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Round and Round · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan.
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Speaker 2: I'm Wendy. I'm your former Hallmark hater.
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Speaker 1: Today we're discussing Round and Round, part of Hallmark's Countdown
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Speaker 1: to Christmas series. You may notice that we're continuing to
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Speaker 1: drop episodes even after the conclusion of the series, and
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Speaker 1: we're glad you're here. We would also love to see
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Speaker 1: you elsewhere. You can find us outside the podcast. On Instagram.
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Speaker 1: is Megan and Wendy.
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Speaker 2: Lots of discussion about movies and actors and things happening
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Speaker 2: in the Hallmark world. It's a nice group Girls Gone
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Speaker 1: That is right, Wendy, Why don't you hit us with
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Speaker 1: a synopsis?
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Speaker 2: I will Rachel's stuck in a time time loup, reliving
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Speaker 2: the night of her parents' Hanukkah party. Ken Zach, the
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Speaker 2: nice boy Grandma's trying to set her up with help
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Speaker 2: her make it to tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Time for news and notes. This movie was written by Tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Lady Tamar has just seven previous writing credits. She wrote
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Speaker 1: Crashing through the Snow for Hallmark back in twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 1: as well as a handful of episodes for Pretty Little Liars,
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Speaker 1: Heart of Dixie and General Hospital Night Shift.
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Speaker 2: Do you remember when General Hospital had that like nice
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Speaker 2: Shift series? Yeah, I don't want. I remember seeing commercials
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Speaker 2: for it. I didn't watch it, but I can't remember
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Speaker 2: how long it was on for Anyway. Stacy in Harding
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Speaker 2: directed this movie. She has twelve directing credits, including Amash
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Speaker 2: stud which he talked about. I laugh every time. I
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Speaker 2: laugh every time I think of this title Amash Stood,
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Speaker 2: and I just think of Luke McFarlane, who is a
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Speaker 2: real stud. You know what I mean. Anyway, Amishtad the
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Speaker 2: Eli Weavers story, which was for Lifetime for Hallmark. Stacy
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Speaker 2: has directed Hearts in the Game, Love Classified, Christmas Sale,
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Speaker 2: and one of the Mystery one oh one movies. Additionally,
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Speaker 2: she's worked on Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist, one of Meghan's favorites.
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Speaker 2: I do enjoy that show, I know. She was also
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Speaker 2: first assistant director for the reboot of Charmed and Unreal
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Speaker 2: Nice Okay, so I have an update that is not
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Speaker 2: in the news, and notes that you see Meghan. Just
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Speaker 2: on my personal I DM Stacy because I was like,
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Speaker 2: I need to know if this movie was actually for
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Speaker 2: Hallmark or was it presented for a bigger streaming service
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Speaker 2: like Netflix or Amazon Prime or whatever. And she replied
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Speaker 2: back so nicely and was very sweet. She said, this
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Speaker 2: was indeed a Hallmark project, and the EP is somebody
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Speaker 2: the executive producer, someone who she collaborated with last year
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Speaker 2: for Love classified a movie we loved, right and next
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Speaker 2: year's Holidays, which will be a particularly fun launch for
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Speaker 2: the network. And I was like, I'm so glad you
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Speaker 2: said something about Holidays, because we thought it was going
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Speaker 2: to be this year, So it's happy. I'm happy to
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Speaker 2: hear it's still forthcoming. Yeah, but I think it's been
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Speaker 2: in post production now for some time.
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Speaker 1: It was announced last year, so I don't know when
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Speaker 1: the actual filming took place. But it's I think pretty
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Speaker 1: unusual for them to announce a product project that far
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Speaker 1: out without even a release date attached. So I'm glad
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Speaker 1: to know it's still happening. It hasn't been shelved, it's.
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Speaker 2: Not dead in the water somewhere right Hallmark Purgatory. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: So I mean it's still coming, and it's so crazy
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Speaker 2: to see, Like this season in particular, we've seen so
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Speaker 2: many actors attached to that project. So I'm like, where
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Speaker 2: is it, When is it coming? What is it about?
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Speaker 2: I don't even know what it's about. I'll tell you.
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Speaker 1: It's a series. It follows five families in Oak Bay, Oregon,
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Speaker 1: who live on the same cul de sac as they
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Speaker 1: deal with the joys and stress of coming home for
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Speaker 1: the holidays. I mean, so, are we going to get
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Speaker 1: one episode every weekend of countdown to Christmas? I think
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Speaker 1: that's brilliant, to be honest, I can't wait to hear
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Speaker 1: how it's gonna drop. Okay, me too, I'm excited. Maybe
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Speaker 1: we'll see it on our Hallmark cruise next year we
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Speaker 1: do get a premiere of some movie to b I know,
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Speaker 1: and I already picked our seats in the theater.
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Speaker 2: I'm so excited.
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Speaker 1: Round and Round was filmed east of Vancouver, British Columbia,
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Speaker 1: in a town called Maple Ridge, filmed from March through
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Speaker 1: May twenty twenty three. According to Heavy dot com.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I also wanted to note. As I was putting
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Speaker 2: these notes together, I was convinced that this was not
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Speaker 2: a Hallmark movie. And this was one of my first
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Speaker 2: clues why even though now we know it was a
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Speaker 2: Hallmark movie, like it was made for Hallmark, because you
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Speaker 2: got a project filming from March to May. M that's
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Speaker 2: a long time.
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Speaker 1: There's no way they were consistently filming for two months.
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Speaker 2: They couldn't have been, And maybeheavy dot Com has inaccurate
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Speaker 2: information here. Michaelis. She plays Rachel. She has twenty four
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Speaker 2: acting credits, which include a lot of shorts and videos,
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Speaker 2: but has also been in episodes of Blessed This Mess, Upload,
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Speaker 2: the reboot of Charmed, and a sketch comedy series called
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Speaker 2: College Humor Originals.
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Speaker 1: Brian Greenberg plays Zach. He's probably best known for his
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Speaker 1: role as Jake on One Tree Hill, but his other
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Speaker 1: forty seven acting credits include ABC's October Road, How to
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Speaker 1: Make It in America on HBO, The Mindy Project, Bride Wars,
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Speaker 1: Friends with Benefits, and Prime. One of one of these
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Speaker 1: favorite movies. Up Coming for Brian is a thriller he wrote, directed,
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Speaker 1: and starred in called Junction, which also starts his wife
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Speaker 1: Jamie Chung and former One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush.
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Speaker 2: I don't know who Rime is. Oh, it's so good.
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Speaker 2: It's so good. It's him and Uma Thurman, and it's
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Speaker 2: a very like Missus Robinson's type relationship because she's older
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Speaker 2: than him, and Meryl Streep isn't in it. She plays
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Speaker 2: his mom and she's a therapist. It's great, It's so great. Oh,
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Speaker 2: I love it. I just love it so much. And
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Speaker 2: Jamie Chung, do you know who this is? Shout out
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Speaker 2: to MTV. I was gonna that's what I was gonna say.
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Speaker 2: It was on the Real World?
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Speaker 3: Was she?
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Speaker 1: Yes, she's writing for the Real World San Diego and
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Speaker 1: an honest episode of the Challenge.
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Speaker 2: And then did she get hired? Hired for TRL? I
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Speaker 2: swear she was on TRL as like a correspondent or something.
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Speaker 1: I don't think so, because I'm already in Oh. She
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Speaker 1: was in Once Upon a Time. She played Milan.
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Speaker 2: Rick Hoffman plays Rachel's dad. Stan Hoffman has been in
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Speaker 2: a lot. He has sixty five acting credits, including billions,
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Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty for four episodes of Suits, Ballers,
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Speaker 2: Samantha Who, and so many more. He's like one of
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Speaker 2: those faces that you just recognize from TV.
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Speaker 1: I love him and I loved him as Lewis Litt
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Speaker 1: in suits, and I'd like to point out people are
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Speaker 1: watching that show now. It's got a new life. I
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Speaker 1: think it's on Netflix now, and it was used to
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Speaker 1: be on It.
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Speaker 2: Was on US USA.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I watched it when I was on
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Speaker 1: television week to week because Meg and Marco starred in it.
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Speaker 1: So it has like a renewed audience and everyone's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: look at this show, and I'm like news, but it's
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Speaker 1: a great show.
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Speaker 2: Maybe I should watch it. You might like it. You
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Speaker 2: might like it.
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Speaker 1: David Atar plays Terrible boyfriend Adam. Now, David might be
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Speaker 1: the only actor who has previously been in a Hallmark movie.
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Speaker 1: We've seen him in Guiding Emily field Day, Unexpected Grace.
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Speaker 1: Does he played the ex husband in Unexpected Grace.
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Speaker 2: I can't recall, but possibly, yeah, I liked that relationship.
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Speaker 1: A fabled Holiday Autumn in the City and Nika and
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Speaker 1: Nora sister sleuth. Paula Shaw plays Grandma Rosie. She has
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Speaker 1: eighty nine other acting credits mini Hallmark movies, so David
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Speaker 1: Atar isn't our only Hallmark vet here.
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Speaker 2: We've seen her in Hanakhah On Ride, Wedding of a Lifetime,
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Speaker 2: The wedding veil legacy and it was always you among others.
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Speaker 2: So this was another thing. I was like, our three
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Speaker 2: like main stars have never been in a Hallmark movie before.
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm, so that's why I was like, this is
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Speaker 2: definitely not a Hallmark movie. But I stand corrected.
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Speaker 1: It was at the time of this. Round and Round
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Speaker 1: did rank twenty six in ratings for count end to
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Speaker 1: Christmas premieres, with one point five four million live viewers.
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Speaker 1: Got to say, I find that zero percent surprising given
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Speaker 1: that it's a hunk movie, and I hope it gets
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Speaker 1: a second life for reasons we will discuss.
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Speaker 2: Now, go ahead, tell me what you're like. Oh no, no,
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Speaker 2: it's first impressions.
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Speaker 1: My first impression is, turns out the best Hallmark Christmas
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Speaker 1: movie isn't a Christmas movie at all.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm so glad we're on the same page.
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Speaker 2: Oh mine is any movie that starts with an iconic
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Speaker 2: eighties song that gets my attention? And with that said,
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Speaker 2: this maybe might be my favorite movie of this season.
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Speaker 1: Mmmmmmm, let's tuck what we liked. Okay, you go first, Well,
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Speaker 1: this was an ambitious story doing a time loop.
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Speaker 2: I think could go.
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Speaker 1: Either way and I loved the execution of it. And
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Speaker 1: one of the things I liked is the pacing was
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Speaker 1: so nice, and even though she's revisited the same scenes
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Speaker 1: over and over again, it was done with a fresh
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Speaker 1: take every time we did get that first round of
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Speaker 1: her reactions to everything happening, but then as it went forward,
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Speaker 1: every day was a little bit different from the viewer's perspective.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it kept.
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Speaker 1: You engaged, and then you got this merry band of
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Speaker 1: nerds that came in to help her crack the case.
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Speaker 1: I thought the execution was excellent. I agree.
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Speaker 2: I liked It's literally almost word for word what you
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Speaker 2: just said. Oh. I loved this movie first because it
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Speaker 2: was nothing like I expected it to be. It was
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Speaker 2: fast paced, it was full of Quippi dialogue. It had
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Speaker 2: tons of retro pop culture references, lots of jokes, it
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Speaker 2: was very well written. I just loved it. And even
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Speaker 2: though the time loop trope is familiar, which I don't
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Speaker 2: usually love because I'm like, ooh, sci fi, I'm out,
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Speaker 2: I just love the way it was done here. Like
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Speaker 2: like you said, we see her go through the full
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Speaker 2: day and then it kind of skips ahead like it
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Speaker 2: fast forwards a few days you know, and then still
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Speaker 2: plays out every day, but just the little twist that's
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Speaker 2: slightly different. I just loved it, and I had to
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Speaker 2: tell you skip ahead because I'm gonna give a spoiler
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Speaker 2: if you don't want to be spoiled, So skip, skip skip.
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Speaker 2: I love the twists at the end, that the drado
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Speaker 2: had been used time and a time again to match
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Speaker 2: up the couples. I love that so much.
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Speaker 1: And that her dad, who in my notes I called
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Speaker 1: him Lewis Litt. I wrote, Lewis Litt knew in all
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Speaker 1: caps because we knew we were getting hints that Grandma
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Speaker 1: knew it was going on mm hm, but we didn't
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Speaker 1: know that everybody else knew. And I loved.
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Speaker 2: That surprise twist. Yeah. I thought it was so good,
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Speaker 2: so so good. What else did you like? Like you said,
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Speaker 2: the writing's hilarious. There are so many funny one liner
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Speaker 2: and quips in this movie. Terms like Hanukah super spreader.
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Speaker 2: If Zach calls the dirt on the Donuts trail spice,
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Speaker 2: he says, you need to be more dork positive. They
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Speaker 2: use the phrase you need to stay in your own
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Speaker 2: dance space, which is a dirty dancing line, which I
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Speaker 2: say constantly when they make her do the time warp
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Speaker 2: with Oh, I'm like, I laughed so hard. It's so funny.
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Speaker 2: It is so funny this movie. Yeah, it's it's so clever,
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Speaker 2: it's really clever, and the whole like, I'm Auntie McDowell
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Speaker 2: or you Bill Murray like it, and it just is
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Speaker 2: so funny because Annie mcdallas on the Hallmark Channel, you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean. I just loved it. I love it.
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Speaker 2: I thought both these were fantastic, Brian and Vic. Earlier
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Speaker 2: she goes by Victoria, but she has changed her name
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Speaker 2: to Vic mccallis, not changed it, but shortened it. I
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Speaker 2: thought they were fantastic together, tons of chemistry. They were
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Speaker 2: spectacular together, but then also great in their own right.
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Speaker 2: I thought, In fact, I thought the entire cast as
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Speaker 2: a whole was excellent. The sister and her partner, the
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Speaker 2: guys from the comic book store, the grandma, the cousin
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Speaker 2: with the Madonna accents.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, when she switches back to her prosy accent,
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Speaker 1: it's one of the best moments in the whole movie
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Speaker 1: for me.
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Speaker 2: I agree, I agree, And then even the customer and
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Speaker 2: the donut shop who's in line with her. Yes, Milly
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Speaker 2: love it, you know it's the bottom.
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Speaker 1: I think that's such a nice point because they do
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Speaker 1: a nice job of tying all of these threads together
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Speaker 1: in a way. It's not just like the cousin with
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Speaker 1: her Madonna accent. Isn't just a punchline. She ends up
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Speaker 1: being the one who helps to get Rachel her break,
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Speaker 1: she helps find her agent, and then Mildred knows the
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Speaker 1: grandmother and they all come together. And this is the
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Speaker 1: kind of movie you need a murder board for, where
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Speaker 1: they're like, how do all of these people tie in together?
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Speaker 1: How do we make this work a little bit?
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Speaker 2: But it wasn't confusing.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't confusing, But there were no loose threads. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't just like Mildred in the Donut Shop was a punchline. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: everyone came together in the end.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Are you ready for what you wish? I am?
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Speaker 2: Go ahead. This is somewhat similar to what you said earlier.
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Speaker 2: Hallmark puts out forty plus Christmas movies, which is more
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Speaker 2: than enough, and I think the network needs more than
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Speaker 2: one token Honkah movie, especially because now we're kind of
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Speaker 2: at the end of the countdown to Christmas. Season. Like
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Speaker 2: you said, how does the one non Christmas movie end
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Speaker 2: up being the best of the bunch.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I just think like part of me was like trying
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Speaker 2: to figure this out. I was like, this movie really
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Speaker 2: wasn't about Honkkah. Yes, there was tons of like it
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Speaker 2: was they were at a Hanukah party, and there was
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Speaker 2: a lot of elements of like traditions done during Hanukkah, Right,
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Speaker 2: But it was a time loop movie. Like they could
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Speaker 2: have put it anywhere. It could have been in any background,
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Speaker 2: do you know what I mean. Yeah, It's just that
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Speaker 2: the Honiker representation is nice and it's fresh, and it
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Speaker 2: could have been a Christmas movie and it would have
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Speaker 2: been fine, and I probably would have loved it. But
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Speaker 2: I think it might not have been so special if
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Speaker 2: they're like, here is our heirloom ornament, and the ornament
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Speaker 2: is what launches the time loop. Right, Like you said,
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Speaker 2: we have thirty nine other movies that heavily feature ornaments
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Speaker 2: in Garland and stalking and hot chocolate and all of that,
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Speaker 2: and so yeah, and my point is, like, we have
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Speaker 2: these stories that are set in Christmas. We could have
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Speaker 2: taken any story from any of the thirty nine other movies.
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Speaker 2: And made it a Hanuka movie, is what I'm trying.
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Speaker 1: To I agree, Yes, I agree.
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Speaker 2: I just it kind of makes me mad that there's
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Speaker 2: only one yes and I. And it's funny because I
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Speaker 2: love this movie so much, and I think back up
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Speaker 2: last year, hanakut on Rye was also a standout movie
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Speaker 2: to me, and I just feel like it's not getting
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Speaker 2: enough promotion. That's my other wish. This movie came out
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Speaker 2: of nowhere right. There was like not really any heavy
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Speaker 2: promotion for it, nothing, And it's like, you know, they
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Speaker 2: build up a lot of these other movies and they
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Speaker 2: don't turn out to be so great. This movie just
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Speaker 2: was like it just was so good, so great.
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Speaker 1: It's been written up in other publications as being the
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Speaker 1: best and also possibly most non Hallmark movie. You know,
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Speaker 1: you're common about this could have been a Netflix movie,
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Speaker 1: right you add in some swearing and light nudity and
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Speaker 1: boom when it's a hit on Netflix. Well, even Brian
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Speaker 1: Gruenberg had a line at what he almost says ass
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Speaker 1: like he then he's like, I got knocked on my
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Speaker 1: tookis so yes, you're right, That's why I swear. I
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Speaker 1: was like, this is definitely a movie for Netflix. Like
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Speaker 1: it was so out of the Hallmark box to me,
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Speaker 1: and it felt like higher budget. They had like eighties
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Speaker 1: ish music there was you know, I'll Melt with You
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Speaker 1: is obviously like a big song, but like all the
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Speaker 1: other music that was played in had like real eighties vibes.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: Well, my wish is a very trivial one, and it's
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Speaker 1: simply I wish Rachel would have changed clothes. Why because
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Speaker 1: she wears the same outfit every day during her time loop,
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Speaker 1: which I don't think is necessary. She knows she's in
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Speaker 1: a time loop. Yeah, isn't she tired of putting on
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Speaker 1: the same cardigan every single day? Everyone else has to
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Speaker 1: be in the same clothes and for continuity certainly makes
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Speaker 1: it much easier to edit this together with her in
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Speaker 1: the same clothes.
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Speaker 2: But I thought that might have been fun. She's like,
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Speaker 2: I'm not wearing that again today. Are you ready to
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Speaker 2: move on to digite that? Sure? I have two, Okay.
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Speaker 2: The first one is the day that was repeated was
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Speaker 2: December thirteenth, which is also Taylor Swift's birthday.
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Speaker 1: No, which means nothing about that thing, but it means nothing.
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Speaker 5: But when I saw it, I was like, December thirteenth.
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Speaker 5: How interesting that they would use December thirteenth. I mean
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Speaker 5: unless that was the actual seventh night of Hanuka this year.
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Speaker 5: It probably was, and I just don't I don't know
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Speaker 5: those details.
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Speaker 2: But yes, what do you have? Because my next did
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Speaker 2: you see that? Is kind of You're gonna have to
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Speaker 2: bear with me while I get through it. Okay, Well,
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Speaker 2: I have a couple.
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Speaker 1: First of all, they use these like title cards in
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Speaker 1: these movies as they're bumping to commercial, like this movie
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Speaker 1: was brought to you by and it's been the same
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Speaker 1: title card for every movie. It has their like pink
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Speaker 1: and green and red candy logo on it with like
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Speaker 1: candy canes and stripes. Yeah, and for this movie it
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Speaker 1: was blue and yellow and white with a jelly donut
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Speaker 1: on it.
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Speaker 2: Oh and I.
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Speaker 1: Thought, nice job, guys changing up the cards for this
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Speaker 1: one movie. I thought that was the chirons that slide
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Speaker 1: in the bottom that are promoting every other movie are
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Speaker 1: still their classic Christmas colors. However, but your work did
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Speaker 1: not go unnoticed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a did you see that? From IMDb? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Tell me, says the bar they go to when they're
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Speaker 1: hunting down her bad boyfriend is supposed to be in Tribeca,
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Speaker 1: but then they show where it's located, which is on
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Speaker 1: West forty fifth Street, which, according to this comment or
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Speaker 1: is more of a Hell's kitchen, nowhere close to Tribeca.
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Speaker 2: Oh interesting, I know it. To finish up.
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Speaker 1: My last sear sure, Rick Hoffman as Dad makes an
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Speaker 1: Uncle Harvey comment which might have been coincidental, But you
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Speaker 1: can't convince me that that's not a nod to Harvey Specter,
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Speaker 1: the lead role in the show suits, who is his
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Speaker 1: like nemesis but also someone he really wants to be
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Speaker 1: loved by. In the show, they owe they're lawyers together.
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Speaker 2: Interesting, m very interesting. Interesting.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So here just I'm ready to go for a ride.
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Speaker 1: Bear with me here a second. Okay, So the top
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Speaker 1: of the movie we hear Rachel. She's talking about how
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Speaker 1: her parents meet, right, yes, and it was a long
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Speaker 1: night and they crossed the Brooklyn Bridge and they spend
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Speaker 1: the whole night.
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Speaker 2: At Goldberg's bake shop. So they go from like the
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Speaker 2: club that the mom's DJing at. She's narrating this, right,
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Speaker 2: they go to the From the club, they show a
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Speaker 2: New York City skyline from the vantage point of the
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Speaker 2: Brooklyn Bridge, and then they show them in the bakries.
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Speaker 2: So we are to think that skyline photo should be
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Speaker 2: of the eighties, right, oh, hear me out? All right.
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Speaker 2: So it took me on a little bit of a
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Speaker 2: deep die because at first I was looking for like
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Speaker 2: the Twin Towers sure, and I didn't see them. So
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Speaker 2: I was like, okay, well, I don't know New York
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Speaker 2: geography that well. So I was like, I don't know
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Speaker 2: where the Brooklyn bridges. Can you see the former Twin
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Speaker 2: Towers or the new like one World Trade Center tower
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Speaker 2: from the Brooklyn Bridge. So I looked up all these
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Speaker 2: pictures on Google. I'm telling you it was a deep dive,
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Speaker 2: and I figured out that from the vantage point, the
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Speaker 2: Twin Towers or the current World Trade Center would have
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Speaker 2: been left a frame, so we wouldn't have seen it.
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Speaker 2: And I thought, okay, that was probably purposeful. That dates it, right, yes, okay,
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Speaker 2: hear me out. Then I see the Verizon building. The
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Speaker 2: Verizon Building is like at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge,
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Speaker 2: and so the Verizon Building used to be home to
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Speaker 2: the New York Telephone and Bell Atlantic, but in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty two they replaced the signage to Verizon. My point
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Speaker 2: is that b Roll is not from the eighties. That's
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Speaker 2: my point.
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Speaker 4: It's just that's all.
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Speaker 2: That's It took a long way to get there. I know,
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Speaker 2: I was my I had set out looking for like
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Speaker 2: the Twin Towers, but then I had really zeroed in
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Speaker 2: on the Verizon building and had learned that people really
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Speaker 2: hate that Verizon building apparently. Oh it's like architecturally not
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Speaker 2: pleasing to look at, so they hate it. Who knew?
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Speaker 2: I'm love that paid off for you in the end. Okay,
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry I did it for you. Oh it did
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Speaker 2: for me.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying you went looking for one thing it
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Speaker 1: wasn't there, but then you were able to find something
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Speaker 1: else that proved your point.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I'm not knocking the research. Okay, what did
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Speaker 2: you rate this movie? Five stars? Totally me too easy?
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Speaker 2: You know it's funny though. The only other five star
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Speaker 2: movie I gave was Biltmore Me Too, and two totally
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Speaker 2: different movies. Right. And the way that I'm thinking is
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Speaker 2: because we are going to launch our best movie bracket,
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Speaker 2: and I'm like, how do you like there are two
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Speaker 2: different movies? How do you pick? There can be only one?
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Speaker 1: I agree though it is hard to pick, and if
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Speaker 1: you were to ask me to pick my favorite of
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Speaker 1: the season, it would be hard because they're very different movies.
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Speaker 1: This was the best comedy of the season, but Biltmore
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Speaker 1: was the best romance of the season.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Interesting, both are time traveling, time looping.
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Speaker 2: Oh what is wrong with me? Maybe I don't like
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Speaker 2: sci fi? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, there's no Dolorean. Yeah. Man,
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Speaker 2: but those nerds at the comic shop give it in.
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Speaker 1: The loved good so much when they read her book
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Speaker 1: and start taking notes on it and they're all in
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Speaker 1: on this project. I loved them.
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Speaker 2: I know it was great, so great. Hey, we love
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Speaker 2: you guys.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Hallmark.
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Speaker 1: We have one more week of movie reviews.
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Speaker 2: Come back next week where we have.
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Speaker 1: A throwback revisited movie as well as the final countdown
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Speaker 1: to Christmas movie from us for this season. Before you go,
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