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The Perfect Catch · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: I know I'm tired of me saying it too, but
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  Speaker 1: it's the twenty seventeen classic double true. Welcome to Girls
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  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark of You podcast. I'm Megan and
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  Speaker 1: I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: former Hallmark hater. Today we're discussing The Perfect Cat, which
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  Speaker 1: originally premiered on the Hallmark Channel in March twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: as part of our fan favorite throwback series. We love
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  Speaker 1: our listeners and we'd love to connect with you outside
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  Speaker 1: of the podcast, so please come follow us on Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: We are in two different places. We are at Girls
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  Speaker 1: Gone Homewark and at Megan and Wendy. Come jump into
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  Speaker 1: our Facebook group. This is where the fan requests come from.
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  Speaker 1: I ask ninety nine percent exclusively in Facebook group. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what movies do you want us to review? And I
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  Speaker 1: know for sure February's movie are totally requested, and I
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  Speaker 1: know there's a lot of happy people about there. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little bit worried about reviewing those two movies.
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  Speaker 1: But come over to our Facebook group, Girls Gone Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: Girls Gone Hamewark, Girls Gone, Girl's Gone. Okay, I have
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  Speaker 1: an email that we received. Okay from a woman named Barbara.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, we have nine Barbara's and our Facebook
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  Speaker 1: grow nine might be the most common name in that group. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this was in response to last week's review of The
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  Speaker 1: Irresistible Blueberry Farm, and she had a lot of insight
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  Speaker 1: into our review. I'm going to read a segment of this.
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  Speaker 1: She does start with a compliment, but I'm gonna jump
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  Speaker 1: right into the constructive criticism. Okay, and I don't this episode.
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  Speaker 1: This email wasn't mean spirited. I think this is a
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  Speaker 1: really interesting take. Barbe says, you really miss the mark
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  Speaker 1: on the Irresistible Blueberry Farm review. However, neither of you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the heart of the story, how Ellie discovered her
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  Speaker 1: grandmother's early life as a painter, and how she had
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  Speaker 1: to make the difficult choice to give it all up,
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  Speaker 1: including the love of her life. When Ellie was shown
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  Speaker 1: the beautiful mural in the young woman's home, covered for
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  Speaker 1: decades under wallpaper, that sorted a chain of events that
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  Speaker 1: brought the story alive. The paintings, setting, ann cinematography were gorgeous.
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  Speaker 1: The discovery of living blueberry plants and the endangered butterfly
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  Speaker 1: research wrapped it up beautifully and then she goes on
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  Speaker 1: to say some nice things about our review. When I
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  Speaker 1: responded to her, I thought it was really interesting because
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  Speaker 1: if you remember this episode, you Wendy talked about the
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  Speaker 1: how this movie is a fan favorite and what causes
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  Speaker 1: it to be, and you really connected with the Mark
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  Speaker 1: Blucus line about how he felt like he living in
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  Speaker 1: someone else's skin when he was living in Boston with
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  Speaker 1: his right And I thought that was really interesting because
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  Speaker 1: I think it speaks to and this email speaks to
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  Speaker 1: the fact that people connect to these movies for different reasons.
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  Speaker 1: I did not connect to the Blueberry Farm portion of
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  Speaker 1: the story. Me neither, And I actually think the story
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  Speaker 1: of the grandmother when told by Barb is quite beautiful, right,
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think the movie did as great of
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  Speaker 1: a job focusing on the grandmother's story, make the romance
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  Speaker 1: less of the story and the bigger part of the
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  Speaker 1: story be like honoring the grandmother and where she came
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  Speaker 1: from and her history and her story. Would it been
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  Speaker 1: an incredible movie, yes, instead of this torn between two
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  Speaker 1: lovers story with this okay grandma ghost Grandma in the background. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we love your emails. Thank you for that. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: that perspective. I do. I really love to hear everybody
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  Speaker 1: else's perspective because I truly believe it's little portions of
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  Speaker 1: these movies that people connect to and what makes them
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  Speaker 1: special to them. Yes, definitely, that happens a lot in
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  Speaker 1: our Facebook group too. There's a lot of disagreement in there,
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  Speaker 1: and not in the contentious way. Someone liked this week's
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  Speaker 1: newer movie that this episode's coming out later in the week,
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  Speaker 1: and it was funny. They were like, I have not
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  Speaker 1: really been on the same page with y'all this week, month,
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  Speaker 1: this year, twenty twenty four. I think it said Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: I hated a Scottish love scheme. You are so round.
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  Speaker 1: She was like, didn't do it for me. I think
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  Speaker 1: she was very diplomatic. That's the word I was looking for. Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So y'all do not have to agree with us all
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  Speaker 1: the time. We love No, that's the best part about this,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Weddy hit us with a synopsis. Yes, Jessica,
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  Speaker 1: a single parent owner of a struggling diner, finds the
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  Speaker 1: inspiration she needed when her high school boyfriend Chase, a
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  Speaker 1: professional baseball player, returns to town. The perfect Catch was
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  Speaker 1: directed by Stephen R. Monroe. He has fifty six directing
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  Speaker 1: credits Inclaning, one of Girls Gone Hallmark's favorites, Love to
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  Speaker 1: the Rescue. Monroe also directed Pumpkin Pie Wars, Caribbean Summer
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  Speaker 1: and a Winter Getaway. Oh Pumpkin Pie Wars, another wildly
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  Speaker 1: different experience for the two of us. I liked it.
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  Speaker 1: This movie has three writers credited, versus Hans Wasserberger. He
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  Speaker 1: gets both story and teleplay credit. Hans has sixteen writing credits,
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  Speaker 1: and his additional Hallmark credits include I'm Not Ready for
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  Speaker 1: Christmas and a novel Romance, also with a teleplay credit.
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  Speaker 1: We have the writing team of Greg Rosson and Brian Sawyer.
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  Speaker 1: They have thirty nine writing credits which include Three Bed
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  Speaker 1: two Bath One, Ghost, The Professional Bridesmaid, The Santa Steakout,
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  Speaker 1: and quite a few of the crossword puzzle mystery movies.
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  Speaker 1: That's a pretty good writing team. Those movies, the ones
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  Speaker 1: we name Santa Steakout, Three Bed two bath One Goes
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  Speaker 1: Great movies. Nikki DeLoach plays Jessica. We most recently saw
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  Speaker 1: Nikki as Professor Ambrose and True Justice Family Ties, a
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  Speaker 1: movie she also co wrote. She has a staggering seventy
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  Speaker 1: one acting credits, which include nineteen Hallmark movies. She and
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Walker can be seen in the Curious Caterer series.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Andrew Walker, he plays Chase Tayner. Andrew has
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  Speaker 1: eighty four acting credits, including appearances early in his career
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  Speaker 1: on Are You Afraid of the Dark and Sabrina The
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  Speaker 1: Teenage Witch. Lately, he appears to work almost exclusively with
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  Speaker 1: the Hallmark Channel. His first Hallmark appearance appears to be
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  Speaker 1: in Wie mccumber's Dashing Through the Snow that was in
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, co starring Megan Oorri of Trustbeake Shor's Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Chance hurst Field plays Wesley Nicki's son. Chance is now
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  Speaker 1: seventeen year old actor with twenty six acting credits. He
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  Speaker 1: is most well known for his role as Danny Dixon
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  Speaker 1: on A Million Little Things, where he appeared in seventy
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  Speaker 1: nine episodes. He also appeared in two other Hallmark movies,
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  Speaker 1: sign Sealed Delivered and Christmas List. Vincent Dangerfield plays Brett
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  Speaker 1: Thompson aka Boring Brett Vincent no relation to Rodney. Has
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  Speaker 1: nineteen acting credits, including the Hallmark projects A Tale of
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  Speaker 1: Two Christmases, Darrow and Darrow and a Gift for Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine having the name Dangerfield. I'm sure he
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  Speaker 1: is always asked are you related to Rise? Always? My
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  Speaker 1: last name is Nielsen and people always relate that to
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  Speaker 1: the the Radians rating system. Yeah, weird, right. Lisa Darube
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  Speaker 1: plays Nina. We recently saw Nina in The Irresistible Blueberry Farm.
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  Speaker 1: Among her other seventy acting credits, She's been in Murder,
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  Speaker 1: Sheet Baked, and the Hannson Winson Mystery movies, Time for
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  Speaker 1: Them to Come Home for Christmas and Netflix's To All
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  Speaker 1: the Boys Always and Forever. Peelan Johnson plays I'm Lindy Taynor.
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  Speaker 1: Peelin has been a working actress for thirty six years
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  Speaker 1: and has racked up one hundred twenty acting credits, with
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  Speaker 1: three projects currently in the works. She was in the
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  Speaker 1: first Final Destination movie and a number of Hallmark projects
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  Speaker 1: like Finding Father Christmas, Engaging Father Christmas, and Marrying Father Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Most recently, she was seen in Magic and Mistletoe from
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty Threes count Down to Christmas series. Eric keenly
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  Speaker 1: Side plays Mason Tayner. Much like his on screen wife,
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  Speaker 1: Eric has been working for nearly forty years and has
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  Speaker 1: earned one hundred ninety eight acting credits. Incidentally, he was
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  Speaker 1: in Final Destination two and has appeared in many of
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  Speaker 1: the Martha's Vineyard mysteries on Hallmark. Got It? What is
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  Speaker 1: your first impression of The Perfect Catch? My first impression
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  Speaker 1: of this movie is Hallmark seems to give their athletes
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  Speaker 1: a one strike and your out, Polisy, Very similar to
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  Speaker 1: that Marco Grizzini hearts in the game. Yeah, they were
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  Speaker 1: both pictures, right, One bad game and you're out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's not how it works. No, I don't know a
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  Speaker 1: lot about baseball. You know, sports people make mistakes. Rock
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  Speaker 1: Purty on the forty nine ers cannot get his s together,
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  Speaker 1: and yet his team's going to the super Bowl. Okay, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: here's my first impression. Safe fans, super boring. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about what we liked, because here's what I think. This
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  Speaker 1: was a fan favorite, recommended movie. And I look, you
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  Speaker 1: got Nikki Deloch, you got Andrew Walker. What's not to like? Well?
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a perfectly fine movie. It's also
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  Speaker 1: perfectly forgettable one hundred percent. Is it a easy way
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  Speaker 1: to pass an hour and a half sure this is
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark classic in many ways, it's not rocking the boat.
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  Speaker 1: It sums up twenty seventeen perfectly for Hallmark. It's fine,
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  Speaker 1: it's fine. I'm sure Andrew and Nikki are not thrilled
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  Speaker 1: with the It's Fine review dot. I think they listen
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  Speaker 1: to our podcast when we run into them on the
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Channel Christmas Cruise. If one of them walks up
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  Speaker 1: to us with the phone and is fine, it's fine.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if that were to happen, I stand by it. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I've done many jobs that I'm like, not super proud of, right,
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  Speaker 1: so you telling me I would don't think it's not
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  Speaker 1: to be proud of. I think they did their jobs
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  Speaker 1: just fine. I like Nikki and Andrew. I just think
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  Speaker 1: this story just is so safe. It's so so safe,
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  Speaker 1: which in twenty seventeen is what people wanted from Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I hate when Hallmark does sports movies.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they're ever quite accurate. Yeah, it just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't play well on TV. I just I can't stand it. Overall.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, like you said, I thought it was a
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  Speaker 1: little forgettable. But with that said, Nick, it's a loach
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  Speaker 1: for me. I think has a captivating presence and I
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  Speaker 1: like her a lot. She's charming and warm, like she's
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  Speaker 1: one of the actresses I will tune in for on
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  Speaker 1: the Hallmark channel. Yeah, I just this story was just
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  Speaker 1: like not it like I don't want to watch, just
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  Speaker 1: like Struggling Single Parent, which I don't have any problems
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  Speaker 1: with single parents. I like stories that involve single parents
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  Speaker 1: because I want relatable TV that makes me feel something.
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  Speaker 1: But she hears she is, She's like this diner owner
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  Speaker 1: that's not really cutting it and this mom who doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know how to like relate to her son in the
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  Speaker 1: sports kind of way. I just I found it all
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  Speaker 1: just baseline depressing. Oh interesting. I think Nikki Diloch has
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  Speaker 1: a lot of range. I really like this softer maternal
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  Speaker 1: side of her seen in this movie. But I think
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  Speaker 1: you jump to a movie like what's that Halloween not
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark movie that I loved so much that it was
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  Speaker 1: actually a terrible movie. I thought she was great in
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  Speaker 1: that and a very different character. What was that movie
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  Speaker 1: called Spellbound spelled with a kid something magic, a magic Well,
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember it right now. It was literally three
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  Speaker 1: months ago that we talked about this movie. Your point
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  Speaker 1: is what that I think she has a lot of range.
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  Speaker 1: I think that character that Sassy doesn't know she's a witch, young, floridy,
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  Speaker 1: playful character, very different from this business owner, single mom
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  Speaker 1: trying to get by, focused on work and her family
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  Speaker 1: and her love life takes a little bit of a backseat.
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  Speaker 1: What's the face? I agree with you. I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of our Hallmark actors end up a little bit typecast,
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  Speaker 1: and I think she can play at all. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I liked her. I was rooting for her success. I
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  Speaker 1: was rooting for her success for the diner and a
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  Speaker 1: single parent and so on on and so forth. Now
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  Speaker 1: I do have some wishes. I will get to it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The next thing I liked. Chase's dad is the biggest
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  Speaker 1: jerk in this movie. He's so condescending. When they're at
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  Speaker 1: the dinner table, he says, Oh, you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: hurt those million dollar hands. Yeah he doesn't, but it's
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  Speaker 1: like his job totally. If he had stayed home and
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  Speaker 1: Ronna comes instruction business and was like, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to do something dangerous that could break my back so
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  Speaker 1: that I can't do my job, you wouldn't think twice
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  Speaker 1: about that. But because his job is throwing a baseball,
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  Speaker 1: and you've decided that's frivolous in spite of the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he's obviously set for life because of this job
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  Speaker 1: he has. That's not good enough. But tell me how
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  Speaker 1: a dad is not proud of his son because it's
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  Speaker 1: not easy to make it in Major League Baseball, right,
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  Speaker 1: so he's had to work in this entire life. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure to get to this position. And the dad's just
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  Speaker 1: first of all, this is so funny to me because
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  Speaker 1: you're like, let me tell you what I like. This
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  Speaker 1: dad sucks, he do. I liked it because it made
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  Speaker 1: me feel very uncomfortable and it was like, oh, you
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  Speaker 1: liked the drama of it. Yes, what's interesting about that
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  Speaker 1: is I had a million dollar hands common he made
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times. I was like, this, gross, just
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  Speaker 1: stop your cub jerk, because he's here right now and
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  Speaker 1: you're ruining it. I'm wondering if is he upset ashamed
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  Speaker 1: with his son for blowing that big game, and then
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  Speaker 1: here he's like back home and he doesn't have a contract. Well,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't make so because later in the movie,
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  Speaker 1: he's on your first game. Your mom and I were there,
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  Speaker 1: and we didn't want to put that pressure on you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so you loved him so much, you like flew
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  Speaker 1: out and secretly went to this game. You were so proud,
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  Speaker 1: But like, when he's home, are you putting up a
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  Speaker 1: wall because it hurts you when he leaves and he's
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  Speaker 1: not there. Your child is an adult. He left, he
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  Speaker 1: went to go do a job. I'm sorry, it's not
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  Speaker 1: in your small town. It just did you have one
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  Speaker 1: restaurant and a second one opens and all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden that's business ending drama? Yeah? Okay? Did you like
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  Speaker 1: anything else about this movie? I liked Lisa Darupt. She's
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  Speaker 1: the cutest, freaking adorable and she's one of those ones
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  Speaker 1: to me. Now, I'm like, why has she never had
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  Speaker 1: a lead role? Yeah? I don't get it. She plays
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  Speaker 1: the quirky best friend. Yeah, it gets old after a life.
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  Speaker 1: I think Andrew Walker plays the perfect baseball player. Is
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  Speaker 1: this your liked? Yeah? Interesting when you look at the
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  Speaker 1: seventeen group of Hallmark actors and you're like, way to
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  Speaker 1: one is it gonna be is gonna be Andrew Walker?
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  Speaker 1: Who else? Is it gonna be? Fair? And then I
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  Speaker 1: think the twenty twenty three baseball player as Marcot Gruzzini
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  Speaker 1: also makes the most sense. Okay, this is someone who
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  Speaker 1: follows baseball. Did you like anything else? No, okay, I've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of wishes, so let's get into it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: can I start please. I didn't think there was a
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  Speaker 1: ton of depth from the characters of Jessica and Chase,
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  Speaker 1: especially Chase. I found Chase to be pretty unlikable, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought that, say not Andrew. That means that I
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  Speaker 1: think Andrew played Chase pretty because you're this once like
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  Speaker 1: big times baseball stud who got this like million dollar
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  Speaker 1: contract and now you gotta ego to go with that,
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  Speaker 1: of course, because you get all these hotties out on
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  Speaker 1: the road and whatever. You're driving your silver Mercedes and
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  Speaker 1: then he comes home because he like blew it big time.
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  Speaker 1: But he's got a like chip on his shoulder, right,
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  Speaker 1: can't get the next contract. Act that managers not manager.
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  Speaker 1: His agent's not like agenting agenting, Yes, exactly. So he's
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  Speaker 1: got this big chip on his shoulder. And I thought
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  Speaker 1: Andrew played him pretty well. He's super unlikable. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like this guy. I'm not rooting for this guy. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, I think it goes without saying that a
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  Speaker 1: picture in the World Series isn't immediately unhirable after one
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  Speaker 1: bad game. One bad game, maybe even one bad inning,
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  Speaker 1: Let's move on. There's not so many pictures if you
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  Speaker 1: have a bad inning or a couple gave up a
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  Speaker 1: Grand Slam. But that's one bad pitch. I guess he
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  Speaker 1: let the bases get loaded. But at the point that
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  Speaker 1: he let the basses get loaded, that's the pitching coaches problem.
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  Speaker 1: Who should have taken him out of the game, the
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  Speaker 1: total dude. Not let this guy then throw the pitch
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  Speaker 1: that's going to score four runs. Okay, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: They are both in relationships in this movie as they're
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  Speaker 1: falling for each other. I know, I'm tired of me
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  Speaker 1: saying it too, but it's the twenty seventeen classic double trope.
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  Speaker 1: Is he technically in a relationship. He's just got this
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  Speaker 1: hot model piece, So in a relationship, it's not a
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  Speaker 1: one with a lot of depth. But he has a girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: oh right, and she's off modeling somewhere right. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's what she was like in Europe, modeling, or she's
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  Speaker 1: something stupid like that. I'm about to earn us another
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  Speaker 1: Here we go, father son games and all of their
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: related brethren, father son picnics, mother daughter, this dance whatever,
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  Speaker 1: stop it. They have got to go. It's not that
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  Speaker 1: hard to come up with some other adult, big kid
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  Speaker 1: combo that allows different kinds of families to participate without
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  Speaker 1: othering people. And I know of which I speak, because look,
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  Speaker 1: I have brought this stuff up at PTA meetings when
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  Speaker 1: they're like, hey, I don't have an elementary school kid anymore,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: but I did, and they had a father daughter dance
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, Yo, this is not cool. Call
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  Speaker 1: it anything else. Hey, I could write you a cute
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  Speaker 1: title for a parent child dance. It spend three minutes.
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  Speaker 1: It's othering to children in our community that don't have fathers.
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  Speaker 1: And their response literally in that meeting was not some
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  Speaker 1: kids are just going to be left out of some things.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that hard to create an inclusive environment in
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  Speaker 1: which all different kinds of families can participate. Yeah, I agree,
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  Speaker 1: I agree. I think there's just like this mindset. I
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  Speaker 1: had this at elementary school too, was like there was
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  Speaker 1: like a father daughter dance and the people wanted to
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: rename it. They did to the Sweetheart Dance. But still
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: there's still this mindset that people have. They have this
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: idea of what they want it to be, and they
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: don't like people who ruffle up against that. And then
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: people will say, that's a nice moment for the father daughter,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: or this baseball gives a nice moment for the father son.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: No one's saying you can't have that. Make it father son,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: but don't make it so that anybody who doesn't have
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the father son situation can't participate without being like this
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: my mom on the field in a father son jersey.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah it's twenty twenty four, y'all. Granted this was twenty seventeen.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: It's not that hard. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have more wishes?
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Because I do. I have a couple. Tell me why
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Nicky and Andrew are the Catherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: of Hallmark. Why are they always in movies together? I
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: don't understand this pairing because to me they give brother
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and sister. I want to think, like in The Curious
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Care When I think of that series, is there some
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: hot tension between them maybe in the first episode, but
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: since then, like not really, And because they're such good
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: friends in real life, they give seventeenth date to me.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: They don't give brother and sister, but they don't give
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: first date fireworks because they're so comfortable. Okay, so off topic.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I recently saw on Andrew's Instagram he's promoting Home Chef.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: He did a sponsor ad for okay, and who shows
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: up in it, nik Nikki de Loach. And they are
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: in a kitchen and they're both talking about how great
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Home Chef is. And I'm like, you guys aren't a
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: couple of our life. This is super weird. Why are
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: you doing this? Shouldn't Andrew's wife and or Nicky's husband
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: be in this instead? Yeah, that's weird. You're not in
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the same kitchen cooking dinner. It just as weird to me.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: They have now cemented themselves as this homework duo, right,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I don't get it. And now they're doing sponsored work
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: as a pair as a fake cover. I don't get it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: That is bizarre to me. It's weird. Okay, one more wish,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: two more wishes. I hated all the baseball stuff. I
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: think I already covered that, even the professional stuff to
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the little league shit. I hated it all. Maybe it's
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: because I don't like baseball. I don't know. Boyfriend Brett
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: is a terrible boyfriend. If I had a boyfriend, i'm married,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: if my husband brought me an air purer fire, I
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: might be okay with it. But a boyfriend who is
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: like courting me. No, Yeah, I could get down with
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: an air purer fire if my husband came home with one.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: But we've been married for eight and a half. Yeah, exactly,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: it's different, like this is whatever. Yeah, there's no man's
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: in it. Absolutely not. And then he bounces on her birthday. Yeah,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I would have been pissed. I would have been so pissed.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: And finally he shits all over her dream of maybe
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: being a food truck owner. It's not practical. Who cares, dude,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: that's not your job. You're not Her financial advisor just
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: heeded him. Although I think her food truck is a
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: terrible idea, but we'll get into it you At twenty seventeen.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: My final wishes, could we have a touch of communication please?
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: The final conflict is easily resolved with two steps. I
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: don't even know this guy's name. What's Andrew's name? His
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: name is Chase. Andrew says, Hey, Spence, can I fly
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: out Saturday morning please? I have a big event I
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: need to attend on Friday afternoon that I've committed to. Yeah,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and then he says, hey, Jess, I gotta go to work.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: But let's got a plan for us to see each other,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: not like I gotta go to work. By our world
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: has ended. People are married and travel for professional sports
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah. And finally, the also, the communication
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: is terrible because they are not actually offering him a
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: playing position, but they're offering him a coaching position, and
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: his agent A didn't know that or B didn't disclose
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: it and wants to get him on a plane to
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: get offered a coaching job, which wasn't even what he wanted.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: And now he's ready scout to retire. That's what I
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: don't understand. I'm just gonna give it up and be
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: a scout, which I'm sure is a perfectly fulfilling job.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: But he didn't seem to be done with baseball, and
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: it would be better if he like was playing baseball,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: got injured, has to have that Tommy John surgery or
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: whatever I know a little bit about baseball. That would
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: have been a better Now what do I do with
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: my life now I'm back home? What do I do now?
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Now my agent's finally mean something else? Sure, but even
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: after Tommy John they come back. Oh Tony had Tommy John?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I know he just got one billion dollars about Dodgers.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Every Angel fan knew he was leaving the Angels. It
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: was my husband, who has been a lifelong Angel fan,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: born and raised in Orange County. Is I don't know
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: if I can cheer for the Angels anymore. They have
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: just completely ruined their entire organization because they not because
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: of Otani. If they just can't get their shit together. No,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: they're a mess. Is Trout even still there? Yeah? Trout's
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: going to retire from the Angels. What was his contract?
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Seven hundred million dollars something crazy? So they need new
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: ownership there? Sorry? Bye, Alreaty Arty's gotta go. Okay, everybody,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: If I did to see that, Jess turned off the podcast,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: no come back because I got some hot takes. Okay,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: see that? And did you see that? I hated this
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: movie so much that I didn't watch it that closely.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: But I do have two thanks to correspondent Mike. Yeah,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Mike wrote us an email. He talks about boyfriend Brett
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: cheering on Jessica and Chase at the end of the movie,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: like raw, he's so excited in the stands, like laughing
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and clappin' and thinking about it, I think, well, maybe
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: he just figured out, like maybe he didn't really like Jessica.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: He gave her an air purifier. Maybe he was like, oh,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: she's yours now, dude. Eh. Maybe. But also the weirdest
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: part about that is then like at the they the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: game hasn't even started, they kiss it pans out Jessica's parents,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Nina and Luring, Brett all like flood the field and
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: he stands back, but they're all like clapping for them, y'all,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: this is a Little League father son game. What are
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: we doing? Yeah, And they're like they move out to
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the pictures mound, like they move away from the line
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: of players and they have there never been kissed moment.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, one of my all time
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: favorite movies, but super problematic because the teacher is kissing
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a woman who he thought was a student and they
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: have that same sort of like on the mound kiss. Yeah,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: my next did you see that? Thanks to Mike was
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: a screen grab. I will put it in our show
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: notes at Megananwindy dot com. There are street signs with
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: absolutely no names on them. It is bizarre. I asked Meghan.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I showed to her. I was like, do you think
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: like they just blocked them out here? Are they so
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: specific to this neighbor that they didn't want them there?
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: One of them says north and South, but it doesn't
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: say north and south Main Street. It just is north
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: south a big blank green space underneath. And the other
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: one is literally just a blank green sign. So funny.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: I wonder if maybe they was supposed to be like
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: chase taan away and they didn't go back in, and oh,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: maybe they fix up the food truck, which actually I
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: thought was quite a fun sequence of events, like the
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: cleaning up. I like a renovation montage too. I like
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: that a lot, and I thought it looked quite cute
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: when they were done with it. But she's, oh, we
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: don't have our permits for food, so we're just gonna
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: go pick up food from the diner and then drive
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: around with it. And I was like, that sounds terrible
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: because you know what's not good is diner food that's
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: been sitting in the truck and tries that been in
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: a box and the words she's I'll take three corn dogs.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I'm like, that corn dog's been in that truck for
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: at least half an hour. Who was a soggy corn dog? Yeah?
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: And my other question, and Mike brought this up to you,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: They're like, it's time for the grand reopening of the restaurant.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: The restaurant close. Did the restaurant need a little refresh Okay,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: but they like do it all in one night? Yeah,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: maybe we missed a step. Yeah, I need the retconning?
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Is it? Are they like, oh, Jessica has been ignoring
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the restaurant to fall in love with Chase. So let's
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: pretend like this was planned and the restaurant was closed
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: in preparation for a grand reopening. That's how we're gonna
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: make this make sense. Perhaps, what did you rate the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Perfect Catch? Two stars? Girls Gone Hallmark? I gave it
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: three stars, really right down the middle. Nope, it was
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: a joke. It was a joke. I actually think three
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: stars are too generous. I'm gonna leave it at that
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: because I'm not gonna take them away? Can we make
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: a T shirt that says right down the middle? Yes.
• 26:53
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• 26:56
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• 26:58
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• 27:01
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• 27:04
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• 27:07
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• 27:11
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• 27:14
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