan to leave? Who's paying
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: your rent, your car payment, your utility bills? Like, who's
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: doing that? Yeah?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I thought their treehouse was quite nice. I would really
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: love to know what research in the Amazon accommodations look like. Also,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I do think there should have been mosquito netting over
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: their beds. I don't think they'd be sleeping in the open,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: open air, as pretty as it is.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have no idea. There's got you gotta not survive, no,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: get eaten alive by mosquitoes here in Orange County.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: So no, I will donate to their conservation efforts, but
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I will not be boots on the ground in this
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: particular situation.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Oh have any other did you see that?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Just two funny things. I loved Claire's Titanic moment in
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: the beginning on the boat.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I laughed out loud, me too, Yeah, yeah, that was funny.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I also loved the line I didn't realize they had
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: catfish in the Amazon when she's clowning Danny for his
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: old photo in his Danny delivery.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, great, Yeah, that's funny,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: very funny.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: What did you rate love on the Amazon.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I gave it two point seven five starts.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, I gave it two and a half. All right,
• 24:33
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