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Sister Swap: Christmas in the City · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, friends. Before we get into this episode, we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to let you know what's happening here. This entire month
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  Speaker 1: will be Christmas in July on Girls Gone Hamewark, featuring
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  Speaker 1: some movies that we reviewed but you've never heard. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: These reviews appeared exclusively on our Patreon account, but we
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  Speaker 1: dug them out from the vault and we're gonna celebrate
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  Speaker 1: Christmas in July. I gotta tell you, Megan, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: little bit concerned because I don't know what I said
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  Speaker 1: about these movies. Oh, you should probably give these episodes
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  Speaker 1: a listen to. We hope you enjoy this month on
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  Speaker 1: Girls Gone Hamewark. As always joined us on our Facebook
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  Speaker 1: group to talk about these movies and these reviews. Enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the episode preon Welcome to a bonus episode of Girls
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  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark. I'm Megan. I'm windy. Sometimes I forget what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing. I know it's because we do so many things.
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  Speaker 1: That's like do what what's up? What are we? Where
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  Speaker 1: are we at? What do we do use this for? What?
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  Speaker 1: Do ye? Yes? Today we're disgusting. We're disgusting. I actually am.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still in my pajamas, which I never do and
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  Speaker 1: I put on a beanie and I put my bathroom
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  Speaker 1: over my pajamas because it was cold. My kids were mortified.
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  Speaker 1: But well, car, let me tell you what I have on.
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  Speaker 1: I have on some like really loose soft capri pants, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then big socks which I wore with regular old
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  Speaker 1: tennis shoes. Yeah, and a totally loose sweater. I have
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  Speaker 1: like super BedHead from last night. And I took my
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  Speaker 1: daughter to school like this today because I was like, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not getting out of the car, nobody's gonna see me.
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  Speaker 1: So the same. I'm in my Christmas pajamas in the
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  Speaker 1: drop offline this morning, which is pretty unusual for me.
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  Speaker 1: I do usually get dressed. We should point out it
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  Speaker 1: is pouring rain in southern California today, so I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I can't. I cannot motivate to get up and get
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  Speaker 1: ready this morning. Yeah, and everybody is in their cars today,
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  Speaker 1: so anybody who like walks to school is in a
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  Speaker 1: car today. It was crazy. It was pandemonium out there.
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  Speaker 1: It was, But I did think this would be the
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  Speaker 1: morning that I would get in a car accident when
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  Speaker 1: I'm in slippers and Christmas pajamas. So I had the
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  Speaker 1: same thought, because I forgot my phone at home. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be it. I'm going to get in
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  Speaker 1: a car accident and I'm not gonna have my phone. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we all made it home safely and we're here to
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  Speaker 1: talk Sister Swap Christmas in the City. Hey, do you
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  Speaker 1: have a synopsis of this movie? I assure you, And
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  Speaker 1: it was a really long one. So I just took
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  Speaker 1: a couple of sentences and made it my own. Are
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  Speaker 1: you ready? Huh. Meg is helping Jennifer's restaurant staff and
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  Speaker 1: Salt Lake prepare for a Christmas competition among local restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: With the sisters switching cities leading up to the holiday,
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  Speaker 1: they find a new sense of purpose discover what they
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  Speaker 1: both truly need in life and in love. Hey, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so when this we did review Sister Swap a Hometown Holiday.
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  Speaker 1: For the main feed, we did a full news and
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  Speaker 1: notes about the making of the movie. I do have
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  Speaker 1: a couple new news and notes, but I didn't go
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  Speaker 1: into the full I didn't rehash all of that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: neither did I. I mean, I just really for my notes,
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  Speaker 1: here's a little backstory. I just copy and pasted from
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  Speaker 1: the first movie and then I found a couple of
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  Speaker 1: little like tidbits, so let me hear what yours is,
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  Speaker 1: and then maybe they might overlap and they might not. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So I would like to recommend to listeners of the
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  Speaker 1: podcast that you find and I will leave a link.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have traditional show notes because this is on Patreon,
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  Speaker 1: but in the description box for this episode, I will
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  Speaker 1: leave a link. There's a great interview on Seth Myers
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  Speaker 1: with the Williams sisters and they're charming as hell and
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  Speaker 1: they have so much chemistry together, which we know from
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  Speaker 1: watching these movies, but they're just really fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: They tell a funny story about their childhood and they
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  Speaker 1: bring it back to present day. It's like an eight
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  Speaker 1: minute clip. It's just really joy filled and if you're
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  Speaker 1: feeling the holiday blues, I recommend it. Yeah. And the
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  Speaker 1: other thing I have is on Twitter. I saw that
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Williams had a super adorable watch party. She's in
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  Speaker 1: a hotel somewhere. I didn't honestly dig that deep to
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  Speaker 1: figure out she must be in Canada, and I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you why. People who stopped by her hotel room watch
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  Speaker 1: party were Nikki de Loach brooked your say Autumn racer,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's like Hallmark, everybody's in town to February Valentine party. Yes, right, so,
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  Speaker 1: and one of them even had a mask on, and
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  Speaker 1: I wondered if she was in technically in quarantine because
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  Speaker 1: she's prepping for a movie. Anyway, it just made me happy.
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  Speaker 1: It just kind of was like, I wish I were
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  Speaker 1: a part of this community. They just looked like they
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  Speaker 1: were having fun and goofing off and there was no
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  Speaker 1: like pretense about it. They were all in pajamas and
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  Speaker 1: taking these like terrible blurry selfies and it brought me joy.
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe I'm in the part of the holiday
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  Speaker 1: season where I'm like, oh, everything's so nice. We recorded
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  Speaker 1: an episode for our mein Feed yesterday where we talked
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  Speaker 1: about our holiday traditions and that will already be up
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  Speaker 1: as this episode goes up. That episode is actually already up,
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  Speaker 1: and it just felt good to talk about like all
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  Speaker 1: those things that we do and to kind of take
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  Speaker 1: that hour to talk about that. I was like, that's
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  Speaker 1: even when we're in the middle of it and we're
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  Speaker 1: wrapping like crazy and shopping and running around. It was
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  Speaker 1: kind of nice to have that moment of oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is what's coming. So I think that maybe on
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  Speaker 1: like a holiday high these days, I don't know, really,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, give me a minute, I'll be crabby as hell.
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  Speaker 1: I am just ready for it to wrap up. Like
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  Speaker 1: I think it's because like these movies started in October, right,
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  Speaker 1: and I've watched so many more like holiday movies than
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  Speaker 1: I ever have. And then on top of that is
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  Speaker 1: like real life Christmas stuff right now, I just it
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  Speaker 1: feels like it's been months. So I'm just ready for
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  Speaker 1: it to finish. Yeah, I have a confession. I watched
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  Speaker 1: this movie this morning. Shut what time did you get up?
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  Speaker 1: I started it at six thirty am. Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: So when I texted you last night, you really didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what I was talking about. No, I didn't, I
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  Speaker 1: realized this morning. But our intention was to watch it yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: and then we ended up watching a movie with the kids,
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  Speaker 1: and I was gonna watch it after that, and I
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  Speaker 1: was too tired, so I got up this morning. Now
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  Speaker 1: I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to
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  Speaker 1: be mad. But I'm I'm ready, I'm prepared, So why
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  Speaker 1: would I be mad? I don't. Here there's you know,
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  Speaker 1: here's a confession. There's been times that I haven't even
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  Speaker 1: watched the entire movie and I come here and review it,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll never tell which one it was though. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so let's get this poppin'. Oh I did have Well,
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  Speaker 1: this is not really breaking news and notes here, but
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  Speaker 1: we did already know from the previous movie that these
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  Speaker 1: movies were filmed back to back. Yeah. Though, this new
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  Speaker 1: note I saw was that particular scenes were shot from
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  Speaker 1: multiple angles so that they could be used in both movies,
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  Speaker 1: which kind of makes sense now seeing the second movie
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  Speaker 1: when we saw like repeat scenes, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: So it gives them like a slightly different feel, even
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  Speaker 1: though they're ultimately the same content, right exactly. And then
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  Speaker 1: also in this movie, it stars Keith Robinson. He plays Joe,
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  Speaker 1: the love interest of Meg, And I've never seen this
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  Speaker 1: dude before, so I looked him up on IMDb. He
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  Speaker 1: has over seventy two acting credits. Wow, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: like shows I've never heard of, I've never seen. The
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  Speaker 1: only real big standout was two thousand and eight Dream
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  Speaker 1: Girls with Beyonce and what's her name? She was on
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  Speaker 1: American Idol you know I'm talking about. Yeah, Jennifer Jennifer Hudson. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well that's I liked him. I would not mind seeing
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  Speaker 1: more of him in future Hallmark movies. And I have
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  Speaker 1: some thoughts about him and meg Oh I get but
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed him like I thought he had like a
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  Speaker 1: mega watts smile. I really enjoyed. Yeah, Okay, what was
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  Speaker 1: your first impression of this movie? I would like to
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  Speaker 1: apologize to Kimberly Williams Paisley, who I thought was super
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  Speaker 1: intolerable in the first movie. It seems that Ashley Williams
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  Speaker 1: is maybe the most intolerable. You know. I was watching
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  Speaker 1: this movie and I was wondering if that was gonna
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  Speaker 1: be your take, because Ashley Williams is at like ele
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  Speaker 1: level eleven in this movie, Like seriously, She's high octane
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  Speaker 1: the entire time. Now, I actually found this movie quite
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  Speaker 1: charming and almost perhaps with one exception, I did not
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  Speaker 1: think the love story was better than Hometown Holiday. I
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  Speaker 1: did overall like the feel of this movie better what
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  Speaker 1: I thought the cast chemistry Now, Mark Declan, Mark Declan,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Declan, Mark Declan, the chemistry between Kimberly Williams Paisley
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  Speaker 1: and Mark Decklan, their love story a thousand times better.
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  Speaker 1: But I did really get like a lovey homie feel
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  Speaker 1: for this cast. I don't know. Holiday, Hi, guys, Holiday Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh okay, all right, okay, I've got like eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred likes, so oh okay, go for it. Then, Well, first,
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  Speaker 1: I like that we get a non home movie Kevin Neelan.
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  Speaker 1: We get actual Kevin Neelan scenes. Not a lot, not
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  Speaker 1: a lot. No. But I'm gonna tell you my wish
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  Speaker 1: right now, because I think it's relevant to the Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Nielan comment. And my wish is I listened after we
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  Speaker 1: record our thoughts on a Hometown Holiday, I listened to
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  Speaker 1: deck the Hallmark Thoughts on Hometown Holiday, and they suggested,
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  Speaker 1: and I agree, that perhaps these movies should have been
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  Speaker 1: done as a two parter and they should run concurrently.
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  Speaker 1: So rather than getting beginning to end, rewind, beginning to end,
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  Speaker 1: we get beginning to middle, middle to enduse I think
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  Speaker 1: it would have made the movie richer, as opposed to going, wait,
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  Speaker 1: what's happening in the other scene and the other with
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  Speaker 1: the other seat, we get them back to back, so
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  Speaker 1: we get them simultaneously. Now, I understand the flaws in
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  Speaker 1: that plan, and I understand from a Hallmark standpoint, you
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  Speaker 1: want your leading lady and you're leading man, and you
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  Speaker 1: want your self contained love story, and I get all
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  Speaker 1: of that. I think, no matter how you do it,
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  Speaker 1: you have the issue of these two movies needing to
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  Speaker 1: be watched back to back for them to make sense.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. I thought prior to these movies coming out,
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  Speaker 1: we had heard an interview or read an interview that
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Williams Fasley said one of the sisters said like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to watch both movies to know what's
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  Speaker 1: going on. You could just jump into one or the other.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that's false. I think you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to get a full picture. You're just gonna get these
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  Speaker 1: Whatever the other sister's storyline is, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: really mild. Now. Could I have followed the Ashley Williams
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  Speaker 1: storyline in this movie without having seen the other one, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: of course, But you don't get the fully fleshed out
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  Speaker 1: picture of what's happening behind the scenes and why the
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  Speaker 1: scene in the movie Theater is so powerful, Like that
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't land if you hadn't seen everything happening with Jen
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  Speaker 1: and her plight to save the movie theater, so I
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  Speaker 1: think you could follow them. I don't think there is
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  Speaker 1: rich without each other. I agree. I agree we watched
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  Speaker 1: the first movie. One of your wishes was for more backstory,
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  Speaker 1: like we didn't really know what was going on. I
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  Speaker 1: think we get a little bit more of that. I
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  Speaker 1: think I understand Meg's character a lot more having watched
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  Speaker 1: this movie, and that's where they're all coming from, which, again,
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  Speaker 1: I think is an argument for maybe this is a
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  Speaker 1: two parter as opposed to two different perspectives. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't like what Hallmark tried. I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad that they're doing something different. I just tweeted something
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  Speaker 1: this morning that I think Hallmark has leveled up this year.
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  Speaker 1: And I think one of the reasons that they had
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  Speaker 1: to level up is they had this really comfortable position
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  Speaker 1: as the Christmas movie people. And when people talk about
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  Speaker 1: like feel good Christmas movies, they kind of use Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: Christmas movies the way you would use like Kleenex, right,
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  Speaker 1: like it's a highand name. Yeah. Well, now this year
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  Speaker 1: we've got something like one hundred and fifty streaming on
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  Speaker 1: TV Holiday movies. Every platform has a movie. Many platforms
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  Speaker 1: have many movies and Hallmark had to step up their
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  Speaker 1: game in order to be the best in the business,
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  Speaker 1: and I do think they get the lion's share of
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  Speaker 1: the ratings. I think they did a good job. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's every movie a winner, it's not, but I think
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  Speaker 1: they stepped it up. I'm glad that tried something different.
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  Speaker 1: I like the idea. I just think there's some some
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  Speaker 1: flaws in the plan. Sure I am. I like anything
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  Speaker 1: I did I did. I have a little list. I
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  Speaker 1: will tell you that when I turned this movie on,
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  Speaker 1: when I settled in to watch it the other night,
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  Speaker 1: I was excited. It felt like a comfortable experience, meaning
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  Speaker 1: like I knew it wasn't I knew the characters, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Like I was like, oh, Okay, this is great, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna watch Like it felt like a sequel or something. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I liked both this movie and the first movie a lot,
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  Speaker 1: So let me just say that. So, I was really excited.
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  Speaker 1: I was excited to see like how Meg's side of
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  Speaker 1: things unfolded. And now, do did it reach my level
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  Speaker 1: of like how much I liked the other movie? No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so, but I did like it. So
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  Speaker 1: let me just say that now, I had said that
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  Speaker 1: Meg was a lot uh in my first impression. But
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  Speaker 1: what I did like about her is that she was
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  Speaker 1: never fully discouraged by things, and she was always up
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  Speaker 1: for something. Like at one point, he goes, you want
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  Speaker 1: to go on a road trip, of course She's gonna
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  Speaker 1: say yes. Like her face lit up. She was like
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  Speaker 1: super excited. I was like kind of found that a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, Like I was like envious of her, Like,
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  Speaker 1: you know me, I'd be like, oh, we can't do
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  Speaker 1: that because we like I just love that she just
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  Speaker 1: like jumped into things like that was really cool. I
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  Speaker 1: liked her. I liked her character. I liked her as
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  Speaker 1: a person, you know, very inspiring, I thought. And she's
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  Speaker 1: so pretty to look at, Like her eyes are just
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  Speaker 1: so beautiful, and she has like flawless skin. I just
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  Speaker 1: in these rosy cheeks. Like she's so pretty to look at.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I said, Ashley Williams is a damn delight.
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  Speaker 1: I know that she was a lot in this movie,
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  Speaker 1: but I think she was a lot in the right
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  Speaker 1: ways for a Hallmark movie. M Yeah, Okay, there's some
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  Speaker 1: funny lines in this movie, like Joe's like you're sort
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  Speaker 1: of the town busybody, aren't you? Like, I just thought
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  Speaker 1: that was funny. I liked that he called her out. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we've seen lots of movies that have cookie decorating, and
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  Speaker 1: there was an earlier movie this season where they're decorating
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  Speaker 1: cookies for a client and it's like, straight up like
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  Speaker 1: I would decorate them in my kitchen, which is to
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  Speaker 1: say that they would look terrible, and they had beautiful
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  Speaker 1: cookie decorating, Like, thank you for investing the time into
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  Speaker 1: either someone having them done professionally or having someone come
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  Speaker 1: teach you the techniques. They weren't using like Pillsbury frosting
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  Speaker 1: out of a can. They were using like actual royal icing.
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  Speaker 1: It was I appreciated that, Like, if they're going to
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  Speaker 1: give away these cookies, they were beautiful, I know, but seriously,
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  Speaker 1: the her reindeer cookie was like so detailed. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that would take you an hour to make. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get twelve cookies done in like a full day. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the entire staff was doing it. They apparently had nothing
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  Speaker 1: better to do. Yes, But but I would say that
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  Speaker 1: the other staff skills were probably not as good as hers,
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  Speaker 1: and whatever. Anyway, I agree compared to the other movie
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  Speaker 1: we saw slapping all the frosting. Yea, I loved, love
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  Speaker 1: loved that they wanted to make a free grocery store
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  Speaker 1: at the food bank. Yeah. Now, I know this isn't
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  Speaker 1: like like a I know it was part of the movie,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like it's not really a takeaway. But the
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  Speaker 1: takeaway for me is I had never thought about that before,
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  Speaker 1: Like a free grocery store for people who need it.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's like no shame around it, like just
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  Speaker 1: calm and get what you need and it feels normal,
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  Speaker 1: you know normal quote like whatever, right, I just going
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  Speaker 1: to the grocery store for your family. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: a that feels different than picking up a box of
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  Speaker 1: food that's being handed to you exactly. And they did
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  Speaker 1: something similar in that in that Netflix show made I
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  Speaker 1: don't think you watched it. I watched it. She was
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  Speaker 1: like she was in a domestic violence shelter and they
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  Speaker 1: had a like free store of clothing and it was
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  Speaker 1: made to be looked like a boutique. You would go
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  Speaker 1: in there and get what you need and it wasn't like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: here's a grocery bag of clothes to but wear, you know, right?
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  Speaker 1: And I like the idea of like restoring their dignity. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you should have the opportunity to choose what they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: wear and choose what they're gonna eat, as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: it's free, be grateful, right right. I just loved it.
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  Speaker 1: I just love that they put that in a Hallmark movie.
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  Speaker 1: I just loved it. Ooh, our lights just flickered. Uh oh,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully we don't lose power. I loved when Joe brought
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  Speaker 1: coffee to Meg and she's like, what not hot Coco?
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, I love Hot Coco, but how come
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  Speaker 1: in December everyone shows Hot Coco on me? Like? Am
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  Speaker 1: I not allowed to be caffeinated in the month of
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of funny lines, right, Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: was cute. Yeah, I liked I liked them. I thought
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  Speaker 1: Alex and Martin were adorable. Oh so do I I
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: have it here too. I like the story of Alex
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: and Martin. That was really cute. And that's what I
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: texted Megan last night. I was like, have we ever
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: seen a same sex kiss on a Hallmark movie? And
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: she said, yes, we saw it last season with Christmas House,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: which is a movie I didn't watch. So I saw
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: a tweet or an Instagram post from Jonathan Bennett, who
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: is in that movie and is one half of that kiss.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: And apparently the jackets that they were wearing are in
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the Smithsonian as the because that was the first same
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: sex kiss on the Hallmark channel get out. So yeah,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: so it was serendipitous that you asked me that question yesterday,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: because I'm not sure that I would have known that
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: that was the first on the channel having not just
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: seen that reminder. I would have guessed it, but I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have known for sure if I hadn't seen that. Look,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I was stoked. Bravo Hallmark. Yeah, let's keep going in
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: then that in that direction we had what movie was it?
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: It was The Unexpected Christmas where his sister Becca was
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in a same sex relationship. Like, let's yeah, let's keep going.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I'm stoked for it. They're the ice skating scene, yes,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: with the mistletoe arch. Yes, I thought that was honestly
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: really adorable. So we have I believe that's where we
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: have Alex and Martin's first kiss, and then we have
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: their cute like scene where like they kiss. I believe
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: her name is Kate on the cheek in the messlete
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: and then Megan Joe ended up under there and it's
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: a little like awkward. But when she's left standing under
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: there and they pushed the missletoe back, I just thought
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: that was a well shot scene where she's kind of
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: like standing there and she does not get her miscletoe moment.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I watch it that closely, I'll
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: go back and watch it. Because I did really like
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: this movie. I would watch it again. I'd watch both
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: movies again. So it's a really honestly for Hallmark powerful
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: scene where she's just left standing. The staff comes and
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: pushes the arch back up against the wall and she's
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: still just standing there by herself after Joe escated away.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: The final thing I liked about this movie was the
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: storyline of reconciliation between Frank and his daughter. Yeah, I'm
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: going to add out what I wished for with this
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: because it's relevant, is that I wish for more of
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: this storyline. I wish that we had a deeper understanding
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: of why they had a falling out, why they needed reconciliation.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: But I was so moved at the end that he
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: was so moved by the kindness of people in his
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: community that he wanted to invest into the food bank.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I just thought it was like a lovely, like full
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: circle moment. Yeah. Well, and we have talked about how
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: we would like more Sister Swat movies, like a Spring movie,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: or at least we think the door's open. And I
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: think we have enough going on with these other characters,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Like we can see more of Alex and Martin, we
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: can see more of Frank and his daughter, we can
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: see more of what's going on with these other people
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: in the community. I think there's enough left open there.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I definitely think so. And if you think back to
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the first movie, like there's there's more story with her parents,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: right they wanted to do something else, There's more story
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: with like Mark Declan, I can't remember his care your name,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: but their relationship so right. But you did see at
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the very end that this said more to come, Right, Oh,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I didn't see that. That was like a they freeze
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: frame on them at that very very end of it.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: You must have just like dipped out when it was over.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I saw like they freeze framed on the girls. Yes,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: and it said something at the bottom about like more
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: to come. Oh I didn't even notice. Yes, it was
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: just like it was eight fifty six, and I came
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: upstairs and climbed into the closet. So there's two more
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: things that I liked. I loved that we had assumed
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: that these two movies would end in the same place,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and I honestly assumed that we would go full circle
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and we would end right with them sitting in the
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: movie theater. And I love that we get in an
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: extra ten minutes, that we get an additional ending, that
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: there's more that as much as these movies shared that
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: they went and finished off this first movie, and I
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: think that ending scene is so fantastic, Like there's so
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: many great things about it. And the photo booth when
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Meg and Joe were in there and they have their
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: cute photo booth kiss and he starts talking and she
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: says kissing, and I thought it was a really cute kiss.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: As much as I didn't feel like they had a
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: ton of chemistry in this movie, I thought that moment
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: was really sweet. And then they come out of the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: photo booth and she kisses them again and then goes
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: running off to her sister, and I thought that was
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: so real, Like I just kissed him, but they're not,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: like we're married. And running off in the sunset together.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: She's like the beginning of this fun new thing. Yeah, yeah,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: that's a good point. Yeah, because I thought when she
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: ran out to her sister, I was like, really, like,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: these are adults. But then you make a good point,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: like Joe and Meghar are not getting married tomorrow. Like
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: it was like a fun, new, flirty like thing that's happening,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and she wanted to tell her sister. Yeah, yeah, I
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: got like it. Yeah, I hear you. So that is
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: my extensive list of things that I liked about this Okay,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: let's talk about what you wished for. Well, I really
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: dove into mine. I just I'm not sure what the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: ideal format for this movie was, but I do think
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I would like the stories told concurrently, as opposed to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: beginning to end, rewind, beginning to end. That's my big wish.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I hear you. I think I was a little bit disappointed,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: like watching this movie and going, oh, this is the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: same scene I saw in the movie before. You know,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I get why they had to do it, maybe could
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: have been executed differently. I have a question for you, though,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the end of this movie, are we supposed to believe
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: that this happens after they're scene at the movie theater.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: That's my understanding, because that happened earlier than the end
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: of this movie. What are we talking me see a
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: day earlier? Or yeah, maybe the timelines are always weird in
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: these movies. I don't know. But we see that scene
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: where they decide to work together, and then there's still
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: ten more minutes of this movie. Oh, I don't even
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: remember saying, Oh, you're right, they were on the that's right,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: that's right, they were sitting on the counter again. Yeah, okay,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: you're right. Okay, never mind, here's something I wished for.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I needed Meg to dial it way back, like it
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: was almost like toxic positivity, like it was too too, too,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: too much. I found it distracting at times, to be honest,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Like I was just like whoa Meg, Like, let's have
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a different like emotion other than like level twelve. Right,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: there was one scene, and it's when Joe basically tells
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: her that it's not gonna work out between them because
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: she hasn't figured out like what she wants. Uh huh,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: And it looks like she's been punched in the gut,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: like she makes like such a face and then like
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: and then she like switches it back to like a
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: smile and then like finding like, you know something positive
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: about of the situation. I don't know. Yeah, even when
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: they go to ask that woman to be the chef
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and he's like what if she says no, she's like
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the meat eat our feelings like yeah, just like I'm
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: so happy all the time. Yeah, I do know people
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: like that, and I'm so prone to being like, oh, well,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: this sucks, and I would like to wallow with the
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: fact that this sucks. That I would have a hard
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: time being around a person like her because I need
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: someone who can like get into the muck with me,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: for sure, because then I feel like if I get
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: into it and the other person's like, well, we're just
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: gonna right side this whole thing, then my feelings feel
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: invalid and like I should be turning my frown upside down.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: And sometimes I need to just go through it. Mm
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: hmmm hmm. I don't do that to you, right, Oh
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: my gosh, No, you get in the muck. Okay, cool?
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: You know what? I do have one more wish? Yeah,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: was Mark Declan in this movie at all? I never
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: saw him neither did I. Why wouldn't he come to
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the party, right, or we couldn't have seen him at
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the movie theater at some point, she's there. She's at
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the Christmas tree lighting. They you know he's there for
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: those scenes because those were filmed at the same time.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I just needed a little peek. Oh okay, okay, you
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: mentioned this earlier, but I thought Meg and Joe were
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: kind of a mismatch, like they had like no chemistry.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Like to me as a viewer, I thought they made
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: like great working partners. Yeah, because they were so like opposite,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: But in terms of like romantic partners, I was like,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I don't really see it. I didn't feel it either
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: until until they kissed, and I was like, oh, that's
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: pretty cute. But well, it was so funny because he
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: goes into the photo booth like alone with a Christmas
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: hat and a point seta. I was like, what's I doing.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: He's taking solo pictures that they're on a point setup plant. Okay,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: all right, dude, that's funny. Okay, here's the last thing
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I wished for. Uh huh. I needed less of that
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: childhood choreographed dance between Meg and jin for like they
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: did it in the movie theater and then they did
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: it on the dance floor at this party. You know,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: they showed it one too many times in the movie theater.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: One of my digit see that, And this is from
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the first movie too, and I don't know why I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: didn't mention it. Then, is does an entire town of
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: people want to come and watch this family's old home movies?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Because no, I can see it being a thirty second
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: tribute at the beginning of whatever they're gonna show, because
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: obviously this was a family owned movie theater and they
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: really loved their uncle. But I don't need I'm not
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: coming to an event to watch someone else's home movies.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I do not care how close this town is. Yeah,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I agree, So, yes, I think there was one too
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: many cutesy throwback. Those girls were cute, but I think
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: they they overdid it. Yeah, I agree. All right, do
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: you have any of it? Did you see that? Because
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I have a cube? Okay, I'm so excited you are. Yes?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Oh oh, Tyler Hines, No, I'm just kidding, he was.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, did I miss a big one? No? No,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: nothing like that. No, mine are all very small. But
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: first of all, in the scene where the sisters are
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: sitting in Jen's house and they're wrapping gifts. Ashley Williams
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: is definitely wrapping an empty tube of paper. She's wrapping
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: a tube of paper like she's rolled up wrapping paper.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: She's like taken wrapping paper and kind of rolled it
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: into a tube and then she's like folding it over.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: There's nothing inside there. It's weird a roll of paper
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: that she's like just rolled up and she's folding it
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: over itself. There's nothing at least Jen's character is wrapping
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: a box, like give this woman a box to wrap
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: just but no, it's there's nothing in there. No, I
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: totally did not even notice that. No. When Alex takes
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Meg to the like pop up topis cart oh yeah,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: they're talking about She's like, what are tapists or I
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: don't know whatever, and they show a sandwich board of
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the options and one of them is potato, like rosemary
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and potatoes and potatoes is spelled p t A ts oh. No.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: So the woman who runs the food bank, Ashley Ashley Meg,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: she's like, just send over your donor list. Hey, you
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: cannot just take someone's email list and randomly email them.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: That is an a that's not how digital privacy works
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: and also your donors are going to be pissed, Like,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: could you the Food Bank send them an email saying, hey,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: this business is having fundraiser that has the potential to
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: support us. Yes, you can do that. Can you just
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: give your email list the way? No, you cannot. Oh
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: you're really in those details. Huh why I used to
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: be a nonprofit fundraising Okay? Mary Anne, the woman who
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: works at the food Bank. Every scene she's in she's
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: wearing a horrible Christmas sweater. One is at like Miawi
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Christmas with a cat on it, every single one. And
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I was like a bravo to wardrobe who like nailed
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: it when they thought what is a community service leader?
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Where who you know wants to be festive all the
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: time for the people who are coming into her you
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: know her spot, Like totally. It was so every single
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: scene it was so funny. So at one point there
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: r SVP list overwhelmed the capacity of the restaurant and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: they're like, where could we host it? Why would you
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: host a restaurant event anywhere other than yours? And why
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: does your RSVP system not have a max where you're like, sorry,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: we can only sell fifty tickets to this event. Yeah,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: that was dumb. Also, that straight up looks like evite,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Like when they pull it up on their phone, you
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: got your ebite response, because like you wouldn't if you're
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: cooking food in your own restaurant, you're not gonna like
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: then bring that. It makes it a logistical nightmare, which
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: leads to my this is my new question and answer
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: section under did you see that? Is why would the
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: restaurant take all the food to the food bank for
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the party that was then canceled and then they move
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: all that stuff to another location for like a free
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: for all party, and that food's cold and disgusting. Why
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: wouldn't they keep it at the food bank for the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: people who need it? When they'd be like, okay, parties off,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: but we have all this food here. Let's open our
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: doors to the community and be like, come on in, come,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: come get something. So why didn't they call all of
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the other restaurants and say, hey, come over, bring your food,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: we'll serve it to the community. Yeah, that's a great question.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Now we're all these community members invited to come, like
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: all the people that would attend the food bank. I
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: don't know, I know they wanted this big moment with
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: that big elaborate point set a display. But I don't
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: know the entry of that hotel. I don't know where
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: they are, whatever that space is, but the entry is
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: so lackluster. When they walk in, it's like a plane
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: staircase with a single strand of lights around it. There's
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: nothing there until you turn around and you see the display,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Like it seems like they could have dressed that up
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: a little bit, especially because they walk through that space
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: more than once. It's all that for that red display
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: on the other side of the room. Yeah, it was weird.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: It was weird. And then here's another question. So the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: weather's bad, right, and that's why the party was canceled.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: M But who moved the photo booth and the cookie
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: decorating station and all that stuff to the new location
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: in the bad weather? Like it didn't It didn't make
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: any sense. No, No, though I did enjoy when like
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: her family shows up and he's like, we're mountain people.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: We know how to put chains on our tires. And
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, okay, okay, okay, I mean
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: it snows a lot. It's a ski resort, so it's
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: not like these people are not used to snow. Lots
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: of digital snow in this movie. Too much, too much,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: too much, too much. She doesn't constantly need to be
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: snowing on you. One of the scenes from the seth
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Meyers interview, they show that they because it was hot,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: they had made a snowman and they're like, yeah, we
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: were getting like snow like ice from the fish marketers
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: something and they had to put an umbrella over their
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: snowman to keep him from melting. Oh really, that's really funny.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: That's all I got me too. Who what did you
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: rate this movie? Okay, I want to just first preface
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: this with saying that I gave the first movie three
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: and a half stars. I gave this three stars. I
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: liked the story better in the first one, and I
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: liked the romantic story better between Mark Declan and Kimberly
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Williams Paisley. I think this is a three star movie
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: for me as well, which is a very high rating.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: And it was warm and cozy and maybe three point
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: twenty five stars. I really loved the staff at the restaurant. Yeah,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: they weren't funny, it was they were like an more
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: than background, you know, they were like a family. Like
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: when they all go volunteer together, and that part when
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: she's like when the chef turns it down, the job down,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and yeah, she's like, why wouldn't he want to be
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: with these people? Oh there's another digit see that in
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: the first movie. We see in both of these movies
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: where they go to they go to Martin's food stand
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: with both Jen and Meg to ask him to be
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the chef. Prior to going there. In this Christmas in
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: the City movie, we hear Meg on the phone with
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: somebody I don't know who's saying I need a copy
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: of last year's Great Salt article that my sister wrote.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: And then we hear Martin. Are you Jen, I don't
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: remember her last name. Yeah, I wrote that article about
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: community and food service. I'm blowing it. And I was like,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, that was a total plan, Like I
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: kind of I think it's obviously supposed to be funny
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: that he knew exactly what to say to her, yeah,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: and that we get that information in this movie. But
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: also I was like, wait, but the whole point is
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: you are supposed to believe Yeah. Yeah, thanks for listening
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: to this bonus episode. Goodbye Bye,