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True Justice: Family Ties · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hamewark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan. I'm Wendy.
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Speaker 1: I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today we're discussing True Justice
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Speaker 1: Family Ties, which originally aired on Friday, January twelfth on
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Speaker 1: a regime change exactly. And I know in our group
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Speaker 1: I made a lot of errors, but I'm a human,
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Speaker 1: but I think in the end it was still fun.
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Speaker 1: And if you didn't know, A builtmore Christmas one for
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Speaker 1: Best Movie that is unsurprising, But were there any surprising
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Speaker 1: moments too? Surprising moments to me? Yes, Round and Round
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Speaker 1: went out fairly early. I thought, I wonder how many
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Speaker 1: people skipped that because of the Hank movie. They're like,
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Speaker 1: I'm not here for that, and then missed out on
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Speaker 1: a good movie. It has all the warmth of the
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Speaker 1: Christmas movies, just at a different holiday. Agree, And I
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Speaker 1: think it might be my favorite movie of the entire year.
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Speaker 1: Uh huh. It was just so good. Also, a big
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Speaker 1: surprise Mystic Christmas made it real far. Yes, I love
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Speaker 1: that movie too, but I think if people were surprised,
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Speaker 1: like how far I had it had gotten. Yeah, the
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Speaker 1: final two ended up being Santa Summit and Built Moore.
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Speaker 1: Santa Summit gave Builtmore a run, really did. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: a blowout, No, not at all. But I think you
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Speaker 1: have like your viewers who are like true romance fans,
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Speaker 1: and then you have viewers who are into comedy. Yes.
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Speaker 1: What I loved is that we had, like the writer
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Speaker 1: of Asanta Summit, like sharing our stuff. We had several
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Speaker 1: actors from the movies sharing and voting for you know.
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Speaker 1: It was just awesome to see. Maybe so happy that
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Speaker 1: was really fun. I love it. Every year I had
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Speaker 1: somebody message me They're like, oh, I'm so sad it's
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Speaker 1: over now, So I say stay tuned because when he's
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Speaker 1: got big ideas, we're dreaming up some other fun, fun
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Speaker 1: interactives for the listeners. Hey, speaking of fun stuff, let's
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Speaker 1: hear a synopsis of true justice Family Ties right. A
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Speaker 1: law school student and her friends set out to prove
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Speaker 1: her brother's innocence, but the only way to clear his
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Speaker 1: name is by finding the real killert Row. No, I
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Speaker 1: see what you did there. This movie was directed by
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Wright. He's no stranger to Hallmark, having directed A
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Speaker 1: Not So Royal Christmas from the twenty twenty three Countdown
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Speaker 1: to Christmas lineup. He also directed family History Mysteries Buried
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Speaker 1: Past last year, as well as The Royal Nanny and
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Speaker 1: Jolly Good Christmas in twenty twenty two. You know, Jonathan
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Speaker 1: Wright and I have DMed a little bit. He's very
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Speaker 1: nice and was like, please let me know if you
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Speaker 1: have any questions. I want to just share that he shared.
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Speaker 1: This is not like what's the word I'm looking for?
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Speaker 1: This is not like Secrets of the Trade. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: He had to cut a butcher in this movie, so
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Speaker 1: he was worried like for time, like he said like
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Speaker 1: twenty minutes out of it or something, so he was
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Speaker 1: worried that it was gonna be a little confusing. Keep
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Speaker 1: this in mind. He was worried he was gonna be
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Speaker 1: confusing because he had to cut so much for it.
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Speaker 1: This script was written by Nicki Deloche and her writing
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Speaker 1: partner Megan McNulty. Of course, we know Nicki de Looche
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Speaker 1: as an actress, right. She was in this movie for
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Speaker 1: like maybe five minutes. Maybe her scenes got cut, I
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Speaker 1: don't know. No laughing there, So I think I want
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Speaker 1: the comment about how long she was in it, and
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Speaker 1: we'll get into it. Okay, okay. She has only one
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Speaker 1: previous writing credit, which was Christmas four Keeps from twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one, a movie I have not seen. No, I
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Speaker 1: don't even It's like not ringing even a single bell
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Speaker 1: for me. I wonder if twenty twenty one is correct.
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Speaker 1: Maybe my notes not wrong. Well, I'm sure it is.
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Speaker 1: I did read the synopsis for it, and I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of interested in that. But the IMDb rating
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Speaker 1: was real low. And keep in mind twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 1: we probably did one Christmas movie a week out of
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Speaker 1: the fourties. Yeah, so true, true, her writing partner Meghan
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Speaker 1: McNulty is also a working actress who has appeared in
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Speaker 1: just one Hallmark movie, Taking the Reins from twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 1: I Like that movie, amongst a list of other project.
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Speaker 1: This is her fourth writing credit. She had previously written
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Speaker 1: Christmas for Keeps with Niki. Katherine McNamara plays Kasey Barlow.
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Speaker 1: We last saw Catherine in Love Classified from twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 1: She has seventy acting credits, including tons of episodes on
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Speaker 1: the following series Walker, Independence Arrow and Shadow Hunters. Her
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Speaker 1: resume is long and varied, and it's nice to see
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Speaker 1: her back on Hamark. Marky and trusiek plays Eli Flant
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Speaker 1: Something about a dude in a cardigan head loo Wowie zowie?
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Speaker 1: Am I wrong? You are not okay? We've seen Markan
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Speaker 1: in previous Hallmark projects like Welcome to Valentine, Christmas at
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Speaker 1: the Golden Dragon, Are Italian Christmas Memories, and Grab Your
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Speaker 1: Bingo Cards. He was also in two episodes of Virgin River.
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Speaker 1: Do you know I started Virgin River? And what is
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Speaker 1: your first impression? It's a little slow. It is. It's
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Speaker 1: a little slow. I don't hate it. It's a little slow. Though.
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Speaker 1: Marisa McIntyre plays Sarah. She's got Niki Deloucha's exact bangs
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Speaker 1: in fact, In fact, sometimes when they would show her,
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Speaker 1: I was like, is that Nikki or is that Sarah? Really?
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Speaker 1: You don't think they have the same banks. I think
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Speaker 1: they look Yes, they have the same kind of blunt bangs.
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Speaker 1: But Marissa has such a specific look to me. I
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Speaker 1: scoured her IMDb. I cannot figure out why she looks
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Speaker 1: familiar to me. And maybe it's the Niki deloche factor,
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Speaker 1: but there's something about her too, and like I know her,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know what I know her from. Well,
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Speaker 1: let me tell you. This is her second project for Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: having previously appeared in the movie Never Too Late to
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Speaker 1: Celebrate from twenty twenty two, another movie we did not watch. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Sabrina Sawden plays PJ. Sabrina has just nine previous acting credits,
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Speaker 1: and this is her first role for Homer. Alexander Nuniez
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Speaker 1: plays private investigator friend Liam. This is his first project for Hallmark.
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Speaker 1: His previous twenty four acting credits include the CW series Moonshine,
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Speaker 1: as well as The Teacher and The hand Maid's Tale.
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Speaker 1: Nikki Deloache and Benjamin Ayers play supporting roles as Professor
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Speaker 1: Ambrose and da Quinn, respectively. People who loved the Cranberry
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Speaker 1: Christmas might love their reprising their on screen romance in
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Speaker 1: this movie. Did that surprise you when they were like,
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Speaker 1: got kissing? I'd like to discuss it. Okay. This movie
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Speaker 1: was initially called Exonerated and it was filmed entirely in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
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Speaker 1: in mid June twenty twenty three. And then they're like, hey, wait,
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Speaker 1: this could be a franchise. We need a franchise A
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Speaker 1: bolt her name. Absolutely. What was your first impression of
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Speaker 1: True Justice Family Dies? This movie ticked all of my
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Speaker 1: non Hallmark boxes. My first impression is none of this
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Speaker 1: is admissible in court. Wah wah. You're right though. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so let's dig into what we liked about True Justice
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Speaker 1: Family Test. One of the things I love most about
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Speaker 1: the mystery movies is the lack of a focus on romance.
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Speaker 1: Me too glows us to focus so much more on
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Speaker 1: the story, and I'll save more of that. But oh no, no,
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Speaker 1: not the story. Uh We're gonna get a romance. That's
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Speaker 1: just how it is. I know they're gonna have like
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Speaker 1: a slow burn. Yeah, but the story stands alone without
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Speaker 1: needing to build to a romantic final moment. I agree,
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Speaker 1: I agree, and I really appreciate that. I'm glad to
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Speaker 1: hear that some was cut. Oh, only because I feel
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Speaker 1: like we were rushing to get through all of the suspects. Okay, fair,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna DM him now and find out, like what
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Speaker 1: was cut. I don't feel like they didn't tell the story.
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Speaker 1: But these movies are about eighty two minutes long. I
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Speaker 1: feel like with sometimes with the classic Hallmark movie, I'm
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Speaker 1: like that's plenty. With the mysteries, I'm like they could
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Speaker 1: they could use an extra twenty minute sometimes sure to
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Speaker 1: tell the story, to flesh it out. To tell a
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Speaker 1: full mystery in eighty two minutes is challenging, yes, But
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Speaker 1: the counter to that is this movie you had to
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Speaker 1: like introduce all these people and all this stuff and
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Speaker 1: all the backstory. So like, I feel like that takes
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Speaker 1: a big chunk out of it. Maybe going forward, it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be a little more fluid. Yeah, that's a good point.
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Speaker 1: Maybe the first episode in these franchise movies takes a
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Speaker 1: hit because of that. Yeah, that's what I think. I
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Speaker 1: love that this was a procedural drama. Yeah, I'm thrilled
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Speaker 1: to see something like that on the Hallmark Channel. I
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Speaker 1: know it was on movies and mysteries, but in the
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Speaker 1: last two and a half years that we've been how
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Speaker 1: long has it been, three three? This is like the
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Speaker 1: first I've seen of it. Is this a first? I
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Speaker 1: saw a comparison to Darrow and Darrow, which is a
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Speaker 1: Hallmark series, but it's been ten years. Oh wow, And
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Speaker 1: I think this still does have a fresher take on
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Speaker 1: what they were doing in that series. Well. I love
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Speaker 1: that it was like based in the criminal justice system.
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Speaker 1: We get a little bit of CSI, we get a
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Speaker 1: little bit of Veronica Mars, we get a little bit
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Speaker 1: of How To get Away with Murder And those are
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Speaker 1: great shows, yeah, that have done very well. So I
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Speaker 1: love that we're getting that kind of specific genre on Hallmark.
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Speaker 1: Love it, love it, love it, love it, love it.
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Speaker 1: I like the idea of exonerating an innocent Oh yeah.
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Speaker 1: Nikki Deloch was interviewed by Southern Living and this is
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Speaker 1: a quote that I really like. She says, it's important
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Speaker 1: for people to be able to have redemption, and it's
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Speaker 1: important for us to believe in redemption. I think we
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Speaker 1: exist in the country where people have forgotten about how
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Speaker 1: important it is for us to allow people to have
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Speaker 1: second chances and to be redeemed, especially when they're innocent,
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Speaker 1: and also to talk about how the justice system is
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Speaker 1: made up of human beings and human beings are going
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Speaker 1: to make mistakes. That's really fair. Now, can I share
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Speaker 1: something that was from the Facebook group? Our Facebook group please?
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Speaker 1: One of our Facebook group members said she had wished
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Speaker 1: that the person who was exonerated was a person of color.
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Speaker 1: There's a disproportionate number of people of color incarcerated, yes, exactly,
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Speaker 1: and by extension, that suggests that there's a disproportionate number
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Speaker 1: of people of color who are falsely incarcerated. Exactly. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's a great point in that thread. There is something
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Speaker 1: that I wished for too, but we're gonna we'll get
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Speaker 1: to it. Okay. The last thing that is on my
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Speaker 1: list of likes is you have a lot more? Yes,
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Speaker 1: I do. Well, let me talk about Nicky and Benn. Okay.
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Speaker 1: I thought they were a great addition to this movie,
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Speaker 1: and I saw a lot of commentary that people wanted
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Speaker 1: more of them. I didn't, and not because I didn't
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Speaker 1: love them. I think they're in here just enough. They
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Speaker 1: are familiar faces. They kind of boost the movie a
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Speaker 1: little bit by putting those two big names, but they
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Speaker 1: allow the Scooby Gang, as you and I refer to them,
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Speaker 1: to shine. Yeah, and I think that's done well. I
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Speaker 1: don't want this to be Nicky and Ben. I want
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Speaker 1: this to be Catherine McNamara and her Mary Gang of
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Speaker 1: crime Solvers. Yeah, I absolutely agree. I do think though
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Speaker 1: the way this was promoted on social media, hmm, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of a bait and switch because they're showing like
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Speaker 1: Nicki and Ben as kind of the forefront of the
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Speaker 1: I have a specific photo in mind. I agree with you,
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Speaker 1: like it's kind of nice. Have you ever seen a
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Speaker 1: show introduce another show where like roll over into like
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Speaker 1: acrossover episode, Yeah, exactly what this is what that felt
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Speaker 1: like to me, Like we have these two, you know,
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Speaker 1: Hallmark actors who are loved and respected, and they're just
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a like a teaser, like they
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Speaker 1: they're helping the new franchise take off. So I didn't
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Speaker 1: mind it. I actually no offense, but I think they
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Speaker 1: could have cut Ben's role completely out of it, like
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Speaker 1: I don't think we needed the Nicky and Ben romance
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Speaker 1: at all. I thought it was cute. I thought it
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Speaker 1: was cute and clever how she like walks in on them.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, it wasn't necessary. No, you know, I think
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Speaker 1: it's is a nice little like thing. Well, to your
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Speaker 1: point about cutting Ben's role. I it started off and
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, no, am I gonna hate him
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Speaker 1: because he's like this tough guy DA and then he
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Speaker 1: comes around to be on her side. Yeah, in like
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Speaker 1: a well if you happen to find that I know
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Speaker 1: a DA who might be willing to reopen this case.
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Speaker 1: I liked that he came around as the good guy. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I really didn't want to have to hate him. Fair.
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Speaker 1: That's fair. Let me finish the things that I liked
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Speaker 1: about this movie. I love the big cast in comparison
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Speaker 1: to like one or two key players, which we usually
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Speaker 1: get like in a Mystery Curious Caterer. Yeah exactly. I
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Speaker 1: feel like this is going to open the door for
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Speaker 1: like multiple story arcs. Like I think it's really cool
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Speaker 1: that they're doing something like that. And I think this
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Speaker 1: younger cast brings like a new fresh energy to the
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Speaker 1: chick Huh. I'm super supportive of that. It really reminded
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Speaker 1: me of and I don't know if you watched it
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Speaker 1: the ABC series Scandal, the Shonda Rhimes show. I watched
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Speaker 1: the first two seasons. Okay, so in terms like they
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Speaker 1: had all these characters who worked for Olivia Pope. Yes,
17:55
Speaker 1: that's why I was like, what what's her name? And
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Speaker 1: it gave me the same kind of vibe. Yeah, you
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Speaker 1: have all these kind of like quirky but like they
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Speaker 1: bring something to the group as a whole to solve
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Speaker 1: the project they're working on. Uh huh. Finally, one of
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Speaker 1: the funniest scenes. I thought there was a lot of
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Speaker 1: like comic relief in this movie. To thea there are a
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Speaker 1: lot of really funny lines. But when PJ, the friend
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Speaker 1: PJ is naming their group and she's like, let's call
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Speaker 1: this Justice Warriors or let's free Market or whatever, I
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Speaker 1: just thoughtless funny. Of course, that's what kids, people their
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Speaker 1: age are going to do, Like it was appropriate for
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Speaker 1: their age to be joking about whatever their team name is.
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Speaker 1: And that's what I liked about it. I have just
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Speaker 1: one wish, Okay, you have a lot, and I have two.
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Speaker 1: So I mentioned that one of the things I like
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Speaker 1: the most about mystery movies is that there's less of
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Speaker 1: a focus on a romance. I didn't I don't didn't
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Speaker 1: want it at all in this movie. Okay, I don't
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Speaker 1: think that Casey and Eli need to be together. I
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Speaker 1: think their story is more powerful if they come together
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Speaker 1: as friends. I think, to your point, the idea of
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Speaker 1: this gang working together, the power of the friendship behind that.
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Speaker 1: Maybe there's a romance for one of them down the line.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I definitely see Sarah and Eli potentially developed
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Speaker 1: by Sarah and Liam. Oh yeah, okay, developing a little
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Speaker 1: something something. I just I didn't want it. I agree,
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Speaker 1: it's not always necessary, right, Yes, it's not always necessary.
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Speaker 1: Let that find like they're other people. I think it's
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Speaker 1: a distraction, Like let's tell these fun mystery stories. Let's
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Speaker 1: have these quirky interactions, like your relationships happen out of
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Speaker 1: the group. Yeah, because obviously Eli is going to become
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Speaker 1: one of these justice warriors or so. I just that's
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Speaker 1: my feeling. I just don't need it. And I know
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Speaker 1: we're heading there. Let's hope, and we're got all this trauma, right,
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Speaker 1: Like her brother went to prison, and yes he's been exonerated,
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Speaker 1: but they still have to work through all that, Like
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Speaker 1: her brother's still not in a great place, Like he
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Speaker 1: wasn't an angel at this moment. They lost their parents,
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Speaker 1: his girlfriend was murdered even though she was cheating out.
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Speaker 1: There's all this. There's a lot of trauma for sure
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Speaker 1: that they need to work through before they come together. Yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: here are my wishes. One. I think this story could
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Speaker 1: have been simplified. For example, a similar story could have
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Speaker 1: been told, but there doesn't need to be a personal
20:38
Speaker 1: connection to the victim and the criminal, Like what are
20:42
Speaker 1: the chances? Yeah, so I was wondering and looking at
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Speaker 1: this as a franchise. I feel like they're gonna be like, oh,
20:52
Speaker 1: now that we know we're good at this, then we're
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Speaker 1: gonna Oh someone came to us and was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: there's this other and now they're gonna not have this
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Speaker 1: personal relationship. But the question is, then, how do you
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Speaker 1: get these law students involved? How does this start without
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Speaker 1: the personal relationship? Yeah? I don't know, you're right, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: her brother was accused of murdering her ex best friend,
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Speaker 1: who also happens to be the girlfriend of some guy
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Speaker 1: that she knows that they're in the same law life.
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Speaker 1: It just is too much. But I hear you that
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Speaker 1: they needed the personal connection to actually make it happen,
21:30
Speaker 1: because otherwise, But can you see, like, doesn't it feel
21:34
Speaker 1: very familiar where you have like a bunch of a
21:37
Speaker 1: group of eager like lost students and criminal justice inspired
21:42
Speaker 1: by Kim Kardashian getting the wrongfully accused. Okay, I wasn't
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Speaker 1: going there, but like, but that's what she does, I know,
21:49
Speaker 1: I know, sure, yeah, and they like discover this case
21:52
Speaker 1: and they're like this doesn't sit rightly. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
21:56
Speaker 1: All right, here's the next thing I wish for. I
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Speaker 1: do like Catherine McNamara hear me out, I wish in
22:03
Speaker 1: one particular scene. I thought she was great throughout the
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Speaker 1: whole movie, but in one particular scene, when she's being
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Speaker 1: strangled by the killer, she confronts, Yes, I just needed
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Speaker 1: more of a reaction, like this woman is strangling you,
22:17
Speaker 1: Like it just was like not enough, a little reserved.
22:23
Speaker 1: I don't know. Everything leading up to that I thought
22:25
Speaker 1: was really good. She's leading mildly strangled, She's like, are
22:32
Speaker 1: you fighting for your life? Throw an elbow in that
22:34
Speaker 1: lady's face. Yes, something, But I thought she was good.
22:37
Speaker 1: I liked her. Some of the feedback on IMDb, which
22:40
Speaker 1: you know is brings out the worst in people, said
22:44
Speaker 1: that she wasn't good. I liked her. I liked her too. Look.
22:47
Speaker 1: One of the imdbvie reviews was very complimentary, and they're like,
22:52
Speaker 1: and I'm so glad they didn't write in a gay
22:53
Speaker 1: character like Hallmark likes to do. Great movie. O god,
22:57
Speaker 1: it's so close. You were just all I saw that.
23:02
Speaker 1: Speaking of did you see that? Do you have any
23:05
Speaker 1: I have one. I have a couple of thoughts, Go ahead.
23:08
Speaker 1: One is okay. Casey visits her brother in prison. This
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Speaker 1: is after he's been convicted. They're sitting across the table
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Speaker 1: from each other, which is fine, like some prisons are
23:15
Speaker 1: like that, not that I have personal experience, but she asks,
23:20
Speaker 1: can I bring you anything from your place? And he
23:23
Speaker 1: says socks, toothbrush, ear plugs. I'm like, correct me if
23:27
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. You are not allowed to bring care packages
23:29
Speaker 1: into prisoners. Yeah, probably like put money in the commissary
23:35
Speaker 1: account that they can get buy a cup of noodles
23:37
Speaker 1: and some smoke, you know, like you can't ear plugs.
23:41
Speaker 1: I bet they sell fowe me ear plugs in the
23:42
Speaker 1: prison commissary. I bet they do. She cannot bring a
23:46
Speaker 1: toothbrush from his place. Bring me the oral Beef, my
23:50
Speaker 1: sonic air. I'm all right, what yeah, no, no, okay,
23:57
Speaker 1: here's my two. First of all, Casey and Eli go
24:01
Speaker 1: on a steak out and they're unmatching black hats. They're
24:04
Speaker 1: in like steak out Barbie Costuing. First of all, I
24:08
Speaker 1: feel like it's so much more conspicuous to have two
24:11
Speaker 1: people sitting in all black with a black cap on,
24:13
Speaker 1: like in the front seat of the b car like.
24:16
Speaker 1: Of course. Secondly, I loved Liam's many van decals. It
24:23
Speaker 1: was just like the dog rumor or whatever. But also
24:26
Speaker 1: I was like, doesn't it make more sense to have
24:27
Speaker 1: an unmarked van. They're gonna be like I saw that
24:30
Speaker 1: dog groomer van. Stake it out. Ah, I am trying
24:32
Speaker 1: you switch them out so it's not the same one.
24:34
Speaker 1: It just seems. I just thought it was funny. If
24:38
Speaker 1: this is not Mystery Ink, which I had totally forgotten
24:41
Speaker 1: that Les Scooby Gang had their incorporated, so funny. Wou'd
24:48
Speaker 1: you rate this? I gave it four point two five stars. Oh,
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Speaker 1: three point seven five stars. I liked it. I love
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Speaker 1: a murdery show. Give me more, make it more more murdery. Yes,
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