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June First Impressions · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I Megan,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: former Hallmark heater. On today's episode, we are discussing our
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  Speaker 1: first impressions for the June movie drop, the summer night's
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark activation, a quick vibe check on these four movies,
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  Speaker 1: and our thoughts on what's coming for us in this
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  Speaker 1: first summer month. If you want to keep up with
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  Speaker 1: our reviews, our schedule when we're dropping reviews coming very
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  Speaker 1: soon will be our summer schedule, once we figure out
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  Speaker 1: what it's going to be, because we will be covering
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  Speaker 1: some things outside of the currently airing Hallmark lineup. We're
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  Speaker 1: doing Hallmark Hall of Fame Christmas movies in July and
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  Speaker 1: July and the rest of the summer is a mystery
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  Speaker 1: to you and I as well. So follow us on
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  Speaker 1: Instagram where we are Girls Gone Homewark to hear that announcement.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready to jump into these first impressions, Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: not really, None of these are me. Let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about it. Movie number one, The Greek Isle,
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  Speaker 1: premiering on June six, stars Nikki de Looche and Apostolis Totsikis.
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  Speaker 1: The synopsis goes oologies Georgia goes to Corfu to deal
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  Speaker 1: with an unexpected inheritance, only to find out there's a catch.
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  Speaker 1: She has to marry her coat inherit her and that's
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  Speaker 1: a wild leaps, the wild leap. You guys can inherit,
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  Speaker 1: but you gotta get married, says who. I would just
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  Speaker 1: be like, no, you can carry that money. Are you
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  Speaker 1: so desperate for X amount of dollars? Like maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's where the movie opens, where she's like hustling as like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, got ten jobs and it's waiting for a windfall,
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  Speaker 1: and here it is. But now she's got to marry
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  Speaker 1: her co inheritor. Yet she's that's her handsome co inheritor. Fine,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how any sane person is like, okay, okay, sure,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be that. It's it's fake dating taken to the extreme.
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  Speaker 1: You think, okay, okay, hold on, do you think she's
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  Speaker 1: one of them? Is going to percent like present, like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's get married, we'll get our dollars and then there
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  Speaker 1: bounce and then they fall in love. Of course, you
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  Speaker 1: nailed it. That's the entire movie right there? Thats it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to sound like a current fault hallmarkter. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to sound like a geography snob or idiot.
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  Speaker 1: But where is Corfu? Greece? But the Greek Isle never
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  Speaker 1: heard of this place. I'm sure it's gorgeous. Did they
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  Speaker 1: film all location? I hope so? I think they did.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? It would have been so great in
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  Speaker 1: casting wise. Look, I'm sure this actor is great. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure he's handsome. But I think what would have been
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  Speaker 1: really funny is if they would have cast Michael Rady
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  Speaker 1: because he played the original like Greek Cutie and the
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  Speaker 1: sister heard of the Traveling Pan. Yes, that's funny, funny, funny, funny,
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  Speaker 1: and Michael Rady hasn't been around in a minute. So
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  Speaker 1: I would love to see Michael Rady, Yeah, in a movie.
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  Speaker 1: He's always would working over on his Instagram. Excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: he's doing what I heard? I'm into it? You heard me? Hey?
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  Speaker 1: The Corfu is an island off of the northwest coast
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  Speaker 1: of Greece. I'm sure it's stunning. Greece is one of
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  Speaker 1: those places that I would like to go to someday
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  Speaker 1: me too. Let's go, okay, all right, cruise a Greek
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  Speaker 1: island cruise. Oh, I like that idea. Let's go. What's
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  Speaker 1: your what's your vibe on this one? Megan? My thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on this are I like an on location movie because
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  Speaker 1: I want summer vibes, Like when we talk like, I
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  Speaker 1: want good point. We talked kind of about the Winter
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  Speaker 1: Escape movies and how we're like, yeah, I want to
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm on vacation. I don't need a full month.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need summer escape. I don't need you to
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  Speaker 1: take me to a different location every week. Okay, but
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  Speaker 1: I want to go to Greece. Make me want to
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  Speaker 1: go to Greece. There's absolutely no way they didn't shoot
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  Speaker 1: this on location, because it's if they're trying to do
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  Speaker 1: fau Greece in Vancouver, Victoria, British Columbia as Greece, it's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna work, folks. So I like that. Fake dating
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  Speaker 1: is my favorite romance trope, as we all know. So
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  Speaker 1: when it's done well, it's a good one. And I
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  Speaker 1: believe in Nikki Delosh's ability to deliver here. I do too,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm hoping, is it possible we get a shirtless
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  Speaker 1: scene for you? Know the Greek Islands. You might e
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  Speaker 1: I'm not opposed to that at all. Shirtless white linen
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  Speaker 1: pants scene, that's right low slung on the hips. I know. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even going to mention it on this podcast
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  Speaker 1: because I know that you watch Real Housewives of Beverly Hill's.
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  Speaker 1: I can't figure out what we're going with. Erik Ka
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  Speaker 1: Jane talks about those things. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, gross
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  Speaker 1: next step. On Saturday, June thirteenth, we have The Texas
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  Speaker 1: Two Steps starring Heather Hemmons and Brendan Penny. A woman
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  Speaker 1: goes back to Texas to help save her family's bar,
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  Speaker 1: and he'll connects with a cowboy from her past. Check mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah right. This coming home save the family business not
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  Speaker 1: always my favorite situation. Do we have a writer on this?
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  Speaker 1: Do we know a writer and or director on this?
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  Speaker 1: There is a Debbie McCumber book titled Texas Two Step.
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  Speaker 1: So Debbie mccumber's Texas Two Steps. Struggling to run the
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  Speaker 1: business her father has left her, Ellie Fraser Lean's heavy
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  Speaker 1: on her friends for support until her relationship with one
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  Speaker 1: of them, rancher Glenn Patterson, deepens into love. So I
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  Speaker 1: would say that this was the book that inspired this movie. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the character names are different, but yeah, Tessa and Luke
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  Speaker 1: im d visas Olivia. Oh you're right, Olivia. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why I saw Tessa. Okay, the way Home on
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  Speaker 1: the brain. J Harrison is in this movie. Excellent. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of information about this movie. What
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  Speaker 1: are your thoughts? I mean, it could be fun. I
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  Speaker 1: like dancing. Yeah, we're gonna dance. I so we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get some line dancing. I like a funny Brendan Penny.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh. I kind of hope we get a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of that. Yeah, right, this role doesn't lead you
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  Speaker 1: to believe he's gonna be funny, Like he's gonna be like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, serious rancher dude. Yes, but yeah, I would
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  Speaker 1: like a Mery Christmas, Ted Cooper Brendan Penny. That would
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  Speaker 1: work for me. I also hope that we were not
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  Speaker 1: getting like what's the kind of music royalty for you?
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm looking for, like pretend country music. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I hope we get the rights to some real country
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  Speaker 1: songs like can we get a Boots Scoot and booge poop?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, please Boot Scoot and Boogie. I mean
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  Speaker 1: the pairing of Heather and Brendan. I'm into, yeah, kind
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  Speaker 1: of think of the last movie Heather has been in.
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  Speaker 1: All I see is the Groom's Men. I know it.
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  Speaker 1: She's happy to have been in something since then the
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  Speaker 1: snow must go on. Oh we liked her in that
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  Speaker 1: and Christmas under the Lights. So I'm you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: into the pairing. I'm into the actors. We'll have to see.
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  Speaker 1: I just I like a fresh story. This does not
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  Speaker 1: seem like a fresh story, That's all. I'm always open
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  Speaker 1: to it. The next movie premier's June twentieth. It's called
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  Speaker 1: The Love Heist. It stars Lindsay Fonseca and Peter Port.
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  Speaker 1: The synopsis is a stylist and a secure party expert
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  Speaker 1: team up to track down a missing fashion item before
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  Speaker 1: a high profile gala. Is this a mystery or is
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  Speaker 1: this just like a fun action rom com? Maybe just
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  Speaker 1: action me If he direct doesn't seem mystery to me,
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  Speaker 1: action I think is the better word. It is directed
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  Speaker 1: by Kevin Fair, who Kevin Fair did a ton of
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  Speaker 1: Science Sealed Deliver movies like The Line, share of them.
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  Speaker 1: Also recently The Reluctant Royal and Lifetime movie Mormon Mom
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  Speaker 1: Gone Wrong, their Ruby Frankie Story, which I've watched. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they're in good hands with the with the director, and
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  Speaker 1: they're in good hands with our lead actors as well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: great leads. Lindsay Fonzeco wears a dress in this movie
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  Speaker 1: that I really like. However, here's the thing we're dealing with,
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  Speaker 1: high fashion, right. We've talked about this many many, many,
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  Speaker 1: many many many times before. This is hard to do
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  Speaker 1: on a budget, falling on a budget, fallin' on a budget.
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  Speaker 1: Keith Nielsen had to do it with Lazy Shabert's movie
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  Speaker 1: earlier at this year. I thought he did a very
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  Speaker 1: nice job. The photos from this movie. Lindsay looks great
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  Speaker 1: in the clothing she's wearing. She does wear a very
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  Speaker 1: statement e dress that I like. I hope it lands
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  Speaker 1: for other people, but I think they've done a nice
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  Speaker 1: job of trying to send the high fashion vibe. Based
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  Speaker 1: on the photos that I'm seeing on the Hallmark Channel
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  Speaker 1: website going into it right now, I like it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen that angle. I'd only seen the top half.
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  Speaker 1: When he's not so sure about the fashion, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: so sure about the Fashion. But what movie was Peter
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  Speaker 1: Port recently in. I remember people were so excited that
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  Speaker 1: he was back to Hallmark. Peter Port was recently in
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  Speaker 1: the last movie he was in was Notes of Autumn.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, but when he came back, people were really
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  Speaker 1: excited for that. He has been recently on Days of
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  Speaker 1: Our Lives as Dimitri von Leuischner. Oh okay, what are
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  Speaker 1: your Are you excited for this one? I love the
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  Speaker 1: idea of a heist. I'm excited about that. Make it fun,
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  Speaker 1: make it like mistletoe murders adjacent the fashion. It will
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  Speaker 1: at least give us something to talk about. The key
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  Speaker 1: here is going to be walking the line between fun
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  Speaker 1: and hijinks. That is so true, Like I don't want
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  Speaker 1: like Tiptoe cartoon, Oh investigators, like yeah, pink Panther, Yeah yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah ye I hear I hear you. We'll
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  Speaker 1: just have to wait and see. Let's see Grabbing of
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  Speaker 1: the month. We have a Castle of our Own on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: June twenty seventh. This stars Brennan Elliott and Erica Sarah.
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  Speaker 1: An architect finds unexpected love and joy through a sand
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  Speaker 1: castle contest on a castle estate. What you might have
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  Speaker 1: lost me at Castle Estate. I did look at the
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  Speaker 1: pictures of this and I was like, oh, it's sand castles.
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  Speaker 1: I could get did that? I thought it was a
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  Speaker 1: royal movie, so I'm glad it's not. I don't this
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  Speaker 1: is a different synopsis says when an overworked architect takes
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  Speaker 1: an unexpected summer trip, a sand castle contest and a
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  Speaker 1: contractor help her reconnect with her daughter, rediscovered joy and
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  Speaker 1: find love she never saw coming. That sounds like a
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  Speaker 1: way better synopsis. I agree. Let's talk this cast. Brennan
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  Speaker 1: Elliott has been out of the game for a minute
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  Speaker 1: because his wife passed right, and I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are going to be very happy to have
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  Speaker 1: him back. Yeah, I'm pleased he's back. He's also in
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  Speaker 1: post production on a movie called Joy of Christmas, but
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  Speaker 1: none of the players listed are Hallmark adjacent. His last
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  Speaker 1: Hamemark movie was His and Hers with Lacy Shubert. Before that,
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  Speaker 1: it was Miss Christmas Comes to Town in twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: So it has been a minute since we've had him
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  Speaker 1: on our screen. He's been in one episode of nine
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  Speaker 1: to one one oh this year, So Brennan's back. Erica
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  Speaker 1: Sarah I really like Erica Sarah. I enjoy her too,
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  Speaker 1: Mystery on Mistletoe Lane. Then she was in that movie
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  Speaker 1: with her daughter dancing something about dancing dancing in the snow. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: she was in a Dance in the Snow with Mark Ganime.
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  Speaker 1: I love her voice. She has that like real raspy quality.
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  Speaker 1: But I also really like her as a mom, Like
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  Speaker 1: I thought she was great in that mom role in
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  Speaker 1: a Dance in the Snow. So I'm interested in this
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  Speaker 1: pairing me too. What do you think about the sand
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  Speaker 1: castle element? I kind of like it. I do too.
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  Speaker 1: My concern is are we going to get like lots
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  Speaker 1: of Have you ever been to like the sand castle
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  Speaker 1: competitions here? No? But you know we go down to
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  Speaker 1: Baboa Island a lot and there's always one that's built
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  Speaker 1: really nicely too. Well, I'm talking about how it's always
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  Speaker 1: at that one street. Yes, because you can pay someone
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  Speaker 1: to do it. Did you know that? Oh? No, I
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  Speaker 1: had no idea. There's one. There's a sand castle artist
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  Speaker 1: that'll do like a happy birthday or happy anniversary or
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  Speaker 1: congratulations like sand castle. I know a friend of my
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  Speaker 1: parents that did it. I think it was like a
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  Speaker 1: happy retirement or something in this spot, which is very cool.
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  Speaker 1: But there's also in Coronadal Mar they do a sand
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  Speaker 1: castle competition. I haven't been in years, but it's incredible
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  Speaker 1: what they can do. And I it's one of those
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  Speaker 1: I was like, we should do this, we could totally
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  Speaker 1: how hard get it be right when you're walking, like
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  Speaker 1: we should we should participate next year. But my CONCERNI
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  Speaker 1: is we're going to get maybe lots of like sand
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  Speaker 1: castle b roll Oh yeah, yeah, I know, look at this.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see them. I want to see the
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  Speaker 1: process of building a cool sand castle. Yeah, that could
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  Speaker 1: be very cool. Also, you know who wrote this? I
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  Speaker 1: saw Nina Wineman Aye, and Nino Wineman is behind a
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  Speaker 1: lot of our faves, most recently A Carol for Two,
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  Speaker 1: Haunted Wedding, All's Fair and Love and Majong Fi. The
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  Speaker 1: sixty third annual Newport Beach sand Castle Contest is September
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  Speaker 1: twenty Oh that's twenty twenty five. Never mind it was September,
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  Speaker 1: what twentieth, September twenty eighth last year. It's in September anyway, Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when the beach gets slightly less craped at it. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited about this one. Actually, I think it might
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  Speaker 1: be like a nice family movie. Yeah, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's given cozy vibes. It's gonna hit me
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  Speaker 1: right in that, like the you know that my kids
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  Speaker 1: leaving me feels. Yeah. Yeah, especially heading right into Christmas
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  Speaker 1: in July, which we don't have any information about yet.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, my husband actually was asking, has Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: put out their Christmas in July? Is? Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: the man only wants to watch Hallmark Christmas movies. Although,
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  Speaker 1: do you want to watch this movie with me? He goes,
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  Speaker 1: is it foller Christmas? I go, it's April. It's April anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it's Majong baby, that's what it's about. I'm sure. He
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  Speaker 1: was like, absolutely not. My social media feeds have been
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  Speaker 1: taken over with Majong content because you're a play at now.
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  Speaker 1: I went to one class. Yeah, but do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you could play?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, no, I need to practice online. Oh I
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  Speaker 1: love that. Yeah, practice online, I could do that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they gave us a website to practice fun. Should we
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  Speaker 1: do a Oh you want to rate these? Rank them?
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  Speaker 1: Rank them? Let's rank them. Hold on, let me think
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  Speaker 1: first before i'm influenced by yours. It's the criteria here,
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  Speaker 1: like of what I'm most excited about or what I
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  Speaker 1: think is going to be the best, I think it
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  Speaker 1: should be the best, which which we should rank them
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  Speaker 1: to see which ones we think are going to be
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  Speaker 1: the best. Isn't that the same thing? Like, wouldn't you
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  Speaker 1: be excited about the movie that you think is going
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  Speaker 1: to be the best? I guess, so, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: interesting I just said that, but I actually think the
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  Speaker 1: movie I think is going to be the best is
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  Speaker 1: not the movie I'm most excited about. I'm ranking them
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  Speaker 1: on the ones that I think will be the best.
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  Speaker 1: And what's the What does that mean? The best the
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  Speaker 1: fans are going to be most excited about, or that
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  Speaker 1: we're most excited about, not excited, not anticipating, Okay, but
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  Speaker 1: we think are going to be good movies based on
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  Speaker 1: our personal criteria. Yes, okay, let's hear. I have my ranking.
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  Speaker 1: I wrote it down so I cannot be influenced. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me yours. My number one is a Castle of our own, okay.
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  Speaker 1: A number two the Greek Isle okay, Number three Texas
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  Speaker 1: Tuesdem Wow. And then number four the Love Heist. I
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  Speaker 1: you put it in my head that it might be
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  Speaker 1: hygiene c like ping Panther, and I don't want that.
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  Speaker 1: I have the Inspector Gadget theme song in my head.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my order is number one, the Love Heist, number two,
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  Speaker 1: the Greek Isle, number three, A Castle of our Own
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  Speaker 1: number four, the Texas Tuestem. I will say, though I
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  Speaker 1: kind of could have done like a three way tie
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  Speaker 1: for second place in this one. You think The Love
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  Speaker 1: Heist is going to be like the Movie of the Summer.
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  Speaker 1: I think Lindsay Fonseca can deliver the magic of Lemon
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  Speaker 1: drops baby for real. That was like one of my faves.
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  Speaker 1: I know. We don't have a lot of about any
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  Speaker 1: of these. Here's what I like. None of them read
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  Speaker 1: as like acquisition, acquisition, acquisition. Yeah, so that's fun. We
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  Speaker 1: will find out. We will be here probably reviewing them all.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you for listening to this episode of
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  Speaker 1: Girls Gone Hallmark. We'd love to hear your feedback on
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