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Garage Sale Mysteries: Murder Takes the Stage · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark Review podcast. I'm Megan,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: former Hallmark hater. On today's episode, we're discussing Garage Sale Mysteries,
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  Speaker 1: Murder Takes the Stage, which originally premiered on the Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: channel on Saturday, September 19th, and is now streaming on
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Plus. You know, by the time this episode comes out,
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  Speaker 1: the Countdown to Christmas schedule will have dropped. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think our reaction to that's going to have been?
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  Speaker 1: We are recording ahead of time here. I'm just trying
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  Speaker 1: to be relevant. The schedule drops on this Friday. No,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know this week. We don't know what day.
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  Speaker 1: We are currently recording this on September 14th. You think
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  Speaker 1: that it is... My guess? My guess, and I don't know, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: is Thursday. Yeah, the 17th? I think so, too. That's
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  Speaker 1: my guess. Are we going to... Oh, damn. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be out of town. We need to do a
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  Speaker 1: first impressions. We will. That episode will be probably coming
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  Speaker 1: out this week. I would imagine. I imagine. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of things happening over here at Girls Gone Hallmark headquarters.
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  Speaker 1: HQ. Yeah. Hey, remember that game? What game? Is that
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  Speaker 1: was really fun. That live online app. It was some
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  Speaker 2: And there was like a big, like, wasn't there like
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  Speaker 2: a big controversy with it?
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  Speaker 1: Probably. Probably. for some reason. What's up into that? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. It's gone, I think. Is it gone? I
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  Speaker 1: still exist? God, yes. I pay a premium. What about that?
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember that one app where you would draw
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Wasn't that fun? I can't remember what it was
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  Speaker 1: things like that. Words with friends. Or maybe we need
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  Speaker 1: like in-person conversations. Yeah. Less on the virtual. Less on
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  Speaker 1: the phone stuff. Are you ready to talk Hallmark? I am.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, before we get into this movie, we are doing
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  Speaker 2: a Girls Gone Hallmark book club for the forthcoming adaptation.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me the names of the books and the movie
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  Speaker 2: again because I get it all mixed up in my head.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing Her Night at the Museum is the book
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  Speaker 1: in preparation for A Night to Remember. K-N-I-G-H-T in both cases.
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  Speaker 2: We'd love for you to join. I will drop a
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  Speaker 2: a heads up, guys. This book is beyond spicy.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond. Yeah. If that's not your thing, take a pass.
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  Speaker 1: Take a pass. Watch the Hallmark movie because the Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: movie is not going to even come close to this book.
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  Speaker 1: What's the ho? I do have to say this movie
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  Speaker 1: we're going to discuss today did bring the heat.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I got lots to say about it, too.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get into it. Garage Sale Mysteries Murder Takes the Stage.
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  Speaker 2: One of the members of Jennifer Shannon's true crime book
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  Speaker 2: club is murdered during the group's reenactment of the Lizzie
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  Speaker 2: Borden case.
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  Speaker 1: This was directed by Paula L. With 21 directing credits,
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  Speaker 1: Paula has a few Hallmark movies, including In Merry Measure
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  Speaker 1: and Oi to the World, a few movies for Gaff,
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  Speaker 1: and a healthy dose of murdery Lifetime-esque movies. Tina Booth
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  Speaker 1: wrote the screenplay. Her resume is stacked with mysteries, including
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  Speaker 1: many of the original Aurora Teagarden movies, plus its reboot.
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  Speaker 1: a few murder-she-baked mystery movies, and a ton of other
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  Speaker 1: made-for-TV mystery movies based on true crimes. Right in your lane. Seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Lori Loughlin stars as Jennifer. Lori returned to Hallmark earlier
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  Speaker 1: this year for an episode of When Calls the Heart.
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  Speaker 1: This is her first full-length movie on the network since
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  Speaker 1: Homegrown Christmas in 2018. Technically, she did star in the
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  Speaker 1: 2020 Garage Sale Mysteries, Reached and Seized, but the internet
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  Speaker 1: says that it only dropped on Hallmark Plus, and it's
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  Speaker 1: known as movie number 16. I don't think that's true. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the internet may be wrong. I think it aired in 2019.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have any history with this show, so... Yeah, actually,
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  Speaker 1: hold on. I have a DM. Oh, Searched and Seized
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  Speaker 1: aired in May 2020, but it was released on DVD
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  Speaker 1: in May 2019.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so it came out on DVD before they actually
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  Speaker 2: aired it. Now, did it get primetime airing or did
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  Speaker 2: it just get quietly dropped on like Hallmark movies now,
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  Speaker 2: which that's what Hallmark Plus was then?
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  Speaker 1: I thought it had primetime airing, but someone who knows,
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  Speaker 1: email us. Let us know.
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  Speaker 2: Sarah Strange plays Danny. Sarah has played Danny alongside Lori
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  Speaker 2: Loughlin since the very first Garage Sale Mystery.
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  Speaker 1: Movie in 2013. Kevin O'Grady plays Frank. This makes 81
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  Speaker 1: acting credits for Kevin, who has appeared in all garage
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  Speaker 1: sale mysteries except the very first one. I get Kevin
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  Speaker 1: O'Grady and Kevin O'Leary mixed up. From Shark Tank? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Not the same person. Not the same person. Not that
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  Speaker 1: when I was watching this and I said Kevin O'Grady,
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking Kevin O'Leary was going to be in it.
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  Speaker 1: Is Kevin O'Leary Mr. Wonderful? Is that who I'm thinking of? Yeah,
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: that's him. That's him. He's my least favorite shark. Is he? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a least favorite shark? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe him. Probably him. Yeah. He's polarizing.
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  Speaker 2: But I think he's good at what he does. Steve
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  Speaker 2: Basic returns as Jason Shannon. Jason Shannon. That's hard to say.
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  Speaker 1: The S in Jason and then the S in Shannon.
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  Speaker 1: Jason Shannon. Wow. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: This movie will be his 185th acting credit. And we
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  Speaker 2: last saw him on Hallmark in last year's She's Making
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  Speaker 2: a List.
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  Speaker 1: Fun fact. Steve replaced the original actor who played Jason Shannon. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I watched the first movie. Oh, look at that. Jennifer
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  Speaker 1: and Jason's son, Logan, is played by Connor Stanhope. He's
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  Speaker 1: played the role since 2016. You might also recognize him
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  Speaker 1: from his role as Danny Walter on the series My
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  Speaker 1: Life with the Walter Boys. Do you watch that show?
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  Speaker 1: I do not. I feel like that's a show your
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  Speaker 1: daughter would watch. Maybe. Netflix, I believe. It is Netflix. Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: Ava Bourne appears briefly as daughter Hannah. Ava is best
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  Speaker 1: known for her role as Clara in over 60 episodes
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  Speaker 1: of When Calls the Heart. She also starred in the
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  Speaker 1: 2024 Christmas movie A 90s Christmas. Oh, she's the lead
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  Speaker 1: actress in that. Yeah, exactly. For a complete list of
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  Speaker 1: additional actors, check out girlsconhomework.com because the bench is deep.
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  Speaker 1: The bench is deep, and I know you guys don't
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  Speaker 1: want to listen to it, so... Hey, Wendy, what's your
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  Speaker 1: first impression of Murder Takes the Stage?
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  Speaker 2: It's not a new mystery series, but it's my new
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  Speaker 2: favorite mystery series.
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  Speaker 1: Hey-o. Mine is calling it right now. You don't need
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  Speaker 1: 16 episodes of history to be all in on the
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  Speaker 1: garage sale mystery franchise. I agree with that, but I
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  Speaker 1: have some wishes. Of course. Let's talk about what you liked. Look, guys,
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  Speaker 1: Lori Loughlin is it. Wendy texts me, Aunt Becky can act.
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  Speaker 1: Aunt Becky is a, I know that feels shady. It's not.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Lori Loughlin played Aunt Becky on Full House
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  Speaker 2: for a very, very long time.
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  Speaker 1: It's not shady. That's an iconic character that shaped our childhoods.
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  Speaker 2: True, but I'm sure she probably doesn't want to be
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  Speaker 2: referred to as Aunt Becky.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Maybe. I will say Lori
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  Speaker 1: Loughlin as Jennifer Shannon immediately works for me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all in. As soon as she comes on screen, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know last week we talked about We were critiquing
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  Speaker 2: the dialogue being very transactional.
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  Speaker 1: This was just smooth.
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  Speaker 2: These characters just jump right back into where they are at. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you can tell there's history between all these people.
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  Speaker 1: Please tell me you're not eating ramen for every meal.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not eating ramen for every meal, Mom. I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: Jennifer, the character of Jennifer. Like, again, I have no
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  Speaker 2: history with this franchise.
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  Speaker 1: None. I haven't watched the first movie like Megan watched.
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  Speaker 1: I have nothing. Went fully blind into this. I only
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  Speaker 1: bring in Aunt Becky and Lori Loughlin college scandal into it.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I bring into it. Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I just was like so invested immediately in Jennifer Shannon
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  Speaker 2: and what Jennifer Shannon does.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she's just like picker. She's this thrifter garage sale person. Woman,
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  Speaker 1: which I need a lot more history on. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it in my wishes. But then she
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  Speaker 1: owns this cute little shop, which is giving, if you're
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  Speaker 1: from Orange County, is giving Orange Circle vibes. Sure. A
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent. Like this cute little vintage shop. Yeah. She's
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  Speaker 1: got this best friend who I'm going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I love that dynamic. She's got, she's friends with
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  Speaker 2: the cop guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Not Kevin O'Leary.
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  Speaker 2: They have this dynamic that is incredible to watch. The
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  Speaker 2: like noodling and jokes back and forth between those two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would be very curious to watch the evolution
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  Speaker 1: of their relationship because in movie 17, he's like partners
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  Speaker 1: with Jennifer. There's no like... He's not bugged by her,
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  Speaker 1: annoyed by her. Get out of my investigation. It's just
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  Speaker 1: assumed that she's going to participate. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So they have the whole like little coffee date. He's like,
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  Speaker 2: you didn't tell me we're coming for tiny coffees. And
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  Speaker 2: then she makes fun of him about his like big nids.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I just... It was so damn enjoyable. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know... if you caught it, but it's a
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  Speaker 1: new writer and a new director on movie 17 after
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  Speaker 1: a six year break from making these movies. And it
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  Speaker 1: feels like not a moment has passed for these people.
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  Speaker 1: It's not clunky. There's no finding their footing. I did
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  Speaker 1: interview Steve Basic. That episode came out on our feed
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  Speaker 1: last week. It's on our website. And he said the
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  Speaker 1: same thing like, we just picked up right where we
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  Speaker 1: left off. It feels like they just rolled right on through. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take a small diversion here.
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  Speaker 2: We recently talked about Chris Palaha mentioning in the press
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  Speaker 2: that like, hey, look, Garage Sale Mysteries could pick right
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  Speaker 2: back up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that show needs to pick right back
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  Speaker 1: up too. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I think they could just jump right back into it too.
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  Speaker 2: So write your letters to Hallmark, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Write them. Back to garage sale mysteries. Name them. I
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  Speaker 1: have a long list of likes, but let me tell you,
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  Speaker 1: this is the creepiest scene I've ever seen in a
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark mystery movie. When Jennifer is on the phone with
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  Speaker 1: Frank and she's like, I think someone's eavesdropping and she
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  Speaker 1: walks out into the hall and he goes don't he
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  Speaker 1: goes don't go and let me just go check it
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  Speaker 1: out classic horror girl trope first of all there's a
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  Speaker 1: house full of people like why isn't she like hello
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  Speaker 1: for somebody to come help her is this a wish
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  Speaker 1: no no the scene is so creepy it's so good
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  Speaker 1: when they zoom in on that door handle and it's
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  Speaker 1: slow and it starts to dark it's They don't rush
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  Speaker 1: that scene. Like it's it's slow and it's the music
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  Speaker 1: is real creepy and the camera angles are really interesting
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  Speaker 1: and the staging of it. And then she gets whacked. Yeah. Great. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The camera work throughout this entire this entire movie was
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  Speaker 1: so good. There's some really cool angles, some really cool edits,
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  Speaker 1: some really cool camera motions. As a person who isn't
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  Speaker 1: schooled on those things, it was noticeable to me. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was very nicely done.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you remember, we go back to our director
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  Speaker 2: has done a ton of murdery movies.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe she knows what she's doing. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of Steve Basic, when did he become the sexiest
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  Speaker 2: husband in Hallmark?
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wowie Zowie Club, Steve Basic. In the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the movie, when they're kind of talking about like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they haven't had enough time, like, They're both working hard
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  Speaker 1: and they're trying to make dinner happen. And she's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: first I got to go. And she pulls out her
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  Speaker 1: Victorian dress and he's like, can you wear that to dinner?
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  Speaker 1: Like with his low rumbly voice. I was like, whoa,
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: we have another Christian Grey moment. Sexy empty nesters. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I love that they lean into the fun side of
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: being empty nesters. Like, she's a little bit like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we miss Ben. But they're like, hey, we're all alone.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: Get out of here, Ben. I know. I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Jennifer and Jason really brought some heat. They
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  Speaker 2: have fantastic chemistry. It was just fantastic to me. And
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  Speaker 2: they're up there. They're up there with.
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  Speaker 1: And Wagner. Yeah, for sure. For sure. For sure. For sure.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I love? You know what I love?
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  Speaker 2: That there is, and maybe, maybe because I haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: all the movies, like were they married in movie one?
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  Speaker 2: I know it was a different actor, but were they
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  Speaker 2: married from the jump?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There's no like slow burn romance happening. I, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's my biggest pet peeve with these mysteries. Like I
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  Speaker 2: can't like, let's take the romance out of like the
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  Speaker 2: mystery movies. This isn't, we don't have that here.
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  Speaker 1: They're already married with teenage children. I need more of that.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe because it looks kind of like my life. Sure.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Yeah. So don't make me
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  Speaker 1: wait for it. I love it. There's no romantic storyline
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  Speaker 1: waiting to happen. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: And it's nice to see like a married couple who's
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  Speaker 2: kind of like very much into each other.
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  Speaker 1: Great, great stuff. Great stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I love Danny played by Sarah Strong. I'm not familiar
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  Speaker 2: with Sarah Strong, even though she's got a really deep resume.
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  Speaker 1: I love this.
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  Speaker 2: Like girlfriend friendship that they have and i was reading
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  Speaker 2: like she doesn't just work for jennifer right like is
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  Speaker 2: she like a co-owner in rags to riches i think
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  Speaker 2: so i think it's their shop and she brings like
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  Speaker 2: a comedy element.
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  Speaker 1: She like zhuzhs up her maids yeah and then ladies
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  Speaker 1: like that's not how it was whatever i loved it
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  Speaker 1: i really like her too i really like her a
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: lot There are so many characters in this movie and
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: like that's that's every mystery. But there's a lot of
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: potential motives and there's multiple layers. Right. Like we have
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  Speaker 1: the woman, the collector and her stuff being potentially fake.
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  Speaker 1: And then we have the stepdaughter and the grandson. We
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  Speaker 1: have all these people and they do a really nice
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  Speaker 1: job of. keeping it together. When they are talking through
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: their suspects, we see flashbacks of like what might've happened.
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  Speaker 1: Like those scenes are staged. Yeah. They have a full,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: what looks like almost like a board game layout with
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  Speaker 1: pieces representing everybody when they're trying to figure out, could
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: they have been here? They do as much as they
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: possibly can to keep the viewer on track with this
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  Speaker 1: very layered mystery. And we all know that I can't
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  Speaker 1: always follow them, so I appreciate it. Yeah, when it's
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: too much, we tap out. Yeah, and then they reenact
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  Speaker 1: the whole murder itself at the end. Love it.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the stepdaughter, Sierra. I really liked her. It
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: was played by an actress named Megan Best. I think
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  Speaker 2: she's been on Hallmark before, but I enjoyed her. Like
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: put her in some more Hallmark stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I like her too. I like the actress a lot too.
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  Speaker 1: But I also thought Sierra's character was one of the
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  Speaker 1: supporting characters that they developed the best. Like we get
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  Speaker 1: to know her really well. We know her backstory. Isaac
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: was her stepfather. Her mom had died. She's got all
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: of these things going on. We talked in our recent episode.
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  Speaker 1: And now she's an orphan. Now she's an orphan. Did
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: you hear that line? I thought that was good. I did.
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  Speaker 1: And we talked in a recent episode about how some
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  Speaker 1: of these supporting characters don't always get fully fleshed out.
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  Speaker 1: And Sierra's character was well-developed. I agree. My final like
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  Speaker 1: is Lori's wardrobe as Jennifer Shannon. She just had good taste.
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  Speaker 1: She's not like some frumpy, like... No. I thought she
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  Speaker 1: looked good.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, well, you know, she's in an
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  Speaker 2: EP on this, too. I'm sure she probably had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of say on, like, what I want to wear.
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  Speaker 1: She did look good throughout. When she wore that cream
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  Speaker 1: sweater with, like, the lacy underlay underneath it. Loved it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, for a mom who's just out here garage-sailing
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  Speaker 1: and working in her thrift shop, she looked good. All
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  Speaker 1: put together. Let's take a quick break and come back
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  Speaker 1: with our wishes. I needed a previously on. Yeah. You
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: didn't need a ton of it.
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  Speaker 2: Because like, obviously we got, I mean, from the jump,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm like, okay, she's at a garage sale thing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but I just needed, I mean, it's been
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  Speaker 2: gone for seven years or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: Like, just give me 60 seconds of. Yeah. They tried
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  Speaker 1: to work it in. Right. They're like, oh no, Hannah's.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just studying for the setting for the bar. Set
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  Speaker 1: the scene a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I just needed the tiniest bit. The tiniest bit. I
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: don't know how they would have done it, but maybe
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: just something. As I'm like thinking through it, I'm like,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: but I still liked it so much. Like it actually
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: was enough for me to go, I'm going to go
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: back and watch these.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. You know?
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: My other big wish was I needed a stronger motive
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: on why our killer.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: why i don't think he was trying to kill him
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: no i know it was an accident and yeah it
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: was definitely an accident i yes so the mystery as
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: a whole works for me because i love it's very
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: meta like you have this lizzie borden thing but then
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: you're actually they're reenacting a murder but a murder it's
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: it works for me i love everything about it but
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: here's here's where i think It could have gotten interesting
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: because we have Milton and Isaac, right? To me, that
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: shoving him was like an act of passion. Yes.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: And we had learned that they both have ex-wives. And
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I was like, this would have been far more interesting
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: if these two were like lovers and this was an
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: accident and a crime of passion. He's pushing him and
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: he knocks his head out.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Whatever. I thought that would have made more sense. Here
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: it is. It was clearly an accident. And Milton had
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: so many exits off this freeway and did not take
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: any of them because he could have easily explained. We
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: got an argument. I pushed him. He hit his head. Help, help.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Call 911. End of story. Yes. That's all. But I
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: still liked it. I did too.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Mystery wise. Like I, I still liked it and I
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: didn't know. I mean, I think for a minute I
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: kind of thought it was Isaac, the, the board and brew.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: That's not what it's called. The, what is it called?
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: B & B? The B & B. Milton. Milton. That's
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: what I said, right? You said Isaac. Isaac was the
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: guy that died. Milton. I kind of thought it was
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: leaning towards Milton. Did you?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I didn't at all. I had no idea. I wasn't
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: super surprised, but like it wasn't the easiest way out,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I guess. No, I liked the mystery itself. What's your
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: familiarity with Lizzie Borden? I know the name.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with the story. And if you guys
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: have a documentary to send my way, send it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: The internet tells me that there's a series on Paramount
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Plus called The Curious Life and Death of... And they
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: do an episode on Lizzie Borden. Excellent. And then there's
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: on A & E, Histories, Mysteries, there's a Lizzie Borden installment,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: which is on Netflix. Well, tonight is writing itself. So I,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: my wish is just that this made me curious about
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Lizzie Borden. I know the name, but I didn't really,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the idea that there's this there are these two camps,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: like the guilties and the not guilties. That's very interesting
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to me. Same. So I'm into that. I wanted to
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: know more. So these are small wishes. Where's Hannah? She
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: only appears by phone. What's going on? Is Ava Bourne
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: making another movie and she wasn't able to be physically
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: in the same room? She's off doing law school, dude. Yeah,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: but it did not, I guess, but it didn't make
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: sense for her to be. I don't know. I guess
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: it does, you know, it tracks as reality that she
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be physically available. Your adult children are not going
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to be in your home so much anymore. Yeah.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing like these kids were younger at some point
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: on the series, you know, and they were around and.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Ben is quite active. Is his name Ben? No, Logan. Logan. Yeah.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I have one tiny wish.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Okay. Part of me was like, what is happening with
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: this reenactment? So they're in a true crime book club,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: which do I need to be in one of those?
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Is my first question. Start one. Second. Hmm. Second question.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: They're doing a reenactment? Like, is that normal? I don't know.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: And then they're doing it in this house. I'm like,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: are they bringing, like, people in to that? Where are
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: these people standing at to watch this reenactment? Are they
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: moving upstairs and downstairs? You saw them. I know.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Those were all my questions. And then I did that
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: at the end. I was like, that's so weird. How
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: many people do you have there for that? Yeah, not
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: very many, right?
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Because they don't fit in the room. So would you
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: have to do it multiple times? That was the part
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: for me that I was like, well... Are there enough
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: people here to make this make sense? Do they do
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: this often? Like through the series, I wonder? Or is
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the club a recurring theme? I'm just so curious. Let's talk.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Did you see that? I don't have any like real true.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Did you see that? Mine are really questions. And we've
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: talked about some of them. But my next question is
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: like the garage sale part of things, garage sale mysteries,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: like that didn't play a piece in this movie at all.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: You're right. And I'm now talking about it out loud.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I like that they had like probably pivoted over the many, many,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: many years. You know, like first it probably started out
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: as like she's finding mysterious things. That's not the word.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Mysterious things at garage sales and then like investigating those
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: things and or whatever.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: And then they kind of pivoted. Like it had nothing
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to do with it this time. It really didn't. You're right.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: So that's only my... Yeah. And she only does like... Yeah. Yeah.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I really loved... There's two moments where they kind of
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: like break the fourth wall a little bit.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's accurate describing what happens. But
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: at one point, Frank goes, here we go again. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: And then later in the movie, Danny goes, this feels
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: like old times. And Jen goes, we're back. And Danny's like,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: we haven't done this in such a long time. Yeah,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I loved it. I thought that was fun. I liked it, too.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I think that's really it when it comes to did
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: you see that's for me.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't think I didn't think there were any
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: glaring like, did you see that moment?
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Except for the sexy hot.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Steaminess chemistry between yeah yeah it was great and steve
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: nicely done what did you rate murder takes the stage
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: well i was most excited for this one and it
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: paid off 4.75 stars 4.75 wow.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Knocked it out of the park. You know, I really
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: enjoyed this too. It's a 4.5 star movie for me.
• 23:18
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