Latest / Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews / A New Year's Resolution

Transcript

A New Year's Resolution · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: from Long Story Short the podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: and today we are going to be discussing a New
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Year's resolution. Part of the New Year new movies lineup
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: from Hallmark Channel and really quickly. Where you can find
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: more from Wendy and I is. The best place to
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: find us is our website, which is Megan and Wendy
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: dot com. You'll find all of our podcast show notes
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: there as well as links to everywhere else you can
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: find us all over the internet. And today we are
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: super excited to have a guest with us. We would
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: like to introduce Calli from Hallmarks the Spot on Instagram,
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: a fellow Hallmark movie fan. Thank you so much for
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: being here with us.
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: Thank you guys for having me. I'm really excited to
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: talk about this movie.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about how you got into
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: a Hallmark movie reviewing and chatting.
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, my family and I we used to spend
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: Christmases in a little hotel in mine in North Dakota,
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: and we would just watch these all all day long
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: because what else was there to do? And so we
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: just it kind of became a family tradition of us
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: trying to catch them all. And a few years ago
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: my husband was like, you should just write about these
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: I'm tired of hearing you talk about them. So last
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: so Christmas twenty nineteen, I decided to do a little
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: blog and recap and or recap blog and just kind
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: of you know, added an Instagram account to it and
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: just you know, picked it up again this last year.
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: And it's just been so fun. It's you know, I'm
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: watching the movies anyways, I've found in this little community
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of people, you know, find the movies as
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: amusing as I do, as you know, like to poke
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: a little bit of fun, but you know, everyone just
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: really loves the the culture of these movies, I guess. So, yeah,
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: it's been it's been fun to kind of do it
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: a little bit, do a little bit more than just
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: watch the movies. Yeah.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: I think I'm coming from a similar place in that.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: This is Megan. The Hallmark movies were something I did
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: every year. My husband enjoys them as well. But Wendy
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: the Hallmark Christmas Movies last year was her very first
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: Hallmark movie. She had never watched one.
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: That's crazy, wild I don't know how you miss them.
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: It's just not my thing at all. But that's what's fun.
• 2:52
  Speaker 3: Like you said about like doing a recap is especially
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: coming from a place of like not understanding the culture
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: it is. I have a fun time poking jokes at
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: it while while we watch it.
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: But yes, yeah, one thing I've been trying to break
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: Wendy of is her desire to treat them like a
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: real movie because it's a completely different category. It's all
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: on its own, so it.
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: Is totally its own type of movie, and you have to, yeah,
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: accept them for what they are. Yeah, other way she'd
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: go crazy. Yeah.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: So this week's movie is a new Year's resolution, and
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: Wendy's going to read our synopsis I will.
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: This is from the official Horror mark channel dot com site.
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: A New Year's resolution. When a morning show producer makes
• 3:40
  Speaker 3: a new Year's resolution to say yes more, she crosses
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: paths with a confirmed yes man who just might hold
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: the key to her biggest story and to her heart.
• 3:50
  Speaker 3: Starring Amy T. Garden and Michael Raddy.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: So I have two and a half pages worth of
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: type wow notes on this movie. Type so I have
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: so much to say.
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: But me too, I'm so glad to hear you.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: Say, let's start right up top and let's just talk
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: a little bit about the movie itself and the actors. Now, Kelly,
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: you pointed out something which neither of us knew prior
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: to this, about the original proposed air date for this movie. Yes,
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: so it was supposed to air last year, and yeah,
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: mysteriously pulled from the schedule.
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was in the twenty nineteen Christmas lineup. I
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: think it was supposed to air on the twenty eighth,
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: so it had been like that perfect transition from Christmas
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: to Winterfest and then I think it was literally on
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: the website even it just pulled, And then I think
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: I saw I tried to do a little bit more
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: research because I remember hearing that, and a couple I
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: think Michael Brady or Raddy had did an interview a
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: few months later, no explanation, and then it just appeared
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: in the middle of New Year New Movies. So I
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: guess Hollwork does that from time to time. But yeah,
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: it's funny to think about it in terms of being
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: a twenty nineteen New Year's movie now, but.
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: Right it doesn't have the twenty twenty stain on it.
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: Without knowing what was coming, right.
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: Well, and it was funny because when you mentioned that,
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: I did a little Google search about this movie, and
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: there's a whole not a very long one, but there's
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: a Reddit thread about what happened to this movie, which
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: I found highly amusing. I mean, the redditors were very
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: upset wondering what had happened, and I think the answer
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: is we will never know because there was never an
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: answer given. But I am glad it was released, it
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: was filmed, as many of these movies are in Canada, Winnipeg,
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: Manitoba specifically. Now the actors in this movie. Wendy pointed
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: out last week that the main actress, Amy T. Garden
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: started Friday Night Lights, which as soon as I saw
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: her and she said that, I realized I really liked
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: her in this.
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah what what?
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, hold on there yet? We are at there yet?
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Okay, let us Oh, with that being said,
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: let us go to our first brief overall impression of
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: the movie. Wendy, I am so nervous to hear you.
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: I hated it. I hated it so much like I
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: was mad watching it.
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, Cally, Okay, you know, well, I didn't hate it.
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: I think that was gonna be my my hot take
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: for this was that I didn't hate it. I thought
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: it was perfectly enjoyable. But like you, I have quite
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: a few notes.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: Well and personally compare. We really liked last week's movie
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: Taking a Shit You Love. I really enjoyed that, So
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: comparing these two movies side by side, this was not
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: as good. But the actors. I loved both Amy T.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: Garden and Michael Rady in this movie very much, and
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: they made the movie enjoyable for me. I cannot believe
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: what you're doing to me right now.
• 7:18
  Speaker 3: It hurts.
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm sorry, that's so funny.
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, this may be a short section for you,
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: because let's move into what we liked about this movie
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: and believe it or not. I have notes a through.
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: G Wow, okay, I only have one small note.
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, tell me what one thing you liked
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: about this movie? Okay?
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: I like the lead actor Michael. Is it Raddy or
• 7:45
  Speaker 3: how do we side all?
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: I know in my mind I was saying Rady. I
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: don't know the answer, Ratty.
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: I think it's I say. I've been saying Rady in
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: my head too.
• 7:52
  Speaker 3: So yeahdy, Okay, So I liked him. I thought he
• 7:55
  Speaker 3: was relatable in a like a dorky, handsome kind of way,
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: and I would watch another movie if he was in it.
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: But yeah, that's about it. That's all I liked.
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, one thing I loved like taking a shot
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: at Love. I'm really enjoying the visuals of these winter movies.
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: I like the transition from Christmas to winter. It's Chris,
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: It's cool. It feels very relaxing to look at. And
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: I like that this one felt like it was very
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: clearly shot in winter, like you could see their breath outside.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: There was no like filming a ninety degree weather with
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: a code on. So I very much enjoyed that. Kellie.
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: Did you have anything you liked about this movie?
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah? So, I also I like pretty much every Michael
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: Rady movie. The one he did, the Christmas Bow from
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: this year was one of my favorites, and then Two
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: Turtle Doves from last year was another. It's probably one
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: of my favorites from that season. So I like him.
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: He's funny in this movie. There was two specific things
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: that he or that little bits that they did in
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: this movie that I liked. When her friends are kind
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: of like trying to talk her into something. They will
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: like guess her middle name. They're like, helly Ezekiel whatever,
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: and she's like, that's not my middle name. Yeah.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: Did we ever get any closure on that? I noticed
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: it and then didn't pay attention to if they ever
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: brought it up.
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: I don't think they found it. They did it a
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: couple of times, and I like that. I liked her
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: trying curling too. I thought that was kind of cute her,
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: you know, such a Canadian sport to throw into this movie.
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: So yeah, But and then I also too, I think
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: the Winter movies are just they're just beautiful winter movies
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: and they're not bogged down by all the like the
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: things that you have to get through in a homemark
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: Christmas movie. So they're just winter fields. I just I
• 9:55
  Speaker 2: really like that about these movies too.
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: What about the board game bar, Wendy, did you not
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: love the board game Bar?
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: I think we can open that in our small town
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: Hallmark movie.
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: That we want.
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, I did think that was kind of fun and cool.
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, I like that too. There's a place like that
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: in Washington, d C. But you can like order pizza
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: and have it brought to I think it's a like
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: an actual bar, but they don't serve food. So yeah,
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: it was cool to see that concept in this town.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my husband watched this movie with me, and there's
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: a place in New York called Barcade, which is bar
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: like filled with an arcade, and he was like, Oh,
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: they could exist side by side. I also loved her
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: Gatsby dress.
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: That was cute.
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: Shedy, No, she looked beautiful. Yeah, but I cringed when
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: they were like dancing.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: Well, and they're dancing doesn't match the tempo of the
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: music because you know, they're not dancing the actual music,
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: So that was a little I just ignored that part,
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: but I thought she was adorable.
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: That's funny.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, next section, this is when his favorite section. This
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: is the uh oh section, which we know the roadblocks
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: placed in the way of our movie couple. Wendy, do
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: you have something you'd like to add here?
• 11:09
  Speaker 3: Yes, so, uh when they first started discussing Chicago, I
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: was like, Oh, what's the big secret with Chicago? Uh oh,
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: We're going to have a roadblock. But it didn't really
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: turn out to be. I mean, obviously at the end,
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: like they both go to Chicago spoiler alert. But his
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: like reason why he didn't want to talk about Chicago
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: wasn't really like significant to the stories.
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: It was so underwhelming when he finally revealed why he
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: didn't want to go to Chicago. It's like, you're going
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: to wait four dates and then it's just you don't
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: want to leave your family.
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: It was so underwhelming that I don't even remember the
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: reason right now.
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like I kind of was I kind
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: of zoned out because I was bored by their like dialogue.
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: But I think the gist was he had his family
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: in this town in Wisconsin and didn't want to leave them.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that, well, that's not for me.
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: Another roadblock is Kelly is investigating a big story and
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: oh it's about the bank where Tom works. Okay, there's
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: also one more in that he doesn't want to ask
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: her out because oh, she'll be forced to say yes
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: because of our New Year's resolution.
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, I thought that was kind of cute that part there. Well,
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying I found him very charming, So yes, yes,
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: so I thought that was like kind of funny.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: Listen to your voice, you're very very grudgingly giving this
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: movie that credit for that moment.
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: Will just wait till we get to the wished for part.
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: I know it's there, Kelly. Do you have anything else
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: to go in the room.
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: Well, I was gonna I was going to add a
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: couple of things. Well, their jam packed schedules when they're
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: trying to like find time, they were just you know,
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: every night they've both got something going on. And then
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: she seems determined to not make this work. She's very
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: pessimistic about the relationship, so she's trying to get rid
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: of him at almost every turn, even after she gives
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: him her phone number.
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and she tries to say, like, this isn't gonna work,
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: and he's like, I think you're being a little ridiculous.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: Let's not create a problem or one doesn't exist. I
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: did appreciate though, that they call her a pessimist and
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: she's like, yeah, I'm a realist, which, if you know
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: Wendy and I, I claim to be a realist when
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: in fact, perhaps I am a little bit of a pessimist.
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: But it's like an optimistic version of orn optimistic spin
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: on pessimy.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally, Okay, I'm going to give you your time to shine.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: Wendy let's start with what you wished for.
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: Okay, So I wish for a better lead in this film.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: So sad you didn't like her.
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: I thought she was such a Debbie downer and she
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: didn't have the same energy as the other actor she
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: was playing off of. And on top of that, the
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: vocal fry about killed me. I could not stand her.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: I loved her as Julie Taylor on Friday Night Lights.
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: I've never seen her in anything else. I thought she
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: was horrible in this movie. And maybe it's not her
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: as an actress, it just was the character that she
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: played like it was so.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Soul sucking to me. I think I really related to her,
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: not in her like success at all costs, but in
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: her like wanting to say no to things all the time.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: So I enjoyed her, although I never would have made
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: this resolution.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: Ever, Well, it's funny because I have a similar resolution
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: for this year or so. I kind of like got
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: a good chuckle at that, But like, mine doesn't include
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: like plunging into icy cold water and doing anything that
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: I'm afraid of.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: I just.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, here's another thing. I really hated that her
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: friends made her feel guilty for having a demanding job.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, those are some shitty.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: Friends, Like they should be understanding at least, but like
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: they were making her apologize for like bowing out of
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: things because she had such a demanding job. I mean,
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know the work of a producer. Do they
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: work on Christmas Eve until a wee hours of the night?
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe?
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: But I just thought that was like a weird element
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: to the story.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I agree that they were still mad on New
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Year's Eve about her working late on Christmas Eve? I
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: was like, what is happening here? Why are they still
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: so bad about that?
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I didn't her friends, they were all right, but
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: they were like really encouraging her to move. Yeah that
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: is right. Yeah, I thought they were. I was surprised
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: that that was their takeaway that they were like, no, no,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: you could make this work. Get out of here.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: Right? And does six Flags have some financial stake in
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: this movie?
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Goes?
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Twice?
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: They talked about it like.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: What definitely was made in twenty nineteen, not in twenty
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: twenty where riding parks? Maybe they're not California. One thing
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: I wished for was a more realistic job for Tom
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: because look, the marketing dude, for a bank, isn't also
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: their event planner, Like, if a bank is going to
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: sponsor an event, they are going to write a check
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: and not show up and do like the table and
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: chairs set up. I say this as a person who
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: in a past life was a non profit event manager,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Like I used to run event and let me tell you,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: our sponsors were not showing up and moving things around.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't believe this, Nor did I believe that they
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: sponsor an event three times a week.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, I have.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: That in my notes.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: How many bank hosted events do they have in one town?
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: I write too, they probably have one cause that they
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: give to and that's it. They're not sponsoring the chili
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: cookoff and the Polar Bear plunge. And anyway, didn't believe it.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: All you'd see is like the bank's name. You know what,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: if some other group is hosting these events, they're just
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: their name would be on the banner, not like Tom
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: physically at these events every single time.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like you get our money and our
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: manual labor. I also didn't need the storyline of Kelly
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: wanting to be a storyteller. I didn't really fully understand
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: what was happening there. But I feel like the only
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: purpose that served was for them to be able to
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: write a final scene. And I hated the final scene too.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: They could have got that.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: I even remember the final scene.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: At the open mic. Yeah, but like, it's okay that
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: her dream is to be a producer. She doesn't also
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: need to have this like big hidden creative dream to
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: also tell stories publicly. She doesn't be that complex.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Well that was my one of mine was Okay, well,
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: it's her new job going to just be producer or
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: is she gonna be more in front of the camera?
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Is that what she wanted? Because yeah, the end part
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: where she's gonna be telling her own stories, I was like,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: is that connected to the new job or are you
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: just going back to producing?
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Well here's my other question too, So as a producer,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: you're the boss, right, Like, am I understanding that correctly?
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Well, I think she's putting the show together.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, So why is she conferring with the on air
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: talent that other river or whatever her name was about
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Like they're doing like storyboarding or they're pitching stories or whatever,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: and that on air lady was was like, you know,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: like boosting her up or like giving her feedback, like,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: I just didn't understand like that dynamic. Not that it
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: even matters with anything that's going on in this movie,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: but I just thought it was a stupid element. Sorry,
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: I hated this movie.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I liked River when she told her about her New
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Year's and she was like, that sounds terrible. Yeah, Like
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I agree, Okay, anymore things that we wished for in
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: this movie.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: The one big thing I wished for was to just
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: catch the names of any of her friends.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, I don't. I didn't write any of them down.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I have no idea. I swear sometimes in these movies,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: they never tell you someone's name, and sometimes it's like
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: twenty minutes before we know the lead's name. I'm like,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: what are who are these people? How are you not
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: saying their names?
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: That's so funny that you mentioned that, because I had
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: to rewind it to the beginning to catch the names
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: of the lead characters because I was like, I have
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: no Her name is late.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Well, and I swear the niece's yell uncle Tony, like
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: when he first comes in, but they're saying tom and
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: they did it twice, and I was like, I swear
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: they're saying Tony but everyone else calls him Tom so
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: for me.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Also, I'm just going to add this, I wish this
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: story didn't take like a left turn because it was
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: all about like New Year's resolutions and then and we're
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: talking bank fraud. So I just was like, this should
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: be on that like Hallmark's Mystery channel, not on this
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: movie or this channel.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: It just was so weird to me.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: It's like they ran out of resolution story and then
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: they had to fill it with something else.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Which they didn't need to because they cover like six
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: weeks of time, so it could have been filled with
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: social engagements right exactly.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Well, and like they kind of played fast and lose
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: with the New Year's resolution, like say yes to the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: social events because then they have her on air with
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: a magician, which had absolutely like the resolution wasn't faith
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: or fears, Like nobody invited her to go to see
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: a magic show. They just put her in this. Why
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: are you on this magician? Stable on the show? This
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: doesn't have anything to do with your resolution. Also, who's
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: afraid of magicians?
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Yes exactly. I was like, of all the things to
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: be afraid of, that's her worst story.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, Like it's like he cut her in half. Wasn't
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: throwing flaming starts at her? Right?
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: That was? That was funny.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: This is my favorite part of this episode, and that
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: is where we hit did you see that? Questions, plot holes,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: things we need to discuss, And I think the very
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: first thing we need to discuss is this movie is
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: very obviously based on Shonda Hime's Europe. Yes, don't you think, Wendy, are.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: You kidding me? Right now?
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: I know I just read that book. I mean maybe
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: it was inspired by it. I didn't say.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: It's a good interpretation of the book. I'm just saying
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: they took inspiration.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: It's like one of the writers read that and was like, hey,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: we should do this.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Yes, I'm not saying it's something Shonda Rhime
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: should be proud of.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, or take credit for.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: One hundred percent. Someone read that book and then wrote
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: a story backwards from funny.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Possibly possibly? Okay, I have one the day on New
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Year's Day when they do the polar plunge, could they
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: have put Amy tea Garden in a less flattering baiting suit?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Did anybody notice that?
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: It was so funny because our friend was like a
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: full wetsuit. I'm like, of course you're going into freezing water.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Why are you just in a two piece baiting suit?
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: But she in a wetsuit. Look a she was in
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: like workout clothes, and I was like, why do you
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: want to get out of the water and now you're
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: soaking wet workout clothes? Her friend, yeah, I think a
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: bathing suit is the way to go.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: A wet suit is the way to go.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Sure, but is that I think that's cheating. I don't
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: think a wet suit is the point of the polar
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Bear plunge.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Plus, her hair when she came out of the water
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: wasn't even wet.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: The friends, oh, yes, I did see that when she
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: came out.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, I would have been so done with her, like
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: you make me go to this, you wear a wetsuit
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: and then you don't even get fully submerged. So I
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: think she's.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: The only one who went underwater.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: She might have.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: God blessed the ex stress who had to be in
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: this scene, and some of them were in swimsuits. I thought, man,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: this is not the job you wanted to pull ready
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: into free water in your bathing suit in a movie. No,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: thank you. Fortunately it was brief. I have a question,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: go ahead, Why is the bank having a gala? And
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: why is there gala called gala? Did you see the sign?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: He's like, oh, I'm Perium National Bank Gala. I'm like,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: call it the Starlight soiree or something stupid. But you
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: don't call your gala a galah.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: And yeah, it didn't seem like it was a fundraiser
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: or just an annual whatever. It was just a gala
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: for the sake of having.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: One, for the sake of him being busy, and her
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: needing to wear a ball gown that she just again
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: here we go again, just happens to have a ball
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: gown in her closet that she can grab. She says,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: give me thirty minutes. He tells her to get ready
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: for a day with her family, his family, and then
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: a gala, and you can throw together two outfits in
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: No, no, I was like, I need the day to
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: go shopping seriously, at.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Least, Kelly, do you have any did you see that?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: So right early in the movie, when she goes into
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: that coffee shop, I have too. Here so the only
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: thing written on the window is just gluten free in figures,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I saw that, so that's good. And then inside this
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: barista offers her a free sample and she rejects it.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Like who does that?
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Rejects cookie sample? I don't even care if I don't
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: think i'd like it. It's a free cookie, so I know.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: And her response was something like I'm on a mission.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: I'm like, so you can't shove this cookie in your mouth?
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's a wait how long does it take
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: to eat the cookie? Yes?
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never turned down a cookie. I had two
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: other ones well, so one was the board game she
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: chose to play with her friends.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: And yes, the worst game ever.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Oh my kids always trying to get me to play Life,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, no, so make a friend and play
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: with them.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: My kids are like, why do we own that game?
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: If you won't play with us, I gave you a
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: sibling you can play with each other. But that is
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: never going to be a game.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: No.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: I think her friends complain about it too well.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: And did you notice in the background when they're playing
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: those board games the pile up of games behind her.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I didn't recognize a single one. And this is I
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: live on house. We own a lot of board games.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I was like, there's not a monopoly. There's not a
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: trouble back there.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, anything else and Checkers is just as bad. And
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Tom was like, why are we playing checkers? With all
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: the games? I'm like, so thank you. He sympathizes, he
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: knows this is a boring game.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: He was easily the clearer head of the two.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, totally.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Did you notice the birthday cake at the party? Yes,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: because they have picked a more boring grocery store cake.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I walk into my grocery store right now. I could
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: pick a stock cake off the shelf that looks better
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: than that, and I could have had them right at
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: least happy birthday, even if it's not personalized like send
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: a pa and ask them to get the rising out
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: and right, more like stick some things on. It was
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: white with a couple of rainbow sprinkles.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: It was super boring. I said the same thing. My
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: husband and I watched the movie together and I was like,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: look at that shitty Costco cake, and he's like, wait,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Costco cake is delicious. Don't talk bad about Costco cake.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: But it was an awful prop awful.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I love a Costco cake too, mony too. It was
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: not a pretty cake. They could have done better. No,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: it was a factually department.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I This part of the movie reminded me of another
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: thing that Hallmark does a lot, is like when the
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: the one lead is coming into like a family situation
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: of the others, they immediately get put to work. So,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: nice to meet you. Let's help me with this cake.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: And I've seen that in a few others, where like
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: they just get immediately put to work in the kitchen
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: or whatever, and you're like, oh, nice to meet you.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: I guess, like, just you're one of the family.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: It's so funny because I saw that moment and I
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: thought about it because I'm super awkward in new situation,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: especially there's a lot of people I don't know, and
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I thought, would I want them to do that? So
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: at least I have something to do, so I'm not
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: standing around awkwardly making small talk. But obviously I wouldn't
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: do that to my own guests, like here, come help me.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: But I'm like you, I would rather just be doing something.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: So yeah, there's at least purpose to the talk, because
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: otherwise I'd be just standing awkwardly by myself.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how'd you meet Tony?
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I thought, Okay, there was one more spot that I
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: thought was really funny. It was she went to a
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: spin class with her friend and after this spin class,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: it's a really tight scene, but they are returning the
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: spin shoes like if they were at a bowling alley,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: when you would return bowling shoes. And my husband who
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: was watching, he does spin, and he's like, I couldn't
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: pay somebody a million dollars to wear my spin shoes
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: after I've been in them, it's like they're disgusting. So
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: the fact that he's like, I don't even know if
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: this is real, Like, do you borrow spin shoes at.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Us I've been, I've borrowed him.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: I have borrowed them too.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I've only taken one spin class in my life and
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I don't own spin shoes, so I know that I
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: borrowed them. But just like, I mean, it's it's definitely gross,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: but so were bowling shoes.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, they do make you because you've got to
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: be able to clip in and so you can either
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: like I think you rent them for like two dollars
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: a class or something, but.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: They're all sweaty.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, bowling shoes don't get sweaty like that.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: No, no, ros it's not great, but it's it's better
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: than paying what like eighty dollars for one spin class shoes.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: So wow, yeah, I'm never going.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: To go back, right right. I felt very attacked when
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: she was in the restaurant on New Year's Eve and
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: she's talking about her new Year's resolution and her friends
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: go fifty two books in fifty two weeks. Excuse me,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: that is a perfectly fine resolution.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: I laughed out loud because I thought of you immediately.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I gasped.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: But I wrote that down because I was just like,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: that is so ambitious to read one book a week,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: especially considering how she's so busy, if she's working around
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: the clock.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's not a realistic resolution for her, although that
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: is my personal reading goal of year. I mean last
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: year I read eighty seven.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: We can talk about the quality of the books I'm reading.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: It's it's not that impressive when you look at the
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: actual book. But I did feel attacked by their tone.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a great resolution, though, especially because the
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: other ones was just drink one cup of coffee a day,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: and I think the other ones was to take more
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: spin classes. So those were equally lame if we're talking,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: or way worse.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, like perfectly fine goals, but they're not exactly
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: like deep right, like I'm going to drink less coffee
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and work out more. I mean, which was also funny
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: when they called Tom over and he's like guessing. He's like,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: someone's going to make a food resolution, someone's going to
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: make a fitness resolution.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, he.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Wasn't technically guessing, like those are those are.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: What people make resolutions?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Well, and I kind of thought he was going to
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: like guess based on the person. He was like, oh, yeah,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: look at you, not just like raise your hand if
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I mean you're not a kindergarten teacher. Okay. The obstacle course,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, yes. My husband goes first of all,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: when they start, it's just the two of them that
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: you can see on the course, and he goes, two people,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: that's it? What kind of dumass race is this? And
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: then of course you see a couple of them come around,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: but it takes them maybe thirty seconds to get through
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the course. And she goes, well, I wasn't prepared. You
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: weren't for hearing to walk up a flight of stairs.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: I know, but have you guys tried to like do
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: monkey bars as adults.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: No, we will probably break something.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I was like, man, they are just going after those
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: monkey bars. I've tried, like going to the park with
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: my kids, and I'm like, if they're tall enough for
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: me to not touch the ground, I like, can't do it.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I have no upper body strength anymore. Said they just
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: went after it.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: I thought it was ridiculous, and I laughed and it
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: was like a twenty second course. But there's no way
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: I could have pulled my body up over that like V.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Like wyow oh no no. I mean I say this
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: as I sit home in my joggers, yeah right, and
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: my slippers. It's easy to judge. But she's also much
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: younger than I am. My son had to do pushups
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: for PE he's thirteen the other day and his form
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: was terrible. So I was like, look, let me show
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: you what your pushups are supposed to look like. Right,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: And to set the scene, my husband and I were
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: like snipping at each other, but about something else. And
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: it's one of those like you're like extra nice to
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: your kids when you're mad at your spouse and you're
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: trying to be like a super great parent. So I'm like,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you the form, let's do this together.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: And so I get in like full push up form
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: and I'm showing him like, first of all, maybe I
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: can do two push ups. Ever, and I'm like you don't.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Like he's in a v right like butt straight up
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: in the air, and I'm like, you gotta get in
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the plank position. And I get like halfway down and
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: my arm's just collapsed from underneath me and I hit
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: the ground. And it was such a perfect moment because
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: it totally broke the eyes. Like my husband and I
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: like laughed, but I'm like, well, see, just like mommy,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: don't you just like yeah, just like that. It's easy.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Oh. My kids love to like coach me if they're
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: watching me do a workout video and they'll be like, mom,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: his arms are straighter than he's not on his knees.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: You should do them faster. I'm like, my gosh, I
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: could barely do it the way I'm doing it.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Do we have any more? Did you see that moment?
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Nothing? Nothing for me?
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I one other one? Well, I have a couple about
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: the hockey game. So did you guys see the waiter?
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: It was like, actually I was watching this with my
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: mom and she's like, Calie, pose it and go back.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: You have to see this guy's mustache and the waiter.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: The waiter like it's like the opening shot in the box,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: and he has a mustache like half the size of
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: his face. It was so I was like he was
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: going to use every second half of his like featured
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: extra moment. It was so funny. I didn't I did
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: not even have Yeah, it was it was pretty great.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: And then they had to go down. They went to
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: go get food, but they're in the box. They don't
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: have to go to the concession stand.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Well, because she wanted cheese fries and they didn't.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: They only had fancy food in the box.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: He was like, there's all this catered food and she's like,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: but there's no cheese fries, and then he shits on
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: her cheese fries, which I was thinking, like, this is
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: not a relationship that could work for me, because I
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: need someone who also likes like my level of food.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I enjoy a nice meal, but I can get down
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: with a McDonald's drive through. It's really hard. My husband
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: hasn't had fast food in probably ten years. It's very
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: hard to be in a relationship with someone who doesn't
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: share your love of terrible food, So I.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's why you have me mega.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I text Wendy. I'm like, I'm hitting McDonald's drive through.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Don't tell anybody, and then I have to like throw
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: away the evidence before I get Well.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: It was funny about the hockey game is I was
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: referring to last week's movie where he was a Rangers
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: hockey player, and I was like, oh, asking my husband,
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: is there like a Milwaukee hockey team? Like do I
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: don't even know? Honestly, I don't know anything about hockey,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: And he's like, wouldn't it be funny if it was
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: the Polar Bears? Like how I don't because Megan last
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: week called it like it's not going to be called
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: the Polar Bears or whatever it was anyway. But notice
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: they didn't show any like sort of team, like there
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: was no branded team.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: No sponsors, no, no. I do appreciate that your husband
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: clearly listened to the podcast last week.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: He does, I don't, well, I make him watch the movies.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Listening to the podcast is totally optional.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I appreciate that. I thought that hockey date
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: was an odd date, like bring all your friends and
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: we'll be in this box, and like all my work
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: people are here, and all your friends are here, and
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: we're going to try to have a conversation. Was a weird,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: like there's no other time you guys can find to
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: hang out.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, wait, what about the speed dating? Was it
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: just a coincidence that he and his friend were at
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: the speed dating event too? Or was the baby?
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I didn't know either. I assume he was just
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: there as a single man in Milwaukee. But yeah, maybe
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: the bank sponsored that too.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that wasn't clear to me. And she was just
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: there because her friend made her be that. I have
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: to tell you, that sounds like the absolute worst way
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: to spend an hour.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: That is it even a real thing? I mean twenty
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: twenty covid aside. I only see speed dating in movies.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever heard of it happening
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: in real life.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: That is a good point. I've never attended one. I
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: don't know anybody who's been to one. I honestly don't know.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: But that is my first nightmare. I would never want
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: to make small chit chat with somebody, never.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Over and over and over it and no choice, just
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: a revolving like rotation of men.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I feel physically ill thinking about it. If I ever.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: My husband joked the other day about me going back
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: on e harmony because that's where we met each other,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: and I was like, not in a million years if
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I find myself single, Like, I'm good. Yeah, I know,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I know I need to go through the nightmare of
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: dating at No. Oh, that is not my first priority.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Well, it's funny we were talking about this resolution, and
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, what if this was twenty twenty, What a
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: great year to choose to commit to more social events,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: right if you don't want to, you're like, oh, great,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: I'm good. I've you know, I did my best and
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: I wasn't allowed.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: So this is you know, I love to come, but
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I just don't feel comfortable. Wait before we move on
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: to our rating, does anybody have any other final thoughts
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: about this movie?
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: So one thing I wanted to make sure to mention
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: was this line that Michael Rady said in all the
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: chaos of getting the Chili Cookoff organized. She offers to
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: take tickets and he says that he'll write songs about
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: her heroism, and I just that was so funny that
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: he would be like that for her ticket taking. So yeah,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: it was great.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Don't even I remember that part. But I don't even
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: remember that dialogue.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: I like, but I rewounded and like wrote it down.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: This is it's like so on Hallmark of like a silly,
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: goofy line that someone would say that I was. I
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: just loved it.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Well, that scene where she's taking tickets and he kind
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: of like looks over at her with like google eyes,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: and I was like, what is it about this scene?
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: It's not like that's normally the kind of scene where
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: you see like someone helping out a child or someone
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: doing something really sweet. She has taken the tickets at
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: the chili cookoff, and that really is the thing.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: The premiere like bank sponsored event, this chili cookoff. But
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: you know, actually, I've noticed that they do chili cookoffs
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: in the winter movies. They did this last year too,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: in one of the winter movies now that I think about,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: So that might.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Be a winter movie equivalent of eggnog and hot chocolate
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: must be.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you eat chili in January.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: So to me, a chili cookoff feels appropriate for summertime. Yes,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know why, maybe.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: And they're always outdoor in the winter. You're like, how
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: are you doing this.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even want to do this. I want
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: to skip it and the podcast because I don't even
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: want to know. But okay, we're gonna rate this movie.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: We do it out of four stars. As a reminder,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: last week, Wendy and I both gave Taking a Shot
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: at Love three point five stars of very high rating,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: nearly perfect. I'm gonna let our guests go first. CALLI
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: what do you think?
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: So? Yeah, I was kind of reflecting on this because
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to be Taking a Shot at Love
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: is so far my favorite. We're only two in, but
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna do waffling between two and a
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: half and three. I think that's all.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, Wendy, hold on, is that too generous? I'm gonna
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: sandwich myself in the middle because we're gonna. I gave
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: this two and a half stars. Having talked about it
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: with you, it has tarnished my opinion on that movie
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: a little bit, but I genuinely enjoyed the experience of
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: watching it. If it were to be on again, probably
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: would not stop and watch. I really liked Amy key Garden.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I liked her in this movie. I enjoyed it. It
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: was fine. Two and a half Wendy Break my Heart.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna give it one and a half stars.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Stop.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: I don't even know what the half is for. I
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: want to give him one star. I hated it so
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: so so.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: See. My problem is, I've seen a couple of the
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: previous of what's coming, and I don't want to I
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: think they're going to get worse.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not looking forward to this weekend's movie. I showed
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: what's it called, Oh for the Wind, two for the Wind.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: I'm looking for. Well, he is very cute to look at.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: I don't know what that actor's name.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Is, but he's Trevor Donovan. I think, yeah, he.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Doesn't do it for me, give me scrolls.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: And he's so blonde. He is so blonde as.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: I'm into it. But we'll see.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I can't believe we didn't get a Tyler Hines movie
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: in Do you think we're going to get whatever they're
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: gonna call their Valentine's.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: I think I saw on his Instagram he's in an
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: upcoming with Aaron Krackou and I think that. I don't
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: know if that's a Valentine's movie or a Spring movie,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: but I know he definitely something's coming. But yeah, he
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: is one of my favorites.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, I have a question for you two who are
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: experienced watchers. Now, do what I expect new movies in
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: February as well? Or is there like a slate of
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: like Valentine movies.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it should be like a Valentine series, and
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: then they'll probably have a Spring series.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: And then I in my experience, there is kind of
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: like a lull.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: But they do like June wedding season.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there is the summer like last year there was
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: like a like a bunch of lake yeah, and like
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: beachy summer movies.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: And then they do fall.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Whether there's Christmas in July so they replace all right, yeah,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: and then there's fall, and then there's three months of Christmas. Yeah,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: and they were when we watched this yesterday morning, and
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: when we turned on the TV to watch it, one
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: of the Fall movies was on. Like at that moment
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: that my husband's like, let's watch that. I was like, no,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: we have to start here because the problem with the
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Fall movies is my husband desperately wants to move out
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: of California. And they all take place in these fictional
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: small towns where the leaves are changing and I'm like,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: that's Canada. This place doesn't exist. We can't move there.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: So I don't like to watch the Fall movies with
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: him because he just spends the whole time going, let's
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: go there, Let's move there.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: That's so funny.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I like when they're in a big city because
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you don't want to move there, do you?
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: I mean he's not into Milwaukee.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Really the past I was just going to say to
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: the problem with getting fall is you usually have to
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: get winter too, so you can't really have one without
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: the other. So yes, unless he wants the cold, cold
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: winters too, it does not.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: He wants like a couple sprinklings of snow and cooler weather.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: He's like, I want the four seasons, but I don't
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: want them extreme. Really, the four seasons a right, and
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: any place that like kind of gets that is ridiculously
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: humid in the summer, and I'm so crabby in the
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: heat that I don't think he actually wants them. Yeah, Kellie,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: tell everybody where they can find you.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So my uh Instagram is hallmarks the spot, Uh
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: just all together, no aster or yeah, just all the letters.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: And then my blog for my recaps is hallmarks the
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: spot dot home dot blog, and I usually post the links.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: That's kind of a clunky web address, so I post
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: the links on my Instagram account too.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: So yay. Well, thank you so much for being here.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: This was fun even though and he broke my heart
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: every for the past forty five minutes.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: Maybe next week.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being here for this episode
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: of Girls Gone Hallmark. We love this is something we
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: can agree on. We love your ratings and your reviews.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: We'd love it if you would leave us one because
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: that is how people find us. And we'll be back
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: next week on Thursday, discussing two for the Win, and
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: of course we go back with our regular podcast episodes
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: every Tuesday. We'll see you later. Bye byee.