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Time for more reviews and recaps of the best most wonderful podcast hosted by my favesies. Really guys if you don’t subscribe to this you must! Also I would like to add a trigger warning to this article as their mention of suicide and depression in one of the episodes that I’m going to touch on.
The next episode was with Virgin River writers Erin Cardillo and Rich Ketih who are best friends not just working on Virgin River together. They told the girls how some of the stories in Virgin River are based off events that have hapepned to them or the other writesrs in real life. It was interesting to hear them say how it is like that with almost all the characters. I knew that Rich looked familiar to me and then he mentioned he was on Greys Anatomy and how he loved working with Katherine Heigl. That was when it hit me thats where I’ve seen him from. I was hoping Zibby would mention how she was on there as a cute little nurse. Erin and Rich talked about how music helps them with inspiration when it comes to writing. I related to this a lot because I like to write stories and I usually have music on in my headset here at my computer when I’m writing. I even do it while writing these articles. They were so right music helps! They talked about how during the pandemic they started writing a small TV show about a woman who helps a man not kill himself by jumping off a bridge and how it turns into a love story. I thought this was so intersesting as something similarly happend in real life with my best freind Natalie. It wasn’t a love story or anything but she’s an aspiring law stuiden who graduates in June in Seattle and takes her Bar over the summer. She was driivng home one night in Seattle and I can’t remmeber if it was work but she saw this man was going to end his life by jumping off a bridge and she got out of her car and basically saved him by talking to him. She made sure he got the help he needed, got in contact with his family etc. He told her if it wasn’t for her stopping he would have went thorugh with it.
The episode after this was a bit of a short one. It was a random one with Alex and Zibby but also so funny. I was laughing all thorugh it. It was recorded on Alex’s birthday weekend. She and Zibby had a girls weekend with two of their friends. They went to a spa, stayed at a hotel and Zibby talked about how she accidentally booked a King Size bed room but they slept in the same bed anyway. They told the funny story of how they have the nicknames Bruce and Eilleen. It was such a funny epiosode!!
The next episode was with Dan Payne. It was such a great episode where they touched on an important topic and that was mental health and suicide. I thought it was so brave for Dan to open up about how he got in a very dark moment of his life, almost ending it and how he pulled himself out of it, as well as talked about his depression. I also thought it was very brave for Zibby to open up about her brother who did end his life. My heart hurt listening to both of them. Its so hard when you get dwon and get that feeling. I have personaly been there as well but it was more so because of my anxiety being so bad to a point where it made me down, as well my situation of being a caregiver to my mom who has early onset Alzheimer’s. Dan is way better now and hes at place where he likes to talk about it because he wants to help other people. The conversation then turned very lighthearted and funny towards the end. I had tears from laughing. He talked abouit playing Volleyball in Holland, he talked more about his career, and he had Zibby and Alex in tears laughing so hard as he told them about a web series he was in. I think think seeing them laugh so damn hard was my favorite part. I love seeing people happy. I also loved when they talked about how they are upfront some times if something in a scene is bothering htem like background noise and stuff. This was such a fun interview! I knew Dan looked familiar to me and its because he was in Once Upon a Time and The Decendents!
The next episode was an interview with director Monika Mitchell. She was an absolute delight to listen too! She gave the girls such incredible nice an kind compliments. She talked about directing and opened up about therapy. Alex talked about how she needs to not socialize after she gets home from a long stay in Vancouver shooting Virgin River. It made me think of my sister who is similar in that way even though they have two completely different jobs. They talked a lot about filming. I think its so interesting to hear them talk about the aspects of filming it makes you realize there is so much that goes into making a TV Show. I love that they bring the directors, writers etc on! They talked about how being real can sometimes be precieved as being difficult to work with or being crazy. Loved this conversation they mentione Katherine Heigl and Zibby talked about how she worked with her on Greys Anatomy! Loved the Greys mention. It was such a great insightful episode!
Well guys I am almost caught up on the pod now so once I’m done with these reviews they will start coming once a month when the girls put out there monthly AMAs. I think it was mentioned that the girls are gonna do that until they start up Season 2. I know they return to Vanocuver soon for Virgin River Season 7. I hope you all are enjoying my reveiws and recaps!!