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Finding Mr. Christmas Season 2, Episode 3 · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: I mean, I was like jaw on the Can you
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  Speaker 1: believe I made the cut?
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  Speaker 2: No comedy goal.
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  Speaker 1: This is a bramble jam podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 3: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today we're discussing
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  Speaker 2: Finding Mister Christmas season two, episode three, Writing into Romance,
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  Speaker 2: which originally aired on the Hallmark Channel on Monday, November tenth.
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  Speaker 2: You can stream it on Hallmark Plus. Fun fact, we
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  Speaker 2: just learned season one of Finding Mister Christmas is streaming
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  Speaker 2: on Amazon Prime. So if you didn't catch it on
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  Speaker 2: Home Plus and you are a Prime subscriber, you can
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  Speaker 2: watch season one over there. I'm rewatching it with my daughter,
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  Speaker 2: are you yes, because she's watching season two with me,
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  Speaker 2: and so now she's curious about season one, so we've
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  Speaker 2: like dipped back into season one. That's fun. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: just as enjoyable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I loved season one, even though I know the ending,
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  Speaker 2: but it's just as enjoyable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, if you're on Blue Sky or Threads, follow us there.
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  Speaker 2: We are at Girls Gone Hallmark. Come join us. Megan's
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  Speaker 2: doing threads. I'm doing Blue Sky and we're just chatting
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  Speaker 2: about finding mister Christmas. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Times it airs live posting the episodes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I said live tweet, and I'm like, no quoting
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  Speaker 2: tweets because I don't know what it's called.
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  Speaker 3: Someone at one point on threads was like, we're calling
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  Speaker 3: them threets and I was like, no, we're not. I
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  Speaker 3: did look it up on Blue Sky. It was something
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  Speaker 3: so bizarre. I was like, I'm not calling it that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'ren'ting skates. Skeets, that's what it is. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: doing that either.
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  Speaker 4: Skeets.
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  Speaker 2: No, so dumb, Nope.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, we're just live posting over there real time, like
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  Speaker 3: back in our old days.
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  Speaker 2: Remember you know, fun fact Megan and I met on Twitter.
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  Speaker 2: We did way way fourteen years ago, and I remember
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  Speaker 2: how active we were on the Twitter community and the
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  Speaker 2: live tweeting. It was so much fun. I know, those
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  Speaker 2: were the day I miss it.
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  Speaker 3: We're trying to capture the magic on these new fangled
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  Speaker 3: social media platforms.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so come join us there on Monday nights. We're
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  Speaker 2: usually there during the Eastern timeframe, so five pm Eastern time.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Let's hear a synopsis for Finding Mister Christmas Season two,
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  Speaker 3: episode three.
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  Speaker 2: Riding into Romance, the Hunks get personal while building gingerbread houses,
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  Speaker 2: sharing what Christmas means to them. Then Allison Swinney joins
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  Speaker 2: as they sottle up for a cowboy scene where animal
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  Speaker 2: co stars lead to some unexpected performances.
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  Speaker 3: Before we talk about the opening living room banter, can
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  Speaker 3: we talk about the fact that I just they have
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  Speaker 3: an opening title card, says Finding Mister Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: I've never noticed it before. It looks brand new to me.
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  Speaker 3: What's this font on it? It's just a bright green
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  Speaker 3: background with the Finding Mister Christmas. Logan, Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: I'm just always too excited for the episode.
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  Speaker 2: Team I.
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  Speaker 3: So we do start with our living room banter moment,
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  Speaker 3: and they're debriefing how they feel post elimination and Craig
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  Speaker 3: is not feeling safe, and Logan says, Craig is always
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  Speaker 3: making bold choices, and he kind of says it like
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  Speaker 3: in a praising way. Right Then Rustin says, it's never
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  Speaker 3: my first choice to do something bold, but let me
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  Speaker 3: tell you this dude galloped out of the house on
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  Speaker 3: the last challenge, so I beg to differ. Good point
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk about Craig first hair.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if you caught this, and maybe
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  Speaker 2: you need to remind me, but Craig is kind of spiraling,
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  Speaker 2: and he says, I've gone from winning pretty much everything
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  Speaker 2: so far to almost on the chopping block. Excuse me, sir,
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  Speaker 2: you won the first Festive face Off? What else has
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  Speaker 2: he won at this point? You're right, that doesn't make
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  Speaker 2: any sense. It doesn't make any sense. Who won the
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  Speaker 2: acting challenge? Episode one? Rustin? Okay? And then episode two
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  Speaker 2: was Craig on the winning team? I think he was
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  Speaker 2: on the winning team. Yes, he was with Robbie the Lobby.
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  Speaker 2: They won on the winning team. Okay, that's fair, But
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  Speaker 2: in my mind, Robbie won that in competition. He wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the winning team, so he did he did get the benefit.
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  Speaker 3: Craig has won two Festive face Offs, fair, but he
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  Speaker 3: has not won an acting challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Right, that's not pretty much everything.
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  Speaker 3: I would agree, and to me, the Festive face Offs
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  Speaker 3: are fun to watch. They give you an advantage in
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  Speaker 3: the acting challenge, but they're not the true test of
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  Speaker 3: what we're looking for here, right, like your ability to
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  Speaker 3: as we're going to see build a gingerbread house has
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  Speaker 3: much less to do with your on camera abilities than
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  Speaker 3: a photo shoot challenge, right right, So yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's an interesting take. Also, I don't know if you've noticed.
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  Speaker 2: I especially notice it with Davy and Gabriel and they're
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  Speaker 2: drinking out of mugs. There's nothing in those mugs.
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  Speaker 3: It's a classic Hallmark I did notice that, yes, and
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  Speaker 3: it's festive faceoff time. Marcus says it's my turn, my
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  Speaker 3: turn to win. I mean it feels like extreme foreshadowing.
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  Speaker 2: It does. I didn't catch it when watching it. They
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  Speaker 2: did highlight Marcus a lot though in this episode. So
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  Speaker 2: now thinking back on the editing, Oh, I don't like
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  Speaker 2: to know these tricks because either like they they show
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  Speaker 2: you a lot and you're going to go home, or
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  Speaker 2: they show you a lot and they're going to win.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right, I mean you can't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't make an accurate guess. But it is
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  Speaker 3: interesting watching it back. They are going to be decorating
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  Speaker 3: gingerbread houses, and our goal is we're going to be
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  Speaker 3: judged on our decorating ability and their ability to tell
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  Speaker 3: a story. What does this house tell us about you?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: And they have thirty five minutes and.
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  Speaker 2: Can I stop you there. As Jonathan is setting up
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  Speaker 2: the festive face off of what they're going to do,
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  Speaker 2: he tosses out a fruitcake joke. Yes, and I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was funny, and then it sat with me for
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  Speaker 2: a second and I was like, look, if if we're
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  Speaker 2: being honest, like we don't need that joke anymore. I
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  Speaker 2: just felt like Jonathan didn't need to undercut himself for
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  Speaker 2: a laugh. And I think representation is evolving and Jonathan's
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  Speaker 2: visibility on the network is a big part of that.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like when even if you're making the
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  Speaker 2: joke about yourself, it opens the door for other people
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  Speaker 2: to make jokes like that, and I think, like, let's
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  Speaker 2: let's be better than that. Yeah. I don't know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: I'm reading into it. Maybe it was just like a
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  Speaker 2: funny joke and Jonathan's being charming and playful, and I
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  Speaker 2: will say I laughed, but then I was like, wait,
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  Speaker 2: but wait a minute. Yeah, I think that's a great
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  Speaker 2: point anyway. So we get a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Of a montage of the guys building their houses and
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  Speaker 3: Marcus is like, I'm using red liquorice because my mom
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  Speaker 3: used to buy it on trips, and I was like
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  Speaker 3: that is not the deep moment we were looking for.
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  Speaker 2: Marcus. Oh, Marcus, Oh, Marcus. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And it's funny because Angel's like, oh, I ate a
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  Speaker 3: ton of cereal as a child, and he's building this
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  Speaker 3: like fruit loop shingled cereal roof. Now, Angel will bring
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  Speaker 3: that story home in his explanation, but when he's just
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  Speaker 3: building this roof, I'm like, Okay, so did I write
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  Speaker 3: like it does have all the elements to me of
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  Speaker 3: a good baking challenge, like you gotta rush to get
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  Speaker 3: it on the table otherwise. Yeah, so I liked that
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  Speaker 3: would work down to the wire. Great editing, and we
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  Speaker 3: bring in Briann Heiltman from People Magazine as our guest judge,
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  Speaker 3: Friend of the show, Friend of the show, briam so
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  Speaker 3: exciting to see somebody we actually know. No, that's right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we met her on the Hallmark Cruise last year. Brian says,
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  Speaker 3: they're looking for Frank Lloyd, mister Wright.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I caught the joke. I'm wondering. I'm feeling fifty
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  Speaker 2: to fifty that the guy's got the joke. Oh yeah, sure, sure,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not calling them not smart. I just I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: they all laughed, But do they know who Frank Lloyd
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  Speaker 2: Wright is. I do not know. Also, during before the
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  Speaker 2: judging happens, there's you know, there's a lot of like
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  Speaker 2: side conversations between like the dudes, and at one point,
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  Speaker 2: your guy Babriel is talking with Davy about Santa, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I hope there are any young kids
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  Speaker 2: watching the show, because I don't like where you're going
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  Speaker 2: with this. Did you catch it?
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  Speaker 3: I heard what he said, and I'm I didn't make
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  Speaker 3: the like I hope nobody's watching, But that is always
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  Speaker 3: my first thought, like, don't talk about that now, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Because you know, we got an email from a listener
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  Speaker 3: who says that she watches movies with her daughter and
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  Speaker 3: then they listen to our podcast reviews together, and I'm like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 3: do I need to censor myself Laura on this show
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  Speaker 3: with the things I say? I mean, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna have any harness talk in this episode.
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  Speaker 2: So we're good.
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  Speaker 3: Although I mean, Melissa and Jonathan do really go there
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  Speaker 3: during the horseback challenge, so oh.
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  Speaker 2: Liss, oh, we're gonna talk about it. We're gonna talk
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  Speaker 2: about it. Also, I don't know if you saw the DM,
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  Speaker 2: but we did get a DM saying like, I have
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  Speaker 2: to go back and watch episode two and look at
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  Speaker 2: the harnesses that Wendy referred to. Oh my god, I'm sweating.
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  Speaker 2: I feel a little bit embarrassed about it. Well, let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about the houses. Okay, Davy's house his heart felt.
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  Speaker 2: It's inspired by his childhood tradition of hanging Christmas lights
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  Speaker 2: with his brothers, and it's just something he can't wait
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  Speaker 2: to do with his son. It was just basically like
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  Speaker 2: a lot of lights on a gingerbread house.
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  Speaker 3: M Angels up next, and the cereal story comes on
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  Speaker 3: Home because he talks about how his mother had to
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  Speaker 3: work very hard to support the family and so he
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  Speaker 3: was home alone a lot. He ate cereal to feed himself,
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  Speaker 3: as we all do. I really loved his cereal shingles,
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  Speaker 3: but he did have to kind of slapdash the other
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  Speaker 3: side of the roof together with some skittles.
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  Speaker 2: He ran out of time. We had big, big, lofty goals.
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  Speaker 2: I liked it. I was like, Oh, if I build
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  Speaker 2: a gingerbread house this season, I might dip into the cereal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, some fruit loop shingles and their light weight so
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  Speaker 3: they're not gonna knock your house over smart.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, did you see they were using glue guns?
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  Speaker 1: I did?
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  Speaker 2: Didn't We just talk about this?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, A real went live on our Instagram over the
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  Speaker 3: weak talking about using glue guns on your gingerbread houses.
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  Speaker 2: That is the way to do it. That's right, that
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  Speaker 2: is the way to do it. Robbie's next with his
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  Speaker 2: schoolhouse as a tribute to a teacher who encouraged him
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  Speaker 2: to pursue acting and was a LGBTQ role model. I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was touching and deeply personal. Job well done, Robbie.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Rustin's next, Ruston connects with Jonathan with his story
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  Speaker 3: of growing up in a family that was a Christian
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  Speaker 3: worship band and Rustin had extreme stage try and so
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  Speaker 3: in order to help him overcome that, his father built
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  Speaker 3: a stage in their house. Ruston displayed that with the
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  Speaker 3: audience inside their house. And Jonathan connects with this story
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  Speaker 3: because his dad offered to build him a tree house
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  Speaker 3: and Jonathan said, actually, could you build me stage in
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  Speaker 3: the basement?
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  Speaker 2: And he did. I love that story. Yeah, great, real cute,
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  Speaker 2: real cute. Gabriel's next, and he his house is covered
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  Speaker 2: in seashells and he says it represents a time that
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  Speaker 2: he spent with family at the beach. He says Newport,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like Newport as an Orange County Newport Beach
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  Speaker 2: in Orange County? Are we talking Newport?
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  Speaker 3: Rhode Island literally have the exact same note, which one dude,
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  Speaker 3: I need to know. He does live in La now,
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  Speaker 3: so it's not out of the question that it was
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  Speaker 3: in Newport Beach.
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  Speaker 2: Did this man grow up around Orange County somewhere? No,
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  Speaker 2: he said He's from Wyoming Penguins, Wyoming Penguins and Wyoming
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  Speaker 2: good logan he has put.
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  Speaker 3: I actually really like his fireplace with the sour strips,
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  Speaker 3: nicely done. Brian likes his ice cream cone chimney, and
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  Speaker 3: he has built that because fireside memories are a part
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  Speaker 3: of his childhood.
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  Speaker 2: Boring. I know, look, I think Gabriels was kind of
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  Speaker 2: boring too, But.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, the only two that aren't boring for me are
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  Speaker 3: Rustin and Robbie Well Angels touching, yeah, yeah, yeh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: yeah agree.
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  Speaker 2: Craig is next, and he proudly announces that his is
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  Speaker 2: a nineties house. He does a wrap, which I'm kind
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  Speaker 2: of impressed about actually, if he made that up like
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  Speaker 2: them on the in the moment, I was kind of
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  Speaker 2: impressed by it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we're three for three on Bold choices though,
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  Speaker 3: right right, we got Santini, we got him as Vixen,
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  Speaker 3: and now we have wrapping his Christmas house moments.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. The biggest tech takeaway for me was that he
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  Speaker 2: said he was born in nineteen ninety one, and that
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  Speaker 2: made me feel real old. I did like.
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  Speaker 3: He made like that a cup a telephone cup game
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  Speaker 3: with popcorn strings. Very cute, very cute. And finally we
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  Speaker 3: have Marcus. Marcus misses the mark here. His house is
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  Speaker 3: all about things that are important to his girlfriend, as
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  Speaker 3: Jonathan points out, but tells us very little about who
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  Speaker 3: he is. There is a hilarious on screen girlfriend bention
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  Speaker 3: count nicely done to the editors of that one.
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  Speaker 2: The best, the absolute best. I laughed out loud when
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  Speaker 2: they did.
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  Speaker 3: It, so great, And the best of Face Off winner
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  Speaker 3: is Robbie.
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  Speaker 2: My notes say, mother e f and Robbie again, Robbie
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  Speaker 2: the Lobby two for two. I'm so happy for Robbie.
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  Speaker 2: I guess he's not two for two, he's two out
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  Speaker 2: of three, right, but two in a row. Yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so happy for Robbie.
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  Speaker 3: We get a little bit of the guy's connecting before
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  Speaker 3: we go to our star Quality challenge and we learn
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  Speaker 3: it's a little incongruous because we learned that Marcus's mom
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  Speaker 3: was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. Yes, it's to me,
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  Speaker 3: it comes out of nowhere because we didn't really connect
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  Speaker 3: with Marcus's family in the festive face off challenge. He
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  Speaker 3: didn't really discuss them, but he kind of explains that
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  Speaker 3: this is what is going through in his life.
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  Speaker 2: I think Angel inspired him. You know. Angel was talking
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  Speaker 2: about like his mom being like a single mom, hard
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  Speaker 2: working mom, and Marcus is like, yeah, my mom was too,
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  Speaker 2: And then we hear that his mom was recently diagnosed
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  Speaker 2: with cancer, which is like, oh that hurts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And the complete flip side of that, Angel's
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  Speaker 3: like I'm ready to kick it into high ear and
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  Speaker 3: Craig goes hit the NOS.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it was funny. I was like, what
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  Speaker 2: is Angel talking about? Like he gave like a real
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  Speaker 2: long explanation about like shifting into high gear and then yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and then Craig with the NAS joke made me laugh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah real fast and the furious real early two thousands.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Let's take a quick break and come back to
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  Speaker 3: talk about the Stark Quality Challenge. Well, it's dark Quality
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  Speaker 3: Challenge time, and it's a cowboy Christmas Challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Are you into like the cowboy thing?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Are you into Hallmark movies that have like a cowboy? Well?
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  Speaker 2: The Real West was hot, Oh yeah, but Ride not
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  Speaker 2: so much. No, maybe, is the answer to that question.
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  Speaker 2: It depends. It depends.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Although, although I'm gonna tell you right now, this
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  Speaker 3: to me was the best of the act who I know,
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  Speaker 3: we've only seen two acting challenges, but the difference between
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  Speaker 3: the Skiing Challenge and this one was night and day
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  Speaker 3: for me.
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  Speaker 2: You think, so why? I just I thought the guys
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  Speaker 2: did so much better overall. Oh, the guys definitely did better,
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  Speaker 2: but in terms of like challenge difficulty, I thought on
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  Speaker 2: par with the Skiing challenge.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I agree with that. I just mean the guy's
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  Speaker 3: performance was elevated.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 3: We have Alie Sweeney as our co star, and Jonathan
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  Speaker 3: says she smarked her thirtieth Hallmark movie. That woman works.
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  Speaker 3: She's made thousands and thousands and thousands of episodes of
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  Speaker 3: Days of Our Lives and thirty Hallmark movies.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I was thinking? She's not on the
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark Christmas Cruise. No, she should be two years in
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  Speaker 2: a row, like I feel like what I think.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of big actors who are not on
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  Speaker 3: the cruise, and I would I don't know how the
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  Speaker 3: decision making goes.
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  Speaker 2: There is Lacy on the cruise. No. Yeah, maybe they
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  Speaker 2: just don't want to travel during this time of year,
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  Speaker 2: which I understand. Interesting all right.
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  Speaker 3: Robbie's advantage from winning the Festive face off is he
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  Speaker 3: gets an extra five minutes with the horse and with Ali.
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  Speaker 3: We don't really see that though, What are you talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I think he used that five minutes before when he
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  Speaker 2: was like talking with Ali and they were like talking
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  Speaker 2: through the scene. I think that's the five minutes he used.
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  Speaker 3: Does that make sense? Yeah, getting comfortable in the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were talking about like what the scene would
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  Speaker 2: look like, and you know they didn't like we her,
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  Speaker 2: So he didn't get an actual five extra minutes on
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: the on the horr Yeah, good point, good point. I
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: wanted to know if you caught the on screen title
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: card for the horse as the main actor.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: No, m A and.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: I did not. I was probably taking notes during that moment.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Shout out production. This is up there with the girlfriend
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: count ar too. I thought it was so damn funny.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Someone's just chuckling to themselves as they add these on screen.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: What a job. I would love that job. Robbie does great.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I think Robbie nails his scene.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: He feels so natural and his choice to whisper the
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: last line.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, yeah, go Robbie. Yeah that was good, right,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: that was so good with those Andrew McCarthy eyes. Yes,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I thought it was so good.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Marcus is up next. He's never been on a horse before,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: but amounts that horse like a pro. He has the
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: added challenge of his horse decides to back away from
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Ali to the end of his scene, but he does
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: manage to deliver that final line, and then we get
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: the line of the episode from one Melissa Peterman. She says,
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: put a saddle on me, Marcus.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, I was like, jaw on the Can you
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: believe I made the cut?
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: No? I kept comedy goal, amazing, amazing. I couldn't believe it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Look shout out to Marcus because I'm scared of big horses.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: And if i'm I've never been on a horse either,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: And if I had to get on a horse, and
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: then my horse was walking backwards. He did a great job.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I think, so too handled it like a pro. I thought,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Davy's next. I mean he handles the horse. He was
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: really nervous too, Like leading up into it, He's like, oh,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I have to calm my nerves. I don't want the
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: horse to know what I'm thinking. You know what. He
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: didn't say that, but like that's the sentiment there is
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: that the animal can tell that you're nervous and it
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: can go rope south.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: And his mom and grandmother have both been bucked off
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: of horses, so he has a little preconceived notion of
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: what this is going to be like.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Right, but he gets on his horse. He gave leading
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: men energy here. I thought, big smile. I thought he
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: did really well. He looked great, I thought. I thought.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, he's giving cowboy. I'm into it.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Melissa was like I'd watch this movie. But then
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: at the end, Jonathan's like, oh, he needs to find
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: his camera a little bit better, and I was like,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: that's really interesting because he's looking at Ali the entire time.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I wish I wish like during the scene,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: like we could hear commentary from from Melissa and Jonathan.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, he's missing. He's not looking at his
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: mark or whatever it is. As a non actor, I
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: don't understand that stuff, so it would be cool if
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: they like pointed it out.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Gabriel is up next, and Melissa really wants Gabriel
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: to have his leading man moment. I don't think his
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: is the most captivating performance of the day, but I
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: think he ultimately does fine.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: You know what I you know what I wrote in
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: my notes cue the Chris Jinner You're doing amazing sweet
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: yeah for my couch, because I was like, you're doing it, Gabrielle. Yeah, yeah,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I love him. Sorry, I'm not sorry. Craig is next.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: He looks good doing it. I thought his hat was
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: giving a little more like Australian outback. It's a cowboy,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: but that's just the me thing. He flubs his lines
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: a little and he's struggling with some of the horse stuff,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: but like he looks good and did well, Like he recovers.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he looks good on the horse. Once they're up there,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: I think he does great. But yeah, stumbles, you're right,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: speaking of stumbles. Logan's next, and Logan also struggles a
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: little bit with the horse, and it's just a lot
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: of dead air. During that moment, his horse keeps walking
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: away from him, and Melissa and Jonathan are like, just
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: say something, and I like, I get that that panicked
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: moment of like, oh, it's not going like it's supposed
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: to do. And I don't know how I'm supposed to
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: control this horse and I'm.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Supposed to I mean, I get it. Once he's on
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: the horse, I think he's great. The rest of the
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: scene goes well, Yeah, he wanted to make a bold
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: choice and he used an accent. Yeah.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: I didn't like it didn't come through that much for me.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: I said he was going to, but I was like, I.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Don't really hear it. Yeah, I thought accent light, Yeah,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: like you could kind of hear it sometimes of an
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: accent A whiff, Yeah, exactly exactly. Angel is up next. Now.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Angel makes me laugh because he's like, this scene's going
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: to be pretty easy because it's a lot of flirting
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: and I can flirt. And I was like, okay, sir, okay.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: He really ad libs a lot in his scene, but
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: it made me laugh when he calls her malady. I
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: was like, I honestly was like, no, don't call her milady.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Like that felt like old timy, but it made me laugh.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: When he goes easy Piecy, I I love that, and
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: he's just like, it's okay, baby, Jonathan, Melissa, we're eating
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: it up. Yeah. I thought it was really funny. Now,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you caught it. At the end
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: when he comes back in the house and he's like
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: playing it down to the guys like he did bad.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: He's faking it. And then and then you know, he's like,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I'm a Latino cowboy. And I was like, put that
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: on a T shirt. We would buy it. Angel if
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: you're listening, get somebody to make you a T shirt
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: that says Latino cowboy Today.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Yes, Rustin's up and he lets us know that he
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: was once voted biggest flirt shocking. When he bounced the horse,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: his hat flies off. Now, to me, this is the
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: moment where I'm like, oh, you got a choice here.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: I think the choice is to ignore it.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Oh interesting, you just.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Gotta go with what's happening in the scene. And he says, oh,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: can you get that for me?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Hun?
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't like the hun Huh? I don't I don't.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: However, once he's on the horse, Jonathan and Melissa freaking
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: love it. And Melissa looks straight at the camera after
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Rustin delivers his final line, and they're both like sweating,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: and then we get the line of the episode.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: You just got, Rustin, We did. I did. Look when
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Melissa stares down into the camera, I was like, this
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: is Jim from the office, Like this is letting everybody
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: at home know, like we're all on the same page. Yeah.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: In the deliberations, Alie seemed to really like Marcus and Angel.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: She felt like Rustin stepped on her a little bit
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: because she says, he told me to get the hat.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: She's like, I was already doing it, so it was
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: a little like pointing out the obvious.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but see that again is another like explain more
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: to me at home, Like how did he step on you?
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I get that, like two things can happen at the
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: same time, going for it, him saying it you know
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: what I mean? M hm. He stepped on her as
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: like an actor in the scene, Like that's the explanation
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: that I'm looking for here.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's take a quick break and come right back
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: for the elimination case we're back, We're out of our flannel.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: We're in the elimination cave, and I want to tell
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: you right here. My husband came in the room and
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: he was like, oh, that guy looks like a Hallmark actor. Oh,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: that guy looks like a Hallmark actor. I was like, wait,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: which one. So he paused on the guys and he
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: was pointing out the dudes. So he thought Davy, Gabriel
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: and Rustin.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: M I said, that's very interesting. That's all I said.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: In the elimination cave. And first of all, Melissa's all
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: white feather dress perfection.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: She always looks good, looks so good. Whoever pulls the
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: looks for her does a really good job. They like
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: know how to dress her. She always looks great. Alie
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: starts off the elimination I think with a really nice
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: pep talk about you know, how audience want to connect
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: with the actor like they want them to feel confident. Right.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I just thought it was a great Like somebody who's
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: worked in the industry a long time, I thought this
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: was really good advice. And I like seeing that our
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Homewark star is sharing advice. Anyway, I thought that was
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: a nice beginning before they drop the Hammer. Our winner
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: is Marcus.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Do you know.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I gotta tell you I was shocked. My note say
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Angel was robbed? Oh you think so? See Look, I
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: know you're not a fan of Rustin. I'm not a
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: fan of rust In.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Rustin, I know I thought was the best interesting, interesting.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I thought Angel was too quirky. Marcus pc PC Marcus. Look,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Marcus gives such great face, and I thought he did
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: this scene really great. But I was like he was
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: a little bit in the middle of the pack for me. Yeah,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: with everybody else.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: So it's it's I need to hear more like did
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: you ever watch I need to hear like more like
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: backroom conversation about the eliminations.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I need I need. There's no way that they're just
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: coming to a conclusion on elimination in a five minute chat,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: like are we talking? Like is there a murder board?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Like how are they doing this? What's happening?
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Well, I want to talk about who was eliminated, and
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: then I want to talk about the elimination process. Okay,
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: So the bottom two are Gab and Logan, and they
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: say Gabe loses his confidence when the camera starts rolling,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: like everybody loves him. Off camera but that camera starts
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: rolling and that goes away, and so they want him
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: to find his confidence, and they say Logan didn't connect
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: with his co star and they send Logan home. I
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: am heartbroken for Logan when he cries in his elimination
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: talking head. Can you hear the voice cracking in the voiceover?
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I truly was heartbroken for him. Same he was not
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: ready to go home. I think can we talk about
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: the eliminations go ahead? There's been some uproar in the
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: viewer community about who's gone home every week.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: I'm not ready for anybody to go home. So I'm
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: going to be sad no matter who they send home
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: every week. But my question is are we bringing in
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: past performance to the table, because to me, let's look
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: at Drake's elimination Week two. I didn't think Drake had
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: the worst photo shoot challenge moment. I thought he delivered
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: great pictures. But if you're looking back to episode one,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Drake also had that moment where he skied right past
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Janelle and had to like climb back up the hill. Yes,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: So I'm like, Okay, are we bringing that into the table?
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Are they using the entire challenges or are they
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: just using the one that's in front of them.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Because to me, if you look at Logan versus Gabriel,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: nobody loves Gabriel more than.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: You and I do.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, I adore this man, but historically his performance
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: on the show hasn't been the strongest, right, especially in
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: the acting challenges. So if we are bringing in past performance,
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: why are we not bringing it here? My final thought
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: on this, and I think we talked about this in
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: another episode of the podcast, that Jonathan's looking for just
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: that unnameable special something that makes people want to watch
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: these actors, And I think there's got to be just
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: an element of them saying I think this person has it.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: If we're putting these two against each other, I think
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: this person has the potential to have it.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: More so, do you think that they should be more
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: transparent with that when explaining to us the viewers at
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: home what they're looking for, not.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Just well I want them at the end of this.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: To me, it's like this show isn't really about finding
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: the best actor. The show exists for entertainment on its own,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: and it's a nice bonus that maybe someone gets a
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: chance to act in a movie that they wouldn't have
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: gotten before. But that's not the ultimate end game for
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: the show. For me, the ultimate endgame of the show
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: is like it's entertaining to watch.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Right, right. But if you take it from like production,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: like they're looking for someone who maybe is not only
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: just a good actor, but who fits who they think
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: they can sell right right, right, So there's a lot
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: of elements there. It's not just simply on acting, for sure,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: and it's not simply on the challenges, correct, But your
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: question about transparency, I think if they were to say, like, yeah,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: the these challenges are part of it, but ultimately we're
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: going to make a decision based on potential. Yeah, well,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: I think people will go crazy and it is very
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: subjective and we only see a ninety second clip of
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: their acting moment, so who's to really say? I really
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: wish we would get to see the guys watching the
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: scenes that they filmed. M there are some like I
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: think America's Next Top Model used to do that, Like
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: if they shot a commercial, then the viewers would see
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: the viewers would see the participants watching themselves in the commercial,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm talking about? Like I would be
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: interested in seeing like the final product Yeah, that's just
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: a me thing though, but like, what can you do
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: in forty five minutes? So yeah, did they show that?
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Because going back to Drake, right, like he blocked Janelle
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: in most of his shot, he didn't come back on
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: his mark. Do they show him that? Like this is
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: what happens when you're not on your mark. We can't
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: see your co star space, so how much of that
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: do we see?
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know exactly. Speaking of fan reaction,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I got a text from my stepmom that was like, no,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: not Drake. She was so upset and she was like,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: actually my fave bottom, my fave two were in the bottom.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: She's an Angel fan too. Oh that's so sweet.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Well, my friend Karen has started watching, which is so
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: funny because I was like, I really don't think this
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: is your kind of show, but she's watching and listening
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: to these episodes.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Hi, Karen. She was like, have you paid attention to
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Gabriel's eyes?
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: And I was like, I've paid attention to everything about
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: gave me. She's like, well, the Entertainment Weekly article says
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: his daughter has blue eyes just like her daddy. And
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: then she sends me a photo of him and She's like,
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Gabriel does not have blue eyes at all.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: They're they're light What color are they? They're brown? Oh, okay, but.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: They're very light brown, right, yeah, depending on the photo.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: I found a photo of them looking very light brown,
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: but they are very much brown. That Entertainment Weekly article
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: also says that Davy was a Chris Hemsworth body double,
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: and I don't think that's true.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: I remember hearing that from somewhere.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Someone said it while we were live tweeting last week's episode.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's true because it's not listed on
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Davi's IMDb, and Chris Hensworth has a body double that
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: he works with.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, it would be on Davy's im right for sure.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think it's just an assumption someone made.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Let's message Davy and see if he'll answer us. Yeah,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: let's do that. Why not?
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Well, those are our thoughts on this week's Finding Mister Christmas.
• 32:31
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• 32:33
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• 32:36
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• 32:38
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• 32:41
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• 32:44
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