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Mr. and Mrs. Christmas (Hallmark Channel 2026) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark Review podcast. I'm Megan,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: former Hallmark hater. On today's episode, we are discussing Mr.
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  Speaker 1: and Mrs. Christmas, which originally aired on Sunday, October 18th,
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  Speaker 1: on the Hallmark channel and is now streaming on Hallmark +.
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  Speaker 1: We hope you enjoyed this first weekend of Countdown to
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  Speaker 1: Christmas movies and this first week of Countdown to Christmas
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  Speaker 2: You know, somebody was in our Facebook group yesterday asking,
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  Speaker 2: who played so-and-so in so-and-so? And I was like, Please
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  Speaker 2: look at our website. We have all that information.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see that I commented that? I didn't. I said,
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  Speaker 1: this is who plays it. And by the way, this
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  Speaker 1: information can almost always be found in the news and
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  Speaker 1: notes section of our website on each and every movie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Mr. and Mrs. Christmas with a synopsis.
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  Speaker 2: A single dad and holiday decorating expert moves to a
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  Speaker 2: new town with his two children and teams up with
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  Speaker 2: a practical accountant to revive the local Christmas market. As
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  Speaker 2: romance blossoms, they discover that embracing change might be the
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  Speaker 2: secret to creating new holiday traditions.
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  Speaker 1: Peter Benson directs Mr. and Mrs. Christmas, and he's certainly
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  Speaker 1: no strange to hallmark both in front of and behind
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  Speaker 1: the camera.
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  Speaker 2: This script comes from Ryan Smith, whose previous Hallmark writing
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  Speaker 2: credits include A Dance in the Snow and Private Princess Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Pascal Hutton plays Sophie and is best known to Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: fans as Rosemary Coulter on When Calls the Heart. And
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  Speaker 1: she's also been showing off her comedic chops as the
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  Speaker 1: delightfully quirky title character in the Nelly Knows Mysteries franchise.
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  Speaker 2: Brendan Penny plays Taylor. We last saw him trading his
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark sweaters for cowboy boots in Texas Two-Step. He also
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  Speaker 2: starred in two 2025 holiday movies, The More the Merrier
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  Speaker 2: and Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper.
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  Speaker 1: Alex McIsaac plays Taylor's teenage daughter, Jenna, and she's another
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  Speaker 1: promising young Hallmark talent. She has a recurring role as
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  Speaker 1: Gwendolyn on When Calls the Heart and also appeared in
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  Speaker 1: Two for Tea earlier this year.
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  Speaker 2: Miles Marthaler plays Taylor's son, Arlo, but Hallmark fans will
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  Speaker 2: likely recognize him as Thomas from the Three Wise Men
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  Speaker 2: movie franchise.
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  Speaker 1: Aww. Little Thomas. Mason Nicholson plays Sophie's daughter, Lily, and
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  Speaker 1: she's already built quite the Hallmark resume, appearing in The
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  Speaker 1: Curious Caterer Mysteries, Field Day, and North to Home.
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  Speaker 2: Eric Gao plays Paul, and here's a fun little Hallmark connection.
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  Speaker 2: He spent the last three seasons playing Edwin on When
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  Speaker 2: Calls the Heart, making this movie a mini Hope Valley
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  Speaker 2: reunion with Pascal Hutton.
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  Speaker 1: Now, last week, we had The Spirit of Halloween. which
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  Speaker 1: was a Hardy-Chessie crossover with Megan Ori and Kevin McGarry.
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  Speaker 1: This week, we have another Hardy-Chessie crossover with Brendan Penny
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  Speaker 1: and Pascal Hutton. So we're just feeding the fandoms here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm shaking my head. Yes, you're right. I wonder if
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  Speaker 2: feeding is the right word. Is this enough for like
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  Speaker 2: the fandoms who really are like, give me... Because is
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  Speaker 2: there a show, I guess maybe The Way Home? That
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  Speaker 2: would be a fandom where I could see would be
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  Speaker 2: very excited if we got Kyler Lee in a Christmas movie.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what I mean? Yeah, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: hard for us to speak on this because we are
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  Speaker 1: neither Hardys nor Chessies. Yeah, exactly. So weigh in, Hardys
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  Speaker 1: and Chessies. I'm curious. Wendy, what's your first impression of Mr.
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  Speaker 1: and Mrs. Christmas? Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Fix-its, but the entire movie being Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Mess-it-up. My first impression is Captain Buzzkill reporting for duty.
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  Speaker 1: I spent this entire movie yelling about how the logistics
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  Speaker 1: make no sense. Oh, yes. You and me both.
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  Speaker 2: You and me both.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about what we liked about this movie.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about Hallmark's Next Generation.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I think they look pretty promising.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hear me out for a second.
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  Speaker 2: I have said a few times this year that I
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  Speaker 2: think Hallmark has stepped up its casting of younger actors
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  Speaker 2: because previously, you know, I don't like kids in movies.
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  Speaker 2: They're either, like, too precocious or they deliver a dialogue
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  Speaker 2: that has been written for a teenager but is not.
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  Speaker 2: This year, I think, though, they've nailed it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I don't come away going– Like I'm not cringing at
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  Speaker 2: like kids in movies.
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  Speaker 1: I thought Lily nailed it. So did I.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why I'm saying I thought the actress who
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  Speaker 2: played Jenna and the actress who played Lily, the two.
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  Speaker 1: Daughters, were great. Were absolutely great. And Miles Marthaler did
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  Speaker 1: what Miles Marthaler does and comes in as a cute
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  Speaker 1: little kid. Yeah, exactly. Arlo, great name. Great name. Totally.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought those two were great. And I have
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  Speaker 2: high hopes for their future.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I'm a big fan of the character
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  Speaker 1: of Sophie in this movie. And I think, thank goodness
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  Speaker 1: for her as the voice of reason who comes in
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  Speaker 1: and she's like, yo, kids grow up and you need.
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  Speaker 2: To adapt with them. That was the best advice given
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  Speaker 2: in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. I heard it. Yes. As did I. It's my
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  Speaker 1: favorite movie. element of this movie is when she's saying, look,
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  Speaker 1: kids change and the traditions are going to need to
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  Speaker 1: change with them. The relationship is going to change shape,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not going to end. And I do understand
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  Speaker 1: why Taylor couldn't get that, like was having a hard time. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a very normal transition to struggle with.
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  Speaker 1: here's all these traditions that are so meaningful, and why
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  Speaker 1: can't I recapture the magic of that exact tradition? And
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  Speaker 1: he just kept stumbling and trying to recreate the magic.
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  Speaker 1: He just couldn't get there. Sophie, maybe because she's a woman,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but she and Lily just had this
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  Speaker 1: unit that worked. It just, it worked. They're fictional characters,
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  Speaker 1: but to me it worked, and I appreciated her trying
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  Speaker 1: to guide Taylor. I think It might be easy to
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  Speaker 1: watch this movie kind of not too far on the
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  Speaker 1: heels of Texas Two-Step and be like, oh, these are
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  Speaker 1: two very different Brendan Pennies. And I think this Brendan
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  Speaker 1: Penny was kind of bringing real strong, like, dad energy. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And appropriately so, because this was a dad who was
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  Speaker 1: trying to find his way. And so I just thought Sophie,
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  Speaker 1: in more ways than one, had it all together. I thought.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you. I thought Sophie's advice was well-written
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  Speaker 2: more than once, but that scene does stick out to me.
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  Speaker 2: She wasn't judging him or shaming him. She just was
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  Speaker 2: like gently guiding him in terms of like, oh, maybe that's,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you just need to evolve, you know? It's understood
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  Speaker 2: to me as, and probably you too, as like parents,
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  Speaker 2: of now older children and you are trying to freeze these,
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  Speaker 2: you know, holiday, it's not even holiday traditions really, but
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  Speaker 2: these like, you're trying to recreate or freeze these moments
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  Speaker 2: that were really great for your family and you want
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  Speaker 2: to experience those like year after year after year. But
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  Speaker 2: our children are, changing, right? And there can't.
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  Speaker 1: Always be that. It's just not going to be the same.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, I really understood that storyline in there.
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  Speaker 2: I think it could have been done better. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to get to it in my wishes, but I like
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  Speaker 2: the idea of it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: If you remember, but when we recorded our review for
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  Speaker 2: tis the season for setups. I think I said out loud,
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to really find the relatable storyline for me
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  Speaker 2: in these movies this season. So this one hits for
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  Speaker 2: me in that vein. But there's a lot of other
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  Speaker 2: things about this movie that didn't land for me. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get there.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to talk a little bit more about
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  Speaker 1: Pascal Hutton. There's a scene that really landed for me.
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  Speaker 1: And that is the I hesitate to call it a fight,
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  Speaker 1: but that's kind of what it is. And goodbye scene
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  Speaker 1: where she comes to his house after he's blown the budget.
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  Speaker 1: And she's basically letting him know that the parade has
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  Speaker 1: been canceled and he's apologizing, but it's not enough. And
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  Speaker 1: she's not mean at all, but she's disappointed and it's
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  Speaker 1: potentially going to cost her the promotion. And she's frustrated
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  Speaker 1: with him and frustrated with herself that she didn't stop
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  Speaker 1: this from happening and, And she's not cruel, but I
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  Speaker 1: feel like so often in these, you know, third act conflicts,
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  Speaker 1: it's manufactured. And in this case, I felt like her
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  Speaker 1: frustration was so warranted and so earned. And then towards
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  Speaker 1: the end of that scene, it's kind of a goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: She says, you know, Merry Christmas, Taylor. And she hands
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  Speaker 1: him back the keychain and she leaves. I just thought
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  Speaker 1: that was a nice scene from Pascal Hutton. I thought
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  Speaker 1: that was a good.
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  Speaker 2: Scene, too, except to then in the next scene scream
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  Speaker 2: at the TV. I said, no, because then he gets
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  Speaker 2: this like bright idea again.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I'm talking about. Mr. Fix it messes
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  Speaker 1: it up again. Yes, the grief. Dude, stop trying. Stop.
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  Speaker 1: Just stop.
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  Speaker 2: Don't try to save this woman's job because you messed
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  Speaker 2: it up. No.
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  Speaker 1: No. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Like, he can't get out of.
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  Speaker 1: His own way. Agree. That was really frustrating to watch
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  Speaker 1: for me. Personally. Personally.
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  Speaker 2: I liked that we don't pretend that divorce doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 2: We have Taylor and his divorced ex-wife.
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  Speaker 1: And there's no, like, weird.
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  Speaker 2: weirdness other than like she had to leave the country
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  Speaker 2: to go help her, you know, aging parents. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why she had to leave the country, like maybe
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  Speaker 2: leave the state. It's still hard to see your children
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  Speaker 2: if your state's away too.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: But of course that stops because Sophie was a widow.
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  Speaker 2: So one deceased spouse per Hallmark movie. Right.
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  Speaker 1: But I, I like back to the divorce storyline. I
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  Speaker 1: like that At the end of this movie, things are
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  Speaker 1: not perfect for Jenna. Like, she is willing to sit
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  Speaker 1: in the discomfort. She's like, I don't need you to
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  Speaker 1: fix this for me. Oh, I'm going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: that in my wishes. But she just needed him to
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  Speaker 1: hear her. And it frustrated me because he kept saying,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to make so many friends. I guarantee it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to fix this. I promise you. And I was, like,
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  Speaker 1: screaming at the TV. I know this is in our
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  Speaker 1: wishes section. But I was like, stop. Stop making promises
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  Speaker 1: that you– Don't have any idea if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to follow through on. Yeah. But I liked
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  Speaker 1: when she was like, I don't need you to fix
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  Speaker 1: this for me. I'm having a hard time. Just be
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  Speaker 1: my dad. Yeah. Just listen to me. Just hear me. Yeah. No,
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  Speaker 1: and I get that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about it in my wishes too,
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  Speaker 2: but I get that as a parent because we spend
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  Speaker 2: so many years trying to, like you just told me
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  Speaker 2: off mic about a situation with your daughter where you
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  Speaker 2: like had to email the teacher and like whatever. There
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  Speaker 2: is this where we want to, I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: say come to the rescue, but help ease our kids,
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  Speaker 2: make their lives a little bit easier, right? So I
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  Speaker 2: get where he maybe feels now because there is, the
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  Speaker 2: mom isn't in the picture, like he's really got to like,
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  Speaker 2: Go 180.
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  Speaker 1: Everything. Everything.
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  Speaker 2: So, like, I get that as a parent. And it
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  Speaker 2: is a hard lesson to learn to like pull back
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. Like they need to like advocate for
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  Speaker 2: themselves or learn the hard way or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Of course. And it is
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  Speaker 1: easy from the outside to have this judgment. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely want to fix things too. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: my attitude. It's in my DNA.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. And like my dad's a fixer too. Like he's like,
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  Speaker 1: how can I fix this problem? And I really, that
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  Speaker 1: is a lesson that I needed to learn myself and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Go so far as Taylor did in this movie. But
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  Speaker 2: he moved with good intention, especially with the market thing.
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  Speaker 2: And he thought, oh, I'm going to make this market
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  Speaker 2: situation more fun for my teenage daughter and her new friends.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to have.
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  Speaker 2: Bubble tea or boba tea or whatever and a band
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  Speaker 2: and this and that and all these fun things. But like,
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  Speaker 2: It was like a swing and a miss, dude. Like
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  Speaker 2: you try, but you didn't. Like you tried, but you failed.
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  Speaker 1: Right. There has to be some balance. Like it had
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  Speaker 1: lost all the things that had once made it magical
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  Speaker 1: and it had lost the magic for some of the
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  Speaker 1: older citizens, right? Like you can't design a community event
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  Speaker 1: with one person in mind. Yeah. But I think the
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  Speaker 1: thing with Jenna was like, look, this isn't a problem
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be solved overnight. Totally. This is a
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  Speaker 1: process that you're just going to have to acknowledge. Like
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just going to I needed him to be like, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is hard. Just agree with her. You're right. This
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  Speaker 1: is hard. It is going to take a minute to
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  Speaker 1: find your people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because don't you think we, and this is probably
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  Speaker 2: what I did, is like then we raise kids who
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  Speaker 2: come to us to help solve every problem and where
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  Speaker 2: they don't solve the problems on their own.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, sure. You know, right?
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  Speaker 2: See, I'm told you I'm looking for the relatable stories.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course. In these movies. Go ahead. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: I have one more like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. They got a budget. They got a decor budget
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  Speaker 2: on this movie. I thought the Christmas decor throughout was
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  Speaker 2: really well done. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: We got inflatables. I know you're not like an inflatable galley.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not the.
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  Speaker 1: Biggest fan of inflatables for myself, but I do like
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  Speaker 1: their big visual impact.
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  Speaker 2: But then even like the Christmas trees looked good. All
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  Speaker 2: the garland stuff looked good. We've been coming off of
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  Speaker 2: a fall season where.
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  Speaker 1: Real faux. Yeah. I just think it's hard to do.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's as hard to do faux Christmas
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  Speaker 1: decorations as well as it is hard to do faux fall.
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  Speaker 1: Like faux fall always looks faux.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But I agree. The market I thought looked really nice. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I have a couple just little likes. I kind of
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed the kookiness of Paul, particularly when he's on the
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  Speaker 1: stationary bike in his helmet and goggles. Okay. I enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: the opening sequence, the Brett Eldridge Mr. Christmas song with
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  Speaker 1: the scrapbooked style lights. credits. Look, we're going to watch
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these credits. Make it interesting. It's not
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  Speaker 1: just text on the screen. I appreciated the extra effort
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  Speaker 1: given there. And finally, I actually did enjoy Sophie's pitch
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  Speaker 1: to the board. This was a hallmark moment that I
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  Speaker 1: think made a lot of sense when she's talking about
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  Speaker 1: she's clearly right for the job because she's detail-oriented. She's
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  Speaker 1: very good at her job. She knows all of the rules.
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  Speaker 1: But she has the heart to do it well because
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  Speaker 1: the town is meaningful to her. And so I thought
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  Speaker 1: That made sense. Sometimes these hallmark moments in quotes don't
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  Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. This one worked. I agree
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  Speaker 1: with that. I agree with it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it felt like the tiniest bit crafty, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course. It worked.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and come back to talk
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  Speaker 1: our wishes. All right, Wendy, what'd you wish for?
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  Speaker 2: I have some wishes. First of all, this is like
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  Speaker 2: one thing that I haven't talked about in a long time.
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  Speaker 2: When the title of the movie doesn't make any sense
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  Speaker 2: to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Mr. and Mrs. Christmas. Yeah, why couldn't it just
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  Speaker 1: be Mr. Christmas? I guess because that doesn't suggest a
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  Speaker 1: love connection. Yeah. But she's not Mrs. Christmas at the end. No,
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  Speaker 1: they called her Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Claus, right?
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  Speaker 1: She is Mrs. Claus. Yeah. She's not coming. He's Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Christmas because this is his job. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Which I got another problem with. What are you doing
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  Speaker 2: in the off season, dude? What's, you know, around here,
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  Speaker 2: like it's the guys who hang up the Christmas lights
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  Speaker 2: are also like window washers or, you know.
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  Speaker 1: We had our trees trimmed this past weekend and the
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  Speaker 1: guy was like, oh, I do Christmas lights too. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So tell me what Mr. Christmas Brendan Penny is doing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what's so funny is. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: listen to Jeff Lewis Live, and he has a guy.
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  Speaker 1: He has Mr. Christmas coming in to do– his name
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  Speaker 1: is Mr. Christmas. That's what his business is called. Coming
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  Speaker 1: in to do his house. And the guy also does Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: He does, like, the whole pumpkin patch. You know, these
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  Speaker 1: million-dollar homes in Hancock Park. People are paying thousands of
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  Speaker 1: dollars to have someone come in and do that. But
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know what he does when it's not Halloween
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: or Christmas.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Do you think he makes enough money to sustain himself
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: throughout the year?
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you. The guy who used to
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: do our Christmas lights– He year-round worked for the cable company,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: and then he would bank all of his vacation and
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: take off the month of November to put up Christmas lights. Yeah.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: And he said he would make as much money putting
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: up Christmas lights as he did the entire year in
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: his other job.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: How sad. He never got a vacation either because he
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: was putting up Christmas lights during his vacation days.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: He has since retired. Good for him. But yeah, maybe
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: they do make enough money. I don't know. We're in
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the wrong business, babe. Yeah, but do you really want
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: to do that?
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Nope.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I don't want to decorate my own house. No.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I don't want to do anybody else's either. But back
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: to the title of this movie. What?
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Why? Agree.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Stop putting synopsis and AI and asking for movie titles.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: It doesn't have anything to do with it. I want
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: to talk about Jenna. I had a hard time with
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: the messaging that Jenna didn't need her dad anymore.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's what you think the message is.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: She went on. No, not the whole messaging. There was
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: a whole scene where she's like, I'm not a kid anymore.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I don't need you to fix these things.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no. Girl, you are a kid.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: You were in middle school. You are a child.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: You are not out here making your own decisions on everything.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: This is what I'm saying that I don't think the
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: movie was written that well. in terms of like that
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. Like he should have been like, no,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, you're 14. Maybe I am overstepping, but you
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: still need parental guidance in your life.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Yes. I do think there was a happy medium there.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Like the, I don't need you to fix this messaging
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: was important, but the, I'm not a kid anymore. You are. Right.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: And I even thought for- It is. But I needed
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: him to be a parent in that moment and say, no,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. It's my way or the highway. You know,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: cliche things parents say. I even thought for a moment,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I thought, hmm, what if he... would have been a
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: better story if Jenna was 18 and now she is
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: an adult, right?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: A young adult.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: And like, I don't need you to fix things anymore.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: This is, that's a different movie though. And maybe one
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: that would have been more interesting, I thought. And then
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Sophie still could have been a parent to a slightly
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: older child and then helped him, you know, guide him
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: through this transition. Because they even had this whole conversation
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: that you and I have just recently had, too, where
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Brendan Penny was talking about 16 summers. I was like, oh,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: at 16 now?
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah. When he said we only get 16 seasons with them,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I was like, what are you talking about? Yeah. Did
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: they launch them early in Canada? I don't know. I was...
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: irrationally mad during this scene. Also, I really... It's one
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: of my wishes. I wanted her... She doesn't push back
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: when he says that. And I wanted her to be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Because you and I, as we've talked about, have had
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: this discussion that you only get 16 or 18 or
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: whatever number you're picking to fully control. That's what parents...
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: get frustrated by is now i'm not fully in control
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: i don't get to manufacture the way holidays look because
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: now they're their own person and now we have to
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: figure out a way to make their adult life and
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: my life work together and i really wanted sophie to
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: be like no no no no you only get 16
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: where you're fully in charge but it is time for
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: you to start figuring out what the next phase looks
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: like because they don't poof from your life right beyond
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: that right i wish Someone had planned this market in August.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I was screaming at the television.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: They are setting up the market, and he goes, we're
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: just about to go lock in the vendors. What? Yep.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: We never actually see that happen, too. He makes all
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: these phone calls the night before to Gen Z it up, but...
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: We need to lock in the vendors? Why are we
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: putting out a single table if we have not locked
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: in the vendors?
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Here's my other question. They never explicitly say what month
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: it is, but the rest of the office is decorated
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: for Christmas.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they only have a couple days to set up. Like,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: it's got to be December.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Explain to me... Why they needed to cancel the parade.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Because wouldn't the costs of the parade already have been sunk?
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Sunk costs already. Yep. So you might as well have it. Mm-hmm.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Now you're just cutting off your nose to spite your
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: face because you might as well have the parade because
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: all that money has been spent. That's right.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I got to tell you, one of my biggest wishes
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: is this other sea storyline, basically, of the budget and
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: the city or whatever.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm having a hard time caring. I don't care. Yeah, okay.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I don't care. It's not so much like don't care.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: You wrote a Christmas movie about a budget?
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, fair enough. Come on, let's
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: take all the other stuff away.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: It is a Christmas holiday movie opening weekend. It is
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: about a budget. It is about blowing a budget. It
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: is so effing stupid.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I am sorry. I think that's 100% fair. The other
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: thing is, though... I just find it hard to believe
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: that this man is such a buffoon. He doesn't know
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the difference between the annual budget and an events budget.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: He's like, I just looked at these numbers and I
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: didn't spend all this money. He's running his own business.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: We don't see any other employees. She's so detail-oriented that
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: she's not like, be creative. As soon as he called her,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I was like, that's going to be the conflict. That's
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: going to be the problem right there. I don't know
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: how it's going to, but something's going to happen. So
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I didn't like that either. I just– all of the logistics,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: everything was happening too last minute. They hired this man
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: to move here in December to run this. I find
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: it very hard to believe that he was hired from
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: out of town to move to another state to run
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: this entire event. It just feels like this could have
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: all been done in-house. Also, at the very beginning of
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the movie, Paul hands him this box. Made by his grandfather. Oh, yes. Yes, yes.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: That absolutely has to be used. They step on it,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and then it's never to be seen again. You're right.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: How about no other– he says, don't make any more mistakes.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: But there's no, like, let me repair the box for you.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Do you think that they were trying to set up
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: there in that moment that, like, he's kind of a
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: mess it up sort of dude? You know, like he
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: got locked out of his car, and then he got
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: locked out of the office, and then he broke the box.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: But he's not even the one who breaks the box.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I know, but it's just... He should have been on
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the floor underneath the ladder.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Fine, but it's just like piling on top, like.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Perhaps.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Look, this guy would not get hired again with how
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: many mistakes he made. I did love his reaction when
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: he realizes he's lost his car. It's the best acting
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: moment of the movie. The instant look on his face
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: when he realizes that he's locked his keys into his car.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: It was great. It was great. It borders hijinks for me.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: It's frustrating.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: This guy is not that much of a buffoon.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: If he's Mr.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Christmas, who has this great business, you're not making that
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: many mistakes.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. And I just don't think Mr. Christmas
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: would lose all of the magic of the Christmas market.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I think there's something in him that would be like, hey,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: let's have a couple new additions, but it doesn't need
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: to be we up in the club.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: We up in the club is right. Were you super overstimulated,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: like pinball machines going off and like all this stuff?
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: And then I thought for a second, they've gathered in
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: this like community center, right?
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: And he's like, hey, everybody, hey, come in.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Why are you the face of the opening night of
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Christmas market?
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: You're technically a vendor, dude. Just run in the background.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Nobody should know who you are. Yeah.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: It's like a wedding planner. Your wedding planner is not like, hey, everybody,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: let's No, they're.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Not the emcee of the event. Exactly. Well, let's talk
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: did you see that. Unless you have more wishes. No. Okay.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: I don't have a ton of did you see that's.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I already talked about the Christmas decorating budget. I like
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: the inflatables. I liked. I actually liked when he made
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: all the kids come out into the front. His two
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: children to see them plug it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: In and then it. Very National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Kills
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the entire neighborhood. Yep. Yeah.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: But again, there he goes messing it up, trying to
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: drown it. I literally was watching this movie. I'm like,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: you're doing too much. Reel it in, dude.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Reel it in.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I'm going to let you talk about Peter Benson in
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: a second. The only other did you see that I
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: had that Jenna has a really cute barn jacket. If
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: you guys don't know what a barn jacket is. Oh, yeah.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: It's like a it's kind of a straight boxy jacket
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: with a collar that's either like darker or a different
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: material than the rest of it it was real cute
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: it was not real on trend.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: It was when she was trying on all those jackets
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and she does like the denim jacket and the sweatshirt
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and then she reaches for the barn jacket i was
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: like yeah that's the one yeah yeah that's the one
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: too um let's talk about peter benson i had not
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: read the news and notes for this movie prior to
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: watching it i did not know who directed this movie
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: and that's why i'm so proud of myself when we
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: hear the offstage announcer announce clover clover Who do you
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: think that's supposed to be? I don't know, but they
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: started singing Christmas songs. I was like, GTFO. I know.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I was like, that's a miss. You don't hire, yeah,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: you don't hire Clover to sing. Let him sing his hits. Anyway,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I was like, I think that's Peter Benson. Did Peter
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Benson direct this movie? I rewound it, listened to it,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: rewound it.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I went back, listened to it again, and was like,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: that's 100% Peter Benson. And then looked it up.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Wait, but you don't know for certain 100% that's his voice.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: That is correct. I don't know for certain 100%. Please
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: message him. Is he on socials?
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: He can be hit or miss, right? Yes. What I
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: was disappointed in is we have loved to say, Peter Benson,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: what are you doing here? But he hasn't shown up
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: in his last couple movies.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: And so... Yeah. Is Peter Benson playing with us right now?
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think we're too disappointed Peter Benson fans.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Because I was waiting.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: They show, they're at like, Sophie and Taylor go out
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: to eat and she goes, gets roasted chestnuts. Why is
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Peter Benson not roasting the chestnuts?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Right? I just messaged, just watch Mr. and Mrs. Christmas.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I'm going to need you to confirm that was your
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: voice introducing Clover. We'll see what he says. I'm going
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: to have to bleep this, but the... trinket teller who
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: interrupts their almost kiss. Yeah. I cannot believe they then
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: went on to buy something from her because that's not
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: going to, what are you doing? Yeah. What are you doing? Yeah.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Would you ever like see somebody almost kissing and be like.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Excuse me? Merry Christmas. No.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Come buy one of my wares.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: You mentioned Jenna's barn jacket. Lily is wearing sweatpants at
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: one point at school and then at the carnival, like
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: she has A sweater and, like, a big, like, Sherpa's
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: not the word, but it's that, like, fuzzy. Mm-hmm. Maybe
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: it is Sherpa long jacket. And she has sweatpants on underneath.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: It's real cute. Finally, the mistletoe. Actually, I have two more.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: The mistletoe that they kiss under has white berries. Thank
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: you very much. Oh, finally. Megan has seen in her.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Mistletoe accuracy. And speaking of that kiss, you know, they...
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: We have that tight shot of them kissing under the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: mistletoe and then it pulls back and they climb into
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the Ferris wheel and the Ferris wheel like takes them around.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Were they just standing at the entrance to the Ferris wheel?
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: that entire time having that moment with what I have
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: to assume is a line of people waiting for their
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: turn to board the Ferris wheel while they're having their
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: final kiss you're just holding up the line folks.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe did you see how stiff Pascal Hutton was
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: like when Merry Christmas Pineway Merry Christmas, Pine Way.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, my. Like four times.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Look, I love Pascal Hutton. I think she's so adorable
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: as Nellie. They let her run with Nellie.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love Nellie.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Here was way too restrained for me.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. So are you ready to rate this one? Yes.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I originally gave it three stars, but I think it's
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: a 2.75 star.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. It went down. I gave this three
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: and a half stars. I thought logistically the story was
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: a mess. Emotionally, some of these moments hit for me.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering, does this feel like a Christmas movie to you? No.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: And in fact, it only feels Christmas because there's so
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: much Christmas decor in it.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: But in fact, it's the second movie of the weekend
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: that's got large scenes.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Parenting themes to it. So, yes, I was watching this. Obviously,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: it is Christmassy in tone. It's Christmas events happening that
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: this is centered around. But the story is not really
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: about Christmas. I haven't decided whether there's any value attached
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: to that. Like, is that a good thing or a
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: bad thing? Because I don't need every story to be
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: about Christmas. We have 34 movies. I don't need to
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: celebrate the season 34 times. Yeah. It's kind of okay
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: with me that this just happens to be taking place
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: during the holiday season with there's plenty of Christmas happening around. Yeah.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: The Christmas is just kind of incidental to the story,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: but it's not necessarily driving the story. I agree. I agree.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: But you know what is funny, and I know I've
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: talked about it before, is like, oh, I like relatable stories.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: This was just, it was not Christmas, it was not
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: like Christmas magic enough for me.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I would agree. There's not a lot of Christmas magic.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Especially opening weekend and being a second movie of the
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: weekend that it has these other larger themes that are
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: really not related to Christmas.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Was it too relatable? Is it too much like, I
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: see myself in this.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: No, because– And I don't like it? No, because that's
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: what I am looking for. I'm always looking for some
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: sort of through line where the movie feels more special
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: to me because I related to it.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: And there was some moments of that in this movie,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: but I just found it weird that we have two
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: movies opening weekend– They're Hallmark mystery and misery movies.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: That's what these are. Two of them in one weekend.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Two of them in one weekend.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: So I need whoever does programming to really step back
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: and look at.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: The tone.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: The tone, the themes of the movies, and puzzle it
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: together where it's more balanced.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I like that idea. A lot.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: And I don't think they do that because I think
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: they're just... There's so many movies coming out in one
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: short season for them that they're like, oh, it's done.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, great. It's going to go here.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: This gets slotted here. I think, yes. I think there's
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: an element of– because we know some of these movies
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: are just wrapping. Like I just saw Allie Liebert posting,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: you know, the movie she's directing. It's– October 12th today
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: as we're recording this and she's just wrapping. So I
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: think there is an element of, of course, those are
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: going to come out later. And I also think there's
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: some reverse engineering of, hey, we've got these maybe five
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: or six movies that we know are going to be
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: big draws. So we're going to space those out. And
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: then we kind of just puzzle everything else in around
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: all of that.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: My other complaint is that, you know, I don't, I
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: think we all can agree that we want movies that
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: stay with us, right?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to remember this movie at the end
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: of October.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I don't disagree. You know?
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: And that to me feels like, why are we doing
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: it then?
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Again, less is more. That's where I'm at. Opening weekend. Well,
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  Speaker 1: We hope you've enjoyed this opening week of movie reviews.
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  Speaker 1: So do with that info what you will. Grab a snack,
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