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Listener Mailbag December 2025 #2 · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a former Hallmark hater. It's time for Listener Mailbag episode
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  Speaker 2: number two for the month of December, because you, our
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  Speaker 2: lovely listeners, have been bringing it with the Listener Mailbag
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  Speaker 2: emails and we appreciate it. We haven't done a Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: News episode in a long time. Headlines, my friend, you
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  Speaker 2: have forgotten the title of it. You're right, headlines. We
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  Speaker 2: haven't done one of those in a long time. It's
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  Speaker 2: because there's not a ton of headlines. I gonna know,
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  Speaker 2: I know, we're gonna get to a big one here
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  Speaker 2: in a minute. But during the summer season there seems
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  Speaker 2: to be a lot of headlines because everything is forthcoming
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  Speaker 2: for a countdown to Christmas, right, sure, what's in production
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  Speaker 2: and what the rumors are and this and that and whatever,
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  Speaker 2: And then it gets kind of quiet because we just
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  Speaker 2: get all the product of that. Yeah, but now we
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  Speaker 2: have a headline, but we can't put it in its
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  Speaker 2: own show. Well, let's do two headlines, or we have
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  Speaker 2: two headlines. One's gonna surprise you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you know.
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  Speaker 2: The headline just it's just a Hallmark notes and that
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  Speaker 2: is the news about the series Ripple. Yeah, so we
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  Speaker 2: had talked. Ripple was originally slated for Hallmark. We were
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  Speaker 2: so excited it was slated for Homemark Plus back when
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark Plus was getting exclusive content.
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  Speaker 1: Actually we have three homeworks. I saw the wheels turning.
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  Speaker 1: I saw them turning. So Ripple was originally slated for
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Plus. And then you and I kept saying where's Ripple.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, we were in front of someone from Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: and I said where's Ripple and this person said, it's
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  Speaker 2: just not on the schedule yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was like okay, like get that answer was good
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  Speaker 2: enough for me. Yeah at the time. And then nearly
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  Speaker 2: six weeks later, Ripple ends up on freaking Netflix. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like out of nowhere, out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to know the behind the scenes was it.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, well, they're not.
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  Speaker 2: Really dropping exclusive content on Hallmark Plus anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Stay tuned, but.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe the maybe the deal was it was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to go straight to Hallmark Plus, but now they're not
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  Speaker 2: doing that, so they had to resell it. Anyway, It's
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  Speaker 2: on Netflix, and you will know this because of when
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  Speaker 2: this episode comes out, But we are reviewing Ripple right
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  Speaker 2: here on Girls Gone Hallmark and perhaps some additional non
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark titles.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's breaking news, baby, bit ba babe.
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  Speaker 1: Do you like my newstickers? I do? I do.
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  Speaker 2: I think we will be also reviewing Champagne Problems on
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  Speaker 2: Netflix this week as part of potentially the Girl's Gone
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark expansion. That's right, taking over the rom com world
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  Speaker 2: girls streaming.
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  Speaker 1: Girls god Stream. I was like, one review at a time.
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  Speaker 2: If you haven't listened to our review of Ripple yet
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  Speaker 2: because you're like, I'm not watching that show because it's
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  Speaker 2: not on Hallmark, get your remotes right now and fire
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  Speaker 2: up Ripple on Netflix and then come listen to our
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  Speaker 2: review of it. Uh huh yeah, yeah, what's the next
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  Speaker 2: what's the next headline?
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna save the best for last? So the next headline?
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  Speaker 1: You had three? I know, So I'm gonna save the
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  Speaker 1: best for last. I just did one. Okay, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: number two.
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  Speaker 2: We have a new direct to Hallmark Plus reality television
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  Speaker 2: show First impression. I am not excited about this. We're
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  Speaker 2: not reviewing this right Do you want.
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  Speaker 1: To I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta see it. I gotta see it. The show
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  Speaker 2: is called Second Chance Love. It is hosted by Chili,
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  Speaker 2: yes the Chili of TLC Fame, and Matthew Lawrence.
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  Speaker 1: Who are a real life couple. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It's an unscripted series and it is about couples who
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  Speaker 2: broke up anywhere between five and thirty years ago, having
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  Speaker 2: a second chance at love, reunited, reunited, and at the
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  Speaker 2: end of their journey, they have to decide do we
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  Speaker 2: leave together or separately? Because they go to Italy, they
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  Speaker 2: got to figure out the spark is still there.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, you said, you're not excited. I kind of am.
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  Speaker 1: I am not.
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  Speaker 2: I have so many questions. This cannot be a Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: Plus original this. Did they purchase this from somebody? Like?
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  Speaker 1: Was this a reality show?
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  Speaker 2: That unscripted show that they purchased like an acquisition, and
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  Speaker 2: they're like, let's put it on Hallmark Plus.
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  Speaker 1: I don't when was it filmed? How old is it?
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  Speaker 2: It's not old because I saw photos from Italy on
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  Speaker 2: the instagrams of Matthew and Chili before it was announced.
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  Speaker 2: But where they were m Chili says working with Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: is a dream come true because the brand represents good
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  Speaker 2: quality content. So I love what Homework stands for. And
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  Speaker 2: this project is beth special to Matthew and me for
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  Speaker 2: several reasons. As executive producers and hosts. We can't wait
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  Speaker 2: to share the inspiration behind the pursuit of true love.
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  Speaker 1: Creative way.
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  Speaker 2: Jonathan and Meredith Sinclair. I feel like Jonathan Sinclair is
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  Speaker 2: a name we know. Oh interesting, Jonathan Sinclair. Oprah's master
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  Speaker 2: Class fifty two episodes, a series called released, a series
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  Speaker 2: called ion La Fixed My Life. He's an he's an
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  Speaker 2: own guy.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if this was for own. Oprah goes to Broadway.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if it was for own.
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  Speaker 2: He's done a lot for Oprah. Perhaps this has an
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  Speaker 2: own sensibility. It does, It certainly does well.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. I'm I'm not I'm not writing it off.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. I'm interested.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna get the eyeballs. I'm sorry, No,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so either, But I'm interested. I'm watching
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  Speaker 2: at least an episode. Okay, you know what we're definitely
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  Speaker 2: going to be watching is Dodd one year from now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we thought they milked the chiefs.
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  Speaker 2: Just you wait, folks, Disney World and Hallmark are teaming
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  Speaker 2: up for Holiday ever after the Disney World Wish Come True.
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  Speaker 2: It will debut during countdown to Christmas twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: The movie will start Lazy Shabert and Travis Van Winkle,
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  Speaker 2: who is a fave of mine. I'll be honest, what
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  Speaker 2: has he been in? No shade of Travis van Winkle.
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  Speaker 2: I've been reviewing Hallmark movies for five years.
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  Speaker 1: Now, where's he been? I don't think I've ever reviewed
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  Speaker 1: a movie with him in it. Maybe true.
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  Speaker 2: He is in the World's Cutest Christmas Movie, which is
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  Speaker 2: called Project Christmas Wish from twenty twenty I recommend it.
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  Speaker 2: He was also intis the Season to Be Merry. Since then,
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  Speaker 2: he has not been on Hallmark, but he was in
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  Speaker 2: the television series Fu Bar, which I believe is a
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  Speaker 2: Netflix series with Arnold Schwarzenacher. He's also in nine episodes
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  Speaker 2: of the series You Oh, I Do Love that, Serius.
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  Speaker 2: I just kind of peel off season three. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think I've continued past then, So he's been doing other
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  Speaker 2: non Hallmark stuff. It's coming back. Also in this movie,
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  Speaker 2: Richard Kind from only murders in the building and inside out,
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  Speaker 2: Christy Carlton Romano Campossible, and even Stevens, Bryce Durfy from
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  Speaker 2: General Hospital, Teagan Burns from The Mighty Ducks, Game Changers,
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  Speaker 2: Asher Alexander from Halan Harper, and Patrick Renna from The
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  Speaker 2: sand Lot having his renaissance as a TikTok superstar. Let
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  Speaker 2: me tell you when photos from Disney World started to
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  Speaker 2: emerge last week.
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  Speaker 1: And people were like, what is this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were like, people were making tiktoks about like
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  Speaker 2: Lacy Shaver is here in Disneyland. Yeah, not Disneyland, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: disney World in Florida, the inferior Disney property. I agree
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  Speaker 2: with that. It's too damn hot there. Don't go in
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  Speaker 2: the summertime. No, from personal experience, yep. Anyway, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: for sure, this can't be Hallmark. You know, I'm often
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  Speaker 2: wrong and like I have no I'm admitting that, but
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  Speaker 2: I thought, oh, this is a Disney movie that she's making,
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  Speaker 2: and like good for her, Lacy, Like sure enough, though
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  Speaker 2: it's a Hallmark project, I'm color me shocked.
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer Aspen is connected to this proj She's on every
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  Speaker 1: single movie.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we've reviewed this year, she's attached to
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  Speaker 2: as a producer.
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  Speaker 1: She has got her hand and everything. Yeah, look I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: Also written and directed by Ryan Landell's Oh thank You,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, because we don't have anything.
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  Speaker 1: From him this year.
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  Speaker 2: No, and Ryan Landells wrote Tanta Tullmy and Sugar Plumb
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  Speaker 2: last year, wrote and directed. He's writing and directing this
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  Speaker 2: like he came out of nowhere last year. Wrote to
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  Speaker 2: Smash Hits and I DM him and was like, we're thrilled.
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  Speaker 1: To see you coming back.
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  Speaker 2: It's just going to be a full year of Disney activation,
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  Speaker 2: yes and all. Oh, it's going to be a full
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  Speaker 2: year of Disney activations. And I bet your bottom dollar
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  Speaker 2: they're going to have a whole kickoff next year in
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  Speaker 2: Disney World and all that stuff. So your favorite content
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  Speaker 2: creators are right here.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, do it hear it at Disneyland. They won't.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the thing. It's not the collapse.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder why they did it at disney World and
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  Speaker 2: not disney Land. AlSi lives here in La doesn't she
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea me neither. Let's take a quick
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  Speaker 2: break and come right back with some listener mailbag emails
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: Jammie writes in regarding the Christmas Cup episode, which I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I need to apologize for that in a
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  Speaker 2: catnip cafe. We're just so at my wits end. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: thankfully her email is not about how terrible the episode was.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: Instead, she writes, I am sure I'm not the first
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  Speaker 2: or only person to email you narrators note you are,
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  Speaker 2: but Ben Rosenbaum slash Mike Hick them from Winn Calls
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  Speaker 2: the Heart is also Aaron Craikow's husband soon to be
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  Speaker 2: baby daddy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we did not mention that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't watch Wind Calls the Heart. I didn't actually
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  Speaker 2: didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I did see though.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron just announced that she's expecting. Yes, I knew she
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  Speaker 2: was married to somebody like recently from the cast.
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't know who that was. Yeah, our apologies.
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  Speaker 1: There's no shade, no and there baby announce Some pictures
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  Speaker 1: could not be freaking cute. They're like in a photo booth.
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  Speaker 1: So cute.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's really cute. Good for them, you know. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: also Kevin McGarry and Kayla Wallace they're also having a baby. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: so many hardy babies are they filming that show? Right? Now, No,
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  Speaker 2: they're done, right, I'm sure they're done.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're done because it comes out in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was watching the Homewark Christmas Experience Special, yes the
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  Speaker 2: other night.
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  Speaker 1: Did they give you fomo?
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  Speaker 2: Hardcore fomo? Because I'm like, these people were in the
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  Speaker 2: rooms that we were in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I see a shot of that tree, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: that's the room stood right there. Oh yeah our room.
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  Speaker 2: Our room overlooked like that square. Yes, we had a
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  Speaker 2: great view. I'm talking like downstairs and because we had
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  Speaker 2: access to the green room. Oh and I'm a quoting
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  Speaker 2: green room, nobody else was ever in there, but it
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  Speaker 2: was only ever us and I swear that's there was.
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  Speaker 1: Did you watch the special? Not yet, but they have
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  Speaker 1: like this.
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  Speaker 2: Moment where like Ben and Kim and maybe Robert Buckley
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  Speaker 2: not Junior or all in this room And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I think they're in that room that we were in. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it has to be anyway, just that you know that
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  Speaker 2: hotel has a certain lighting about it.
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  Speaker 1: Sure took you back.
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  Speaker 2: That was a fun trip, even though I'm we were
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: just talking earlier today about I don't know how we
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  Speaker 2: did the cruise and that Kansas City experience, which, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, we flew home on December twenty second from
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how we put two trips because I'm
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  Speaker 2: so far underwater this holiday season. But my husband, he goes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was just looking to see if we
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  Speaker 2: can fly out to Kansas City next weekend for.
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  Speaker 1: The third month of the event. I love this guy
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  Speaker 1: just is like, let's just go.
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  Speaker 2: But he was like, flights are outrageous, and I said,
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  Speaker 2: because it's in four days. Yeah, you wouldn't be able
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  Speaker 2: to get a room at that hotel probably, No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to go to the Chiefs game.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to like hang in the lobby and
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  Speaker 2: see the people and go to the panels, So I
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  Speaker 2: would not be going to the Chiefs game. Zurine that
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  Speaker 2: special there was a little Merry Christmas everybody from Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Craikou and Kevin McGarry, and they were in costume for
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  Speaker 2: Win Costa Heart, which I'm sure they filmed at some
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  Speaker 2: point when they were filming, but I was like trying
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: to look. I was like, does she look pregnant? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, like what her due date is or not.
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  Speaker 2: That any of it is any of my business. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just curious. Timeline. Yeah, yeah, Timeline, That's all. Diane writes
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  Speaker 2: in about the sheer volume of Thanksgiving movies and says, Hi, ladies,
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  Speaker 2: I heard you asking if listeners thought so many Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 2: weekend movies like this year is too many? And I
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  Speaker 2: say yes, On a normal weekend, I am able to
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  Speaker 2: record the movies and watch them when I have time
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  Speaker 2: throughout the week, timing right with your reviews, and being
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  Speaker 2: done before the next weekend. I just love that we're
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  Speaker 2: part of that whole process. Same neelas to say. Here
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  Speaker 2: we are at the weekend after Thanksgiving and I still
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  Speaker 2: have multiple movies from last week to watch. It makes
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  Speaker 2: me feel overwhelmed and anxious. I feel rushed instead of
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  Speaker 2: excited about watching, especially since I know I am getting
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  Speaker 2: ready to add three more to my cueue. There are
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  Speaker 2: days when I just don't have the time to watch
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  Speaker 2: a Hallmark movie and sometimes just want to watch football
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  Speaker 2: or something else with my husband. Same and putting out
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  Speaker 2: so many on a weekend is just bound to get
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  Speaker 2: me behind. I know I can take my time and
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  Speaker 2: just watch once my schedule permits, but I prefer to
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  Speaker 2: watch when the movies have just come out. I say
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  Speaker 2: quality is more important than quantity on Thanksgiving weekend, sing
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  Speaker 2: it Diane, I agree. I think we don't need the
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  Speaker 2: two firs during things go.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just do Look.
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay with Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night,
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  Speaker 2: but not the two first.
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  Speaker 1: Even my husband's behind.
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  Speaker 2: I think in this house, I think there was plenty
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  Speaker 2: of opportunity on the schedule to either one not re
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  Speaker 2: air some movies that were originally Hallmark Plus, which they
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: did with Cherry Lane. I think maybe there were a
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  Speaker 2: few acquisitions in there that they could have let fall
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  Speaker 2: to the wayside and sprinkled these movies out through the
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Countain Christmas in previous years we would have had miracles
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  Speaker 2: on Christmas on Thursday nights we have.
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  Speaker 1: There are other nights of the.
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  Speaker 2: Week we could have had some Thursday night releases.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: Facebook moderator Mackie alerted us to a review that Russell
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: Hanline dropped on Letterbox regarding the movie An Alpine Holiday.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: He writes, this movie is set in the French Alps,
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: So my friend Lucy that's adorable, got to visit the
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: French Alps to shoot this movie. Meanwhile, I keep writing
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: movies set in small North my and towns that shoot
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: in small Canadian towns. No to self write more movies
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: with scenic international settings, something like I don't know, Ted
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: Cooper takes Copenhagen or Scandinavian Santa Class or The Three
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: Wise Men Tokyo Drift. You guys insert laughter track here
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: that is so freaking funny and my wheels are spinning.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: I'm like, yes, what movie did we say? Haul Out
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: the Holly needs some sort of international because we need
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  Speaker 2: Wes Brown to go off and do the Santa Class
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  Speaker 2: in Copenhagen.
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  Speaker 1: Or Nelson Russell Haynes line lab.
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  Speaker 2: One and then it says in parentheses, I actually have
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: a great idea for a Santa Summit sequel that involves
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: travel across the globe. Seems destined not to come to life,
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: but a fella can dream. And excuse me, I say, what,
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  Speaker 2: Look this from the man who shopped Hot Frosty for
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  Speaker 2: years and years and years.
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  Speaker 1: Don't give up Russel, Oh, Netflix.
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  Speaker 2: Russell, no shade to Hallmark. I'm just saying, Russell, you
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  Speaker 2: are a great screenwriter, Like put your work out there
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  Speaker 2: everywhere you don't just have to pigeonhole yourself into Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, says the girl who's sitting at a kitchen
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  Speaker 2: table right now.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Jack about how movies are made, but I feel like
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  Speaker 2: you've got a home anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Mandy writes in regarding We Met in December, and she says,
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  Speaker 2: I've been enjoying the reviews for countown to Christmas movies,
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  Speaker 2: and I certainly feel like they have leveled up this year.
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  Speaker 2: One thing I did notice that somehow made it past editing,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm curious if any other viewers noticed this. On
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: the We Met in December kiss. As Dave was walking
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: back into the elevator post kiss, he awkwardly had something
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  Speaker 2: in his mouth and had to move it around before
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: saying his next line. I had to rewatch to make
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  Speaker 2: sure I was seeing it correctly, but that kind of
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  Speaker 2: ruined the moment for me. Anyone going to rewatch to
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  Speaker 2: find it?
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  Speaker 1: Lol? It's around the one hour one it mark on Homework. Plus.
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  Speaker 2: I also agree Dave's character could have been more interesting,
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: and loved the costume choices for Annie. Excuse me, time out,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: time out, time out, time out? Did we ever say
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Dave's character was not interesting. I don't I remember either.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: This is what I'm wondering. Does Dave Niall have gum
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: in his mouth? Because he just had a smooch with
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: on a racer and that's what he's What would he
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: have in his mouth? He's not like have a like a.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Load of chew. I was like, I don't even know
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: what it's called. But thank you Megan for saving me.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Hold on, here we go, let me come see. That's
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: a Breek kiss. Great kiss. Oh, he definitely has them
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: in his mouth.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: It's gum or a mint. It's not like last night's chicken.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: A popcorn, Colonel grapes.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: If you guys watch I Day mister Christmas, you will
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: understand that reference.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: It is hard to un see it though, now that
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: I've seen it, But yeah, it looks like gum to me,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it doesn't.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: It's not off putting. That kiss was hot.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: He wanted fresh breath to kiss his.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Partner scene scene partner. Thank you.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Another email from Mackie regarding movies set in high school,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Wendy mentioning, I have not read this email, so I'm
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: a little bit nervous, right, now you're fine. Wendy mintioning
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: in your review of The Snow Must Go On that
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: she enjoys high school settings and Christmas movies gave me
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: the idea to check your A through Z listne for
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: in Mary Measure from twenty twenty two. Since it isn't
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: currently on there, I want to highly recommend it for
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: the both of you. It was Russell Haylean's first Hallmark
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: movie and it stars Patty Muirn and Brendan Penny. I
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: think you would enjoy. As a matter of fact, my
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: first thought after watching The Snow Must Go On was
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: that it would make a great double future within Mary Measure.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Are you rushing because we have so many things to
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: say about this email? No, I'm sorry. I didn't mean
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: to No, no, no, I was like, w through it. I
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: have thoughts that movie. We did not review it.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I did watch it because that was the first year
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: we did the Bracket and that movie came on strong
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: in the Bracket and I was like, well, heck, I
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: have to go and watch it.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Because of Russell Haneline activating.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: For his exactly exactly yeah at yes, speaking of Russell Hayneline,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: that was his first Hallmark movie. That's a cute movie.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I have seen it as well. You're right, we didn't
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: review it.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: You know how.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Sometimes movies like the where and when of watching them
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: sticks with you. I vividly remember it was Christmas break.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: My husband was watching that movie and I was deep
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: cleaning the kitchen, like the cabinets, taking everything out, scrubbing
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: it down, and that was on.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: So I've seen it, Yeah, I haven't seen it.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: With the review worthy, I also shout out to our
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: a zine listing which is on our website, Girls Go one,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Hallmark dot com. It's LinkedIn the sidebar. We have a
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: listening of every single movie we reviewed. It automatically updates, right,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: it automatically updates.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: It's alphabetical. I haven't actually looked in a while. Let's
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: make sure it's actually more. I hope it's updating.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Gosh, right, look for an alpine holiday and alpine holidays there. Okay, good,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: it's automatically updating. It's automatically updating. I mean, there are
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: some good movies in here. So you can just scroll
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: dot list.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Can you search? Is there a search function on it?
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Or now there's a search function on your computer? Or
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: just yeah, command F.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: And you can search, but there is no search funk.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: You can search our website. Movies will come up that
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: way as well. Our final email is from Jan, who
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: wrote to us about the Mistletoe Murders finale. She says
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: a few comments on the podcast for the latest Missletone Murders.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: A little background. I worked in a college international relations
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: department and had students who did internships with the FBI
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: and CIA and State Department, and my daughter was in
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: the FBI.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Very cool, Felo, She's giving us a lot of information.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: She shouldn't be.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: What's your code name?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Jan? They leave quote intelligence purposeful broad, but it would
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: most likely be CIA given the covert nature of the
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: explosion scenes and the training she displays. Yes, government intelligence
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: agencies do occasionally turn criminals into special operatives. The movie
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Catch Me If You Can is all about the government
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: doing this and is based on a true story. Grace
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: is also a good target for such a program because
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: she has no family, no one to ask questions or
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: need to know where she is. Her computer skills would
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: be a huge asset too. The National Security Agency would
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: be a good spot for her skills, providing the computer
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: background slash framework. But I don't think they have field agents.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Love this series so much. Need more than six episodes
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: next year. Those science chan Us two, Ken Coperris and Hollmark.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Please make that happen. I was thinking about this the
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: other day. You talk about like cleaning the kitchen cabinet
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: and remembering that in Mary Measure was on. I was
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: cleaning my bathroom the other day and I had this
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: thought about that email from Ken Cooperris. Oh, actually wasn't
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: an email. I think it was a message him saying
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: that Emily stores open your round year around and he
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: can write stories whatever season it is. This is what
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking about. And my thought process was, well, they
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: would have to start shooting that now if we were
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: gonna get like six in summer and six in during
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: the countin the Christmas can they do that? Yeah, please
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: make it happen. Let's wrap on this week's Listener mail bag.
• 22:25
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• 22:27
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• 22:32
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• 22:44
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• 22:46
  Speaker 1: We way back next time with more Hallmark reviews.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Goodbye bye.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Alright friends, before we go, just a quick heads up,
• 23:03
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• 23:06
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• 23:09
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• 23:18
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