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Just One Kiss · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode
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  Speaker 1: of Long Story Short the podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: and today we're talking about Just One Kiss, which premiere
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  Speaker 1: premiered on Saturday, April second on the Hallmark Channel as
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  Speaker 1: part of Hallmarks Spring into Love lineup. Before we get
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  Speaker 1: into our thoughts on this movie, we wanted to invite
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  Speaker 1: you to join our brand new, just for Hallmark fans
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  Speaker 1: exclusive Facebook group called Girls Gone Hallmark. You can find
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  Speaker 1: easy for you and there's a link in our show
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  Speaker 1: notes and you can follow it right there and request
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  Speaker 1: to join.
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  Speaker 2: Or you can send us an email at Megan Andwindy
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  Speaker 2: at gmail dot com anytime with your thoughts on the movies,
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  Speaker 2: are our views, anything that's on your mind.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I've noticed, what is that we get
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  Speaker 1: emails sometimes for this type of podcast episode, our Hallmark episodes,
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  Speaker 1: and we get emails for our regular Tuesday Just Talking
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  Speaker 1: about Life podcast, and the Hallmark fans pull no punches.
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  Speaker 2: You think.
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  Speaker 1: They're very protective of their movies and their actors and
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  Speaker 1: their universe, and I appreciate it. I appreciate that you
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  Speaker 1: have very strong feelings for it, but it is a
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  Speaker 1: remarkable difference.
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  Speaker 2: It definitely is, and I'm not offended by it. Like
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  Speaker 2: everybody can have their opinion about it. I mean, but
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  Speaker 2: don't come with me like talking badly about you know,
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark's move towards diversity.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, the movies are too woke. Come out, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to remind listeners because some people are brand
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  Speaker 1: new to our podcast and I I wanted to take
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  Speaker 1: a quick second and remind them the provenance of this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: How this even started. Because people may think, like you're
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark seasoned regular, I'm really not. I mean you
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  Speaker 1: are now. But this started because in October twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: Whndy had never seen a single Hallmark movie. And I
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  Speaker 1: would consider myself a Hallmark movie fan, but will admit
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  Speaker 1: that mostly that meant I was watching countdown to Christmas
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  Speaker 1: movies and not catching very many throughout the year. And
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  Speaker 1: so we started from a place of absolutely no Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: knowledge and like casual Hallmark watcher knowledge and have become
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  Speaker 1: I would say, quite well versed in the Hallmark universe.
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  Speaker 2: I mean quite well versed. Maybe not so much because
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  Speaker 2: we were talking specifically about an actor who was in
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  Speaker 2: a movie late last year, and I was like, I
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  Speaker 2: can't even remember what movie that was. I can't even
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  Speaker 2: remember who the actor was, so I would consider myself
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  Speaker 2: like not verst at all.
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  Speaker 1: All right, fair enough, okay, I talk about this movie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: do you have a synopsis for Just One Kiss?
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  Speaker 2: I sure do. Sparks fly between Professor Mia and lounge
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  Speaker 2: singer Tony through a series of chance encounters. Little do
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  Speaker 2: they know their mothers are scheming to set them up
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  Speaker 2: stars Christa Rodriguez and Santino Fontana.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about some news and notes about
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  Speaker 1: Just One Kiss.
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  Speaker 2: Well, give it to us.
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  Speaker 1: So, first of all, this was written by Nina Weyman,
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  Speaker 1: who is a prolific Hallmark writer. She's up there in
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  Speaker 1: terms of my favorite Hallmark writers. I will forgive her
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  Speaker 1: for never kiss a man on a Christmas letter because
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  Speaker 1: we did get Don't Go Break in My Heart last year.
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  Speaker 1: And also I think this movie is a gem, so
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  Speaker 1: they can't. I'll be hits out of the park.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, sure, of course. It was filmed in Vancouver, Canada,
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  Speaker 2: and the movie began filming on January twenty eighth, whoa
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  Speaker 2: tight turnaround.
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  Speaker 1: There's Hallmark with their quick turnarounds. Did you think that
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  Speaker 1: some of the exterior shots had real movie set back
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  Speaker 1: lot vibes to you?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely? And I almost thought, like, are they filming this, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what is it Universal Studios.
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  Speaker 1: Here, right, you know, Warner Brothers back lie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yes, I definitely thought that, like these are supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be the streets of New York, not the streets,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, like a New York neighborhood or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I don't know if there is some sort
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  Speaker 1: of lot situation somewhere in Vancouver that they use for
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  Speaker 1: some of these exterior shots, or if these are all
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  Speaker 1: just exterior street street shots that they were using, but
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  Speaker 1: specifically like outside when they're walking through the city. It
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  Speaker 1: felt very much like like a Luke's Diner on the
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  Speaker 1: back lot of her brother's studio situation.
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  Speaker 2: Totally, totally.
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  Speaker 1: This was directed by Jeff Beasley, who is on a
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark movie directing tear. He directed movies recently like Love
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  Speaker 1: Strikes Twice and A Kiss Before Christmas, which was the
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  Speaker 1: Terry Hatcher movie. He had done a lot of TV producing,
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  Speaker 1: but for the last few years he's just been TV movie,
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  Speaker 1: TV movie, TV movie. He must work pretty much NonStop,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like lately.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, I was looking at the instagram of some of
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  Speaker 2: the actors in this movie and I saw that they
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  Speaker 2: had stayed at Sutton Place, which is a downtown Vancouver hotel.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to reference something that probably only Megan knows,
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  Speaker 2: But I was recently listening to the podcast Nobody's Listening
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  Speaker 2: Right with Elizabeth and Andy, and she was she's a
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  Speaker 2: she writes for that show A Million Little Lot, A
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  Speaker 2: Million Little Lies. No, is that what it's called? What's
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  Speaker 2: it called?
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  Speaker 1: A Million Little Things?
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  Speaker 2: That's it? Why did I think of million Little Lies?
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  Speaker 2: Where did that come from? That's it. Anyway, she's a
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  Speaker 2: writer on that show, and she recently went to Canada,
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  Speaker 2: and she was telling the story that, like, if you're
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  Speaker 2: in entertainment and you are going to Vancouver for work,
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  Speaker 2: everybody stays at the Sutton. So I thought it was
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  Speaker 2: pretty funny that I saw that these other actors in
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  Speaker 2: a Hallmark movie were also staying at the Sutton. And hello,
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  Speaker 2: if you're like a huge fan and you want to
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  Speaker 2: go see some actors and some actresses go to the
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  Speaker 2: Sutton Hotel in hevery good.
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  Speaker 1: YEP, I bummed on that as well. And I wonder
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  Speaker 1: if I've seen that mentioned in other news bits about
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark movies and just not registered it because I hadn't.
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  Speaker 1: Just recently heard that hotel mentioned on a podcast that
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  Speaker 1: was like worlds colliding right there, totally totally. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about Santino Fontana, one of the stars of this movie.
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  Speaker 1: He plays Tony. He is the voice of Hans and Frozen.
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  Speaker 1: Wendy knows him as the voice of Joe in the
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  Speaker 1: audio book You but what I just learned he's also
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  Speaker 1: a Tony Award winner.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought for sure you had known that I did,
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  Speaker 2: don't you? Don't you? You're very much up on the
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  Speaker 2: Tony Awards Broadway.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I enjoy a Broadway show, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: have the names of the Tony Award winners memorized. But
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  Speaker 1: he won for a role in TUTSI.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that I saw closed in like February twenty twenty, right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I wonder why that closed? Uh, I
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  Speaker 2: mean maybe it was at the end of the run.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's too early for it to have been
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  Speaker 1: COVID related.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 1: Too.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a side note. I was looking on IMDb and
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  Speaker 2: there were a ton of comments that criticized his voice
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  Speaker 2: for not being that good in this movie. And I
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  Speaker 2: was like, what, this is a Tony Award winning actor. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's got the voice. Yeah, I thought he was great,
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  Speaker 2: me too. Christa Rodriguez plays Mia. I learned that she
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  Speaker 2: is a real life breast cancer survivor and was diagnosed
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  Speaker 2: at thirty years old.
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  Speaker 1: I did not know that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. She was also No One for being in the
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  Speaker 2: NBC show Smash with Catherine McPhee. Uh huh did you
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  Speaker 2: watch that show?
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  Speaker 1: I've seen a few episodes.
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  Speaker 2: She was also on Broadway in a course line in
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  Speaker 2: the Heights and The Adams Family. But she's an Orange
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  Speaker 2: County girl born here in the city of Orange and
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  Speaker 2: went to Osha High School, which is Orange County High
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  Speaker 2: School of the Arts.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, what fun information you found. I know.
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  Speaker 2: See, I tried to dig a little deeper this week.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to say that Mattie Finocchio Girl's Gone Hamewark
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  Speaker 1: fave is becoming the Where's Waldo of Hallmark movies?
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  Speaker 2: Seriously, right, And I'm still telling you justice for Maddie
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  Speaker 2: because the man needs a lead role in a movie.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred percent agree take him out of the best
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  Speaker 1: friend role, although I do think they are giving him
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  Speaker 1: things to do beyond just like funny one liners. I
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  Speaker 1: want him in a lead role.
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  Speaker 2: I got one more tiny little news and note for you,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to get your opinion. Ada Taturo and
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  Speaker 2: Ileana Douglas, who played the mothers in this movie. Aida
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  Speaker 2: is known for playing Janice on The Sopranos and she
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  Speaker 2: I think she's Tony's sister on The Sopranos. And Iliana
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  Speaker 2: she's got like a deep resume of TV shows and movies.
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  Speaker 2: She's always like, I totally recognize her face from so
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  Speaker 2: many things. But here's the thing. They are each fifty
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  Speaker 2: nine and fifty six years old, okay, and they are
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  Speaker 2: playing the roles of moms, like older moms who are
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  Speaker 2: spoilover dead. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about that. But so you
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  Speaker 1: think they're playing roles in which they're older than they
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  Speaker 1: actually are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it kind of bums me out because this
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  Speaker 2: is again where these are actors with big resumes who
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  Speaker 2: I feel like don't have a place in movies and
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  Speaker 2: TV anymore except for these like super geriatric roles. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, But is it possible that the fifty nine year
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  Speaker 1: old has a daughter has a twelve year old granddaughter?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think you know, if you have your
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  Speaker 1: kids at twenty two and then you've got a thirty
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  Speaker 1: something year old daughter who has a twelve year old,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's I think it's possible. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: I do think you are they're dead.
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  Speaker 2: But they're dead.
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  Speaker 1: They're dead. They are dead.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't they didn't say, like, who knows, it could
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  Speaker 2: have been early deaths whatever, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think so. I think these are just
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  Speaker 2: supposed to.
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  Speaker 1: Be parents who have passed on, like they passed in
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  Speaker 1: their sleep of old age.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just old age. I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just weirded out by it. Like I give them
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  Speaker 2: a second chance at love movie. They don't need to
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  Speaker 2: be playing like a super old lady who's dead. Now sure, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: that's my two cents on it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take it. Moving on, what's your first impression of
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  Speaker 1: this movie?
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  Speaker 2: My first impression is are you ready for it? I
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  Speaker 2: am Brava?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: What was yours?
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  Speaker 1: Mine? Is this appears to be the year of the
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  Speaker 1: Italian Grandma on Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. I have some thoughts about that or questions.
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  Speaker 1: Mostly okay, so I want, because we just talked about
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  Speaker 1: this to start with one like, and this isn't quite
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  Speaker 1: the late in life second chance that loves. We're not
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  Speaker 1: getting the love stories of the grandmothers in these movies,
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  Speaker 1: but we aren't getting first love young love either.
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  Speaker 2: Hm.
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  Speaker 1: This is kind of a middle ground. They've both Mio
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  Speaker 1: was married, she has a daughter, Tony had a long
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  Speaker 1: term relationship. They're both well into adulthood. So we're getting
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  Speaker 1: a mix. We're getting a mix of ages here. I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you somebody is listening to our podcast. I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: We've been asking for it. I liked this movie a
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  Speaker 2: lot because the dialogue was sharp, and I gotta give
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  Speaker 2: that to Nina Weinman for writing a good movie. But
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  Speaker 2: that it had a great cast and the music was
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  Speaker 2: so like just made me happy to watch it. It
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  Speaker 2: just made me so happy.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little bit nervous about the music, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that the songs were going to be in it, and
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  Speaker 1: I loved the way they were woven throughout the movie.
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  Speaker 1: We have you know, Nick performing in his little club,
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  Speaker 1: and we have them in their dreams, and then him
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  Speaker 1: singing at the old folks home, and then they have
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a moment where they sing together
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  Speaker 1: on the roof. I thought they did such a nice shop.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little bit worried that it was gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like breaking into songs, singing in the rain style,
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  Speaker 1: dancing down the sidewalk, and I'm glad we didn't have that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I like that.
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  Speaker 1: I just think that's perhaps hard to execute well sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, but let me say, like a Christmas waltz, did
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  Speaker 2: it really well when they were dancing in the street. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the city street or whatever like that
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  Speaker 2: was one of my favorite scenes in one of my
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  Speaker 2: favorite movies. So it can be done. But I but
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  Speaker 2: I hear you like you were worried it was gonna
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  Speaker 2: get like a little too cop rock. That's a real throwback.
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't want it to feel like we were
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a staged musical, yeah, where they
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden start singing their feelings.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, all right, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I loved this line from Nick, who says, you walk
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  Speaker 1: into the middle of someone's life, you can't expect them
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  Speaker 1: not to have one. Mia is apologizing for Casey's presence
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  Speaker 1: and how that complicates things, and I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: such a great.
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  Speaker 2: Line, isn't it. I mean, it's such a relatable line
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  Speaker 2: that's yeah, it's so good. It's so good. And I
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  Speaker 2: feel like that's kind of a wink and a nod to, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, typical Hallmark movies where like, you know, worlds
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  Speaker 2: get turned upside down because people actually have lives before
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  Speaker 2: they meet each other. Oh, you had an ex boyfriend?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, And speaking of a wink and a nod to
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark movie, I feel the entire title and then the
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  Speaker 1: running thought of how can you know that he's the
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  Speaker 1: one after just one kiss was also kind of a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a nudge to Hallmark. We get the
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  Speaker 1: kiss at the end everyone lives happily ever after, and
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  Speaker 1: I liked that.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. I don't know if you've noticed, but the
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  Speaker 2: interior apartments were super cool in this movie, Yes, totally
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  Speaker 2: different and contemporary compared to what we've seen on typical sets.
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  Speaker 2: I liked it. I mean, I don't think she's getting
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  Speaker 2: an apartment for that price, though not in New York city.
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  Speaker 1: As a professor. No, I don't think so. But I
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  Speaker 1: love her apartment. I loved. I thought it was great.
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  Speaker 2: And there were so many like shots of the New
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  Speaker 2: York skyline, and I freaking love New York. So I
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  Speaker 2: was just like, I want to go back. I want
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  Speaker 2: to go back. I love it there. It was so pretty.
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  Speaker 1: I have one more small like before we get to
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  Speaker 1: a big thing that I want to talk about. And
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: they liked Uncle Harry and his can't get enough Gaga.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought he was fun. That's what I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about, those lines being like good, Yeah, I really
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  Speaker 2: liked it.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like to talk about the twist?
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  Speaker 2: Well, sure, we.
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  Speaker 1: Can say that. Do you have in a better spot?
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  Speaker 2: No? I have it in a like spot. Actually me too.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see it coming. Okay, was I not paying
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  Speaker 2: attention closely?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see it coming either. However, as I'm watching
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  Speaker 1: sometimes I'm also doing a little research on the movie
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  Speaker 1: while it's playing, and I'm looking at the IMDb page
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  Speaker 1: and there's a synopsis I believe, and it says something
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  Speaker 1: about spirits and it names the mothers, and I thought,
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  Speaker 1: oh wait, and then I didn't I use it. So
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  Speaker 1: I didn't continue reading that, and then I start watching
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  Speaker 1: it and I go, wait a minute. That answers so
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  Speaker 1: many questions, like how come they didn't see them when
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  Speaker 1: they were in the club, and how come they nobody
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  Speaker 1: heard them talking at normal voices when they're in the
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  Speaker 1: movie theater. And then I rewound because there's only one
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  Speaker 1: scene where I believe MIA's mother is in the scene
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  Speaker 1: with her, and that's when they're looking at the apartment.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Watched it, and they never speak to each other. Mia
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  Speaker 1: echoes a lot of her mom's thoughts. Her mom's like, look,
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  Speaker 1: you can see the Brooklyn Bridge and Mia goes, wow,
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  Speaker 1: look at that view. So it feels like they're bantering,
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  Speaker 1: but there they never interact. They never look at each other.
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  Speaker 1: And I did not see it coming either, is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. But as soon as I realized it, then
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  Speaker 1: I watched the rest of that movie through that eye.
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  Speaker 2: Well that was a real sixth sense moment there when
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  Speaker 2: they were in the apartment together. Nice, Yeah, how funny.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't And now that you mentioned it, yeah, wow.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, I didn't see it coming, and I
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  Speaker 2: got super choked up when they like off together, like
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  Speaker 2: the two moms went off together because their job was done,
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  Speaker 2: and then like Mia and Tony have like a moment
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  Speaker 2: about like wishing that their moms were there, and.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was so good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was great. It was really well done.
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  Speaker 1: It did not even looking back, it doesn't feel cheesy.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they were really funny. I liked how they
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  Speaker 1: both talked up their own kids, but then when it
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  Speaker 1: came to the other ones, they were like, yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So then let's move on to what did you
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  Speaker 2: wish for from just one kiss?
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  Speaker 1: My wish is more of a complaint, okay, And I
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: guess I can frame it in the form of a wish,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: and it is I wish the casey didn't suck so much.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: That's the ex husband. Yes, okay, so I have something similar.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I wrote less stockery estranged husband and he was a nightmare,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: like go away, dude, Like, I know he's dealing with
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff and he didn't want their relationship
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: to the end, But UH have some boundaries, like you
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: are a nightmare.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: She's divorcing you. She's told you over and over again
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: that she's done and that she does not trust you,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: and you, even if you're holding out hope that you
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: might someday get back together, this is not the way
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: to do it.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He was a nightmare, like showing up on our
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: doorstep and like yeah, yeah, nope, and then like kind
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: of like badgering Tony a little bit when they were
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: in her kitchen.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Oh a lot when he shows up when he brings
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the daughter home and Mia has to leave the room
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: and he's like, I don't know what you're doing here,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: and oh, yeah, he's a jerk.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't like him at all.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Did you wish I had one?
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: And I wonder if it's just me or maybe this
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: goes back to the IMDb reviews about Santino Fontana's voice.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I thought the sound might have been off just a
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: little bit because when he's singing, like in the lounge scenes,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: he was very loud, like almost shouting loud a little bit,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: and I just thought, is maybe his voice is like
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: too loud for the music playing and that didn't translate
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: well over TV. I don't know, it could have just
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: been a personal thing. I have to play my TV
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: really loud, because especially this one, I didn't have subtitles
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: on it, so I got it. You know, I gotta
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: can't miss anything. So it was loud on my end.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Hmm, I did not notice that. Okay, it's time for
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: did you see that. I have a couple of things
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: to say.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm excited.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: First, uhuh, Nick and Mi are in a bar and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: a fan comes up to Nick and tells him how
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: her music just changed her life. And then she says,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: can I get a picture for my blog? What?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Can we not say Instagram?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Is that? Oh? Maybe they can't say instagram, but she
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: could have said for my social media, you know, just
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: can I.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Get a picture? Everyone knows what the pictures for? But
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: can I get a picture for my blog? Not saying
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: blogs don't exist? I just feel like that reference is
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: maybe ten years too late.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because we did.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Not blogging our daily lives anymore.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Did it feel like a personal attack a little bit?
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Because you know, we have a blog it's at back
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: and we do.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Megan and Wendy dot com. We do have a blog,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: but I'm not blogging like and today I'm at Joe. No.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I thought I thought it was odd. Go ahead.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I only had one little win, and we talked about it.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: You mentioned it hit on it just quickly. But I
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: was wondering why the why the moms were talking so
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: loudly in the movie theater when everybody else got shushed.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: You know, I was like, why why are they Why
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: are they allowed to like shout out each weren't shouting,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: but you know they weren't watching the movie. But now
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I know in the end that you know, we were
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: not there.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Really, looking back, it feels very obvious because they she
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: moves into a new apartment, her mom doesn't come. They
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: were across the street all the time. They're in the bar,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: and they never noticed. They're in the bar twice and
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: one time they're so close to them. This is when
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I already knew what was happening. But I was like, Okay,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: it feels like they're like, hello, you haven't hear how
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: what's going on? At this point? We cannot make it
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: any more obvious to you. Yeah, But that said, I
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: would not have guessed it if I had not seen
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: it written Two Things one and this nixt dream. He
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: has two dreams about Mia, and then the second one
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: it's kind of a nightmare because Casey comes and steals
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: her away, but you hear her singing, and you see
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: her singing, but what she is singing is not what
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: we hear.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't notice.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if that was because things were
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: starting to go wrong, so what he was hearing was
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: not what was happening. I don't know if that was
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: intentional or if they just dubbed the music incorrectly. But
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: it's very clear that she's not singing whatever it is
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: you're hearing.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Ah. Interesting.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: The last one is just a funny little one. Casey
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: is cooking in MEA's kitchen and I don't even remember
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: what he's making, veal something.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, he was making veal parmesan or something like that. Yes,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I remember, uh huh.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: He has a towel over his shoulder. Did you notice
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: that's the towel I have hanging in my kitchen? No,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I did it, I did it. It's it's my little
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: gray Home Goods toohol that I love so much.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, the set decorators or shop at home Goods.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: You know. I was like, I have that dowel.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Oh too funny. Okay, I just want to ask you
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: quickly about the Italian Grandmas. That's what you talked about
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: at the very beginning your first impression. Do you remember
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: we had a and a writer and her who mentioned
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: that she was a little bit offended by like the
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: bad Italian stereotypes. Yes, so I really I hope that
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: she's listening, and I hope she writes into the show
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: because I'm really curious about what her opinions are on
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: this movie and then also the other movie that we're
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: going to review. Amore, Yes, what her thoughts are there.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I do remember exactly what we're talking about. I think
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: that in this movie they play up the stereotypes more
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: than they do and always, Amore, I'm just curious.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I'm curious. So if you're listening, please email us.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Indeed, are you ready to rate this movie?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Yes? Are we doing this new thing where we say
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: it at the same time again? Oh? Oh, okay, okay, three, two, one,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: four and a half stars? Oh for real? Five stars? Huh?
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Actually I had four and a half in my head,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: but I was like, that's gonna be hard to say
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: at the same time. Oh God, you're so weird. I
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: thought it was a great movie. It was it perfect,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: maybe not, but it's definitely a four and a half
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: five star great Hallmark movie for me.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Me too. Like I said, Brava, that was good. It
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: was real good.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to this episode of
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the podcast. As always, we love your feedback. You can
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: find us you can email us Megan and Wendy at
• 25:37
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• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Don't forget to come back tomorrow because this week is
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: a two for We will be discussing Always a More
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: a Hallmark Movies and Mysteries movie, so don't miss that
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: tomorrow and until then, have a great week. Goodbye bye
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the Pos