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'Tis the Season for Setups (Hallmark Channel 2026) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark Review podcast. I'm Megan,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: former Hallmark hater. It's time. Are you excited? I am.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe we're here already. I had fall fatigue,
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  Speaker 2: and now I have fatigue like anticipatory fatigue no no
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  Speaker 2: yes it.
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  Speaker 1: Is too early for that today's episode we are discussing
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  Speaker 1: tis the season for setups which originally aired on the
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  Speaker 1: hallmark channel on friday october 16th and is now streaming
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  Speaker 1: on hallmark plat do we still feel that october 16th
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  Speaker 1: is too early for christmas You know, I just can't
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  Speaker 1: imagine it any other way. But I would be okay
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  Speaker 1: with a November 1 start. I would be perfectly fine.
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  Speaker 1: Two more weeks. With a six-week countdown to Christmas movie schedule.
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  Speaker 1: I think people would disagree, but I am with you.
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  Speaker 1: You're right. But I think there's people on every side
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  Speaker 1: of the fence here. I think there's people that every year,
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about this before, there are some people who
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  Speaker 1: are like, till October 31st, I am fall and Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: And then November 1st, I make the shift. As we know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a fall Halloween hater. So our Christmas decorations go
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  Speaker 1: up the first week of November. Our Christmas lights are
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  Speaker 1: going on our house October 31st this year. That feels
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  Speaker 1: late for you guys. It is. I'm right, huh? They're
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  Speaker 1: usually up by Halloween. Yeah, it's late. We don't turn
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  Speaker 1: them on. But they are usually on our house by Halloween. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I think.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait for you to hear my first impression.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no. How nervous should I be? Not nervous at all. Oh, good.
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  Speaker 1: Not nervous at all. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: You think I want to start off the season with
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  Speaker 2: like a terrible review? No, because I want people to
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  Speaker 2: come back and listen to us for more episodes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I also was worried that you were going to
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  Speaker 1: be like, well, I got to set the tone. It
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  Speaker 1: only can go up from here. So maybe you're coming
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  Speaker 1: in like... You have a point there. And I have
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  Speaker 1: thought about that in terms of like my rating system,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, it's all vibes, right? Pure vibes.
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  Speaker 2: But I am thinking about it. And what I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to do with these movies too is how relatable they.
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  Speaker 1: Are to me. And you'll hear about it in our review. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: that should be a separate rating scale, the relatability scale. Well,
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  Speaker 1: too bad. It's going into this scale today. Let me
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  Speaker 1: hear a synopsis.
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  Speaker 2: Did we even talk about what the movie's called? Tis
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  Speaker 2: the Season for Setups?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, originally aired on Saturday, October 16th. You're right.
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  Speaker 2: Hyper-organized party planner Lexi heads to a ski resort with
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  Speaker 2: her free-spirited mom June and teenage daughter to plan the
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  Speaker 2: lodge's annual Christmas party. There, she clashes with ski instructor Ridge,
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  Speaker 2: but the two team up after noticing a spark between
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  Speaker 2: their parents. Their matchmaking attempts keep turning into foursome dates,
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  Speaker 2: and somewhere along the way, Lexi and Ridge may find
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  Speaker 2: themselves making a match of their own.
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  Speaker 1: This was directed by Jeff Beasley, who continues to crank
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  Speaker 1: him out this season. Last week we had the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of Halloween, and next up is Adopting Saint Nick, premiering
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  Speaker 1: on October 31st. This was written by Elena Zaretsky, who
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  Speaker 1: has just two previous writing credits, which includes the 2017
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  Speaker 1: Rocky Mountain Christmas starring our good friend Christopher Palaha. A
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  Speaker 1: movie we haven't seen. Everybody tells us we need to watch.
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  Speaker 1: You're right. We haven't seen it. And I just want
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  Speaker 1: you to know that when I pronounce these names, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just guessing. I don't know Elena. I have absolutely no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Just giving it my best guess. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Amanda Shule stars as Lexi. She is forever Jodi Sawyer
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  Speaker 2: to center stage fans like myself. We last saw her
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  Speaker 2: on Hallmark Family Practice Mysteries coming home from 2024. Methinks
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  Speaker 2: that movie didn't get a second run.
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  Speaker 1: Never to be seen again. Victor Webster stars as Ridge,
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  Speaker 1: a longtime Hallmark leading man who currently plays Chad in
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  Speaker 1: the Hannah- Swenson Mysteries. Barbara Nevin stars as June, basically
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark royalty, best known as Dolores in the Hannah Swenson Mysteries,
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  Speaker 1: as well as Chesapeake Shores and every other movie where
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  Speaker 1: they need a chic mom or grandma. Verity Marks plays Piper.
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  Speaker 1: She's a younger actress who's been in several Hallmark movies
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  Speaker 1: and many Jeff Beasley movies. John B.
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  Speaker 2: Lowe stars as Dan. He's a veteran Canadian actor with
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  Speaker 2: a long list of Hallmark credits, including plenty of of
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Beasley movies.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Wendy, what is your first impression of tis the
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  Speaker 1: season for setups?
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  Speaker 2: As the queen of no fun, I think my 2027
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  Speaker 2: resolution is to rebrand myself as the guru of fun.
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  Speaker 1: With a 2026 Halloween costume going as the vibe killer.
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  Speaker 1: That's what she calls herself. That's funny. I should be
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  Speaker 1: the vibe killer. No, that's what she calls herself. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I found her very relatable. Oh, me too. But, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Beasley movies make me stop and think. Honestly, they
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  Speaker 1: make me stop and think. I know. Okay. What's your
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  Speaker 1: first impression? My first impression is Elena Zaretsky said, oh, uno,
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  Speaker 1: reverse on the parent trap situation at the ski lodge. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk. I'm going to talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: I just had a feeling, like I just had a,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like Lacey's the queen of Christmas. I want
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  Speaker 2: to share this as queen of no fun.
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  Speaker 1: Should we put that in our Etsy shop? Did you
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  Speaker 1: see that I put a 100% fake snow sweatshirt in
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  Speaker 1: our Etsy shop? I did not, but I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Do I need to order that for myself? I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the process, friends. By the time this episode airs, there
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  Speaker 1: should be a full... Please add a Queen of No
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  Speaker 1: Fun t-shirt in there too. Can't wait. Will you please?
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  Speaker 1: Just like big font with a little crooked crown on
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  Speaker 1: the Q. Oh my God. I love it. Please. Just
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  Speaker 1: call me a Canva graphic designer, baby.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 1: I need it. Queen of No Fun. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: this movie. What we liked. What we liked. This is
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  Speaker 1: set with me a little bit. Yes. Same.
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  Speaker 2: And you're going to hear some in my wishes, like
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  Speaker 2: what didn't work for me, but as a whole worked
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the parenting story ended up being much more
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  Speaker 2: interesting than the romance between Lexi and Ridge and like
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  Speaker 2: the parents, Dan and June.
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  Speaker 1: As per usual.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we just talked about it on our Patreon. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, the romance is the least interesting thing to
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  Speaker 2: me in any movie.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I have, like, little dinosaurs. You know? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The romance isn't always the least interesting part for me.
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  Speaker 1: But in this case, because of who we are, because
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  Speaker 1: of our phase of life, because— I'm dead inside. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I found Lexi so relatable on multiple levels. But when
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  Speaker 1: she talks about her regret about the way that she's
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  Speaker 1: parented Piper and like, was I not present enough? And
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  Speaker 1: I just, I have that thought all the time. All
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  Speaker 1: the time. But I felt no judgment. I think I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to cry. Go ahead. Towards the character of Lexi
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  Speaker 1: because she was doing what needed to be done. Absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's because of the stage of life that
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  Speaker 2: I'm in right now. You and I both, we have
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  Speaker 2: kids who are away at college. And I'm watching this movie,
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  Speaker 2: I'm reflecting like, man, their childhood went fast, right? And
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  Speaker 2: I have all these regrets of like, why didn't I
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  Speaker 2: get on the floor and play with her more? Why
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  Speaker 2: did I think that the house needed to be cleaned
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  Speaker 2: over that? And so I have all these regrets of like,
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  Speaker 2: in my head, I wanted it to be Controlled and
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  Speaker 2: perfect and whatever, but then missed out on all this fun,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm quoting fun stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Because it wouldn't have been fun to you. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that it wouldn't have been fun to me. It's that
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  Speaker 1: I put more importance on other things. And now with
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of hindsight, those things are not really
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  Speaker 1: that important. So this storyline really hits. hit me in
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  Speaker 1: a tender spot. You know, it hit me in a
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  Speaker 1: tender spot too, but I almost for different reasons because
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  Speaker 1: not for different reasons, but I had a different reaction
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  Speaker 1: to it because I did understand, like you said, I
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  Speaker 1: understood Lexi saying like, man, I have regrets about, I
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  Speaker 1: have parental regrets. And I understand that because I have
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  Speaker 1: that every single day. And I think all the time,
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  Speaker 1: like I have one kid in college, I have one
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  Speaker 1: kid still at home and I'm trying to walk that line.
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  Speaker 1: But also she's like, yeah, my husband, Her dad gets
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  Speaker 1: to be the fun parent and I get to be
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  Speaker 1: the vibe killer. And that's me a lot of times.
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  Speaker 1: And my feeling watching Lexi was like, but someone had
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  Speaker 1: to get those things done. And it's not even so
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  Speaker 1: much choosing cleaning the house over getting on the floor
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  Speaker 1: and playing. Sometimes it's she has to work. Yeah. Was
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  Speaker 1: she perhaps too focused? Am I perhaps too focused on
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  Speaker 1: the to-do list of life? 100%. That is who I am.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a lists person. I like to get things done.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, she's single parenting this daughter
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  Speaker 1: and life needed to happen. She's the primary parent in
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  Speaker 1: this situation. So I gave her and by extension tried
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  Speaker 1: to give myself some grace. Same. Okay. Same.
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  Speaker 2: What I loved about this movie as well, kind of
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  Speaker 2: in the same thread, is that it doesn't just give
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  Speaker 2: us one version of motherhood.
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  Speaker 1: We have June, who is, I don't want to say kooky.
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  Speaker 1: Kooky is not the, what's the better word to describe it? Free-spirited. Free-spirited.
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  Speaker 1: A little more easygoing. And both versions are okay. Okay. Right?
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  Speaker 2: They're perfectly acceptable. And I love that they have that conversation.
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  Speaker 2: The conversation between Lexi and her mom, June, I thought
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  Speaker 2: was so special about, like, I was this kind of parent.
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  Speaker 2: You're this kind of parent. I don't blame you for that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't blame you for that. Like, it was just
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  Speaker 2: really special, I thought.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the conversations at the end that Lexi and Ridge
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  Speaker 1: have with their parents, Lexi's conversation was more powerful to me.
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  Speaker 1: And her story is obviously the bigger one. That was
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  Speaker 1: really a highlight for me when they're both getting the
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  Speaker 1: chance to explain themselves, getting the chance to apologize a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. I found those stories very powerful. And when
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  Speaker 1: June is explaining the reality of why her relationship ended
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  Speaker 1: was a little bit different than the way Lexi had
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  Speaker 1: internalized it. It was really well written for....
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  Speaker 2: I think a really fleshed out story for a writer
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  Speaker 2: who's only written three movies.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I mean, obviously, like, there are writing credits
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  Speaker 2: on IMDb, say, three movies. This person could have written tons.
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  Speaker 1: Of things and it just... Anyway, that's my point. Has
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  Speaker 1: had three movies made. Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: There was a scene between Wowie Zowie Webster, that's just
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  Speaker 2: my name for him, Ridge and Lexi, and Lexi says
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  Speaker 2: to him, like, oh, I have parental regret. And he's like,
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  Speaker 2: what is that? What was so great here is that
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  Speaker 2: he he's like, there's still time. Like there isn't a
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  Speaker 2: eulogy for Piper's childhood, right?
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  Speaker 1: He's like, wake up.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't say wake up, but to me, it was
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  Speaker 2: Victor Webster telling me, wake up, Wendy. Like you still
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  Speaker 2: have time. Like you have a, hopefully a full adulthood
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  Speaker 2: of your child to be part of their lives and
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  Speaker 2: have fun and be, do all the things that work
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  Speaker 2: on those like regrets that you've maybe are hanging on
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  Speaker 2: you as when they were little.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the 18 summers nonsense makes me so mad
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  Speaker 1: because your relationship with your child doesn't end when they
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  Speaker 1: transfer into adulthood. I mean, your child has been in
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  Speaker 1: college for a month and you've already had three weekends
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  Speaker 1: in which you guys have gotten to, and obviously it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to continue that every two weeks you get
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  Speaker 1: to see her, but like you've taken trips and you've
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  Speaker 1: gone to visit her and you are developing this whole
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  Speaker 1: new relationship. Yeah. With her, even though her primary residence
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  Speaker 1: isn't in your home all year long. Right. And you're
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  Speaker 1: living that firsthand, and that's such an important message. There's
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  Speaker 1: not a timeline on this. Right. You still get to
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  Speaker 1: have a relationship with them.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think there's that narrative that we stop
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  Speaker 2: being parents when our kids– Turn 18 or graduate from
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  Speaker 2: high school or go away to college or go away,
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  Speaker 2: move out or.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's a good question. But do you think it
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  Speaker 1: has to do with, like, you have less control? Like,
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  Speaker 1: their lives are not for you to mold when they
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  Speaker 1: become adults. You're not making decisions. And so... It does
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  Speaker 1: take a little bit more work to be present. For me,
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  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily, like, I am a control freak, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily want to control every aspect of my
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  Speaker 1: child's life. Watching them make their own decisions and figure
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  Speaker 1: things out on their own is so exciting for me.
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  Speaker 1: The idea that, like, it's over once their day-to-day is
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  Speaker 1: no longer managed by me feels a little bit silly. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it does, right? Yeah. Yeah, and I think also maybe
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  Speaker 1: we've redefined a little bit what relationships with adult children
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  Speaker 1: look like or what they can look like. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like you move out and then you just see your
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  Speaker 1: parents on the holidays. Or it certainly doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: be like that. It doesn't have to be, yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: think probably part of the problem, though, is that some
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  Speaker 1: people have a really hard time transitioning into that adult
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  Speaker 1: relationship with their children. They're so used to being in
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  Speaker 1: control and having their opinion be the one that matters
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  Speaker 1: most that it can be hard. for them to make
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  Speaker 1: the transition. Deep thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Let's talk about some less deep things.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Verity Marks was so good as Piper, the teenager.
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  Speaker 1: I thought she was great.
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  Speaker 2: This felt like it was written for an actual modern
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  Speaker 2: teenager rather than, like, a 48-year-old writer trying to, what
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  Speaker 2: they think a teenager is like. And I thought she
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  Speaker 2: played it so well. There was a lot of, like,
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  Speaker 2: Facial expressions and reactions when Ridge is like, oh, I
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  Speaker 2: got the tea.
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  Speaker 1: Like she was so embarrassed for him. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I just love that. I thought that was very real.
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  Speaker 1: Really good.
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  Speaker 2: Additionally, I really like the casting of Piper and Lexi
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  Speaker 2: as mother and daughter. Piper being biracial is simply just
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  Speaker 2: a part of this family.
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  Speaker 1: Family.
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  Speaker 2: The movie doesn't need to stop and explain it. It
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  Speaker 2: just is what it is. We don't need any backstory
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  Speaker 2: about Piper's dad.
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  Speaker 1: Or anything like that. It just made sense. It reflects
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  Speaker 1: what real families look like. I liked that. Yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of the things I thought about immediately
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  Speaker 1: when she comes on screen. Here's some things I liked. One,
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  Speaker 1: Ridge and Lexi are very different, and I was a
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: little bit worried about That in our first movie, Out
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  Speaker 1: of the Gate, we were going to get an enemies
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  Speaker 1: to lover situation. And we do not. It's a whiff
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  Speaker 1: of it. So when they first meet in the lodge
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  Speaker 1: and she says... She's confrontational. Well, what is it that
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  Speaker 1: you don't think that's mean? I don't know. It's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit not nice. I have thought about this and
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right. But I also wonder... If that
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  Speaker 1: was less towards him and more, she's just so in
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  Speaker 1: her head about who she is and the way she's
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  Speaker 1: perceived as the vibe killer, as this person with parental regrets,
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  Speaker 1: as the one who's no fun. I think that's all
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  Speaker 1: on her. I think you might be right. And I
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  Speaker 1: think even when her daughter says to grandma, like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: she's always choosing work over fun. That's like such a
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  Speaker 1: teenage thing to do, just like to complain about that. It's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my kids have never said like, oh, I
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  Speaker 1: hate you. But they've certainly said they make big generalizations.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the mom took it to heart. And
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  Speaker 1: I did love that Grandma June defended her in that moment.
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  Speaker 1: Even though Grandma June is more of the fun one.
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  Speaker 1: But I agree with you. That confrontation... I initially saw
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  Speaker 1: as contentious and I did reframe it a little bit
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  Speaker 1: for myself. Later on, there are a lot of moments
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  Speaker 1: where they approach things differently or he offers a different
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  Speaker 1: point of view and she just accepts it. She's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good idea. Or, oh, here you do this.
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  Speaker 1: The two of them don't really have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: conflict with each other, which I like. Because as I've
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  Speaker 1: said a hundred times, it's very hard to do Enemies
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  Speaker 1: to lovers, well, in 80 minutes, where you got to
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  Speaker 1: convince me these two hate each other, and now they
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  Speaker 1: like each other. And it's– that takes time. Enemies to
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  Speaker 1: lovers kind of needs to be a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a slow burn, and it's hard to slow burn in
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  Speaker 1: 80 minutes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, have you ever met somebody that, like, right
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  Speaker 2: off the bat, you're like, I don't like you. And then, like,
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  Speaker 2: your first instincts are usually right, right?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Probably. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't– you don't ever just turn around and– three
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  Speaker 2: days and be like, oh, now I really like this
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  Speaker 2: person and I'm in love or I even want to
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  Speaker 2: hang out with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Like the kind of person who says like, nice
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: to meet you. And you're like, I've met you seven times.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Stop that. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if that's ever
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: happened to me, of course. Okay.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I have just two more likes. Barbara Niven, always lovely.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: June was very Barbara Niven-y.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. If that makes sense. She was a little Dolores Swenson.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: That's in my wishes. Okay. Leave it alone. But, you know,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: a little Dolores-y. Yeah. But it's okay. Like, I love Barbara.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: What's not to love? She's great. Also, you know, we
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: talk about the smooch-o-meter, right?
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Smooch-o-meter.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: The smooch-o-meter barely hit.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Anything in here. However, I really did enjoy Lexi and
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Ridge's first kiss. He like embraces her in this hug,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: which I felt was very intimate because like the top
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: of his face was on her forehead. And I was like,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: these two barely know each other. This is very intimate
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: where we're going. And then they just have this very
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: nice lip on lip kiss. It wasn't, you know, overly
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: smooch worthy, but nice. And normal, I thought.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about that moment. Oh, you didn't
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: like it? I loved it. Pre-kiss, they're in like a
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: side hug. And like you said, his mouth is like
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: right at her hairline. And I was like, give the
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: people what they want, Webster. Because the people wanted the
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: forehead kiss. Every book talker in the world, we want
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: that forehead kiss. A hair talk at the kiss, that's
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: all we need. It was right there. I mean, his
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: lips were practically touching our hair. I wanted it.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Skin.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I wanted it. I thought it was great. Loved that scene.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Did you like the kiss or were you wanting something more?
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: The kiss was fine. The kiss was fine, but I really...
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I didn't even need a sexier kiss. The forehead kiss
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: would have been so intimate. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I just thought
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the lip-on-lip was a totally reasonable kiss for what stage
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: of the... 100%. We're macking it out, you know? They're
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: not there yet. No. No. Macking it out, man. We're
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: showing our age.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: 48, baby. Yeah. Guys, if you're not Patreon subscribers, you
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: are really missing out. There's a couple moments that I like.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: There's a moment where Lexi and Ridge arrive and Ridge
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: is like, oh, we're going to give our parents like
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: a little bit of alone time. And he just takes
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: her elbow and leads her away. Something about it was
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: very intimate to me. I'm not sure what it was.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And the snowshoe rescue scene. Many moments in this movie
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: were relatable, but this one to me as an anxiety
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: girly was perhaps one of the most relatable because Ridge
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and Lexi are on their way to rescue their parents.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: They're stuck in a snowdrift. And he's like, man, it's
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: beautiful out here. And she's just like trudging along. She's like,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I got to get there. I got to get there.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I got to save my mom from mortal danger. Yes.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: And he's like, first of all, she's not in mortal danger.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: They're stuck up to their waist. And he's not snide
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: about it. My tone is snide. He's not snide about it.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: He's like, they're okay. If there is a problem that
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: needs to be solved, I can't focus. It doesn't matter
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: if I've got to do this long walk to the
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: woods and there's nothing else to do but look around.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: So I might as well enjoy it. That doesn't matter.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Once the problem has been solved, then I can look around.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: And I very much appreciated that she was like in
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: problem solving mode, all business. And then she kind of
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: was like, okay. I can, two things can be true.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I can enjoy the view and go save my mom.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: What are you thinking about? I'm thinking about, who snowshoes?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: That's too much work. Yeah, 100%. I was like, that's
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: not fun. Yeah, why did we not take a snowmobile
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: out there? Too much exercise. Can you imagine?
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Like, I'm not anti-exercise, but I was like, that is,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: it's trudging through snow on like Tennis rackets, essentially.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Like, never. It doesn't look fun to me either. Doesn't
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: look fun to me either. Like, I wouldn't do, like,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: what's the ski walking on the skis? Cross-country skiing? Is
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: that what it is, where it's kind of just like,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: on skis? Yeah. They're not like this. They're just doing this. Well,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: they have poles, but it's on flat ground. Too hard.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: You know it doesn't look fun to me. But also,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I don't find hiking enjoyable either. Oh, I like hiking.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Did you know that? I didn't. When was the last
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: time you hiked? I don't know, but I enjoy it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I like walking. I like the idea of a hike,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: but really only for the first 20 minutes. Yeah. I mean, notoriously,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I remember you telling me you crying in Oregon on
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a hike. The Multnomah Falls hike's no joke. The switchbacks
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: up at the top. No, I don't want to do that.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I need to do like a gingerly, like nice trail hike.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I was in like the height of my sciatica. I
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: was in a lot of pain climbing up that damn... Anyway. Okay.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: But also. I often cry on a hike. Put me
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: on a snowmobile. That's fun. Yeah. Arms wrapped around Ridge.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Hard to have a conversation, though, with helmets on and that.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Don't care. You know. Oh, yeah, baby. Have you been
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: on a snowmobile? Nope. I have. They're kind of scary.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: How is it any different from like an ATV? I
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: think an ATV would be scary, too, although I've never
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: been on one of those. It's so fun. It's just like,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: you know, you're slipping inside and all over the snow.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Jet ski.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Any different than a jet ski. Well, a jet ski,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: if you fall off, is less dangerous than a snowmobile.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Because you fall into the water? Yes. Well, you fall
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: into soft snow, like, hopefully. Snow is ice. There are trees. Okay. Look,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: a family member of mine was very severely injured in
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: a snowmobile accident. Oh, that's terrible. I'm sorry. So.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I'm just a big baby. I'm afraid of everything. It's
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: a little bit scary. You're not afraid of everything. I'm
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: afraid of a lot of things. I'm afraid of snowmobiling.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Are we on wishes? Where are we at? No, we're
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: still in links. Okay, go ahead. I love when Piper says,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: you're so cool, Mom. And Lexi goes, I am? Cute. Yeah,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I need more moments like that in my real life. God, same. Hey,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll come back to
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: talk about our wishes. We'll be right back. All right, Wendy,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: what'd you wish for?
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: For the first movie of Countdown to Christmas, I needed
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: a little more fanfare, a little more kickoff.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: And what would that have looked like to you?
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: This feels like a very perfectly pleasant movie, sort of
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: middle of the road, a little bit deeper than... Maybe
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I'm making it more deeper than it really.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Is, but... I don't know. Just like... Would you have
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: swapped Saturday's movie with Friday's movie for the kickoff? You
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: would have. Yeah. That Bears movie? Even though the Saturday
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: slot is the more watched slot. Well, I mean, I'm
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: not a programmer at Hallmark. Right. So I don't know.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: But I don't know. Just like... Yeah. Viewer experience is
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: different than what's best for ratings. Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I almost feel like this is a better Sunday night movie.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: And then maybe they should put a little bit more
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: kind of Hallmark tradition.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Tradition. Classically Christmas. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, that's me.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I just needed like. Yeah. Does this feel like something
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: that may have been over on Movies and Mysteries where
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: like the family storylines deeper than the romance storyline? I
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: think so. But I think there's room for it all
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: on Hallmark Channel. It's fine.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Like.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. I just think that was where the division
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: used to lie. Yeah, for sure. For sure.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: You know, I love me some Victor Webster. You know,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: but this particular version of Hey Brach. Have you considered
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: relaxing a little bit? You know, version middle-aged, no shade
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: to Victor Webster. I honestly have no idea how old
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: he is, but like, you know, he's a man of
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: a certain age, you know? It just didn't totally land
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: for me. There were moments that landed for sure, but
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: I think I like Victor Webster as Chad.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Like, I like that, that actor.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: And like, you know, of course, as an actor, I
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: was thinking about this. They probably don't want to play
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: that certain character all the time. So maybe it was
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: fun for Victor to be a little more, hey, brah,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: ski instructor.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I want Victor Webster as his character in Working Moms.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Not on Hallmark, baby. He's a bad boy. God.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Give me a Hallmark Plus series with that Victor Webster.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I would super be into that. But, you know.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Also, there was this element of tightly wound woman, relaxed
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: guy who's got all the answers that.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Gets on my nerves a little bit. Of course. I
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: knew it would. I knew it would. Oh, you knew
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: it would for me? Yeah. But I do appreciate that
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: he's not the one who solves all her problems. Yeah.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, he gets some good advice. Yes. But she, yes.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: But for real, it was, all I could think was like, hey, bruh. Well,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: our news and notes alluded to it, but Amanda Scholl
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: is that girl. Girlfriend can dance. And it is truly
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: tragic that they made her, like, flap around goofily up there.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I was like, why did we not do a nod
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: to her iconic center stage character? I think I actually—
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Have her pretending to rev a motorcycle or something. They
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: should have. They should have put an Easter egg in there, right? Yeah,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I think so, too. Girl can dance. I think so, too.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I think she has, like, actual ballet training.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Ballet training. Yes!
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And they were having her do, like, the pony
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: or whatever.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Actually, Barbara Niven was doing the pony
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: at one point. They were like saying, the pony, the pony.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: They were making a TikTok or whatever with the granddaughter.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: But yes, when they were just having their little dance
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: scene around the bedroom, I was like, they should have
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: dropped an Easter egg in there.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Jeff Beasley, this is on you, my friend. I love you.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Somehow I doubt that Center Stage is one of like
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Jeff Beasley's, you know, comfort watches. It's mine. Mine too.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: What's not to love? Here's my biggest wish. Okay. Ridge
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: and Lexi have the audacity to get mad at their
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: parents for trying to matchmake them after Ridge and Lexi
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: did the exact same thing. Yeah, it's kind of silly.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: And they manufactured these. They're so mad. They literally did
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: the same thing. It makes no sense to me. Why
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: are you so mad, bro? They got outdone by the doer.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: What's the saying? You can't outdo the doer. I don't think,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I don't. They got done by June and Dan.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: We're pissed that June and Dan executed it better.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Than they did? The only reason it seems like they
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: executed it better is because June and Dan were in
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: a secret relationship. They were already together.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: That's my biggest wish.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Why is that a secret? Who cares? These are... Full
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: adults with adult children. Yeah, and Lexi would have been
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: thrilled to know that her mother wiggas the entire movie.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: She's like, Mom, it just makes me so nervous that
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: you're out here having all these adventures alone. Mom, I
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: worry about when you travel because June has all these misadventures.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: And even Dan was like, maybe if you planned better,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have all of these issues. But, yeah. Why
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: did they keep it secret for a year? Great question.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Do you think her daughter's going to be like, oh, Mom,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: you're not allowed to be in a relationship. Yeah. No.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Dumb. What needed to happen was Lexi should have been like, Mom,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: do you want to marry this guy because you fought
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: big time with him since we've been here for four days?
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Did June and Dan not argue a lot?
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: They did seem to argue a little bit, yeah. Over
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: stupid stuff? Yeah, and it's all the same kind of
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: stuff that perhaps, you know, he's basically her dad. Yeah.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: The by-the-book guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so when they come out, like,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: they get engaged, I was like, no, especially. I would
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: never get married again. So if I was, say, this character. June.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: You have your place. I have my place. But we
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: go out every night. We have dinner together every night. Like, whatever.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Every night. Well, couple nights a week. Couple nights a week. Yeah,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: couple nights a week. Because June's very independent, right?
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Right. june's a fun time gal you telling me june
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: doesn't have 25 girlfriends that she's like.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: She got a mahjong group she got a book club
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: she got a wine club she got a dance club
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: she got a whatever yeah.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: I would i would say no to this proposal me
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: too that's why i was like no don't get married
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: but i'm i am who i am No.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. I would never get married again. That's
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: why Megan and I are going to end up living
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: in like a retirement community like next door to each other.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: We're going to live in the over 55 community. Over
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: 75 community, babe. What are you talking about? I'm nearly 55.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: We'll have our dogs and we'll have a gate between
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: our two backyards so we can go visit each other.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: And then we retreat to our own spots when we
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: need like our recharge alone time.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: That's right. You know. Yeah. It's going to be amazing.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: My last wish is that Tinsel and Tal is such
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: a huge nope for me. I'm all out on humiliating dares. Oh.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like truth or dare either. But I
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: did think it was kind of cute. I would never
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: do that karaoke either.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, karaoke? No. Like, you didn't see us on the
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Hallmark Christmas Cruise doing karaoke. We would never do that.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Would you ever do karaoke? First of all, who's singing
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Jingle Bells? It's Karoloke is the problem. Karoloke. It's Christmas Karoloke. Karoloke, karaoke.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I'm not doing either of those things. Yeah, no, both
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: are humiliating for me, but I think Karoloke is worse. Because?
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Because who wants to get up and sing a Christmas carol?
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Not Jingle Bells. Jingle Bells is the worst Christmas song
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: there is. I don't know that I have an opinion
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: about that. Up on the housetop, reindeer paws. Me neither.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: What about, like, grandma got run over by a reindeer? But, wait,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: did they do another? Oh, oh, shout out. The escape
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: room I thought was great. Oh, my gosh. Nicely executed. Disagree. What? What?
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Have you ever done an escape room?
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Twice. I thought they did it wrong. How so? First
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: of all. Nicely executed, nice set, time and energy was
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: put into it. But escape rooms aren't done like a
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: scavenger hunt. Yes, they are. No, they're not. They're not like,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: find the next clue and unroll it and then go
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: find the next clue. It's like, oh, what? The one
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I did was at Irvine Spectrum. It's like, find a
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: clue and unroll it and then go find the next clue.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Because every escape room I've done is like, walk into
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: this room. Oh, look, here's numbers on this board. Oh, look,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: those numbers are in this painting. Oh, look, those numbers must... Okay, well,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I did like at the end where they find the
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: key in the... Whatever the final clue was. And I
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: liked that they tied it all together. Did you feel like...
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Are they going to open in time? Oh, that was
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: nicely shot. Yeah. Like the countdown. Yeah. Yes, I was
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: nervous for them. Are they going to get out? Yes.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: I did an escape room where we needed more time
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: and they just gave us more time.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course. And then they gave us– And then
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: they gave us– Well, you lived there forever. They gave
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: us all these hints to figure it out.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Like that was the second– it was much, much harder
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: than the previous one I had done. So, yeah, I
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: thought that– Was all really well done.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: I'm shocked. And I like that it was Christmas themed.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Give me a Christmas. I mean, I like that it's
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Christmas themed too, but I'm shocked that you liked that
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: it was Christmas themed. I just thought it was a
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: good idea.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Why don't they have more of those? Maybe they do
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: and I just don't seek them out.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Like in during the holiday season. I think that's fun. Yeah.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Now that I'm talking about the details of it, I
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: think maybe it was better than I than when I
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: experienced it. Anyway, I think I need to give the
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: escape room a little bit more credit. It's just like
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: kind of It doesn't serve a whole lot of purpose,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: I guess. I liked it. Okay. Are you ready to talk?
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Did you see that? Yes. And I only have one.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: All right. Let me hear it. Was this movie sponsored
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: by Columbia Sportswear? Oh. I don't think it was. You
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: see the tags?
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: At one point, I was almost consumed by, are they
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: wearing Columbia Sportswear stuff?
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Yes. Rather than watching the movie. Like Ridges- Ridge's fleecy
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: sweatshirt zip up, quarter zip. Yep, yep, yep. But it
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: wasn't like, ooh, look, King's Hawaiian. It was, you know. Yes.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: It was organic product placement, if that's the case. If
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: it was, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Or maybe the costumer just went to an outlet and
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: was like, let's do it, you know.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: They were in real snow, right? Well, that's one of
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: my did you see that's is this. For a countdown
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: to Christmas kickoff movie seemed to me very clearly to
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: have been filmed in real winter with real snow and
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the trees are barren. It's nice. Yeah.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why they don't do that more often.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Other than like logistics and schedules and availability. Yeah, it
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: would be great if they were all filmed during real
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: winter instead of July.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it was night. Where was this? This is
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: supposed to be like. Colorado? Breckenridge. Yeah. That's not what
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Breckenridge looks like, just for anybody who's wondering. Haven't been there,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know. What does Breckenridge look like? I mean,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: it just looks like a ski town, but... Wasn't it
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: a ski town? Yeah, but it just doesn't look like that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: One question. Do you think Victor Webster did any of
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: his own snowboarding? No.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: No.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know. The doubles in this movie, and I
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: have to assume there were doubles, did a very nice
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: job with the ski and snowboard scenes. They were really skiing,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: although they're kind of alone on the mountain. Oh, there
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: wasn't like 8 million people out there? No, which is
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the only way I ever want to ski again is
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: if I'm alone on a mountain. Have you done that?
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Skiing on a mountain alone? Yeah. No.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, you made it sound like that's the only way
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: I ever want to do that again is.
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  Speaker 1: To have the mountain all to myself. No, I just
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: am not a good skier. And so if there's, I need,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I need to do like a real wide, I haven't skied.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: How old's my youngest child? 20 years. How old's my
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: oldest child? I need to do real wide, like swoop, swoop.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: And you can't do that when people are like, shoom. Yeah.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: It's also really hard to do it when you share
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the mountain with snowboarders because skiers and snowboarders move differently. Anyway,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: that's why. Don't you snowboard too? Uh, the last time
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: I snowboarded, I was 20 years old, broke my wrist.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: We'll never do it again. Yeah.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: I am, you know, I'm just, I have osteoporosis, so
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: I'm definitely not ever, ever getting on a pair of
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: skis and I've never snowboarded. So, I mean, I could,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: I broke my ankle in the garage, so I'm definitely, no.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I'll never do it again. It's, it's, I think it's
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: a skill that you need to learn young in order
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: to not be afraid of it. Yeah. Anyway, my last
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: did you see that is why, why are they decorating
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: a Christmas tree in a cabin with 12 other decorated
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: trees already in it? Good question. The act, perhaps. Yeah,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: but I was thinking about that. Is the act of
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: decorating a tree actually fun? In my honest opinion, no.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: And the only thing that's fun about it is when
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: it's your ornament. Yeah. When it's sentimental and when it's
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: in your home, you're just using some random ornaments in
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: a In a tree, in a place where you do
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: not live and you're not going to be there long
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: enough to enjoy it. So where is the joy? Like
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: maybe for some people, the act of putting ornaments on
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: a tree. are enjoyable. But I think for most people,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: it's the nostalgia of it. It's the, let's make my
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: home beautiful of it. And none of that exists here. Yeah.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Who's the hater now? I guess you. Don't take you
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: to a beautiful place.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Cabin in Breckenridge.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Well I would love to arrive to a beautifully decorated
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: cabin my family and I my parental family and I
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: went to Aspen for Christmas one year when my brother
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: and I were adults and we had decorated trees in
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: our room it was lovely but I didn't want to
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: arrive and decorate it myself yeah at that point I'm
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: in vacation mode I don't want to do any of
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the work baby give me a mistletoe magic drink that
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: he was talking about and sit me in a ski
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: lodge all right what did you rate this movie I
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: gave it three stars. Okay. I hear the question mark.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: It's because, like, I was thinking about my rating situation, right?
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Like, three stars is a very enjoyable movie. Yes.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: During Christmas here, three stars, very enjoyable movie. Four stars,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: you got to make me turn my head like... And then,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: you know, a five star is like, I love it.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Hands down, we'll watch again. So, it.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: It was nice. I gave it three and a half stars.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 40:48
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