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Alls Fair In Love And Mahjong On Hallmark With Fiona Paul And Yan Kay · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: How is everybody doing today?
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  Speaker 2: We're doing fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. What you guys are doing with this movie is
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  Speaker 1: telling and sharing. But you're also bringing in a game
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  Speaker 1: that so many of us we've been playing this, but
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  Speaker 1: we just have had no real connection with a storytelling,
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  Speaker 1: and now it's like, I want to do this Friday night.
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  Speaker 1: Friday night?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Can we call?
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  Speaker 2: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Can we call?
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  Speaker 2: I love that you're not alone.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like to be on the set with this,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean, you're really bringing up something here that
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  Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, I always associated it with well,
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  Speaker 1: they're just trying to copy Chinese dominoes. You know what,
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  Speaker 1: That's not true at all. This has been around for
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  Speaker 1: a long time, So you're bringing something forward to people
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  Speaker 1: who are going to change their lives on this side
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  Speaker 1: of the flat screen TV, I hope.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean this is a different type of majong,
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  Speaker 3: But I definitely think that this movie really illustrates what
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  Speaker 3: American majong is, which is really good because I didn't
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  Speaker 3: actually know that there was even a variation until this
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  Speaker 3: film came about.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it also teaches us community that we conceal, we
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  Speaker 1: still have permission to get together and have conversations and
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  Speaker 1: to laugh about it and not have our faces on
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  Speaker 1: that phone, go be with people and have fun while
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  Speaker 1: doing it. I picked up on that vibe while being
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  Speaker 1: a part of this movie be together exactly.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, That's why I say I hope it changes
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  Speaker 4: people's lives because like it changed my life making this movie,
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  Speaker 4: not just in the friendships and the fun that I had,
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  Speaker 4: but like it's it's you know, Majong's about community and
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  Speaker 4: it's about friendship and support, and you know, there is
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  Speaker 4: a competitive element to it, which is fun. But I
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  Speaker 4: just like my girlfriends and I are like, okay, let's
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  Speaker 4: start playing Majong once a month because it's just nice
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  Speaker 4: to have a reason to get together and is as
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  Speaker 4: parents and his wives and as just human beings who
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  Speaker 4: have jobs, it's really hard to take time for yourself
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  Speaker 4: and to remember to you know, see friends and do
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  Speaker 4: all the fun things. So I hope that maybe this
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  Speaker 4: inspires people to learn majong and get together and you know, have.
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  Speaker 3: Some fun, yeah, and understand the nuances of each game too.
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  Speaker 3: What I what I loved about being a part of
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  Speaker 3: this was Joel really wanted to honor the Chinese Majong, yes,
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  Speaker 3: and that the origins from it hint And he brought
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  Speaker 3: me on because he really wanted to make sure we
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  Speaker 3: appreciate where things come from and then how they evolve.
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  Speaker 3: And what was beautiful for me to watch was how
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  Speaker 3: many people's lives this had impacted and how it's got
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  Speaker 3: people you know, talking again and coming together. Right. It's
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  Speaker 3: a community, like you mentioned, and the table is meant
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  Speaker 3: for us to invite and have discussion and play and eat.
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  Speaker 3: And I think this movie really illustrates.
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  Speaker 1: That, please do not move. There's more with Fiona Paul
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  Speaker 1: and Young K right around the corner. Pall Mark's doing
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  Speaker 1: it right. All's fair in love and Majong. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: back to Fiona Paul and Young K.
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  Speaker 3: Paul.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that was one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that you've got is that you act as as the
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  Speaker 1: ticket in the way for guys to say, I want
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  Speaker 1: to watch this too. And that's what I love about
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  Speaker 1: it is that we look at you, Paul and we
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  Speaker 1: go that's us. I know that person, and that's and
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  Speaker 1: it's so fun to be able to watch the entire
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  Speaker 1: cast coming together here and and you know, I would
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  Speaker 1: be shocked to see if someone doesn't identify somebody in
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  Speaker 1: their personal lives, because that's what you do. It's us.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I am the everyman. I am representative.
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  Speaker 3: Literally every man I.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the joy for me was in before
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  Speaker 2: before filming, I had really no awareness of Majong. I
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  Speaker 2: had heard the name, but I had never played. I
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  Speaker 2: hadn't grown up around it.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know anybody, uh as far as I knew
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  Speaker 5: that played and when we were first when we first
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  Speaker 5: began prepping for the movie, we were introduced to American Majong.
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  Speaker 5: But one of the first scenes that we filmed in
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  Speaker 5: the movie was my character and Fiona's character go on
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  Speaker 5: a date to the Chinese Cultural Center, which we actually
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  Speaker 5: filmed in Victoria, BC at the in Fantan Alley at
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  Speaker 5: the Chinese Cultural Center, and we got Christmas character talks
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  Speaker 5: about the Chinese origins and we look at some of
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  Speaker 5: these extraordinary, you know, heritage Majan sets, and so we
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  Speaker 5: kind of got an opportunity to see both the origin
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  Speaker 5: of the game and then also experience the American adaptation
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  Speaker 5: of the game. And so I got a I got
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  Speaker 5: a pretty intense crash course over the over those three
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  Speaker 5: weeks in all versions of this game, and and uh,
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  Speaker 5: it was pretty.
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  Speaker 3: Eye opening for me, a crash course and for women
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  Speaker 3: just making him laugh constantly and waiting for him to
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  Speaker 3: walk through the door so we all could go.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they were like trying every take and like
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  Speaker 4: it was the best. Just watching you blush is like
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  Speaker 4: a dream so much, it's so fun.
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  Speaker 5: I am right now.
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  Speaker 3: He was just so uncomfortable in the most beautiful way,
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  Speaker 3: and it was so fun for all us.
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  Speaker 1: See, and this is why everybody needs to watch it,
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  Speaker 1: because I just heard your camaraderie and there really is
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  Speaker 1: a genuine friendship here. My god, you just displayed it
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  Speaker 1: right there. How real it going to feel for viewers
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  Speaker 1: who discover it on Hallmark? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we we had such a great time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we became friends. We're still friends. We're all friends.
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  Speaker 3: That's what the Majong Table is for. It's about community
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  Speaker 3: and to bring people together and to just have some
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  Speaker 3: friendly fun banter where you try to beat each other,
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  Speaker 3: but you also you know, laugh while you're doing it.
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  Speaker 2: And we also discovered the Crystal is wildly competitive.
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  Speaker 3: Very like, yes, very It wasn't scripted that she would
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  Speaker 3: win somehows she always managed to win.
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  Speaker 4: Not just with Majong though, No, I just you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's funny.
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  Speaker 3: I just took my children to Disneyland and I you know,
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  Speaker 3: playing the roller thing at the Toy Story, and I
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  Speaker 3: was like, don't try to win. You know. We took
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  Speaker 3: every bone in my body not to like try to win,
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  Speaker 3: not against my child but against everybody else because my
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  Speaker 3: child needs to get the toy. The competition lives strongly
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  Speaker 3: and I mean I did. I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Well. Please come back to this show anytime in the future.
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  Speaker 1: The door is always going to be open for all
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  Speaker 1: three of you. Thank you, you guys, be brilliant today. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: be well, you too,