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Unexpected Grace · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Movies and Mysteries is either mystery or misery.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so I think that's accurate.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to a Girl's Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: review podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Megan and I'm a lifelong Hallmark movie fan.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Wendy, and I'm no fun because you should never
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  Speaker 3: ever release balloons into the sky like ever in my
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  Speaker 3: notes too.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, good.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're discussing Unexpected Grace, which originally aired on March
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  Speaker 1: twelfth on the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Channel.
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  Speaker 3: show notes.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a ton of new Hallmark news and notes
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  Speaker 1: because this is our second time hitting that Hallmark train
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  Speaker 1: this week, but I do have some ratings information. Game
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  Speaker 1: of Love, which we reviewed earlier this week, was the
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  Speaker 1: seventh most watched cable program on Saturday night, with one
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  Speaker 1: point four million viewers, behind only sports. It is college
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  Speaker 1: basketball on college basketball. On college basketball right now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Wow, that's exciting, that's good news. I'm thinking that
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  Speaker 3: Unexpected Grace maybe didn't do that well because the Oscars
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  Speaker 3: were up against it. You know, I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: many people are watching the Oscars these days, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna say it's probably more than this movie. Perhaps not.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm curious to see when that comes out. Well,
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  Speaker 2: actually it is out.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on, Oh tell me.
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  Speaker 2: You bring up a good point. And I'm curious how
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  Speaker 2: many people were watching the Oscars. I have that right here.
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  Speaker 1: So the Oscars had eighteen million viewers.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, which seems like a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It was the number one show on Sunday Night, although
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  Speaker 1: technically it falls into a different comparison category because.
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  Speaker 2: That's network programming and we're talking about cable props.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you're right, yes, yes, but again.
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  Speaker 1: That is where the lion's share of television viewers were
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday night. Unexpected Grace didn't do very well. It
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  Speaker 1: had about six hundred thousand viewers. And what I would
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  Speaker 1: like to do is hold out for the live plus
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  Speaker 1: three ratings because I think it's gonna do well if
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  Speaker 1: people are catching up post Oscars.
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  Speaker 3: Viewing. I hope so, and I hope that they hear
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  Speaker 3: this podcast and go, oh, I need to watch that movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a new movie being teased for Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: Movies and Mysteries starring one Miss Jodi Sweeten.
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  Speaker 2: Oh really.
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  Speaker 1: She teased that she is working on a mystery that
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  Speaker 1: will be out this spring. She did not name a title,
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  Speaker 1: but said it's based on the Jane da Silva mysteries.
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  Speaker 1: Jane DeSilva is a character in four novels from the
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  Speaker 1: nineties written by KK Beck. I don't know anything about those,
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  Speaker 1: neither do I zero things. No, they are they're They're quiet,
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  Speaker 1: little novels, I think. But I am excited for a
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  Speaker 1: Jodie Sweeten mystery franchise. And I say franchise. We don't
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  Speaker 1: actually know that, but often we already we know we
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  Speaker 1: have four books to build off of, so I think
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  Speaker 1: ultimately their goal is to build these out into a franchise.
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  Speaker 3: And spring, I'm guessing we're gonna see that any time
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  Speaker 3: between now and May.
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  Speaker 2: It's got to be soon. Yeah, I would think we
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  Speaker 2: already have.
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  Speaker 1: All of our April movies and nounce, so let's say
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  Speaker 1: probably May, okay, and that's all I got for a Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: News and Notes.
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  Speaker 3: Nay, thank you, you are welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Ready for synopsis?
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  Speaker 3: I am. When lonely young Grace finds a note from
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  Speaker 3: a schoolgirl looking for a friend, she excitedly writes back,
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  Speaker 3: setting off a chain of events that ultimately changes the
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  Speaker 3: lives of three people, stars Erica Durance and Michael Rady Rady.
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  Speaker 1: I want to tell you that I have been in
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  Speaker 1: my mind all this time we've been. Michael Rady's been
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  Speaker 1: in ten Hallmark movies. This is his tenth, and in
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  Speaker 1: my mind I have been conflating him with actor Tom
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  Speaker 1: Cavanaugh because I was remembering, misremembering Michael Rady in a show,
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  Speaker 1: and I even this morning googled Michael Rady Bowling Alley Show. No, No,
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  Speaker 1: that show was called ed it started Tom Cavanaugh, we'll
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  Speaker 1: do a side by side for you. Okay, they're similar,
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  Speaker 1: But this entire time I was like, he was in
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  Speaker 1: that Bowling Alley show with Claire Bowen that I really like.
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  Speaker 2: No, he was not.
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  Speaker 1: I apologize Michael Rady. He has been in quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit though, including Timeless, the rebooted Melrose Place, Unreal, Wendy's
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  Speaker 1: Favorite Movie, on New Years Resolution, on the Hallmark Channel.
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  Speaker 3: You know he also played the Greek hottie in the
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  Speaker 3: two thousand and five Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
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  Speaker 2: Oh did he? I saw them? Did? I didn't realize
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  Speaker 2: who he was? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: That funny.
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  Speaker 2: He was also in the TV show Greek. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he has a pretty deep resume.
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  Speaker 2: I really does, he does. Say. Jane the Virgin was
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  Speaker 2: in there too, and I love that show. Yeah, isn't
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  Speaker 2: that wild?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Also this starred Erica Durant say, as I said before,
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  Speaker 3: she plays grieving mom Noel. She was last seen in
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  Speaker 3: We Need a Little Christmas, Color, My World with Love
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  Speaker 3: and North's Home all in twenty twenty two. Plus she
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  Speaker 3: was in Lifetimes Girl in the Shed the kidnapping of
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  Speaker 3: Abbie Hernandez, which I watched.
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  Speaker 2: She played them in that movie. I did.
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  Speaker 1: They talked about on our favorite radio show, Jeff Lewis Live.
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  Speaker 3: They do they talk about the Girl in the Shed
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  Speaker 3: franchise because I think one of their like regular guest
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  Speaker 3: either directs or writes or she's a starz in Lifetime director. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, this reminded me that you and I still
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  Speaker 1: need to watch North to Home because it stars Erica
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  Speaker 1: Duranz and Kimberly Sastad.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we're really missing out on that movie.
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  Speaker 3: I know I need to like google the next time
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  Speaker 3: that airs, put it in my friendly app something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, something. Hey. The story credit for.
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  Speaker 1: This movie goes to Eugenia Zuckerman, who, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is seventy nine years old and this is her first
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  Speaker 1: writing credit.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys, do not give up.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that wild? I loved that. I was like, wait,
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  Speaker 3: I had to take out my calculator and now she
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  Speaker 3: had like co written a book with her sister too,
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  Speaker 3: but has no film writing credits.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't that so cool?
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  Speaker 3: The teleplay is written by Mark Hefti, who has sixteen
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  Speaker 3: writing credits, including eight Dickens of a Holiday, My Christmas
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  Speaker 3: Family Tree, Beverly Hill's Wedding. I like two out of
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  Speaker 3: three of those movies and was writing, I have to
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  Speaker 3: go back and watch a Dickens of the Holiday. I'm sorry, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I remember the first time I watched it, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: really love it, but I know a lot of people did,
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  Speaker 3: so I it's on my.
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  Speaker 2: List to watch again. All opinions are valid.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this was before like I realized how good of
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  Speaker 3: an actor Christopher paulaha Is, So.
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  Speaker 1: I just need to go back and well, un to
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  Speaker 1: your credit, you did call out his acting in a
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  Speaker 1: positive way in that movie.
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  Speaker 3: He was really good in this like monologue scene. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: all right.
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  Speaker 1: This was directed by Linda Lisa Hayter. She has nine
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  Speaker 1: directing credits, including five More Minutes Right in Front of
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  Speaker 1: Me and Christmas in Evergreen Bells Are Ringing.
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  Speaker 3: She also she also directed a Lifetime movie called Dirty
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  Speaker 3: Little Secrets starring Melissa Joan Hart. I haven't seen it,
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  Speaker 3: but it's about hoarding and I was like, Oh, that
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  Speaker 3: seems like something I would like to watch to go on.
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  Speaker 2: Your watch list.
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  Speaker 3: The picture is like the movie poster pictures like Melissa
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  Speaker 3: Jonhart and like a daughter in the background is just
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  Speaker 3: like stacks and stacks of stuff inside their house. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, oh, yeah, I'm into it. Yeah, I gotta
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  Speaker 3: watch it. This was filmed in Vancouver and it was
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  Speaker 3: reported to be negative fifteen degrees celsius or about zero
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  Speaker 3: degrees fahrenheit during the filming of this movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, real cold. They had the opposite problem.
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  Speaker 1: They had to make a movie film in the winter,
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  Speaker 1: look like it was filmed in spring.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess that's the problem you have when you
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  Speaker 3: I mean, our weather is so weird right now, so
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  Speaker 3: they could be making they should be making Christmas movies
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  Speaker 3: right now, right, I think, seriously?
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: One final thing too. Erica Tremblay plays daughter Grace. She was.
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  Speaker 3: She has a uncredited role in the Tyler Hines movie
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  Speaker 3: Always Amore.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. This is her fourth Hallmark movie.
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  Speaker 1: She was also in Perfect Match and Hope at Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but those she had to be young in those movies.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready for your first impress of this movie?
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  Speaker 3: Sure? And it's a simple one.
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  Speaker 1: This movie wrecked Me, wrecked Me, same page mine is.
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  Speaker 1: I would like an apology from Homemark for breaking my
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  Speaker 1: heart so sad.
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  Speaker 3: It was so sad, but it had a nice ending.
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  Speaker 1: It had a lovely ending, and I think you know
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  Speaker 1: all the perspective in the world here. You and I
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  Speaker 1: are the mothers of teenagers and we both have tween
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  Speaker 1: and teenage daughters, and this.
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  Speaker 2: Really hit me.
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  Speaker 3: M all right, let's talk about what you liked about it.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a really well done look at grief.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of messy and their behavior is imperfect, and
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  Speaker 1: that makes it kind of hard to watch. Not in
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  Speaker 1: a the acting is bad way, but in a oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is making me feel things I don't really want
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  Speaker 1: to feel. Watching all mark on the movie, this wasn't
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  Speaker 1: very escapist in many ways. Oh sure, yeah, but I
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  Speaker 1: think they did an nice job tackling grief in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of forms.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know what.
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  Speaker 3: To your point, there was a Christmas movie. It was
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  Speaker 3: called Our Italian Christmas Memories during the Christmas time. I
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: don't think you saw it. It was on h M
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  Speaker 3: and M. It was definitely not an escapist movie. It
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  Speaker 3: was about the father of the family had dementia or
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  Speaker 3: Alzheimer's and it was so heartbreaking. And I gotta say,
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  Speaker 3: I like the like I like realistic movies. I know
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  Speaker 3: people want to watch like movies and TV too, like
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  Speaker 3: run away from their real lives. But I'm okay with
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  Speaker 3: a sprinkling of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I agree.
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  Speaker 3: So this movie was really like that for me too.
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  Speaker 3: I I overall really enjoyed the story and I was
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  Speaker 3: happy that these two families could come together in the
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  Speaker 3: wake of grief.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I think in this movie the casting was spot
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  Speaker 1: on For me. I cannot think of another acting pair
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  Speaker 1: that I would have rather have playing these roles. I
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  Speaker 1: think Erica Trump's not Erica Trembla, excuse me. Erica Durance
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  Speaker 1: is the perfect grieving mother in this movie, and Michael Rady.
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  Speaker 2: Plays the single father role.
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  Speaker 1: I just think the roles are cast so well.
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  Speaker 2: The chemistry the two have together, it just works.
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  Speaker 3: I agree. I thought they were excellent in these roles.
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  Speaker 3: Especially Michael Brady.
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  Speaker 2: I thought was I just thought he was so good.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I want him more on Hallmark Channel. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's busy doing a lot of other stuff, but I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: can we get him in a movie more than like
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  Speaker 3: once every three years?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: I liked him, And I want to say shout out
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  Speaker 3: to Erica Tremblay too, who nailed the annoyed teenager.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I know she's like thirteen or fourteen, but like she
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  Speaker 3: nailed it. I was like, oh, man, I've seen this face.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard these reactions in my own house from my
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  Speaker 3: own teenager. She did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I think so too.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Michael Rady, I really liked the arc that
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  Speaker 1: they gave single dad Jack in this movie. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he started off his daughter's having a hard time making friends,
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  Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, just be nice to people.
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  Speaker 2: And I can totally remember.
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  Speaker 1: I could totally see my parents saying that, like just
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  Speaker 1: be nice when you'll make friends. Come on, that's not
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  Speaker 1: good advice, dad. And she's struggling in school and he's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: just try harder, and I kind of remember feeling like
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  Speaker 1: you need to step up, like she needs you.
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  Speaker 2: And then he does, and.
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  Speaker 1: He shows up and talks to their teacher and tries
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  Speaker 1: to figure out how to make it better. And I
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  Speaker 1: think we see he's figuring it out too, He's doing
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  Speaker 1: it on his own.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I wrote.
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  Speaker 3: I really enjoyed the character of Jack because he didn't
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  Speaker 3: have it all figured out. He was like learning how
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  Speaker 3: to be a widow. He was learning how to date again,
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  Speaker 3: learning how to connect with this teenager.
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  Speaker 2: And like.
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  Speaker 3: It was just nice to watch somebody on TV who
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  Speaker 3: didn't have the whole parent game down. Like I hear
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  Speaker 3: what you're saying about, Like, yes, he needed to step
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  Speaker 3: it up, and he does, which is great, but like
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  Speaker 3: it's nice to see like a realistic view of parenting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he needed, he needed to be struggling. He was
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  Speaker 1: still figuring out life on his own, and I kind
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  Speaker 1: of like it all comes together towards the end when
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  Speaker 1: Noel I don't know why I said it like that,
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  Speaker 1: Noel offers to have Grace stay with her when he
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  Speaker 1: goes off to Portland and he goes real like daddy bear.
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  Speaker 1: In that moment, she's like, she stays with me, like
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  Speaker 1: he knows that he can do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I really enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I gotta say, I love the vulnerability that David
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  Speaker 3: Atar he played grieving dad Brian when he comes out
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  Speaker 3: to the cabin and he's just like I miss her,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, oh my gosh. And what I
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  Speaker 3: really enjoyed too, is that we didn't have a movie
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  Speaker 3: where two exes hated each other like it was it
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  Speaker 3: just their circumstances. They had this daughter that died and
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  Speaker 3: their marriage suffered because of that a lot like what
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  Speaker 3: we've been talking about on the way home. Yes, but
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  Speaker 3: you didn't have like these two people who were like
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  Speaker 3: there was intension between them. It just was like, this
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  Speaker 3: is where we're at and it.
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  Speaker 1: Sucks, like their story is over, but they're still on
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  Speaker 1: the same team.
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  Speaker 3: And then that makes way for like it easier for
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  Speaker 3: her to get together with Jack. We weren't like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: she's cheating on her husband. You know, like what we've
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  Speaker 3: been critical about like lately with some of them.
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  Speaker 1: She says, I don't regret my time with you, like
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  Speaker 1: we had something really special. It just forever. That's a
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  Speaker 1: really beautiful look at marriage. Like the ridge didn't fail,
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  Speaker 1: It just didn't last an entire lifetime.
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  Speaker 3: That is the scene where they are in the kitchen
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  Speaker 3: and she thanks him for giving her tony and I
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  Speaker 3: was just like, oh mg, I am a mess.
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  Speaker 2: It was so good. Yeah, so good. Anything else you liked,
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  Speaker 2: that's it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's move on to what did you wish for?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you already said it. My one wish is no
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  Speaker 1: balloon release.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, yeah, Well, in the did you see that? Like
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  Speaker 3: at the end, it sounds like they dub in a
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  Speaker 3: voice over about biodegradable balloons.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Oh friend, I did do some googling. Are you ready
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  Speaker 1: to hear it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Tell me because I did too.
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  Speaker 1: Well, biodegradable balloons are not really a real thing. Like
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  Speaker 1: there was a study in nineteen eighty nine paid for
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  Speaker 1: by the balloon industry that ultimately came out and said,
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  Speaker 1: like pieces of balloons that pop are as biodegradeable as
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  Speaker 1: an oak leaf in six months and then there's all
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  Speaker 1: these other groups that came out and we're like, well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, they could never replicate that information. Second
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  Speaker 1: of all, even if that were true, an oak leaf
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  Speaker 1: does not pose a day injure risk, a safety risk
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  Speaker 1: to an animal on the ground that's going to eat
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  Speaker 1: it and choke on it, while a slowly biodegrading balloon will.
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  Speaker 1: And most balloons are not one hundred percent latex. They
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  Speaker 1: got all these other.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff in them.
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  Speaker 3: Any nickles, yeah yeah, and they usually have a ribbon
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  Speaker 3: attached to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, great point. Also dangerous for animals, yes, yeah, So yes,
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  Speaker 2: there's not really a safe balloon release. I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I know people think they're lovely, they're they're not good
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  Speaker 1: for the environment.
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  Speaker 3: I cringe every time I see somebody doing that on TV.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, me, don't do.
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  Speaker 1: That well, And it made me mad because I was like,
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  Speaker 1: this lovely thing, like this squirrel releasing this note to
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  Speaker 1: be found by someone in the future.
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  Speaker 2: It made me like, I don't like this part of it.
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  Speaker 2: It made me mad that I had to dislike that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I one hundred percent agree.
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  Speaker 2: Now let me tell you.
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  Speaker 3: When I was in elementary school, a second or third grade,
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  Speaker 3: we did something like this. We tied like it was
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  Speaker 3: like to find a pen pal and you released it
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  Speaker 3: into the balloon.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds familiar, and I remember it being so awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And every time I see a balloon like in the
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: bushes as an adult now, I always wonder is Sarah
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Notes attached to But you know there's usually not anyway.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Just don't do that, guys, just don't do it. Okay,
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: here is something I wish for. I wish I would
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: have had a heads up on how Jack's wife died.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna tell you it's probably personal to me. No,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: it's not that like as a breast cancer st if
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: I remember myself with a teenage daughter, all of it
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: hits a little close to home. I don't like to
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: be blindsided by cancer storylines. And this is on nobody's
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: radar who's never had cancer, you know what I mean. There,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: I will tell you there are tons and tons of
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: articles and lists on the internet it says skip these
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: movies if you've you know, are dealing with breast cancer
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: and you don't want to see like a breast cancer storyline. Yeah,
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: So I just wish I could have had a little
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: bit of a headset, but it would have been it
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: was fine.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: It was fine.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: It just was oh oh for me.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that it's.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Well. To put it in another way, I think it
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: might be a nice thing to consider in media going forward,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: just throwing a trigger warning on there.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Like books are starting to do that a lot now.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: H.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Just really quick.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, we get it for some extreme things, like
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: we'll get it for like sexual violence or depictions of
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: self harm, but maybe just these are the things that
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: might be make this movie not for you, just real
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: quick on screen. Oh my gosh, can you imagine, like
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I know, the Momark crowd's gonna come for us.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: They would just be like, uh, they're so woke, even
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: though that's a terrible like.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Description, but you know what I mean, I do, Okay.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: What else I wished for is that Noel she needed
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: to be straight up honest with Grace from go that
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Tony had passed like the whole like communication between the
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: two of them and Grace like not realizing that she
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: wasn't communicating with another teenager was unfair.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I thought.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: I did love how Noel's coworker was like, Nope, you
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: need to fix this right now. Though she didn't really
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: not in that Like when she was writing that email
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: that he was like, no, you need to write it now.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: It still wasn't actually very clear.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Right, she tries to end the relationship without giving her
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: all of the information.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Yes, exactly. I was like, that's mean where Grace is
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: being catfish?
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Oh No, I thought about this a lot too, and
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I agree with you.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I wish Grace had all of the information because I
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: hate being in the dark. I hate finding out that
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: other people knew things that I didn't know.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: And they knew that I didn't know them.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: And even though there was no harm meant in this interaction,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: think she was maybe trying to protect Grace as much
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: as she was trying to keep herself.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: From having to say those things out loud.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I think part of it speaks a little bit to
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the messiness of this whole thing. Like, no one's behavior
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: in this was perfect, But yeah, I didn't like Grace
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: kind of being in the dark that whole time.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all I had. I that's all I wished for.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: What about did you see that?
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Okay, I have a couple.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's hear it now.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: You would only know this if you watch I'm not
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: saying you. I'm saying to the listener, if you watched
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: both movies this week, two movies with a character named Audrey.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Oh we had we had Jack's potential dating lady. Her
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: name was Audrey in this movie. And then Audrey was
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: the main character in Game of Love.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: That's a funny lineup.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Another scene when they were the weather was not helping
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: them when they were trying to get the bubbles to
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: go across the lake and they were like blowing the
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: all away. I was like, what can you do though,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: like it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I know, but end is blowing.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I saw a photo though, like of a pulled back
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: scene and it was just snow cover snow, snow, snow everywhere.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: So they're like, make it work people, Yeah, exactly. And
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: finally for me, when Grace is trying out for the
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: basketball team and she's just throwing brick after brick after brick,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: and then the dad, no, Jack, you don't stand up
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: and be like, I'll give you forty bucks if you
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: can like whatever. Like I would know my daughter would
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: kill me he plays basketball. She would ground to swallow
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: her whole totally. But then like Grace is supposed to
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: be like this awesome defender and Nope, that's not how
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: you play defense in basketball. It was not great.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: It was like with Max, it out of their hands.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: It's not great, girl, you gotta put your hands up.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: We gotta put it out wide anyway.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: That's all.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: That's all I got.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I love it, all right, let's rate unexpected grace.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: You go first.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: I gave it four point five stars.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: It was half a star for.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: The terrible cheesy jokes that I get were part of
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: their characterization.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: But love, I liked those jokes. I you know what,
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: I had forgotten all about Hi until you just brought
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: him up right now where he was like chardonnay, no,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: my name's Jack.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I loved it. I love a good dad joke like that. Wow,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I'm surprised with the four and a half stars. I
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: gave it four stars. I thought it was a solid, good, watchable,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: great movie. There was nothing I didn't really like about it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: So maybe four stars is too low.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I hear you, I hear you.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I loved this movie. I thought it was great.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: And let me see, why was it on Hallmark Movies
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: and Mysteries. This should have been on the main channel.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Well, I was reading a review that said Hallmark Movies
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and Mysteries is either mystery or misery.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Little so I think that's accurate. That's funny.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: So we have another two movie week next week and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: it's a big hitter. We've got Tyler Hines a picture
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of her and the cases of Mystery Lane starring Paul Campbell.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Big week coming up.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Friends, Thanks for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Hallmark.
• 23:41
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• 23:43
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• 23:49
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• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Bye bye two