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Holidazed Episode 4 (Encore) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's time for another encore presentation of Girls
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Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark. This time we are revisiting our reviews of
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Speaker 1: the Holidays series. These were originally recorded in December twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four, so you might hear a reference here and
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Speaker 1: there to something around the holiday season. But in honor
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Speaker 1: of the fact that Hallmark is re airing these episodes
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Speaker 1: on the Hallmark Channel for the first time, we wanted
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Speaker 1: to re share our reviews along with those drops, so
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Speaker 1: you can listen along as you're watching enjoy the show.
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Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. Are
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Speaker 1: you a little bit like the shattered ornament in the
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Speaker 1: opening of the Holidaized episode. That's a perfect example thought
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Speaker 1: that might be yes. Today, we are reviewing and recapping
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Speaker 1: Holidays episode four the Woods Family. The series is streaming
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Speaker 1: exclusively on Hallmark Plus. We're going to talk some quick
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Speaker 1: news and notes about this episode. It was directed by
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Speaker 1: David Weaver and this episode was written by Eileen Rosenswag.
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Speaker 1: I have a question for you before we jump in. Yeah, one,
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Speaker 1: how are you liking the series so far? I'm really
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Speaker 1: enjoying it. There's one episode that was really weak to me. Well,
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Speaker 1: i'll tell you when we talk about it. Oh, and
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Speaker 1: I was really disappointed by it. Interesting, but I am
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Speaker 1: enjoying the storyline, and I'm enjoying the way that we
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Speaker 1: see them Like obviously, each episode focuses on one family,
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Speaker 1: but we do see like some of the other characters,
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Speaker 1: like in full trade. Sure, and I'm liking the way
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Speaker 1: those stories weave together. I like that too. The series
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Speaker 1: is nothing like I had imagined it would be, especially
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Speaker 1: when you get down into like the nitty gritty of
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Speaker 1: each family. The other thing, it's kind of mind blowing
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Speaker 1: to me a little bit that Hallmark. Look. I think
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Speaker 1: it's gonna wrap up nicely at the end, but like
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Speaker 1: it's real messy, Like these families are real messy. Well,
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Speaker 1: what's interesting to me is we have all these different families,
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Speaker 1: these six families, and like each one is dealing with
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Speaker 1: different stuff, which is so real life. Yeah, yeah, so
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Speaker 1: that's why it was nice. It's kind of cool. Now
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Speaker 1: on the flip side of that, I don't you know,
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Speaker 1: this series has been like coming for a long time,
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Speaker 1: like it's been made for like several years now, right
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Speaker 1: m hm. I kind of feel like homemarks dropping the
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Speaker 1: ball on promotion on promotion for this because it's a
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Speaker 1: it's a really good series. So I'm interested to see
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Speaker 1: if this is going to land on Linear or somewhere
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Speaker 1: next year to get more eyes on it, m hm,
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Speaker 1: or they're just like I mean, I'm sure they spend
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Speaker 1: a lot of money on it, big production, right, huge,
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Speaker 1: So I'm just I'm just curious if they're not getting
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Speaker 1: the eyeballs they want on it. Yeah, I always I
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Speaker 1: wonder about that stuff. Anyway. All right, let's tack. I
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Speaker 1: thought this might be your week week story because it
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Speaker 1: was for me. Oh interesting, No, it's coming a little
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Speaker 1: bit more news and notes. Lyndy Booth plays Lucy Woods.
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Speaker 1: She's mom. Lindy has eighty four acting credits, including Under
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Speaker 1: the Autumn Moon starring We's Brown. Bella Grace plays daughter
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Speaker 1: Annie Woods. Bella has five acting credits, including appearances in
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Speaker 1: Snow Piercers, Nancy Drew, and I Zombie. Rachel A Favor
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Speaker 1: plays sister Sylvie Woods. Although many of us will never
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Speaker 1: unsee rachel as Victoria from Twilight. Her eighty acting credits
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Speaker 1: also include the Homewark movie Mariah's Lighthouse. Stephen Aleric plays
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Speaker 1: Cole Lucy's romantic interest. Stephen is a Hallmark movie. His
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Speaker 1: fifty two previous credits include Chicago Fire and Station nineteen,
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Speaker 1: which perfect casting for that. Mm hmm. We have some
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Speaker 1: crossover from the Lewin family played by Lennox Leecock. Lennox
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Speaker 1: is the son a One Calls the Heart actor vill
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Speaker 1: Leekock cool, and he has seven acting credits that include
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Speaker 1: Crime Time, free Fall, and a Magical Christmas Village. He
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Speaker 1: hasn't been in One Calls the Heart though he hasn't,
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Speaker 1: but Viv's other children have. I believe. Oh that's cool.
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Speaker 1: I love that. Kisha Haynes plays Janet. Kisha has appeared
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Speaker 1: in a handful of Hallmark movies. In her twenty eight
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Speaker 1: credits like Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas
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Speaker 1: and Christmas to Cherish. She also ticks the Girl's Gotten
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Speaker 1: Hallmark Bingo box for Unreal and Honorary Bingo space. No Tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: What the hell is No Tomorrow? My gosh, she doesn't
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Speaker 1: listen to me, you guys, I'll talk about all the time.
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Speaker 1: It's the one season Netflix series about the guy who
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Speaker 1: is convinced that the world is ending. No idea what
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Speaker 1: you're talking about. It's a delight. I suggest you guys
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Speaker 1: watch it. Zara Niku Sakhani plays stephanieha Zandi. This is
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Speaker 1: Our's seventh acting credit and her second for Hallmark, having
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Speaker 1: previously appeared in the Christmas House. So this episode kicks
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Speaker 1: off and I feel like this is the family we
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Speaker 1: had learned the least about in the opening episode, and
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Speaker 1: like they're on screen. I was like, oh yeah, oh yeah.
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Speaker 1: So we've got sisters Lucy and Sylvie and their relationship
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Speaker 1: is a little bit straightened. Mm hm. That's a cute
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Speaker 1: daughter Annie in the mix and her like parallel storyline
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Speaker 1: is the popular girl Stephanie gi Zandi is coming in
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Speaker 1: and stealing away her bestie Max, who she has a
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Speaker 1: newfound crush on.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we open with Lucy hearing a noise.
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Speaker 1: She thinks there's an intruder and she finds Sylvie decorating
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Speaker 1: the tree, but she's actually redecorating the tree. She didn't
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Speaker 1: like sister Lucy's decor choices. Then you have some thoughts
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Speaker 1: on redecorating and Christmas tree. I swear you mentioned it
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Speaker 1: when we reviewed Leah's Perfect Gift. I mean, I think
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Speaker 1: it's poor form to walk into someone's house and redecorate
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Speaker 1: their tree. Have you redecorated it? Have you redecorated your
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Speaker 1: own tree? Like, move to ornaments your family have put up. No,
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Speaker 1: they're pretty well trained. Oh my goodness. I would never decorate.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't go into my mother's house and be like,
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Speaker 1: let me move these ornaments around. It's a Christmaka tree now. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Lucy's like hold up, time does up boundaries And on
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Speaker 1: the one hand, like you just know these two were
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Speaker 1: already at odds. Whatever Sylvie does is gonna piss Lucy off.
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Speaker 1: Why did Sylvie come then? Well, okay, Sylvie wants a
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Speaker 1: relationship with her sister. Yeah, and she's all alone in
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Speaker 1: the world. She has a boyfriend who sucks and his
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Speaker 1: bounce I know, but she doesn't actually have a boyfriend.
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Speaker 1: Spoiler alert. Lucy's just frustrated with her sister. Her sister's
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Speaker 1: like she's kind of like the fun one, right, Like
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Speaker 1: she comes in and she gets like to have this
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Speaker 1: like fun child life. She's a little resentful of that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and Lucy's like, I gotta be here run in a
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Speaker 1: business and being a mom and you can't just like
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Speaker 1: blow in and be the fun sister and like up
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Speaker 1: end my life. She's also mad because she suspected that
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Speaker 1: Sylvie was flirting with Cole. Yeah, and I really like
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Speaker 1: that we dispel this right away. Yes, so be like yo,
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Speaker 1: Cole likes you, dummy, And by the way, I have
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Speaker 1: a boyfriend. No, she does it. I'm glad we got
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Speaker 1: that like out of the way opening scene, but Lucy
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Speaker 1: is still not like, yay, thank you for coming home Sylvie.
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Speaker 1: I like to point out that Sylvie has amazing hair
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Speaker 1: for the middle of the freaking night. But the button
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Speaker 1: on this scene is Lucy leaves and Sylvie's loops one
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Speaker 1: final pillow in Defiance, I laughed because this morning I
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Speaker 1: got out of bed and my hair looked crazy, and
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Speaker 1: I was like, what happens that night? Like I don't understand,
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Speaker 1: Like I could never wake up in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the night, and like beautiful, Nope, hoe me either. We
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Speaker 1: call my son Kramer because when he wakens us, heirs
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Speaker 1: on the morning, it kind of like stumbles down and
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Speaker 1: he has curly hair and it's like sticking up in
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Speaker 1: every direction and he just it's out of love, y'all.
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Speaker 1: That's a signe Toeld reference. If we haven't I got it.
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Speaker 1: Young folks are listening on ants. Cut to the next morning.
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Speaker 1: Sylvie is being fun aunt, tell any any y'all about
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Speaker 1: her adventures. But then Annie's like, if you got this
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Speaker 1: hot boyfriend, you go on all these fun trips with
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Speaker 1: what are you doing here? Yeah? And she's like, oh, well,
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Speaker 1: I give him an ultimatum. I suspect, based on Sylvie's
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Speaker 1: facial expressions that she's a lying Did you ever have
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Speaker 1: a fun aunt like and that like blew into town
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Speaker 1: and was like you wanted to know to you? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I totally did. No shade to my aunts, both of
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Speaker 1: whom may or may not listen to this podcast. So actually,
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Speaker 1: my aunt Stacy, I do think you're fun, but you're
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Speaker 1: not like the wild and crazy like you didn't want
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Speaker 1: to like I used to go visit her in the
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Speaker 1: summer for a week. I like to stay with my cousin. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but she was like, you know, married with children. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't like she was like the unmarried I had an
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Speaker 1: unmarried fun aunt. Annie does tell Sylvie how Stephanie Zandie
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Speaker 1: is moving in. Look. I feel bad for Stephanie ja
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Speaker 1: Zandi because I think Stephanie Jizzanti is not trying to
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Speaker 1: like I mean, maybe she's trying to like get with
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Speaker 1: this kid Max, but like she seems like a nice girl. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: she's not giving mean girl vibes. No, not at all.
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Speaker 1: That funny line in this episode, Sylvie's like, what does
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Speaker 1: she got Annie? Annie's like She's got superior DNA and
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Speaker 1: a social media fall. Loved it in great lines, So good.
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Speaker 1: It's time for the conflict. The health Department is expecting
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Speaker 1: inspecting the Woods Bakery, and somehow, one week before Christmas,
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Speaker 1: their hallway is too narrow. Yeah. This is where I'm like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm tapping out because I don't this kind of manufactured conflict.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't even make sense. You couldn't have come up
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Speaker 1: with a better reason to have coal come in. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so they got to fix it by the end of
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Speaker 1: the year, which means incoming hottie handyman. We cut back
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Speaker 1: to the house. Sylvie and Annie are like look them
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Speaker 1: through Lucy's closet and they're like, your mom's clothes are boring.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, my clothes are boring too. I
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Speaker 1: was packing, I was taking my clothes for Kansas City.
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Speaker 1: We have time travel to the past, y'all, and like
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Speaker 1: literally every sweater like they're all in that like cream
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Speaker 1: neutral color family. I was like, well, make success rising easy.
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Speaker 1: It does. It's okay to have like a look. Jennifer
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Speaker 1: Aniston always wears black, so hey, right, he'll take it.
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Speaker 1: She's got a uniform. It's okay. But in there, I
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Speaker 1: don't know why they're digging through Lucy's closet. Like I
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Speaker 1: can't figure out what they're trying to do, Like, are
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Speaker 1: they trying to find something for Annie to wear to
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Speaker 1: like make make Max notice her? Yeah, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what in your mom closet? Yeah, no, my kid, my
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Speaker 1: poor kid. Oh my god. You want to hear a
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Speaker 1: funny story. Yesterday and my daughter says I need some
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Speaker 1: new underwear and I was like, oh, she was no,
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want your foot of the loom.
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Speaker 1: Then I was going to like give her mind. I
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Speaker 1: was going to suggest me buy some for her. She's like, no,
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Speaker 1: how does she know? Just laundry, you know? But I
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Speaker 1: think she I don't know she knew specifically for Nola Loom.
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Speaker 1: It was probably just man, this is stuff were talking
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Speaker 1: about on Patriot. I don't want your breathable undies, Grandma, no, no,
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Speaker 1: but these are great. She's like, get out of here.
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Speaker 1: And then then I go, Marry Christmas. That's what you're
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Speaker 1: getting on your stocking. While they're snooping in Mom's closet
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Speaker 1: through her natural fibers, they do find like a hidden
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Speaker 1: door in the wall, and the inside the hidden door
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Speaker 1: is the Joy Box, which turns out to be a
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Speaker 1: suitcase of Joy's favorite thing. Them like, Who's Joy? I
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Speaker 1: was like, who the fuck is Joy? Is? That? Is
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Speaker 1: that Grandma? Yeah? But they don't tell us that. Now
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Speaker 1: I know, I like, is that a sister? They ultimately
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Speaker 1: we get there, but they go back and forth between
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Speaker 1: calling her Joy and Mom, and I don't understand why
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Speaker 1: they do that. So we learn that Joy is like
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Speaker 1: super fun and Sylvie's like, you got to tap into
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Speaker 1: your Wood's wild side and gives her this like poochy
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Speaker 1: esque shirt dress to wear, which is she yeah, don't
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Speaker 1: you think sort of whatever, it's it's outside of Annie's normal.
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Speaker 1: She's like, you wear this to get Max's attention. Then
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Speaker 1: they find the menora that Sylvie and Lucy made for
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Speaker 1: joy and she puts it up and they also find
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Speaker 1: the recipe for joy bars, driving plot point for the
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Speaker 1: rest of the episode, which Silly brings to the bakery.
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Speaker 1: And I just feel like the storytelling in this episode's
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Speaker 1: kind of weak, Like we take like I'm like, yes,
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Speaker 1: that's what I said. I'm like missing, Like the point
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Speaker 1: is not getting through what we do when the bakery struggling. Yes,
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Speaker 1: because a bakery serves gluten free desserts. Yeah, quote healthy desserts. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We do learn that Sylvie was a silent investor in
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Speaker 1: the bakery and in comes cold to check out the
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Speaker 1: work needed. And Sylvie's like, Janet, what the heck is
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Speaker 1: going on? Man? And Janet's like, we got no money.
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Speaker 1: There's no money for a renovation. There's no money for anything.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I would not call this some renovation. This
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Speaker 1: is a violation that needs to be repaired. Sure, and
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Speaker 1: I think you gotta do it. Sylvie's got a plan.
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Speaker 1: But cut to Annie and this is where Stephanie de
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Speaker 1: Zoondie is lovely. She's like, I love your Vinchites dress.
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Speaker 1: I know I got mean girls though, Like he you
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Speaker 1: know when She's like, oh, I like your skirt soa vintage,
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Speaker 1: and she was like mean about it, but Stephanie just
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Speaker 1: the vibe I'm getting from Stephanie, which is very nice.
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Speaker 1: And then she goes, did you get it on d pop?
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Speaker 1: Which is such a teenager? Yeah, like my kid sells
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Speaker 1: all her crap on deep Hop. So Sylvie's big plan
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Speaker 1: is We're going to barter a deal and I'm going
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Speaker 1: to make you the worst marketing offer ever. We're going
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Speaker 1: to name a cupcake after you and put your information
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Speaker 1: on the napkin in exchange for all of your labor.
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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, my sister, who's a baker
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Speaker 1: and not actually any sort of construction worker, is going
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Speaker 1: to help you. Lucy goes to pick up Annie, and
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Speaker 1: Lucy discovers that Annie and Sylvie have found the joy
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Speaker 1: box and what is the problem here, I don't really know.
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Speaker 1: She actually doesn't seem that bothered by it. I thought
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Speaker 1: she'd be like more bothered by the violation of them
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Speaker 1: going in her closet and taking the sure and she
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Speaker 1: seems more like things are not always what they seem.
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Speaker 1: M m. She's like, by the way, that shirt it's
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Speaker 1: not a shirt dress it's just a shirt. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: didn't even get like, see, this is where I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I was losing interest in this story because these feel
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Speaker 1: like champagne problems to me. Well, their bakery is failing
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Speaker 1: besides that. Okay, Lucy is so like I don't know,
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Speaker 1: maybe she's not any fun. Maybe that's what I don't
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Speaker 1: like about her because she's me. No, she's not you
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Speaker 1: with her red hair and her uptight attitude. No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: I just like I can't pinpore. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: be like she was just so focused on like things
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Speaker 1: falling apart for her bakery. Changed the bakery. Then, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of teen Lucy here, though I know you are.
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Speaker 1: But because Lucy's like, I'm a single mom, I don't
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Speaker 1: have time to be fun. I gotta be the one
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Speaker 1: who gets things done. And I had a fun mom
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Speaker 1: and we lost her, and therefore I need to have
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Speaker 1: my act together so you're not left all alone. I'm
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Speaker 1: not buying it, Okay. Well, Sylvie decides that what this
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Speaker 1: bakery actually needs is a makeover and in comes a
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Speaker 1: vintage jukebox all in the same day. Yeah, just like that,
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Speaker 1: like just sourced. It happened to be in this small
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Speaker 1: little town right down the street from the holiday stroll.
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Speaker 1: I mean this Sylvie can buy a vintage juke box,
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Speaker 1: why can't she just like pay for all the renovationation.
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Speaker 1: I think I think Lucy wouldn't let her. Maybe that
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Speaker 1: was a conversation, but yeah, great point. We get a
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Speaker 1: demo renou montage and the Rada grating is like fine
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Speaker 1: but super weird because they gift wrapped the tables. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: you gotta wipe those down after every single customer. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't like that. What are you gonna do? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: rewrap them, just sweep the crumbs off, and you have
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Speaker 1: a little like grease states gross weird. Lucy's the worst
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Speaker 1: flirt ever, terrible. She makes a bad stud find her
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Speaker 1: joke and then she says, are you gonna drill now?
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Speaker 1: I was like, yikes, I'm telling you, I'm telling you.
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Speaker 1: They had some like kind of not questionable but like
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Speaker 1: racy lines in episode one as well. M She does
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Speaker 1: finally ask Cole out and they get ready for the
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Speaker 1: date and Sylvie's like trying to loosen her up and
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Speaker 1: she gets sort of wear her hair curly, but she's like, no,
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Speaker 1: no plumping lip gloss. Dude, this had me in tears
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Speaker 1: actually that it's the bridge too far when she actually
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Speaker 1: puts it on at dinner table, Yes your lips, because
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Speaker 1: she's freaking allergic to it. It was very much that
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Speaker 1: Will Smith Hitch movie when he U gosh, I love
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Speaker 1: that movie when he was allergic to I don't know,
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Speaker 1: shellfish or something like that. Ye show him and his
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Speaker 1: whole entire face and ears. Everything is so good up.
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Speaker 1: It was so funny this. It gave me those yes,
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Speaker 1: yes totally. And if you've never put on plumping lip
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Speaker 1: gloss before, Vere's like, hell, she was actually allergic to it.
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Speaker 1: So this is like another issue she has with their
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Speaker 1: sister because her sister's like doesn't remember that she's allergic
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Speaker 1: to beat pollen. But like, is silly really going to
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Speaker 1: be looking at the ingredients of the lip plumper? No? No.
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Speaker 1: While Lucy's on her date, Sylvie and Annie are back
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Speaker 1: at the bakery making joy bars, and apparently they just
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Speaker 1: like well, first of all, Sylvie has to like lie
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Speaker 1: about Christoph and he's like did you everyone, She's like nope,
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Speaker 1: he hates to be rushed. It's very obvious that she's lying.
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Speaker 1: They eat those joy bars like straight out of the oven.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you've now burned off every one of
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Speaker 1: your taste buds. Yeah, question for you, when you think
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Speaker 1: of joy bars do you think of magic bars? Do
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Speaker 1: you think that's what word is? Not like the like
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Speaker 1: coconut chocolate situation, la step in there. Yeah, that's yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's what I'm envisioned. Sounds good. Those are teles. I
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Speaker 1: could use a joy bar right now. But Lucy shows up.
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Speaker 1: First of all, she has the allergic reaction dinner. It
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Speaker 1: ruins her date. She shows up, she's mad. It's only
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Speaker 1: also Sylvie did use all of her supplies, which fair enough. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I guess when it comes to like business stuff like that,
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Speaker 1: you're like, yo, now I can't make my vegan croissants
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Speaker 1: tomorrow because you've just used everything. You can't make my
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Speaker 1: dry ass spinach bars. Yeah exactly, Like I get like
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Speaker 1: the business aspect on that, and you've just given away
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Speaker 1: all our bars for free. It was my I mean
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Speaker 1: she didn't give away yet. Oh sorry. We go to
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Speaker 1: the stroll, Max and Nannie take a selfie and Annie
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Speaker 1: decides to kiss Max and the selfie she's like trying
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Speaker 1: to be finance Sylvie in this moment, and Max's like, woo, yes,
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Speaker 1: So like maxim not into Annie. I'm getting that vibe.
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Speaker 1: We do get a peek inside Max's brain in the
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Speaker 1: next episode. In the next episode, Yeah, Annie runs away,
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Speaker 1: Lucy goes looking for her and they have a conversation
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Speaker 1: about Like what I like is Lucy's like Aunt Sylvie's
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Speaker 1: world is very big and loud, and like that's not
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Speaker 1: really the way you live. Like, I know you wanted
19:38
Speaker 1: to like stand out, but like that's not really who
19:39
Speaker 1: you are. Yeah, but maybe she is. That's why I
19:42
Speaker 1: don't like. I feel like Lucy's keeping Annie in a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a box. M Like Lucy wants Annie
19:48
Speaker 1: to be like her. Okay, but I think Annie is
19:50
Speaker 1: like her, do you? Annie was? Yeah, haven't you ever
19:54
Speaker 1: felt like I want to be like that cool person.
19:55
Speaker 1: I'm not that cool person, of course, But I also
19:57
Speaker 1: think that Annie is at an age where she's figuring
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Speaker 1: things out. Yeah, so fair enough, fair enough. As you mentioned,
20:07
Speaker 1: nobody's buying these joy bars because apparently they're few customers
20:10
Speaker 1: like their terrible items, So their big plan is we're
20:14
Speaker 1: gonna give them away. They're like gonna gorilla market these
20:16
Speaker 1: things and give them away, which not a bad idea, no,
20:19
Speaker 1: But the problem is they made no money. Lucy is
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Speaker 1: like the f man, use all my ingredients and you
20:27
Speaker 1: made no money. You are terrible at business, Sylvie, how
20:30
Speaker 1: do you make money? But is Lucy also terrible at business?
20:33
Speaker 1: But she doesn't realize that she's not making any money
20:36
Speaker 1: at the baby. Yes, her product is limited. Yeah, yeah,
20:41
Speaker 1: fair enough, fair enough, it's the night of the storm.
20:46
Speaker 1: This argument is like the breaking point with Lucy and Sylvie,
20:49
Speaker 1: like when Lucy's like, you were in everything and Sylvie's like, fine,
20:52
Speaker 1: I'm leaving. So we get our thunder crash, lets us
20:56
Speaker 1: know orients us in time. In this series, the storm
21:00
Speaker 1: has arrived, the end of the episode is imminent, and
21:04
Speaker 1: Lucy's like, don't leave yet. And then I don't fully
21:09
Speaker 1: understand this. We learn that Lucy it was mad at
21:13
Speaker 1: their mom, who I think died. That's what I've enterard
21:18
Speaker 1: and she's like, she abandoned us, which is an interesting
21:21
Speaker 1: emotion to feel. I guess, I mean, I guess it's
21:26
Speaker 1: t you left me all alone, Like there's an anger
21:28
Speaker 1: period of grief, okay, and Lea's the victim. What we
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Speaker 1: learn here is like Sylvie wanted Lucy's life, and Lucy
21:36
Speaker 1: looks at Sylvie like, but you have the fun life, yes,
21:40
Speaker 1: and Lucy's like, I had to live this way because,
21:42
Speaker 1: like I was, I had to take care of you, okay,
21:45
Speaker 1: And so they just aren't communicating you. Sylvie wants some stability,
21:51
Speaker 1: but she like puts on this big fun front because
21:53
Speaker 1: she doesn't have Lucy's life. And then she leaves and
21:57
Speaker 1: he's mad, mom, scared, way Aunt Sylvie, And then the
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Speaker 1: power goes out and again it's like rushed resolution all
22:08
Speaker 1: over again. They light a billion candles throughout the house,
22:11
Speaker 1: plus they light the joy Mania of course, and Annie's like,
22:16
Speaker 1: why did you lock Nana Joy's memories in a box?
22:18
Speaker 1: And Lucy's like to protect you, which I don't really understand.
22:22
Speaker 1: Like that either she died, She wasn't a bad mother.
22:24
Speaker 1: She was clearly very fun you and Sylvie clearly loved
22:27
Speaker 1: her very much. Then Annie sees a photo of Christoph
22:30
Speaker 1: with his newbae and she's like, uh, oh, Sylvie is
22:34
Speaker 1: not getting proposed to Christoph has moved on where Sylvie.
22:38
Speaker 1: Sylvie said she was going on a yacht with Christoph.
22:41
Speaker 1: Storm blows the windows open, all the candles go out
22:43
Speaker 1: except for the joy Manora and a scene I was
22:47
Speaker 1: saying Christmas miracle. Okay, it is quite the metaphor. And
22:52
Speaker 1: do you like that each episode ends like in these
22:54
Speaker 1: big light Yeah. I I think it's fun. I'm really
22:59
Speaker 1: anxious to see how it's all gonna come together. I
23:02
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a chaotic eighth episode the
23:04
Speaker 1: way episode one was chaotic. I don't know if you
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