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North to Home · 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.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 1: Today we are.
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  Speaker 2: Kicking off a month of fan favorite movies as suggested
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  Speaker 2: to us by you, our listeners, and the first movie
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  Speaker 2: in the lineup is North to Home, which originally premiered
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  Speaker 2: on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on January ninth, twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: dot com. Let's dive into North to Home with a synopsis.
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  Speaker 3: The McBride's sisters reunite in Alaska, for a memorable birthday celebration,
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  Speaker 3: connecting their past to their present.
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  Speaker 2: News and notes. North to Home is based on the
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  Speaker 2: novel To Christmas Sisters, written by Sarah Morrigan. This is
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  Speaker 2: one of two Hallmark movie adaptations on her resume. The
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  Speaker 2: other is Two for the Win.
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  Speaker 3: Two totally different movies. Very North to Home was written
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  Speaker 3: by sw Sessions. Stephen or SW as he's sometimes known,
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  Speaker 3: has twenty nine writing credits and six projects for Hallmark.
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  Speaker 3: His Hallmark projects include A Season for Family and A
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  Speaker 3: Winter Getaway. Ali Liebert directed North to Home. Ali is
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  Speaker 3: an accomplished actor and director. As an actors, she boasts
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  Speaker 3: one hundred acting credits. She has ten directing projects, and
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  Speaker 3: North to Home was her first project for Hallmark. She
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  Speaker 3: also served as the director mentor on last year's Finding
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  Speaker 3: Mister Christmas reality series. Lindsay Fonseca plays younger sister Posey.
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  Speaker 3: Lindsay is a Hallmark staple these days, starring and hits
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  Speaker 3: like the Magic of Limon Drops, Where Are You Christmas?
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  Speaker 3: And Holiday Crashers. As part of her fifty three movie resume.
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  Speaker 3: Kimberly Susdad co stars as sister Beth. Kim had a
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  Speaker 3: stellar twenty twenty four, both writing and appearing in Three
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  Speaker 3: Wiser Men and a Boy and starring in the smash
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  Speaker 3: hit The Santa Class. North to Home is just one
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  Speaker 3: of her forty nine acting credits. Erica Durrance plays Boss
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  Speaker 3: Babe sister Hannah. Erica has forty three acting credits, which
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  Speaker 3: include Hallmark projects like Unexpected Grace and We Need a
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  Speaker 3: Little Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Tom Stevens plays Luke. Tom's Hallmark experience began with a
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  Speaker 2: role on the series Cedar Cove and has gone on
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  Speaker 2: to include an Aurora Ta Guarden mystery. The rest of
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  Speaker 2: his forty five acting credits include a variety of roles,
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  Speaker 2: including sci fi projects like the one hundred, Battlestar Galactica
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  Speaker 2: and Wayward Pines.
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  Speaker 3: Barbara Nevin appears as Suzanne. Barbara brings acting chops, earned
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  Speaker 3: over one hundred and fifteen acting credits to the role.
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  Speaker 3: She can be seen regularly reprising her role as Dolores
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  Speaker 3: in the Hannas Winson mysteries.
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  Speaker 2: Fred Keating plays Suzanne's husband Stewart. Fred also has a
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  Speaker 2: long resume featuring one hundred and sixteen projects. He's been
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  Speaker 2: at a number of Hallmark projects through the years, including
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  Speaker 2: Mystery one oh one and Christmas in Evergreen Bells Are Ringing.
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  Speaker 3: Matt Hamilton plays Beth's husband Jason. We know Matt from
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  Speaker 3: his roles like Mark Laclark from the Three Wise Men
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  Speaker 3: franchise and Officer Newton from the Cases of Mystery Lane,
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  Speaker 3: as well as appearing in The Wish Swap as part
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  Speaker 3: of his sixty six acting credits.
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  Speaker 2: Matthew James Dowdin plays Adam. Matthew has entirely too many
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark credits to name on his list of thirty four. However,
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  Speaker 2: you might recognize him as Past McGregor from The Chicken Sister.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for this note, because while I watched this movie,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, who is this guy?
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  Speaker 1: I know this guy.
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  Speaker 3: Mela Morgan plays older daughter Mellie. Mela has eight acting
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  Speaker 3: credits and for Hamewark. She's also appeared in The Holiday Sitter.
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  Speaker 2: Mela Jones as Ruby has made quite a name for
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  Speaker 2: herself in the Hallmark universe. She planned a young Minettie
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  Speaker 2: Hanahan in Holidays, as well as the childhood version of
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  Speaker 2: Autumn Reiser's character in Junebug. At just nine years old,
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  Speaker 2: she has twenty two acting credits already under her belt.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to take a quick break and come
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  Speaker 2: right back with first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what's your first
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  Speaker 2: impression of North to Home? Well, I'm gonna throw it
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  Speaker 2: way back.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna declare that this felt like a real movie.
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  Speaker 2: Oh what did you think? That's a deep cut? In
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  Speaker 2: case in Wendy's Hallmark Hater days that was her stamp
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  Speaker 2: of approval.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, also kind of a deep cut. My first impression
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  Speaker 2: is this movie is really leaning into the movies end
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  Speaker 2: misery Moniker one hundred percent? What did you like about
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  Speaker 2: North to Home?
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid you didn't like it.
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  Speaker 2: Considering that first implment, I tell you my first like
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  Speaker 2: and then you'll get an idea. Okay, my first like
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  Speaker 2: is this is a stunner of a movie. This cast
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  Speaker 2: is an embarrassment of riches.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it was really good.
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe this is the first time seeing it too.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's come up so many times. It comes
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  Speaker 2: up in news and notes, and people constantly mention this
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  Speaker 2: as a movie we should watch. I'm wondering why we
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  Speaker 2: didn't review it because it was on Movies and Mysteries
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  Speaker 2: and this was a time period we were only doing one.
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  Speaker 3: One movie a month or one movie a week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we hadn't even moved over Girls Gone Hallmark to
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  Speaker 2: its own feed at that time.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I loved that this movie was heavily focused
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  Speaker 3: on the sisterhood relationship, the family dynamic romance part of
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  Speaker 3: it was super secondary in this pay, which I love
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  Speaker 3: when we get a change of pace like that.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, I really.
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  Speaker 1: Thought.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it did lean into misery quite a bit.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're talking about dealing with year long, years
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  Speaker 3: long grief yep, and how it's affected like these people
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  Speaker 3: in their adult lives now, and like them trying to
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  Speaker 3: kind of like untangle all of that because their relationships
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  Speaker 3: were a little bit strained because of things unsaid or unspoken.
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  Speaker 3: So I think we need more Hallmark movies like this.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they need to all be like fun
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  Speaker 3: rom coms. Sure, yeah, I really enjoy I really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought one thing this movie did well were
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  Speaker 2: the unconventional reveals of information Gone. So we didn't have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of information at first. Oh yeah, we talk
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  Speaker 2: about Suzanne and they reference her as mom, and it's
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  Speaker 2: very easy to think that this woman is their mom.
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  Speaker 2: And then we see that home video of their mom
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  Speaker 2: and they say, I miss her so much, but we
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  Speaker 2: haven't learned who Suzanne is that they call mom that
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  Speaker 2: they're going home for her birthday. Another circumstance is with
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  Speaker 2: Hannah's health when she's trying to get in touch with
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  Speaker 2: the doctor. I felt very early on that she was
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  Speaker 2: going to find out she was pregnancy, simply because they
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  Speaker 2: were talking about not wanting children, but also I think
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  Speaker 2: they're leaning into perhaps or having some sort of health issue.
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  Speaker 2: They were trying to hit lean you down that path.
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  Speaker 1: We also have the.
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  Speaker 2: Luke's mystery motivation and why he was there. I just
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  Speaker 2: really enjoyed the way information was revealed to us. Yes movie, I.
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  Speaker 3: Thought, especially the death of their parents, I didn't really
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  Speaker 3: see that coming. Like I was having a hard time
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  Speaker 3: like figuring it out, Like I was like, well, who
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  Speaker 3: who are these people and how are they all connected?
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  Speaker 3: And especially when they showed that like flashback scene of
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  Speaker 3: Suzanne on the mountain with her.
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  Speaker 1: With what are are they hiking?
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  Speaker 3: They're hiking right, I believe so yeah there, I.
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  Speaker 1: Was like, well, is that their mom? Like I didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unclear intentionally, but I loved it me too.
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  Speaker 3: And when then when Luke, when they discover that Luke
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  Speaker 3: is like there for other reasons, I gasped out loud.
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  Speaker 2: Well, me too, and I think that's a reveal. But
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  Speaker 2: then the reveal what his reasons were?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you assume he's.
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  Speaker 2: There to expose her, Yeah, because he's kept this secret.
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  Speaker 2: And when she apologizes to him, he says, you didn't
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  Speaker 2: ruin my life. I've had an amazing life, and she says,
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  Speaker 2: I want to hear everything.
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  Speaker 1: Was so lovely.
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  Speaker 2: I really really enjoyed it. I really liked the character
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  Speaker 2: of Beth. I found her the Kimberly Sastad character. I
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  Speaker 2: thought she was the most personally relatable. She felt like
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  Speaker 2: everyone else around her was getting to live the life
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  Speaker 2: they want, and she was having a hard time with
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  Speaker 2: being quote just a mom and worried about what her
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  Speaker 2: future looks like and her next steps and finding things
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  Speaker 2: that are important to her. I thought that character was
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  Speaker 2: really well represented well.
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  Speaker 3: And to piggyback on that, I liked that there was
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  Speaker 3: this strain between her and her husband about you get
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  Speaker 3: to be like the fun parent and I'm always the
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  Speaker 3: bad guy, and I thought it was super relatable, right,
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  Speaker 3: especially as you and I both were stay at home
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  Speaker 3: moms to little ones. Well, and I think speaking of
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  Speaker 3: her husband, this is a very different Matt Hamilton than
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  Speaker 3: we've seen in the God they showed that with her husband.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, Matt Hamilton's in this. Yeah, we know him.
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  Speaker 2: He has a taste, done a ton of work. But
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  Speaker 2: his more recent role is Mark Leclark and his role
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  Speaker 2: as the police officer in the Wiser movies, the Cases
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  Speaker 2: of Mystery Lane movies is what I was thinking.
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  Speaker 3: I'm wiser.
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  Speaker 2: He's Mark Lacark and the Wiser movies, and then he's
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  Speaker 2: he's the officer in the Cases of Mystery Lane. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's right, but those are goofy sillier characters and he here,
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  Speaker 2: he turns all that off and he's just you know,
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  Speaker 2: he and he and Beth clash a little bit, but
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  Speaker 2: they're ultimately on the same page that he's They're just
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure each other out. He ultimately shows up
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  Speaker 2: for her and is supportive of the decisions that she
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  Speaker 2: wants to make, and in the beginning when he realizes
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  Speaker 2: she's talking about going back to work, and he kind
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  Speaker 2: of is like, well, I don't know about this. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you're like, get over it, but he does turn it around.
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  Speaker 2: But I really liked this different Matt Hamilton.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know a lot of people in our Facebook
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  Speaker 3: group have been calling for him to be a leading man,
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  Speaker 3: a leading man. I thought Lindsay von Seca was a
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  Speaker 3: true standout in this movie. It reminded me how much
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  Speaker 3: I loved her in the Magic of Lemon Drops.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how much I loved that movie.
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  Speaker 3: I find her captivating, Like I am fully invested when
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  Speaker 3: she's on screen. And that's not to say that I
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  Speaker 3: didn't think that about Kimberly Sessa too. I Kim always comes.
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  Speaker 3: She always brings her like personal comedic brand to any
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  Speaker 3: character that she plays, but she also does dramatic very well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but I just love Lindsey Fonseca. I think she is
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  Speaker 3: just a star.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: You talked about how they deal with different kinds of
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  Speaker 2: grief long term in this and I thought they wrote
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  Speaker 2: these characters so well. You have Hannah who kind of
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  Speaker 2: leans away from a relationship with her nieces because they
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  Speaker 2: remind her of having to take care of her little
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  Speaker 2: sisters when they were little, and that's obviously a very
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  Speaker 2: hard reminder for her. But then on the other hand,
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  Speaker 2: you have Beth who's so risk averse because she lost
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  Speaker 2: her parents and that informs her. And then Posy was
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  Speaker 2: so little that she like she's kind of taken on
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  Speaker 2: the burden of like carrying on for her parents, her
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  Speaker 2: adoptive parents, right, but has all of these big dreams
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  Speaker 2: and doesn't because she was so little when she lost them.
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  Speaker 2: She's less personally affected. It seems like she's not carrying,
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  Speaker 2: like she was so loved and cared for by her
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  Speaker 2: sisters and by Susanne that she sees so much opportunity
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  Speaker 2: out there. I just think the sisters are written so well.
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  Speaker 3: I did too, But you know, that's a really good
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  Speaker 3: point because the way that Beth and Hannah are kind
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  Speaker 3: of weighed down with the death of their parents. Posey
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  Speaker 3: on the other hand, like she feels a little bit
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  Speaker 3: stuck because don't they say like, oh, you're gonna take
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  Speaker 3: over the cafe and whatever, Like she's weighted down by
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  Speaker 3: these adoptive parents a little bit, like there for sure
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  Speaker 3: expectations or whatever. That's a good point, Megan.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, thanks, anymore likes?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just a few more. Barbara and she's so good, right,
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  Speaker 3: And I know we talk about like, uh, the mom
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  Speaker 3: role's gonna go to Barbara, but she's really good.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have wanted anybody else to do it here.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like she would just be like the loveliest
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  Speaker 3: person in person. And we got to see a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of her in Kansas City and she's so nice
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  Speaker 3: and just loves the fans.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the way she spoke. We saw her speak on
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  Speaker 2: stage and she told some stories about her own daughter
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  Speaker 2: and her own mother and some personal information and I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you really are this person. And then I went to
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  Speaker 2: the meet and greet on our final morning and she
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  Speaker 2: was so like she looked everybody in the eye and
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  Speaker 2: she made these personal connections. She comes across in life
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  Speaker 2: as warm and lovely as she does in these movies.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have just one more little You mentioned about
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  Speaker 3: the Sisters being written. So while this is a strong
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  Speaker 3: drama for homark and I really loved that there was
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  Speaker 3: a nice balance between families dealing with like grief, but
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  Speaker 3: there was like a restraint behind that, but it was
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  Speaker 3: also heartwarming. It was nicely done all around.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I agree, And in.
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  Speaker 3: Shout out to Ali Liebert for her first Hallmark. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Hallmark directorial debut. Here.
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  Speaker 2: They did a lot with the amount of time they had.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like they gave the right amount of time
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  Speaker 2: to all of these stories. And there's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 2: You have multiple situations happening, and it's pretty impressive. They
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  Speaker 2: just used the time that they had so wisely. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what did you wish for? Well, you mentioned it earlier.
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  Speaker 3: It's Erica Durance's story of Hannah. It was super obvious
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  Speaker 3: to me that she was pregnant, huh at the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't like that They're like throwing up this
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  Speaker 3: like her health might be in jeopardy red herring. I
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  Speaker 3: don't like that. But I wasn't super invested in her storyline.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure why. I can't like pinpoint why.
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  Speaker 2: Probably it's the least personally relatable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably it. That's definitely probably it.
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  Speaker 3: I think she's a really good actress.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 3: Also, stories like these this is a super me problem.
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  Speaker 1: This is not reflective of the movie at all.
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  Speaker 3: But stories that are about siblings who are closely related.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's foreign to me too. I have siblings, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but we have like huge age differences, like we didn't
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  Speaker 3: grow up as little kids together. So like when I'm
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  Speaker 3: watching movies where they're like so connected and they would
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  Speaker 3: do anything for each other, I'm like, what, I can't
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  Speaker 3: relate to it at all. And it's not a slam
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  Speaker 3: on the movie. I really enjoyed the movie. It's just
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  Speaker 3: a part of it like comes out for me. I
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  Speaker 3: start questioning the story, like why don't they just what's
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  Speaker 3: the big deal here?
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  Speaker 1: What about you?
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  Speaker 2: Real little First of all, Hannah should have gotten two bugsies.
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  Speaker 2: These girls are fighting over this but god the entire time,
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  Speaker 2: and she hunts one down. I understand it was hard
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  Speaker 2: to find, but like, if you found one, you could
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  Speaker 2: find two.
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  Speaker 3: Get to That's not all my wishes, but I I
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  Speaker 3: didn't like that part of this story.
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  Speaker 1: Which part of that they that she got.
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  Speaker 3: It knowing that the kids were really fighting over this
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  Speaker 3: stuffed animal?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that shit happens, I does it.
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  Speaker 3: I have an early child.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, your kids will find the dumbest thing to argue
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  Speaker 2: about that you don't have two of one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 2: especially sisters who were kind of close in age and
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  Speaker 2: like some of the same stuff. Yes, absolutely she should
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  Speaker 2: have gotten two. Yeah, and I know, like, oh, they
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  Speaker 2: need to learn to share whatever. Just sometimes you just
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  Speaker 2: have to solve the problem in front of you.
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  Speaker 1: The other one. This solves itself.
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  Speaker 2: But in my notes, I was like, I just need
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  Speaker 2: Beth to set some boundaries with Karina.
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  Speaker 1: When Karina was.
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  Speaker 2: Asking her to come back to work, I just kept thinking, Beth,
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  Speaker 2: you have the upper hand in this situation. She wants you,
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  Speaker 2: so you need to be like, look, if I am
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  Speaker 2: as good as you say I am, you need to
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  Speaker 2: give me time and you need to give me space.
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  Speaker 2: And I am not answering my phone after six pm.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not answering my phone to you. And I'm on
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  Speaker 2: a trip with my family. Set some boundaries.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a question.
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  Speaker 3: Back to the bunny rabbit. If you're Beth and your
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  Speaker 3: husband's like, I got it, I'll me and the kids
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  Speaker 3: are traveling together. It ultimately falls on his shoulders. He
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  Speaker 3: lost this stuffed animal, which is like their pride and joy. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: are you pissed to high Hell?
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  Speaker 2: I'm probably annoyed, But shit does happen. It's not like
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  Speaker 2: I've never lost anything. Oh no, I'd be annoyed. I'd
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  Speaker 2: be But the reality is.
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  Speaker 1: Have I lost things?
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, but this is like the stuffed animal.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pay attention.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Make sure you got bugsy before you get off the plane.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I mean he was trying to step in and be like, yeah,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I got it. Go take your time that you need.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you don't got it. You don't got it, dude.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right, did you have any did you
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: see that?
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I have only one and it's more of a little
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: comment Mellie and the two kids, Mellie and Ruby like,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: like I already said, like I didn't love like all
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: their like fighting and whatever, but I'll be damned, the
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: cutest freaking scene when they're making these sugar cookies or whatever,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: frosting these cookies, and the girl who was in Junebug,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Mila Jones, She's like.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I'm a sugar cookie or what.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I don't remember what.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: She was covered in frosting, but she was so damn cute,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: real cute, really cute. And then Beth is like a
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: buzzkill and she's like, oh, you're paying attention to my kids.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I am Bess. That would be me.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I'd be like, why is there a mess everywhere? Yeah,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: she wasn't mad about them mess. She was mad that
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: she had taken her eyes off of them and something
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: bad could have happened in that moment. Again, I'm bess.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Okay, most of mine are just comments. One when they
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: are acts throwing in a wide open arena. No, that's terrifying,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Like all you need is someone to be having a
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: bad day and turn around and throw that axe in
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: the wrong direction. Maxie the dog in the opening scene,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: that's my Cooper right there.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Real cute. I was like, that's my dog. Did you notice?
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: No?
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I didn't.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: In the beginning of the movie, Erica Durance is wearing
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: earbuds that are enormous, like she's wearing an entire cell
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: phone in her ear. It's just a sign of three
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: years ago. Earbuds hadn't white trunk to the size. They
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: didn't notice they're big.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I thought they were big.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: It wasn't like a phone situation.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: No, it was like it was like an earbud situation.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: It just looked big to me. And finally, this is
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: the only mildly tree to just see that. During the
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: spicy chili scene, when I believe it's a loose luke
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: who's coughing, I believe it's Luke who has to eat
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: the chili as the punishment.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Uh huh.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: The noise of the coughs do not line up with
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: the motion of the coughs.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Perfect.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: That is a true Did you see that?
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I love it? What did you rate North to Home?
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Well, it's a fan favorite for a reason. I give
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: it four point seven five stars.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I gave it five stars.
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