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Haul out the Halloween · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. This
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  Speaker 1: week we're wrapping up the final movies in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five's Fall into Love lineups, starting with Halout the Halloween,
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  Speaker 1: which originally aired on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, October eleventh,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. You know what this means? The last
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  Speaker 1: week of fall programming here on Girls Gone Hamewark. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: does this give any indication of my excitement for what's
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  Speaker 1: to come? I'm drinking a tazzo joy? Oh you right now?
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  Speaker 1: This is his easy. Yes, I'm excited. I did and
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  Speaker 1: a little stressed, but you know, yeah, Wendy, last night
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  Speaker 1: she was like, we need to meet tomorrow. We gotta
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  Speaker 1: figure out our plan. A little bit of a crash out,
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  Speaker 1: but that's all good stuff for the listeners, it's not
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  Speaker 1: you know. Yes, Countdown to Christmas will begin this Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Can you believe that? I'm excited? I'm really excited, but
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  Speaker 1: I am a little bit surprised by how quickly it
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  Speaker 1: snuck up on me. I know almost because life is
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  Speaker 1: happening around us in big ways, and so I think
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it's here again feels like, oh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not prepared, yeah, but also very excited. Can I tell
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  Speaker 1: you before we even get into our review here, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about Christmas for a second. You know
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  Speaker 1: how every year, in January or maybe it's like late December,
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  Speaker 1: we'll do like our our March Madness esque. Yeah movie,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really on the fence about doing it this year.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, I agree, because last year, well, every year
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  Speaker 1: it's a ton of work, yes, And last year, while
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  Speaker 1: so appreciated, there were so many comments about like, you
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  Speaker 1: should do it this way, you should do it that way,
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  Speaker 1: you should do it this way, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if I have the brain power too well, here are
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  Speaker 1: my issues. Aside from the feedback about the way it's done.
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  Speaker 1: There were some things that happened at ninety nine per Ton.
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  Speaker 1: Of the people that participate are great and do it
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  Speaker 1: all in good fun and make it a great time.
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  Speaker 1: But there were a few things that happened last year
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  Speaker 1: where people were creating new accounts just to vote, and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's kind of not in the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of what we're doing here. And then during the way
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  Speaker 1: home season, we had someone purchase bots to vote on
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  Speaker 1: a meaningless poll. We did, right, and it got me
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  Speaker 1: thinking about the countdown to Christmas Bracket and the way
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  Speaker 1: in which people can now gain the system. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't really want any part of it if people are
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  Speaker 1: going to be gross about it. Yeah, so I am
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  Speaker 1: a little bit worried. So please let us know your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on the account on a Christmas bracket because it is,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, a good time. Yeah, it's just
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  Speaker 1: for fun, but a few bad apples can spoil the
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch. Yeah, and the fate of that project remains
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  Speaker 1: to be seen. On the flip side of it, there's
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  Speaker 1: less movies this year, sure, so it won't run as long.
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  Speaker 1: Might be a little bit easier to manage as well,
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  Speaker 1: So I again, I wouldn't have to do that whole
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  Speaker 1: vote in bracket business exactly. Only twenty seven movies, right, exactly,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm on the fence. I would love to hear
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  Speaker 1: from listeners if they're like, oh my god, I look
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  Speaker 1: forward to that every year. It's so much fun to
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  Speaker 1: hold the key to the bracket in your hands because
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  Speaker 1: we are highly suggestible and so really it's only going
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  Speaker 1: to take a couple people to be like, oh, what
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  Speaker 1: do you mean, you're not doing the racket. Totally I agree,
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  Speaker 1: and we're the only ones who do it, so like
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  Speaker 1: meaning like we're the only podcast who does it, and honestly,
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  Speaker 1: it's a good time. It's fun. Well, speaking of the bracket,
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  Speaker 1: It's fun. It's fun. Hey, let's talk real quick about
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  Speaker 1: about the schedule for a countdown to Christmas. Yeah, we've
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  Speaker 1: never made an official announcement about what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: We this is the first time. We are going to
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  Speaker 1: So excited, so please tune in. We're going to cover
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  Speaker 1: every single movie, every single new movie. I cannot wait.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe I say that our first year that
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  Speaker 1: we did this, we did like one movie a week
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  Speaker 1: a week. Isn't that crazy? And that here we are
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  Speaker 1: So I am happy that Homewark has only got twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven movies this year and not forty because I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I could say we're doing every
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  Speaker 1: new movie. No, it's much more manageable this year. I'm excited. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: in all places. Well, now, let's talk hall Out the
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  Speaker 1: Halloween with asynopsis, Halloween obsessed neighbors inspire residents of Evergreen
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  Speaker 1: Lane to haul out their spookiest costumes and decor to
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  Speaker 1: become ever Scream Lane. McLean Nelson is back at the
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  Speaker 1: Helm for Haul Out the Halloween, having previously directed both
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  Speaker 1: Haul Out the Holly and Haul Out the Holly Lit Up.
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  Speaker 1: His Hallmark resume also includes gems like the Magic of
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  Speaker 1: Lemon Drops Branching Out and the Presence of Love, as
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  Speaker 1: well as the recent Home Turf. Nelson also gets credit
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  Speaker 1: for the teleplay, while Christopher Say is credited with the
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  Speaker 1: story idea. Lacy shabers as Emily A. Lacy has one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three acting credits and was last seen
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  Speaker 1: opposite Robert Buckley in an Unexpected Valentine in early twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. She will also star with Andrew Walker in
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming She's Making a List, premiering this countdown to
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  Speaker 1: Christmas season. This cast list reads like a who's who
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  Speaker 1: of what's coming. Wes Brown stars as Jared. This movie
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  Speaker 1: marks his fifty fifth acting credit. We last saw Wes
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  Speaker 1: in a cameo during Holiday Touchdown A Chief's Love Story,
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  Speaker 1: as well as Deck the Walls, both in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: You will also co star in the upcoming A Newport Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: You know It's not noted here, but Wes Brown is
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  Speaker 1: also the host of the fourthcoming Ready Set Glow Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: which will premiere on Hallmark Channel. It was a Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: Plus exclusive last year. Yeah. It's a fun little watch
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  Speaker 1: if you're into Christmas decor, you know, neighborhood display, That's
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  Speaker 1: what I was looking for. Melissa Peterman returns as Pamela.
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  Speaker 1: Melissa's currently co starring in the NBC comedy Happiest Place,
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  Speaker 1: and will return as co host and judge in the
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  Speaker 1: second season of Finding Mister Christmas. Stephen Tobolowski returns as
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  Speaker 1: Ned with two hundred and ninety eight acting credit. Stephen
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  Speaker 1: recently appeared in the theatrical release of Freaky or Friday
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  Speaker 1: Fun Fact. He will also appear in the forthcoming Mimics,
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  Speaker 1: which is a non Hallmark Christopher Polaja directed movie. Laura
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  Speaker 1: Wardle plays Jared's mom Belenda. This is her eighth acting credit,
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  Speaker 1: and she did appear in the previous two movies. Allen
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  Speaker 1: Travolta returns as Mary Louise. Allen's best known for her
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  Speaker 1: roles in Greece, Happy Days, Charles in Charge, and most
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  Speaker 1: recently on General Hospital. Walter Platts Play's neighbor Bob. This
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  Speaker 1: movie marks his sixty second acting credit. Walter did appear
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  Speaker 1: in the previous two movies, as well as Hallmark's Switched
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  Speaker 1: for Christmas in twenty seventeen. Eliza Hay plays Emily's sister Jess.
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  Speaker 1: She has seventeen acting credits and has appeared in other
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark movies like Hidden Gems and Taking the Reins. Ashley
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  Speaker 1: Wheeland plays Ashlyn Ashworth. Ashley has twenty one acting credits
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  Speaker 1: and this is her first role for Hallmark. Kimberly J.
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  Speaker 1: Brown joins the cast as Luna, with thirty four acting
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  Speaker 1: credits to her name. Kimberly is best known for her
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  Speaker 1: breakout role as Marnie Piper in the nineteen ninety eight
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  Speaker 1: Disney Channel classic Halloween Town, a character she reprized in
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  Speaker 1: several beloved sequels. Beyond her spellbinding start, She's also appeared
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  Speaker 1: in a long running soap operas like Guiding Light in
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  Speaker 1: General Hospital, Kimberly's Real Life has Spend and former Halloween
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  Speaker 1: Town two co star Daniel Koontz joins the cast as Marvin.
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  Speaker 1: With twenty nine acting credits to his name. Daniel has
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  Speaker 1: appeared in popular series including Er, Ghost Whisperer, and United
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  Speaker 1: States of Tara. The two were married in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: and Lacey Shaver was one of her bright We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll come right back with
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  Speaker 1: our first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what was your first impression
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  Speaker 1: of Haul Out the Halloween? This might be the funniest,
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  Speaker 1: most rewatchable Hallmark movie of the year. Ooh, my first
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  Speaker 1: impression is call me spellbound. I loved this third trip
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  Speaker 1: into the hall Out universe. It's so funny. You say
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  Speaker 1: that because I was convinced that you liked it but
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  Speaker 1: didn't love it. Oh No, while I watched I loved
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  Speaker 1: this movie. I was texting Megan, who had already seen it,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, this is so funny.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, this line Oh my god. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: she hates me right now? No, because my like to
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  Speaker 1: your first impression, My like is this movie is so
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  Speaker 1: joy filled. I felt the same way at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the first Haul Out the Hally movie. I was
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  Speaker 1: smiling while watching the credits at the end of that movie,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember looking to my husband, I mean, like,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that great? He did not love that movie, and
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  Speaker 1: I was disappointed when he shared that with me. And
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  Speaker 1: so while I was watching this, I was thinking, I'm
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  Speaker 1: so excited I'm going to get to watch this again.
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  Speaker 1: I was looking forward to watching it again with him
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  Speaker 1: this weekend because we watched this on a screener. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And then I was bereft when I realized we wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be watching it again this weekend because he's not a
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  Speaker 1: fan of this universe. And then I realized I have
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  Speaker 1: free will and I can watch it whenever I want.
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  Speaker 1: I have so many thoughts here. I remember when we
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  Speaker 1: talked about Haul Out the Holly and your husband not
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  Speaker 1: liking it, and I remember probably saying to you, it's
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  Speaker 1: because he's a traditionalist, like he likes the Hallmark formula. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: and that movie during that time was different, very right
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we've gotten more movies like that. Also,
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  Speaker 1: like he can't stand the Gilmore Girls of it all,
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't I want like the rapid Fire. Nope, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not even listening to this part because nope, I have
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  Speaker 1: a feeling. Okay, wait, let's get to it in a second,
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  Speaker 1: because I have a feeling that might be a complaint
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  Speaker 1: of regular Hallmark fans. Well, yeah about this movie as well. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's my point though, Like it's steeped in pop culture
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  Speaker 1: and rapid fire dialogue. Don't jump ahead, I'm not. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just saying that for me. I'm not giving any specific examples. Now, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but for me, that's what's part of what's so great
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  Speaker 1: about this I agree so, and going back to the
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  Speaker 1: first movie, that style is not what resonates with him.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, his opinion is not the point here. I
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  Speaker 1: loved the first Haul Out the Holly movie. I loved
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  Speaker 1: this movie. I loved this movie too. Like you said,
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  Speaker 1: I caught myself smiling the entire time while I'm watching this.
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  Speaker 1: I'mlike a random Wednesday afternoons. I'm laughing out loud, and
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  Speaker 1: my daughter's in the other room and she's like, what
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  Speaker 1: are you laughing at I'm like, this movie is so
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  Speaker 1: damn funny. I'm like, I really think you would like it.
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  Speaker 1: My seventeen year old is not interested by any means,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm like, I really think you would like it.
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  Speaker 1: I could see this being a movie that people trot
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  Speaker 1: out every Halloween, like this is a family Halloween movie.
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  Speaker 1: This is a family Halloween movie that I will put
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  Speaker 1: out every year, like hocus Pocus, like it's the Great
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  Speaker 1: Pumpkin I'm going to give you. I've mentioned this before.
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  Speaker 1: It probably was on our Patreon hub Halloween hub. Halloween
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  Speaker 1: is a movie. We will watch it every year in
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  Speaker 1: my house. It was from twenty twenty. It has Adam Sandler.
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  Speaker 1: It's stupid jokes, it's twelve year old comedy, but it
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  Speaker 1: makes me laugh out loud every time I watch it.
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  Speaker 1: And this had a similar vibe. Interesting. So, my husband's
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  Speaker 1: a big Adam Sandler fan, and over the summer went
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  Speaker 1: on an Adam Sandler deep dive of the movies he
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  Speaker 1: might have missed, Like, you know, he's seen all the classics,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think QUB Halloween is one that comes
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  Speaker 1: to mind when you're like Adam Sandler, Like, right, he
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  Speaker 1: watched that, and I was like, no, because you've mentioned
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  Speaker 1: it before and I wanted to watch it with him again.
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  Speaker 1: I have free will and can watch it on my own.
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  Speaker 1: And now I think I have to, you have to.
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  Speaker 1: This is gonna be this is gonna be my Yeah, October,
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  Speaker 1: first worlds around, I'm going to watch this movie again.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it that much too. I loved it. Can
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  Speaker 1: we talk about the reasons why?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Please? You and I both liked it so much. And
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  Speaker 1: I know we have talked about this a million times.
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  Speaker 1: You already brought it up. But the dialogue was filled
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  Speaker 1: with so many pop cultural pop culture references that it
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  Speaker 1: just hit and it we've talked about, like how much
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  Speaker 1: we love Gilmore Girls and how Gilmore did that during
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  Speaker 1: that time. Of course, the reference says much older about
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  Speaker 1: shrin this was this played in an area that I
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  Speaker 1: was very familiar with. Yes, I don't know if a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the regular Hallmark viewers will pick up on
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  Speaker 1: some of the sure, I agree references they were throwing down.
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  Speaker 1: In a little bit, I'm going to talk about some
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  Speaker 1: of the specifics. Yes, we'll get to it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the pacne right on the money. Shout out to McLean
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  Speaker 1: Nelson because not only did he write it, he directed it,
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  Speaker 1: and so the rapid back and forth dialogue was just
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  Speaker 1: done so well. We talked about it in Home Turf too,
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  Speaker 1: like a movie he also directed, Yeah You Were, You Were?
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  Speaker 1: You liked in that movie. How the scenes would cut
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  Speaker 1: back and forth real tightly. Yeah, yeah, And that is
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  Speaker 1: that does come down to directing and editing, and it
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  Speaker 1: works for me. I like that kind of paycing. I
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  Speaker 1: like when it's rapid fire and it feels like natural
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  Speaker 1: conversation and it doesn't feel like we got this person,
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  Speaker 1: now we're shooting this person and there's an uncomfortable break.
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  Speaker 1: But it was it felt like these people know each other,
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  Speaker 1: these people get each other, these people have a history.
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  Speaker 1: These people are firing off inside jokes and they're firing
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  Speaker 1: off jabs, and this is my family and these are
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  Speaker 1: my neighbors. It just felt like like this is a
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  Speaker 1: movie that has these are this is a cast that
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  Speaker 1: has found its stride and found its place. And I
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  Speaker 1: almost felt a little bit sad by that, because I
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  Speaker 1: do think this is the natural conclusion of this series. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where else we go from here. So
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  Speaker 1: that's funny. You brought that up because I was like,
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  Speaker 1: is the next movie Jared going to Vienna to do
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  Speaker 1: the Santa Class essentially? Right, that's a good question. But
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  Speaker 1: then then how did the Neighbors plan to that? I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because the extended cast in this movie is so good
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  Speaker 1: is what makes it. Yeah, if we can go to
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the movie, yes, so we start with
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  Speaker 1: a wedding, Yes, And I'm mostly really glad that we
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  Speaker 1: spent like five minutes at the top of the movie
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  Speaker 1: kind of bringing this full circle, like bring it home.
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  Speaker 1: They're together, they're getting married. We get this, And it's
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  Speaker 1: so on brand with the with the series because even
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  Speaker 1: the weddings themed, it's very Fall theme. The Fall colors
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  Speaker 1: are very rich, and this very easily could have been
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  Speaker 1: a moment where they didn't spend a lot of time
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  Speaker 1: or effort. But I thought the wedding itself was quite lovely.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. Those Golden hour shots were gorgeous. Yep, you
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  Speaker 1: may kiss the bride shot through the arch with the
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  Speaker 1: all of their guests cheering behind them. They had a
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  Speaker 1: deep cast of background actors to fill that out and
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  Speaker 1: make it look like a real wedding. And then the
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  Speaker 1: bubble shot as their ex exiting. Look, I have chills
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  Speaker 1: right now, so do I. First of all, I forgot
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  Speaker 1: about the bubble shot when we go to Disneyland. My
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  Speaker 1: most favorite thing is when the kids have that bubble
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  Speaker 1: wand and it's just like wrapper firing bubble walking through
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  Speaker 1: their their bubble track. I love it so much, and
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  Speaker 1: I I don't think I've ever seen it at a
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  Speaker 1: wedding like that. No, it was great. Oh, I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it. The wedding scene. You're so right, it
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  Speaker 1: was shot so beautifully. What I liked about it is
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  Speaker 1: that it moved their story along, Jared and Emily's storied along,
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  Speaker 1: and it was five minutes. Yes. And also what I
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  Speaker 1: liked about it is that we didn't get a whole
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  Speaker 1: haul out the wedding movie. Yes, you know exactly. I
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  Speaker 1: liked that we were moving the story along. Here is
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  Speaker 1: the next part. I thought it was beautifully done. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was smart. I loved Emily's voice over explaining
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  Speaker 1: like why they didn't get married at Christmas. And I
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: don't know if you picked it up, but they did
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: it because it was Jared's parents anniversary. That's the date
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: that they got married on and I was like, that
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: is the sweetest thing I've ever heard of or considered.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I loved it so much and it was such a throwaway. Yeah,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: their vowels were beautiful. Yeah, it was great. It was
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: so great. And it also recenters us in the cast
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: because it gives them a natural opportunity for these people
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: to be back together. And so we have them getting
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: ready together as their wedding party, participating in the wedding,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: and so it we're right back in with the Evergreen
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Lane crew. Yeah, exactly, in an event that makes sense
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and it's not contrived exactly. On another note, Emily as
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: a person around Halloween is so me. She doesn't like
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: scary movies and she says, I don't even like movies
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: that people say aren't scary but they really are. Yes, girl,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Yes I too.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: On that same note, yard yelping is a no for me. Dog,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: do not jump out at me. It is a rule
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: in my marriage.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: You see like TikTok prank videos where people are like, Nope,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: that's an immediate grounds for divorce. Do not scare me.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Do not like I don't know if you can envision it,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: but if you're like do you ever walk to the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: house and like you look for your husband and like
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: mine does knows not to do this, but like they'll
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: hide maybe, Yeah that's a no, right, uh huh. You
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: like you walk into a room and you think they're
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: there and you're like, oh, and they're not, and then
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: they like jump off from behind a door. Yeah, my
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: daughter has done it to me, and I've pushed her before. Yeah.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I don't like being I don't find it funny. Like
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: to me, it's mean. I I will jump if my
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: husband walks into the room, speaking in full view and
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I am not expecting him. I startle so easily. So
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: we are not a yard yelping kind of family. And
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: that would have ruined a friendship for me as well too.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I would have been humiliated if my friend's yard yelped me. Yeah,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that's I would carry that grudge. Yeah yeah, yeah. What
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: else did you like? I loved the way Jared's slow
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: mo realization flashback of what's happening between his mother and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Ned his crash out is done so well. I loved it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: The flashback scene says He's like, oh great great. I
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: also really like when they are in the attic and
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: we see Emily's drums. Yeah, and they say Nickelback.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like, that's a real choice. Yeah. And then we
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: get at the end he comes out. Now, this is like,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: this is the only papuls reffers I'm gonna talk about
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: in this segment. This is kind of like you gotta
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: know to know it's a real if you know, you
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: know moment he's dressed as Freddy Chad Krueger, that's the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: lead singer of nickel That. Yeah, but he calls himself
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Chatty Krueger. Is everyone gonna get that? I don't know,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: but I think so. It is so funny because I
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: saw the Nickelback drums and like that, that in and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: of itself is funny, and to bring it around this
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: movie was made for me, I know, I know.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: It's so good.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, I agree. Steven Tobolowski and Melissa Peterman,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: you okay, this is comedy gold these two together. Melissa
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Peterman has not talked about enough. I've always enjoyed her.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with her on her show Riba. Actually
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's not her show, but the show
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: that she was on Riba. Like, character's kind of mean, like,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I love Melissa Peterman, but Barbara Jean's kind of mean.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I don't even know. I really came into like my
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Melissa Peterman crush during Finding Mister Christmas, and even though
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I had seen both hal at the Hauling movies at
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: that time too. Look, I'm all in on her and
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: this entire movie between her and Stephen Tobolowski. The actual
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: like looks of disgust that she would give him, like
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: so much great physical comedy, right, but just like in
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: a nuanced look, like she was so annoyed with him
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: all the time, and the way they would bicker back
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: and forth at with each other.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: She just kiss.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: It feels like such a big get that these two
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: are together in this movie there. Everything you said is
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: so accurate, but it just is like such a gift
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: to get them here. They're just really at the top
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: of their game. Still. Yeah, agree, agree more on Peterman Peterman.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Her comedic timing is just so good. In that scene
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: where they're at the bakeoff, Yeah, and she's like intimidating
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the two new you know, neighborhood people and then she
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: like turns her a can. She's like those are good
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: cookies or whatever. She's like, is she just so funny?
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: And then she loses the competition and it's great physical comedy.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: She passes out and wakes up in the bed and
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: you were there and you were there, just like the
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Wizard of Oz. Oh my god, so great. I love it.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Towards the top of the movie, Emily and Jared are
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: still away on their honeymoon and Jared's mom doesn't want
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: like they're realizing they see the Halloween decorations and they're like,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: we got a loop in Emily and Jared, and she's like,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: don't interrupt them, and she's like, we get it. You
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: want grand children, barb, Like right, she just fires it
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: back at her. I don't know why that line made
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: me laugh so much, but we might cut this next
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: park out because I could have interpreted the scene wrong.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: But it was during like the her Mary Louise's husband
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: was bobbing for apples, yes, yeah, and he comes for
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: one and then and then Pamela says to him like, oh,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: you got a good one there, Mary Louise, And I
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: was like, what is that? Yeah, she referring to here. Yes,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I heard it too. I was like, was that like
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: a full BIGU sex joke. I don't know. I heard
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: it too, I don't know. I don't know. The title
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: sequence on the moving track called the Halloween on the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: moving truck. Nice touch, not something we've seen before. Love that.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Tell me what else you're like. I actually really enjoyed
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the overall theme that the holidays are meant for and
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: making memories and how to pass them down to the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: next generation, and really landed for me personally as a
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: person who doesn't love the holidays in general, and like,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I think it's a great timely reminder about like what
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the season is supposed to be. Loved that. I loved
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the mount up callback from we get in the first
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: movie and then we kind of get the backstory in
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: this movie that that was Grandma's line. She says it
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: to them when in that scene where after Emily is
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: scared and then she takes Emily and Jared out on
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the golf car. I just loved all of the nice
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: catch there. Loved it. And the last thing that I
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: really loved. I just thought the production design was next
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: level cute and recently talked about like Hobby Lobby throwing
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: up all over that other West Brown movie when we
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: just reviewed last week yeah, under the automoon. Yeah, this
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: one was not as like it just the Halloween tones,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Like it was Fall and Halloween together and it just
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: all worked for me. It wasn't just like somebody like
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: randomly threw up everything. I think Halloween is better than
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Fall or Christmas because you're not trying to fake anything. Yeah,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: you're not trying to do fake leave, You're not trying
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: to do fake snow. You know you can just lean
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: into like the Halloween witches and goblins and haunted houses. Yeaheah, Yeah, yeah,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I think we've hit just every like, well, I don't
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: have a single wish maybe this movie me neither not one,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and that is very rare. Yeah. I read over my
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: notes over and over. I thought back, I cannot come
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: up with a single thing I would change me neither. Well,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: let's talk. Did you see that? And I think, just
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: to prep the listener, this is going to be a
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: little bit different rather than true did you see that?
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Although when he does have one, it's really just we're
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: going to call out all those great dialogue pop culture moments.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: But it hit me with your true see that moment?
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: This is this is another if you know you know,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: and I don't know. What do you mean if you know,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: you know, you gotta kind of like, oh, tell me
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: your you know that? Okay? So the character who plays Bucky,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: he comes at the end, the brother. Yeah, who's he?
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: The brother of Melissa Peterman's character. Yes, Bucky is played
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: by one Richard Christy. Do you know that name? Only
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: because I've read our Instagram dms, but I don't know
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: who that is?
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, okay. So Richard Christy was once a longtime personality
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: on the Howard Stern Show. You still listen to Howard
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Stern a lot early two thousands, like every single day,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and that's when Richard Christy was on the show. He
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: he left in two thousand and four. I recognized him
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: right away, the voice and the f I was like, no, wait,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: could that be? It's funny that you know his face
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: isn't radio personality? Yeah? I don't know if it's because
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: maybe Howard Stern at one time had an E show
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: where they would show the broadcast the radio broadcast, you know,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: on the E channel. I can't remember if it was
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: around that same time. I don't know. I just know
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: his face, like I'm live on social media. Sure, but
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: this was way pre social media. So I don't know,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: but you know who he is. I knew who he
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: was and I couldn't believe it. Yeah, that's fun. Do
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: you do a lot of acting? I don't know. How
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: does that happen? I don't know. They shot this in Utah? Like,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: does he live in Utah? Does he know somebody? Does
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the director know him? Does the casting agent know him?
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: How did that all come together? And are you like? Yeah,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I guess he's like a he's like a drummer or
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: too for a band. But how do you? How do you?
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: How does that work? I don't know. It's like seeing
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: your teacher in the wild. It was like that kind
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: of moment. It was Yeah, I was like, wait, what
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: so crazy? It was so crazy. I imagine that a
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: lot of Hallmark watchers are not Howard Stern fans. Yeah,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't. My point what I was
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: trying to say is I don't think a lot of
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: people are gonna be like, oh my gosh in that moment.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: But hmmm, for you it stood out. Look, I appreciated it.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Are we talking about who's not in this movie? Who
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Eric maybe is? Was he in the second one? Eric
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: maybe is is in the second one. Okay, let's talk
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: some of our favorite line. Yes, please, let's just back
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and forth it Okay, can I start funeral potatoes? Do
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: you know what funeral potatoes? That's a very utah LDS situation.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: It is like a hash brown casserole that is almost
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: mandatory at every like church pot look and right at
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the top, like Pamela makes a reference to funeral potatoes.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I don't remember who she said brought them and almost
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: killed her with their funeral post. It made me laugh
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: out loud. I don't even know how I know about
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: funeral potatoes social media. I've seen people. It's one of
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: those things that come up, I feel like on the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: old Twitter, and people would be like, do you know
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: what funeral potatoes are? Yeah? And then all people will
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: be like, exactly, we said, it's a it's a church
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: potluck stage Yeah, crazy funny, funny, funny funny, Emily says.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I get around her and I turned plastic about Ashland.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I was like, well, thank you for the me and
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: girls reference. I loved it great. Mary Louise and Belinda
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: both drop current slang. We hear Mary Louise go, what's
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the tea. I thought that was really funny. Belinda, when
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: she's explaining to Wes about her relationship with Ned several times,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: she says, we're what the kids are calling talking, yes,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: which if you don't have a teenager, you wouldn't. That's
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: like an according like that's when we're in the talking stage.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, and that she was catching feelings or
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I had caught feelings and Nid was a rizzler, and
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Wes was like, please don't ever.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Say that again.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I just died, Wes, Wes as Jared, I died, and
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I know you did to when they go to swig Alicious,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the soda shop and then they come back with their
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: giant styrofoam cups. Now, if you're not on dirty soda Internet,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: especially in Utah, like you and I went. We were
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: in Utah a couple of years ago and we went
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: to we had to hit all the soda places. We
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: went to so Delicious. I don't think we went to
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: swig uh huh and we I gotta tell you, I'm
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: kind of a soda purist, like I would rather just
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: have a coke. Although I do like the maybe a lime,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily need all of the flavor really Yeah,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I think I like it was a fun experience and
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: they have fun desserts. Yeah, and the drive through line
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: was like forty five minutes long. Oh we had to go.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: And also the soda was the size of my head.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I remember it being so big. But I just loved
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I loved that they went there. I love that they
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: all come back with their cups. I love that they
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: call it swig delicious. Yeah, great, it was great. There
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: was a moment I don't need you probably didn't even
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: catch it, but there was. If you are a Bravo fan,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: specifically a Real Housewives of Salt Lake City fan, there
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: was a mention about Salt Lake City and Emily says
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: something like, oh, they need to bring Monica back, and
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: if you don't watch that series, Monica was like a
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: one season Wonder Chaos agent that flipped that franchise on
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: its head. And I was like, oh my god, what
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: a great mention. It's gonna be lost on so many
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: people who don't watch the show. I heard it. I
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: loved it. My final did you see that mention is
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: all of the Kroller Crueler talk with giving say Strudele
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: one more time. Oh my God, you're so funny. It
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: didn't bother me. I loved it. Oh, it didn't bother
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: me either, But I just if you know, you know, yeah,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: if you know strudele talk. Yeah, great stuff. What did
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you rate Haul Out the Halloweens? This was a five
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: star stunner five stars for me too? Five stars? Can
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: I give it six? Ah? So good? Five stars? No notes?
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: That could be the episode. It's a ten out of ten.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: No notes, but in fact we had many minutes of notes. Yes,
• 33:10
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