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Christmas at the Catnip Cafe · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 2: On today's episode, we are discussing Christmas at the Catnip Cafe,
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  Speaker 2: which originally aired on the Hallmark Channel Sunday, November thirtieth,
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  Speaker 2: and is currently available to stream on Hallmark Plus. Hey friends,
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  Speaker 2: welcome to any new listeners of the podcast. Keep up
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  Speaker 2: with us throughout the year, not just during the holidays.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go away when December is over. We're still making
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  Speaker 2: content all year long, and you can find out what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing over on Instagram where we are Girls Gone Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Hallmark. They didn't actually announce it, but
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  Speaker 1: some other Hallmark accounts recently announced the January movies.
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  Speaker 2: It's hidden on Hallmark's website. The information is there. They
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  Speaker 2: just haven't made a big, bold statement, correct.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll be reviewing the January movies, yeah, we will.
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  Speaker 1: Everything else is kind of TBD.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, remains to be seen what else is happening in January,
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  Speaker 2: but there will be plenty to come here on Girls
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  Speaker 2: Gone Hallmark I have an.
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  Speaker 1: Announcement to make. What is that.
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  Speaker 2: This episode drops before our mailback episode?
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, never mind, Yeah, I'm gonna do it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna do it. I'm gonna need your help because I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my last hanging by a thread.
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  Speaker 2: Well, listen to tomorrow's mail back episode to figure out
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  Speaker 2: what the heck when he's gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: What are we gonna do? You heard it here first, folks,
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  Speaker 1: I had forgotten that this is coming out before that,
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  Speaker 1: So that's okay, okay, anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't we talk about Christmas at the Catnip Cafe
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  Speaker 2: and start with us up.
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  Speaker 1: Olivia Pearce, a marketing executive, discovers her late Great aunts
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  Speaker 1: Kat Cafe in New York, which she believes will be
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  Speaker 1: a Christmas miracle. She helps plan fundraising events, gaining appreciation
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  Speaker 1: for the feline inhabitants who in the chat, Gpute is writing,
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  Speaker 1: are you I'm for real? I know I sound like
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  Speaker 1: an idiot reading these sometimes because I don't read them
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  Speaker 1: before I actually read them, and I and the thought process.
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  Speaker 1: Can you see the brain? Like? Can you see the
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  Speaker 1: wheels turning in my brain as I'm reading it? I'm
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  Speaker 1: like this doesn't make any This doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: So lately I have noticed that on Hallmark's websites that
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  Speaker 1: about the movie synopsis is very unlimited to on where
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  Speaker 1: is that even coming from our website? But I don't
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  Speaker 1: have any idea why off the rails over here at
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  Speaker 1: Girls Gone Hallmark? I am the ben Affleck meme right now, guys,
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  Speaker 1: get me a cigarette. Okay, deep breath, let's unpack here.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I have no idea why my computer
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  Speaker 1: just started playing that audio like that that wouldn't even
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  Speaker 1: touch anything nothing. I don't know why I did that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think what's happening is Hallmark's synopsis is very long.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever's pushing it to IMDb needs it to be shorter,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't want to do the work, runs it through chat, GPT,
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  Speaker 2: copies and paste because they have no idea what the
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  Speaker 2: movies about themselves? Yes, and then we get this word
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  Speaker 2: salad dribble. Yes, that's exactly what I think is happening.
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  Speaker 2: So y'all know if you watch the movie, Olivia's aunt dies,
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  Speaker 2: she is trying to buy a home, needs a bigger
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  Speaker 2: down payment.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Catnip Cafe falls into her lap. As this
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  Speaker 1: financial windfall, potentially potential. She wants to go and sell it,
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  Speaker 1: and then we have our movie. So all this bit
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  Speaker 1: about she helps plan fundraising events and gaining appreciate, I
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  Speaker 1: mean that stuff happens too, but that is not the
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  Speaker 1: synopsis of our movie. Correct, somebody please hire me at Homewark.
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  Speaker 1: I would be happy to write your synopsis for you.
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  Speaker 2: Christmas at the Catnip Cafe was directed by a Lucy guest.
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  Speaker 2: This marks Lucy's twentieth directing credit. Her other work includes
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  Speaker 2: An Alpine Holiday, Providence Falls, The Santa Clas Jingle Bell Run,
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  Speaker 2: and Sealed.
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  Speaker 1: With a List. You know what was funny when I
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  Speaker 1: was writing these notes yesterday. I know, we had just
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  Speaker 1: recently talked about Lucy when we reviewed An Alpine Holiday.
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  Speaker 1: I was looking back through her IMDb Sealed with a
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  Speaker 1: list was a great movie. You're like, we love that,
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  Speaker 1: we love that movie. Every movie she does is so good.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't miss, she does not miss. She was also
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  Speaker 1: in Holidays. She is an actor, yes, but I think
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  Speaker 1: she's transitioning definitely directing more. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, When you look at a list like that, doesn't
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  Speaker 2: it make you think like, oh, those movies are made
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  Speaker 2: better because of their directing style.
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  Speaker 1: Are those movies made better because they're made by a woman?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Sure, But also I think what I have noticed
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  Speaker 2: when I start to look back, when I look at
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  Speaker 2: these IMDb lists of these directors and writers. But I
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  Speaker 2: think directors really interpret what's on the page. I think
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  Speaker 2: the hot take the directors really make a difference in
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  Speaker 2: the final product of the movie.
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  Speaker 1: I think so too, it matters. I think so too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of Lucy Guest. Also, the writing
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  Speaker 1: credit goes to both Tracy Andrene and Alena Valdez. This
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  Speaker 1: marks the second writing credit for Elena Valdez. Her previous
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  Speaker 1: writing credit is for the twenty twenty one Hallmark movie
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  Speaker 1: A Very Bridesmaid One. We've never watched a very Mery Bridesmaid, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: a very Mary Bridesmaid, which is like I saw the
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  Speaker 1: movie poster yesterday when I was putting these notes together.
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  Speaker 2: It has like the the Osmet girl. You know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about, Haley's sister. It might be Haley, Haley's
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  Speaker 2: the boy. Haley's the boyfriend Hailey Joel. He's from Jerry Maguire.
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  Speaker 2: The human headweighs eight pounds.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's where my hate of children and movies
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  Speaker 1: might have a couple of Jerry McGuire is one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite movies of all time. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you knew that or not. I didn't know that a
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  Speaker 1: romantic movie.
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  Speaker 2: Can you believe that? It's because it leans heavy the
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  Speaker 2: moneys and comedy?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Wait, I need to watch up?
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Hailey Joel Osmond? Who's in that movie? He's He's in
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  Speaker 1: the sixth Sense?
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  Speaker 2: Isn't He's not the same?
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  Speaker 1: Whoa? That is not the same? People?
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  Speaker 2: Haley Joel Osmond has a beard, He's a full man.
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  Speaker 1: Google it right now on your computer.
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  Speaker 2: We're sitting with each other, but we can't see each
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  Speaker 2: other screens. Hold on, I'm looking to see what else
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  Speaker 2: he's in. He's one hundred and thirty three acting credit.
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  Speaker 1: It came out like thirty years ago. I hope he
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  Speaker 1: is an Okay, Hailey Joel Osmond play little Forest? This
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  Speaker 1: is not the not the guy that was it? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: It's not.
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  Speaker 2: And then he was in the sixth Sense in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety nine and twenty six years ago, and then quite
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  Speaker 2: a few things since then.
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  Speaker 1: Who's in Jerry McGuire? Sorry, Haley Joel Emily Osmond. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's not who's in Jerry mcgway. I know, but
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  Speaker 1: that's who's in A very Merry Bridesmaid. Yes, Jonathan Lipniki, Yes, character,
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  Speaker 1: and he is now thirty five years old. Christmas Tree
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  Speaker 1: light's just flashed on and off. That's weird. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: plug him. This is a ghost. It's turned the you
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  Speaker 1: have a ghost. It turned the volume on on my
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  Speaker 1: computer and now just search your lights off. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like this is a Patreon episode. I know. Do
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  Speaker 1: the listeners know my Ireland ghost Story? I don't think so,
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  Speaker 1: because that was an episode on Long Story Short when
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  Speaker 1: we kicked off our podcast originally in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you ask nicely, I'll tell it again.
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  Speaker 2: We are only two credits deep on News and Notes.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you finish up the writers?
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  Speaker 1: Tracy Andrine has been working overtime this holiday season. This
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  Speaker 1: marks her third movie in the twenty twenty five Countdown
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  Speaker 1: to Christmas lineup. Her other two were A Grand Old
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  Speaker 1: Opry Christmas Chef's Kiss and A Keller Christmas Vacation, also
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  Speaker 1: well liked. She has a total of thirty nine writing credits.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Cahill stars as Olivia, and this marks her one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and thirty seventh acting credit. For twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: Aaron starred in A Journey to You as well as
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  Speaker 2: had an appearance in A Grand ol Opry Christmas. She
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  Speaker 2: also played Nora Jacobs in the limited series Holidays.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Campbell stars as Ben Kine. This is Paul's second
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  Speaker 1: movie this holiday season. He was not in A Grand
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  Speaker 1: ol Opry Christmas, but he was in Three Wisest Men
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, and this one marks his fifty
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  Speaker 1: ninth acting credit.
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  Speaker 2: Francis Flanagan plays Esther. This movie marks the seven any
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  Speaker 2: first acting credit for Francis. She's appeared in tons of
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark movies like A Reason for the Season, A Maple
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  Speaker 2: Valley Christmas, and The twenty seven Hour Day What Else too?
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  Speaker 2: Because when I wrote her name down, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: and her.
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  Speaker 1: Face is so familiar, familiar. I look back through her IMDb,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, where is it at? Where's the one
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  Speaker 1: movie that I'm like, that's where I know? It didn't
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  Speaker 1: take a box for you, just has one of those faces.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe yep Ian Collins plays frank Ian has forty four
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  Speaker 1: acting credits and appeared Last and Signed, Sealed Delivered, A
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  Speaker 1: Tale of Three Letters and Family Practice Mysteries Coming Home.
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  Speaker 2: Megan Young plays Meredith. She has eighteen acting credits and
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  Speaker 2: appeared as Rachel in all three of the Kissing Booth movies.
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  Speaker 2: This is her first Hallmark movie. You seen the Kissing
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  Speaker 2: Booth movies? The first one, I've never seen the second two.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I have either. I liked the first one.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was cute. I like that. Joey King,
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  Speaker 1: sister of Hunter King. Yeah. Jess Brown plays Victoria. Jess
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  Speaker 1: has twenty six acting credits and has appeared in other
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark movies like An Unexpected Valentine and Santa Tell Me.
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  Speaker 2: Darren Dolanski plays Walter. He has fifty four acting credits,
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  Speaker 2: with appearances in Chesapeake Shores and Christmas Waltz.
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly says that makes a surprise cameo as Merrily White,
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  Speaker 1: her character from the Nine Lives of Christmas movies.
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  Speaker 2: An original song called Timeless Christmas, performed by Wes Brown
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  Speaker 2: and Jenna Clair Mason, appears in this movie, as well
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  Speaker 2: as Brad Paisley's Santa Claus Is come into Town. Do
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  Speaker 2: you think they just sprinkled Brad Paisley's music in some
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  Speaker 2: of these movies, kind of like last year how Brett
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  Speaker 2: Eldridge was all over the holiday movies.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember that he was in Jingle Bell Run
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  Speaker 1: and a few others. This movie was not based on
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  Speaker 1: a novel by the same name.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a quick break and we'll come right back
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  Speaker 2: with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what was your first
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  Speaker 2: impression of Christmas at the Catnap Cafe. It's not so
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  Speaker 2: much a first impression, but a thought. There's a certain
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  Speaker 2: glow happening with Paul Campbell this season, and I'm not
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  Speaker 2: exactly sure what it is, but something is translating on screen.
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  Speaker 2: This reminds me of we recently watched the episode of
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  Speaker 2: Gilmore Girls where Zach is asking Lane for some more
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  Speaker 2: wink winkers nudge.
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  Speaker 1: That's all. That's all I had to say about that.
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  Speaker 2: My first impression is who was in charge of casting
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  Speaker 2: the felines?
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  Speaker 1: Those cats were a ten.
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  Speaker 2: Out of ten.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're such a cat girl. Who could not love
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  Speaker 1: those cats? I mean, I thought the cats were cute, Sure, bread,
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  Speaker 1: I thought the cats were cute, which you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a former Hallmark hater. Maybe I'm a former cat hater too.
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  Speaker 1: Were you at one point in your life a cat hater?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I just prefer dogs. Yeah yeah, But if I had
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  Speaker 1: a cat that was super into me, I could be
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  Speaker 1: down with that. I just don't want to take a
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  Speaker 1: risk and get a cat who's like I hate you,
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  Speaker 1: Wendy and then is just living free in my home.
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  Speaker 1: What did you like about it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you talked about Paul Campbell having a glow about him.
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  Speaker 2: I really like this role for Paul Campbell. I thought
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  Speaker 2: he was nurturing and loving and came across as very
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  Speaker 2: natural on screen. To me, it was giving wedding every
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  Speaker 2: weekend Paul Campbell, and overall this may be one of
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  Speaker 2: my favorite roles of his.
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  Speaker 1: Oh interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I know he's usually the funny guy, but when he
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  Speaker 2: gets vulnerable it works for me. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: might be because I don't always love the sarcasm as
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  Speaker 2: a defense mechanism that I think is his typical Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. I was afraid he was going
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  Speaker 1: to lean too hard into the I'm annoyed and irritated
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  Speaker 1: with you, Olivia. That guy m but he I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's moments of that, but overall, like watching him soften
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  Speaker 1: was a pleasurable viewing experience for me because I was
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  Speaker 1: expecting him to be this sort of like yeah and
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  Speaker 1: rauch irritation are earned, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because she's kind of behaving in an irritating way, even
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  Speaker 2: if you agree with her decision making, which I don't,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll talk about it. But he runs this cat
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  Speaker 2: cafe which he's passionate about, and she wants to close it,
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  Speaker 2: and there's.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing he can do about it.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently seems like if it wants to be sold, he's
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  Speaker 2: got to go along with it. So I understand his irritation,
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  Speaker 2: can I tell you?
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  Speaker 1: I was really surprised and laughed out loud at their
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  Speaker 1: like meet cute where she sees him through the window
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  Speaker 1: and like they make eye contact them that she turns
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  Speaker 1: and runs right into that tree. This is just such
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  Speaker 1: a windy move. It was great. I laughed.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was so funny. I thought it was great.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was so great, you know. I thought
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  Speaker 2: Paul was warm and sweet. There were some other real
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  Speaker 2: sweet moments in this movie. I really liked the flashback
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  Speaker 2: memory scenes with Olivia and her aunt sa yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: thought they did a nice job bringing that story alive.
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  Speaker 2: Since aunt Esther only exists in memories in this movie,
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  Speaker 2: it does help us understand her role in this story,
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  Speaker 2: the connection that Olivia had with her, and experiencing those
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  Speaker 2: memories along with Olivia helps us.
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  Speaker 1: Understand her trajectory. Yeah, yeah, exactly, because if we can
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  Speaker 1: talk about Olivia for a second, her character is kind
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  Speaker 1: of unlikable. Yeah, I get it. She's motivated to sell
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  Speaker 1: the cafe, like this is something that just falls in
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  Speaker 1: her lap. She has no need for it, she has
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  Speaker 1: need for money. Understand all that as a character. But
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  Speaker 1: then on the flip side, you have Aaron Cahill who's
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  Speaker 1: like so just warm, Yeah, and she threads the needle
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  Speaker 1: nicely of being like, this is what I'm here to do,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm also a nice person, like I'm totally not
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  Speaker 1: a villain here. Well, yeah, that's a good point. I agree.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think she is a a villain and I
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  Speaker 2: think she's a good human. But Aaron kal so good
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  Speaker 2: And in that breakup scene I'm putting that in air
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  Speaker 2: quote yeah, where he's like you should probably just go.
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  Speaker 2: The look on her face she doesn't sail a whole lot.
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  Speaker 2: She goes, oh, and then she processes it, you see
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  Speaker 2: it visually, and then she says, you know, you're probably right.
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  Speaker 1: It's so good. Yeah, she's great. She's so great. This
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  Speaker 1: character reminded me a little bit of her character in
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  Speaker 1: automat Apple Hill. Like that character not totally likable either,
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  Speaker 1: did some like not so cool shit to her guest.
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  Speaker 1: In the end, she owned, but like, it's hard not
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  Speaker 1: to root for her just because I like Aaron Gahill.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, what else did you like?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: My gosh, so many things. I thought.
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  Speaker 2: The additional foster Son storyline with Joshi and Molly when
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  Speaker 2: he finally calls her mom thought was real sweet, real softy.
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  Speaker 2: It's Christmas time, Joshi gets a mom. The cat gets
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  Speaker 2: adopted too. I think Jess Brown as Victoria and Meghan
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  Speaker 2: Young as Meredith are ones to watch for me.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed both of their characters.
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  Speaker 2: I spy future Hallmark leading lady potential in both of them.
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  Speaker 1: Jess Brennan, who else?
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  Speaker 2: Me?
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  Speaker 1: Meghan Young? Yeah? I was kind of surprised that Megan
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  Speaker 1: Young did not have as many acting credits when I
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  Speaker 1: saw like Kissing Booth one two and three, and not
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot else. I was like, Oh, look, how
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  Speaker 1: cute this girl is on Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: Cute A few more things. I enjoyed the Kimberly systadad cameo.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was nice. And when she's like, I
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  Speaker 2: have one at home, Fireman Annagatt, it's cute. Nine lives,
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  Speaker 2: nine kitts of Christmas fans get that little moment they're
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  Speaker 2: still together.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that's like a cult favorite. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: of course it would work here in this cat movie too.
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  Speaker 1: So you mentioned two songs in the News and Notes
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  Speaker 1: that are in this movie. But the music in this
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  Speaker 1: movie is really good. There's some additional songs that I
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  Speaker 1: was shazaming. There's one by Forrest Black, another by Bob Bradley.
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  Speaker 1: So much that I looked up the music supervisor of
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  Speaker 1: this movie because I was so impressed, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: woman named Biggins. She has worked on over four hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty projects.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. I thought it was nice to have all of
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  Speaker 2: this music, like actual songs, not just instrumental. When you
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  Speaker 2: have this storyline of a character who's into music and
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  Speaker 2: has all these records.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a nice tie in.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was a particularly heartbreaking scene. I talked
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  Speaker 2: about the breakup, but from Ben's perspective, he finally puts
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  Speaker 2: himself first. This whole movie we have like he's putting
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  Speaker 2: everybody first. He's willing to take Christmas cookies as payment
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  Speaker 2: for the vet he's taken on all this extra work,
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  Speaker 2: he needs, all this help. He finally puts himself first.
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  Speaker 2: He asks Olivia to stay. I thought it was really
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  Speaker 2: heartbreaking when she was like, no, no, I have to go.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: But then her response is really good walking away from
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  Speaker 2: my life.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: That's not a small thing to ask. Thank you for
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: saying that. Yeah, doesn't get said enough. Yeah, yeah.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: I like the idea that all these people just hang
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: out in the cat cafe like this is their central perk.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: They all show up for all these events. Is there
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: a cat cafe here and we're going to be is?
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I've never been?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I want to go, but I also wonder like it
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: makes me a little nervous, Like a place that serves
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: like food and drink, where you got cat for everywhere?
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: How hard is that to manage? This is a good question.
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  Speaker 1: Are they just roaming and they think so? Does it
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: smell like a litter box?
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I want to go to the cat cafe. My daughter
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: would go crazy. You'd end up, well, you can't have
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: a cat. I would have a hard time walking away,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: right because are those cats adoptable like they are in
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: this movie? That's my understanding. Yeah, that would be really hard.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: That would be really hard to leave and be like
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: bye cats that don't have a home. Look, I know
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not like you're number one cat gal, but for me,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: like I did think that the cats were really cute
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: and chaotic and endurable and scene stealing. As a director,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I imagine that was probably really hard to work with
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: these animals, don't you think so? Because I know, like,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: of course, are these are these cats? What is that
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: call where they're like acting cats? Do you know what
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about? Like is there a name like a
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: trained cat where you have like a trained dog on set?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: There was an animal wrangler credited in this movie.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: There was, I would imagine, so, but like, you know,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: good job so Lucy guests or like having these not
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: they're just there organically. I felt like hmm. Also my
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: last final like is and you kind of mentioned it
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: about like oh these people just hanging out this cat
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: It was very cozy. Yeah, like it was. It had
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: a nice like energy, like I can imagine myself like
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: hanging out there.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I would love if there was a cafe on my
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: walk home from work at the end of the day,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: stop and have a drink and then there's a cat's
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: gonna pop up on my lap and I can pet
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: a cat. It would just change your mood what it is?
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, let's talk wishes. I have but one
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: same and it is I wish that Aaron as Olivia
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: could have a long stretch of the movie is I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: don't care about this cafe? Yes, And I wish maybe
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: she would have come around just like a touch sooner.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: It seems implausible that she wouldn't have realized why the
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: cat cafe came to be.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. My wish is really more about I did not
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: care about her quest for a condo wasn't something I
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: was bought into. There's no it's low stakes for the viewer, right,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: You're like, Okay, it's nice, goals are great. I'm proud
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: of you that you've saved this money and that you
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: are now able to buy this condo if you get
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: this windfall. But I didn't really care. I wasn't like
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: got to get that condo.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Do you think if it was something different, like she
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: was trying to save her marketing business or whatever, it
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: is that higher stakes? Yeah, but then we fall into like, uh,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: it's a Hallmark trope of like trying to save her
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: business and now she's gotta choose between that business and
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: now the cat cafe business. Oh no, but that's my
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: only wish. Well, let's talk.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Did you see that I have a few one of
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: them I know you have to have and it really
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: pertains to you. Oh yeah, I think we have the
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: same one.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: The listeners at home are not going to know this one.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: The name of your dog, Yes, yes, Ben's. There's actually
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: two that pertain to be in this. Ben's childhood dog
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: was named George Bailey. My dog Bailey is named for
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: George Bailey. Yeah, you Wonderful Life.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know you knew that.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's who my little Bailey is named for. And
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I actually don't like that movie, but I do like
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: my dog. Yeah, Okay, what was the other? At the
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: pajama party, someone was wearing my pink gingerbread pajamas that
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I wore on the Homewark Christmas Cruise and are still
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: in my Christmas pajama drawer from Old Navy.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: From Old Navy. Yay, Yeah, I wonder how they got
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: their hands on some out of seasoned pajamas.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Honestly, that's a good question. Could it be that they said, hey,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: background actors come in Christmas, but you Ammas.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Maybe?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Or could it be that a person who costume directs
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: for a Hallmark movie is like, I'm definitely gonna need
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: some Christmas pajamas in the future, and they got that
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: in their bag.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Maybe let us know how that worked. Maybe. When did
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: you see that? It was just a scene that I
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: thought was so funny, And it's when Ben and Olivia
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: are meeting at the cafe and Frank, the barista, comes
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: up with their drinks and he's like, girl, please it
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: like walk that way. He gives Ben his drink and
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: takes Olivia's. It's so good. I laughed. I thought that
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: was so funny.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Another funny scene in the first scene, we get in
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: the vet that the the waiting room is crowded and
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: someone's sitting holding a fish bowl with a goldfish in
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: an other do not notice.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: That brings their goldfish funny great. Another did you see that?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: And this is courtesy of Reddit. Somebody said that the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: care your names, Olivia, Bin, and Meredith are all named
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: after Taylor Swift's actual cats. Oh my god, I'm like,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: is this another like Taylor Swift? That's crazy? Tracy Andrene
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: wrote this and the Elena Valdez. I don't know where
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the names came from, but I wonder if there's any
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: connection there. My final did you see that? Is there
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: was zero product placement in this movie, and I'm telling
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: you it was prime for the pickin'. I don't know
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: how this is not.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Parina presents Christmas at the Guy's Pretty Litter.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: There's no litter, robot nothing. You're right, Drew?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: What is that?
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Are those those little stick little tubs?
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Has your FYP been infiltrated by? Well? Now?
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: What did you rate Christmas at the Catnip Cafe? I
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: thought it was very enjoyable, very cozy. I gave it
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: four stars.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I gave it three point seven to five stars.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I gave it more than you. I liked it too,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I did too.
• 24:03
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