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Surprised by Love · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: There's a little movie called Meet the Parents starring one
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  Speaker 1: Ben Stiller a number of years ago, and I love
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  Speaker 1: that movie.
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  Speaker 2: Ask what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: I can't stand that movie. Hey, everybody, welcome to Girls
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  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy, and we are heading
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  Speaker 1: into the home stretch of our summer series where we
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  Speaker 1: are reviewing fan favorite movies. Today's movie is Surprised by Love.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to connect with us outside of the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: you can find us on Instagram, where we are both
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  Speaker 1: at Girls Gone Hamewark and at Megan and Wendy.
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  Speaker 3: You can also jump into our Girls Gone Hallmark Facebook group.
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  Speaker 3: It's open to both guys and girls. And I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to tell you there's big things coming, so you want
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  Speaker 3: to be in the group to hear it first.
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  Speaker 2: That is correct.
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  Speaker 1: We have lots of announcements coming this month with the
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  Speaker 1: future of all things Megan and Wendy.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. And we had.
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  Speaker 1: Some hot discussion about a recent episode that we published
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  Speaker 1: in the Facebook group.
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  Speaker 2: Our review of.
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  Speaker 1: Love on the Sidelines from two weeks ago was hotly contested.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I'm going to say it again. Sorry, not sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I re listened to the episode after day I was
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  Speaker 1: hosted because we had recorded it a little bit in Fance,
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  Speaker 1: and we really did come hard for that movie, but
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  Speaker 1: I meant every word of it.
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  Speaker 2: I think perhaps we were at our breaking point. That's true.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: We were pre recording a ton of stuff to get
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  Speaker 3: us through the summer, and I think that was our
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  Speaker 3: last movie that we did, and we're like, oh, it
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  Speaker 3: actually wasn't the last movie we did, but I think
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  Speaker 3: we were at our breaking point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were definitely running on fumes. I would say
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  Speaker 1: at that point. If anybody was ever wondering if we
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  Speaker 1: were holding back in.
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  Speaker 2: These reviews, I think that is the.
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  Speaker 1: Episode that I would point them to to point out
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  Speaker 1: that we very.
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  Speaker 2: Much are not not being paid by Hallmark. Definitely not that.
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  Speaker 1: Please hire us to moderate a panel on the Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Cruise.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's that's a update since we've last recorded
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  Speaker 3: headed on the Hallmark Christmas Cruise next year.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta say, I'm excited, are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm terrified of barfing my brains out the entire time,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm excited to do like cookie decorating and gambling.
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  Speaker 3: That's what you sold me on is like all you
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  Speaker 3: can eat food in gambling.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's gonna be a great time. I love a cruise.
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  Speaker 1: I love a cruise so much. As we're recording this,
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  Speaker 1: the pre sale for the second dates that they announced
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  Speaker 1: is happening right now. They had enough interest that they
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  Speaker 1: opened up an entirely new cruise. But the sad thing
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  Speaker 1: about that is that means that anybody who had booked
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  Speaker 1: that cruise, just like I'm gonna go on this cruise
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  Speaker 1: to the Bahamas, got.
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  Speaker 2: Bumped because they they chartered it.
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  Speaker 1: But when that happens to you, though, never fear. The
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  Speaker 1: cruise line like gives you, obviously refunds you and then some.
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  Speaker 1: So when is the second cruise? It's two weeks later
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  Speaker 1: or like ten days later, the seventeenth through the twenty first.
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  Speaker 1: I don't actually even know the dates of ours. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's eight days later. Ours is like the fifth through
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  Speaker 1: the ninth.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So are there are there supposed to be Hallmark
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  Speaker 3: celebrities on these cruises?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am, that's the whole appeal.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So but do you think they're gonna like book
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  Speaker 3: the same celebrities, like is Tyler Hines going to go
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  Speaker 3: on two cruises? Or do you think he's just.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna be on one.
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  Speaker 1: Well hot take from one of the Hallmark Cruise Facebook
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  Speaker 1: groups that I'm in, someone made a list of the
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  Speaker 1: celebrities they would like to see on the cruise, and
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  Speaker 1: of course Tyler was at the top but the list
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  Speaker 1: and someone commented he probably won't be there because he
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  Speaker 1: made a comment about never doing a cruise. Oh but
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  Speaker 1: who knows? That is the big question? Will there be
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  Speaker 1: overlap stars? Will you have you know, a different crowd
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  Speaker 1: week one to the next. Obviously they're being paid to
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  Speaker 1: appear on this cruise.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, money talks.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps spending four days on a cruise ship is not
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  Speaker 1: the worst way to spend some time in November.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and especially who knows how long this acting strike
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  Speaker 3: is going to go on. So I know we're talking
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  Speaker 3: next year, but hey, you got bills to pay, you
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  Speaker 3: might go on a paid cruise?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Why not? Man? That all remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously they won't be announcing celebrities until much, much closer
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  Speaker 1: to the sailing date. But if you're going, let us know.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see you there.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready for a synopsis? I Am Surprised by Love.
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  Speaker 3: This comes from twenty fifteen and It is the story
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  Speaker 3: of a young business woman who tries to convince her
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  Speaker 3: uptight parents to accept her current boyfriend and instead finds
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  Speaker 3: herself falling for an old high school flame.
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  Speaker 1: As I listened to you read that synopsis, I realized
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh God, I totally forgot that. The
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  Speaker 1: premise of this movie was like get mom and dad
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  Speaker 1: to like Richard.
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  Speaker 2: Mm, yeah, didn't you just watch this movie? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I watched it last night. I actually started this movie
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  Speaker 1: months ago. I opened up my notes and I was like, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: this is meaningless to me. I was like Gridley, Who
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  Speaker 1: the heck's Gridley? Let's get into it news all right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have some Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This was directed by Robert Iskove, who appears to be
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  Speaker 1: retired now, as this was his last directing credit of
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  Speaker 1: his sixty four He also directed hits like From Justin
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  Speaker 1: to Kelly and The Unauthorized Story of Different Strokes.
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  Speaker 2: A movie that maybe you saw, did you? I feel
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  Speaker 2: like your husband would watch that.
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  Speaker 1: My husband would absolutely have watched that if he came
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  Speaker 1: across it. I'm not sure that he has, but we
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  Speaker 1: might have to hunt it down on one of our
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  Speaker 1: many many streaming services.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I don't know if you if you saw an
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  Speaker 3: IMDb but Robert Iskov also directed the nineteen ninety nineteen
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  Speaker 3: rom com.
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  Speaker 2: She's All That. Oh I did not see that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the original airdate for this movie was January third,
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  Speaker 3: twenty fifteen. And I must ask you, is is that Winterfest?
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  Speaker 2: Was this a Winterfest movie? Don't Know's that's this? Don't know?
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  Speaker 2: Was that a thing in twenty fifteen?
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  Speaker 1: You know, in a recent episode that I edited, I
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  Speaker 1: said you ask a lot of questions that I do
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  Speaker 1: not have the answer for, and that stands true today. Well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: if anybody listening has the answer, you can always email
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  Speaker 1: us at Meganwindy at gmail dot com, or talk about
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  Speaker 1: it in the Facebook group or whatever. I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to stump you with these questions, Megan, I'm just it's
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  Speaker 1: an out of curiosity.
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  Speaker 2: Truly.
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  Speaker 1: I understand. I don't have any information. This is not
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  Speaker 1: a winter movie.
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  Speaker 2: Do better?
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  Speaker 1: But hey, the unauthorized story of Different Strokes is streaming
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  Speaker 1: on peacock.
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  Speaker 2: I might have to watch it. I loved me some
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  Speaker 2: Different Strokes when I was growing up. I freaking loved itod.
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  Speaker 3: You know I was looking this is not a Different
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  Speaker 3: Strokes tangent, but it is. I was noticing in the
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  Speaker 3: title that different Different is spelled with atrophy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Why, I mean, that's how it's always been spelled.
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  Speaker 2: But why again, answer, you don't know. I don't know different,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, did you know this movie was written by the
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna be able to say their last names, Dobrovski.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I recalled when I was typing up my notes,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, wait a minute, we talked about a
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  Speaker 3: movie this summer that they had written.
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  Speaker 1: No, you're wrong, Okay, what you're remembering is we discussed
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  Speaker 1: the Real House Guys of the North Pole, which I
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  Speaker 1: believe shared a director with a movie that we had
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  Speaker 1: watched previously.
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  Speaker 2: Is that ringing a bell? Am? I in the right direction? There?
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  Speaker 3: Their son wrote that movie. Oh they co wrote that
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  Speaker 3: big yeah with their son with their son. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they have a number of writing credits together. You know what,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not wrong because I'm looking at my note right now.
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  Speaker 3: It says they wrote the script for Love on the Air,
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  Speaker 3: and I believe that was a summer movie. That good,
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much, well done. So anyway, they wrote
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  Speaker 3: this movie as well as.
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  Speaker 1: The number of other Hallmark movies.
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  Speaker 2: Tons, But again, they haven't written a movie in quite
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  Speaker 2: some time. Maybe they're retired as well. Maybe they are.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Hallmark. Malcolm Stewart plays Dad Joseph Mayfield. He
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  Speaker 1: has two hundred and three acting credits, and if you
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  Speaker 1: recognize him, it's probably because he plays lots of Hallmark dads.
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  Speaker 1: He has played alongside Paul Campbell. He played his dad
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  Speaker 1: in Christmas by Starlight. But again, he has two hundred
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  Speaker 1: three acting credits tons of Hallmark movies, including the Christmas
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  Speaker 1: in Evergreen series where he plays the dad.
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  Speaker 2: Is that just his like title? The Dad?
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  Speaker 1: I think he has a name, but that's his role dad.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta tell you I did not recognize him watching
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  Speaker 2: this movie.
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  Speaker 1: She plays a nice dad, he plays, I mean dad,
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  Speaker 1: he plays.
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  Speaker 2: He plays all kinds of dads.
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  Speaker 3: This movie stars Hillary Burton, who plays Josie and she's
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  Speaker 3: probably best known as playing Peyton Sawyer on One Tree
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  Speaker 3: Hill Show Me.
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  Speaker 1: I did not want IMDb say Peyton Scott because she
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  Speaker 1: marries a Scott brother.
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  Speaker 2: Eventually, ah, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: She marries Lucas. I think who is Lucas Scott anyway? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: her maiden name is Sawyer. Previous Hallmark movies include Summer
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  Speaker 3: Villa and Naughty or Nice, which when I saw the
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  Speaker 3: title Naughty or Nice, I was like, that's a Hallmark movie,
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  Speaker 3: like kind of surprise, Like it feels dirty, sure, okay,
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  Speaker 3: but here this is what I thought was really interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Back in twenty nineteen, it's reported that Burton was let
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  Speaker 3: go from a Hallmark movie after she made requests for
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  Speaker 3: a more diverse cast, and she was very outspoken about
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  Speaker 3: the Big Tree from then.
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  Speaker 2: Head Bill Abbott. Boh. I was like, wow.
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  Speaker 3: But with all that said, we haven't seen her in
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  Speaker 3: a homework movie since twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I really enjoyed her in this, and now
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  Speaker 1: that Bill Abbott is no more, maybe we could bring
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  Speaker 1: her back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I wonder if she would come back. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if they're.
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  Speaker 3: Doing what she had requested that they do back then,
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  Speaker 3: you would think she'd be like, Hey, all right, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna ride with you.
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  Speaker 2: Now we'll see Paul.
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  Speaker 1: Campbell plays Maxwell Gridley and look, he's Hallmark Royalty needs
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  Speaker 1: no introduction. He started a ton of Hallmark movies, including
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  Speaker 1: the Cases of Mystery Lane, Wedding Every Weekend. A previous
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  Speaker 1: summer series review The Santa Stakeout, but also twenty five
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  Speaker 1: episodes of Battlestar Galactica, which is not for me. Certain
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  Speaker 1: Malcolm Stewart was in a couple of episodes of Battlestar
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  Speaker 1: Galactica as well.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Concerned because I try to find like some current work
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  Speaker 3: for Paul Campbell and there's like nothing on the internet.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I know there's like a writer strike and
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  Speaker 3: an actors strike happening, but I thought there was rumblings
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  Speaker 3: of a second Three Wise Men and a baby.
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  Speaker 2: Done. I mean, nothing has been confirmed there. I hear you.
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  Speaker 2: I believe if you.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to the reports made by Girls Gone. Hallmark correspondent
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  Speaker 1: Mike He said that they've got some movies in the works.
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  Speaker 1: And you know how Hallmark is, they're real cagy until
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  Speaker 1: they make an actual announcement. They like to wait until
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  Speaker 1: the last minute. So he and Kimberly Sastad had two movies.
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  Speaker 1: They were prioritizing the Christmas movie. So maybe we just have.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like he hasn't been working. I wouldn't worry
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  Speaker 1: about our Paul Campbell just yet.
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  Speaker 2: Man. Okay, So can I go on? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Tim Conway played Josie's grandfather in this movie Can We Passed?
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  Speaker 3: In twenty seventeen, he was a six time Prime Time
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  Speaker 3: Emmy winner with fourteen total nominations. He's known for roles
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  Speaker 3: in the Carol Burnett Show, Michael's Navy, tons of guest spots,
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  Speaker 3: and tons of voice work in his later years.
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  Speaker 2: I really loved him. Oh he's in my like, I
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  Speaker 2: will talk about him, and I liked all right, what's
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  Speaker 2: your first impression?
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  Speaker 3: A Twinkie cake makes my stomach turn? Oh god, can
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  Speaker 3: you imagine how sweet.
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  Speaker 1: Buy a grocery store sheet cake? It would taste better
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  Speaker 1: than that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I love a Twinkie, but like in a
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  Speaker 3: big amount like that, I just know I can't. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: My first impression is I knew that dog stole the
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  Speaker 1: Faberge egg?
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  Speaker 2: Oh did you the case of the Faberge egg? Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Can you want to talk about Faberge eggs for a minute? Sure?
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  Speaker 1: So, I like googled Faberge egg. It's not like something
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  Speaker 1: you can just like order at like Nima Marcus. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, a piece of art that you need
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  Speaker 1: to get. I found the fore most expensive Faberge eggs ever.
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  Speaker 2: Sold.
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  Speaker 1: What would you guess? The top selling Faberge egg sold
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  Speaker 1: for one million dollars five point one million dollars in
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  Speaker 1: out care child clock egg number two nine point six,
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  Speaker 1: number three, seven point seven million, number four six point
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  Speaker 1: nine million.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's like big money. And then I found on
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  Speaker 2: Sacks fifth.
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  Speaker 1: Avenue Avenue from the Faberget line, they have a Faberget
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  Speaker 1: diamond egg pendant necklace flocking in at fifty six thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: This is old white women wearing real much. Yeah, big wow.
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  Speaker 2: I don't get it. Neither do I.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk more about the Faberge egg momentarily.
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  Speaker 2: I would rather own a private jet than a you
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  Speaker 2: know what do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Wow? Okay, let's talk about what we liked about this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I love that Grandpa is just so tired of
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  Speaker 1: everyone's shit. He's like, I don't want to do this anymore,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna pretend like I can no longer speak.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's brilliant. I'm opting out quietly quitty.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they're gonna leave me alone.
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  Speaker 2: I freaking love Tim Conway in this movie. He's great,
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  Speaker 2: he's great.
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  Speaker 3: I just loved the entire thing and I love that
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  Speaker 3: they this role was just like, yeah, no.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna be quiet.
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  Speaker 1: How much did you love Josie making her video blog
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  Speaker 1: and she steps away from the kitchen and it's just
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  Speaker 1: a straight up green screen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was funny. Yeah, I thought that was
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  Speaker 3: really funny. Speaking of Hillary Burton, I found her pleasant
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  Speaker 3: to watch. I didn't think she was like spectacular, but pleasant.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm curious to hear from listeners if there is
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  Speaker 3: a Hillary Burton Hallmark movie that is I must see,
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  Speaker 3: or if this was it. M she doesn't have that
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  Speaker 3: many on her resume, so I'm like, and I know
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people love this movie, So I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: is this the Hillary Burton Hallmark movie to watch? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think pleasant is a good descriptor of her acting
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  Speaker 1: in this movie.
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  Speaker 3: Because for me, it's all about Paul Campbell. I love
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  Speaker 3: Paul Campbell, Yes, as do I. And I gotta tell
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  Speaker 3: you when I turned the movie on, I knew she
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  Speaker 3: was in it, but I did not know Paul Campbell
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  Speaker 3: was in it, So I was like pleasantly surprised.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, yes, it's a Paul Campbell movie.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I liked tim. I liked her. I liked
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  Speaker 2: them together. It was all pleasant.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a fun thing that I'm not sure I've seen
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  Speaker 1: before is their drive to her parents' house. They don't
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  Speaker 1: do terrible car green. They just do a voiceover of
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  Speaker 1: some random b roll of a car driving on some roads.
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  Speaker 2: I did not even notice. Oh good catch nice.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't hate it. Of course, it's a thirty second scene.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't really get away with that in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of situations. And I'm sure it was a budget thing,
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  Speaker 1: like why are we going to move to a car
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  Speaker 1: when we just need to show that they have moved
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  Speaker 1: from place to place.
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  Speaker 2: But I appreciated it.
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  Speaker 3: Where was her childhood at home supposed to be? To
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  Speaker 3: your recall? I mean either they lived in Chicago, right,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Chicago, that's where that waterfront was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: in it he was.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I have no idea. I like Chicago. I imagine
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  Speaker 2: whom to be like down by the that bean thing
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  Speaker 2: selling is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you've been to the bean That doesn't look
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  Speaker 1: anything like where he was.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea. You guys, please leave us a comment.
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  Speaker 2: Where was this supposed to take place?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't matter where it was suppsed to
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  Speaker 1: take place, because it definitely was not there.
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  Speaker 2: I know, man, do you.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the one we were in Chicago and we did
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  Speaker 1: hungover yoga?
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  Speaker 2: Megan did hungover yoga? It was rough. I just yoga,
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  Speaker 2: but I wasn't crying.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like I don't have many hungover moments in
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  Speaker 1: my entire life, but that was one of them.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: It was like summertime too, and very like Muggy.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I had to just like sit down like child's posts.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Most of it it was. It was high human and
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: downward dog was not it. Okay, let's move on to
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: what we wished for. I wish they didn't make Gridley
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: out to be some loser compared to Richard, such a buffoon.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: So okay, here's the thing is because Gridley doesn't have
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: like a typical or a corporate job, so he's deemed
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: less than desirable.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I hate that.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: It just feels gross, Like, don't do that. If it
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: was like a woman in that role, would we be, like,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: say somebody was like a waitress compared to like Josie's
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: corporate job, Like is she deemed Wait.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: A minute, I've just figured it out.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: This sister Josie's sister was deemed kind of a loser
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: too by the family because she was like she quit
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: school and like she was singing in a cafe, Like
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: I just think that's gross.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: I like when the mom at the towards the end
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: of the movie grows to accept her children, when she's like, yes,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Josie sells spoons, and what's.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Her name, I don't remember. Little sister sings in the cafe.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, she sings in a cafe, and I these are
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: my children, and they're great. This is what they do.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: We're not making excuses for them. I think your point
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: about Paul Campbell stands out, especially when they're in the
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: kitchen towards the end of the movie and the family
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: has grown to love Gridley and they talk about I
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: don't know what the conversation is, something about you know
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: how he's headed back, you know, he's this artist, And
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Richard's like, well, that's not really true, is it. Aren't
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: you moving every six months? And I thought you are
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: so up your own ass that you cannot imagine a
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: world in which someone doesn't want to live the life
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: that you want to live, Like he moves because he
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: wants to experience new places and makes the point like
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I've never had a reason not to. But also, what
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: if you just want to live in a lot of
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: different places, But if living in one place is not
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the life that you want, there are different ways to
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: have a successful and meaningful life.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: M M, I agree.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, look this movie. I can't believe you haven't said
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: it yet. Way too many hijinks. Oh it's on my list,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: girl cool it. Honestly, I felt like the second half
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: of the movie was significantly better than the first half.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Agree, But they had to do all of.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: This like, oh, Gridley is a buffoon, and here are
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: all of the reasons why he is a buffoon. Do
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: not expect me to believe that this man who can
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: craft driftwood art also can't walk through a room without
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: destroying it like a bowl in a china shop. With
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: this completely overacted flowers thrown in the air moment and
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the cake he took responsibility for all the way the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: dog that did it.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: It was just it was too much.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: It was just these like slow molo way. It was
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: not enjoyable for me when that was happening.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: I think I've turned you onto the hyjinks, Like I
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: think you hate them as much as I do. Now
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: I do hate them as much as you do. When
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: it's overdone like this, they're.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: There's a little movie called.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Meet the Parents starring one Ben Stiller a number of
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: years ago, and uh, people loved that movie.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: They thought it was hilarious.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I don't like and the whole premise is one bad
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: situation after you've seen the movie.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, I love that movie.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Actually, what are you talking about? I can't stand that movie.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: It's like house sketches all fi. I mean, it's funny.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: This makes no sense to me because that movie is
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: like high budget hijinks.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I think that's the difference.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I can't stand that movie. That movie makes me uncomfortable
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to watch movies where you're just like people are getting
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the shit beat out of them in like what's supposed
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: to be a comedic way, like The Hangover. Have you
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: seen The Hangover?
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: One of my favorites. My husband loves that movie.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is not fun for me, Like his
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: tooth is missing and there's sunburnt all the hell and
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: they're carrying this baby around. There's a tiger in their hotel,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is not funny to me.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: There's too much money, so these are great movie, no
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: bad anyway, the hijinx was out of control and it
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: was too much.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: And I don't I think it was just a mistake
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: to position this guy. Like it's enough that her parents
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: didn't approve of him because he was a non traditional
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: in their eyes kind of dude. He didn't also need
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: to be an absolute buffoon.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: In addition, I agree, and I think I think that
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: has to go to the director. Like I think the
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: director kind of old school, right, is like, Okay, this
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: is gonna be really funny. I don't like when Hallmark
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: movies have to lean so hard into the hygiens. I
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: just to me, that tells me the story's not that good.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Also, I get it. I don't need you to beat
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: me over the head with the fact that you don't
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: think this guy is good enough for your daughter.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Right. Yeah, I'm not a DEMI. You don't have to
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: like show me eighteen different ways.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can read between the lions, y'all.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Okay, I have one more wish for Yeah, Josie's dad
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: was a real efen jerk to his wife. Yeah, he
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: was so demeaning y when it was just the two
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: of them, and she's like futzing around the house trying
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: to make it perfect.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: He would just say the nastiest comments. I was like, yuck,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I don't like you.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: And then they come back together because they remember why
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: they liked each other.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Y'all.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I don't really believe it because he made these like
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: snide remarks about just really being unhappy with her presence.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, And I thought.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Really like, uh, yeah, yeah, I'm supposed to believe you
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: guys love each other again because now you remember what
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: it used to be.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Like. I mean, here's the thing, Like I can understand
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: being married for many many years because I have been,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: and there are times that you're really irritated with your spouse, right,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: but sometimes yourself keep it to yourself or tell your
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: best friend whatever.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: But also I think that if there's.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Not gonna be that shift like oh now two days later,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I'm all back in love with you again, I think
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: there needs to be some connecting, you know.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: The bottom line is is he was real nasty to
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: her a great and I wish you would have kicked
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: him to the curb.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: My final thing that I wished was not a part
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: of this movie.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Is look Richard sucks.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: He does suck, yes, but he still doesn't deserve his
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: girlfriend falling for some other guy while they're still together.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Oh that's that. You hate that, don't you look? I
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: don't care that he like he's a bad guy.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: They shouldn't be together, then don't be together.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this happens.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: My husband was watching another Hallmark movie last night, Christmas
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: at the Plaza, and it's the same situation. They're in
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: a relationship, they're not a good match. She falls for
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: other dude who happens to be Ryan Pavie, but they
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be together, and he's like, girls gotta eat.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: And I was like, no, no.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: She breaks up with her boyfriend and leaves and goes
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: to the other.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Guy, Like, no, I don't care that your relationship was bad.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: We need to stop positioning.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: This says, like, the relationships bad, it's okay for me
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to fall in love with somebody else. Yeah, yeah, find
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: another conflict to Leena on Hallmark.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well you know this was twenty fifteen. Hmmm, tice
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: ages time.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: I just think that they've done a little bit better
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: since then.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I don't a little bit better.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I don't disagree some of their movies are better, although
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Will kemp Christmas movie had a girlfriend, Oh yeah with
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: fresh machete.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree all right. Time for di see that
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I only have one?
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned it earlier. It was they were all
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: in the kitchen towards the end of the movie, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: I believe Richard was going to say something negative about Gridley,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: and Paul Campbell executes this line so perfectly. I don't
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: know if you caught it, but he says, got some
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: of them to say dick, And I was like literally
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: gasped while I was watching it because I was like,
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: I didn't see that coming at all, and kind of
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: impressed that homework went for it.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I loved that line as well. I've got a bunch
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: of did to see that moment to do? Tell yes
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: little moments. Why are we putting the priceless Faberge egg
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: on the corner of a coffee table, especially when you
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: have a dog with a big waggly tail in the house.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: How did they make that Twinkie cake look so good?
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Because Twinkies do not have smooth edges? How are they
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: making it like smooth and rounded? Make that make sense
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: to me?
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I mean a ton of like frosting obviously, which is
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: still disgusting.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Gridley and Josie go to their high school and they're
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: looking at a trophy case. They're evidently looking at photos
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: of themselves. There's not a photo of either of those
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: people in that trophy case.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: There's no way, there's no.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Honestly, that scene kind of stressed me out because I
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: was like, they're breaking into the school and like they're running. No, no, no.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I would not do that.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: No, we need to talk about the green hair. Yes,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: first of all, it's not well done, which bothers me.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: It's like very clearly like painted on. And then I'm like,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: you've got this severe side part. I think you could
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: probably hide it a little better if you changed your part.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: And also, if this family is as old money Faberge
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: egg money as they seem to be, you're telling me
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: they don't have a hairstylist, they could have sent her
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to to deal with that before they're a big precious
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: party and photo shoot.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, good call.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: And finally, how is Gridley hauling all of his giant
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: are it out to the grass morning after morning?
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: So getting it there? But I don't even see a
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: bike much as a bike with a trailer. Oh my god,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: you're so funny. That's all I got.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Oh right, would you rate this movie? I gave it
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: three point seven five.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Literally what I have written three point seven five stars
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: on my notes.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: I found it very middle of the road.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, second half significantly better than the first. Hey, everybody,
• 27:17
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• 27:19
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