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Speaker 1: They were definitely going out. They were going in for
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Speaker 1: Today we're discussing the Wedding Cottage, which originally aired on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: April fifteenth on the Hallmark Channel. If you want to
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Speaker 1: light I dug through. But we do know that Hallmark
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Speaker 1: has announced that When Calls the Heart will return with
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Speaker 1: a new season this July. The Heartys are excited about that.
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Speaker 1: That's great. That's a show we don't watch and probably won't. No,
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Speaker 1: it's too too many seasons deep at this can't. If
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Speaker 1: of the new movies coming to Hallmark. I gotta tell ya,
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of excited for a few of them. Tell
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Speaker 1: me dream Moms with Tamara Maury how late they had
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Speaker 1: like Broadway aspirations. And then it's a story of it's
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Speaker 1: never too late to become who you want to be,
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Speaker 1: kind of into it. It's never too late to be
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Speaker 1: your true self, right yeah, or to go after your dreams.
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Speaker 1: So I just hope like we don't see like a
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Speaker 1: mom versus mom oh nastiness. I just want like, let's
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Speaker 1: lift everybody up. Yeah, what about Jodie Sweeten's new movie.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that too. When I posted that
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Speaker 1: blog post, it had a different name, different title. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: it was super long. I don't remember what it is,
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Speaker 1: but right now it's called The Jane Mysteries Inheritance Loss
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Speaker 1: and btw, do you know it's about like a No,
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Speaker 1: I did not. If you don't know what an MLM is,
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Speaker 1: it said multi multi level marketing scheme. There it is,
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Speaker 1: and so she is like investigating it. I was like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: can it be about lakings or about what else? Is there?
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Speaker 1: Face products? Something? Yeah? Give us that Lula Rich gossip. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're also getting a Hannah Swenson mystery. Now. I watched
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Speaker 1: the first Murder She Baked movie and I really enjoyed it. Actually,
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Speaker 1: I thought it was really cute, and I posted about
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Speaker 1: it on our Instagram and we got some feedback that it.
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Speaker 1: Originally the series was Murder She Baked and then it
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Speaker 1: changed to the Hannah Swenson Mysteries, and someone suggested that
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Speaker 1: perhaps they had lost the Murder She Baked licensing. I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't have it truly did no further research, but
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Speaker 1: more than one person reached out and said when it
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Speaker 1: switched to the Hannah Swenson mysteries, they were not enjoyable anymore,
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Speaker 1: and they even said some of the characters completely change,
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Speaker 1: like not a recast. They like made her sister an
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Speaker 1: entirely new sister. I have not watched all of the
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Speaker 1: Hannah Swinson series, but the first one was real cute.
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Speaker 1: When I like it, it's it's impossible to tell. Okay, can
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Speaker 1: we talk about love and Zion National? I mean, I'd
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Speaker 1: rather not heeks eeks is all I'm gonna say about it.
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Speaker 1: I just don't know why they do this to Cindy Busby.
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Speaker 1: Why is she always in some sort of outdoorsy movie.
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Speaker 1: Let's not make Chasing Waterfalls Part two. I just don't
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Speaker 1: want to be blamed for woman on woman crime, so
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Speaker 1: I will refrain from saying anything right now. I think
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Speaker 1: it's a good idea. Okay, let's hear a synopsis of
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Speaker 1: The Wedding Cottage. A Wedding Guy creator must convince an
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Speaker 1: uninspired artist and owner of a special wedding cottage to
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Speaker 1: renovate the Rundown Cottage to host a contest winning couple
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Speaker 1: for their dream wedding drink every time you say cottage
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Speaker 1: or wedding geez Luise. Starring Aaron Krackow and Brendon Penny.
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Speaker 1: This movie was directed by Terry Ingram, who directed five
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Speaker 1: of the six Wedding Veil movies, Three Wives, Then and
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Speaker 1: A Baby Winter in Veil. He's a prolific Hallmark director.
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Speaker 1: They got the big guns for this movie. Yeah, funny enough.
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Speaker 1: Same script writers as the Wedding Veil as well, Judith
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Speaker 1: Berg and Sandra Berg. Yes, like they like to write
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Speaker 1: about weddings. I guess, huh. Evidently maybe Terry Ingram likes
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Speaker 1: to work with those writers. Maybe he likes to make
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Speaker 1: movies about weddings. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you though, when I was watching it,
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Speaker 1: like when it said directed by Terry and R was like, hey, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it would be a good one. I agree. Of course.
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Speaker 1: Aaron Krakause stars in this movie. I was surprised to
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Speaker 1: see that she only has eighteen acting credits. However, she's
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Speaker 1: been on a couple series. She was in eighteen episodes
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Speaker 1: of Army Wives, which is a show that I watched
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Speaker 1: every episode of. It was a lifetime series that has
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Speaker 1: since ended. She of course stars on one Calls the Heart,
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Speaker 1: which has had a number of seasons. But her last
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Speaker 1: Hallmark movie was in twenty twenty one, and it was
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Speaker 1: it was always you fan favorite, fan fav Is it
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Speaker 1: just because Tyler Hines, isn't it? And that's why it's
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Speaker 1: a fan favorite. I think people enjoy their chemistry. I
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Speaker 1: liked that movie. You liked it less. I haven't been
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Speaker 1: willing to re listen to our review of that movie
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Speaker 1: because I get you know, it was two years ago.
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Speaker 1: I worry about what we might have said. Oh, I
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Speaker 1: definitely talked about hair on that movie, and she had
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Speaker 1: some weird bangs that I thought was a wig that
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Speaker 1: I remember you telling me that it wasn't a wig.
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Speaker 1: Definitely was not. So I thought her hair was real
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Speaker 1: cute in this movie. Me too. It's on my list. Okay,
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Speaker 1: did you know this movie was based on a book
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Speaker 1: I did, A Cottage Wedding by Lee Duncan. You didn't
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Speaker 1: already talk about that, did you? No? I just have
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Speaker 1: it on my list. I'm telling you, I'm still suffering
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Speaker 1: from jet lag, so I'm not really listening. Wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: are we still on news and Notes again? Okay? Thank god?
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm leaving it in Oh Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: got more. You just sit there and listen. Aaron Douglas
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Speaker 1: plays contractor Darryl. He was a standout role in this
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Speaker 1: movie for me, and he's in several other Hallmark Mysteries movies.
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Speaker 1: He has one hundred and fourteen acting credits and is
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Speaker 1: perhaps best known for his role in Battlestar Galactica. Show
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Speaker 1: that Wendy would never watch. Nope, it's Will Wheaton man
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Speaker 1: that No Will? Whaton was in Star Trek? They're not
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Speaker 1: all the same thing? Oh boy? And finally, this was
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Speaker 1: not filmed in Vermont or in New York, but in
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Speaker 1: British Columbia. Let's not forget Brandam Henny also is on
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Speaker 1: Just Speak Sures. He has fifty six acting credits himself.
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Speaker 1: Do you have a first impression of this movie? I
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Speaker 1: do you know? When they say, oh way a man
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Speaker 1: dances indicates his abilities? Altwhere goodness? What's happening? Do you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about? Okay, That's all I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: say about it. I very much enjoyed the slow dancing
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Speaker 1: scenes in this movie. My first impression is it was
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Speaker 1: always you who you liked it better? Oh yeah, oh wow,
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Speaker 1: it could be recency biased. The Heinz fans are not
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Speaker 1: gonna like that will come for me? Okay, this is
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Speaker 1: not Girls Gone Tyler, and people don't like when we
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Speaker 1: like other people. Our Hallmark group is flooded with Tyler
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Speaker 1: Heines fans. Yeah, I'm more happy to have you. I
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Speaker 1: think his fandom blows my mind. And I can't imagine
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Speaker 1: what it would be like to be on the receiving end,
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Speaker 1: Like if there was a Spicy Girl's Gone Hallmark Facebook group,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how that would make me feel, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think that would be a hard, hard thing to navigate.
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Speaker 1: Yeah as a human, Yeah, okay, would you like about
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Speaker 1: this movie? So I read some commentary that you know,
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Speaker 1: I had, like kind of a familiar trope. Sure, but
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Speaker 1: I liked it me too. I just thought the movie
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Speaker 1: was very easy to watch, very easy to follow, and
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Speaker 1: very enjoyable. I agree on all those points. We can
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Speaker 1: get into the weeds and we'll talk about what we
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Speaker 1: liked and what we wished for. But half of my
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Speaker 1: impression of a movie is not based on like what
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Speaker 1: it's technically good at. It's based on like, how do
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Speaker 1: I feel watching it? Right? And am I into it
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Speaker 1: and I'm I like enjoying when Brendan Penny tucks Aaronkrakhose
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Speaker 1: hair behind her ear. A note about that, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I this movie gave me the warm fuzzies. Yeah, I agree.
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Speaker 1: And I think that this movie was kind of polarizing
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Speaker 1: because a lot of people did like it, but not
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Speaker 1: everybody thought it was a delight. We really Aaron and
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Speaker 1: Brendan sold it for me. This is the best thing
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen Aerin in. And I've watched all the
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Speaker 1: Father Christmas movies. I thought they were a great pairing.
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Speaker 1: I will say that this is probably the best thing
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Speaker 1: I've seen Brendan Penny in you know what, though maybe
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Speaker 1: not because he was in Beverly Hill's Wedding and I
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Speaker 1: thought he was quite funny in that movie straight out
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Speaker 1: of Oregon. I will never forget that line. I love
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Speaker 1: it so much. He was also in the Christmas movie
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Speaker 1: last year where he was like the in Mary Measure.
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Speaker 1: He was really good in that movie too. You watched
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Speaker 1: that after the holidays, Yes, I did, because I know
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Speaker 1: you didn't watch it during the holidays. I watched it
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Speaker 1: because it did so well in our Brass bracket. So
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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna give it a watch, and
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Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. And I found him very enjoyable
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Speaker 1: in this movie too. Yeah, I think we just like him,
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Speaker 1: I guess, but he's never like stood out to me
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Speaker 1: as like, oh, I have to watch this Brendan Penny movie. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: is he on our shirt? I don't. I'm gonna have
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Speaker 1: to look. I don't think so, Yeah, we need to
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Speaker 1: add a penny to the shirt. Sure do? Okay? Superficially
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Speaker 1: loved Aaron krackhouse sassy little haircut, me too. Love Brendan
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Speaker 1: Penny's beard, me too. I love a scruffy look so much.
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Speaker 1: The only thing I wanted put those glasses on. I
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Speaker 1: think Brendan Penny wears glasses, so you're saying that he
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Speaker 1: should just wear them, while he's like, it's a good
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Speaker 1: look at all times, sir, except for maybe occasionally as
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Speaker 1: the as the circumstances call for. I thought the wardrobe
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Speaker 1: for her name was Vanessa, right, I don't know. Aaron
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Speaker 1: krack I was like, God, I have no idea Vanessa,
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna say Jake. It's probably not Jake. Vanessa
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Speaker 1: not Jake. Give me another guess Tom four letters, two syllables,
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Speaker 1: starts with a vowel owen Evan. Oh, I'm good. Remember
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Speaker 1: Vanessa and Evan? Her outfits were really cute. Yeah. I
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Speaker 1: thought there was this one where she was wearing this
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Speaker 1: cute blazer and these like jeans, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, I thought that's very cute. And
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Speaker 1: you could tell it was really cold too. I felt
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Speaker 1: really bad for them because I could see their breath
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Speaker 1: in like so many scenes, and I was like, Oh,
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Speaker 1: these poor people. It's like supposed to be like a
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Speaker 1: spring movie, and they're like freezing their buns off. Yes,
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Speaker 1: did you notice that she only I'm jumping around. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: She only wore one particular coat in this movie. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure I did trench coat. I just because it
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Speaker 1: had this like metal like embellishment right here that I
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, there she is in that jacket again.
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Speaker 1: Oh anyway, all right, okay, what else did you like?
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Speaker 1: I kind of enjoy the married couple story, I thought,
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Speaker 1: I like, I like their backstory. It was so minor, though,
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Speaker 1: what what did you need to about it? A lot?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I like that like they had broken
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Speaker 1: up because he didn't want to be a burden on her.
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Speaker 1: And then they got back together and now they're getting
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Speaker 1: married and she's so supportive of him and they really
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Speaker 1: love each other. Okay, but can I Nope, I have
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Speaker 1: something to comment, okay on that couple, and I wish
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Speaker 1: for cool anything else. Yeah, there were some funnier moments
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Speaker 1: in this maybe that I quite enjoyed, like when they
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Speaker 1: when Vanessa and Evan first meet and she's like kind
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Speaker 1: of a pest and you know, like me again, and
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Speaker 1: I just thought she was funny like she was. She
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Speaker 1: was very light compared to his kind of grouchy artist.
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Speaker 1: I liked them. You know, a lot of people talk
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Speaker 1: about chemistry. I didn't think they had like fire chemistry,
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Speaker 1: but I thought they like just played well together. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, they were looking at me like I'm bananas, right,
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Speaker 1: I'm just engaged in your conversation. Hey, what did you
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Speaker 1: think of the leaf blowers? I thought it was so funny,
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Speaker 1: and you know, I hate hygienks, but it felt very
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Speaker 1: real and relatable because we have a leaf blower at
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Speaker 1: home that I quite enjoy using and it can get
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Speaker 1: were wild on you. So I agree, they've got a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a kick. Ours is electric arses not
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Speaker 1: have guess girls got on Hollmark community member Mike sends
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Speaker 1: us his thoughts after every movie, which I appreciate, and
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Speaker 1: I try to not read them too carefully before we
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Speaker 1: because I'm like, don't. I don't want to absorb other
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Speaker 1: people's thought about the movie into my own. But one
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Speaker 1: thing he said is he did not like that scene,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, yes, because he was like,
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Speaker 1: I think it falls into your category of hydrink. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I think it could have. I thought it was played
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Speaker 1: so well. He did comment like that was a brand
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Speaker 1: new leafblower all gassed up in a house that has
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Speaker 1: not been maintained for five years. But I just thought
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Speaker 1: it was kind of fun. I wouldn't know how to
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Speaker 1: like start it from the back. No, me neither. That's
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Speaker 1: what was funny about it. I loved it. I did. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Mike's points are fair about hyjenks. I'm the hygienks hater,
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Speaker 1: so it could have gone It could have gone another
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Speaker 1: way for me, but I was enjoying the movie so
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Speaker 1: much at that point, yeah, that it didn't bother me
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Speaker 1: if I did not like the movie. And then that happened.
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Speaker 1: I'd be like, Yeah, I liked how they kind of
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Speaker 1: stayed true to a home improvement in that something always
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Speaker 1: comes up. There's always like a that moment with the contractors,
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Speaker 1: like I gotta talk to you. Like every single person
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Speaker 1: who's ever done any sort of renovation knows that moment
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Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, this is gonna cost me how
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Speaker 1: many thousands of dollars right now? I thought found that
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Speaker 1: very relatable. The raccoons in the attic or what I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's silly, right, But there's always going to be something.
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Speaker 1: They're like, this tree is gonna destroy the house. Oh
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Speaker 1: my gosh, Okay. That I thought was kind of Her
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Speaker 1: repairs were not for the longevity of the property. Her
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Speaker 1: repairs were for this one day. So they didn't need
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Speaker 1: to trim the damn tree for her day. Yeah, she
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Speaker 1: didn't need to be so invested in it. Right. But
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Speaker 1: but then then he gets the wood and he makes
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Speaker 1: the thing, you know. Yeah, but also his art argument,
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Speaker 1: Evan's argument against it is so stupid, like it's going
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Speaker 1: to grow into the house, so you obviously have to
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Speaker 1: trim the tree, like you can't be they're not cutting
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Speaker 1: it down, Yeah, don't be so precious about this tree
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Speaker 1: branch and it's going to destroy the home. Yeah, but
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Speaker 1: he doesn't care about the cottage at that point. No,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't doesn't care. But his grandparents planted the tree. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he cares more about the tree than the cottage, the
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Speaker 1: business that they built. There's some hanky timelines they're okay,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, because hmm, it's one hundred years old tree.
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Speaker 1: It's one hundred year old tree. But how old are
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Speaker 1: his grandparents? Yeah? I think it's actually his great grandparents.
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Speaker 1: That got very confusing to me. That's also something that
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Speaker 1: Mike pointed out and the timeline that made my head go.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, don't care. Not that I don't
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Speaker 1: care about your feedback, Mike, I just am not invested
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Speaker 1: enough in the grandparent great grandparent timeline up at all.
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Speaker 1: I gotta let it go. What what'd you wish for?
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Speaker 1: I got more more? I got I got two more.
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Speaker 1: Actually we did talk about their chemistry, but in that
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Speaker 1: moment where they're dancing and he brushes the hair out
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Speaker 1: of her face, it made me feel melty. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: I don't really like often feel that way towards these
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Speaker 1: Hallmark movies. Did they make you want to make a
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Speaker 1: meme out of that scene. No, it made me wish
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Speaker 1: that my husband could dance that. I don't even need
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Speaker 1: the dancing, just like tuck my hair. My husband would
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Speaker 1: never do anything like that. Yeah, but okay, and finally,
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Speaker 1: I love when a town rallies around like they're gonna
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Speaker 1: You don't always love that, Okay. I love a good montage.
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Speaker 1: There was no montage in this, but like, I'm feeling
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Speaker 1: very sentimental about this property. It was beautiful, it was
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Speaker 1: and I want to stay there. Sure, So that's why
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Speaker 1: I was like excited that everybody was sort of like
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Speaker 1: jumping in. Yeah, to make it happen. What would you
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Speaker 1: wish for? So stop with the stupid contests. Every wedding
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Speaker 1: movie that I feel like I've seen on this channel
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Speaker 1: involves some sort of contest, some sort of winner, some
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Speaker 1: sort of something. I hate it. I've never met somebody
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Speaker 1: in my forty eight years that has won a wedding. Yeah, never,
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Speaker 1: I just don't. Why Why does it have to be
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Speaker 1: like a part of the story. Why can't she just
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Speaker 1: be planning a wedding for a client. So her job
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Speaker 1: was another thing that made my brain go because apparently
19:30
Speaker 1: she used to be a wedding planner, and now she
19:32
Speaker 1: has this wedding quote guidebook and website that apparently includes
19:38
Speaker 1: the wedding cottage, but it has been closed for five years.
19:40
Speaker 1: So she's a terrible website manager because she does not
19:43
Speaker 1: ever check in to see if these locations are still open. Yes,
19:47
Speaker 1: sometimes there is too many justified for the sake of
19:53
Speaker 1: the plot moments, like well, and I'll get to I
19:57
Speaker 1: wished one in the wedding scene when the couple is
20:03
Speaker 1: having a little bit of dance stage fright and Evan
20:07
Speaker 1: takes vness on the dance floor and he's like, just
20:09
Speaker 1: just follow me, right, just follow me, dude, Yeah, don't
20:12
Speaker 1: stand on the dance floor. Don't steal their thunder Like
20:15
Speaker 1: maybe just like stand off in the shadows dancing, not
20:18
Speaker 1: on the floor. Let them have their first dance moment.
20:22
Speaker 1: I immediately thought, I go, this is gonna invite other
20:25
Speaker 1: couples to come on the dance floor during this couple's
20:28
Speaker 1: first dance. Don't do that. And the guy I know,
20:33
Speaker 1: he was a wounded He's not a VET, but he's
20:36
Speaker 1: a has a wounded. Help me here, that's a good point. Actually,
20:45
Speaker 1: how is he going back to serve if he's wounded. Yes,
20:50
Speaker 1: can you serve in the military with a prosthetic limb?
20:53
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't either somebody email us yeah,
20:58
Speaker 1: or send us a DM or voice memo something. Anyway,
21:04
Speaker 1: that whole scene irritated me because it's not like he
21:07
Speaker 1: was a buffoon. He could have just like swayed back
21:11
Speaker 1: and forth. She didn't have like twirler around and dipper
21:16
Speaker 1: and like do the Lindy Hop, Like just do you
21:19
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like like I know the whole time,
21:21
Speaker 1: I was like just sway, Yes, sway high school slow
21:25
Speaker 1: dance it fully, but I hear what you mean, Like,
21:28
Speaker 1: don't go still those people's thunder, don't get on this
21:31
Speaker 1: be out of eyesight, put that invisible cloak on and
21:37
Speaker 1: do your dancing. Okay. I also wish she would have
21:40
Speaker 1: made him work for his apology a little bit more.
21:44
Speaker 1: And when Evan discovers by way of his art dealer
21:52
Speaker 1: agent Roland, that he's been featured in this article as
21:57
Speaker 1: this like down and out school Sir, he's like were
22:01
Speaker 1: injured artists. She wouldn't do that, And Roland is like,
22:05
Speaker 1: she used you. Roland doesn't even know who this woman
22:09
Speaker 1: is seriously and he's upset on his behalf, which I
22:13
Speaker 1: understand because it painted him as like this struggling artist
22:16
Speaker 1: who you know, hadn't produced a piece and all this time. However,
22:20
Speaker 1: he initially comes to her defense and then decides that
22:23
Speaker 1: there's no other explanation other than she has told this
22:27
Speaker 1: writer these things about him. He approaches her and he's like,
22:31
Speaker 1: I can't believe you would do that, and then bounces
22:34
Speaker 1: without even saying, hey, did you say these things about me,
22:38
Speaker 1: just accuses her. She doesn't see him again until the wedding,
22:41
Speaker 1: which he shows up in like smoothly slow dances and
22:44
Speaker 1: apologizes and she's like, is all right, Yeah, I don't
22:48
Speaker 1: care that there's only thirty seconds such in this movie,
22:50
Speaker 1: and we gotta wrap it up. Make him work for it,
22:53
Speaker 1: because that is setting a precedent that he is going
22:56
Speaker 1: to make assumptions and jump to conclusions and not just
22:59
Speaker 1: have a comversation with you. Yeah, I hear you. But
23:03
Speaker 1: I also think that there was an opportunity for her
23:05
Speaker 1: to be like, what are you talking about? Like when
23:08
Speaker 1: they're standing outside of the car, like they just had
23:10
Speaker 1: this moment the night before, they fully smooched before wait
23:13
Speaker 1: before the end of the movie. Yes, and then she
23:15
Speaker 1: gives him like this awkward like hug goodbye. She could
23:19
Speaker 1: have stained like what are you talking about? Yes? What
23:21
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Yes? I agree that it belongs
23:25
Speaker 1: on him, Yes, but yeah, if it were me, I'd
23:28
Speaker 1: be like, why are you so mad at me? Yeah?
23:30
Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? What's up your ass? Yeah? All
23:33
Speaker 1: those things? Yeah, all of those things. Okay, I have
23:36
Speaker 1: one more wished for. Stop with the run around with
23:41
Speaker 1: this couple. You know, when they were coming to town
23:44
Speaker 1: to see the cottage and yeah, obviously the cottage is
23:47
Speaker 1: not ready to be seen, so they hyjinks it up.
23:50
Speaker 1: Just tell their adults. I'm sure if you say, look,
23:54
Speaker 1: the wedding cottage was not in a state that we
23:57
Speaker 1: could have your beautiful wedding. But look at it, we're progressing.
24:01
Speaker 1: Is going to happen. You're not paying for this wedding.
24:04
Speaker 1: Look at these renovations we did on our own dollar
24:06
Speaker 1: to give you this perfect wedding. Stop stop well again,
24:11
Speaker 1: this is another one of those there would have been
24:13
Speaker 1: no movie. But at what point do you, as the
24:16
Speaker 1: wedding plan, are providing this free experience to this couple
24:19
Speaker 1: not say like, I'm sorry that venu is no longer open.
24:23
Speaker 1: You're going to have to choose another venue for your
24:25
Speaker 1: free wedding. Yeah, I know. And really she's taking Vanessa's taking,
24:30
Speaker 1: like paying the bill for all of these like renovations
24:34
Speaker 1: to a property, money making none and I can tell
24:40
Speaker 1: you what our maids and she's new, not none. This
24:45
Speaker 1: is the difference between her personality and mind. Because if
24:48
Speaker 1: I had shown up there and he'd been like, yeah,
24:50
Speaker 1: it's closed and I have no one just real, I'd
24:52
Speaker 1: like by and I would have made a phone call.
24:54
Speaker 1: I've been like, I'm sorry, you need to pick another venue,
24:58
Speaker 1: one that has availability in the next five weeks when
25:00
Speaker 1: it doesn't have cobwebs growing from the corners are seriously,
25:04
Speaker 1: you know a family of raccoons living in it ready
25:07
Speaker 1: for you? Did you see that? Yeah? I do? Okay,
25:09
Speaker 1: yeah I am. I only have one. And I wish
25:14
Speaker 1: that I was taking notes while watching, because I know
25:16
Speaker 1: that there were several but this is the only one
25:18
Speaker 1: that comes to see the kind of thing you admit
25:20
Speaker 1: as a professional Hallmark movie reviewer. Okay, then cut that out. Look,
25:26
Speaker 1: I had to watch this. In parts I came off
25:29
Speaker 1: of like a fourteen hour travel day to watch this
25:33
Speaker 1: movie three days later. By the way, it's called jet
25:36
Speaker 1: lag anyway, and an early saint. Vanessa's on the video
25:41
Speaker 1: call with the couple. She has like her a bag
25:45
Speaker 1: as a lower back support in her chair, like a purse,
25:49
Speaker 1: like a briefcase. I'm like, what the hell is happening here? Like,
25:53
Speaker 1: why did they do that? I don't know. It was
25:55
Speaker 1: definitely like a why am I seeing cachet bag? It
26:03
Speaker 1: look like a carry on bag, like right supporting her back.
26:06
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm at case for oh my goodness, Cachet,
26:13
Speaker 1: But what the hell is that? Okay, and I have
26:17
Speaker 1: I have a question. Okay, who writes wedding guides anymore?
26:21
Speaker 1: I know she had a website too. When I was
26:24
Speaker 1: planning my wedding twenty two years ago. Yes, there were
26:27
Speaker 1: books that had like locations, but now there's the Internet. Yeah,
26:30
Speaker 1: and information, as evidenced in this movie is constantly changing,
26:34
Speaker 1: So you want the ability like your guide is outdated
26:37
Speaker 1: the second you publish it. Wait. I can understand publishing
26:40
Speaker 1: a wedding planning how to guide because while that may
26:45
Speaker 1: need some updates, there's value in that. But yeah, all
26:49
Speaker 1: the locations all the vendors, all of that needs to
26:52
Speaker 1: go on a website. It is completely useless. People need
26:55
Speaker 1: a link to click. I agree, so bad business model.
27:01
Speaker 1: So this is a scene that I thought was interesting
27:04
Speaker 1: when I was watching it, and all credit goes to
27:07
Speaker 1: listener Mike for pointing out the reason why that the
27:09
Speaker 1: connection I did not make, and that's the nightcap scene
27:12
Speaker 1: when Vanessa invites me in for a nightcap. Tell me more.
27:15
Speaker 1: And then Mike's like, are the Hallmark Movies producers playing
27:19
Speaker 1: with us? Because this is like a you know, in
27:22
Speaker 1: older movies, they would let you know that the sex
27:26
Speaker 1: had happened. Why, they would smoke a cigarette right, yes,
27:30
Speaker 1: And then we would use the term nightcap as like
27:32
Speaker 1: a euphemism, like do you want to come up and
27:34
Speaker 1: get naked? Right Netflix and chill? Yes? Okay, like that
27:38
Speaker 1: when someone says you want to come in for a nightcap,
27:40
Speaker 1: that's what they mean. Yeah. Was Hallmark trying to allude
27:45
Speaker 1: to something more than a kiss on the cheap? Perhaps
27:50
Speaker 1: I thought it was nice inside and I'm watching it
27:54
Speaker 1: with those eyes. Look, I believe it. I believe that
27:56
Speaker 1: they had that chemistry. That's so funny because I'm such
27:59
Speaker 1: a dummy her nightcap. I go, I would never invite
28:02
Speaker 1: anybody else. I don't know what the state of my
28:03
Speaker 1: own was like. And I don't have anything to serve
28:05
Speaker 1: to drink. So oh I always think that too. People
28:08
Speaker 1: invite some women for a drink. I'm like, God, I
28:10
Speaker 1: would have nothing. You get like a liquor bar cart, seriously,
28:14
Speaker 1: like I don't. Maybe I have a Lacroix, a mini coke.
28:19
Speaker 1: But she was looking to get freaking when I worry
28:24
Speaker 1: about inviting, I worry about inviting someone because you don't
28:30
Speaker 1: know this person. This is why I would not be
28:32
Speaker 1: a good dater in the twenty twenty. They would not
28:36
Speaker 1: be dropping me off that hole. There's no a or
28:39
Speaker 1: like going home with someone from a bar at the inn.
28:44
Speaker 1: Oh yes, where's hearing a night cap at the inn?
28:47
Speaker 1: She was at the banb. She's just going up to
28:49
Speaker 1: her room, like from the mini bar. They were definitely
28:53
Speaker 1: going out. They were going in for a night cap.
28:59
Speaker 1: We've blown the lib wide off this thing. My gosh,
29:02
Speaker 1: oh my goodness. Are you ready to rate the Wedding Cottage?
29:06
Speaker 1: I am. I gave it three point seven five stars before. Wow, nice,
29:11
Speaker 1: this is a good movie. I liked it. Good movie,
29:13
Speaker 1: watch it again. Still to come This week from Girls
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Speaker 1: Go One, Hallmark, we will be recapping it. We'll be
29:19
Speaker 1: doing something. It's still a recap, but our format might
29:23
Speaker 1: be changing. On Friday, Ride episode four. I we need
29:26
Speaker 1: some days to figure it out. Guys, my question, are
29:28
Speaker 1: you going to watch episode three or just listen to
29:29
Speaker 1: my recap and call it good. I'm just gonna listen
29:32
Speaker 1: to your recap going good. I figured I can't get
29:34
Speaker 1: excited about that show. I'm sorry. My recap was so
29:37
Speaker 1: comprehensive you don't even need to watch the show. Fantastic.
29:40
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