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Notes of Autumn · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: My mind. I can't work today. You're fine, You're finding
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  Speaker 1: got it, You got it. I'm quitchy. Welcome to Girls
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  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm
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  Speaker 1: a longtime Hallmark movie fan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Wendy and I'm your former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're discussing Notes of Autumn, which originally premiered on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: September sixteenth on the Hallmark Channel. You want to connect
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  Speaker 1: Chantal who is writing in reference to a comment you
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  Speaker 1: made on our Guiding Emily episode. Hmm, I'm scared, don't
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  Speaker 1: how it looks like they were not touching. Mm hmmm,
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  Speaker 1: she says, just listening to your review, not recap lol
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  Speaker 1: of this movie, throwing shade at a recent reviewer. I
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  Speaker 1: think her eyes were bandaged at first, and then later
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  Speaker 1: they looked like they were taped to the inside of
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  Speaker 1: her classes the bandages so maybe just for protection, but
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  Speaker 1: not to completely seal her eyes from the world. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: just a thought, All right, Okay, thanks Chantal for the email.
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  Speaker 2: You know who we haven't heard from or unless you
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  Speaker 2: haven't told me, m correspondent Mike not in a long time.
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  Speaker 2: He always used to email us, like after our shows dropped, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: are you still out there?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he would email us before I had all of
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts to share. Oh that's right, Yeah, where are you?
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  Speaker 1: Big news on the Hallmark front? Yeah, this week Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: dropped their countdown to Christmas Slate you hear this?
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  Speaker 2: That was me yesterday, hyping up the longest blog post
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  Speaker 2: I probably ever written.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I feel like we just need to have
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  Speaker 1: the rocky music playing behind us for the next three
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  Speaker 1: months because it is time. The season has arrived. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So we made a prediction on a recent episode, we
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  Speaker 1: were talking about the slate. We weren't sure what it
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  Speaker 1: was going to look like, and I think I said
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, like it was gonna be in the twenties.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember what I said. We were wrong, it's
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  Speaker 2: super wrong.
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  Speaker 1: So right before the actual lineup dropped, there was an
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  Speaker 1: article Variety where Hallmark officials came out and said, we
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  Speaker 1: are dropping a full slate of movie since.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, suck us forty plus.
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  Speaker 1: So they both were able to get ahead of the strike,
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  Speaker 1: and then they were able to get waivers. And companies
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  Speaker 1: that get waivers are companies that are willing to meet
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  Speaker 1: the rules that sag Aftra has set out. Okay, and
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  Speaker 1: the WGA like they're willing to meet those the demands
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  Speaker 1: that they're making of the networks, and so Hallmark's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll do that. So they got waivers to film all
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  Speaker 1: these movies. Wow, which is great news for Hallmark fans.
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  Speaker 1: And not only are they dropping a full slate, it's
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  Speaker 1: their biggest slate ever. Oh really, Yes, there are thirty
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  Speaker 1: one new movies on the Hallmark Channel, nine new movies
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  Speaker 1: on Hallmark Movies, and mysteries, which is forty plus. There
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  Speaker 1: are two Hallmark Movies Now exclusives, and then in order
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  Speaker 1: to build value for the Hallmark Movies Now platform, they
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  Speaker 1: are dropping two movies early on the Hallmark Movies Now
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  Speaker 1: platform that are going.
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  Speaker 2: To be on a different channel, not a different on
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  Speaker 2: a Hallmark channel, they will.
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  Speaker 1: Premiere on Hallmark. So that's forty two movies. There were
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  Speaker 1: two Christmas in July movies as well this year, so
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  Speaker 1: if you want to count that as part of their
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  Speaker 1: Christmas lineup sometimes they do, so that's forty four, but
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  Speaker 1: forty two. Last year we had forty one, Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: their biggest slate ever. All right, Hallmark has really shown
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  Speaker 1: everybody who's boss right now, I guess so. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there are several that I'm looking forward to. There are
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  Speaker 1: several I am not looking forward to. Stay tuned for
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  Speaker 1: our Countdown, a Christmas preview episode. We're going to run
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  Speaker 1: down each and every one of those movies and our
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  Speaker 1: first impressions of them. Yes, ma'am you ready for a synopsis?
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  Speaker 1: I am? Are you ready? I'm ready? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Ellie, a pianist gave up her passion and works for
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  Speaker 2: a hotel. Leo a famous author with writer's block who
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  Speaker 2: can't finish highly popular book series. They both decide to
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  Speaker 2: swap places, ending up completely lost in their new surroundings.
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  Speaker 2: This is a terrible synopsis. Yes, I did copy and
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  Speaker 2: paste from I believe the Hallmark website akes. It's not
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  Speaker 2: great if I had to summarize it. Ellie's struggling with
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  Speaker 2: her job, Leo's struggling with his job. They decide, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we need to change of pace. Let's stay in each
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  Speaker 2: other's apartments in different parts of the country, and then
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  Speaker 2: love ensues.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I would call Leo's a home. It's a
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  Speaker 1: apartment there.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, those home, they were home.
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  Speaker 1: It's gorgeous. Well, I mean Lee, she have that giant
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  Speaker 1: kitchen in what felt like it should be a city
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  Speaker 1: apartment based on the xterior, I don't understand. This movie
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  Speaker 1: was originally titled Fall Swap. Don't hate it.
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  Speaker 2: Actually tell me the name of the holiday. That's what
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  Speaker 2: it was called, the Holiday.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking of Yeah, they Samon Diaz the Holiday, great movie.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy that movie too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a long time since I've seen it.
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  Speaker 1: Another movie with beautiful homes in it. I don't hate
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  Speaker 1: False Swap either. Kind of like it.
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  Speaker 2: Notes of Autumn leans heavily into the music side of
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  Speaker 2: this story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I have some notes on that in a minute too.
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  Speaker 2: Ashley Williams stars as Ellie. She has eighty one acting credits,
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  Speaker 2: including five more Minutes moments like These Two Tickets to
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  Speaker 2: Paradise and Love Classified, all from twenty twenty two. She
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  Speaker 2: also starred in ten episodes of Amber Brown on Apple TV,
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  Speaker 2: which also starred Sarah Drew from last week's Guiding Emily Well,
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  Speaker 2: and now I feel like I need to watch Amber Brown.
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  Speaker 2: I know I've never even heard of that. It's on
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  Speaker 2: Apple TV.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the streaming sources that I recently canceled
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  Speaker 1: in a fit of We're spending too much money and
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  Speaker 1: this seven dollars monthly charge is going to be what
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  Speaker 1: saves us. You can come over and watch it at
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  Speaker 1: my house. Singer songwriter Debbie Gibson served as an executive producer.
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  Speaker 1: According to TV Fanatic, this is Debbie Gibson's return to Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: She started produced in Summer of Dreams in twenty sixteen
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  Speaker 1: and in Wedding of Dreams in twenty eighteen. Did you
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  Speaker 1: see either of those? Movies. No, but I love me
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  Speaker 1: some Debbie Gibson.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Debbie Gibson was the first concert I ever saw
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  Speaker 2: as a child. Exciting. But can I ask you a question.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying this.
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  Speaker 2: My head is getting all mixed up because while watching
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  Speaker 2: this movie, there was a lot of strings playing, right,
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  Speaker 2: A lot of instruments with strings. Did Debbie Gibson play
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  Speaker 2: the violin at some point like in a video?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm kind of getting that electric blue like does
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  Speaker 1: not sound. It's either the Mandela effect or it happened,
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  Speaker 1: because in my mind I can see it me too.
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  Speaker 2: But I did search and could not find anything. So okay,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Luke McFarland co stars as Leo. Now if you recall
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  Speaker 2: look to look Luke. Luke took a small break I
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  Speaker 2: recall from Channel you know. To me when he left,
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  Speaker 2: it was like I'm out of here a piece. He's
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  Speaker 2: really only gone a year, Like he could have just
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  Speaker 2: not worked in that time and not made this big exit.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Uh yeah, But he also did big, huge things,
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  Speaker 1: I agree, Like he was in Bros.
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  Speaker 2: He was in a show called Platonic on Apple TV
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  Speaker 2: that I love. I had read that he was even
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  Speaker 2: offered a role in the mega summer hit Barbie Oh,
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  Speaker 2: but declined because of conflicts. I don't think he was
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  Speaker 2: going for the Ryan Gosling role, but he could have been. Again, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: a Ken, Oh my gosh, that's so funny. Additionally, McFarland
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  Speaker 2: and his partner recently welcomed a baby girl named Tess
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  Speaker 2: in June of this year.
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  Speaker 1: How cute is that name? Right?
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  Speaker 2: So I have to wonder why is he back at
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark if he's like killing the game outside of the
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark network. Did they make him an offer he couldn't refuse,
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  Speaker 2: or maybe they're like.
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  Speaker 1: Look, we want you to be able to tell the
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  Speaker 1: stories you want to tell, so look at this role
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  Speaker 1: that we think you might love.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, totally fair. But he's playing a straight person in
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  Speaker 2: Countdown to Christmas. I think he's playing a straight person
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  Speaker 2: in Countdown to Christmas. I don't know for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So look, Wendy and I had this discussion yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there were any sour grapes when he
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  Speaker 1: left the network. I think you know, he wasn't under
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  Speaker 1: contract with Hallmark, and he was like, they've been good
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  Speaker 1: to me. I made a lot of cool roles, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe there's more out there. And I think he's discovered
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  Speaker 1: that there is more out there. He can do both.
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  Speaker 1: I think the beauty of Hallmark is that they filmed
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  Speaker 1: so quickly right that he's like, yeah, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: come back for two weeks and make this movie in
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  Speaker 1: two weeks and make that movie, but also make myself available.
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  Speaker 1: And their story is happening. So all these big networks
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  Speaker 1: aren't making movies, but Hallmark is. Yeah, I'm happy to
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  Speaker 1: have him back. Oh me too, Me too, definitely. Marcus
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  Speaker 1: Rossner brings his signature BDE as Sam. We last saw
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  Speaker 1: him as Austin McMurray in the series Ride. He was
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  Speaker 1: also in one of the fan favorite fall movie reviews,
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  Speaker 1: Autumn in the Vineyard, which dropped a few weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: here on Girls Gone Homemark. He's got three Christmas themed
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  Speaker 1: movies in the hopper, according to IMDb. If you follow
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  Speaker 1: Rosner on Instagram, you'll see he's been on a long
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  Speaker 1: road to recovery since major leg surgery November twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: which we discussed on one of our Ride recaps. I
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  Speaker 1: can't think about it too much, like it I have
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  Speaker 1: sympathy pain thinking about the traumatic leg injury and.
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  Speaker 2: The months and months of physical therapy.
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  Speaker 1: But he is starring in two Hallmark Christmas movies, one
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  Speaker 1: airing on Hallmark Movies Now this season. That's correct, You
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  Speaker 1: say this guy's name Peter Porte.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, Peter Portie plays Matt or Mateo if you're his mom.
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  Speaker 2: I'm completely unfamiliar with this actor. But Hamewark fans were
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  Speaker 2: happy he was back. He has fifty acting credits, including
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  Speaker 2: Rome in Love and a Gift for Christmas for Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: He's also been on Days of Our Lives in CIS
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  Speaker 2: and in the Neil Patrick Harris series I'm Coupled.
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  Speaker 1: Oh hey, I actually like that show. I will say.
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  Speaker 1: My husband was like, hey, he's on my soap opera
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  Speaker 1: when he walked in there. Oh really. When Calls the
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  Speaker 1: Heart stars Pascal Hutton and Kevin Smith pop up throughout
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  Speaker 1: the movie playing Isabelle and Jack, who are fictional characters
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  Speaker 1: in Leo's novel to play a married couple on When
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  Speaker 1: Calls the Heart? Did I read that note? Nope, that
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  Speaker 1: just came right out of my brain. My god, I'm
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  Speaker 1: like searching, searching, where is it? Where is it?
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  Speaker 2: The script was written by Rick German, who has twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven previous writing credits. His last three movies for Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: were ground Swell, Christmas at Castle Heart, and You Had
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  Speaker 2: Me at Loha, but his last two movies were The
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  Speaker 2: CCB and Danica mckellay Christmas movies for GAFF last year.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta say that would not inspire a lot of
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  Speaker 1: confidence and knocked it out of the park with his
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  Speaker 1: script here agree.
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  Speaker 2: He's also got a John Brotherton Christmas movie in the hopper,
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  Speaker 2: according to IMDb. Interested to see where that one lands now.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, I wrote these notes before the Hallmark dropped there,
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  Speaker 2: so I do remember a John Brotherton movie. I just
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  Speaker 2: can't remember if.
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  Speaker 1: He's the writer. Yes. Troy Scott directed Notes of Autumn.
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  Speaker 1: This appears to be his third movie for the Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: Channel brand. He previously directed The Christmas Ring, All Saints
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  Speaker 1: Christmas last Year, The Christmas Ring from twenty twenty. Many
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  Speaker 1: of his other directorial titles include movies like My Husband's
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  Speaker 1: Killer Girlfriend and My Husband's Deadly Past, Major Lifetime, Wendy
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  Speaker 1: Style Vibes here Loving it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I still don't understand why we don't get to
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  Speaker 2: review my genre movies we can Girls Gone Lifetime. It
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  Speaker 2: would just require a whole another set of podcasts we'd
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  Speaker 2: have to record, So I'm not a post to that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pass on that for now. There's too many podcasts
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  Speaker 2: recordings happening right now. I cannot add another movie watching
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  Speaker 2: out there that.
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  Speaker 1: This is not something when Wendy's been asking for in
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  Speaker 1: the background and I've been shutting her down, I'm fully
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  Speaker 1: open to that. It's not total domination. That is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for. That's it for news and notes for
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  Speaker 1: this movie. I think that's a wrap time for first impressions.
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  Speaker 1: Go Wendy, I didn't write you what I'm going.
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  Speaker 2: I did not write one. Okay, tell me yours. B
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  Speaker 2: siy Oh, that's nice.
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  Speaker 1: We'll just go with yours. It's a Girls Gone Homework
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  Speaker 1: first there. All right, let's jump in right to what
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  Speaker 1: we liked about Notes of Autumn.
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  Speaker 2: I personally loved how they worked Leo's book characters into
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  Speaker 2: this movie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was fun and charming. Yes, agree. The
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  Speaker 1: nice thing about those scenes is hardcore Hallmark movie fans
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  Speaker 1: will super appreciate those moments, like you know, the Cavin Smith,
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  Speaker 1: Pascal Hutton history and that they play these characters on
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  Speaker 1: one calls the Heart and now they're playing these you know,
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  Speaker 1: Regency romance characters on screen. But you didn't have to
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  Speaker 1: be a Hallmark fan who appreciate those kind of cheesy
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  Speaker 1: romance interludes. And I'm glad they carried it through the
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  Speaker 1: whole movie. It wasn't just that it was so fun.
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  Speaker 1: I liked it. McFarlane and Ashley Williams are magical together
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  Speaker 1: as besties. I agree, and I spent the first like
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  Speaker 1: sixty percent of the movie being like mm, but I
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  Speaker 1: want more of them together, and then we get more
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  Speaker 1: of them towards the end they have some more scenes together.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk a little bit more about that,
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  Speaker 1: but I they're actors. I fully believe them as real
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  Speaker 1: life besties that they like and maybe they do like
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  Speaker 1: the Hallmark world is small, but I just felt so
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  Speaker 1: much warmth in their scenes, and I think Ashley Williams
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  Speaker 1: elevates the performances of everyone around her. I think we
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  Speaker 1: need only to look to Ticket to Paradise and how
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  Speaker 1: that's one of Ryan Pavie's finest roles, and I think
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  Speaker 1: he really firm benefited from hearing opposite Ashley Williams. She's
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  Speaker 1: just such a bright light. Yeah, and I think it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to be boring in her presence. I have some.
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  Speaker 2: Notes about her and are wished for. I freaking loved
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  Speaker 2: Peter Porte in this movie. I thought he was fantastic, funny,
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  Speaker 2: quick with his lines. I really enjoyed him as an actor,
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  Speaker 2: and I would love to see him in more Hallmark movies.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's funny like he doesn't have a ton of
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark movies, but like the fans seem to really enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: I made an impression, So.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, is he gonna come back with more? Can
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  Speaker 2: we see him with more? I would love to see
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  Speaker 2: him again.
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  Speaker 1: There's a scene where Leo and Matt are walking together
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  Speaker 1: and Matt discloses that he's divorced. He says something about
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  Speaker 1: my ex husband yeah, and Leo goes, oh, you're single,
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  Speaker 1: and I, first of all, the entire scene is magical.
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  Speaker 1: And then they go through and he goes, oh, you're
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  Speaker 1: single too, And I wondered, first of all, that's like
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  Speaker 1: a nice, like, you know, revealing of like I just
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  Speaker 1: gave making a huge wink revealing Like it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: a nice moment where they're like, oh, and I can
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  Speaker 1: be into you, right, But I also feel like there's
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  Speaker 1: a subtle like in the pause in that dialogue, in
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  Speaker 1: that delivery, there is a safe for Hallmark, Oh your
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  Speaker 1: gay moment? Did you read that? Between the lines? I did, like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually feeling something here, right. I loved it. I
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  Speaker 1: love that whole scene and just like kind of watching
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  Speaker 1: them like start to fall for each other a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I just I just enjoyed it. So that's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: That's an interesting note because my next note is that
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed the slow burn between both couples. Although like
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  Speaker 2: I always want heat, I always want fire, fire chemistry couples,
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  Speaker 2: I did kind of appreciate that, like each couple were
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  Speaker 2: kind of like just getting to know each other and
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  Speaker 2: taking it a little bit slow. There was one scene
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  Speaker 2: that's funny that you mentioned that scene. There was another
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  Speaker 2: scene between Leo and Matt where Leo simply puts his
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  Speaker 2: hand on Matt's chest right here, uh huh. And I
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  Speaker 2: can't remember what it was, but it gave me like
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  Speaker 2: some feelings. Yeah, Like I was like, oh, like that's fiery.
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  Speaker 1: One simple little.
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  Speaker 2: Touch to the chest and it seemed fiery.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had like a light hand hold across the
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  Speaker 1: table at one point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like all that stuff kind of like makes me barf,
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  Speaker 2: Like I just hate that in real life anyway, between
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  Speaker 2: any couple, like the cheesy like.
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  Speaker 1: Let me put my arm around. I don't know, I
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  Speaker 1: just I'm so the hand on the chest worked for you,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: the hand hold across the table did not.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, can I just stay here though, because I
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: don't know where else to put it? But I thought
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: there end of movie kisses between both couples kind of
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: ho hum.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fully disagree, disagree. I got the Luke Peter kiss
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: was hotter than the Ashley Marcus kiss.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: No, I wasn't feeling it only because I was like
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I didn't like the whole like split screen, like I.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Just okay, it's fine, Okay, So Ashley loses her luggage
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: and has to wear Leo's clothes. Yeah, I loved the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: whole like, you know men's wear inspired wardrobe they put
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: her in. Obviously, no way, that's Luke McFarlane's wardrobe. Yeah,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: because it was like tailored well to fit her. I
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: loved all those looks, like in his turtlenecks and blazers
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: and I just was like, this is I loved every
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: would wear every single I say, she would weary, totally
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: would for all for me.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I think I liked Leo's and Matt's storyline better.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: One comment in our Facebook group gave what I thought
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: was an excellent suggestion that this movie would have done
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: better with the sister swap treatment.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah from the Facebook group.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, I was like, did you write that movies group?
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: What do you think about that? So I had it
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: in my wishes, so I'll just talk about it now.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I saw that suggestion and I really liked it because
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I wanted a little bit more time with each couple
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and I we well, I don't want to speak for you.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed the sister swap. And I think it's interesting
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: that they called this false swap because we kind of
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: talked about like, can we get more sister swap, like
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: you know, Autumn in the City or whatever, and we
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: haven't gotten that yet and I don't know if we
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: ever will. But with Ashley Williams, I wonder if this
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: was like their way of appeasing that audience. So interesting.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know my worry with sister Swap before we
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: saw it, and my worry with giving this movie that treatment.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Is one of the things that was great about this
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: movie is the pacing was nice and the dialogue was snappy,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: And I worry that now when we stretch them into
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: two movies, is there an there got it? Yeah? But
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I would have loved a little bit more into each
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: of these Me too, Romance, me Too? That is interesting
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: full circle with the fall swap. Didn't even think about that?
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Are we moving on to what you wished for? Yeah?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I don't understand Sam and Ellie's working relationship.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Hear me out. He's giving tours of like.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Fall Leaves, uh huh, and she's gonna do.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: What with her music?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: How's that all working together? I don't get it, is
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: what I'm trying to say. I don't really And furthermore,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: it made sense that she would help with the piano
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: ball given her musical experience, but he who has none
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: is running the show.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I don't help me understand that. Yeah, I don't understand
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: why he's the voluntar here that runs that show, right
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: and Luke just as a fundraiser.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Leo has no experience either, So if she's coming in
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: to step in for Leo because Leo decides to bounce right,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Leo has no musical.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Experience either, Right, I don't get it. You're looking at
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: me like I'm crazy. No, I didn't get it either,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And I fully admit that I let those details just
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: kind of wash over me in this movie. Yeah, sometimes
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I get really into that, and sometimes I'm like, you
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: know what, I'm just enjoying the other stuff so much
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: that I did not try got to understand those dynamics
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: because I felt like the Leo Matt made a lot
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: more sense with what was going on in their lives,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Like he's trying to get away to write this book
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and Matt needs a kitchen, Like it made sense why
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: they were interacting. I think it made less sense.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: It made no On the other side, I've.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Kind of already my wishes, and my wishes all center
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: around just more. I think I wish for more Ashley
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: and Luke time together. I don't know that I ever
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: want to see them in a romantic lead, not that
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I don't think they could pull it off. They just
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: have such strong best friend energy for me, and I
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: want to see more of that. And I just wanted more,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: not that it didn't give me enough. I just could
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: have watched a second movie with these characters, got it?
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: And I think maybe we're left open for a second
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: movie with these characters because there's so much left. I
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: would love that, especially when you have the two couple leads,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: it doesn't rely so heavily on a single storyline.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, now, are we too suppose that they all move
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: to like one city?
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I think so, Okay, that would be so fun to
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: see a second movie where they're all in the same.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: And how the friendships work together.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Right, I'm curious to hear your opinion on my next wish.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I wish Ellie's forgetfulness wouldn't have made her seem inept
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: mm hmmm.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know she.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Was just forgetful or if she's dealing with like an
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: undiagnosed add disordered sure, whatever, like Megan is well, you know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: but like I hated, I hated that like her boss
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: made her seem that she was incapable.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Of working, like yeah, doing her job duties. I don't know.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: It just frustrated me, Like I was, like, stop putting
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: her down for being like forgetful.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: For stopping to play the piano. Yes, it frustrated me.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: And then additionally, you know, she talks about she had
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: a I don't know if it was a boss.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Or like a musical.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Conductor or whatever who had told her that she played
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: music like it was her job, and then that made
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: her lose like confiden and her ability to play.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: It was just touched on.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I think that story needed to be like further fleshed out.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: It's just an interesting note how like one comment can
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: really make like have these lasting effects. I just thought
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: it would be interesting to, you know, double click into.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: That a little bit more. That's all. There's no time
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: for it in this movie, really, No.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: But I think you know, when I talk about like
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: the Mahogany movies, how we get like a layered depth
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: with characters, we didn't get as much of that here. No,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: And I would be interested in it one more wish
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: And it's about Ashley Williams. And there are moments in
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: these movies where I want her to pull back on
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: her quirky it's like at level twelve sometimes sure, and
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I need her to rein it in a little bit,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: and you wanted that I needed to At moments it
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: was like I just love her too over that squirrel, like.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: You know, too over the top for me.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I enjoy her so very much, but like it
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: was sometimes hard to watch.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think the undiagnosed ADHD and me sometimes
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: needs that keep be the squirrel that keeps my eyes
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: on the screen. Got it. I'm ready for dig to
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: see that. Okay, I am now ready for Did you
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: see that I want to talk about I talked about
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: a minute ago. I said, sometimes I just let those
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: details wash over me and I don't pay attention. But
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: here's one detail that I could not let go of.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: That is when Ashley in quotation marks is playing the piano. Yes,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I noticed it too, And there's one scene early on
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: in the movie where she's playing and she has like
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: a three quarter length sleep and they like the person
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: playing the piano, you can see their arms, there's no
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: sleeve and she stands up and like you can see
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: that there's a full Later on, there's a moment where
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the person you can see is wearing the same clothes
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: it because there's like a reflection in the piano and
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: they're wearing the same sweater. But in that scene they
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: may have been wearing the same clothes, but they were
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: pushed up. And then you flash back to her standing
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: and anyway, well, I know Ashley wasn't playing it. It's
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: okay that she's not playing it. No, I know.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Did you see the Facebook comment on this too? No?
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Oh so so interesting Okay because I saw the Facebook comment,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: same thing, like somebody was like, damn me, you maging
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: it windy, Like now you have.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Me watching these movies like I saw that. Common things.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: So same scene piano, seeing somebody's playing. Whoever's playing the
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: piano has a red like cabala string on.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: In the next scene, you see Ashley stand up, she's
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: wearing a watch.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: There's no red cobala spring. Yeah, so there's that. I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: have a few as well.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Do you have more of No, When Ellie and Leo
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: first exchanged keys at the airport, yeah, Ellie has her suitcase. Yeah,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: and she like rolls away with her suitcase. But then
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: like later on, the suitcase is lost. Right did they
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: meet before they checked their luggage, because to me, it
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: seemed like they met like as they're getting on their airplanes.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Well, they couldn't have been getting on their airplanes. One
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: of them would have had to have landed, right, So
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to believe that it's Leo who has
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: landed and Ellie is going to get on her plane. Okay, true,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: and then her luggage is then lost.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, fine, but it's carry on. Why is she checking
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: a carry on?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Maybe she had to gate check it. They ran
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: out of overhead bag space.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Possibly possibly one last note, She says to Sam, they're
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: like decorating, like for the piano ball. She's like, you
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: can hollow out the pumpkins and make vases like groundbreaking, groundbreaking.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: E've been planning here.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Anyway, there were not a ton of did you see that?
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: She's the big pian of gourds too much? Are you
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the Gordon guy?
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: No?
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Gone, stop it? Please? All right? Well on that now?
• 29:00
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