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Mingle All the Way · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Welcome to Girls Gotte Hallmark, a bonus episode
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  Speaker 1: of Long Story short the podcast I'm Megan, I'm Windy,
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  Speaker 1: and today we're doing something a little bit different and
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  Speaker 1: we're throwing it back to twenty eighteen with a review
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  Speaker 1: of a Hallmark movie that is not from this year.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be doing a few of these throwback
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  Speaker 1: reviews during this holiday week, so make sure to keep
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  Speaker 1: popping in and checking. We are not going dark for
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  Speaker 1: the holiday week. We have new episodes coming Tuesday and Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: both this week and next week. You know, we've been
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  Speaker 1: reviewing Hallmark movies all season long, so make sure to
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  Speaker 1: check our back catalog, and if you just can't get enough,
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  Speaker 1: we have bonus Hallmark movie reviews on our Patreon, which
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  Speaker 2: You can also shoot us an email anytime Megan and
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  Speaker 2: Wendy at gmail dot com. Tell us if you liked
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  Speaker 2: mingle all the way when you originally watched it back
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  Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, or if you caught a repeat of it,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, it's always always replaying, so yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 1: A popular replay. And how about a synopsis?
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  Speaker 2: All right? A young entrepreneur is trying to win over
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  Speaker 2: investors for the dating app she has developed to help
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  Speaker 2: bring hold the phone dating app. Oh my gosh, I
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  Speaker 2: have so many words, and obviously I did not read
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  Speaker 2: this synopsis when I cut and paste it. Let me
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  Speaker 2: finish it here to help bring on investors for expansion,
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  Speaker 2: she promises to take part in using it in the
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  Speaker 2: coming weeks before Christmas to fine love and track her progress. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 1: What about dating app?
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  Speaker 2: Do you take issue with? Well, I don't want this
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a dating app. It should have been a dating app.
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  Speaker 2: But it was a business connection app. Yes, that's what
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  Speaker 2: she was pitching it. She wasn't pitching it as a
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  Speaker 2: dating app. Okay, let's talk first impressions.
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  Speaker 1: How about news and notes?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, news and notes?
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  Speaker 1: Mingo. All the Way was filmed and you guessed Vancouver, Canada.
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  Speaker 1: As we mentioned, it originally aired in twenty eighteen. And
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  Speaker 1: I have to say that watching a twenty eighteen Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: movie through my twenty twenty one Hallmark lens did some
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  Speaker 1: things to this movie for me.
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  Speaker 2: What tell me? Well, I would like to save that
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  Speaker 2: for my first impression. Okay, Okay, fine, fine, more news
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  Speaker 2: and notes. Brandt thought he's got that IU.
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  Speaker 1: It's just Daughtry like Chris Daughtry. That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Efin last name, I can't. I don't know why I
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  Speaker 2: have struggle with that particular sort of last name. Anyway, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what is it Daughtry like Chris Daughtry. Okay, Brandt Dougherty
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  Speaker 2: looks what is it like Shannon? It looks like Shannon,
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  Speaker 2: like Doughty? Like it's not Daughtry because it's r T.
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  Speaker 2: Y Oh, brand I'm so sorry. I look, I don't
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  Speaker 2: mean to be a joke. I hate it people can't
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  Speaker 2: say people's names. I have a very easy name to say.
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  Speaker 2: People have said it wrong my entire life. So I apologize.
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  Speaker 1: Brant Uh Doughty whoa, I'm so sorry. Okay, let's go on.
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  Speaker 2: What about brand You're so funny? Yeah, I just can't
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  Speaker 2: say it. He looks just like Matt Boemer. I'm so
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  Speaker 2: tongue tied. Right now, and I can't say anybody any
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  Speaker 2: anybody's name anyway, Bomber Boomer from White Collar.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we I totally agree, and we're gonna need a
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  Speaker 1: side by side of the two of them in our
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  Speaker 1: show notes.
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  Speaker 2: I will. But when in the show notes, there's a
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  Speaker 2: bazillion of them on the internet because I looked it
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  Speaker 2: up because I was like, he looks like who And
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  Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, like there's many people agree
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  Speaker 2: with you, yes, exactly, And many times I was like,
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  Speaker 2: is that that guy from White Collar? Is that the guy? Like, Nope,
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  Speaker 2: it's not. What are you drinking?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's gone. Now, it's gone. Now it's my
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  Speaker 1: mad I made a candy cane ice coffee at Starbucks
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Oh exciting. Yes, how do you make that?
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  Speaker 1: It's an ice coffee with peppermint and vanilla.
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  Speaker 2: I have more news and notes please. This movie also
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  Speaker 2: stars The Bionic Woman herself, Lindsay Wagner. Were you too
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  Speaker 2: young for the Bionic Woman?
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  Speaker 1: The Bionic Woman is not in my pop culture wheelhouse?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was in the seventies, Like I
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  Speaker 2: think I watched it in repeats actually as a child,
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  Speaker 2: as a very young child. Yeah, uh yeah, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of cool to see like her in this movie. Shocks great.
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  Speaker 1: I have a quote from Jen Lily about this movie,
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  Speaker 1: and tell me if you agree with this. She says,
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  Speaker 1: it's one thing I loved about the script is that
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  Speaker 1: it's a little outside the normal formula. And that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Podcasters note disagree. It's still got that Meg Ryan Tom
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  Speaker 1: Hanks charm that I look for in wrong coms. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so sorry, but I disagree with that as well, Jen Lily. Now, look, Brent,
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  Speaker 1: possibly saying it wrong Darty is a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a wowie zowie for me. But my wish list in
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  Speaker 1: this movie is really just a one giant list of
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  Speaker 1: complaints I have about this movie.
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  Speaker 2: Meggie, Oh my god, so is mine actually put it in?
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  Speaker 2: Did you see that? Well? No, I all over, I
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  Speaker 2: have questions, I have complaints. Yes, okay, okay, let me see.
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  Speaker 2: I even have a brand new category for this episode. We're
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  Speaker 2: on the same page. Okay. Here are some updated news
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  Speaker 2: and notes. So, Jen Lily is currently pregnant, and what
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  Speaker 2: I found out is that this child will now make
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  Speaker 2: them a family of five. I didn't know she was
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  Speaker 2: like an advocate for foster care, and she has previously
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  Speaker 2: adopted two children from foster care. Then they have a
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  Speaker 2: biological daughter and she is currently pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: Now did you know Jen Lily has two albums?
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  Speaker 2: I did. I watched a video of her singing did
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  Speaker 2: you see it? No, I'm gonna leave it in our
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  Speaker 2: show notes, guys, it's so bad. Oh no.
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  Speaker 1: So she has a holiday album and then she has
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  Speaker 1: an album called Hindsight.
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  Speaker 2: The video I watched I think is from the Hindsight album.
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  Speaker 2: It's called the King of Hearts. It was terrible. It
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  Speaker 2: was so bad. Oh table Jen Lily? Oh boy, My
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  Speaker 2: final news and notes is that? And this one really
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  Speaker 2: chaps my head is generally is starting in a Gag
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  Speaker 2: Family movie on November twenty seventh at eight pm called
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  Speaker 2: Royally Wrapped for Christmas. Oh generally, So, I obviously won't
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  Speaker 2: be watching that movie, but I have seen I think
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  Speaker 2: it's sleepy Kitty pot who has been saying that, like
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  Speaker 2: those movies that air on Ghak Family, are then available
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  Speaker 2: to stream the next day on a different platform, So
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  Speaker 2: if you don't want to support Gag Family on their
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  Speaker 2: original watch, then you can watch it the day ye.
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  Speaker 1: Like a lot of them are on the IMDb platform,
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  Speaker 1: which is free with ads, and then I think some
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  Speaker 1: on Paramount for free.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm just gonna speak.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not watching them at all, but definitely find them
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  Speaker 1: streaming elsewhere. I never hope for the downfall of a business,
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  Speaker 1: but Gas holiday movies aren't even rating, Like, they don't
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  Speaker 1: even make the ratings, and so look, I'm not upset
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  Speaker 1: about a business who's primary goal is hateful, not succeeding.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it.
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  Speaker 2: Are you looking to see how their movies are rating?
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  Speaker 1: Like our friend Sleepy Kitty Paw shares it, I say,
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  Speaker 1: our friends. She doesn't know who we are, but shares
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  Speaker 1: it on Twitter regularly. I think she needs in there.
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  Speaker 2: We asked her, We asked her him they we don't
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  Speaker 2: know to be on the show, and they declined.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, cby Kitty POPA is to keep a lower profile.
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  Speaker 1: Did not really anticipate their insider knowledge blowing up, but
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  Speaker 1: we do appreciate their presence on Twitter. They are a
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  Speaker 1: go to source of Hallmark and holiday movie information for me.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready for first impressions? Yeah? I am so.
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  Speaker 1: All of the movies. We are doing three throwback movies
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  Speaker 1: in this holiday break time, and they were all chosen
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  Speaker 1: by me because I'm the only one who's watched.
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  Speaker 2: Old hall Ark movies.
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  Speaker 1: So I suggested some, and I had some. The reasons
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  Speaker 1: I suggested were I thought they would be fun to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. I had strong reasons, but in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: Mingle All the Way was a movie that I really enjoyed.
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  Speaker 1: I said, we have to do Mingle All the Way.
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  Speaker 1: And my first impression upon rewatch is why do I
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  Speaker 1: have such fond memories of this movie? I have so
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  Speaker 1: many issues here.
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  Speaker 2: My first impression is this stupid app stupid movie. Gen
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  Speaker 2: Lily isn't for me. The Wedding Date from two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and five is so much better than this garbage.
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  Speaker 1: The wedding Date.
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  Speaker 2: Yes with Dermott mulroney, where he's like Escort and he
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  Speaker 2: goes with I don't even remember what her name is,
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  Speaker 2: the redhead from Will and Grace. Do you not ever
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  Speaker 2: miss a great movie? This movie? This is a movie
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  Speaker 2: I stop on if it's on TV and I see it.
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  Speaker 1: I adore Dermot mulroney. Listeners of the podcast, you may
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  Speaker 1: not know this, but one of my all ti my
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  Speaker 1: favorite movies is My Best Friend wedding. Do not watch
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  Speaker 1: it with me because I know every line and cannot
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  Speaker 1: stop myself from quoting the entire movie. I think I
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  Speaker 1: need a wedding date rewatch as a palate cleanser after
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  Speaker 1: this steaming garbage.
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  Speaker 2: Totally oop pot take.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I only have one thing I liked about this movie.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, but what was your first impression?
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  Speaker 1: Why do I have such fond memories of this movie?
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  Speaker 2: I have so many issues here. Oh my bad, my bad, Okay, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: what what did you like? Then?
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay Wagner plays an uptight mother so well. The look
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  Speaker 1: on her face when Jeff brings the eggnog is classic. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I hated her character, but Lindsay Wagner sold it.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely agree. That is my number one liked item.
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  Speaker 2: When Jeff brings his famous egg nog to Molly's parents'
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  Speaker 2: house and the mom is horrified and stashes it to
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  Speaker 2: the side. I get that it's by design, but it
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  Speaker 2: was damn funny. Yes, we're funny, and her face was everything. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: loved it.
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  Speaker 1: Poor Lindsay Wagner really really drew a stinker in this one,
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  Speaker 1: but she she was a gem. Is there anything else
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  Speaker 1: you liked about this movie because I'm gonna admit I've
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  Speaker 1: got nothing else to say.
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  Speaker 2: One more, one more, a finer point when Jeff gives
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  Speaker 2: the angel to Molly's dad at the Christmas exchange or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was very nice.
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  Speaker 1: I will agree that was a nice moment.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you, But I mean it was like a
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  Speaker 2: blip in the overall of this huh stupid ass story
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 1: In the wish section, this is just not so much wish,
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  Speaker 1: more like what the.
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  Speaker 2: Is happening here? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: May I begin go for it?
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  Speaker 2: First? I have, Uh, how is it possible?
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  Speaker 1: They never discussed where she works? They are networking buddies,
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  Speaker 1: not actually dating.
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  Speaker 2: Because she, I think, tells him that she is tech
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  Speaker 2: or yeah, an app developer, but he doesn't like inquire
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  Speaker 2: about like, oh, what's your app about?
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  Speaker 1: Not? How is that not? The next question?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Completely agree? Do single professionals really need other single professionals
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  Speaker 2: escorts to company events? Is my question.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this movie is from twenty eighteen, not two thousand,
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  Speaker 1: not in eighteen sixty five, so it seems like people
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  Speaker 1: do not need to be coupled to be taken seriously.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, like I'm into very many like events with
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  Speaker 2: my husband, like work events, and nobody asks me like
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  Speaker 2: what I do or you know what I mean, Like
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  Speaker 2: I'm just there as his date, his wife, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, and they don't take him more seriously because he
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  Speaker 1: settled down. And in fact, for women, I think perhaps
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  Speaker 1: they take you less seriously because they're afraid you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: go get pregnant, have babies and disrupt their business plan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they want you to stay single. They don't dating anyone.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get married. Then that starts a ticking clock and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to have coverage for you while you're
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  Speaker 1: out for six months.
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  Speaker 2: Totally. Well, I will never forget when I worked in
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  Speaker 2: I worked for an automotive company at one time, and
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  Speaker 2: that's a lot of young professionals and there was like
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  Speaker 2: a string of like pregnancies and management was not happy
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  Speaker 2: about that.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I'm not tell you that. No. I when
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  Speaker 1: I was teaching when I had my first baby and
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  Speaker 1: I went out early on maternity, I was not one
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  Speaker 1: of those like teach up until you have the baby.
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  Speaker 1: My doctor was like, you need to be done, and
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  Speaker 1: my boss was like, you know, my wife and I
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  Speaker 1: were both teaching when she had our daughter, and we
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  Speaker 1: worked right up until the day she went into labor,
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  Speaker 1: and we both walked into our office like she's in labor,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, Wow, I'm really really proud of you,
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  Speaker 1: but I am absolutely not doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like why I set that expectation? God, I hate people,
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  Speaker 2: all right, keep going.
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  Speaker 1: There's a moment toward the end of the movie where
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  Speaker 1: they're at a party and Jeff is approached by an
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  Speaker 1: ex girlfriend and he has a very brief, very u
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  Speaker 1: vanilla conversation with her. It's very benign, and Molly gets
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  Speaker 1: pissed and she doesn't even give him a chance to
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  Speaker 1: speak to her after the fact, and saying hello to
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  Speaker 1: an ex isn't a betrayal and their conversation is like
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  Speaker 1: four minutes long.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is where, like the Hallmark tropes really get me, Like, yes, Jess,
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  Speaker 2: communicate to each other who that was and that it
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  Speaker 2: was not a big deal. And why you're you getting
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  Speaker 2: pissed Molly because you don't even like this guy, or
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  Speaker 2: so you say, Oh, I want to punch her in
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  Speaker 2: the face. I hated Mollie.
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  Speaker 1: I found her obnoxious And if she loves Christmas so much,
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  Speaker 1: why doesn't she do it herself? She's an adult woman.
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  Speaker 1: The entire premise of this movie is that she's independent
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  Speaker 1: and she doesn't need a man, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I'm on team you don't need a man to be complete.
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  Speaker 1: But also, you are an adult. You can decorate your
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  Speaker 1: own tree, you can make your own Christmas magic. Who
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  Speaker 1: cares if your parents go to Aspen for Christmas?
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  Speaker 2: Now right? Right? Okay, So back at the beginning, and
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  Speaker 2: this is we're circling back to this. But the synopsis
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  Speaker 2: says that she has created a dating app. But isn't
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  Speaker 2: she adamant that it's not a dating app?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think I guess it's a dating app without
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  Speaker 1: the intention to find love. It's more of a dating
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  Speaker 1: with a purpose app.
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  Speaker 2: A dating app so stupid, it's so stupid. Why not
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  Speaker 2: create a dating app for professionals? They have dating apps
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  Speaker 2: for farmers, so why can't they have a dating app
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  Speaker 2: for professionals? And I have a.
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  Speaker 1: Category that I wrote twenty eighteen through a twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one lens, And it was so revolutionary in this
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  Speaker 1: movie that people were meeting each other on apps in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. As far as I know that is
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  Speaker 1: the only way people meet each other. Everyone on the apps.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only way they like meet each other. It's
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  Speaker 2: the only way people they hook up, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean? Like nobody goes to like a bar anymore,
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  Speaker 2: just to like, I don't know everyone apps.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very curious from someone who is in the dating
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  Speaker 1: world right now, if you feel like you need a
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  Speaker 1: date to an event, would you ever try and meet
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  Speaker 1: someone via an app to do that? I think it's
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  Speaker 1: possible that someone would feel like I do not want
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  Speaker 1: to show up to this cousin's wedding alone because everyone's
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  Speaker 1: gonna say the right right, like do you want to
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  Speaker 1: meet someone and not like fake dating, but like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we could have a good time together. I don't need
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  Speaker 1: you to be my boyfriend, but let's go have fun
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  Speaker 1: at this event. Do people do that?
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say the answer is yes, yeah. But email
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  Speaker 2: us Megan and Windy at gmail dot com. I would
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  Speaker 2: want to know right totally. Do you have anything else.
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  Speaker 1: You wished for? I wrote Brent sucks, but so does Mollie.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote the same thing. I got a completely different couple.
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  Speaker 2: Mollie and Jeff. We're not a match? Is his name?
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Brent is Jeff's coworker. Who oh Mollie, Oh Jeff's boss.
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  Speaker 1: I believe yeah, and also thus outing Mollie to Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand why she doesn't tell him. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, it's twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: We have the Internet.
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  Speaker 1: People are googling the people that they're dating, particularly if
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  Speaker 1: you're dating them in this circumstance, like you want to
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  Speaker 1: make a good impression. It's a fifteen second Google search.
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  Speaker 1: Her name would immediately pop up as the founder of
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  Speaker 1: Mingle all the way. Secondly, wait, why is it bad
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  Speaker 1: that you created the app?
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  Speaker 2: I don't You're.
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  Speaker 1: All there with the intention of using each other to
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  Speaker 1: make a good impression on somebody in the business world,
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  Speaker 1: So why can't you tell him like you created the
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  Speaker 1: app and you're using it for the same exact reason
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  Speaker 1: that he is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why Molly sucks.
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  Speaker 1: Molly sucks.
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  Speaker 2: Molly sucks. I don't like anybody in this movie because
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  Speaker 2: I actually, at times you got that Jeff as a
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  Speaker 2: real dick.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: So I was like, first meeting, he's so mean to her,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: and then after the fact he describes her as like
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: uptight and a grand urus Scrooge, and I mean, she's
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: not not those things. But also he's not like endearing
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: himself to me or anyone in this movie. The only
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: time he behaves in a way that I appreciate is
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: when he walks away from the ex girlfriend. He's like,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: I need to go spend time with Molly. We're here together.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I like thought that was the appropriate response. You don't
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: spend all night talking to the x et cetera. But
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the rest of it, they all sucked. I have one
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: last thing in my twenty eighteen through a twenty twenty
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: one lens, Molly gives the gift of a quote fitness monitor.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I think it's to her future brother in law that
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: she gives it to me.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I don't even remember that what was a fitness monitor.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: It's a fit Bit basically eighteen maybe was like the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Pinnacle because now everyone like uses their Apple Watch or
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: they're smart watch for that sort of thing. But like,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: there was a real high point of the Fitbit fitness
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: monitor step counter craze.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: And it is.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Funny how in the very recent past that.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Was Yeah, it didn't age well and it was not
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: even that.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Long ago or no, it totally dates this movie. I
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: think that's the hard thing when you make a movie
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: about technology, because it really dates the movie.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, are.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: You ready for did you see that? Yeah?
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: And I have several but also a little bit of
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: like complaints. Sokay. The first one the mingle all the
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: way offices are in a garage, which fine, that's very
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: tech startup, right. Did you notice it was in a garage?
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I did, Like, that was a garage.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I saw a garage door, right, But Molly has a
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: nameplate on her desk, like a nameplate that says Molly
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: whatever her.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Last name is.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I was like, dude, it's you and the other guy.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: There's not customers coming in here. There's like no professionals
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: coming into your garage set up, lady.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, your bestie is the only one who comes by.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So dumb, so dumb.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: And they say we'll have a proper office soon enough.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Although the fact that they have any office, it's not
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: one of their kitchen tables for this app startup is kind.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Of mind blowing, right right, They're like, no, we have
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: to go to work every day out in the garage.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Okay, So Jim Lily for me is
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: the queen of the Si. Every sentence ends with like
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: some sort of heavy sigh, Like it's always like, well,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: my mom is unreasonable or like I wanted that. Angel
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I just so annoying to me. Every the way she
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: talks is so like it's not breathy. It's just this
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: like acting sigh. I hate it. She's almost unwatchable to
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: me now, because that's all I notice.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I love it terrible. Do you have any did you
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: see that I have?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: At one point she has to make up an app,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: and her made up app she's like, uh, my app
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: is called book it, And I just laughed because remember
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the boocket program when we were in elementary school and
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: you would get like a free pan pizza at pizza
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Hut if you read six books at school.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: No, I don't remember that at all.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Oh man, there was a pizza Hut in Orange on
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: like no O Ranchin Lincoln, and you would go there
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: for our free pan pizza. I can remember my dad
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: taking my brother and I'm sure my mom was like
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you take them. And they had video games and they
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: had one of those driving video games that I really like,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: not like sit down. This was like nineteen eighty seven,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: but like a stand up deriving game I would play
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: every time we went for my free pan pizza from
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the Boocket program.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: It wasn't position, was it pole? Position?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: May have been? May have been fellow gen xers way
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: in book it you were mine?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I don't remember book. It's probably because I didn't read
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: when I was.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I would also like to know how that fabric angel broke.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: At one point.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: The face was the face fabric too, because it almost
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: looked porcelain.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I thought, okay, perhaps, but the whole premise is like
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: this angel that's in a big dress broke, and now
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: we don't have it anymore. So okay, I'll give it
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: to you. The porcelain face broke.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Okay. So but speaking of the angel, so when she's
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: in the store and like comes in and is like,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: is that a blah blah blah like from an old
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: department store or whatever, she grabs it, then she puts
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: it down. Uh huh, Like, are we to believe that's
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: the cash register that she's putting it at? And it is?
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: That's when you say, like, can you hold this for
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: me while I shop?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's a dummy.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: She just puts it down. That's on you generly, Molly
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: stupid ass, like, yes, somebody else is if somebody has
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: something and puts it down, it's fair game.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: It is fair game one hundred percent. And that was
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Jeff's angel. I have one true did you see that
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: from this movie? And that is when they get into
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the carriage. It is raining outside. You can see it
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: on the ground, like it is actively raining their puddles,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: but there is no rain falling on them when they
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: are in the carriage, so it's not like fake rain.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: It's like there someone's like holding something over them as
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: they are writing in that carriage because they do not
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: get wet, but it is raining.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's like a canopy over them or something that
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: you can can't see. Oh, I didn't notice that. Did
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: you see the Jurgen's lotion product placement?
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, did I ever this? I remember that
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: like on her desk right, yeah, something like that. I
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: remember that actually from the first time I watched it
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: because it's so really they like zoom right in on it.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: This is pre Balsam Hill sponsorship. Okay, my last did
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: you see that? And this is just more of a complaint,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: but Molly's assistant like shows her some branding ideas for
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Mingle all the Way. And he's like, and then we
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: can change it up seasonally. I'm like, what, No, if
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: you have a brand, you're not changing it seasonally. Like,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: the brand image is what you want people to remember,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: so you're not gonna throw Easter eggs on it at
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Easter time when professionals need other dates? Do you know
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: what I mean?
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: And this is what really gets me is like the
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: app is called Mingle all the Way, which is kind well,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: it is an obvious from Jingle All the Way, which
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: is a Christmas song. Yes, so then you believe that
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: the app is used like during the Christmas season. But
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: then like, who's gonna invest in that an app that
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: is only used like one part of the year, two
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: months out of the year. You know what I mean?
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, this is an app name that works well for
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: a Christmas movie title, but not well for an app
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: that you want to be relatable in February exactly.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: So there you have it.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Stupid, What did you rate this movie?
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I gave it one and a half stars. Oh, I
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: gave it too.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Has some weird nostalgia for me, even though I was
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: mad at it the entire time I was watching it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Well, in twenty eighteen. I mean, life was different in
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, so maybe you were just you know.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I was not watching it with my critical girls gone Hallmark,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I I will tell you that much, right. But I
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: was watching this on my iPad in bed and my
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: husband looks over and he's like, are you watching a
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Christmas movie without me? I'm like, don't worry. You've seen
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: this one. You are not missing anything.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Well I looked on IMDb and this
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: movie got six point nine out of ten. And it's
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: kind of nice to look at IMD reviews that are
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: a couple years older because there's, you know, if it's
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: a current movie, people are still adding their reviews to it,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: so that number changes a lot over the course of
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: like two weeks. But this movie has been two plus years,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: so yeah, six point nine.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: We started with this movie because I felt like we
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: needed to start on a low point. I feel like
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: things are only going to go up from here. We
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: are also talking about A Shoe Attics Christmas and A
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Christmas Waltz, so make sure to come back for those movies,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and later this week we will also have our review
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: of the new movie A Christmas House two Thank you
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: so much for being listeners of the podcast. If you
• 26:31
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• 26:36
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• 26:39
  Speaker 1: helps other people find our podcast. Happy holidays, everybody, have
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: a great week. Goodbye bye.